Bizerta and Tunis have been captured by the Allies and occupation was completed yesterday (Friday). This was officially announced from Allied Headquarters in North Africa last night. The two cities were captured within five minutes of each other— The British First Army took Tunis, and Bizerta was taken by French troops advancing along the coast and by Americans driving south-westward of the town. Axis motor barges and Small craft, making a "Dunkirk" ...
Article : 731 wordsBerlin radio asserted that fighting had flared up along the whole Russian Front following improvement in the weather and consequent hardening of the ground. The radio declared that regardless of losses the Russians were trying to improve their ...
Article : 200 wordsSweeping over Madang at low level yesterday afternoon Beau-fighters and Mitchell bombers left sinking a small Japanese freighter and sank a transport packed with troops in the harbor. Soldiers crowding the decks and superstructure were raked with ...
Article : 387 wordsAllied bombers without respite are attacking ships trying to reach Sicily from Tunis. They sunk a ship off the eastern coast of the the island, says the Algiera ...
Article : 179 wordsMrs. Tryphena Jelbert died early yesterday morning at her late residence, 276 Hebbard street, South Broken Hill, at the age of 82 years. Mrs. Jelbert had ...
Article : 156 wordsDutch New Guinea, Timika: Our medium units bombed the aerodrome. Kal Islands: Langgoer: Our medium units bombed the new enemy airstrip. ...
Article : 213 wordsCentral Elienhower in a statement declared: "Organised Axis resistance, except for a few isolated pockets, appears to have ended." ...
Article : 49 wordsFlying-Officer E. P. Goldsmith, one of Australia's most famous Spitfire pilots, who was shot down during the battle over Darwin last Sunday, ...
Article : 299 wordsThe death occurred at the Hospital of Mr. Henry Francis Denton, of 171 Ryan Street, at the age of 65 years. Mr. Denton was born in Adelaide and had ...
Article : 215 wordsTwo thousand Australian prisoners of war at Camp 57, Grupignlogo, near Undine, in the north-east of Italy, were betting in the middle of April on ...
Article : 167 wordsThe Greek Minister of Marine and Mr. M. [?] today declared that after the European war was finished Greece would fight on against Japan. ...
Article : 36 wordsLatest messages from North Africa declare that it is now certain that many thousands of prisoners have already been taken in the great Allied victory drive on Bizerta and Tunis, and it is already indicated that the number will probably reach The Allies have also taken Chouigia near Teburba. Reuter's Algiers correspondent says that General Von Amim's front is rapidly disintegrating. ...
Article : 314 wordsIn one of the worst rail and road accidents in the history of Australia, 24 soldiers and a V.A.D. were killed on Saturday night when a locomotive crashed into a bus near Wodonga. The bus was travelling to Albury with 40 passengers and the engine was ...
Article : 477 wordsBroken Hill lost another of its old residents when the death occurred on Saturday of Mrs. Esther Emma Evans at the age of 69 years. Mrs. Evans had ...
Article : 151 wordsThe Joint Under-Secretory for War, Brigadier-General Lord Gort, said to-day that the Allies in the eastern pincer, swinging 3,000 miles from Italian ...
Article : 90 wordsOn Saturday morning about 12 miles our from Broken Hill on the Nine-Mile Road, an unusual accident occurred that resulted in Robert Floyd (14) ...
Article : 205 wordsLorraino Eisle Greenwood passed away at her parents' residence on Saturday morning at the age of 14 years. She was born in Broken Hill and was the ...
Article : 130 wordsSince the Spitfires have been in action over Darwin. Wing-Commander C. R. Caldwell has more than maintained his reputation as Australia's ...
Article : 142 wordsA message from Launce today stated that British naval tugs this morning beached three merchantmen after three explosions had occurred in ...
Article : 45 wordsBritish armored units, tightening the net around the southern Axis packet in Tunisia, have reached the base of Cape Ban Peninsular by driving four miles from Hammamlif along, the coast road from Tunis, says the British United Press ...
Article : 292 wordsThe smashing victory in Africa is regarded in Washington as "a prophecy of greater developments," declares the Washington correspondent ...
Article : 87 wordsTension in the Balkans soared last night as reports were current in all capitals between Vienna and Instabul that an Allied invasion of the Balkans ...
Article : 201 wordsHis department had already made a combout of Government departments in search of manpower for the war effort, said the New South Wales manpower ...
Article : 151 wordsA hundred Jap troops were killed or drawned on Saturday when two enemy ships were destroyed off Madang, on the north coast of New Guines. ...
Article : 107 wordsMr. M. H. Bailleu, the chairman of directors of North Broken Hill Ltd., Sir Colm Fraser, chairman of directors of Broken Hill South, and Mr. H. St. John ...
Article : 69 wordsFive attacks on Kiska and seven on Attu were launched by U.S. airmen in the Aleutians in the North Pacific on Thursday. Direct hits were scored on ...
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Barrier Daily Truth (Broken Hill, NSW : 1908; 1941 - 1954), Mon 10 May 1943, Page 1
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