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  3. JAP. RADIO DECLARES "ALL LIFE IN HIROSHIMA SEARED TO DEATH"

    GUAM (A.A.P).—Reconnaissance potographs and a frank story told by Tokio radio show that indescribable havoc was caused when the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on Monday ...

    Article : 615 words
  4. FIGHTING OIL FIRES

    A sticky task, in more ways than one, for Australian soldiers fighting oil well fires at Seria (North-West Borneo). The chemical solution used squirted under this Tasmanian soldier's helmet. He is S./Sgt. M. C. Butler. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 43 words
  5. "FAKED" CARGO ON JAPANESE HOSPITAL SHIP

    Boarded for routine check-up in the Banda Sea in accordance with the Geneva Convention, this Japanese hospital ship was found to be carrying machine guns, ammunition in boxes marked "medical supplies" and other contraband. The ship carried approximately 1500 listed patients. When bandages were examined on some of the alleged patients, no were found. The ship has reached an allied port for further examination. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 78 words
  6. Super-Forts. Continue Blasting Jap. Industry

    GUAM (A.A.P.).—Early yesterday 225 Super-Fortresses, with an escort of Mustangs, struck at the big industrial city of Yawata, on Kyushu. Later 50 Super-Forts. attacked an aircraft factory near Tokio. OVER 1500 tons were dropped on ...

    Article : 254 words
  7. "Greatest Discovery of Any Age"

    Pres. Truman told a Press conference yesterday: "The atomic bomb has raised hopes that we have in our hands the most powerful weapon for war and peace ever devised."IT MEANS a wonderful peacetime ...

    Article : 711 words
  8. MURDER IN STALAG 18A

    Further stories of brutality in German prison camps were told by former Australian Ps.O.W. who have returned to Australia. ...

    Article : 229 words
  9. "HOSPITAL SHIP" BULGED WITH AMMUNITION

    An American prize crew has brought the stinking, crowded Japanese hospital ship, Tachibana Maru, into an Allied port with Red Crosses towering aloft like giant crucifixes and the holds bulging with weapons of war and ammunition under Red Cross ...

    Article : 343 words
  10. END OF WAR MAY COME WITHIN FEW MONTHS

    NEW YORK (A.A.P.).—The "World Telegram" editor, Roy Howard, cabling from Honolulu, says any estimate of the war's early ending is ...

    Article : 389 words
  11. Huge Grant For Cancer Research

    NEW YORK (A.A.P.).—The first application of American industrial research techniques to cancer research is projected by a four million dollar ...

    Article : 227 words
  12. Expect to Free 60,000 P.O.W. Soon

    NEW DELHI (A.A.P.)—General H.Q. in India has issued an order prescribing 42 days' home leave for 60,000 British and ...

    Article : 51 words
  13. ATOMIC ENGINES FOR PLANES

    WASHINGTON (A.A.P.)—The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics has stated that an atomic engine for aircraft is a ...

    Article : 74 words
  14. Touched Down on Japan

    The first Allied airman to touch down on Japan and return to his carrier is Sub-Lieutenant L. G. Simpson, of Staffordshire, England, a ...

    Article : 136 words
  15. Blew Barge Out of Water

    R.A.A.F. COMMAND.—Labuan—based R.A.A.F. rocket—firing Beaufighters sank a 1500-ton Jap. freighter and blew up a barge and 40 ...

    Article : 300 words
  16. BLAST BUMPED PLANE 10 MILES AWAY

    GUAM (A.A.P.).—As the atomic bomb dropped squarely on the centre of Hiroshima on Monday, the Super-Fort. crew which carried it felt a concussion like the close explosion of flak, although they were 10 miles from the target. ...

    Article : 473 words
  17. INDIAN Ps.O.W. OWE RESCUE TO AUSTER'S CHANCE FLIGHT

    MELBOURNE.—After years as Ps.O.W. in Japanese hands, 361 Indian soldiers owed their rescue on Monday to a chance flight of a R.A.A.F. Auster and the keen observation of F./O. L. A. Higgins, of Yarloop, W.A., states the Department of the ...

    Article : 279 words
  18. DIGEST OF THE LEADERS

    THE world is still dazed by the vast array of possibilities opened up by the atomic bomb. Man has discovered a force that ...

    Article : 135 words
  19. NAZIS WERE YEARS BEHIND

    GUAM (A.A.P.)—Brig.-Gen. Thomas Farrell, aide to Maj.-Gen. Leslie Groves, who had charge of atomic bomb development, disclosed yesterday ...

    Article : 128 words
  20. Refugees Flock to Berlin

    BERLIN (A.A.P.).—Six million Germans already on the move from the eastern part of Germany, now under Polish or Czech control, are causing a ...

    Article : 129 words
  21. Coast Clear For Landing Near Foochow

    CHUNGKING (A.A.P.)—The Chinese. High Command announces that Chinese troops have re-occupied Kukiang Island at the mouth of the Min River. ...

    Article : 45 words
  22. TROOPS LEAVE PERSIA

    TEHERAN (A.A.P.)—The Foreign Ministry announces that the British Embassy has transmitted the information that "It was decided at Potsdam ...

    Article : 60 words
  23. GERMAN DESTROYERS IN U.S.

    BOSTON (A.A.P.).—With a swastika flying beneath the Stars and Stripes, two German destroyers manned by volunteer German crews under ...

    Article : 42 words
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