LONDON, Oct 23.—A Brazillian Typhoon squadron took a prominent part yesterday in an attack by RAF fighter bombers on the heavily ...
Article : 358 wordsWASHINGTON, Oct 22.—In a dispatch from Leyte a United Press correspondent reports: "General MacArthur has broadcast to the Filipinos a ...
Article : 353 wordsGENERAL HEADQUARTERS, South-West Pacific Area, Oct 23.—"Our ground forces are steadily extending their positions on all sectors on Leyte Island," states today's communique issued by General MacArthur. "Work has started on the captured airfields of Tacloban ...
Article : 531 wordsLONDON, Oct 23.—The Eighth Army in a five miles advance across marshy country captured Cervia which is on the main highway from ...
Article : 191 wordsLONDON, Oct 23.—While there is no official Russian news in support of the German reports that the Red Army is maintaining a powerful offensive against the northern area of East Prussia, Moscow speaks of continued progress in the drives through the Balkans, many more places ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 541 wordsLONDON, Oct 23.—'"The battle for the use of Antwerp as a port looks like drawing to a close shortly," said the Exchange Telegraph Agency's correspondent with the British Second Army today. "Breskens has been captured by the Canadians and the German garrison in the Scheldt ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 329 wordsLONDON, Oct 23.—Reuters correspondent at Mediterranean HQ states that Lt-General Joseph McNarney has arrived from ...
Article : 99 wordsLONDON, Oct 23.—The capture of Nyiregyhaza, an important centre in Hungary about 50 miles north of Debreczen and 125 miles east-north- ...
Article : 257 wordsCHUNGKING, Oct 23.—The Chinese War Minister (General No Yingchin) has congratulated General MacArthur on the successful ...
Article : 46 wordsLONDON, Oct 23.—It is officially stated that Allied forces have completely occupied Lemnos, in the Aegean Sea, says Reuters Rome ...
Article : 312 wordsLONDON, Oct 23.—A British United Press correspondent reports from Aachen that David Lardner (25), war correspondent for the ...
Article : 49 wordsWASHINGTON, Oct 22.—Rear-Admiral Edward L. Cochrane, chief of the Bureau of Ships, has issued a warning that delay in the Pacific ...
Article : 183 wordsLONDON, Oct 23.—The 198th communique issued by Supreme Allied HQ today was as follows: "Inside the Scheldt pocket the Allied ...
Article : 352 wordsLONDON, Oct 23.—The Prime Minister (Mr Winston Churchill) returned yesterday afternoon by air from his visit to Russia. He looked ...
Article : 164 wordsWASHINGTON, Oct 22.—The United Press states that Philippine sources said that the reconquest of the islands might require a year more ...
Article : 206 wordsLONDON, Oct 23.—"The Canadians yesterday captured Breskens, the chief port in the Scheldt pocket, and entered Fort Frederick Hendrik, from ...
Article : 225 wordsNEW YORK, Oct 22.—In a dispatch to the New York "Daily News" from Leyte, Jack Tucott states: "Small bands of Rangers landed on ...
Article : 147 wordsSmoke from bombed Japanese ships blackens the sky over Mindanao, large Island of the Philippines, during an attack by carrier-based planes of the US Third Fleet on September 8. This was one of many "Softening up" raids before the actual invasion. General MacArthur says the enemy expected him to land in Mindanao rather than Leyte. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 64 wordsLONDON, Oct 2.—Norwegian saboteurs continue to make things lively for the Germans in the Oslo area, according to a newsagency ...
Article : 185 wordsLONDON, Oct 23.—A plebiscite to decide whether Greece will retain a monarchy will take place within the next four months, ...
Article : 83 wordsLONDON, Oct 23.—The new German offensive against Slovakia from the east and the south-east is gaining momentum. That in one sector ...
Article : 205 wordsLONDON, Oct 23.—The Moscow communique issued last night said that the Red Army yesterday continued its offensive from the ...
Article : 265 wordsLONDON, Oct 23.—"American infantry advancing on a six-mile front north of the Parroy forest yesterday cleared Coincourt and threw the ...
Article : 69 wordsKANDY (Ceylon), Oct 23.—Seven miles of the road beyond Tiddim has been cleared with little more than token resistance from enemy ...
Article : 241 wordsLONDON, Oct 23.—"Lt-General Dempsey's thrust south-west of the town of 's Hertogenbosch road progressed two miles by last night with ...
Article : 120 wordsLONDON, Oct 23.—"The British Ministry of Food will take over food distribution in Germany immediately Germany surrenders," says the ...
Article : 131 wordsMELBOURNE, Oct 23.—Special missions in preparation for the invasion of the Philippines have been flown by aircrews of the RAAF. In ...
Article : 218 wordsLONDON, Oct 23.—Yesterday afternoon RAF Lancasters escorted by fighters made a heavy attack on Neuss, a satellite town of ...
Article : 154 wordsLONDON, Oct 23.—"Russians and Rumanians in northern Transylvania have occupied Semi and a number of other localities," stated ...
Article : 181 wordsNEW YORK, Oct 22.—Over the Tokio official radio Seizo Kobayashi, president of the Imperial Rule Assistance Political Society, which is ...
Article : 133 wordsNEW YORK, Oct 22.—Richard Bergholz, Associated Press correspondent with Rangers in the Philippines, reports: "Ranger-Lt Tinnell, whom ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 220 wordsLONDON, Oct 2.—The youngest "war criminals" to fall into Allied hands so far were taken into custody by Americans near Aachen, ...
Article : 180 wordsGENERAL HEADQUARTERS, South - West Pacific Area, Oct 22.—William J. Dunn, representative of the Columbia Broadcasting ...
Article : 340 wordsLONDON, Oct 23.—"The fact that Italian patriots in some villages may have attacked Germans is no justification in any court of law ...
Article : 268 wordsLONDON, Oct 23.—Marshal Stalin in a message to M Paasikivi, ex-Finnish Foreign Minister and now president of the newly-formed ...
Article : 83 wordsLONDON, Oct 22.—Eighth Tactical Air Force pilots under Wing-Commander Johnnie Baldwin, DSO, DFC and bar, killed Field Marshal ...
Article : 81 wordsCANBERRA, Oct 23.—The Acting Governor-General (Sir Winston Dugan) has sent the following message to General Douglas MacArthur: ...
Article : 63 wordsExcept where otherwise designated. overseas intelligence published in "The West Australian is transmitted to Australia by the Australian Associated Press ...
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