FROM GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HQ, July 27.—Land fighting between Australians and units of the Japanese invasion force which landed near Buna last Wednesday has begun in Papua for the first time. There was light skirmishing yesterday between our patrols and ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 698 wordsLONDON, July 27.—The following communique was issued in Cairo today: There was nothing to report ...
Article : 566 wordsLONDON, July 27.—Sixty thousand people demonstrated in Trafalgar square last evening in favour of the Immediate opening of a second ...
Article : 1,116 wordsLONDON, July 27.—Hamburg, the biggest U-boat building centre in Germany, suffered its 91st raid by the RAF last night. It was the ...
Article : 378 wordsLONDON, July 27.—A great battle is raging along the Don east of Rostov, where the Germans are sparing neither men nor materials in an endeavour to establish new bridgeheads and consolidate those already won. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 1,829 wordsCHUNGKING, July 26.—Today's communique announces that widespread and successful Chinese attacks in Kiangsi Province have ...
Article : 106 wordsWASHINGTON, July 26.—The Ankara correspondent of the "New York Times" says that military intelligence in Turkey has received ...
Article : 214 wordsWASHINGTON, July 26.—General Chiang Kai-shek's American political adviser, Mr Owen Latimore. broadcasting, urged the United ...
Article : 87 wordsLONDON, July 26.—An Associated Press message from Lourenco Marques (Portuguese East Africa), where British and American ...
Article : 278 wordsLONDON, July 27.—A Stockholm dispatch states that the Reichs Commissioner in Norway (Herr Terboven) has inspected newly-built ...
Article : 355 wordsDARWIN, July 27.—A brilliant display of fireworks, searchlights and ack-ack finishing with a speactacular bonfire marked Darwin's ...
Article : 206 wordsLONDON, July 26.—Sweeping a triangular area between Gravelines, St Omer and Abbeville this afternoon, Spitfires of the Fighter ...
Article : 273 wordsLONDON, July 27.—According to the Tokio radio the Japanese Prime Minister (General Tojo) said in a speech today that the Axis was ...
Article : 70 wordsALAMEIN, July 26.—The calm in the Australian sector of the front continued this morning and last night under a cloud of dirty white ...
Article : 331 wordsISTANBUL, July 27.—The German police are reported to have received orders that every Jew remaining in Germany must be deported to ...
Article : 46 wordsTORONTO, July 27.—The Premier of Ontario (Mr Hepburn) predicted today that Japan's next major move would be to attack Dutch ...
Article : 104 wordsLONDON, July 27.—The Air Ministry announced yesterday that bom-carrying Hurricanes on Saturday night attacked shipping off the ...
Article : 126 wordsWASHINGTON, July 27.—The Secretary of State (Mr Cordell Hull) and the Foreign Minister of Yugoslavia (M Nintehitch) have ...
Article : 80 wordsSOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, July 27.—Opinions on the purpose of the Japanese raid against Townsville differ but there is no question ...
Article : 242 wordsNEW YORK, July 27.—In a dispatch from Lourenco Marques Mr Robert Bellaire, formerly manager of the United Press bureau in Tokio, ...
Article : 415 wordsLONDON, July 25.—The German official newsagency states that civilians in occupied France, Belgium and Holland from today must secure ...
Article : 30 wordsLONDON, July 27.—There was an alert in the London area early today, followed in a few minutes by the all-clear, in turn followed by ...
Article : 246 wordsLONDON, July 27.—M Laval, Chief of the Vichy Government, is backing a German threat to close French factories if the number of ...
Article : 197 wordsLONDON, July 27.—According to a Bombay dispatch Mr M. X. Gandhi has warned Japan that India's movement demanding the ...
Article : 310 wordsSOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, July 27.—Japanese fighter opposition to the Allied bombing attacks on Gona is increasing. During the ...
Article : 253 wordsSYDNEY, July 27.—Details of 2 of the Japanese submarines recently put out of action in Sydney harbour were given in a broadcast by ...
Article : 301 wordsLONDON, July 27.—According to the Vichy radio, Admiral Robert, Commander-in-chief of the French fleet at Martinique, visited French ...
Article : 34 wordsLONDON, July 27.—The Belgian newsagency in London reveals that the RAF is using new "incendiary leaves" which the Germans regard ...
Article : 70 wordsLONDON, July 27.—Enemy controlled radio stations throughout Europe are circulating a rumour that Marshal Voroshilov, the Russian ...
Article : 62 wordsLONDON, July 27.—From Stockholm it is reported that a military court at Clermont (France) Ferrand has sentenced to death 3 ...
Article : 39 wordsWASHINGTON, July 26.—The War Shipping Administration announced today that it had requisitioned the Argentine tanker ...
Article : 118 wordsLONDON, July 27.—The Vichy radio asserted today that General Chiang Kal-shek has arrived in India for discussions with President ...
Article : 64 wordsLONDON, July 26.—The Admiralty has announced in a communique that a British patrol of light coastal forces intercepted 2 enemy ...
Article : 62 wordsLONDON, July 27.—A communique from "European theatre of operations, US Army, and the Commanding General US Army Air ...
Article : 54 wordsWASHINGTON, July 26.—At Waynesboro, Tennessee, an Army observation plane crashed on Friday, killing Brig-General Frank Mahin, ...
Article : 36 wordsLONDON, July 26.—The Stockholm paper "Svenska Dagbladet" reports from Berlin that Herr Himmler has offered a reward of 20,000 marks ...
Article : 45 wordsFROM GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HQ, July 27.—In making an award of the Bronze Oakleaf Cluster instead of an additional Silver Star ...
Article : 143 wordsLONDON, July 27.—A court at Hyderabad has fined an hotel servant for publicly tuning-in to an enemy broadcast and has ordered ...
Article : 30 wordsNEW YORK, July 27.—General Motors Ltd has revealed that their new tank factory has been completed and is now producing a ...
Article : 30 wordsExcept where otherwise designated the overseas intelligence published in 'The West Australian" is transmitted to Australia by the Australian Associated Press ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Tue 28 Jul 1942, Page 3
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