LONDON:—People relax on August Bank Holiday. BRITTANY:—Americans speed on to Nantes, st, Nazaire, St. Malo, Brest. NORMANDY:—British have victories and widen line. Nazis unable to make stable defence line. ...
Article : 109 wordsLONDON, Saturday.—New Allied blows in Brittany and Normandy in the past 24 hours have further loosened up the German front. In Brittany, American armoured columns are now 30 miles from the valuable ports of St. Nazaire and Nantes on the Loire, while others have thrust swiftly dawn to within 80 miles of the great ...
Article : 300 wordsMOSCOW, Saturday.—German News Agency this afternoon announced that the Russians had reached the borders of East Prussia and that heavy fighting was taking place at Wirballen, on the main rail line between Kovno and Konigsberg, the East Prussian capital. Moscow has not yet confirmed ...
Article : 421 wordsLONDON, Saturday. — Hitler has ordered a ruthless purge of the German Army. He has appointed a special court ...
Article : 172 wordsLONDON, Saturday.—London newspapers are devoting considerable comment to the advances in Brittany and Normandy and the capture of ...
Article : 141 wordsLONDON, Saturday.—RAF and American bombers in great strength have hammered hard at the enemy in the last 24 hours. ...
Article : 186 wordsNAPLES, Saturday.—Men of the British Eighth Army have surged into the outer suburbs of Florence, but the Germans are resisting with ...
Article : 153 wordsMELBOURNE, Saturday.—Internal mail was subject to very little censorship, said Lieutenant-Colonel Anderson, District Censor of the Victorian L of C Area, at the Royal Commission into Posts and Telegraphs yesterday. At times he had refused requests ...
Article : 168 wordsMELBOURNE, Saturday.— A message received from London states that the Melbourne author, Alan Villiers, has been placed in command of a squadron ...
Article : 62 wordsWASHINGTON, Saturday.— Tokio Radio reports a powerful American task force cruising near the Bonin Islands, north of the Marianas, and ...
Article : 104 wordsPEARL HARBOUR, Saturday.—Admiral Nimitz has credited a carrier air group of the US Navy's Pacific Fleet with probably destroying or ...
Article : 89 wordsLONDON. Saturday.—BBC reporter with the Americans in Brittany, Robin Duff, has sent back a vivid picture of life in Rennes, the liberated capital ...
Article : 140 wordsWASHINGTON, Saturday.— Japan has set up a Supreme Council for the conduct of the war. Domel, the Jap news agency, reported ...
Article : 45 wordsSYDNEY, Saturday.—It now seems likely that all hotels will be open on Referendum voting day. It is announced officially that NSW ...
Article : 71 wordsWASHINGTON, Saturday.—Losses of American bombers during attacks on synthetic oil plants and other vital centres of production in Germany ...
Article : 121 wordsGENERAL MacARTHUR'S HQ, Saturday.—From Manokwari, from Nabire and from all their former strongholds in Geelvink Bay and the upper Vogelkop, the enemy is in full retreat. They are apparently withdrawing towards the south and west in the hope of ultimate evacuation of their ...
Article : 323 wordsMELBOURNE, Saturday.— Of more than 85,000 applications for the release of men from the Army, 45,000 are considered to be urgent, ...
Article : 76 wordsSYDNEY, Saturday.—Federal Supply Minister, Mr. Beasley, said to-day that the Australian Mission to inquire into the production of synthetic ...
Article : 135 wordsMELBOURNE. Saturday.—Allegations by Mr Abbott, MHR, of unfair treatment to returned soldiers will be investigated by the Repatriation ...
Article : 73 wordsPEARL HARBOUR. Saturday.— US forces on Guam have made more substantial gains. The latest US Pacific Fleet ...
Article : 73 wordsLONDON, Saturday.— Allied casualties in France from D.Day to the end of July were 117,000, made up as follows: Britain 39,594, Canada 6545 (910 ...
Article : 34 wordsLONDON, Saturday.—The Air Ministry announces that a 37-year-old Air Commodore has taken over command of the photographic ...
Article : 98 wordsLONDON, Saturday.— The people of England are to-day spending their fifth August Bank Holiday of the war. For most it is "work as usual." ...
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Army News (Darwin, NT : 1941 - 1946), Sun 6 Aug 1944, Page 1
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