The largest force ever assembled in the South-west Pacific struck at three Jap strongholds along the northern New Guinea coast soon after dawn on Saturday, taking the enemy completely by surprise, and trapping the Japanese 18th Army, estimated at ...
Article : 576 wordsOur artillery blew up an ammunition dump in Cassin[?] Activity elsewhere along the front was limited to patrolling exchanges, artillery, and mortar fire, says the italian communique. Ste[?] forces [?]ted when hea[?] ...
Article : 245 wordsNEW GUINEA, FINSCHHAFEN Austrolian nurses admire native headdress during Victory sing-song on the Song River to celebrate liberation of area from Japanese ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 23 wordsThe Minister for External Tierritor[?] Mr. Forde who is [?]ing New Guinea would not buy into the Minister for information's press [?]ship dispute ...
Article : 215 wordsAccording to the Vichy radio the Berlin military spokesman says that local operations are now occurring in many sectors on the Russian front, but the German High Command is keeping fresh troops behind the front line, as the tasks assigned to them ...
Article : 260 wordsThe American Associated Press Caird correspondent says that the Alhes are sending gold to the Middle East and selling it at market price in an effort to ...
Article : 67 wordsMessages to Australian prisoners of was in Japanese hands may now be sent [?] the Aposto[?] Delegate in Australia Dr. Panico. This was said today when ...
Article : 113 words"Scandalous" was how the deputy leader of the Opposition. Mr. Harrison tonight described the food position in Australia. He was commenting on a ...
Article : 186 wordsVast troop movements are coming closer and a new and large scale of operations are imminent says the Vichy radio, quoting the Berlin military ...
Article : 58 wordsIt was officially announced that Mustangs and Thunderbolts from the Ninth Air Force ranged over the Continent from the Dutch coast to Bremen and the Ruhr yesterday, some for almost four hours without finding a single German plane in the air. ...
Article : 316 wordsThe two landings at Hollandia and Tanahmerah Bay. 5 miles to the west, was a plan of double development to take the three vital aerodromes of ...
Article : 1,074 wordsThe Acting Army Minister, Senator Fraser, announced today that members of the Australian military forces who had been mentioned in dispatches will be ...
Article : 85 wordsRAAF H.Q. Eastern Area April 24 Eight airmen were killed when two aircraft collided during training exercises at an RAAF station in Central ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 52 wordsAll United States radio networks pooled thier facilities for the direct transmission of General MacArthur's communique announcing the capture of ...
Article : 253 wordsAt a meeting of the Queensland Parliamentary Labor Party today, Mr. Cooper the Premier was unanimously reelected Leader and Mr. Hunlon ...
Article : 104 wordsJohn Baker (19) of Mascot was killed instantly when struck by a whirling airscrew of an aeroplane engine at Mascot today. ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Minster for Justice. Mr. Downing announced today that prosecutions pending against hotelkeepers for not keeping their bars open between 2 p.m. and 6 ...
Article : 43 wordsBrian Rowley Lord (17) was charged at the Liverpool Court today with the murder of Mrs. Ellen Auld (42). at Cab[?]matta on April 24. He was remanded ...
Article : 65 wordsThe New Zealand Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, told the Associated Press that he was very pleased at the discussions Pi Washington with the American ...
Article : 137 wordsA definite assurance that the Allies have air superiority over Burma and will keep it is given by Major-General Stratemeyer, Chief of the Eastern Air ...
Article : 83 wordsThere was real danger of a world wide food shortage in the years immediately [?]head because agricultural production during the war had been handicapped ...
Article : 89 wordsYesterday the manager of Ozone Theatre. Mr. S. Peake received a telegram from Mr. Waterman stating that he had secured for free screening ...
Article : 102 wordsOnly the sheriff and a few officials will view the hanging on Wednesday of Harold James Box at Adelaide Caol. Box shot Lanco Broan, company director at ...
Article : 45 wordsThe "Daily Mall" correspondent, cabling from the Assam front late today, says that the Allies have launched a two-way counter offensive [?] at ...
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Barrier Daily Truth (Broken Hill, NSW : 1908; 1941 - 1954), Tue 25 Apr 1944, Page 1
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