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  2. BOTH SIDES LOSING HEAVILY Fierce Kharkov Fighting

    During last night the Red Army strengthened its position behind Kharkov in heavy fighting at a centre about 25 miles south-east of Kharkov. Moscow reported that the Germans attacked violently, but the Russian forces counter-attacked and ...

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  3. APPLE DECISION.

    The Minister for External Affairs (Dr. Evatt) to-day informed the House that the High Court's judgment in the apple and pear acquisition case ...

    Article : 177 words
  4. MERCHANT FLEET.

    The Japanese merchant fleet has Jost 1,857,000 tons or about one-third of its entire total tonnage, said the Secretary for the Navy (Colonel F. ...

    Article : 172 words
  5. AUSTRALIAN AIRMEN DOING SUPERB JOB.

    The Commander of the Allied Air Forces is the Pacific (Lieut.-General Kenney), after conferring with President Roosevelt, told the ...

    Article : 249 words
  6. ALLIES OCCUPY GAFSA AFTER 30 MILES ADVANCE.

    Allied forces in Tunisla have captured the important read and railway junction of Gafsa after a 30 miles advance in which they met ...

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  7. DESERTED JAPANESE DEFENCES Discovery Near Buna

    Our ground patrols operating in the area north of Buna came across an extensively fortified defence system near the mouth of the Mambare Biver. The Mambare River enters the sea at a spot approximately 50 miles north of Buna and 90 ...

    Article : 187 words
  8. GIVE TO UTMOST.

    The Prime Minister (Mr. J. Curtin) said in the House of Representatives to-day that the problem facing Australia was to continue to ...

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  9. FRENCH GUERRILLAS.

    Conflicting reports are circulating regarding the situation at Haute-Savole. "The Times" Geneva correspondent states that no new ...

    Article : 403 words
  10. RAPOPO BOMBED.

    A formation of Flying Fortresses bombed the Rapopo aerodrome in Rabaul early on Tuesday evening and spread much destruction amongst ...

    Article : 480 words
  11. ATTACK ON MARETH LINE.

    The German news agency says that the British Eighth Army launched an attack against the Mareth Line last night. The scale of the fighting ...

    Article : 390 words
  12. HIGHLIGHTS OF STRUGGLE.

    The slowing up of the German counter-offensive in the Middle Donetz, the continuation of the German retreat on the Smolensk front, where ...

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  13. STARVING PACIFIC FORCES?

    Raymond Clapper in the "World Telegram" asks: "Are we inadvisedly starving our forces in the Pacific? If Japan's shipping margin is really small, ...

    Article : 77 words
  14. MORE SEA SUPPORT.

    Vice-Admiral Greenslade, commandant of the 12th Naval District, speaking at the Propellor Club to-day, said that General MacArthur should be given ...

    Article : 35 words
  15. JAPANESE ACTIVITIES.

    The newspaper "P.M.'s" military commentator, discussing the Japanese activity in the South-west Pacific, says that the weight of evidence ...

    Article : 55 words
  16. RING TIGHTENED.

    A Berlin High Command communique says: "After the repulse of the Russian attempts to break out, we tightened the ring around them ...

    Article : 345 words
  17. BRITAIN WANTS PLANES.

    The "Herald Tribune" publishes from London an R.A.F. spokesman's statement that "vast numbers of American daylight bombers and a great reservoir ...

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  18. R.A.F. RAID ON ESSEN

    It is now known whom the Bomber Command attacked Essen for the second time within the week (in the 1000-ton raid on the night of March 12) Krupps ...

    Article : 348 words
  19. WOMEN IN FACTORIES.

    Whilst efforts were being made out-side the Chamber to overcome the deadlock that had arisen over the Senate's insistence on the deletion of ...

    Article : 457 words
  20. DEVOTED CITIZEN.

    Religious leaders paid a tribute to Cardinal Hinsley, for whom Solemn Requiem Mass will be sung in Westminster Cathedral on March 22. The ...

    Article : 265 words
  21. REPATRIATION BILL.

    Attempts by a section of Opposition members to have the soldiers' pension rates increased first by 50 per cent. and then by 33 1-3 per cent. were ...

    Article : 180 words
  22. FRENCH HELPED

    "The Times" correspondent with the Eighth Army in Tunisia says the co-operation of the R.A.A.F. squadron with a Fighting French ground unit ...

    Article : 235 words
  23. ITALIAN ATROCITIES.

    Dalmatian Church leaders have protested to the Axis authorities against the Italian atrocities, and the order by the German Commander in Croatia in ...

    Article : 151 words
  24. U-BOAT MENACE.

    Mr. Clement Davies in a House of Commons debate on the navy estimates, after a bitter personal attack on the First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. ...

    Article : 147 words
  25. MALARIA PROBLEM

    After the meeting of the Pacific War Council the British Minister in Washington (Viscount Halifax) said that the problem of malaria among troops and ...

    Article : 147 words
  26. TOGETHER AGAIN.

    The Lancashire Fusiliers and Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, who are fighting in the present campaign in Burma, were in the same brigade at the Cape ...

    Article : 126 words
  27. BRANDY SUPPLIES

    The Minister for Customs (Senator R. V. Keane) told Mr. F. Brennan in the House of Representatives that persons requiring brandy in small ...

    Article : 102 words
  28. GERMAN NEWSPAPERS

    "The Times" correspondent at the German frontier says that 600 of the Greater Reich's 2500 newspapers are closing down. Four hundred others ...

    Article : 124 words
  29. EQUAL TERMS.

    "When you are fighting for democracy said Sir Charles Marr to-day to the House of Representatives during the Repatriation debate, "you should ...

    Article : 194 words
  30. SECRET SESSION

    The Prime Minister (Mr. J. Curtin) said in the House of Representatives to-day that at the moment he saw no occasion for holding a secret session to ...

    Article : 77 words
  31. PUBLIC SERVICE SALARIES.

    There are 13,206 persons in the Commonwealth Public Service whose salaries range between £400 and £1500 and over, according to information ...

    Article : 116 words
  32. POSTHUMOUS RANK

    The late Sergeant R. H. Middleton, V.C., who shortly before his death was recommended for promotion, has been posthumously given a commissioned ...

    Article : 117 words
  33. ENEMY BOMBERS

    The Admiralty states that two enemy bombers were shot down yesterday by the destroyer Derwent during an unsuccessful attack by 12 aircraft on an ...

    Article : 98 words
  34. RATION SCALE.

    The Chairman of the Rationing Commission (Mr. A W. Cules) announced to-day that the clothes ration scale would not be altered in the coming rationing ...

    Article : 109 words
  35. PETAIN INFLUENCE.

    The British United Press Algiers correspondent says that General Giraud ordered the removal of all publicly displayed pictures of Marshal Petain, ...

    Article : 79 words
  36. PRICE BREACHES

    More expeditious handling of prosecutions for breaches of the Prices Regulations were promised to-day by the Attorney-General (Dr. H. V. Evatt). ...

    Article : 76 words
  37. THREE SHIPS SUNK.

    Admiralty light coastal ships, manned by members of the Norwegian Navy, penetrated a Norwegian flord early on March 14, torpedoed and sunk [?] ...

    Article : 50 words
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