German tank losses in the last week's fighting are described as "greater than we dreamed." The enemy's heaviest casualties were inflicted on September 2 and 3 by Allied artillery fire unprecedented in desert warfare.The New Zealand ...
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Article : 174 wordsThe men of the Queensland battalion who [?]it the Germans with a swift, hawk-like raid last Tuesday have been given a brief ...
Article : 1,027 wordsReconnaissance aircraft over Breamen at 10a.m. found large fires still burning in the commercial centre en both sides of the river. ...
Article : 293 wordsThe Federad Bureau of Investigation Director (Mr. Edgar Hoover) disclosed that three men have been arrestad, of whom one was a former ...
Article : 155 wordsAt Stalingrad our Allies are still holding firm after another day and night of ceaseless German attacks. The latest messages state that the situation remains very grave, as the enemy is still bringing up reinforcements and, in spite of ...
Article : 241 wordsBy the overthrow of Senor Suner, the dismissed Foreign Minister in General Franco's Spanish Government the Spanish generals ...
Article : 245 wordsPresident Roosevelt is expected to issue a drastic order on Monday, limiting wages, salaries, and prices of farm products, says the ...
Article : 267 wordsTo-day's Cairo communique states that during Friday patrols in the northern sector of the E1 Alamein front were continued. Yesterday in the southern ...
Article : 117 wordsR.A.F. bombers were over Germany last night. The main target was Bremen, which had its 99th raid of the war. ...
Article : 590 wordsThe situation south-west of Stalingrad is becoming increasingly grave, according to dispatches from Moscow Axis reports, while admitting that the ...
Article : 855 wordsThe United Press says that reports received from sources inside Germany estimate that 4,200,000 Germans have been killed or ...
Article : 64 wordsAn Orissa communique states that Se[?] armed with lathis attacked police barracks on August 26. The police fired, killing one ...
Article : 63 wordsMoscow radio says that Russian planes last night, in difficult weather, started 33 fires at Budapest and 24 at Koenigsberg. Thirty raiders ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Associated Press correspondent in the Western Desert says the New Zealanders' attack on September 3 was a powerful raid. They took a number ...
Article : 113 wordsBrisk fighting, in which British infantry, as well as tanks, artillery, and planes were engaged, continued yesterday in the Western Desert south of ...
Article : 381 wordsNews agency reports from Moscow say that the German penetration southwest of Stalingrad was halted after one of the bloodiest battles of the war, ...
Article : 167 wordsAir activity over the battle area was reduced yesterday, although bombers and fighter-bombers carried out successful attacks against transport Allied ...
Article : 53 wordsFighting in Egypt through the day continued to move westward and it has been ascertained that the enemy is withdrawing portion of the material ...
Article : 246 wordsRecent travellers' tales about condition in Germany are apt to give a wrong impression. Despite food shortages and some war weariness, ...
Article : 356 wordsOne man was wounded when police returned the fire of gunmen who fired on a police car in Belfast last night A gun battle between police and ...
Article : 170 wordsA German communique claims that the Germans on the Stalingrad front took many stubbornly defended recently built forts. Strong Russian ...
Article : 140 wordsA German official spokesman told correspondents that dispatches to the War Ministry show that the Germans had penetrated three south-western ...
Article : 288 wordsThe Japanese are paying an exorbitant rent for their occupation of the Western Aleutian Islands. Alaska. Military quarters in Washington ...
Article : 149 wordsThe Chinese forces in Kwangtung continue their southward drive, and are now attacking Sunki, only 15 miles north of Canton, says the Chinese ...
Article : 89 wordsSenator Lodge, who served as army observer in.the tank battle in Libya, writing in the American Magazine, said that his experience there ...
Article : 371 wordsTravel by road and rail in Britain will be further restricted this winter to make room for the growing volume of military and other essential traffic ...
Article : 88 wordsA report from Lisbon says that a big fire broke out [?] the British-owned wolfram mine near Fundao, the cause of which has not been ascertained. ...
Article : 54 wordsAn order is being enforced on September 6 under which it will be an offence to destroy or throw away waste rubber. Maximum penalties are £500. ...
Article : 44 wordsFive British planes have been shot down over French Morocco in five days, reports Vichy radio. Hardly a day has passed lately ...
Article : 62 wordsThe body of the Duke of Kent is being re-buried in the Royal family's private cemetery at Windsor Castle at the wish of the Duchess of Kent, who ...
Article : 78 wordsA Navy communique states that the United States destroyer Blue, and the small auxiliary transport Colhoun, have been sunk during the past ...
Article : 76 wordsEight American war correspondents have been killed, 17 wounded or injured. and three reported missing in the three years of warfare, according ...
Article : 42 wordsA military truck containing [?]4 soldiers capsized into a culvert In Stanleyterrace. South Brisbane, last night. One man-suffered from a dislocated shoulder, ...
Article : 57 wordsA message from Lisbon states that an engagement occurred on September off Sines between British ships. U-boats, British and German planes. Heavy ...
Article : 40 wordsIceland suffered its first air raid c[?]ties when a Focke-Wulf dropped a bomb on the east coast injuring four chfidren. There was no military damage. ...
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The Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1954), Mon 7 Sep 1942, Page 5
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