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Advertising : 110 wordsR.A.F. bombers flying from Burma, heavily attacked military objectives in Bangkok, capital of Thailand, on Wednesday. Huge fires were seen. All the planes returned. Rangoon, capital of Burma, had an air raid alert on Wednesday ...
Article : 626 wordsJAPANESE artillery is almost within range of Kuala Lumpur, big Communications and tin-mining centre in Selangor State, Malaya. The city has been partly evacuated. ...
Article : 908 wordsMACHINE GUN nest in a sand-bagged cave on the New South Wales Coast, where militiamen have taken up battle positions. This post commands a wide stretch of water, and is typical of the strengthening of our coastal defences since Japan came into the war. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 95 wordsBANDOENG (Java), January 8.—The rescue of 49 members of the crew of an American freighter bombed by the Japanese last week ...
Article : 109 wordsThe Federal Opposition is still urging the Government to amend the Defence Act to enable the militia to be sent abroad in the defence of ...
Article : 377 wordsHighlights of the news from the war fronts last night were:—THAILAND.—R.A.F. makes heavy raid on Bangkok, starting big ...
Article : 188 wordsTHE Japanese now admit that their forces have withdrawn completely from Changsha, capital of the Chinese province of Hunan. Chinese claim that the enemy has lost another 5000 men in an engagement on a river bank. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 497 wordsWASHINGTON, January 8.—A sentence of a year's goal for the theft of a motor tyre is included in a Bill now before Congress. ...
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Advertising : 56 wordsBritish forces are maintaining a relentless attack by sea, land, and air against enemy strongholds between Sollum and Halfaya Pass. The final ...
Article : 244 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.—An important precedent will be established by the War Advisory Council when the newly-appointed High ...
Article : 282 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday.—In future large-scale army manoeuvres, battlefield noises, and the atmosphere will be introduced to accustom troops to ...
Article : 164 wordsBAGDAD, January 8.—A military tribunal sentenced Rashid Ali. former Premier who led the Iraq rebellion last year, to death in his absence. ...
Article : 51 wordsPERTH, Thursday.—Japanese in China were acting like beasts. said Major H. M. Woodland, of the Salvation Army, Shanghai, and formerly of ...
Article : 89 wordsNEW YORK, January 8.—The Department of Agriculture is urging Congress to take immediate action for the production of the Guavule rubber ...
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Advertising : 79 wordsNEW YORK, January 8.—The first issue of a new French weekly, "Pour la Victoire, declares that General de Gaulle now commands an army of ...
Article : 43 wordsNEW YORK, January 8.—Berne correspondent of the New York Times says it is reported from Stockholm that the former Minister to Moscow ...
Article : 80 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday.—An R.A.A.F. communique issued to-night stated: "R.A.A.F. aircraft yesterday bombed the Japanese base at ...
Article : 52 wordsBlack zones on this map represent areas owned or conquered by Japan. In Malaya the occupied area is represented by stripes. Changsha, where the Chinese inflicted a major defeat on the Japanese, is shown in relation to the rest of the Far Eastern war area. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 104 wordsBANDOENG (Java), January 8.—Perhaps the most menaced point of the whole Dutch Empire in the East Indies is Tarakan, a tiny, palm-fringed island, fabulously wealthy in oil, which lies off the north-east coast of Borneo, in a lonely, exposed position. ...
Article : 461 wordsLONDON, January 8.—Reuter's correspondent with the South African forces near Halfaya Pass, says that an Italian medical officer, under a white ...
Article : 114 wordsSINGAPORE, January 8.—With the transfer from Singapore to Java of the supreme direction of the Allies' Far East and Pacific strategy, it is logical ...
Article : 180 wordsNEW YORK, January 8.—The Under Secretary for State (Mr. Summer Welles) and corps advisors will leave Washington on Thursday for Rio de ...
Article : 47 wordsLONDON, January 8.—The R.A.F. made another attack last night on the docks at Brest. There was no enemy activity over Britain. ...
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The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), Fri 9 Jan 1942, Page 1
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