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ARGOSY of an OFFICE WORKER

... South Atlantic. By day we could see turtles wallowing in the water and schools of flying fish breaking the surface in the Caribbean Sea. Colon, the sentinel town guarding entrance of the Panama Canal, came out of the sea on our port bow three weeks out ...

Published: Tuesday 16 January 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 884 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

CARIBBEAN AIR BASES

... CARIBBEAN AIR BASES General George Marshall, United States Army Chief of Staff, has arrived by air at Maracaibo, Venezuela. Last year General Marshall was made responsible for selecting sites for advance air bases in the Caribbean Sea zone.—Reuter. ...

Published: Saturday 10 February 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 38 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

WHERE THE TWAIN DO MEET

... MEET NORMALLY a people unsurpassed for happiness and hospitality and living in an island Paradise by the blue waters of the Caribbean Sea the workers in the sugarcane fields of the West Indies have known bitter strife in recent years. But now they are smiling ...

Published: Thursday 22 February 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 548 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Spy is Caught on Board Refugee Ship

... as an alternative that the United States should purchase Bermuda, Jamaica, and other AJlied and Dutch possessions in the Caribbean Sea. This idea was propounded in the New York Telegram,” the writer suggesting that Latin American states might co-operate ...

Published: Friday 17 May 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 1015 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Raise Third Overseas Divisio AIR PLAN WILL BE SPEEDED

... At the request of the British Government certain naval and military formations would be assigned to active duty in the Caribbean and North Atlantic. No. 112 Army Co-operation Squadron would be dispatched overseas to act as a reserve for No. 110 Co-operation ...

Published: Tuesday 21 May 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 228 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

Helps to Capture German Shi

... The Assiniboine, latest addition to Canada’s destroyer flotilla, was on patrol with a British warship somewhere in the Caribbean when the quarry was sighted. The German vessel had been set on fire by the time the two British ships had got to it, and ...

Published: Monday 27 May 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 448 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

U.S. Mines Panama, Moves Guns INES laid at both ends of the Panama Canal, heaviest railway artillery rushed ..

... has left Hawaii, and is on its way to the Panama Canal to take up stations off the United States Atlantic coast and in the Caribbean Sea. Brigadier-Genera! Jacob Devers, United States Chief of Staff in the Canal zone describes the moves merely manoeuvres ...

Published: Wednesday 26 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 193 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Plot Against U.S. Republican

... defence.” (Press Association War > message.) The Hurrit Vigil Sta America’s watchdogs of have started a five months’ *7 Caribbean Sea and the Gulf u —birthplace of hurricanes. , is The first sign of a tropical will be flashed across teletyp stretching ...

Published: Thursday 27 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 767 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

WHEAT PRICES WARNING

... in the tropical sunlight,” and return reinvigorated—and divorced. The place is the Virgin Islands, on the fringe of the Caribbean Sea, only 24 hours by air from New York by the Pan-American Airways Service. The inclusive cost of steamer trip, first-class ...

Published: Saturday 06 July 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 570 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

POLICE MISTAKE

... ihe Narvik and to fly Swedish colours, was first disrovored with the sinking of two • ships, King John and T'hsian. in the Caribbean area. he Davisian’s captain and B»neer are reported to Prisoners on board the raider. The Alcantara, which is commanded by ...

Published: Thursday 01 August 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 200 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

USE CIVILIANS

... Frequent incidents of this kind suggest that Germany is trying to provoke a diplomatic clash with the United States in the Caribbean, it is added. Naval D.S.O. is to Marry Lieut. A. A. Fitzrcy Talbot, D. 5.0.. who has become engaged to Miss Joyce Linley ...

Published: Thursday 05 September 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 792 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ETON COLLEGE to-day obs

... not be confined to Etonians alone.” U.S. Admiral Looks for Bases Members of the commission now carrying on a survey in the Caribbean for sites for United States air and naval bases have arrived in Trinidad in the American light cruiser St. Louis. Rear Admiral ...

Published: Friday 11 October 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 238 | Page: 5 | Tags: none