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  3. S.E. BORNEO GAINS

    BALIKPAPAN.—Australian troops have captured the Manger airfield, 13 miles east of Balikpapan, and inland have ...

    Article : 256 words
  4. NO RESPITE FROM RAIDS ON JAPAN: OKINAWA AS BASE

    GUAM (A.A.P.).—Gen MacArthur's bombers have raided Japan. The blockade of Japanese home waters and the China coast continues. American ...

    Article : 383 words
  5. AIRSTRIP ON LABUAN

    R.A.A.F. graders, bulldozers and rollers at work on the Labuan airstrip, British North Borneo. The men worked 24 hours a day, often under ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 67 words
  6. GUNNING FOR SNIPERS

    While infanteers take cover behind and Australian tank and a damaged Jap. truck, the Matilda tank's machine gun sprays possible snipers' nests in the surrounding tree-tops. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  7. Return of Refugees Nearing End

    LONDON (B.O.W.).—The gigantic task of locating, registering, housing, feeding and finally repatriating displaced persons is being rapidly cleared away in the Allied zone in Germany and present prospects are that the problem will be ...

    Article : 310 words
  8. MR. FORDE SWORN IN AS P.M.

    CANBERRA.—Mr. Forde, who has been Acting Prime Minister since Mr. Curtin became ill, was yesterday sworn in as Prime Minister of Australia. EXCEPT for the Attorney-General ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 369 words
  9. FORESEES JAP. COLLAPSE

    SAN FRANCISCO (A.A.P).—Lieut.-Gen Holland Smith, commander of the Marines from Tarawa to Iwo-Jima, yesterday ...

    Article : 153 words
  10. RECOGNISE NEW POLISH GOVT.

    LONDON (A.A.P.)—The British and American Governments have announced their formal recognition of the new Polish Government of ...

    Article : 153 words
  11. HEAVY POLL IN BRITAIN

    LONDON (A.A.P.).—Polling in the first general election for 10 years for Britain's 38th Parliament was heavy. ...

    Article : 263 words
  12. FEAR I.R.A. WAVE OF VIOLENCE

    DUBLIN (A.A.P.)—In the Dail on Thursday night the Prime Minister (Mr. de Valera) said he feared a recurrence of murders of police officers ...

    Article : 99 words
  13. Recovery of Lend-Lease

    WASHINGTON (A.A.P.)—The Senate War Investigating Committee, in a report based on the investigation by the Kilgore sub-committee, which ...

    Article : 205 words
  14. Japs. Take Sick From Wake

    GUAM (A.A.P.).—Adm. Nimitz announces that the U.S. Navy permitted a Japanese hospital ship to evacuate 974 ...

    Article : 197 words
  15. "Death March" Mass Graves Found

    LONDON (A.A.P.).—Eight mass graves in the Karlsbad region have been re-opened and the bodies of 930 victims of the Gestapo "death march" ...

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  16. Wool Requisition Plan Ends

    LONDON (A.A.P.)—It is officially stated that the Control of Wool Order, 1939, under which the Minister of Supply could requisition Merino and ...

    Article : 99 words
  17. Civil Servants Lost in Grash

    LONDON (A.A.P.).—The Air Ministry announces that a Transport Command Liberator which left Montreal on Tuesday for London is missing. ...

    Article : 77 words
  18. Gracie Fields to Visit Hobart

    MELBOURNE.—The Lord Mayor (Sir Thomas Nettlefold) announced yesterday that Miss Gracie Fields and her husband, ...

    Article : 147 words
  19. TORTURE OF Ps.O.W.

    LONDON (A.A.P.).—Special army investigators have discovered that at least nine of the 26 men reported missing from ...

    Article : 141 words
  20. Victoria to Share in N.Z. Hay

    MELBOURNE—Victoria will share in the 7500 tons of New Zealand hay to come to Australia. It is understood that the first consignment of 2500 tons ...

    Article : 109 words
  21. Assassination Plot Against MacArthur

    NEW YORK (A.A.P.)—The N.B.C. Manila correspondent reports that seven Japanese snipers and spies were recently executed at Manila, "including ...

    Article : 65 words
  22. SEIZURE OF GREAT CHEMICAL INDUSTRY

    LONDON (A.A.P.)—The U.S. Military Government has seized the great German chemical trust. I. G. Farben Industrie, in the American zone and ...

    Article : 67 words
  23. French Moves. For Levant Solution

    BEIRUT (A.A.P.)—The French Delegate-General in the Levant (Gen. Reynet), with a political adviser, met the Lebancse Foreign Minister (M. ...

    Article : 88 words
  24. END OF SUGAR MILL

    The building of the Keishy sugar mill blow up with the exploding bombs from U.S. Fifth Air Force planes as a rain of leaflets (upper left) from one of the bombers follows the high explosives. Once a source of commercial alcohol for Japan's war machine, the mill will be unserviceable for some time to come. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 61 words
  25. DIFFERENCES IN ADMINISTRATION OF BERLIN

    BERLIN (A.A.P.).—British and American troops in Berlin are seeing for themselves how vast are the differences between the Red Army's administration in the city and that of the Western Allies. ...

    Article : 381 words
  26. Riot Causes Havoc in Aldershot

    LONDON (A.A.P.).—Canadian soldiers ran riot in Aldershot again on Thursday night, surging through the centre of the town for over two hours ...

    Article : 160 words
  27. JAP. ATTACKS ON SITTANG

    COLOMEO (A.A.P.).—Japanese troops are attacking forward British posts in the Sittang River bend, east of Pegu. ...

    Article : 125 words
  28. NEW POST FOR MR. MORGENTHAU

    WASHINGTON (A.A.P.)—President Truman has accepted the resignation of the Treasurer (Mr. Morgenthau). He said yesterday that he would name ...

    Article : 67 words
  29. DIGEST OF THE LEADERS

    AFTER a long delay the Western Allies have occupied a portion of Berlin, but there is as yet no evidence that the United ...

    Article : 128 words
  30. Massive Air, Ground Blows in Pacific Soon

    WASHINGTON (A.A.P.).—"The Japs. will soon feel the force of our increased air and ground strength in the Pacific," the War Secretary (Mr. Patterson) announced yesterday. HE revealed that in six weeks from ...

    Article : 255 words
  31. ENEMY ACTIVITY ON N.S.W. COAST?

    SYDNEY.—Shipping activity in the port of Sydney ceased about 9.30 on Thursday night following reports of enemy activity along the coast. ...

    Article : 82 words
  32. MR. CHURCHILL TO REST BEFORE BERLIN MEETING OF "BIG THREE"

    LONDON (A.A.P.).—Mr. Churchill will shortly be going abroad for a rest before the meeting of the "Big Three," which opens in Berlin in less than three weeks. AN announcement from No. 10 Downing St. said the location of his ...

    Article : 229 words
  33. Bigger Ration for Germans

    LONDON (A.A.P.)—American H.Q. in Germany has announced that the maximum ration for German civilians will be increased from 1150 to 1550 ...

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