LONDON, May 6.—"The announcement of the end of the war in Europe is coming very soon," says the Exchange Telegraph's political correspondent. "The declaration when it comes will give the news that the Germans have laid down their arms everywhere, including Norway and the Channel Islands, and are surrendering unconditionally to Britain, the United States and Russia. The fear of Russian retribution has delayed a German surrender to the Red ...
Article : 582 wordsLONDON, May 6.—In a dispatch from Copenhagen the Associated Press says that British troops crossed the Danish border at 1 pm ...
Article : 588 wordsLONDON, May 6.—"When the German plenipotentiaries came to Field Marshal Montgomery's headquarters on Thursday to talk terms," ...
Article : 715 wordsLONDON, May 6.—Czech patriots have risen in revolt against the Germans in Prague, capital of Czechoslovakia, but a welter of conflicting ...
Article : 551 wordsBORNEO, May 5.—Against bitterly sustained opposition the Australians have fought their way into the town of Tarakan and now dominate the town and the Pamoesian oilfield, round which it is built. Two small pockets on ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 825 wordsBORNEO, May 6.—Flamethrowers are being used by the Australians on Tarakan to clear the immensly strong pillboxes and tunnels ...
Article : 379 wordsLONDON. May 6.—Major Quisling, head of the puppet Norwegian Government, broadcasting over the Oslo radio last night, declared that ...
Article : 155 wordsLONDON, May 6.—"Powerful forces of General Patton's tanks and infantry launched a new offensive into C[?]echoslovakia along a ...
Article : 296 wordsLONDON, May 6.—"After a wild day of confusion, punctuated, by frequent skirmishes between Patriots and Nazis as efforts were made to ...
Article : 321 wordsLONDON, May 6.—Russian armies under Marshal Malinovsky and Marshal Tolbukhin are probing south-east of Prague and Marshal ...
Article : 116 wordsLONDON, May 6.—The surrender talks between the Canadian commander (Lt-General Foulkes) and the German commander in Holland ...
Article : 114 wordsLONDON, May 6.—The German break-up began on May 2 when a German officer with a white lag came through the British lines, ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 125 wordsLONDON, May 6.—"The Times" correspondent at Field Marshal Montgomery's HQ said yesterday: "For technical reasons Norway, with ...
Article : 52 wordsLONDON, May 6.—The battlefield surrender of more than 1,000,000 Germans to Field Marshal Montgomery (announced in the second ...
Article : 171 wordsBORNEO, May 5.—Two deeds of great gallantry marked the capture yesterday of Tarakan Hill, which has given the Australians virtual ...
Article : 365 wordsLONDON, May 6.—The Norwegian Telegraph Agency today stated that the German authorities in Norway had started burning their ...
Article : 66 wordsNEW YORK, May 6.—Tokio radio reports that the Foreign Minister (Mr S. Togo) said to his Press conference: "Evidently Germany intends ...
Article : 79 wordsLONDON, May 6.—A French communique announces that ex-Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany has been captured by French troops. ...
Article : 102 wordsLONDON, May 6.—Field Marshal Montgomery has sent the following message to his army commanders: "The German armed forces facing ...
Article : 288 wordsNEW YORK, May 6.—The Washington Bureau of the "New York Times" states: "Although official silence is maintained on the number ...
Article : 130 wordsLONDON, May 6.—Today's communique (No 394), issued at 9 am from Anglo-American Supreme HQ read as follows: "The Allies have ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 289 wordsLONDON, May 6.—Kalundborg radio quoted this order-of-the-day yesterday from the German C-in-C (Field Marshal Keitel): "There must ...
Article : 32 wordsLONDON, May 6.—Flensburg radio, located north of Kiel, today quoted this announcement stated to have been received from Admiral ...
Article : 71 wordsLONDON, May 6.—British liaison officers with signal equipment were yesterday morning flown to Field Marshal Busch's HQ, which is now ...
Article : 165 wordsLONDON, May 6.—Queen Wilhelmina, making her first broadcast at Eindhoven from Dutch soil, thanked the Allies for liberating her ...
Article : 55 wordsLONDON, May 6.—The biggest single reason why Germany lost the war was the Allies' tremendous air superiority, declared Field Marshal ...
Article : 365 wordsLONDON, May 6.—"An ultimatum has been delivered to the few thousand obstinate SS troops who are holding out on the main roads ...
Article : 80 wordsLONDON, May 6.—"On land and sea and in the air the Germans have been thoroughly whipped," said General Eisenhower. "Their only ...
Article : 222 wordsMELBOURNE, May 6.—It was announced today that the Tarakan operations were carried out under the general direction of Maj-Gen ...
Article : 65 wordsLONDON, May 6.—Berchtesgaden has been captured and cleared, says the correspondent of the British United Press with the Seventh ...
Article : 24 wordsLONDON, May 6.—Moscow "Red Star" disclosed that on the eve of the capitulation of Berlin a large number of SS and General Staff ...
Article : 55 wordsLONDON, May 6.—The British United Press correspondent Copenhagen reports that crowds stopped the car in which the ...
Article : 39 wordsWASHINGTON, May 6.—The Chairman of the War Product on Board (Mr Krug) has announced that the nation-wide brownout [?] ...
Article : 44 wordsExcept where otherwise designated the overseas intelligence published in "The West Australian" is transmitted to Australian by the Australian Associated Press ...
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