Pigeons proved their usefulness as messenger-carriers in this war no less titan the last. Many birds' accompanied the. British Liberation Army to Berlin where they were released to fly home to their bases. They carried special messages to towns in France, Belgium and Holland and to the Royal Signal Corps in Britain. Picture shows: The V.C. Pigeon which flew 487 miles in a day with a vital message ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 89 wordsLONDON, September 4 (A.A.P.). The American Associated Press correspondent at Kandy says that according to information reaching ...
Article : 429 wordsLONDON, September 4 (A.A.P.). The Spanish Government must evacuate the Tastier sone, stated the official communlque issued ...
Article : 312 wordsNEW YORK, Sept. 5 (A.A.P.—The American Associated Press correspondent at Yokohama says that Japan moved to-day toward speedy and Complete demobilisation under a blunt "step on it" order from General Mac Arthur, who directed the Japanese First Army Commander to ...
Article : 190 wordsLieut.-General Hitoshi Imamura, Commander of the Japanese South-eastern Army, has been instructed to, meet Lieut-General Sturdee, G.O.C., First Aiistralian Army, aboard the aircraft carrier H.M.S. Glory at ...
Article : 111 wordsNEW YORK, Sept. 4 (A.A.P.).— The American Associated Press correspondent at Hiroshima (Vern Haughland) says: "Trams rattle ...
Article : 308 words[?]elberger summoned [?] Sugilyama, former chief of the Japanese General Staff and military adviser to.Hirohito, to Eighth ...
Article : 967 wordsNEW YORK, Sep. 5 (A.A.P).— The Associated Press Washington representative says that a State Department report reveals ...
Article : 390 wordsA furtner record of the Japanese maltreatment of prisoners of war was found oh this ship to-day during the war correspondents' interview with 50 ...
Article : 228 wordsHESSINKI, Sept. 4. (A.A.P.). —Finland mott Import 250.000 tons of cereals from Russia in order to maintain the present ...
Article : 96 wordsThe first requirement of LieutenantGeneral Sturdee in the instructions handed to the Japanese envoys was that Lieutenant-General Imamura, as ...
Article : 489 wordsNEW YORK, Sep. 4 (A.A.P.).—The "Herald Tribune's" correspondent at Hiroshima (Homer Bigart) states that survivors of the atom bomb are dying ...
Article : 162 wordsKANDY, September 5.—Psychiatrists and special surgical squads are stand— ing by to drop by parachute to deal with war prisoners needing soecial ...
Article : 101 wordsDeliverance has come to Malaya to thousands of men of the Eighth Australian Division. They to-day shed their slave lives to regain touch with ...
Article : 142 wordsLONDON, September 4 (A.A.P.).— It is officially announced that the King, on the recommendation of the New Zealand Government, has approved the ...
Article : 97 wordsBRISBANE, Sept. 5.—Special releases of soldiers to assist with the sugar harvest were urged by the sugaf industry organisations to the Army ...
Article : 315 wordsBRISBANE, September 5.—The findings of the two railway, roster clerks, Messrs. Hazell and Cummins, who investigated the tramway roster to ...
Article : 285 wordsThe horrors of Rabaul in January, 1942, when the Japanese overwhelmed the Australian 2/22 Battalion, were revived to-day on the Yokohama ...
Article : 170 wordsCANBERRA, September 4.—The Minister for the Army (Mr. F. M. Forde) said to-day that the 1300 army long service veterans who arrived in ...
Article : 46 wordsGeneral Eichelberger was reluctant to comment on the auestion of the action to be taken' against Japanese war criminals. There had been no arrest ...
Article : 168 wordsImperial Palace moat. The building on the right with the truncated tower waa never completed ag the builders found if they were to go any higher they would be in a position to look down into the Imperial, gardens which, in Japan, is "simply not done." ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 47 wordsNEW YORK, Sept. 4 (A.A.P.).— The American Associated Press correspondent at Chatanooga, Tennessee, says that Lewis Ford, a 32-year-old lay preacher, of "The Dolly Pond Church of God," died within one ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 79 wordsLONDON, September 3 (A.A.P.)— The "Daily Telegraph's" correspondent at Capetown says that over 120 ships, totalling over 700,000 tons, were lost in ...
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