LONDON, Dec 9.—News from Allied sources of the operations in Tunisia continues to be meagre. The latest official statement is an HQ communique issued last night, which mentions an action on Sunday night, when the enemy pierced an Allied position in the Teburba area ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 921 wordsLONDON, Dec 9.—The War Office has issued an official account of the Greco-Cretan Campaign, in which the immortal story of the dogged resistance of the Empire troops against overwhelming numbers of men, tanks and planes is told against a background of the complicated ...
Article : 1,169 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec 9.—The Secretary of State (Mr Cordell Hull) in a statement today on the position of Admiral Darlan, said that at ...
Article : 217 wordsSOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, Dec 9.—American troops occupying the salient they established between Buna village and Buna mission ...
Article : 451 wordsLONDON, Dec 9.—Bomber Command Stirlings, Halifaxes Lancasters and Wellingtons in clear weather last night made a concentrated ...
Article : 125 wordsLONDON, Dec 9.—Today's reports from Moscow agree that despite fighting of great ferocity in which the Germans are employing all available reinforcements, including some drawn from Germany, the Red Army continues to make progress in its offensives on the central front and in ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 1,385 wordsLONDON, Dec 8.—The "Evening Standard's" representative at Berne says that a spokesman for the Holy See, explaining the Pope's ...
Article : 225 wordsLONDON, Dec 8.—The Paris radio today broadcast a report stated to be from Tangier that the American police have made several ...
Article : 58 wordsNEW YORK, Dec 8.—The "Daily News's" Washington correspondent states: "Laymen are puzzled because our motorised troops are not ...
Article : 177 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec 8.—Lt-General H. H. Arnold, commander of the US Army Air Forces, said at a Press conference today that it was touch ...
Article : 548 wordsLONDON, Dec 8.—The "Daily Mails" correspondent on the Italian frontier says that 400,000 evacuees have already left Milan for safer ...
Article : 106 wordsLONDON, Dec 8.—A special communique issued in Berlin today stated: "U'-boats in the north and mid-Atlantic in the last few ...
Article : 57 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec 8.—"Land-based bombers can sink any warship, including the fastest destroyers," said Lt-Col Richard Carmichael, ...
Article : 123 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 8.—When questioned at his conference with Press representatives today concerning the agreement under which the ...
Article : 206 wordsLONDON, Dec 9.—The drastic new laws against Jews in France were announced over the Toulouse radio yesterday by the Commissioner ...
Article : 133 wordsNEW YORK, Dec 8.—Tokio official radio states that the Italian and German naval attaches called on the Naval Minister (Admiral ...
Article : 229 wordsLONDON, Dec 9.—"Nazi Germany is Europe's hell," declared Col Mary Booth, granddaughter of the founder of the Salvation Army, on her ...
Article : 186 wordsLONDON, Dec 8.—Among stories of the North African landing is one of how Lt Ger Brown, RANVR, of Sydney, "borrowed" tank landing ...
Article : 193 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 8.—The Secretary of the Navy (Col F. Knox) told the Press today that approximately 25 per cent of the French ...
Article : 361 wordsLONDON, Dec 9.—The second reading of the National Service Bill was carried in the House of Commons yesterday by 267 votes to 5. ...
Article : 446 wordsLONDON, Dec 8.—The aeronautical correspondent of "The Times" [?]eals that the America Lockheed Venturas have a speed of about 270 ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Japanese Prime Minister (General Tojo) told the military leaders that Japan's successes had given her an impregnable strategic ...
Article : 124 wordsLONDON, Dec 8.—The Minister of Health (Mr Ernest Brown) stated today that there were now 20,000 rest centres ready and equipped to ...
Article : 105 wordsLONDON, Dec 9.—British GHQ in Cairo stated in its communique to- day: "Our patrols were active in forward areas yesterday. Our ...
Article : 106 wordsCHUNGKING, Dec. 8.—A Chinese Army spokesman today again emphasised the imminent danger of a Japanese drive into Yunnan ...
Article : 133 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec 8.—At his Press conference today, when the Secretary of the Navy (Col F. Knox) was asked if the American Navy ...
Article : 179 wordsNEW YORK, Dec 8.—In a delayed message the "New York Times" representative on Guadalcanal, Foster Hailey, says that under heavy air, ...
Article : 143 wordsLONDON, Dec. 9.—The Prime Minister (Mr Churchill) and President Roosevelt exchanged messages yesterday on the occasion of the ...
Article : 402 wordsLONDON, Dec 8.—The Air Ministry states: "This afternoon Mosquitos of the Bomber Command attacked industrial and railway ...
Article : 113 wordsLONDON, Dec. 8.—In a leading article the "Daily Mail" complains of the lack of real news from Tunisia. "The information received ...
Article : 180 wordsCAIRO, Dec 8.—Fighter-Pilot David Borthwick, of Geelong, is recovering in hospital after extraordinary experiences in the desert. He ...
Article : 160 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec 8.—At a Press conference today President Roosevelt appealed to employers to treat employees transferred to war ...
Article : 141 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec 8.—The Cuban President (Major-General Batista) has arrived in Washington at the invitation of President ...
Article : 52 wordsLONDON, Dec 9.—It was authoritatively stated today that the Swiss proposals for the unshackling of war prisoners had just reached Britain ...
Article : 83 wordsLONDON, Dec 9.—Fighting French headquarters announce that the French Consul-General at Malta has resigned and joined General de ...
Article : 68 wordsLONDON, Dec 9.—This afternoon the Admiralty announced the loss of the trawlers Canna, Bengali and Spaniard due to explosions after a ...
Article : 55 wordsNEW YORK, Dec 8.—Tokio official radio broadcast that the German Ambassador today presented a composition entitled "Hymns of ...
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