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Advertising : 26 wordsUS Army bombers carried out last month's air raids on Tokio and other Japanese cities, the War Department has disclosed ...
Article : 378 wordsWarm approval of Mr Churchill's blunt warning to Hitler about the use of poison gas is expressed by London newspapers. New York papers comment favourably on his speech generally. ...
Article : 580 wordsFAREWELL DINNER TENDERED TO SIR OWEN DIXON, AUSTRALIAN MINISTER TO USA, by Mr W. S. Wosserman, leader of US Lease-Lend Mission in Australia, at the Athenaeum Club last night. Listening to Sir Owen Dixon speaking are (left to right): Mr Curtin, Prime Minister; Mr Wasserman, and Mr L. J. Hartnett, Director of Ordnance Production. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 55 wordsThis is the first mention of activity against enemy submarines made in any communique. Attacks were made on Sunday, after the main battle had ended. No mention of Japanese submarines was made in any report of the battle ...
Article : 355 wordsMalta's defences gave Axis raiders their most severe mauling of the war at the weekend, when 71 enemy planes ...
Article : 188 wordsMandalay has again become a centre of fighting. Chinese troops are reported by a Chungking spokesman to be closing on the devastated city from the cast and the west. It is believed, however, that the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 649 wordsGerman officials now recognise that the Japanese suffered a serious setback in the Coral Sea engagement, says New ...
Article : 267 wordsIt betrays no secret to say that our resources are perfectly capable of implementing Mr Churchill's warning at short notice if it became ...
Article : 225 wordsBRISBANE, Mon: Sufficient war planes and AA batteries are now placed in Queensland strategical areas to give a hot reception to ...
Article : 255 wordsVichy reports describing the operations in northern Madagascar at their inception say that the British used 2 tank ...
Article : 215 wordsA great striking force is being built up in the British Isles, declared Lord Halifax, British Ambassador, in a broadcast to ...
Article : 136 wordsAsama, largest active volcano, 85 miles from Tokio, has begun the greatest eruption for years, says Berlin Radio. Cinders fell ...
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Advertising : 197 wordsWar Department announces the opening of a school to train army officers to govern conquered territories. ...
Article : 76 wordsCANBERRA, Mon: The Government has secured consent of Mr Justice W. F. L. Owen, of NSW Supreme Court, to act ...
Article : 230 wordsTokio Official Radio quotes a report from Nichi Nichi Shimbun that 2 US submarines and 4 patrol vessels fought to prevent the Japanese ...
Article : 73 wordsGermans are drawing on air reserves to meet RAF daylight sweeps over France. Some pilots in recent operations have encountered E-type ...
Article : 78 wordsA message from Paramaribo capital of Dutch Guiana, states that 37 survivors of a Brazilian ship torpedoed in neighbouring waters landed ...
Article : 109 wordsFuture action of these soldiers, back from service [?] abroad, will be defence ot their homeland. They were photographed on arrival in Melbourne yesterday. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 28 wordsAn enemy raider bombed an East Anglian coastal village on Sunday night. Some cottages were damaged, but there ...
Article : 60 wordsIncreasing tempo of aerial warfare north of Australia and punishment inflicted on the Japanese invasion fleet in the Coral Sea by Allied ...
Article : 165 wordsFire considerably damaged Lord Beaverbrook's house. Cherkley Court at Leatherhead. Surrey. Lord Beaverbrook himself was the first to ...
Article : 76 wordsBerlin quotes a Vichy source as stating that Marshal Petain has released 500 political prisoners. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tue 12 May 1942, Page 1
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