LONDON, Dec 18.—"The Germans are still advancing today in their all-out counter-offensive and the situation is reported to be entirely fluid," says Reuters correspondent of Supreme Allied HQ. "Measures to deal with the situation are in hand and there is no cause for undue ...
Article : 544 wordsLONDON, Dec 18.—"The Seventh Army's assault on the Siegfried Line has begun," said Reuters correspondent with the United States Seventh ...
Article : 208 wordsLONDON, Dec 19,—An American reporter with the First Army broadcasting this afternoon said: "As I left our defences two hours ...
Article : 644 wordsLONDON, Dec 18.—Marshal Malinovsky's army has reached the southern border of Czechoslovakia at one point and is approaching other parts ...
Article : 191 wordsLONDON, Dec 18.—Paris radio broadcast the text of the Franco- Russian agreement last night. It provides that France and Russia ...
Article : 493 wordsLEYTE, Dec 18.—Taking full advantage of the delay in Japanese air reaction to the landing on Mindoro Island, in the Philippines, ...
Article : 262 wordsLONDON, Dec 18.—"British troops are using armoured cars, tanks, 25-pounders and mortars supported by Beaufighters in an all-out offensive today against the ELAS Forces," says Reuters correspondent in Athens. "The British are aiming to clear up the road between Athens ...
Article : 517 wordsA pillbox covering the approach to the Albert Bridge being demolished with pneumatic drills. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 18 wordsNEW YORK, Dec 17.—In a dispatch to the "New York Times" from Supreme Allied HQ Drew Middleton reports: "The German ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 166 wordsLONDON, Dec 18.—The 254th communique issued by Supreme Allied HQ today was as follows: "The intensity of the fighting has ...
Article : 267 wordsLONDON, Dec 18.—Reuters correspondent at Athens says that eleventh hour differences of opinion are stated to have arisen within the ...
Article : 160 wordsLONDON, Dec 18.—"The defence of Vienna, not Budapest, is the Germans' main pre-occupation as the Red Army beyond the Ipoly River ...
Article : 221 wordsLEYTE, Dec 18.—In the two days' fighting in which the advances against Valencia were made the Japanese suffered terrific casualties. ...
Article : 116 wordsLONDON, Dec 18.—Reuters correspondent at Allied HQ in the Mediterranean, states that Mustangs and Lightnings escorting heavy bombers ...
Article : 191 wordsLONDON, Dec 18.—A crowd of about 10,000 was present at a "Hands Off Greece" demonstration in Trafalgar Square yesterday. It ...
Article : 143 wordsLONDON , Dec 18.—"Intrigue and, jockeying for position are at present proceeding among Greek politicians, particularly the members of the ...
Article : 204 wordsLONDON, Dec 18.—"The Germans are throwing in infantry and armour and even their air force in their major counter-attack on a ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 509 wordsNEW YORK, Dec 17.—In an editorial the "New York Times" states: "The mere fact that such a German counter-offensive could be ...
Article : 290 wordsLONDON, Dec 18.—The Associated Press correspondent at Supreme Allied HQ says that Ninth Air Force fighter-bombers yesterday ...
Article : 351 wordsLEYTE, Dec 18.—American advances in the Ormoc valley on Leyte have been so rapid in the last two days that the headquarters at ...
Article : 367 wordsThis photograph, taken from the nose of another giant plane of the same formation, shows tons of bombs falling through the bomb-boy doors of an American B-29 Super-Fortress during a recent raid over Formosa. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 42 wordsLONDON, Dec 18.—The Associated Press says that the Papandreou Government has announced reception of messages from the majority ...
Article : 65 wordsLONDON, Dec 18.—The New Zealanders, exploiting their capture of the town of Faenza on the Adriatic sector in Italy, pressed forward and ...
Article : 161 wordsLONDON, Dec 18.—Reuters correspondent at Athens says that General Nicholas Plastiras, a former Premier, who recently returned to ...
Article : 152 wordsLONDON, Dec 8.—"Dunkirk has settled in for the winter and may not be avenged until the end of the war," states Reuters ...
Article : 146 wordsLONDON, Dec 18.—Lt-General Scobie's communique today stated: "British and Indian troops after re- grouping in the Piraeus and ...
Article : 150 wordsLONDON, Dec 18.—The vigilance of British guards at a prisoner of war camp in south-west England frustrated a carefully-prepared plan ...
Article : 150 wordsZURICH, Dec 18.—"Mass murder of millions of Germans" is the heading given by the "Voelkischer Beobachter" to a report of Mr ...
Article : 72 wordsLONDON, Dec 17.—The BBC arranged for Mr Churchill to broadcast to the nation before the news session at 9 o'clock last night, but ...
Article : 48 wordsNEW YORK, Dec 17.—The New York "Herald-Tribune's" Washington bureau states: "Despite the increasing emphasis on the war in ...
Article : 327 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec 18.—The War Department announced that a sizable force of Super-Fortresses based on Saipan yesterday attacked ...
Article : 104 wordsNEW YORK, Dec 17.—The Yenan radio states that the Chinese Communist leader, Mao Tse-tung, has announced that the Second People's ...
Article : 188 wordsLONDON, Dec 18.—The Press Association Agency states that nearly, 100 Italian prisoners of war during the weekend escaped from a camp ...
Article : 56 wordsLONDON, Dec 18.—Over 1,300 planes were engaged last night and early today when RAF Bomber Command supported the Allied armies ...
Article : 96 wordsNEW YORK, Dec 17.—According to Tokio radio, Lt-General Homma, former Japanese commander in the ...
Article : 80 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec 17.—It was officially announced yesterday that the new 17,000-tons tanker Jacksonville was sunk in the Atlantic several ...
Article : 57 wordsCHUNGKING, Dec 18.—The Chinese forces, driving down the Kweichow-Kwangsi railway have reached to within one mile of Hochih, 1 ...
Article : 32 wordsExcept where otherwise designated. the overseas intelligence published in "The West Australian" is transmitted to Australia by the Australian Associated Press ...
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