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Advertising : 16 wordsNEWSPAPER correspondents' messages from Washington indicating that the American Administration is actively engaged on the examination of the new plan of Pacific strategy developed by the War Advisory Council in co-operation with ...
Article : 694 wordsBenefiting from her costly war lesson, America is looking to her coastal defences. This battery of heavy calibre guns is one of many that have been stationed at strategic points to augment coastal fortifications. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 43 wordsDARWIN had its third heavy bombing raid of the war this afternoon. The Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) announced at 11 p.m. that the raid was carried out ...
Article : 346 wordsIn the face of a furious onslaught by the Red Army, the Germans appear in danger of losing Kharkov, one of the rich prizes they gained in their drive into the Ukraine last year. The second fall of this great industrial city, a section of which is ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 58 wordsBITTER fighting "under the very walls of Kharkov," the great industrial city of the Ukraine, is reported in the latest despatches from Russia, which add that the recapture of the city by the Red Army is imminent. ...
Article : 672 wordsCANBERRA, Monday. —Following the devastating raids on Japanese concentrations at Salamaua ...
Article : 498 wordsLONDON. Monday. — Vice-Admiral Sir Geoffrey Layton has been appointed to the newly-created post of ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 181 wordsA GOVERNMENT statement on the Java naval battle will, probably be made at the next sitting of Parliament. ...
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Article : 201 wordsONCE the United States gets into full war production its output will stagger the world, according to Mr. W. S. Wasserman, leader of the American lease-lend mission now in Australia. He declared also that he ...
Article : 392 wordsAustralian pilots in the Western Desert give a new Kittihawk the "once over" before it goes into action. The Kittihawk is a new type of fast fighting machine which is giving excellent service in the Middle East. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 39 wordsCANBERRA. Monday. — An early announcement of full details of the Government's plan to amalgamate the A.I.F. ...
Article : 311 wordsLONDON, Monday. — "Let no man doubt that our peril today is far greater than it was last July," said the Under-secretary for War ...
Article : 250 wordsCANBERRA, Monday.—Regulations passed by the Federal Government today empower the Premiers of the States to set ...
Article : 357 wordsCANBERRA, Monday.—Wet canteens will be established in militia camps when the Australian Military Forces are put on the same ...
Article : 125 wordsAN agency message from Burma reports the recapture by British troops of the town of Shwegyin, which was taken by the Japanese in their drive across the Sittang River. Shwegyin is 100 miles north-east of ...
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Advertising : 83 wordsNo area in the war-torn world hat received more constant attention from the enemy than Malta, yet the island carries on undaunted. The picture shows furniture that has been salvaged from bombed houses ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 44 wordsCHUNGKING, Monday.—Major-General Lancelot Dennys, head of the British Military Mission in China, was killed in an aeroplane crash on ...
Article : 124 wordsNEW YORK. Monday.—Tokio Official Radio claims that 50,000 prisoners were taken in the Bandoeng area of Java, including many ...
Article : 143 wordsLONDON had a short air raid alert this morning. It was the first time Londoners had heard the sirens since ...
Article : 64 wordsCHUNGKING, Monday. — The "Central China Daily News" says 2,000 Japanese succeeded in penetrating Hsiangshan, Chekiang ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 17 Mar 1942, Page 1
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