Bandoeng, Feb. 25.—With news of attacks on Tandjong Priok (Batavia's port) having been broken up, transports sunk off Macassar (Celebes seaport) and Japanese aircraft shot down in various parts of Java, to-day's Indies communique is the brightest far several days. The ...
Article : 236 wordsLondon, Feb. 25.—The Governor of Burma, Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, broadcasting to-day, said that Rangoon would be held at all costs. If ...
Article : 190 wordsLondon, Feb. 26.—The Admiralty states:—"The submarine Trident successfully attacked a German cruiser of the Prinz Eugen class off the coast of ...
Article : 97 wordsCairo, Feb. 25.—A G.H.Q. communique states:—"Severe standstorms hampered all land and air operations on Tuesday. Although intensive patrolling ...
Article : 80 wordsAnkara, Feb. 25.—The police reveal that German Embassy letterheads were found among scraps of clothing from the man who was carrying the bomb ...
Article : 167 wordsLondon, Feb. 25.—The smashing of the 16th German army at Staraya Russa is a personal defeat for Hitler. A captured order-of-the-day issued by ...
Article : 730 wordsCairo, Feb. 25.—An R.A.F. communique states:—"Bombers on Monday night attacked Martuba, Derna and Tripoli. Fires broke out at Derna and ...
Article : 101 wordsStockholm, Feb. 26.—The Berlin correspondent of the Copenhagen newspaper "Berlinske Tidende" says that Berlin newspapers published a report ...
Article : 61 wordsAnkara, Feb. 25.—German propaganda is making the most of the bomb outrage, representing it as an attempt against Herr von Papen's life, but at ...
Article : 121 wordsLondon, Feb. 26.—The Admiralty states:—"One of our submarines in the Mediterranean successfully attacked an enemy convoy of three supply ships. ...
Article : 35 wordsLondon, Feb. 25.—General Spears, in a speech, has revealed the story, of General de Gaulle's escape from France. ...
Article : 212 wordsRangoon, Feb. 25.—An R.A.F. communique states:—"We, without loss, shot down two planes and probably two more in an enemy raid on Rangoon ...
Article : 112 wordsBandoeng, Feb. 26.—Answering the question, "Why has not the United States been more active?" the Deputy Governor-General, Dr. J. H. van Mook ...
Article : 241 wordsLondon, Feb. 26.—The Delhi radio states that Major-General Gordon Bennett has arrived- in Batavia. ...
Article : 22 wordsCairo, Feb. 25.—Captain Oliver Lyttelton, who is returning to London to join the War Cabinet, in a farewell interview, said a common plan had ...
Article : 77 wordsLondon, Feb. 26.—According to the B.B.C., Major-General H. Gordon Bennett, who was general officer commanding the A.I.F. in Malaya, arrived in ...
Article : 231 wordsLondon, Feb. 25—The diplomatic correspondent of the "Times" says that Germany is engaged in a drive for manpower on a grand scale. It extends ...
Article : 288 wordsLondon, Feb. 26.—The Berlin radio states that a convoy of 60 Japanese ships recently arrived at Martaban, carrying troops previously operating ...
Article : 27 wordsLondon, Feb. 25—The hew Dominions Secretary, Mr. C. R. Attlee, has sent the following message to the Governments of Australia and New ...
Article : 137 wordsLondon, Feb. 26.—The Paris radio quotes a report from Singapore that the Japanese are within six miles of Rangoon. British troops are stated to ...
Article : 46 wordsLondon, Feb. 26.—The aeronautical correspondent of the "Times" says that the latest Rolls Royce Merlin engine in full-scale production is the "Mark ...
Article : 138 wordsLondon, Feb. 26.—A United States pilot after his arrival at Kunming said:—"When I left Rangoon it was an inferno of flames and looters were ...
Article : 38 wordsBandoeng Feb. 25.—It is stated officially that Allied aircraft attacked a concentration of enemy ships off Macassar and sank two transports. A ...
