LUTONG (Sarawak), June 22.—The important oil refinery centre of Lutong in Sarawak on the west coast of Borneo was captured on Wednesday by Australians of the Ninth Division with the same ease that has so far ...
Article : 502 wordsCHUNGKING, June 22.—A High Command communique announces that Chinese forces are attacking the Liuchow airfield and have ...
Article : 213 wordsLUTONG, June 22.—Although Lutong was taken without opposition, the landing was the trickiest the Australians have so far made in ...
Article : 1,003 wordsGUAM, June 21.—"Okinawa was the longest and costliest of all the campaigns in the Central and Western Pacific," says the Associated ...
Article : 616 wordsLONDON, June 22.—Field Marshal Montgomery announced at a Press conference yesterday that the famous Seventh Armoured Division ...
Article : 619 wordsLONDON, June 22.—It is officially announced that the final total of German prisoners of war and disarmed military personnel on the ...
Article : 67 wordsLONDON, June 22.—Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris, chief of Bomber Command, paid high tribute to his aircrews when he distributed ...
Article : 297 wordsSAN FRANCISCO, June 21.— Interviewed by James Reston for the "New York Times," Field Marshal Smuts said UNCIO had succeeded, ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 689 wordsLONDON, June 22.—The Union Jack was hoisted over Cologne at an impressive military ceremony last night, says a correspondent of the ...
Article : 81 wordsLONDON, June 22.—An intelligence officer attached to Allied Supreme HQ discloses that interrogation of Col-General Jodi and ...
Article : 352 wordsBOMBAY, June 22.—The Congress Party working committee has decided to participate in the Simla conference, convened by the Viceroy ...
Article : 324 wordsSAN FRANCISCO, June 21.—The Associated Press states: "The Australian delegates, one of the most active national groups in shaping ...
Article : 193 wordsMELBOURNE, June 22.—Substantial gains have been made by troops of the Sixth Australian Division against Japanese forces fanatically ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 371 wordsBRUNEI BAY, June 22.—Some of the most furious fighting of the whole Borneo campaign suddenly swept part of the Labuan foreshore ...
Article : 668 wordsSAN FRANCISCO, June 22.— There was a flare-up at UNCIO's commission on political security functions (states the United Press) ...
Article : 646 wordsLONDON, June 22.—The new Italian Government, headed by Signor Parri, unexpectedly took the oath of office last night in the Royal ...
Article : 144 wordsLONDON, June 22.—"Fierce tribesmen from northern Syria have been attacking French posts on the Turco-Syrian frontier," ...
Article : 167 wordsTwo United States Army privates handling the new 650lb fire-bomb, details of which have just been released. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 24 wordsGUAM, June 22.—With flame throwers the Americans stormed a giant coastal cave near Mabuni on the south-west coast of Okinawa ...
Article : 54 wordsLONDON, June 22.—"Japan is now in the same position as we would have been if we had failed to keep control of the sea," said the First ...
Article : 163 wordsNEW YORK, June 22.—The Washington Bureau of the "New York Times" reports that the Acting Secretary of State (Mr J. C. Grew), in ...
Article : 146 wordsLONDON, June 22.—It is disclosed by an intelligence officer at Allied Supreme HQ that doctors are still giving Goering gradually ...
Article : 181 wordsPORTLAND, Oregon, June 22.— Vice -Admiral Mitscher told a Press conference today: "We'll have to bum up the ...
Article : 89 wordsLONDON, June 22.—"The plane bearing the Empress Fawzie of Persia, bound for Cairo, circled over Damascus airfield while a dispute ...
Article : 152 wordsWASHINGTON, June 22.—The 20th Air Force announced that a very large force of Super-Fortresses attacked the main Japanese island ...
Article : 164 wordsLONDON, June 22.—Moscow radio said today that the Reparations Commission had met for the first time, M Maisky presiding. ...
Article : 47 wordsLONDON, June 22.—E. S. Bowlby, aged 33, who declares himself Irish, is the latest traitor to be isolated in Brussels military prison. He was ...
Article : 54 wordsMANILA, June 22.—Piloting a slack Widow aircraft, Lieut Roy Oakes, of San Francisco, shot down an enemy transport plane during a ...
Article : 112 wordsLONDON, June 22.—Five units of the British Pacific Fleet, including an aircraft-carrier, were hit by Japanese suicide planes during recent ...
Article : 350 wordsCANBERRA, June 22.—In the Senate today Senator Mattner (Lib, SA) defended Militia troops at Port Moresby who were criticise in the ...
Article : 297 wordsNEW YORK, June 22.—According to Tokio radio, the Home Ministry announced that it had been decided that in future no cities in Japan ...
Article : 66 wordsNEW YORK, June 22.—Tokio radio stated that the American planes had conducted a reconnaissance over southern Japan for two ...
Article : 93 wordsMADRID, June 22.—Spanish authorities at Irun, under instructions from Madrid, have closed the frontier to France to all traffic ...
Article : 40 wordsWASHINGTON, June 22.—The Munitions Ministry is rushing construction of mobile electric blast furnaces to convert scrap from ...
Article : 31 wordsExcept where otherwise designated, the overseas intelligence published in "The West Australian" is transmitted to Australia by the Australia Associated Press ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Sat 23 Jun 1945, Page 7
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