MOSCOW, Friday.—M. Leon Blum, former Socialist Premier of France, is reported by the Red Star to have died last year in a notorious Nazi extermination camp in Poland. Asked why he had not attempted to escape from the Germans ...
Article : 87 wordsLONDON, Friday.—The latest communique from France announces the complete occupation of Nantes and Angers by the Americans, who now control the 50-mile stretch of country between the two places along the Loire River. There have been no reports today of other US troops who are pushing towards Paris. In Brittany, there ...
Article : 624 wordsNAPLES, Friday.— A communique from Allied Headquarters in Italy refers to the serious position of civilians in some sections of Florence. ...
Article : 123 wordsNAPLES, Friday.—Polish and Italian troops have pushed forward another two miles in their drive north of Ancona on the Adriatic coast and have ...
Article : 107 wordsLONDON, Friday.— All Allied airborne troops in France have been placed under one command to consolidate glider forces and ...
Article : 83 wordsPHILADELPHIA, Friday.— The main cause of the recent transportation strike in Philadelphia was a proposal to promote negro employees of the ...
Article : 97 wordsKANDY, Friday.— Latest despatches say that the Japanese are in retreat along the Imphal-Tiddim Road. Enemy rearguard troops have been ...
Article : 59 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—American Super Fortresses, based in China, have again raided the Japanese homeland and bombed the big shipbuilding centre of Nagasaki. This information was picked up this morning from Tokio Radio by a Department of Information listening post. ...
Article : 354 wordsLONDON. Friday. — The Victoria Cross has been awarded to two British soldiers who sacrificed their lives by charging German machinegun posts ...
Article : 102 wordsLONDON, Friday.— In one of the most daring air operations of the war, RAF Mosquitoes mined Germany's vital Dortmund canal on ...
Article : 102 wordsLONDON, Friday.— There was an official reception in London last night for members of the Czechoslovakian Government who expect to leave ...
Article : 75 wordsMOSCOW, Friday.—Fierce battles continued yesterday on the three main sectors of the Russian front—in the Baltic States, on the approaches to East Prussia and in central Poland. One thousand German tanks were destroyed in the day's fighting and much equipment captured. ...
Article : 303 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.— The Allied Works Council has stopped conscripting workers for the Civil Construction Corps. ...
Article : 57 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday:— The censorship inquiry ended in Melbourne to-day and it is expected that the Royal Commissioner, Sir William Webb, ...
Article : 187 wordsWASHINGTON, Friday.— Major General J. R. Deane, who has arrived in America after 10 months in Russia as chief of the American Military Mission, said ...
Article : 48 wordsLONDON. Friday.—The German Propaganda Minister, Dr. Goebbels, in a broadcast from Berlin, said that his new drastic labour decree had been brought in ...
Article : 44 wordsGENERAL MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Friday.—All enemy resistance in the Driniumor-Afua sector of British New Guinea has ceased. Remnants of the Japanese demoralised forces which escaped the Allied encircling movements are fleeing south towards the Torricelli Mountains, or trying to make their way back to Wewak. This crushing defeat has destroyed the combat effectiveness of General Adachi's 18th Army. Its casualties in ...
Article : 431 wordsCHUNGKING, Friday.— It has been officially announced that Hengyang has fallen to the Japanese, and that the Chinese garrison fought so ...
Article : 111 wordsLONDON, Friday. —After a lull of 24 hours more flying bombs have appeared over southern England, including the London area. ...
Article : 62 wordsLONDON, Friday.— Lieutenant Colonel A. Wilson, director of the American WAC in London, said yesterday that 3000 WACs will be moved to France soon to ...
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Army News (Darwin, NT : 1941 - 1946), Sat 12 Aug 1944, Page 1
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