SOMEWHERE IN SW PACIFIC AREA, Aug 3.—Desperate Japanese troops hurled themselves against the right flank of the American position ...
Article : 353 wordsLONDON, Aug 3.—The British United press correspondent in Stockholm states: "Representatives of the Finnish Peace Party have arrived ...
Article : 112 wordsLONDON, Aug 3.—The Germans sent waves of flying bombs over southern England at short intervals all night, also after dawn today, in ...
Article : 387 wordsLONDON, Aug 3.—In Washington today the Secretary of War (Mr Stimson) announced that American Forces had captured Rennes in Brittany. Earlier an American broadcaster from Normandy reported: "The United States First Army is also on the outskirts of Dinan ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 676 wordsLONDON, Aug 3.—In the course of reviewing foreign affairs during his speech in the House of Commons yesterday, the Prime Minister ...
Article : 620 wordsLONDON, Aug 3.—Bombs and bullets of Eighth Air Force Mustangs. Thunderbolts and Lightnings in dive-bombing and strafing ...
Article : 236 wordsLONDON, Aug 3.—Russian guns are sending their first shells into the German traffic on Hitler's super-highways leading up the East Prussian frontier," said Reuters correspondent in Moscow in a dispatch this morning describing the Red Army's approach to the border. "They are ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 515 wordsLONDON, Aug 3.-The communique issued by Allied HQ in Italy today stated: "South of Montelupo troops of an Indian division ...
Article : 245 wordsLONDON, Aug 3.—The man whom Mr Churchill revealed In his speech to the House of Commons yesterday, as the planner of the invasion, ...
Article : 256 wordsLONDON, Aug 3.—"The operation south of Caumont is a major success," stated a spokesman at Lt- General Dempsey's HQ last night," ...
Article : 437 wordsWASHINGTON, Aug 2—The Navy has announced that Marines have advanced a mile northward in Guam against increased Japanese ...
Article : 312 wordsLONDON, Aug 3.—Bomber Command dropped 57,500 tons of bombs during July, of which over 13,000 tons fell on Germany. July was a ...
Article : 83 wordsLONDON, Aug 3.—Marshal Graz[?]ani, recently appointed C-in-C of a mixed Italo-German army, has issued an order-of-the-day which was ...
Article : 85 wordsLONDON, Aug 3.—The German Newsagency today announced that Reich Marshal Goering had appointed Lt-General Werner Kreipe ...
Article : 75 wordsWASHINGTON, Aug 2.—Today the War Department announced that Lieut-General McNair had been killed by an American bomb in an ...
Article : 139 wordsLONDON, Aug 3.—After six Kitty- bombers of an RAAF fighter-bomber squadron n Italy had wrecked the headquarters of a panzer grenadier ...
Article : 225 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug 3.—The Prime Minister (Mr Curtin) today made the following comment on Mr Churchill's speech to the British House of ...
Article : 169 wordsWarsaw, capital of Poland, for possession of which Russian and German armies are locked in fighting. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 20 wordsMONTREAL, Aug 3.—Reports from Paris, according to the Algiers correspondent of the "New York Times," emphasises the danger of ...
Article : 168 wordsLONDON, Aug 3.—The Moscow communique issued last night just before midnight stated: "The Russians today west of Rezekne captured 30 ...
Article : 267 wordsPHILADELPHIA, Aug 2.—The War Department in Washington says that the Philadelphia transport strike is vitually affecting ...
Article : 281 wordsLONDON, Aug 3.—King George has returned to England by air after his Italian tour. He landed shortly after 7 o'clock this morning after ...
Article : 34 wordsKANDY (Ceylon), Aug 3.—American troops have advanced in the north at Myitkyina and minor gains have been made in other sectors. ...
Article : 162 wordsLONDON, Aug 3.—According to the German Overseas Newsagency, the German Ambassador to Turkey (Herr von Papen) left Ankara ...
Article : 184 wordsLONDON, Aug 3.—The final domination of Warsaw and the crossing of the East Prussian border are at present the most momentous of ...
Article : 350 wordsLONDON, Aug 3.—Villagers of Le Beny Bocage told a British United Press correspondent that when the British infantry and tanks arrived ...
Article : 95 wordsNEW YORK, Aug 2.—The "Herald- Tribune's" London correspondent, Richard Tobin, says that the English regard the appointment of Admiral ...
Article : 217 wordsLONDON, Aug 3.—The whole Second Army appeared on the move yesterday," stated the "Daily Mall's" correspondent at Le Beny Bocage. ...
Article : 140 wordsLONDON, Aug 3.—Supreme Allied HQ issued its latest communique (No 117) shortly before noon today. It stated: "Little change was reported ...
Article : 226 wordsOTTAWA, Aug 2.—The Prime Minister (Mr Mackenzie King) told the House of Commons today that 19 Canadian soldiers have been ...
Article : 426 wordsLONDON, Aug 3.—Marshal Rokos- sovsky brought his forces to the gates of Warsaw almost unscathed by counter-attacks by marching ...
Article : 102 wordsKANDY (Ceylon), Aug 2.—No explanation of General St[?]wen's promotion is available at this headquarters beyond the statement of a ...
Article : 117 wordsLONDON, Aug 3.—The "Evening Standard's" aeronautical correspondent, commenting on Mr Churchill's statement on the new weapon the ...
Article : 225 wordsMONTREAL, Aug 2.—The New York "Herald-Tribune's" Buenos Aires correspondent reports that the Nationalist newspaper, "La Fronda," ...
Article : 104 wordsLONDON, Aug 3.—The British United Press correspondent in Moscow says that the Polish Prime Minister (M Mikolajczyk), after a ...
Article : 67 wordsLONDON, Aug 3.—From letter exchanges between Air Marshal Peirse and General Giffard it is revealed that five Japanese divisions in ...
Article : 80 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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