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Advertising : 48 wordsMap of South-West Pacific zone, showing New Guinea and Solomon Islands area, where a big sea and air battle is taking place between Allied and Japanese forces. The latest Japanese landing is reported to be at Milne Bay on the extreme south-eastern tip of New Guinea. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 49 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—While the German pressure against Stalingrad and the Volga River has not been eased and the city is still gravely threatened, there is news to-day of a powerful Russian counter-offensive west and ...
Article : 1,217 wordsHuge crowds gathered at a West Coast shipping yard in the United States for he launching of a new cargo vessel which went down the slips in the record time of 57 days after its keel had been laid. This was the fifteenth boat sent out from the same yards in 30 days. Since the launching of this ship a new record has been established. Two steel cargo ships were launched simultaneously this week at the Pacific ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 117 wordsWASHINGTON, Wednesday.—A second communique dealing with the great naval and air battle in the Solomons area revealed to-day that six more Japanese ships have ...
Article : 418 wordsSOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, Thursday.—Before dawn yesterday, Japanese ground troops from a small convoy landed at Milne Bay in south-east Papua. Allied troops anticipated the move and are now in contact with the enemy. Results of the fighting are not yet ...
Article : 836 wordsCHUNGKING, Thursday.—Chinese armies. are continuing their victorious march in Chekiang Province. They are ...
Article : 270 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.—Some observers think major changes in the whole organisation and character of the ...
Article : 280 words"Our boys in Australia feel they are getting good equipment and are not at all dow-hearted." Thus spoke ...
Article : 125 wordsAUCKLAND (N.Z.), Thursday—When a tornado struck the town of Kaitaia, North Auckland, it left a trail of destruction ...
Article : 127 wordsCAIRO, Thursday.—The desert lull was broken yesterday by a smashing raid by New Zealand troops against strongly ...
Article : 271 wordsVICHY, Wednesday.—Laval and Petain have issued a decree dissolving the French Senate and the Chamber of Deputies as permanent bodies, which ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Navy announced to-day that a medium-sized U.S merchantman has been torpedoed and sunk early in August in ...
Article : 101 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—It is revealed now that one of the 15 occupants of the Duke of Kent's Sunderland flying boat, which crashed in lonely Scottish highlands on Tuesday afternoon, survived but was seriously injured. The Duke himself was thrown clear and killed instantly. ...
Article : 637 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.—The Norwegian Air Force announced that a total of 14 enemy planes were destroyed by Norwegians in the raid on ...
Article : 84 wordsA women and her eight children were killed when an Anderson shelter received a direct hit during an enemy raid last ...
Article : 59 wordsIF, as seems likely, the Japanese are soundly beaten in the struggle now taking place, the Pacific war will not, of course, be ...
Article : 160 wordsLeft to right: Winston Chruchill, British Prime Minister, Joseph Stalin, Russian leader, and Averill Harriman, representative of President Roosevelt, shown in Moscow in conference on the future conduct of the war. Mr. Churchill flew from London, stopping at Cairo to ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 58 wordsRIO DE JANEIRO, Wednesday—All of the nine South American countries have now granted non-belligerency rights to Brazil, meaning that Brazil may use ports and aerodrome facilities as in peace-time. In addition, Uruguay has announced her intention to ...
Article : 238 wordsOHAMA. Thursday.—A convict. Harry Justice, has sent a letter to the Government suggesting the formation of an army division consisting entirely ...
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Examiner (Launceston, Tas. : 1900 - 1954), Fri 28 Aug 1942, Page 1
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