LONDON, Oct 8.—Latest dispatches indicate that the amazingly stubborn Russian defence is successfully holding the Germans at bay at Stalingrad itself, while according to the Moscow radio the Russians north-west of the city are persistently and methodically breaking up Axis ...
Article : 777 wordsLONDON, Oct 8.—The German threat to put all British officers and men captured at Dieppe in irons from noon today as a reprisal ...
Article : 878 wordsCHUNGKING, Oct 8.—Mr Wendell Willkie, the US Republican leader, left Chungking yesterday by plane for an undisclosed destination. ...
Article : 267 wordsWASHINGTON, Oct 7.—Aerial reconnaissance indicates that the Japanese have withdrawn from the islands of Attu and Agattu, in the ...
Article : 321 wordsSOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, Oct 8.—The mystery surrounding the New Guinea fighting did not lessen today though some clarification of the situation is contained in a statement in the GHQ communique. This statement is that the incredibly difficult Owen Stanley Range ...
Article : 546 wordsLONDON, Oct 8.—The Secretary for Air (Sir Archibald Sinclair) announced in the House of Commons yesterday the findings of the Court ...
Article : 210 wordsLONDON, Oct 7.—The Moscow correspondent of "The Times" reports: "One hears criticism expressed in Moscow that the ...
Article : 195 wordsNEW YORK, Oct 7.—In a leading article the "New York Times" states: "The Russians want a second front even if it fails of success. The ...
Article : 239 wordsLONDON, Oct 8.—The "state of emergency" in the Trondheim district was extended yesterday to the town of Roeros, according to ...
Article : 354 wordsCHUNGKING, Oct 7.—The Associated Press states that Chinese forces have carried out a devastating raid on Sanyukang railway station, ...
Article : 30 wordsLONDON, Oct. 8.—Initiating a debate on India in the House of Commons today the Secretary of State for India (Mr L. C. Amery) ...
Article : 336 wordsSOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA, Oct 7.—A young Melbourne sergeant- pilot who served in 6 theatres of war abroad in fighters and bombers has ...
Article : 343 wordsWASHINGTON, Oct 7.—The Pacific theatre was relatively quiet, President Roosevelt told the Pacific War Council today. He added that ...
Article : 428 wordsLONDON, Oct 7.—Major Oleshkovsky in an article in "Soviet War News" pays tribute to the part played by British and American ...
Article : 116 wordsTORONTO, Oct 7.—A shipment of Canadian tanks to Russia went into action 40 minutes after delivery, after being fuelled on shipboard, ...
Article : 67 wordsSOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA, Oct 7.—Natives recruited by the Japanese from Rabaul for labour gangs operating on the Kokoda ...
Article : 275 wordsLONDON, Oct 8.—According to the Vichy radio, a special train went to Germany from Nice yesterday with French workers for the Reich. ...
Article : 219 wordsWASHINGTON, Oct 7.—"I'll say what I damn well please," Mr Wendell Willkie told the Press in Chung-king (a dispatch from the city ...
Article : 143 wordsLONDON, Oct 8.—It is reported from Stockholm that crucial negotiations took place in Copenhagen all day yesterday between the ...
Article : 136 wordsNEW YORK, Oct 7.—The Japanese in the South Sea Islands follow only the law of claw and fang. They wage war with a ferocity unknown ...
Article : 304 wordsNEW DELHI, Oct 8.—The high-caste Hindu organisation known as Mahasabha has sent the following message to President Roosevelt and ...
Article : 303 wordsNEW YORK, Oct .—RAF fighters half an hour away failed to go to the aid of HMS Repulse and Prince of Wales when Japanese aircraft ...
Article : 173 wordsNEW YORK, Oct 8.—The "'New York Times" Stockholm's correspondent states that persons in touch with the Government understand ...
Article : 162 wordsNeither the Russians nor the Germans are overlooking the importance of the battle for the Caucasus, where winter will lay its hampering hand ...
Article : 853 wordsCHUNGKING, Oct 7.—General MacArthur's gallant Australian and American forces are giving Japan a headache in the SW Pacific, a ...
Article : 86 wordsLONDON, Oct 8.—Questioned in the House of Commons whether the Germans had compulsorily evacuated Channel Islanders to ...
Article : 268 wordsLONDON, Oct 8.—The Instabul correspondent of "The Times" says that latest messages from Greece confirm reports that resistance there is ...
Article : 98 wordsLONDON, Oct 8.—The British War Office is taking action to investigate a statement by the Japanese that the Lisbon Maru, a ...
Article : 229 wordsMELBOURNE, Oct 8.—Personal narratives of jungle fighting in the earlier stages of the battle for the Owen Stanley Range have been ...
Article : 422 wordsLONDON, Oct 8.—The German Newsagency says that Lt-General von Laxa, Chief of the Croat General Staff, has been relieved at his ...
Article : 29 wordsNEW YORK, Oct 8.—A dispatch from a correspondent with the Pacific fleet, dated September 27, says that 7 American army flyers ...
Article : 234 wordsNEW DELHI, Oct 8.—A message from Bangalore states that 3 people were killed and several injured when the police were forced to fire on ...
Article : 72 wordsLONDON, Oct 8.—The Moscow Information Bureau says that German soldiers opened fire and wounded a number of Danish ...
Article : 68 wordsLONDON, Oct 8.—It is stated authoritatively that Admiral Hart is misinformed in declaring in the "Saturday Evening Post" that RAF ...
Article : 245 wordsNEW YORK, Oct 8.—An Associated Press message states that the United Nations have sunk or seized at least 218 Nazi merchant vessels ...
Article : 156 wordsNEW DELHI, Oct 8.—Yesterday's census shows that India's population is approximately 388,800,000, an increase of over 50,000,000 since ...
Article : 22 wordsNEW YORK, Oct 7.—For cutting the assembly time of Bofors anti-aircraft guns from 450 to 14 hours 45,000 Chrysler workers at Detroit ...
Article : 167 wordsLONDON, Oct 8.—The British GHQ in Cairo said in today's communique that our patrols were active all along the front on Wednesday ...
Article : 113 wordsLONDON. Oct 8.—"Conditions for Britons interned in Hong Kong had shown some improvement since the early days," said the Foreign ...
Article : 99 wordsLONDON, Oct 8.—A Vichy communique yesterday said that the British forces slightly advanced in Madagascar on Tuesday. There was ...
Article : 58 wordsLONDON. Oct 8.—A further Newfoundland artillery contingent has arrived at a northern UK port. This is the 31st contingent of ...
Article : 42 wordsLONDON, Oct 8.—According to the Vichy radio, the Rumanian steamer Vitorul (120 tons), bound for Turkey with Jewish refugees. ...
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