Sunday engaged an enemy four-engined flying-boat. In a 35-minutes running duel the enemy craft suffered serious damage. ...
Article : 1,156 wordsLONDON, May 4.—By wide flanking movements east and west of Mandalay, the Japanese are attempting to set a trap in upper Burma to cut off all retreat by the British and Chinese armies. ...
Article : 1,583 wordsLONDON, May 4.—The next meeting in London of the Pacific War Council is expected to be one of the most important ...
Article : 304 wordsWOLLONGONG, Monday.— "The police have instructions that men in essential industries may be served in hotels after ...
Article : 303 wordsCANBERRA, Monday.—More than 32,000 cattle are on their way from the Kimberleys to slaughtering and canning depots ...
Article : 386 wordsThe Minister of Justice, Mr. Downing, who controls the administration of the Liquor Act, said last night that he had not issued any ...
Article : 45 wordsLONDON, May 4.—Mining quotations:—Zinc Corporation, ordinary, 32/6; Zinc Corporation, pref., 66/3; Electrolytic Zinc, ordinary, 23/9; ...
Article : 34 wordsCANBERRA, Monday —"If something cannot be left to the Premiers, there ought not to be Premiers," the Prime Minister, ...
Article : 164 wordsLONDON, May 4 (A.A.P.).—It is authoritatively stated that the British and Chinese forces in Burma are slowly retreating. ...
Article : 151 wordsMELBOURNE,Monday.—It is believed that the Government is contemplating restriction of production of commodities such as wheat, apples ...
Article : 88 wordsMELBOURNE, Monday.—"After three years of war, bets and booze are the only two businesses in Australia that are carrying on pretty much as ...
Article : 95 wordsCANBERRA, Monday.—Retail prices for tea sold in lots of less than one pound are fixed by an order published to-night in the ...
Article : 262 wordsLONDON, May 4 —Two enemy ships vere damaged when an Australian Hampden squadron raided Norway last night. ...
Article : 157 wordsTokyo Radio quotes the Dome[?] News Agency as claiming that Japanese bombers "scored devastating hits" on Horn Island (air base for ...
Article : 116 wordsBROKEN HILL, Monday.—A dispute, which had threatened to lead to a second beer strike in Broken Hill has been ended by the decision of ...
Article : 173 wordsMonday.—Japanese forces that advanced up the Markham Valley and then returned to Lae are considered to have been ...
Article : 227 wordsHONOLULU, May 4 (A.A.P.).— Lieutenant-Qeneral Delos Emmons warned 3,500 air raid wardens here that the strategic location and ...
Article : 59 wordsLONDON, May 4 (A.A.P.).—It is officially announced that more than 1,250,000 tons of Axis merchant shipping has been sunk in the ...
Article : 181 wordsThe first three days of this month were among the hottest Sydney has ever experienced in May, and, when the glass stood ...
Article : 213 wordsLONDON, May 4 (A.A.P.).— General Giraud, commander of the Ninth French Army in 1940, who escaped from a German ...
Article : 177 wordsWASHINGTON, May 4 (A.A.P.).— "Gallant American soldiers again rescued the flag at Corregidor (the Island fortress in Manila Bay, ...
Article : 189 wordsLONDON, May 4 (A.A.P.).—King Feisal the Second of Iraq, had a happy surprise for his seventh birthday yesterday. After a message had ...
Article : 73 wordsWhen the body of Sydney Herbert Butler, 86, was found in a room of the Four-in-Hand Hotel, Paddington, yesterday morning, police suspected ...
Article : 158 wordsSuch of the oversea news in this issue as is headed "From Our Own Correspondent" or "Herald Exclusive Service" is from a service owned end controlled entirely by "The Sydney ...
Article : 171 wordsPolice early this morning were investigating an assault on a man who was found lying unconscious in Langly Street, Darlinghurst, with severe head ...
Article : 38 wordsH. Triggs, a seaman fell from his ship in the harbour last night and was drowned. The body was taken to the Morgue. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 5 May 1942, Page 5
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