LONDON, Jan 20.—"The Russian took divisions which smashed through the 12-mile German defence belt on the Guff of Finland have broken out into open country and now racing forwards the great lateral railway linking Leaingrad with the Estonian town of Norva, ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 561 wordsNEW YORK, Jan 19.—In a front-page story the New York "World- Telegram" states: "From behind the wall of censorship which for months ...
Article : 317 wordsWITH GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HQ IN NEW GUINEA, Jan 20.—In another smashing raid on Simpson Harbour at Rabaui, three Japanese ...
Article : 271 wordsLONDON, Jan 20.—The British are not only holding their gains north of the Garigliano River but are fanning out and pushing on in a ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 623 wordsAUCKLAND. Jan 20.—New Zealand welcomes the steps taken at the Canberra conference to bring Australia and New Zealand closer ...
Article : 643 wordsWASHINGTON, Jan 19.—Testifying before the Senate Military Affairs Committee on the National Service Bill, the Secretary of War (Mr H. L. ...
Article : 470 wordsLONDON, Jan 20.—Ranked highest among the world's single-seater fighters for combined speed and fire- power the Hawker Typhoon, which ...
Article : 309 wordsSYDNEY. Jan 20.—Fifteen persons were killed and at least four others are in a critical condition in hospital following a collision between ...
Article : 818 wordsWASHINGTON, Jan 19.—A Pacific fleet communique states: "Navy search planes attacked Kusaie Island, a Japanese air base ...
Article : 174 wordsNEW YORK, Jan 20.—The Monte- video (Uruguay) correspondent of the Associated Press stated today that it was said In authoritative ...
Article : 140 wordsLONDON, Jan 20.—"We didn't always hold the mastery of the air." said Lord Beaverbrook (Lord Privy Seal), speaking yesterday in the ...
Article : 176 wordsLONDON, Jan 20.—Following Marshal Stalin's order-of-the-day announcing the new offensive in the Pulkova area and south of ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 349 wordsLONDON, Jan 20.—The King today held a Privy council meeting at Buckingham Palace at which he approved of an Order-in-Council ...
Article : 114 wordsLONDON, Jan 20.—The "Daily Mail" says: "It Is learnt that John O'Reilly (28) and Patrick Kenny (35)—two Irishmen who were ...
Article : 201 wordsLONDON. Jan 20.—The Government was making progress in producing types of planes for civil aviation, declared Lord Beaverbrook ...
Article : 503 wordsLONDON, Jan 19.—Replying to a question in the House of Commons yesterday concerning the repatriation of war prisoners who have been ...
Article : 162 wordsLONDON, Jan 20.—The German newsagency reports that Dr Goebbels, writing In "Das Reich" states "It would be the utmost recklessness ...
Article : 164 wordsCANBERRA, Jan 20.—The nature, extent and balance of the war efforts of Australia and New Zealand were discussed in relation to the ...
Article : 269 wordsLONDON. Jan 20.—An order-of- the-day issued yesterday by Marsha Stalin and addressed to Marshal Govorov states: "Troops of the ...
Article : 480 wordsLONDON, Jan 20.—For three hours this morning south coast artillery shelled enemy shipping In the Straits of Dover and fired ...
Article : 156 wordsLONDON, Jan 20.—In the area of Sokolniki all German attempts to restore the situation have failed, Soviet troops repelling ...
Article : 153 wordsNEW YORE, Jan 19.—The Vice- president of the War Production Board (Mr Charles Wilson), addressing the Army Ordnance Association, ...
Article : 170 wordsLONDON, Jan 20.—Rome radio states: "Liberators attacked Rome, Viterbo and other places yesterday and destroyed the Rome waterworks ...
Article : 146 wordsLONDON, Jan 20.—Today's German High Command communique was as follows: "Heavy offensive battles are going on north of Lake ...
Article : 114 wordsBRISBANE, Jan 20.—Fontaine B. Williams (26), US soldier. was to-day ordered to be handed over to the American authorities for trial on ...
Article : 194 wordsLONDON, Jan 20.—The people of Leningrad, after months of intermittent shelling from German long-range guns, have broadcast thanks ...
Article : 64 wordsNEW YORK, Jan 19.—Chungking radio today stated that the Chinese launched counter-attacks on the Japanese forces penetrating ...
Article : 74 wordsLONDON, Jan 20.—Today's Algiers HQ communique was as follows: "British troops of the Fifth; Army, despite stubborn resistance ...
Article : 259 wordsWASHINGTON. Jan 19.—Mr Charles E. Wilson, chairman of the Aircraft Production Board, announced today that the United ...
Article : 156 wordsLONDON, Jan 20.—The German- controlled Scandinavian Telegraph Bureau states that 190 Norwegian policemen were arrested last August ...
Article : 38 wordsLONDON, Jan 20.—The German Newsagency gives the following Finnish communique today: Hard fighting occurred In the central ...
Article : 52 wordsMELBOURNE, Jan 20—So keen were the young RAAF pilots of No 451 Squadron in the Middle East to engage high-flying German ...
Article : 466 wordsWASHINGTON, Jan 19.—Charles Haslet, of the Associated Press, describes the bulldozer earth-moving machine as as real fighting weapon ...
Article : 428 wordsLONDON, Jan 20.—David Anderson, National Broadcasting Corporation (American) reporter in Stockholm, said that Stockholm ...
Article : 54 wordsMELBOURNE, Jan 20.—The last number of the Netherlands secret paper, "Het Parool," which has just reached England, estimates that at ...
Article : 147 wordsLONDON. Jan 20.—The. first recorded fight between four-engined bombers occurred during the RAP raid on Brunswick on the night of ...
Article : 51 wordsLONDON, Jan 20.—As a result of the relief measures, also the excellent winter rice crop, there is now no general shortage of food in ...
Article : 112 wordsLONDON. Jan 20.—The Air Ministry states that RAP Mosquitos, in a day offensive over the Norwegian coast yesterday, attacked several ...
Article : 55 wordsCAIRO. Jan 19.—Capt R. M. Robins, former traffic superintendent on the Persian State Railways, said in a broadcast that 200,000 tons, ...
Article : 41 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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