LONDON, June 27.—It is officially announced that despite strong resistance general advances by the Allied forces were made yesterday on ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 582 wordsKANDY (Ceylon), June 27.—To- day's South-East Asia Command communique stated: "Mogaung, the Japanese stronghold in North Burma, ...
Article : 661 wordsLONDON, June 27.—The fell of Cherbourg was announced today by Supreme Allied HQ. In the battle for the city the Germans lost the greater part of four divisions besides many naval and marine units and line of communication troops. Immense stocks of military and ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 528 wordsWASHINGTON, June 26.—At Pearl Harbour Admiral Nimitz has announced that American troops have reached the summit of Mt ...
Article : 214 wordsLONDON, June 27.—The keypoint to Cherbourg was Fort du Roule, an armed bastion rising to a height of several hundred feet from the ...
Article : 453 wordsLONDON, June 27.—German production evidently has not been able to make good the losses in equipment sustained in the winter ...
Article : 611 wordsLONDON, June 27.—Continuing their great summer offensive on the central White Russian front, Red Army forces yesterday completed the capture of the German stronghold of Vitebsk and farther south occupied Jlobin, an important point in the Bobruisk area. Advancing swiftly other ...
Article : 385 wordsWASHINGTON, June 26.—A Pacific Fleet communique states: "Aircraft from our fast carrier task force attacked Guam and Rota ...
Article : 180 wordsLONDON, June 27.—"The Red Armies on the central White Russian front are pressing on rapidly towards the Lithuanian border ...
Article : 269 wordsLONDON. June 27.—The 43rd communique issued by Supreme Allied HQ today was as follows: "The fall of Cherbourg ends the second ...
Article : 302 wordsLONDON, June 27.—Last night's Moscow communique, after repeating Marshal Stalin's order-of-the-day referring to the capture of Vitebsk, ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 361 wordsWITH GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HQ IN NEW GUINEA, June 27.— the Japanese air force has thrown in the sponge in New Guinea and ...
Article : 173 wordsLONDON, June 27.—The French Forces of the Interior under the command of General Koenig are continuing activities all over France, ...
Article : 321 wordsLONDON, June 27.— Reuters Stockholm correspondent quotes a report from the Berlin representative of the ...
Article : 84 wordsLONDON. June 27.—Reuters Moscow correspondent reports that the Russians have gained a major victory on the Finnish front. The Red ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 213 wordsCHUNGKING, June 26.—A Chinese communique reports that severe fighting continued throughout yesterday on the outskirts of Hengyang ...
Article : 67 wordsLONDON, June 27.—"The British attack west of Caen today (Monday) followed the biggest barrage yet seen in Normandy," stated the Exchange ...
Article : 453 wordsAn aerial view of Saipan Island, in the Marianas, where bitter fighting is in progress. This island, on which American soldiers are extending their grip, is the rearest point to Nippon yet invaded by the Allies. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 42 wordsLONDON, June 27.—Reuters correspondent in Cherbourg, in a dispatch last night said: "The city today is full of the smell of war and ...
Article : 130 wordsLONDON, June 27.—The Victoria Cross has been awarded post-humously to Pilot-Officer Cyril Joe Barton, RAFVR, of Surrey. ...
Article : 252 wordsLONDON, June 27.—The newspapers publish amazing photographs showing the immense. size and strength of vast, unfinished steel and ...
Article : 413 wordsLONDON. June 27.—The "Daily Telegraph," referring to the capture of Lt-General von Schlieben, commander of the Cherbourg ...
Article : 235 wordsLONDON, June 27.—The Associated Press correspondent in the English Channel today said: "A convoy of Allied salvage experts is ...
Article : 153 wordsWITH GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HQ IN NEW GUINEA, June 27.—The creation of a For East Air Fore to combine with the famous Fifth ...
Article : 292 wordsLONDON, June 27.—An Air Ministry communique states: "RAF Bomber Command Mosquitos last night attacked objectives in ...
Article : 36 wordsLONDON, June 27.—It is stated at Supreme Allied HQ that under a good deal of pressure Russians are now fighting for the Germans in ...
Article : 203 wordsLONDON, June 27.—The Prime Minister (Mr Winston Churchill) told the House of Commons today that the total casualties of the ...
Article : 134 wordsMELBOURNE, June 27.—The C-in-C of the Allied Land Forces in the SW Pacific (General Sir Thomas Blamey) returned to Melbourne ...
Article : 385 wordsLONDON, June 27.—In the past five days' fighting on the Normandy front five German generals have been killed. They are: ...
Article : 268 wordsLONDON, June 27.—General de Gaulle, speaking in the French Consultative Assembly, according to an Algiers message, said important ...
Article : 63 wordsLONDON, June 27.—Lord Harewood has been officially advised that his elder son. Lt Viscount Lascelles, has been reported wounded and ...
Article : 80 wordsLONDON, June 27.—The Ankara correspondent of "The Times" says that about 90,000 tons of Turkish chrome will be available to the Allies ...
Article : 65 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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