LONDON, July 12.—A limited offensive launched by the Eighth Army in Egypt early on Friday quickly yielded its objective, a 5 to 6 miles advance westwards along the coastal railway involving the capture of Tel el Eisa, the station next to Alamein. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 1,424 wordsLONDON, July 12.—In the heaviest air offensive the Western Desert has ever known the Allied air forces carried out a 3-point plan on ...
Article : 1,008 wordsCANBERRA, July 12.—Australian troops who have been in action for some days with the British Eighth Army in Egypt figured in effective ...
Article : 257 wordsRenewing their attacks against the Allied base at Port Moresby the Japanese sent over 21 bombers on Friday and 19 Saturday, with 8 ...
Article : 440 wordsLONDON, July 10.—The situation in Russia is growing more serious daily as the Germans, throwing in an irresistible weight of men and metal, continue to force their way eastward. On Friday the Germans captured Rosoch, 105 miles south of ...
Article : 2,201 wordsWASHINGTON, July 11.—Yesterday the Navy revealed that Axis submarines had sunk 4 more United Nations' ships in the Atlantic. Today ...
Article : 388 wordsLONDON, July 12.—The Air Ministry revealed in a communique today that several squadrons of Lancaster in daylight yesterday ...
Article : 157 wordsWASHINGTON, July 10.—The President has signed legislation authorising the construction of 1,900,000 tons of combat ships, ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 118 wordsWASHINGTON, July 11.—Major- General McCoy, president of the Military Commission which is trying the 8 alleged Nazi saboteurs who ...
Article : 279 wordsSOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA. July 12.—Fierce dogfights developed over Port Moresby yesterday, when our fighters brilliantly intercepted a ...
Article : 191 wordsLONDON, July 2.—The Vichy Government has protested against the British occupation of the French island of Mayotte. ...
Article : 135 wordsOTTAWA, July 10.—An Independent member, Mr J. S. Roy, told the House of Commons today that 3 ships had been torpedoed in the St. ...
Article : 103 wordsWASHINGTON, July 10.—Representative Monroney today attacked the secrecy of the trial The proceedings he Said were still inadequate. ...
Article : 449 wordsThe following communique was Issued in Berlin this afternoon: "Heavy fighting is continuing in the Alamein sector in Egypt. Our ...
Article : 390 wordsWASHINGTON July 11.—The War Department has. disclosed that American troops are participating in: the defence of Port Moresby. The ...
Article : 41 wordsNEW YORK, July 10.—Speaking at a Democratic convention at Des Moines (Iowa), Senator Herring said today. that the US Navy had ...
Article : 79 wordsWASHINGTON, July 10.—At a Press conference here today, Sir Earle Page, Special Envoy of the Australian Government, who arrived ...
Article : 163 wordsSOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, July 12.—One good pair of hands and one good pair of feet between them were all that were left to a ...
Article : 193 wordsLONDON, July 10.—A recent broadcast by the German Admiral Pfeiffer on U-boat warfare has attracted attention in London. He ...
Article : 177 wordsSYDNEY, July 12.—Mr Spender, MHR, a member of the War Advisory Council tonight stressed the gravity of the news from Russia. He ...
Article : 177 wordsSOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, July 12.—A stirring address to AIF Infantry in which he urged all to train harder, to fight harder, to ...
Article : 247 wordsLONDON, July 10.—The Stockholm correspondent of the "Evening Standard" says it is reliably reported that the German U-boat base In ...
Article : 87 wordsCAIRO, July 12.—A tank containing 5 dead German soldiers overran a British 25-pounder gun position in Egypt. ...
Article : 85 wordsNEW YORK, July 10.—The FBI has announced the arrest of 158 German aliens, of whom 130 were men and 28 women, in New York ...
Article : 71 wordsLONDON, July 10.—The German newsagency claims the sinking of 3 more ships out of an Allied convoy bound for Murmansk, bringing the ...
Article : 117 wordsCANBERRA, July 12.—"We don't stand much of a chance but it is up to each and every one of you to do the best you can." This message ...
Article : 119 wordsNEW YORK, July 10.—The Tokio official radio has announced that a large convoy escorted by destroyers and cruisers arrived today at the ...
Article : 52 wordsNEW YORK, July 10.—Herbert Bahr, the spy suspect who was arrested aboard the diplomatic exchange ship Drottningholm, did not ...
Article : 141 wordsLOS ANGELES, July 11.—Robert Nobel and Ellis Jones, leaders of the Friends of Progress organisation, have been convicted of sedition by ...
Article : 66 wordsWASHINGTON, July 11.—The Navy has announced that Admiral Nimitz, Commander-in-Chief in the Pacific, recently escaped serious ...
Article : 82 wordsLONDON, July 12.—A message from Moscow today announced that Russian plane factories were ahead of their newly-increased schedule. ...
Article : 24 wordsLONDON. July 12.—The political correspondent of the "Evening News" reports that the Middle East High Command has recalled to Cairo the ...
Article : 57 wordsLONDON, July 12.—A report from Moscow states that a German engineer and 5 workers have been sentenced to death in Frankfurt for ...
Article : 36 wordsNEW YORK, July 11.—Coxswain Claude Becker received the Navy Cross at a public ceremony at Brooklyn Navy Yard for heroism when the ...
Article : 73 wordsLONDON, July 10.—The Paris radio says that the Soviet Black Sea battleship Pariskaya-Kommuna (23,000 tons), accompanied by ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 13 Jul 1942, Page 3
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