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  2. ALLIES STRIKE BACK IN BURMA Planes Cripple a Convoy

    Allied forces have struck back in three directions in the battle for Burma in the last two days. American flying fortresses set a cruiser and a troopship on fire and damaged two other troopships in a raid on Port Blair (Andaman Isands), ...

    Article : 207 words
  3. WAR PRISONERS.

    British, and Italian hospital ships are due at Smyrna at noon to carry out an exchange of prisoners under the supervision of the Turkish Red ...

    Article : 96 words
  4. THREE U.S. SHIPS. SUNK SOUTH OF JAVA.

    An official statement issued in Washington has again shown the unreliability of Tokie claims. Although a Navy Department ...

    Article : 407 words
  5. ARMY CALL-UPS.

    Married men and widowers with children, between the ages of 18 and 39, now being called up into the army are being trained to ...

    Article : 110 words
  6. INDIAN PROPOSALS.

    Hopeful signs for a settlement of the Indian problem are read into tha decision of Sir Stafford Cripps ia remain in India longer ...

    Article : 554 words
  7. RUSSIANS CUT GERMAN LINES Advance On Three Fronts

    Continuing their successes against the Germans, the Red Army has advanced on the Kalinin, Smolensk, Viazma and Kharkov fronts. The Germans admit that tho Russians have penetrated ...

    Article : 250 words
  8. AMERICAN OIL.

    The Lati Airline, using American oil, has carried Axis spies and propaganda to South America since the war began. This was revealed ...

    Article : 487 words
  9. DEPRESSED CONDITIONS.

    Depressing conditions ruling in Berlin as the greatest Bussian German clash approaches, and searcely a family that has not had ...

    Article : 343 words
  10. FORTRESSES HIT ENEMY SHIPS.

    The damage to the Japanese-ships in the Andaman Islands was recorded in the first United States Air Force communique issued at New Delhi. ...

    Article : 500 words
  11. SPRING PLANS.

    German spokesmen continue to tell neutral correspondents in Berlin of "the elaborate German spring offensive pre. parafions. They insist that the on ...

    Article : 128 words
  12. MORE PLACES BETAKEN.

    A Moscow communique says that the Russians have occupied several more inhabited localities. Twenty-three Ger man planes were destroyed on Thurs ...

    Article : 189 words
  13. RADIUM SUPPLY.

    Vichy reports, that the Germans have taken half ol France'g radium supply for the production of synthetic petrol. The Carle Institute ...

    Article : 76 words
  14. LESS CONFIDENCE.

    The Tokio official radio says that General Tojo, in a speech to-day, warned the Japanese against over confidence because, despite ...

    Article : 76 words
  15. TWO FURTHER SINKINGS.

    The Navy has acknowledged the sinking of two medium-sized Allied merchantmen in the Caribbean Sea on February 27 and March 3, with the loss ...

    Article : 322 words
  16. GERMAN LOSSES.

    To-hight's Moscow communique states that there were no important changes on the front. We destroyed 23 German planes on April 3 and lost three. ...

    Article : 63 words
  17. PRAYER FOR GENERAL. IN PARISH CHURCH.

    Dr. Witselincluded the following prayer for General MacArthur at the Easier Service: "Our Heavenly Father, look with favour upon our nation and ...

    Article : 279 words
  18. INFLATION DANGER.

    To prevent the inflationary trend ret ting out of hand, the administration has drawn up a proposal to freeze prices of all consumer goods at the levels of ...

    Article : 159 words
  19. ONIONS' PLEDGE.

    The Committee, of Industrial Organisation takes a full page, advertisement in to-day's New York "Times" to print the text of the exchange of ...

    Article : 194 words
  20. V.D.C. LEADERS.

    The crash of explosives and the whine of bombers are the daily symphony at a school which is teaching Volunteer Defence Corps leaders how ...

    Article : 515 words
  21. OIL SUPPLIES.

    The Petroleum Press Bureau says there appears to be no evidence that the German military machine so far has been handicapped by any immedi ...

    Article : 171 words
  22. CASUALTIES IN PHILIPPINES.

    American troops caused considerable losses to Japanese troops who made small-scale attacks at points on the Batan Peninsula in the Philippines. ...

    Article : 75 words
  23. LOSSES IN ATLANTIC.

    The Navy has announced the sinking of four more United Nations' vessels in the unremitting U-boat warfare off the Atlantic coast. A United States' ...

    Article : 101 words
  24. GENERAL BLAMEY

    "A tough gent who does not direct a battle from text books, but from experience gained in the firing line," is how the New York "World-Telegram" ...

    Article : 288 words
  25. UNVEILING CEREMONY.

    The bust of General MacArthur will be unveiled here on Monday. General MacArthur is expected to participate in the ceremonies by short wave from ...

    Article : 106 words
  26. SERIOUS SITUATION.

    The news of the British withdrawal of advanced troops from Prome, and the report that the Japanese advance guard is near Yedashe, 15 miles north of ...

    Article : 633 words
  27. JAPANESE LOSSES.

    A Navy communique says that according to the official compilation, the losses inflicted hitherto against the Japanese are: Warships, 21 sunk, seven ...

    Article : 141 words
  28. GELIGNITE EXPLOSIONS.

    Detectives, who have been, investigating the mysterious explosions which alarmed people at the mountain resort of Healesville on Wednesday ...

    Article : 115 words
  29. NAZI PROPAGANDA.

    Sir Gerald Campbell, in a broadcast, appealed to Americans not to fall for Nazi propaganda, which says that Britain takes much from America, but ...

    Article : 92 words
  30. POWER AND FUEL.

    The British Government is considering new plans to conserve the use of power-and fuel, for the needs of war industries. ...

    Article : 178 words
  31. JAPANESE ADVOCACY.

    "The Times" correspondent on the German frontier says that the Japanese Ambassador (Oshima) is leaving Berlin shortly for Bucharest and Sofia. ...

    Article : 104 words
  32. Japanese Suffer Major Defeat in Colombo Raid

    Fifty-seven Japanese planes were destroyed or damaged in their first raid on Colombo to-day. Twenty-seven enemy machines cirtainly were destroyed, five others probably destroyed and 25 damaged. ...

    Article : 140 words
  33. EXECUTING CZECHS.

    The Czechoslovak Press Bureau reports that special German courts in Prague and Brno sentenced to death four peasants accused of falling to deliver crops ...

    Article : 54 words
  34. FORTY BRITISH TROOPS

    The first official news from Janan concerning missing British soldiers is beginning to trickle through. The B.B.C. picked up 40 names from ...

    Article : 69 words
  35. LONDON,S TOTAL

    The Lord Mayor of London (LieutColonal Sir John Laurie) announced that the final figure for London for "Warship Week" was £. ...

    Article : 42 words
  36. DOUBLE SUMMER TIME

    Double summer time inauguration starts from 2 a.m. to-morrow, when tba clocks throughout Britain will go forward one hour, making them two ...

    Article : 39 words
  37. EVACUATION BABIES.

    Five babies were born aboard the last British ship to leave Singapore, which has reached England carrying 900 woman and children. All the babies were ...

    Article : 42 words
  38. NEW U.S. AMBASSADOR NAMED.

    President Roosevelt has nominated Mr. Carlton J. H. Hayes, protestor ot history at Columbia University, as Ambassador to Spain, succeeding Mr. A. W. Weddell, ...

    Article : 42 words
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