LONDON, Oct 5.—Nearly 1,000 tons of bombs were dropped on waggons, repair shops, marshalling yards, engine repair shops and ...
Article : 242 wordsLONDON, Oct 6.—Smashing its way through dense minefields and a chain of pillboxes, the Red Army has captured Kolishki, a town 30 miles east of Vitebsk, and is threatening Lesuo, on the Smolensk-Vitebsk railway, according to today's message from Reuters correspondent in ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 304 wordsNEW YORK. Oct 5.—The Under-Secretary of War (Mr Patterson), addressing members of the United Automobile Workers at Buffalo, said ...
Article : 277 wordsLONDON, Oct 6.—The Exchange Telegraph's correspondent It Ankara states that Press reports say fighting is occurring on the island of ...
Article : 254 wordsLONDON, Oct 6.—The Algiers reporter of the Columbia Broadcasting System states that Americans who crossed the Calore River to threaten the German left flank on the Volturno line barring the Allies' road to Rome have, despite stronger enemy resistance, crossed the Vclturno ...
Article : 518 wordsPEARL HARBOUR, Oct 5.—Admirals Ernest King (C-in-C, US Fleet), Halsey (Naval C-in-C. South Pacific) and Nimitz (C-In-C., ...
Article : 198 wordsWITH GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HQ IN NEW GUINEA, Oct 6.— Australian troops advancing down the Ramu Valley have been in ...
Article : 228 wordsWASHINGTON, Oct 5.—President Roosevelt told his Press conference today that the Japanese, in beheading an Allied aviator in the SW ...
Article : 202 wordsLONDON, Oct 6.—"Te Russian offensive is not yet over but its character has been changed by the nature of the terrain and the ...
Article : 411 wordsLONDON, Oct 6.—A huge explosion seen by aircrews raiding Kassel on the night of October 3 is now known to have been due to a hit ...
Article : 112 wordsWITH GENERAL MACARTHUR'S HQ IN NEW GUINEA. Oct 6.—The American Government through the Chief of Staff (General Marshall) ...
Article : 63 wordsLONDON, Oct 6.—Algiers radio gives the following French High Command special communique: "Our troops have completed the ...
Article : 67 wordsLONDON, Oct 5.—Yugoslav naval units after a hard fight lasting two. days captured the island of Losinj (50 miles south-east of the ...
Article : 83 wordsNEW YORK, Oct 5.—The New York "Herald-Tribune's" Washington bureau says that President Roosevelt told his Press conference, ...
Article : 338 wordsWASHINGTON, Oct 5.—Briefly reviewing the war at his Press conference today President Roosevelt detected signs of Japanese weakness ...
Article : 120 wordsLONDON, Oct 6.—Yesterday's Air Ministry communique stated: "In the course of fighter and fighter-bomber offensive operations over ...
Article : 104 wordsLONDON. Oct 6.—Today's Yugoslav communique states: "Successful operations continue in Montenegro and Herzegovina. We routed a ...
Article : 71 wordsLONDON, Oct 6.—The French National Committee of Liberation has sent a message of congratulation to the Corsican patriots and the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 116 wordsNEW YORE, Oct 6.—The Tokio official radio today beamed to Latin America a denial that Japanese soldiers had beheaded an Allied airman ...
Article : 107 wordsLONDON, Oct 6.—Fate ordained that the man who when a child wanted to discover how an acrobat feels on a flying trapeze should one; ...
Article : 114 wordsLONDON, Oct 6.—The conquest of the central group of Japanese strongholds in New Guinea confirms the belief in London that the ...
Article : 182 wordsLONDON, Oct 6.—Today's Algiers communique is as follows: "Land—The Fifth Army continued progress against stiffening ...
Article : 148 wordsLONDON. Oct 5.—The possibility of a German retirement to a shorter line in the northern sector of the Russian front is discussed by ...
Article : 147 wordsCANBERRA, Oct 6.—An appropriate authority was investigating reports of fresh Japanese atrocities in New Guinea, said the Minister ...
Article : 93 wordsLONDON. Oct 6.—The South African Major-General Klopper, who walked into Foggia after an 18 days' ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 192 wordsLONDON. Oct 6.0—A twinengined Australian Air Force plane made a forced landing on Spanish territory near the Straits of ...
Article : 41 wordsLONDON. Oct 6.—Reuters correspondent with the Eighth Army reports: "The British raiders who landed at the seaside village of ...
Article : 99 wordsNow occupied by Allied forces, the Nadzab airstrip in New Guinea is a busy centre. Several transport planes were on the ground when this picture was taken ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 30 wordsLONDON, Oct 6.—Last night's Admiralty communique stated: "The Home Fleet under the command of Admiral Sir Bruce Franer, carried ...
Article : 147 wordsWASHINGTON. Oct 5.—President Roosevelt, in a message to the 63rd annual convention of the American Federation of Labour, stated that he ...
Article : 173 wordsLONDON, Oct 6.—General Diet- mar, Berlin radio's commentator, returning to the radio after several weeks' silence, said it would be ...
Article : 321 wordsLONDON, Oct 6.—Today's German High Command communique states: "The enemy thrust against our rearguards at ...
Article : 113 wordsLONDON, Oct 6.—A representative of the combined British Press in Naples reports that General Mark Clark, after dismissing his jeep ...
Article : 90 wordsLONDON, Oct 6.—"The arrival of Field Marshal Smuts should be an earnest of far-reaching developments," says '"The Times" in a ...
Article : 303 wordsLONDON, Oct 6.—"Something like mild civil war between factions led by members of the House of Savoy threatens to develop in Italy," states ...
Article : 189 wordsCHUNGKING, Oct 5.—The Associated Press reports that Chinese forces East China have re-established their positions in the ...
Article : 121 wordsWASHINGTON, Oct 5.—President Roosevelt at his Press conference today said that in Italy the Fifth and Eighth armies were consolidating ...
Article : 75 wordsLONDON, Oct 6.— The Russians used well over 3,000,000 front-line troops in their summer offensive," says the British United Press ...
Article : 126 wordsLONDON, Oct 6.—In military circles in London the continued mention in the German communiques of Russian attacks at ...
Article : 106 wordsNEW YORK, Oct 5.—The Washington bureau of the "New York Times" says: "The Secretary of state (Mr Cordell Hull) is expected ...
Article : 190 wordsLONDON, Oct 6.—"German savagery reached incredible depths in five days of terror before the evacuation of Naples," says a British ...
Article : 545 wordsLONDON, Oct 5.—The Indian defence forces are now very near the 2,000,000 mark and nearly 500,000 troops, drawn from all parts of ...
Article : 214 wordsLONDON, Oct 6.—Last night's Moscow communique was as follows: "Our troops in the Vitebsk sector today fought local engagements and ...
Article : 138 wordsLONDON, Oct 6.—The Home Secretary (Mr Herbert Morrison) in a speech today said" "The British Empire means to carry on with its full ...
Article : 362 wordsLONDON, Oct 6.—Diplomats accredited to the Vatican have joined those whom foreign correspondents throughout Europe have ...
Article : 101 wordsCANBERRA. Oct 6.—Specially trained army catering experts were being used in New Guinea to instruct cooks in forward areas on ...
Article : 95 wordsCANBERRA, Oct 6.—The Prime Minister (Mr Curtin) declined to comment today when he was asked if, in view of Field Marshal Smuts's ...
Article : 105 wordsNEW YORK, Oct 5.—Tokio official radio says that the Emperor, Hirohito, has consented to a Cabinet request for an extraordinary session ...
Article : 38 wordsExcept where otherwise designated. the overseas intelligence published in "The West Australian" is transmitted to Australia by the Australian Associated Press ...
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