NEW YORK, Oct 21.—The Tokio official radio has continued to broadcast threats of severe punishment against US airmen allegedly taken ...
Article : 454 wordsWASHINGTON, Oct 22.—Two United States destroyers have been lost in the Solomons—the Meredith (1,630 tons) and the O'Brien (1,570 tons). The Meredith was commissioned in April, 1941, and the O'Brien a year earlier. ...
Article : 1,458 wordsLONDON, Oct 22.—Vichy radio stated today that Admiral Darlan (Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces) has arrived at Dakar by air ...
Article : 221 wordsLONDON, Oct 22.—The first snow has fallen over the Stalingrad battle-zone north-west of the city, according to the latest messages from Moscow, turning the steppes into great fields of mud. Fierce cold winds are sweeping across the battlefields from the heights of the Urals. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 897 wordsLONDON, Oct 21.—Nearly 1,000 Peers and members of the House of Commons, including all members of the Cabinet, met in secret in ...
Article : 643 wordsSOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, Oct 22.—Heavier fighting is in progress in New Guinea. Although the situation in the Owen Stanley ...
Article : 431 wordsLONDON, Oct 21.—Today was the 137th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar and representatives from the Dominions and 8 Allied nations ...
Article : 743 wordsLONDON, Oct 21.—According to the Paris radio a big battle in North Africa is about to start. The lull may end at any moment, it says. ...
Article : 246 wordsMELBOURNE, Oct 22.—The Australian Government had not been asked o send troops to the Solomons, which were outside General ...
Article : 326 wordsLONDON, Oct 21.—The Berlin radio stated today that the High Command is contemplating severer measures against all war prisoners ...
Article : 41 wordsLONDON, Oct 22.—The Rome radio says that the Republic of Liberia has decided to break off diplomatic relations with the Axis ...
Article : 36 wordsLONDON, Oct 21.—The Under- Secretary for the Colonies (Mr Harold Macmillan) answering a question on the food situation in ...
Article : 150 wordsLONDON, Oct 22.—Army co- operation planes, the Mustangs, and also Bomber Command and Mosquito bombers, which operated singly, ...
Article : 339 wordsSOMEWHERE in NEW GUINEA, Oct 22.—In a 36-hour battle of fiercer intensity and involving greater forces than for weeks past ...
Article : 460 wordsLONDON, Oct 21.—In a leading article "The Times" states: "Confirming with his authoritative judgment the opinion expressed by so ...
Article : 168 wordsWASHINGTON, Oct 21.—After making his first report to President Roosevelt since his return from Moscow. Admiral William Standley ...
Article : 80 wordsLONDON, Oct 22.—Men of General Wilson's new command are changing the face of Persia and Irak by opening up new roads and ...
Article : 187 wordsMELBOURNE, Oct 21.—Admiral Sir Guy Boyle, Chief of the Australian Naval Staff, at the Trafalgar Day luncheon of the Royal Society ...
Article : 232 wordsWASHINGTON, Oct 21.—The Pacific War Council met for 2 hours today. The meeting was largely occupied by the members listening ...
Article : 159 wordsS PACIFIC PORT, Oct 22.—Prewar tourists who visited the Solomons in Pacific island cruises would now not recognise the islets of ...
Article : 192 wordsDURBAN, Oct 22.—The "Natal Mercury," commenting on Field Marshal Smuts's speech, says: "Positive action with the object of ...
Article : 84 wordsLONDON, Oct 21.—The "Daily Telegraph" says that injunctions were issued to the Press that Field marshal Smuts's speech could not ...
Article : 64 wordsLONDON, Oct 22.—Up to October 19 there had been 1,660 bombing, attacks on Malta and 1,069 enemy aircraft had been destroyed. ...
Article : 224 wordsLONDON, Oct 22.—Three raiders bombed a south-east coast town early this morning and wrecked houses and businesses. Rescue squads ...
Article : 235 wordsLONDON, Oct 21.—A young British naval officer killed in a deliberate attack on a much larger and more Powerful enemy force in the English ...
Article : 175 wordsLONDON, Oct 22.—A meeting of the Pacific War Council was held last night under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister (Mr ...
Article : 84 wordsWASHINGTON, Oct 22.—The Alaska Command headquarters reports that a powerful Japanese radio station on Kiska Island (western ...
Article : 119 wordsLONDON, Oct 22.—A correspondent of the British United Press on the French frontier reports that Generals Frere and Picquendar have ...
Article : 77 wordsLONDON, Oct. 22.—A Stockholm message states that the Germans have announced the closure of a frontier zone 60 miles long and 20 ...
Article : 150 wordsSOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, Oct 22.—The Japanese at Maobiase, in enemy-occupied Timor, were awakened unusually early yesterday ...
Article : 219 wordsLONDON, Oct 22.—The "Basler Nachrichten" quoting a report from Budapest says that all Serbia has been placed under military law ...
Article : 58 wordsNEW YORK, Oct 21.—The Battle of the Atlantic claimed its 500th announced submarine victim with today's announcement of the loss of ...
Article : 173 wordsWASHINGTON, Oct 22.—Flying Fortresses in the European and Pacific theatres shot down 130 enemy planes, probably destroyed 92 ...
Article : 102 wordsSANTIAGO, Oct 21.—The Chilean Cabinet resigned in order to give the President (Senor Rios) freedom of action in replacing the ...
Article : 120 wordsCALCUTTA, Oct 22.—As a result of a respite from monsoons, refugees who were cut off for months in the Burmese jungle by torrential ...
Article : 113 wordsNEW YORK, Oct 21.—In a copyright dispatch to the Chicago "Daily News" from the Rjev front Leland Stowe, who talked with ...
Article : 342 wordsCHUNGKING, Oct 22.—According to the Associated Press General Chiang Kal-shek told the People's Political Council that the Chinese ...
Article : 85 wordsLONDON, Oct 22.—A Madrid report says that there was an alert at Gibraltar last night. Search-lights picked up a plane and ...
Article : 56 wordsWASHINGTON, Oct 21.—The Secretary of the Navy (Col Frank Knox) has assigned the names of 4 cruisers lost in Pacific ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Fri 23 Oct 1942, Page 5
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