The British Admiralty announces that planes of the Fleet Air Arm and the Royal Air Force carried out a most successful attack on Italian war ships sheltering at Tobruk, on the coast of Libya. ...
Article : 686 wordsKassala, in the Soudan, just beyond the Eritrean border, has been occupied by Italians following the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 46 wordsThe battle for the defence of Britain has begun in earnest. The R.A.F., the Fleet Air Arm and the Navy have taken the initiative in the Baltic, over Germany and ...
Article : 823 wordsIt is officially announced that if an invasion occurs no private cars or motor cycles will be allowed on roads in the districts ...
Article : 174 wordsThe British Air Ministry states that R.A.F. bombers, have obtained outstanding results in mining the Baltic and belts from ...
Article : 301 wordsIn a statement issued at Vichy the French Foreign Minister (M. Baudouin) announced the breaking off of diplomatic relations ...
Article : 516 wordsThe New York "Herald-Tribune" in an editorial points to the Martinique situation as another proof that Britain acted ...
Article : 283 wordsA communique issued at Cairo says: "Our forward troops in the Western Desert intercepted an enemy column which was ...
Article : 427 wordsThe correspondent of the British United Press, states that the anti-Jewish newspaper "France at Work," is being sold ...
Article : 69 wordsPresident Roosevelt, in a statement made at Hyde Park, through his secretary, Mr. Stephen Early, renounced any territorial aspiration for the ...
Article : 157 wordsA communique issued by the French Government at Vichy states:--"Two naval air squadrons which were ...
Article : 156 words"Not our fighting men alone, but the whole nation is awaiting the zero hour," the Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Attlee) declared in a broadcast speech ...
Article : 466 wordsIt is now revealed that a British freighter with 700 evacuees from Cannes, in the south of France on June 18, carried six men who ...
Article : 153 wordsLONDON.--There is no confirmation of Cairo report that French, fleet at Alexandria has been demobilised. ...
Article : 27 wordsHitler returned from the front to Berlin on Saturday afternoon after an absence of eight weeks. Elaborate preparations were made for his ...
Article : 249 wordsThe new Prime Minister of Roumania, M, Gigurtu, broadcasting, said "The direction of Roumania's foreign policy within the framework of the ...
Article : 203 wordsThe "bomb squad" on Saturday night rushed to the New York World Fair to examine two packages, one of which was found in the British ...
Article : 118 wordsThe Indian Nationalist Leader, hatma Gandhi, Interviewed on his latest talks with Lord Linlithgow, the Viceroy, said:--"This is no time for ...
Article : 151 wordsA Stockholm Foreign Office communique says: "Now that the Norwegian conflict has ended Sweden has permitted Germany to use the Swedish ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Finance Minister of Ulster (Mr. J. M. Andrews), speaking at Belfast, declared that if Northern Ireland joined Eire on Mr. de Valera's terms ...
Article : 184 wordsGibraltar, Britain's bulwark at the entrance to the western Mediterranean, has been attacked by enemy bombers with little practical effect. A British amphibian is shown flying over the fortress. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 35 wordsThe correspondent of the British United Press at Stockholm says the Germans are assembling scores of gliders at Vernes aerodrome, near ...
Article : 54 wordsSenor Jose Serrato, president of the pro-Allies' committee in Uruguay, sent the following telegram to the Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill) on June ...
Article : 122 wordsBritish authorities have seized French bank notes valued at several millions of pounds from a French vessel which reached Belfast after ...
Article : 69 wordsBelgium's air line Sabina is carrying on in the Belgian Congo almost intact. With more than 20 planes available, the line has offered full ...
Article : 64 wordsIt is announced that Mr. James Farley will resign the Postermaster-Generalship of the United States after the Democratic Convention, to become ...
Article : 57 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Mon 8 Jul 1940, Page 7
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: