LONDON, Dec 18.—"Tunis was almost put out of action as a port in an 81 hours raid on the night of December 15," states the "Daily ...
Article : 384 wordsLONDON, Dec 18.—"Marshal Rommel's fleeing Afrika Korps has been outflanked and cut in twain by a wide sweep of the pursuing British forces and the trapped Germans are desperately attempting to fight their way out," reports the Cairo correspondent of the Associated Press. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 982 wordsLONDON, Dec. 18.—The first phase of the German effort to penetrate the Red Army ring round their trapped forces in the Don-Volga ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 803 wordsLONDON, Dec 18.—The Associated Press correspondent at Allied HQ in North Africa claims to have asked Admiral Darlan the ...
Article : 519 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec 17.—Today's Navy Department communique regarding the Solomons area reveals further US air attacks on Munda, ...
Article : 134 wordsSOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, Dec 18.—Battering their way forward yard by yard, Allied troops pushed closer to Buna mission ...
Article : 442 wordsCHUNGKING, Dec 17.—"The Japanese are continuously concentrating troops, including paratroops, in Burma," a Chinese military ...
Article : 246 wordsLONDON, Dec 17.—The Foreign Secretary (Mr Eden) said in the House of Commons today that he regretted to have to inform the ...
Article : 1,020 wordsLONDON, Dec. 17.—Reuters correspondent with the US fleet, reporting that men of the New Zealand Air Force, flying Lockheed Hudsons, are ...
Article : 68 wordsNEW YORK, Dec 17—The "Herald Tribune's" San Francisco correspondent says that 4 members of the crew of the sunken ...
Article : 294 wordsLONDON, Dec 18.—Though the size and strength of the enemy force cut off ,some 60 miles west of El Agheila is not yet known in London, ...
Article : 325 wordsDELHI, Dec 18.—Today's Indian GHQ communique states:—"RAF fighter-escorted Blenheims on December 16 attacked ...
Article : 50 wordsAustralian troops moving down the coast towards Japanese positions in the Buna area. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 20 wordsCHUNGKING, Dec 17.—The Director of Information (Mr Smao Yu-lin) today urged the immediate extensive bombing of Japan, ...
Article : 101 wordsNEW YORK, Dec 18.—"Amid the fire of German mortars and screaming dive-bombers on the Tunisian front British and American soldiers ...
Article : 192 wordsSOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA Dec 18.—Mention of Salamaua in today's GHQ communique draws attention to a war area in New ...
Article : 236 wordsCHUNGKING, Dec 17.—A communique today stated that 3 Japanese columns driving down from the north occupied the river port of ...
Article : 36 wordsLONDON, Dec 17.—In addressing the Associated chambers of Commerce at Calcutta today the Viceroy (the Marquess of Linlithgow) ...
Article : 641 wordsLONDON, Dec 18.—"The Allied air force is ensuring that Marshal Rommel will get precious little relief from his supply ports," says ...
Article : 139 wordsSOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, Dec 18.—The full weight of the Allied air attack which broke up the Japanese landing convoy off Buna ...
Article : 487 wordsNEW YORK, Dec 18.—The New York "Times" Washington bureau states that the White House released Admiral Darlan's statement of ...
Article : 290 wordsGUADALCANAL ISLAND. Dec 16.—Recent announcements in Washington indicate the tremendous flow of war materials which the ...
Article : 312 wordsSOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, Dec 17.—The 3 weeks' lull in Allied attacks on the Japanese-occupied base in central Timor was broken ...
Article : 236 wordsLONDON, Dec. 18.—Berlin radio states: "British efforts on December 16 to cut off the German covering unit in Libya failed. After a ...
Article : 130 wordsNEW YORK, Dec 16.—In a leading article the New York "Times" states: "Every day's news from Russia confirms the belief that the ...
Article : 156 wordsSOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, Dec 18.—Parachute bombs were used in yesterday's attack by Havocs against Japanese positions in the ...
Article : 234 wordsLONDON, Dec 17.—The Jewish Board of Deputies issued the following statement: " The Anglo-Jewish community in Britain in ...
Article : 187 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec 18.—The Secretary of State (Mr Cordell Hull) declined at a Press conference to enter the Darlan controversy. He ...
Article : 137 wordsNEW YORK, Dec 17.—The Berne: correspondent of the New York 4 "Times" said yesterday that it was reliably reported that Rome might ...
Article : 101 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec 17.—The War Department is prepared to equip an army of 7,500,000 men, the Under-Secretary of War (Mr ...
Article : 114 wordsLONDON, Dec 18.—It was learnt in London today that the RAF attacked targets in North-West Germany last night. The results were ...
Article : 140 wordsLONDON, Dec 18.—Morocco radio states that Admiral Darlan flew to Bona on December 16 in a French army Martin bomber escorted by ...
Article : 89 wordsLONDON, Dec 18.—The Secretary of War (Sir James Grigg) replied in the negative in the House of Commons yesterday to a question by Mr ...
Article : 44 wordsNEW YORK, Dec 18.—"A policy of expediency in dealing with Admiral Darlan won't save American lives but may well be the cause ...
Article : 79 wordsNEW YORK, Dec 7.—The American Hebrew medal has been conferred on Mr Wendell Willkie in recognition of his efforts in ...
Article : 73 wordsOverseas news in "The West Australian" is supplied by Australian Associated Press. Sources include In England "The Times," "Daily ...
Article : 81 wordsLONDON, Dec 18.—The German radio broadcast today that Germany now had U-boat tankers designed as a "milking cow." "These ...
Article : 42 wordsNEW YORK, Dec. 17.—The Tokio official radio broadcast yesterday to the Government plans to reform the Stock Exchange by establishing a ...
Article : 41 wordsSANTIAGO, Dec 17.—The newspaper "El Chileno" says that despite denials by the German Embassy Berlin has recalled the German ...
Article : 41 wordsLONDON, Dec. 18.—Moscow radio states that Mussolini is reported to have dismissed General Vittoria Ambrosio, Italian Chief of Staff, also ...
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