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«THE PRODIGIOUS CARIBBEAN”

... PRODIGIOUS CARIBBEAN” The_ Prodigious Caribbean. By Rosita Forbes. (Cassell. 15/-.) FRENCH, Dutch and British colonies in the West Indies are 90 per cent. negro. The Spanish are 30 per cent The Spaniards were the only whites to settle in the Caribbean as small ...

Published: Tuesday 14 January 1941
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 296 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

MINES IN CARIBBEAN

... MINES IN CARIBBEAN NEW YORK Thursday—lt reported at Bogota Colombia that two magnetic mines were recently found off the Colombian islands San Andre and Provldencla In the Carrlbbean, off the Nicaraguan coast and were sent to Cartagena for examination ...

Published: Friday 17 January 1941
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 46 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Carribean Crossroads The Church on the Spanish Main Catholic Life Grows under Irish Dominicans

... Carribean Crossroads The Church on the Spanish Main Catholic Life Grows under Irish Dominicans THE Caribbean Sea, that either gently laps the palm-fringed beach or breaks furiously against the cliffs of the thousand and one islands which make up the ...

Published: Saturday 28 June 1941
Newspaper: Irish Weekly and Ulster Examiner
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 136 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

OVER BRITAIN Bombs were dropned on a town in South-West England early to-day. No serious damage was reported. ..

... Buenos Aires, Tuesdav.—Gen. Frank Andrews, chief of the U.S. Air Forces in the Caribbean, followed up the American occupation of Iceland with the statement that the Caribbean bases were now ready to repul.e any attempt to invade the hemisphere in the South ...

Published: Wednesday 09 July 1941
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Advertisement | Words: 128 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Inescapable Duty

... John Adams, ordered the United States Navy to clean cut European privateers and European ships of war which were infesting Caribbean and South American waters and destroying American commerce. obligation as President is historic, It is clear, it is inescapable ...

Published: Friday 12 September 1941
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 73 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

MR. CHURCHILL ARRIVES IN U.S

... that agreement had been reached with the French authorities of Martinique, assuring the neutralisation of that strategic Caribbean island. Mr. Hull was in conference for hour with Rear-Admiral Frederick Horne, who had just returned from his talks with ...

Published: Tuesday 23 December 1941
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 70 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

HUGE DEAL PLANNED

... dispose them profitably. UNIFIED COMMAND The consolidation of the United States Army Commands at the Panama Canal and in the Caribbean Area, order to strengthen the western hemisphere defences, is announced to-day by Mr, Stimson, the Secretary of War. The ...

Published: Friday 10 January 1941
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 304 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

8-HOUR DAY SUSPENDED

... working day for labourers and mechanics employed by U.S. Government on constructing army and navy bases on the Atlantic and Caribbean sites leased from Britain has been suspended by President Roosevelt. Asked at his Press conference to explain the circumstances ...

Published: Saturday 04 January 1941
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 85 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

FLEET AT NEW BASE

... FLEET AT NEW BASE Kingston (Jamaica), Monday.— The first American Fleet operating from the new Caribbean bases today steamed out of Portland Bight (the base on the south coast of Jamaica leased to the United States under the agreement with Britain) for ...

Published: Tuesday 21 January 1941
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 87 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

NAVAL SPEED.UP

... United States Atlantic Fleet will stage joint training manceuvres, beginning next Tuesday, with Army and Navy forces, in the Caribbean, Col. Knox announced. He described the manceuvres as a routine annual affair, and said he did not think that the Atlantic ...

Published: Thursday 16 January 1941
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 93 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

AIR RAID DISTRESS PRESIDENT’S HINT

... Republic against the Barbary pirates in the Mediter ranean a century ago and naval action as well against privateers in the Caribbean. When reporters Inquired whether he thought that there were “any modem ...

Published: Saturday 17 May 1941
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 103 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Anglo-UJS. Accord in West Indies VJR. GEORGE HALL, Parliamentary * Under secretary for the Colonies, who has ..

... Important moves have begun for Anglo-American action to speed the economic and social development of all the islands of the Caribbean Sea. He disclosed that he conferred with high United States oltlcials Washington last week on colonial cooperation in connexion ...

Published: Monday 06 October 1941
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 130 | Page: 3 | Tags: none