WASHINGTON, Oct 16.—The Japanese are strongly pressing their attempt to recapture Guadalcanal Island, in the Solomons. A heavy land battle is raging, also a heavy naval battle. No indication has been given of the outcome in either case. In a ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 703 wordsLONDON, Oct 16.—The Admiralty reports that British light forces early 1 on Wednesday attacked an important 1 supply ship off Cap de la Hauge and ...
Article : 390 wordsLONDON, Oct 16.—What the "Red Star" today calls the decisive battle for Stalingrad is raging in a sector under a mile wide at a point where ...
Article : 576 wordsWASHINGTON, Oct 16.—The European theatre of war would remain an air theatre until we had secured superiority over the German ...
Article : 397 wordsLONDON, Oct 16.—A correspondent of "The Times" in India states: "At any time now the rains will cease and the heavy seas in the Bay ...
Article : 331 wordsSOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, Oct 16.—No change in the land fighting in the Owen Stanley Range was reported today, but Allied ...
Article : 463 wordsLONDON, Oct 16.—The International Red Cross Committee has sent to both Britain and Germany an offer to mediate in connection with ...
Article : 147 wordsLONDON, Oct 16.—German and Italian planes continued their offensive against Malta yesterday, but Spitfire fighters continued to take ...
Article : 553 wordsMONTREAL, Oct 15.—With an arm in a sling and a DSO ribbon on his chest Lt-Colonel Dollard Menard, leading 17 Dieppe survivors, ...
Article : 103 wordsLONDON, Oct 16.—One more German and Austrian have been executed in Germany for espionage and for helping to reconstruct ...
Article : 139 wordsNEW DELHI, Oct 16.—The C-in-C (General Sir Archibald Wavell) has returned from a 4-day tour of inspection of the forward positions on ...
Article : 87 wordsLONDON, Oct. 16.—The Lisbon correspondent of '"The Times" states that the unpleasant activities of a new organisation, the "Service ...
Article : 272 wordsWASHINGTON, Oct 15.—The Secretary of War (Mr H. Stimson) told a Press conference today that American Army ground and air ...
Article : 287 wordsLONDON, Oct 16.—Boston air-craft of the Bomber Command, escorted by fighters, made 2 attacks on docks at Le Havre yesterday ...
Article : 308 wordsNEW YORK, Oct 15.—In a dispatch from the middle of India a correspondent of the "Herald- Tribune" relates how a handful of ...
Article : 201 wordsLONDON, Oct 16.—The Luxemburg Government in London has received a list of 25 people shot by the Germans in consequence of the ...
Article : 135 wordsSOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, Oct 16.—In the past week Allied Hudsons have made 3 raids on Dilli (Timor), 2 at night and 1 at dusk. ...
Article : 301 wordsSOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA, Oct 16.—Pte Herbert W. Forrester, a 50-year-old Canadian-born gold-miner, late of Winnipeg, received ...
Article : 283 wordsLONDON, Oct 16.—A message from Lahore states that 50 members of Congress Party have been released from Shahpur gaol. ...
Article : 28 wordsWASHINGTON, Oct 16.—The House Military Affairs Committee 8 today unanimously approved of the legislation to lower the draft age to ...
Article : 105 wordsLONDON, Oct 16.—A serious deficiency amounting to 25 per cent in Europe's grain harvest underlines Goering's recent assertions that ...
Article : 145 wordsThe Moscow correspondent of "The Times" last night stated: The most important operations at present going on in south Russia ...
Article : 333 wordsLONDON, Oct 16.—The British destroyer Vanoc, which recently celebrated her silver Jubilee, has built up an exceptionally high steaming ...
Article : 155 wordsNEW YORK, Oct 15.—Henry Luce, editor of "Life," in a statement to members of the British and Dominions Press today, said: "Life' ...
Article : 394 wordsNEW YORK, Oct. 16.—The New York "Herald Tribune's" Washington correspondent says that the Bill authorising the drafting of ...
Article : 273 wordsLONDON, Oct 15.—A drive by Marshal Rommel in Egypt may follow the Germans' setback at Stalingrad, according to Major Eliot. the ...
Article : 210 wordsCHUNGKING, Oct 16.—A communique issued here yesterday said that an enemy force attempted a landing south of Tamshul in the ...
Article : 125 wordsNEW YORK, Oct 16.—The correspondent of the American Associated Press at Santiago says that the Chilean police have detained in a ...
Article : 73 wordsNEW YORK, Oct 16.—Alaskan headquarters announced today that American ground forces have occupied another island in the ...
Article : 38 wordsSOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA, Oct 15.—Allied ground troops fighting on the crest of the Pass through the Owen Stanley Range are ...
Article : 219 wordsA marine scout plane its way to a concealed hongor in the jungle of the Solamons. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 22 wordsNEW YORK, Oct 15.—The correspondent of the "New York Times" at Pearl Harbour say that when decorting heroes of Pacific battles, ...
Article : 63 wordsNEW YORK, Oct. 16.—The Washington bureau of the "New York Times" states: "Guadalcanal has become the focal point of a major ...
Article : 502 wordsLONDON, Oct. 1.—A message from Zurich states that the Swiss have reacted sharply to the German threats against neutral editors who ...
Article : 65 wordsNEW YORK, Oct 15.—An epic of Russian courage and tenacity is related by Leland Stowe in a copy- right dispatch to the Chicago "Daily ...
Article : 318 wordsSOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, Oct. 16.—One of the worst stories of Japanese cruelty of the Pacific War was revealed today when the ...
Article : 253 wordsTEHERAN, Oct 15.—After interviewing the Prime Minister (M Sohelly) on Wednesday the British Minister of State in the Middle East ...
Article : 87 wordsNEW YORK, Oct 16.—A group of eminent physicians in a long letter in the "New York Times," points out that the youthful draft raises ...
Article : 239 wordsLONDON, Oct 16.—The following communique regarding operations in Madagascar was issued today by the C-in-C East Africa: "Our troops ...
Article : 110 wordsCANBERRA, Oct 16.—The trail to Kokoda along which the Japanese have been retreating has been continuously blasted by Havocs ...
Article : 122 wordsWASHINGTON, Oct 15.—The Secretary of War (Mr H. L. Stimson) referred today to the mounting activities of American airmen ...
Article : 146 wordsLONDON, Oct 16.—A message from Istanbul states that the Germans have demanded that every Balkan and Central European State ...
Article : 88 wordsWASHINGTON, Oct 16.—The Under-Secretary of State (Mr Sumner Welles) at' a Press conference yesterday said that negotiations to ...
Article : 40 wordsTORONTO, Oct 15.—A convention of the American Federation of Labour has approved of "job freezing" in war industries provided the rights of the workers are fully ...
Article : 31 wordsWASHINGTON, Oct 16.—The House of Representatives has passed a Bill directing the President to stabilise residential and commercial ...
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