Article : 80 wordsLondon, Feb. 26.—The British United Press correspondent at Mandalay states that all lease-lend material delivered during the past three months ...
Article : 116 wordsCanberra, Feb. 26.—Mr. Forde, Che Army Minister, said to-night that he had not recived any news concerning the whereabouts of Major-General H. ...
Article : 147 wordsLondon, Feb. 25.—Mr. Averell Harriman, President Roosevelt's special envoy, speaking for the first time in Britain, paid a remarkable tribute to Mr. ...
Article : 302 wordsLondon, Feb. 25.—It is stated authoritatively that the extension of the war to the Far East has been chiefly responsible for the serious increase in ...
Article : 143 wordsLondon, Feb, 25.—The Jewish Agency for Palestine (in London) in a statement, says that every effort was made to persuade the Palestine ...
Article : 126 wordsBandoeng, Feb. 25.—During an anxious three minutes in a bomb-crater in the Kaldjati airfield to-day I was straddled by 45 bombs dropped by a ...
Article : 576 wordsMandalay, Feb. 25.—Fifty persons were killed during a five-minute low-level air raid on a refugee train which was at Pyinmana station, midway ...
Article : 54 wordsZurich, Feb. 26.—According to an official report from Tokio, Admiral Shusaku Shibuya was killed in action on Tuesday in Borneo waters while ...
Article : 38 wordsMoscow, Feb. 26.—A Soviet communique states:—"Our troops on Tuesday continued to advance, occupying a number of populated places. The ...
Article : 200 wordsLondon, Feb. 25.—In the House of Commons to-day Sir Archibald Sinclair said that information was necessarily incomplete, but all serviceable aircraft ...
Article : 64 wordsCape Town, Feb. 26—Special police raided a building in Pretoria yesterday and found cases of dynamite, several dozen hand grenades ...
Article : 58 wordsLondon, Feb. 26.—A special Berlin communique states:—"After arduous fighting for many days in the Atlantic, U-boats sank seven ships, totalling ...
Article : 65 wordsCape Town, Feb. 25.—The Minister of Education. Mr. Hofmeyr, introducing the Budget to the Assembly, estimated that the surplus for the year ending ...
Article : 228 wordsLondon, Feb. 25.—A wheel on the leading coach of the Royal Scot express train from Euston became detached approaching Crewe. The coach ...
Article : 83 wordsLondon, Feb. 25.—The "Evening Standard" states:—"Black market dealers have been 'planting' their own men in N.A.A.F.I. jobs, resulting in ...
Article : 101 wordsLondon, Feb. 26.—Mr. Philip Runici[?]man, in his presidential address at the annual meeting of the Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom ...
Article : 129 wordsLondon, Feb. 25.—A thousand radio sets in Britain are not working because of the almost complete disappearance of valves from the retail market. The ...
Article : 93 wordsLondon, Feb. 25.—The Foreign Secretary, Mr. Eden, stated in She House of Commons that, in accordance with the plans made some time ago, the British ...
Article : 114 wordsLondon, Feb. 25.—Howard Adams (37), N.A.A.P.I. district manager, has been sentenced to 15 months' imprisonment at the London sessions for ...
Article : 129 wordsStockholm, Feb. 25.—The Berlin correspondent of the "Svenska Dagbladet" reports that the German press has-warned the people against ...
Article : 70 wordsLondon, Feb. 25.—The Air Ministry reports that the bomber command last night laid mines in enemy waters. Two bombers are missing. A coastal ...
Article : 39 wordsLondon, Feb. 26.—The Air Ministry reports that the bomber command last night attacked Kiel and other objectives in the North-West of Germany. ...
Article : 33 wordsExcept where otherwise designated, the overseas intelligence published in the "Kalgoorlie Miner" is transmitted to Australia by the Australian A[?] press from its ...
Article : 35 wordsLondon, Feb. 25.—A Berlin communique states:—"German, Rumanian and Hungarian troops on a southern sector repulsed a Russian attack. Fighting ...
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