VIRGIL REILLY, Sunday Telegraph artist, airmailed these two sketches this week from Morc[?] (Halmaheras). Portrait on left is of young Svenneke Stelma, who, while interned in a Japanese prison camp, was forced by the sadistic Jap (right) to stand with four of her companions for five days and five nights. Hungry, they had dared to go beyond the boundaries of the compound to search for coconuts. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 152 wordsORANGE, Sat. -- Combined metal trades unions are considering taking over Orange Small Arms Factory, Mr. Tom Lee, president of the combined unions, said yesterday. ...
Article : 960 wordsHOBART, Sat. -- Soon after the body of Evelyn Maugham, 7, was found in an old Hobart cemetery, a man was arrested on a murder charge. He is Frederick Henry ...
Article : 334 wordsADELAIDE, Sat. -- Police were told today that a shop in Norwood had sold bayonets to young children ...
Article : 88 wordsLord Louis Mountbatten would not allow any Japanese guilty of atrocities or ill- treatment to go unpunished, ...
Article : 234 wordsMELBOURNE, Sat. -- The Army has refused permission to the War Damage and War Disposals Commission to visit Borneo on their tour of Pacific war ...
Article : 89 wordsA girl baby, believed to be less than two days old, was abandoned at Scarba Welfare House for Children, Wellington Street, Bondi, early yesterday ...
Article : 53 wordsThree boys tell from a jetty into the water at Cronulla yesterday when they became excited over an aeroplane being "shot up" during a War Loan rally. The aeroplane "shot up" was ...
Article : 153 wordsDr. Adolph Solansky, Consul-General for Czechoslovakia, and Mrs. Solansky left Penrith Hospital yesterday for their home at Point Piper, where they ...
Article : 45 wordsBRISBANE, Sat. -- Answering an urgent call from an American Liberty ship, a Catalina flying-boat on Friday picked up a sick American soldier from ...
Article : 52 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1931 - 1954), Sun 7 Oct 1945, Page 5
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: