CANBERRA, Thursday.—Australian prisoners of war in Japanese hands are to be sent £1000 worth of cricketing material by the Australian representative of the World Committee of the YMCA. The shipment will include 100 sets of gear with six balls to ...
Article : 81 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—American troops in France are reported to have entered the river port of Nantes. Other US forces have liberated Le Mans, an important railway centre 110 miles from Paris, and have also surrounded Angers, south of Le Mans. Further wets, General Bradley's men have occupied St. Malo. The ...
Article : 700 wordsPEARL HARBOUR, Thursday.—American forces have captured the whole of Guam, except for a small pocket of opposition of the east coast of the island. This short campaign is at an end, thus giving the Allies another base from which to strike further blows at the enemy in the Pacific. ...
Article : 160 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday. — Among the US troops who landed on Noem[?] Island recently were units composed mainly of Red Indians. They ...
Article : 67 wordsNAPLES, Thursday.— In the southern part of Florence controlled by the Allies 150 Fascists have been rounded up and taken into custody. ...
Article : 83 wordsWASHINGTON, Thursday.— Admiral Don P. Moon, Commander of the naval task force off the Cherbourg Peninsula under Admiral A. C. ...
Article : 62 wordsMOSCOW, Thursday.—The Red Army yesterday inflicted heavy losses on the Germans who are guarding the approaches to East Prussia, and beat off many fierce counter-attacks. The Russians kept up their offensive through Latvia towards the Gulf of Riga and liberated several more places. ...
Article : 256 wordsLONDON, Thursday.— A joint statement issued by Mr Churchill and President Roosevelt discloses the fact that more than 500 U-boats have ...
Article : 128 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—The King has appointed Lieutenant-General C. W. M. Norrie, .CB, DSO, MC and Bar, as Governor of South Australia, in succession to Sir Malcolm ...
Article : 69 wordsLONDON, Thursday.— A tribute to the fine fighting spirit of the British 14th Army in Burma has been paid by The Times in an article ...
Article : 168 wordsCHUNGKING, Thursday.—Japanese troops are reported to have broken into the town of Hengyang, where the Chinese have been ...
Article : 48 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory, Commander in Chief of the Allied air forces in France, said today that there had been a tremendous decline in the morale of the German Air Force. Although they had good aircraft ...
Article : 253 wordsJERUSALEM, Thursday,— Police are searching for three men who attempted to assassinate the High Commissioner of Palestine, Sir" Harold ...
Article : 114 wordsAUCKLAND. Thursday.— Major R. N. Slater, who has returned to New Zealand after being a prisoner of war in Germany since 1941, says the ...
Article : 113 wordsMOSCOW, Thursday. — between the Polish Prime Minister, M. Mikolaczyk, and the Polish Committee of Liberation in Moscow have ...
Article : 70 wordsGENERAL MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTER, Thursday.—Japanese forces in the battlezone around Afua have been encircled and are now threatened with complete destruction. More than 1000 have been killed in the last few days, bringing the enemy's known dead to 7007. For the second time within a few weeks, Liberators from the South-West Pacific area have raided the Philippines. Large fires were started when Allied planes dropped 32 tons ...
Article : 530 wordsLONDON, Thursday.— Japan's announcement, that it will not send its fleet beyond home waters, is the subject of comment by the British ...
Article : 122 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—One of the British units which has been in most of the Normandy fighting is the 11th Armoured Division of the Second ...
Article : 97 wordsCAIRO. Thursday. — The Egyptian Premier, Nahas Pasha, has protested against the British Liberal Party's plan to immigrate Jews from Europe ...
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Army News (Darwin, NT : 1941 - 1946), Fri 11 Aug 1944, Page 1
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