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Advertising : 49 wordsWorking under U.S. Army supervision, Chinese labourers dig a hole in the runway of the Kweilin air base for the 1000lb. bomb (in the fore-ground), which is to be used in the destruction of the airfield. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 43 wordsAllied troops have reached the Maas in Holland on a 50-miles front right to the estuary. Tough fighting continues in a ...
Article : 161 wordsLONDON (A.A.P.).—The Allies have reached the Mass River and its estuary on a 50-miles front west of Hertogenbosch except in the immediate areas of the ...
Article : 440 wordsThis is an aerial photo of Manila, capital city of the strategic Philippines. U.S. naval successes against Japanese ships, planes and installations in the philippines during September, 1944, plus American landings in the Moluccas, 300 miles south-east, and in the Palaus 531 miles almost due east, combined to cause Japanese Concern over their chances of holding their stolen island. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 74 wordsLEYTE.— Japanese forces in the Ormoc Bay sector on Leyte are now caught between American troops moving down the valley from Pinamopoan, captured on Saturday, and those moving north from Baybay. ...
Article : 298 wordsLONDON (A.A.P.).—Russian forces are on the outskirts of Budapest, which is in the grip of a reign of terror. Civilians are trying to leave as the Russians bomb and shell German communications and strongpoints. A DESPATCH from Zagreb, which is ...
Article : 529 wordsNEW YORK (A.A.P.).—One Japanese battleship listed as "severely damaged and may have sunk" after the naval battle of the Philippines, may ...
Article : 366 wordsLONDON (A.A.P.).—Himmler has arrested Scheppmann, whom Hitler entrusted with the training of the Volks-sturm (Home Guard), according to a ...
Article : 94 wordsLONDON (A.A.P.).—The U.S. First Army's 200,000th prisoner taken since D-day was a veteran of the Russian front. ...
Article : 33 wordsLONDON (A.A.P.)—After a quiet week the German garrison at Dunkirk endured a hail of bombs, rockets and cannon-fire from R.A.F. Typhoons and ...
Article : 68 wordsROME (A.A.P.).—The port of Marseilles has been repaired, and is already in use. Despite the Germans' widespread demolition the port's facilities ...
Article : 36 wordsROME (A.A.P.).—With an improvement in weather conditions, Fifth and Eighth Army patrols have been very active and local improvements were ...
Article : 94 wordsLONDON (A.A.P.).—Up to dusk on Sunday over 5000 Allied planes struck shattering blows at German war industries and communications in 24 hours. THEN at night R.A.F. Mosquitoes kept ...
Article : 334 wordsLONDON (A.A.P.).—In the seaborne landing on Walcheren Island, near Westkapelle, four out of every five close-support naval craft were lost. ...
Article : 353 wordsMELBOURNE.—Eleven more fatal casualties in H.M.AS. Australia as the result of a Japanese air attack during the initial assault on the ...
Article : 175 wordsJOHANNESBURG (A.A.P.).—Several hundred police were called out to quell a riot in a Johannesburg suburb when 2000 natives began stoning traffic after ...
Article : 61 wordsLONDON (A.A.P.)—"There are concessions the Polish Government is unable to make," declared M. Henryk Strasburger, Minister of State in ...
Article : 105 wordsThe Red Army's assault on Budapest is being hailed as "kicking open the back door of Germany." With Hungary effectively out of the war, the way would be open for a drive on Vienna. ...
Article : 456 wordsNEW YORK (A.A.P.)—Marshal Chiang Kai-Shek, in his first public statement since Gen. Stilwell's withdrawal, sent a ...
Article : 61 wordsLONDON (A.A.P.).—Germans taken prisoner south of Ravenna (Italy) told the Exchange Telegraph Agency correspondent that they were promised ...
Article : 43 wordsCHUNGKING (A.A.P.)—The strategic rail centre of Liuchow is now threatened by the Japanese drive in Kwangsi. ...
Article : 92 wordsLONDON (A.A.P.).—The whole of the Greek-Yugoslav frontier is in the hands of Marshal Tito's troops. Reuters says British troops who are ...
Article : 73 wordsSUVA.—"G for George" is again grounded with an unserviceable radio. This is very galling because we are now less than 10 hours' flying time from ...
Article : 140 wordsPARIS (A.A.P.).—Two women and a man arrested fir sheltering Dr. Petiot told the police that Petiot before the fall of Paris never showed signs of ...
Article : 102 wordsLONDON (A.A.P.).—"Flying bombs may decide the outcome of future wars," said. Sir Miles Thomas, vice chairman of the Nuffield organisation. ...
Article : 87 wordsCHICAGO (A.A.P.).—Nineteen delegates of South American countries at the Chicago aviation conference have opposed the U.S. plan for an executive committee of 15 members to govern the international organisation of commercial aviation. THE delegates formed a bloc, says ...
Article : 392 wordsLONDON—The Bishop of Chelmsford, speaking at the Congress for Friendship and Co-operation with the Soviet Union, in London, said the ...
Article : 95 wordsSOME scientific men reject religion. But the scientific experience of Dr. Alexis Carrel, whose death was announced ...
Article : 79 wordsWASHINGTON (A.A.P.).—In the longest daylight mission by military planes, Super-Fortresses .on Saturday bombed the dockyard and repair facilities of the great Singapore naval base. THE strike was made by a ...
Article : 198 wordsNEW YORK (A.A.P.).—The result of a poll taken by the "Fortune" magazine shows that Pres. Roosevelt will gain 53.6 per cent. of the election votes ...
Article : 79 wordsWASHINGTON (A.A.P.).—The State Department announces that the French Provisional Government has invited President Roosevelt and the Secretary ...
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Examiner (Launceston, Tas. : 1900 - 1954), Tue 7 Nov 1944, Page 1
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