The main strength of the advanced forces of the British and Imperial army in the Western Desert is being concentrated in the attack on the Libyan port of Bardia. Strong and increasing forces are being used in to offensive and it is reported that the outer ...
Article : 965 wordsLONDON. Dec. 19.—Heavy fighting continued in Albania yesterday, especially in the coastal and central sectors. Winter conditions, marked by deep snow, ...
Article : 504 wordsMERSA MATRUH, Dec. 18.—To well beyond Sollum, the battlefield is silent and deserted except for convoys ploughing through dust six inches deep, ...
Article : 797 wordsLONDON, Dec. 19.—For the second night in succession, last night, there was no air raid alarm in London. The city has had its longest spell of quiet since ...
Article : 422 wordsLONDON, Dec. 19.—Lessons learnt in the Western Desert are being closely studied in London. Dispatches from the front show that the success of the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 822 wordsLONDON, Dec. 19.—Despite official denials in Berlin and Rome, the Belgrade correspondents of the "New York Times" and the London "Evening Standard" ...
Article : 501 wordsNEW YORK, Dec. 18.—The New York "Post" says that, according to private advices received from well-informed sources in London, a German invasion ...
Article : 49 wordsLONDON, Dec. 19.—Although bad weather hampered Royal Air Force bomber operations last night, objectives in. Milan, Genoa, Mannheim and France ...
Article : 219 wordsLONDON, Dec. 19.—This afternoon three Messerschmitt bombers tried to attack a convoy off the south-east coast. Merchantmen opened fire with ...
Article : 38 wordsCAIRO, Dec. 18.—Late yesterday I stood on the heights beyond Sollum and watched smoke rising above Bardia. The Fleet was hammering it hard and the ...
Article : 236 wordsCLEVELAND, Dec. 18.—Sir Walter Citrine (general secretary of the British Trades Union Congress) said today that he expected aeroplane production in ...
Article : 49 wordsLONDON, Dec. 18.—Plans have been drafted for the sheltering from air raids in the tubes of an additional 100,000 persons in ten new deep-line tunnels ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 162 wordsATHENS, Dec. 18.—The Royal Air Force headquarters in Athens issued the following communique today:—"During a fierce snowstorm this morning the ...
Article : 74 wordsLONDON, Dec. 19.—The Swiss radio stated today:—"Foreign planes repeatedly violated Swiss territory last night. The incursions occurred in a south-easterly ...
Article : 50 wordsLONDON, Dec. l9.—At midday today the following communique was issued in Rome:— The battle continued in the Bardia ...
Article : 151 wordsBASLE, Dec. 18.—The Swiss Government is satisfied that British bombs were dropped on Berne on Tuesday. It has protested to Britain and claimed full ...
Article : 76 wordsNEW YORK, Dec. 18.—The "New York Times" says in a leading article:—"Sun-tanned Australian troops are fighting in the land where the word Anzac ...
Article : 184 wordsLONDON, Dec. 19.—Berlin's denial that German troops are in Italy is disregarded in most quarters. It is believed that Germany's grip on Italy includes ...
Article : 567 wordsMELBOURNE, Dec. 19.—German propaganda has recently been stressing the weight of bombs carried by their machines and arguing that British planes, ...
Article : 329 wordsLONDON, Dec. 19.—Further details have been received of the British success at El Wak, in Italian Somaliland, on Tuesday, revealing that the place was ...
Article : 309 wordsLONDON, Dec. 19.—The following communique was issued in Rome yesterday:—"Fierce fighting took place in one sector of the Greek front today. Our fighter ...
Article : 82 wordsLONDON, Dec. 18.—The German official newsagency says that Bukarest is now under a permanent black-out because of shortcomings revealed in A.R.P. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 28 wordsLONDON, Dec. 18.—Including £1,611 from the Malaya Patriotic Fund and £375 from Janjira State (Bombay), the Lord Mayor of London's National Air ...
Article : 257 wordsLONDON, Dec. 19.—The Royal Air Force is unceasingly co-operating with the land forces in the offensive in the Western Desert. The following R.A.P. ...
Article : 224 wordsATHENS, Dec. 19.—The Greek Prime Minister (General Metaxas) announced in a speech today that Greece would fight until the Italians were driven out of ...
Article : 59 wordsDUBLIN, Dec. 18.—Internees at Curragh Camp caused damage estimated at £10,000 sterling in week-end riots after their butter ration had been reduced. ...
Article : 86 wordsLONDON. Dec. 19.—Today's Berlin communique was as follows:—"Owing to unfavourable weather our air force merely carried out reconnaissances yesterday. ...
Article : 111 wordsLONDON, Dec. 18.—Replying to a Parliamentary question today, the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Butler) said it was the policy of the ...
Article : 88 wordsLONDON, Dec. 18.—According to a Belgrade dispatch the German newsagency reports that a group of German industrialists are taking over the ...
Article : 68 wordsLONDON, Dec. 18.—The Berlin Institute of Business Research claims that not only Germany but the whole of Europe has sufficient foodstuffs and agricultural ...
Article : 132 wordsLONDON, Dec. 19.—-The Secretary for War (Mr. Anthony Eden) spoke today In the House of Commons about the British successes in Africa. "Our people ...
Article : 170 wordsLONDON, Dec. 18.—The Ankara correspondent of "The Times" says that, following the signature of the new financial agreement between Britain and ...
Article : 89 wordsLONDON. Dec. 18.—The Danish Council in London has published the first issue of the newspaper "Frit Danmark" ("Free Denmark"). ...
Article : 23 wordsLONDON, Dec. 18.—According to a dispatch from Rome, punishment of an Italian for listening to a British news broadcast has been reported for the first ...
Article : 43 wordsLONDON. Dec. 19.—The Berlin radio states that work has begun on new oil-fields in the Russian Ukraine. ...
Article : 21 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Fri 20 Dec 1940, Page 11
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: