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of the Solomons

... after the first salvos. The agency also claimed that a British freighter of medium tonnage was torpedoed and sunk in the Caribbean Sea by a German U-boat. The crew was able to reach port. ALLIED AIRCRAFT BATTER JAPS MILNE BAY MOPPING-UP CONTINUES EERIE ...

Published: Monday 07 September 1942
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 587 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

U-BOAT CLAIMS

... U-BOAT CLAIMS A special German communique states; German U-boats sank in hard fighting in the Caribbean Sea, off the African coist, in the St. Lawrence Gult, and in the Arctic Sea, 19 enemy ships totalling 100,000 tons and a tug-boat. Three other ships ...

Published: Saturday 19 September 1942
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 47 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

One Chased Off

... Hitler's headquarters to-day says that a German U-boat sank 16 ships totalling 103,000 tons in the North Atlantic, in the Caribbean Sea, off Trinidad, in the Gulf of Guinea, and in the waters off Cape Town. ITALIAN PLANES ATTACK GIBRALTAR? Berne, Monday ...

Published: Monday 09 November 1942
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 357 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Attitude of Press

... important national wor :.” COLOURED SEAMAN SAVED OFFICER’S LIFE When oil tanker, after being dogged all night by a U-boat the Caribbean Sea, was struck by lour torpedoes and sank in five minutes, Able Seaman Cecil Desmond oods (aged 25), a coloured Dutch West ...

Published: Monday 23 November 1942
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 370 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

WOMAN IN OPEN

... hang himself from the mast. His excuse was that just could not get comfortable.” After 10 days we reached island in the Caribbean. Flares and rockets were sent up, and a motor torpedo boat came out and whisked rapidly around the island to the pier where ...

Published: Wednesday 30 December 1942
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 415 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Sighted by Catalina

... for a sailor is good in the air apparently, for I suffered no illeffects as a result of the flip * over the Amazon and the Caribbean and actually was rather sorry to leave the plane at Miami.” An uneventful but very pleasant railroad run brought the survivors ...

Published: Friday 26 February 1943
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 512 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

MANY SCHEMES APPROVED

... country and the West Indies, and some organisation which would bring together the British West Indies and the rest of the Caribbean area. We had to try to fit the whole of this area into a world where it could survive and prosper. It was only when we had ...

Published: Tuesday 16 March 1943
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 297 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

CONTROL

... Guadeloupe will soon join the fight against the Axis. Admiral Georges Robert, High Commissioner for the French colonies in the Caribbean Sea, is believed to be faced with a crisis in his refusal to rally to the side of General Giraud.— Associated Press. GREEK ...

Published: Friday 19 March 1943
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 226 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

A.T.S. GIRL’S DEATH

... Mellor, whose mother lives at 70, Gotham Road, South Yardley, was in a tanker which was sunk by a German submarine in the Caribbean Sea. Despite the fact that he was injured, he gave his lifebelt to a sick colleague and helped to rescue him. Mellor has ...

Published: Monday 13 September 1943
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 194 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

RADIO PROGRAMMES HOME SERVICE

... is named as one of a special committee “to review existing facilities for higher education in the British colonies in the Caribbean and to make recommendations regarding future university development for these colonies.” The committee will spend three months ...

Published: Thursday 20 January 1944
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1073 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

PROTESTS

... imposition of an oil ban by the United States Government at the end of January. This, ban on Spanish oil supplies from the Caribbean area is still in force. •BRITISH COMPLAINT TO TURKEY The British point of view regarding the continued despatch of chrome ...

Published: Thursday 13 April 1944
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 288 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

REST OF THE NEWS

... series conferences. He is scheduled to meet to-day the British Joint Chiefs of Staff and officials of the Anglo-American Caribbean Commission. Yesterday he conferred with Mr. Cordell Hull (U.S. Secretary of State). Mr. James Forrest?.! (Secretary of the ...

Published: Thursday 27 July 1944
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 582 | Page: 4 | Tags: none