ADMIRAL HALSEY, Commander of the US 3rd Fleet, told an Associated Press correspondent that Japan's catastrophic defeat in the second battle of the Philippines had reduced her to a "naval runt" incapable of seriously ...
Article : 415 wordsA marine wounded on Peleliu Island, in the Palau group, east of the Philippines, is lifted on to an ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 43 wordsSIMULTANEOUS with Allied reports that fighting is dying down on the eastern flank of the British salient in Holland, with some of the ground lost in the recent enemy assaults regained, Berlin Radio stated ...
Article : 459 wordsLONDON, Wed. (AAP).—Twenty-five hundred sites in England and Wales capable of accommodating 180,000 houses, already have been ...
Article : 94 wordsLONDON, Wed. (AAP). — Allied 8th Army troops in Italy have strengthened their bridgehead over the Ronco River, and have cleared ...
Article : 141 wordsTOKIO RADIO says the Premier (Gen Koiso), addressing a mass rally at Osaka, urged a greater productive effort, and sahl Japanese officers and men had died for their nation because they had not received sufficient materials. ...
Article : 233 wordsCANBERRA, Wed. — Activities of the Commonwealth Food Control programme are estimated to cost the taxpayer more than £1,000 a ...
Article : 101 wordsTanks and infantry of the US 1st Cavalry Division, now mechanised, drive the Japs from their coastal defence positions on Leyte Island. US Signal Corps picture. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 26 wordsWEDNESDAY.—Rolling across the shell-torn, mud-clogged road from Palo beach-head in the wake of troops racing north over the Leyte ...
Article : 158 wordsAFTER having been enticed to a car parked near his home in Drumalbyn Rd., Bellevue Hill, on the pretext that he was wanted to attend someone ill, Dr Reginald Stuart Jones (42) was "taken for a ride" under American gangster methods early today to Marine Parade, Maroubra, where he was shot through the chest and ...
Article : 469 wordsFires rage on Iwo Jima Island, enemy base in the Volcano Group, 650 miles from Japan, after a bombing attack by ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 39 wordsLONDON, Wed. (AAP).—Reuter's Brussels correspondent says M. Pierlot has summoned a meeting of Cabinet to discuss the situation ...
Article : 147 wordsPreliminary steps in planning the modern mental hospital at New Norfolk will be taken soon when the Minister for Health ...
Article : 121 wordsMELBOURNE. Wed.—Sixty-four new awards to members of the RAAF serving overseas were announced today by the Acting ...
Article : 72 wordsMELBOURNE, Wed.—Armistice Day, Nov. 11, will be observed in Australia as usual. The Prime Minister (Mr Curtin) said today it ...
Article : 115 wordsWELLINGTON (NZ), Wed.—The Conference between representatives of the Australian and New Zealand Governments in the terms of the ...
Article : 114 wordsTHE Munster for Customs (Senator Keane) announced tonight that chinaware including crockery and earthenware ...
Article : 229 wordsSYDNEY, Wed. — A city butcher who overcharged 7d on 11b. of rump steak, was fined £100 by Mr So[?]ing. SM. today. He was placed on ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 48 wordsROME, Wed. (AAP). — The British Foreign Secretary (Mr Eden) arrived in Rome on Monday, and after meeting the Italian Premier left for ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 2 Nov 1944, Page 2
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