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Advertising : 264 wordsGUAM (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 ...
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Article : 254 wordsPres. 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 wordsFurther stories of brutality in German prison camps were told by former Australian Ps.O.W. who have returned to Australia. ...
Article : 229 wordsAn 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 ...
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Article : 227 wordsNEW 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 wordsWASHINGTON (A.A.P.)—The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics has stated that an atomic engine for aircraft is a ...
Article : 74 wordsThe first Allied airman to touch down on Japan and return to his carrier is Sub-Lieutenant L. G. Simpson, of Staffordshire, England, a ...
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Article : 300 wordsGUAM (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 wordsMELBOURNE.—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 wordsTHE world is still dazed by the vast array of possibilities opened up by the atomic bomb. Man has discovered a force that ...
Article : 135 wordsGUAM (A.A.P.)—Brig.-Gen. Thomas Farrell, aide to Maj.-Gen. Leslie Groves, who had charge of atomic bomb development, disclosed yesterday ...
Article : 128 wordsBERLIN (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 wordsCHUNGKING (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 wordsTEHERAN (A.A.P.)—The Foreign Ministry announces that the British Embassy has transmitted the information that "It was decided at Potsdam ...
Article : 60 wordsBOSTON (A.A.P.).—With a swastika flying beneath the Stars and Stripes, two German destroyers manned by volunteer German crews under ...
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Examiner (Launceston, Tas. : 1900 - 1954), Thu 9 Aug 1945, Page 1
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