PHILADELPHIA, Friday.—America's third largest city has now entered its third tense day of the transportation stoppage. As estimated by Washington officials, the tie-up has cut into production by 50 per cent, and the Navy places its parallel figure at 70 per cent. ...
Article : 137 wordsWASHINGTON, Friday.—The American Secretary of War, Mr. Stimson, this morning revealed that American forces had captured Rennes, the capital of Brittany. Rennes, near the center of the Brest Peninsular, has a population of 98,000 and commands all the main roads and railways passing in to the Peninsula. Of ...
Article : 499 wordsKANDY, Friday—British American and Chinese forces have captured Myitkyina, big Japanese base, and the largest town ...
Article : 143 wordsLONDON, Friday. — BBC reporter in Yugoslavia, Kenneth Matthews has just paid a visit to an airfield in Slovenia, built by ...
Article : 93 wordsSYDNEY, Friday. — When Mrs M. Hinten, of Frederick Street, Rockdale, celebrated her 95th birthday yesterday, her three sisters, aged 75, 79, ...
Article : 73 wordsGENERAL MacARTHUR'S HQ, Friday.— The fanatical determination of some of the Japanese captured in the latest clash at Aitape to ...
Article : 82 wordsLONDON, Friday.— Mr Churchill disclosed in the House of Commons yesterday that 14,000 people had been injured and 4735 killed in the six ...
Article : 60 wordsSTOCKHOLM, Friday.— A message from Stockholm reports that the Germans may decide to invade and occupy the Aland Islands, west of ...
Article : 71 wordsMELBOURNE, Froday.— The Government had power to take action concerning any obscene literature, said Mr Curtin yesterday. ...
Article : 61 wordsBangkok, Friday.— The new Thai Coalition Government, in a statement on foreign policy, says it will "co-operate closely with Japan according to the pacts ...
Article : 57 wordsLONDON, Friday. — According to the Nazi-controlled Paris Radio, the Bulgarian Cabinet met at Sofia yesterday. ...
Article : 97 wordsSYDNEY, Friday. — A 73-year-old ship's surgeon, Dr. F. L. Harden, now in Sydney, admitted to-day that in order to get into the war he had ...
Article : 78 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.—Under Army control, post and telegraph censorship worked on secret instructions evolved by the War Office in London, Mr. P. W. Ettleson, Controller of Posts and Telegraphs Censorship, told the Royal Commissioner, Sir William Webb, at the inquiry to-day. ...
Article : 315 wordsLONDON, Friday.— Double summer time, which was to have ended in England on August 13, has been extended to September 17. ...
Article : 61 wordsLONDON, Friday.— Reliable reports reaching London suggest that the Germans may evacuate their forces from the Jersey and Guernsey ...
Article : 82 wordsMOSCOW, Friday.—In southern Poland, the Red Army has smashed its way to within, 60 miles of Cracow, Poland's second largest city, and at other points they are only 100 miles from German Silesia. Russian forces have made more crossings of the River Vistula. ...
Article : 199 wordsAN AUSTRALIAN PORT, Friday.— It is revealed that HMAS Napier has arrived in Australian waters for the first time. ...
Article : 117 wordsLONDON, Friday.— As the Allied armies advance deeper into France, the people of England are hearing more and more of the detailed ...
Article : 102 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.— The RSL State Council has decided to urge the, Federal Government to introduce legislation giving preference to returned ...
Article : 116 wordsWASHINGTON. Friday. — US War Production Chief. Mr Donald Nelson, said yesterday that half of America's munitions programme was completed in the ...
Article : 62 wordsPEARL HARBOUR, Friday.— The Stars and Stripes are flying over Tinian, captured Jap stronghold at the southern end of the Marianas. ...
Article : 77 wordsNAPLES, Friday.— In the face of stubborn resistance, men of the British 8th Army are slogging their way forward to Florence. ...
Article : 170 wordsGENERAL MacARTHUR'S HQ, Friday.—Four separate suicidal charges on a narrow flank in a desperate attempt to penetrate Allied Afua fiank positions at Aitape, have cost the enemy 620 men. The entire battle area was littered with abandoned and uncounted dead Japanese. This is the highlight of the latest communique which says that one enemy attack—there were four distinct ones — was with mortar, artillery and machine-gun fire, ...
Article : 313 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.— It was announced to-day that War Cabinet had decided to place large orders for tools and equipment needed for ...
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Army News (Darwin, NT : 1941 - 1946), Sat 5 Aug 1944, Page 1
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