Air Vice-Marshal G. Jones, new chief of the Australian Air Staff (second from right) with R.A.A.F. members of the staff of Lieut General George H. Brett, Commander of Allied Air Forces in S.W. Pacific. From left: Group-Capt. C. S. Wiggins, Director of Communications; Wing Commander A. L. Walters, Assistant Director of Operations; Wing-Commander V. E. Hancock, ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 83 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday—Three of the six German prisoners of war who escaped from a Goulburn Valley internment camp ...
Article : 216 wordsLONDON. Sunday—Referring to the fighting in the Crimea, the Berlin communique yesterday stated that German troops ...
Article : 358 wordsALTHOUGH Laval is attempting to inject his views into the discussions between American representatives and the French High Commissioner (Admiral Robert) at Martinique concerning the future of the French West Indies and of warships ...
Article : 627 wordsBRITISH and Indian troops under General Sir Harold Alexander, which have been withdrawing up the Chindwin Valley, are near the Indian frontier. Unconfirmed reports from India previously suggested that they ...
Article : 664 wordsPRESSING strongly for the rights of the State Governments to remain directly in the field of income taxation and company taxation, the Governments of New South Wales and Queensland have both submitted to the ...
Article : 603 wordsWASHINGTON, Sunday. — President Roosevelt has commuted the four-year gaol sentence on Earl Browder, ...
Article : 163 wordsNEW ORLEANS, Sunday.—The Navy Department announced that an enemy submarine torpedoed and sank a large United States cargo ...
Article : 89 wordsARMY preparations for the immediate training of large numbers of glider pilots were disclosed today ...
Article : 70 wordsTHE American concept of military strategy always has been, and will continue to be, offensive," states a progress report on the war by the U.S. Army and Navy. "Sound policy requires concentration of all available ...
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Advertising : 379 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday.—Paying a tribute to the gallantry of Squadron Leader Keith Truscott, D.F.C. and bar, who returned from abroad on ...
Article : 159 wordsLONDON, Sunday—The German[?] controlled Dutch Radio announced that all regular officers and cadets of the former Dutch Army have ...
Article : 99 wordsLONDON, Sunday.—There has been little enemy air activity over England during the past 48 hours. One raider of a small formation was shot ...
Article : 116 words"The Mercury" Special Service. CANBERRA, Sunday.—On April 28 395 letters from Australian prisoners of war in New Guinea were ...
Article : 224 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday.—A. quarry worker was killed another was injured,and one had a narrow escape When a premature explosion took ...
Article : 39 words"SYDNEY, Sunday.—Two Volunteer Defence Corps officers and a sergeant in the American forces were among six persons killed in ...
Article : 94 wordsThe practice of legislating by regulation was the subject of comment by Mr. David Maughan, K.C., president of the Law Council of ...
Article : 237 wordsNEW YORK, Sunday.—Tokio Official Radio reports ratification of an agreement between Manchukuo and Outer Mongolia, ending the border ...
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Advertising : 179 wordsA DOZEN small children were found wandering among ruins in Exeter and Bath.They will never know ...
Article : 65 wordsTHE death took place in Melbourne on Friday after some weeks of illness of Mr. Cecil Francis Parsons, for many years a ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 455 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—"When the burglar is caught with the goods he is not given liberty because he agrees to give back what he has stolen," said ...
Article : 145 wordsWASHINGTON, Sunday —The Navy Department has revealed that tons upon tons bf gold and silver and numerous securities were removed ...
Article : 90 wordsNEW YORK. Sunday.—The "New York Times," commenting on German claims regarding the sinking of a United States cruiser and ...
Article : 93 wordsLONDON, Sunday.—For the first time in more than 20 years Britain's unemployed number fewer than 100,000. There are 55,000 men and ...
Article : 47 wordsDARWIN, Sunday.—It is believed a white man has been killed by aborigines on the coast of North Australia. ...
Article : 103 wordsLONDON, Sunday—The Yugoslav Government in London reports that Italians, Germans, and Croats launched an offensive against ...
Article : 100 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—Allied planes dive-bombed Woolloomooloo while in the same area Voluntary Defence Corps troops fought off an ...
Article : 108 wordsInvestigations to ascertain whether the Colonial Agency in Lisbon might be used as a channel of communication with Australian ...
Article : 73 wordsBeginning today, banks will close at 2 p.m. instead of 3 p.m. The Hour of opening will remain at 10 a.m. This applies to five days of the week ...
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Advertising : 58 wordsLatest donations to the Australian Comforts Fund, Southern Division: Acknowledged. £36,148/19/4; Scotsdale branch. £10: Mrs. H. Taylor, £2; ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Mon 18 May 1942, Page 2
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