LONDON, Feb 16.—The historic monastery on Mt Cassino has been smashed by heavy bombardment, both by artillery and from the air. ...
Article : 713 wordsLONDON, Feb 16.—Reuters correspondent in Algiers said last night that hand-to-hand fighting went on in the ruined streets of Cassino ...
Article : 451 wordsNEW YORK, Feb 15.—The "New York Times" reports from Buenos Aires: "A group of comparatively junior army officers, alarmed at ...
Article : 334 wordsLONDON, Feb 16.—Reuters Stockholm correspondent, quoting "a reliable source," says that M Paasikivi (formerly Finnish Minister in ...
Article : 714 wordsLONDON, Feb 16.—"Another large-scale raid was carried out on Berlin last night and it was comparatively uneventful, except for ...
Article : 676 wordsLONDON, Feb 16.—German efforts to break through north-west of Svengorodka west of the middle Dnieper to relieve the Germans trapped in the Kaney pocket are getting weaker, according to Reuters Moscow correspondent, who states: "The latest reports show that the Russians ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 669 wordsWITH GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HQ IN NEW GUINEA, Feb 16.—With the occupation of the Green Islands by New Zealand and ...
Article : 266 wordsWITH GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HQ IN NEW GUINEA, Feb 16.—Blockade and bombing alone cannot defeat Japan, was the opinion ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 281 wordsLONDON, Feb 16.—"Herded into the last remaining pocket in the south-west corner of the Kanev trap, the remnants of the ten German ...
Article : 190 wordsNEW YORK, Feb 15.—The New York "Herald Tribune" correspondent in Buenos Aires states that the GOU would like General Ramirez to ...
Article : 84 wordsLONDON, Feb 16.—Mr L. D. Gammans (Con) asked in the House of Commons yesterday if the Secretary for War (Sir James Grigg) was ...
Article : 225 wordsWITH GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HQ IN NEW GUINEA, Feb 16.—Japanese fighter pilots were more aggressive than usual in attempting ...
Article : 360 wordsMELBOURNE, Feb 16.—Judge Stretton has been appointed a Royal Commissioner to inquire into the cause of the disastrous Gippsland ...
Article : 565 wordsLONDON, Feb 16.—Broadsides from British cruisers and destroyers cut the Appian Way between the southern Italian front and the ...
Article : 157 wordsWASHINGTON, Feb 15.—At his Press conference today President Roosevelt declared that the Allies were shelling Mt Cassino monastery ...
Article : 150 wordsLONDON, Feb 16.—Today's Air Ministry communique was as follows: "Bomber Command planes last night took the offensive against Germany ...
Article : 136 wordsLONDON, Feb 16.—Last night's Moscow communique was as follows: "The Russians south and south-east of Gdov (on the eastern shore of ...
Article : 185 wordsLONDON, Feb 16.—Allied headquarters state officially that over 50 American planes without loss dive-bombed Rome's railway yards ...
Article : 231 wordsNEW YORK, Feb 15.—Tokio official radio said that a Government spokesmen declared that Japan "in principle had no objections" to ...
Article : 118 wordsWar between Finland and Soviet Russia broke out in November, 1939, after the failure of negotiations regarding Russian demands. These ...
Article : 293 wordsLONDON, Feb 16.—A joint USAAF and Air Ministry statement issued late last night was as follows: "USAAF Marauders, RAF and ...
Article : 263 wordsLONDON, Feb 16.—A representative of the combined British Press in a dispatch from the Anzio beachhead states: "Full investigations have ...
Article : 159 wordsLONDON, Feb 16—The Admiralty yesterday issued an announcement amending the area in the Bay of Biscay declared dangerous to ...
Article : 118 wordsWASHINGTON, Feb 15.—At his Press conference today the Secretary of the Navy (Col Knox) said Americans were attacking enemy bases in ...
Article : 111 wordsLONDON, Feb 16.—The Polish weekly newspaper, "Waldomosci Polskie" used considerable space for violent attacks against the ...
Article : 362 wordsLONDON, Feb 16.—The Admiralty states that during an offensive sweep off the coast of Holland on Monday night a light coastal force ...
Article : 133 wordsLONDON, Feb 16.—Reuters correspondent at an advanced airfield in Italy in a dispatch yesterday said: "Today for the first time we ...
Article : 258 wordsSome men of various WA units which fought with distinction in New Guinea are back in this State. They are back from one of the ...
Article : 615 wordsNEW YORK, Feb 15.—Tokio official radio, observing the second anniversary of the fall of Singapore, described how the city has ...
Article : 79 wordsCANBERRA, Feb 16.—In the first of the Victorian bushfires last month about 500 homes, 1,000,000 sheep, 50,000 cattle, 1,000 horses, 1,000 pigs, ...
Article : 253 wordsLONDON, Feb 16.—The Germans at Carroceto are fighting to get tanks into the area known as the "cockpit," reports a correspondent in the ...
Article : 442 wordsLONDON, Feb 16.—About 600 German troops are now in the Haute Savoie area (adjoining Switzerland and Italy) preparing for an all-out ...
Article : 161 wordsLONDON, Feb 16.—With the rear-gunner killed by the first burst of enemy fire an RAAF Sunderland. "Q for Queenie," over the Bay of ...
Article : 131 wordsLONDON, Feb 16.—In the House of Commons today Mr Churchill said that between September 3, 1943, the day on which British troops first ...
Article : 67 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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