LONDON, May 5.-"The Italian front is humming with intense preparations. The German High Command is awaiting a large-scale ...
Article : 276 wordsLONDON, May 5.—Large forces of Allied planes were over the south- east coast before and after dawn, some returning from a night ...
Article : 225 wordsWITH GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HQ IN NEW GUINEA, May 5.—The ring of encirclement round the Japanese forces trapped on the ...
Article : 338 wordsLONDON, May 5.—Today's South- east Asia communique stated: "Allied troops are attacking at all points at Kohima and are making ...
Article : 129 wordsLONDON, May 5.—One of the largest attendances of the war was present yesterday when the Australian Prime Minister (Mr Curtin) ...
Article : 957 wordsLONDON, May 5.—"The Domination examining Allied schemes for the rehabilitation of Europe after ...
Article : 521 wordsLONDON, May 5.—"Red Army mountain troops are methodically pushing up the valleys through the Carpathian foothills, fighting a series ...
Article : 458 wordsLONDON, May 6.—"British submarines are now mustering in Far Eastern waters for a smashing blow against the vulnerable sea ...
Article : 215 wordsFROM GENERAL WILSON'S MEDITERRANEAN COMMAND.— At General Alexander's invitation I have been visiting the victorious ...
Article : 1,343 wordsNEW YORK, May 5.—Tokio official radio announced today that Admiral Mineichi Koga, C-in-C of the Japanese Fleet, had been killed ...
Article : 153 wordsLONDON, May 5.—The most promising start made this morning by the Allied air forces to carry on the great air offensive over the ...
Article : 61 wordsMONTREAL, May 4.—The Chungking correspondent of the Associated Press reports that the Japanese driving from the north and south ...
Article : 201 wordsLONDON, May 5.—"While the enemy has had abundant time to prepare for invasion, so have we to repulse it," says the German ...
Article : 264 wordsLONDON, May 5.—Today the following targets in France were struck: Railway yards at Cambral (by Second Tactical Air Force Mitchells ...
Article : 263 wordsTanks move through blasted enemy positions as American troops take Hallandia, Dutch New Guinea D.O.L. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 20 wordsWASHINGTON. May 4.—A Pacific Fleet communique issued today states: "Army Liberators on Monday night dropped 50 tons of bombs ...
Article : 132 wordsNEW YORK, May 4.—Repeating its previous warning that the United States 14th Air Force in China was being strengthened, a Domes agency ...
Article : 88 wordsNEW YORK, May 4.—In a dispatch from an advanced Solomons base Charles Arnot. of the United Press, states: "Over 150.000 ...
Article : 120 wordsPHILADELPHIA, May 4.—The Czechoslovak Foreign Minister (M. Jan Masaryk) In a speech proposed that the Germans should be placed ...
Article : 82 wordsNEW YORK. May 4.—The "New York Times" reveals that plans to prevent the unnecessary destruction of European cultural art and ...
Article : 160 wordsLONDON, May 5.—The importance the Germans attached to Wednesday night's main RAF target in Europe—the military depot at ...
Article : 473 wordsNEW YORK, May 4.—Salgon radio has reported that on the night of April 29 an Allied submarine torpedoed and sank a naval craft and ...
Article : 71 wordsWASHINGTON, May 4.—The Associated Press states that the Senate Appropriations Committee has directed Government agencies to give ...
Article : 163 wordsLONDON, May 5.—"When the day arrives for starting the invasion every soldier may be assured that his weapons, ...
Article : 135 wordsHOLOLULU, May 4.-The United Press states that Lt-General Richardson has completely lifted Hawaii's blackout but the 10 o'clock ...
Article : 54 wordsCHUNGKING, May 5—Lt-General Stilwell's communique today stated that on Wednesday Liberators sank a 4,000-ton freighter in an attack ...
Article : 59 wordsLONDON, May 5.—An RAF Mosquito shot down four enemy aircraft in six minutes over Dijon airfield this ...
Article : 85 wordsLONDON, May 5.—A Moscow message says the Soviet Atrocity commission has named Lt-General Munoz Grande, commander of the ...
Article : 63 wordsNEW YORK, May 4.—Tokio radio stated that Emperor Hirohito sent an aide-de-camp to inspect the Tanaka Aircraft Company factories. ...
Article : 46 wordsLONDON, May 5.—The Government and church leaders are conferring about the possibility of calling a national day of prayer when ...
Article : 63 wordsNEW YORK, May 5.—A United Press message from Chungking states that the Japanese have closed Peiping's Roman Catholic University ...
Article : 65 wordsNEW YORK, May 4.—Mr P. J. Clarey. president of the Australian ACTL and employees' delegate at the conference of the International ...
Article : 129 wordsNEW YORE, May 4.—The Washington bureau of the New York "Herald-Tribune" states that the British Ambassador (Lord Halifax). ...
Article : 162 wordsKANSAS CITY, May 4.—The general conference of the Methodist Church after a hot debate voted to reverse its anti-war stand of 1940 ...
Article : 122 wordsGENERAL MacARTHUR'S HQ IN NEW GUINEA, May 5.—The following communique was issued today: NORTH-WESTERN SECTOR.— ...
Article : 354 wordsLONDON, May 4.—The Secretary for India (Mr L. S. Amery). replying to a question in the House of Commons, why India was not ...
Article : 203 wordsLONDON, May 5.—General Vladimir Velevit, leader of the Yugoslav military mission now in Britain, at a Press conference yesterday ...
Article : 139 wordsWITH GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HQ IN NEW GUINEA, May 5.—Seriously ill and in need of an immediate operation in the US, an ...
Article : 212 wordsLONDON, May 5.—Prince Bern-hard in a broadcast to Holland, emphasised that Dutch troops co- operated with the Australians and ...
Article : 171 wordsLONDON, May 5.—The attendance of the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir John Anderson) at to-day's session of the Prime Ministers' ...
Article : 190 wordsLONDON, May 5.—Vichy radio says that a French military court at Annecy sentenced to death 10 members of the French Resistance ...
Article : 55 wordsWASHINGTON, May 4.—At his Press conference today the Secretary of War (Mr Stimson) declared that the air assault on Europe was ...
Article : 109 wordsLONDON, May 5.—The Admiralty reports that the submarine, HMS Stonehenge (Lt D. S. Verschoyle- Campbell, DSO, DSC) is overdue and ...
Article : 82 wordsLONDON. May 4.—The Institute of London Underwriters has reduced cargo war risk insurance rates between South America (Pacific port ...
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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