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Article : 194 wordsLONDON, Sept 23.—The BBC has again urged French people to leave the coastal areas in order to avoid useless bloodshed in Allied military. ...
Article : 107 wordsNEW YORK, Sept 23.—The NZ Minister (Mr W. Nash), addressing a CIO convention of shipbuilding workers, gave a comprehensive ...
Article : 137 wordsLONDON. Sept. 24.—Problems of post-war relief in enemy-occupied Europe are summarised in a statement issued yesterday. Details are ...
Article : 526 wordsLONDON, Sept. 24.—An Admiralty communique last night said that another important convoy carrying large quantities of war ...
Article : 111 wordsRussians pressure has forced the Germans to discontinue their offensive in the Northern Caucasus mountains and give up several positions ...
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Article : 89 wordsNEW YORK, Sept 24.—The "Herald-Tribune" says in a leader that through the official silence which has descended on the south-western ...
Article : 281 wordsWASHINGTON. Sept. 23.—The chairman of the Naval Affairs Committee (Mr Vinson) asserted today that ship sinkings off the American ...
Article : 168 wordsNEW YORK, Sept 24.—An Associated Press war correspondent at an air base in the South Seas says that a stirring tale of dogfights ...
Article : 128 wordsPRETORIA, Sept 24.—The Prime Minister (Field Marshal Smuts) has sent the following message to General Plait: "Accept my hearty ...
Article : 76 wordsAUCKLAND, Sept. 24.—Sgt Keith Elliott, the latest New Zealander to be awarded the Victoria Cross for gallant conduct in the Middle East, ...
Article : 113 wordsNEW YORK, Sept. 23.—John O'Reilly, correspondent of the "Herald-Tribune," writing from a West African port has described the ...
Article : 234 wordsThe German propaganda agency in Stockholm reveals that the Russians are bringing up reinforcements across the Don at Voronej and across ...
Article : 94 wordsLONDON, Sept 24.—The execution of 800 Yugoslavs taken prisoner by the Germans and Italiahs during the fighting south of Brod in Bosnia, ...
Article : 314 wordsBOMBAY, Sept. 24.—One person was killed and several injured last night when police fired on an armed mob in a town near Dacca. The ...
Article : 446 wordsNEW YORK, Sept. 23.—Lewis Sebring, war correspondent of the "Herald Tribune" somewhere in Australia, says that in their ...
Article : 119 wordsWASHINGTON, Sept 23.—-The US Navy had definitely turned the Japanese occupation of the western Aleutian Islands in the North Pacific, ...
Article : 242 wordsLONDON, Sept 24.—The Reuters correspondent on the German frontier says that Marshal Rommel is believed to be suffering from throat ...
Article : 66 wordsThe British United Press reports from Stockholm that Hitler is building an "East Wall" in Russia. It is not a continuous line but a series ...
Article : 55 wordsNEW YORK, Sept. 23.—The "New York Times" war correspondent somewhere in New Guinea quotes a statement by a US Army Air Corps ...
Article : 218 wordsWASHINGTON, Sept. 23.—The Finnish legatlon has vigorously denied Moscow charges that Finnish army units are helping the Germans ...
Article : 112 wordsLONDON, Sept 24.—A communique issued in Rome today said that British planes last night bombed and machine-gunned ...
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Article : 231 wordsNEW YORK, Sept. 23.—The United Press correspondent at Buenos Aires says that the Spanish Embassy said that official reports ...
Article : 56 wordsNEW YORK, Sept 23.—At Bridgeport (Connecticut) today Mr L. J. Hartnett, Australian Director of Ordnance Production, who is touring ...
Article : 116 wordsNEW YORK, Sept. 23.—The Vichy correspondent of the "New York Times" says that a merchant marine journal discloses that 30 per ...
Article : 57 wordsLONDON, Sept 23.—Stalin received Mr Wendell Willkie, the US Republican leader today. Their talk lasted 2 hours and M Molotov was ...
Article : 100 wordsSOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, Sept. 24.-—Vern Haugland, American war correspondent of the Associated Press who has been missing for weeks ...
Article : 185 wordsWASHINGTON, Sept 23.—The Navy Department announced today that by an agreement with the Fighting French a detachment of ...
Article : 65 wordsCANBERRA. Sept. 24.—Australians were very worried about the position in New Guinea, said Mr Abbott (UCP, NSW) in the House ...
Article : 471 wordsLONDON, Sept, 24.—A Berne message says that according to the Madrid correspondent of the "Berner Tagblatt" General Franco has ...
Article : 65 wordsMELBOURNE, Sept. 24.—The NEI Government Information Service has received a report from London that Queen Wilhelmina of the ...
Article : 93 wordsNEW YORK, Sept, 24.—The Mexico city correspondent of the "New York Times" reports that General Abelardo, commander of the ...
Article : 63 wordsLONDON, Sept. 24.—The Berlin radio, quoting a dispatch from Bukarest, says that the Rumanian Prime Minister (General ...
Article : 54 wordsOverseas news in "The West Australian" supplied by Australian Associated Press. Sources include in England "The Times," "Daily ...
Article : 80 wordsCHUNGKING, Sept. 24.—Today's Chungking communique says that heavy fighting is in progress west of Shanshien near the Honan border. ...
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