LONDON, Aug 6.—With General Alexander's troops in full pursuit the enemy is now falling back along both the Messina and Randazzo roads apparently to new defensive positions northward of Mt Etna covering Sicily's extreme north-eastern tip. ...
Article : 739 wordsSOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, Aug 6.—A special announcement made at GHQ tonight stated: "Munda is now in our hands. All ...
Article : 326 wordsLONDON, Aug 5.—It is officially announced in Stockholm that the Swedish Government has cancelled the transit traffic agreement with ...
Article : 128 wordsLONDON, Aug 6.—Rome radio in an English broadcast after yesterday's Italian Cabinet meeting said: "Marshal Badoglio's Government ...
Article : 104 wordsSOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA, Aug 6.—"You had better give up, you American drafters," yelled the Japanese over a public address ...
Article : 1,403 wordsSOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, Aug 6.—Desperate Japanese counter-attacks have been beaten off by Australian forward units in close ...
Article : 251 wordsLONDON, Aug 6—Almost immediately following the news of the recapture of Oral yesterday by the Russian forces came the announcement from Moscow of the fall of Byelgorod, 160 miles south of Orel, after a terrific assault, preceded by a devastating artillery barrage. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 625 wordsNEW YORK, Aug 6.—"After an extraordinary Italian Cabinet session lasting 31 hours an anticlimactic communique announced that ...
Article : 204 wordsNEW YORK, Aug 5.—The "Herald-Tribune's" Washington bureau states that the War Department is deeply concerned at the ...
Article : 124 wordsLONDON, Aug 5.—"Catania, the second city of Sicily, surrended to the victorious Eighth Army at 8.20 this morning, after troops had ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 555 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug 6.—The forward moves by, the US Forces in the SW Pacific are being strongly supported by planes of the RAAF ...
Article : 321 wordsLONDON, Aug 6.—Marshal Stalin Issued the following order-of-the- day to Colonel-Generals Popov, Sokolovsky and Konev and Generals ...
Article : 246 wordsLONDON, Aug 6.—The following official statement was issued from Allied HQ in North Africa on the capture of Catania; "The enemy ...
Article : 137 wordsToday's GHQ communuique was as follows: NORTH-WESTERN SECTOR.— Timer: Our medium units at night ...
Article : 265 wordsLONDON, Aug 5.—Replying to a number of points about Italy raised in the House of Lords today the Lord Privy Seal (Viscount ...
Article : 189 wordsLONDON, Aug 6.—An RAP commentator said today that in the last week of the pre-landing assault on Sicliy, 15,000 sorties were made, over ...
Article : 108 wordsLONDON, Aug 6.—The midnight Moscow communique states: "Our troops yesterday after fierce street fighting occupied Orel and over 30 ...
Article : 99 wordsLONDON, Aug 6.—The Air Ministry pews service has released the story of an Australian Sunderland flying-boat which recently ...
Article : 332 wordsLONDON, Aug 6.—"The time has come for the Axis forces to endeavour to reach the Italian mainland," says Algiers radio, "but no Axis ...
Article : 66 wordsWASHINGTON, Aug 5.—The Japanese lost 40,000 men killed at Guadalcanal, the War Department disclosed today in a report by Col ...
Article : 103 wordsLONDON, Aug 6.—Oslo radio today quoted the following German High Command statement: "Russian attacks continue to increase in fury ...
Article : 100 wordsLONDON, Aug 5.—Rome radio today quoted the full text of the royal decree banning the Fascist Party, disclosing that the Ministry ...
Article : 182 wordsLONDON, Aug 6.—"Axis attempts to effect a Dunkirk across the Straits of Messina are well under way. The beaches and light craft ...
Article : 165 wordsLONDON, Aug 5.—The "Daily Mail" quotes an envoy who has just returned from Italy as saying that the Italian people want peace ...
Article : 234 wordsLONDON, Aug 6.—The entire German defence system around the Orel bulge is crumbling swiftly following the fall of Orel itself, ...
Article : 191 wordsWASHINGTON, Aug 5.—William Hipple, Asociated Press correspondent at US Headquarters in the South Pacific, says that Japan has ...
Article : 129 wordsLONDON, Aug 6.—The "Daily Mall" states in a leading article: "Orel is certainly the greatest Russian victory of the war. The ...
Article : 171 wordsLONDON, Aug 6.—The German newsagency's diplomatic correspondent, commenting on the meeting of the Badoglio Cabinet, says: ...
Article : 76 wordsNEW YORK, Aug 5.—At Fort Sill, Oklahoma, Major-General Basilio Valdes. former Minister for Defence and Chief of Staff of the Philippines ...
Article : 69 wordsLONDON, Aug 6.—The British United Press correspondent at Allied HQ at Algiers says it is stated there that only unfavourable weather ...
Article : 52 wordsLONDON, Aug 6.—The full Algiers communique for today is as follows: "The unconditional surrender of Catania was accepted at 10.15 am ...
Article : 135 wordsWASHINGTON, Aug 5.—The Secretary for War (Mr H. L. Stimson) announced today that Liberator losses in the American raid on ...
Article : 228 wordsNEW YORK, Aug 5.—The London correspondent of the "New York Times" states: "Mindful of Mr Joseph Davies's recent mission to ...
Article : 235 wordsWASHINGTON, Aug 5.—American casualties in Sicily to July 22 totalled 501 killed, 3,870 wounded, and 2,370 missing, the Secretary for ...
Article : 413 wordsNEW YORK, Aug 5.—Tokio official radio says that Commander Suteji Murol, described as an intimate friend of the late Admiral ...
Article : 75 wordsNEW YORK, Aug 5.—Major Hanson Baldwin, military analyst of the "New York Times" states that a small-scale preview of the "coming ...
Article : 377 wordsNEW YORK, Aug 5.—The Cairo correspondent of the "New York Times" states that reliable reports from the Balkans and Hungary show ...
Article : 108 wordsLONDON, Aug 6.—Today's Algiers air communique reports attacks against communications centres yesterday. Heavy bombers, ...
Article : 97 wordsLONDON, Aug 6.—According to today's Rome communique the casualties in the latest Allied raid on Naples were 210 killed and 464 ...
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