British tanks, which were in action for the first time after their withdrawal from Bangoon, are reported to have driven off Japanese advanced units, 30 miles to the south of Prome, with considerable casualties. ...
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Article : 171 wordsSir Stafford Cripps, broadcasting, said that the British War Cabinet had unanimously agreed to the proposals he had taken to India. The ...
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Article : 258 wordsAlthough outnumbered, our machines accepted combat. A rear gunner shot down one of the enemy fighters for certain, and probably a second, while ...
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Article : 102 wordsThe Kunming correspondent of the United Press says the Japanese used extraordinary measures in a vain endeavour to persuade the captured crew ...
Article : 294 wordsThe wet season in New Guinea will greatly increase the effectiveness of the Australian forces operating there and hamper and restrict certain phases of ...
Article : 453 wordsNaval Flying Lieutenant Edward O'Hare, who single-handedly attacked nine Japanese patrol bombers on February 20 in the South-west Pacific and ...
Article : 54 wordsSpeakers at the States' People's Conference were of the opinion that although people living in the States formed a quarter of India's population, ...
Article : 65 wordsSenator Barkley, Democratic leader in the Senate, to-day said that an organised attempt is being made to intimidate, browbeat and insult Congress ...
Article : 122 words"The Times" Istanbul correspondent states that the general feeling in Turkey, is that momentous decisions will be taken in Bulgaria when King Boris ...
Article : 189 wordsMr. Cecil Brown, In a broadcast after bis arrival from Australia, declared that the inspired leadership of General MacArthur gives the United ...
Article : 296 wordsThe Premier (Nehas Pasha), at the opening of Parliament to-day, said that the Government's policy will be to save Egypt from the horrors of war and ...
Article : 182 wordsA naval officer participant in the St. Nazaire raid revealed that photographs show that the new lockgats is missing and the destroyer ...
Article : 171 wordsThe American Associated Press in recapitulation of the United Nations sea losses in the Atlantic last week gives the total at 22 ships, bringing ...
Article : 109 wordsThe "Daily Mail's" correspondent at Bombay says that the success of Sir Stafford Cripps in winning over Pandit Nehru is probably bis single biggest ...
Article : 188 wordsThe Navy announced that a small United States merchantman had been torpedoed off the Atlantic coast, with the loss of one life. A medium-sized ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Air Ministry states that Sergeant Pilot E. H.Brockhouse, of Mildura, participated in swift moonlight attacks last night on German supply ships off ...
Article : 154 wordsThe Ankara radio says that a British built destroyer was delivered to the Turkish naval authorities at Alexandretta yesterday. This is the second ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Foreign Office announced that China and Egypt were exchanging Ministers in a move toward closer relations between China and all Islamic ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Senate Naval Commitiee to-day summoned Admiral King to giver a [?] report on the measures [?] to combat the submarine menace off the ...
Article : 78 wordsA Boomerang Club for the use of Australian servicemen in England was opened to-day. Comfortably fitted up and camparable to a West End hotel, ...
Article : 201 wordsA substantial reduction in the number of food [?]ommodities provided for members of the [?]ghting forces in Australia has been necessitated by the fact ...
Article : 116 wordsA general told the Inter-American Defence Board to-day that the main purpose of America's military effort "is to gather all our forces for a major ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Minister for Supply (Mr. W. Nash) announced that sugar rationing will commence in New Zealand after Easter. Consumers will be required to ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Justice Department announced that Carl Schroetter, the convicted German spy, committed suicide at the Atlantic Penitentiary yesterday. ...
Article : 27 wordsThis cheerful pilot in the International Squadron of the British R.A.F. comes from the Punjab, India. He is a graduats in Arta, from the University of Lahore, and was in the Indian Air Force before he came to Britain to join the R.A.F.— Common wealth Department of ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 58 wordsThanks have proved of Paramount importance in this war, and Royal Armoured Corps of Britain's Army are training more more men as crews of tanks and Bren gun carriers. This piet shows a British tank crew completing their training.— ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 111 wordsMr. R. G. Casey will see President Roosevelt and the Secretary for Agriculture (Mr. H. A. Wallace) to-morrow, after which he will depart for London. ...
Article : 41 wordsNational Security (Metal Foil and Paper) Regulations issued to-night give formal effect to the new restrictions'on newsprint recently announced ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Prime Minister announced to-day that Mr. R. G. Casey finishes his duties as Australian representative in Washington at midnight to-night. He ...
Article : 48 wordsThe president of the American Federation of Labour (Mr. William seen) protested at the use of General MacArthur's picture in advertisements ...
Article : 77 wordsTo-day's Cairo communique stated: "Our artillery and a British fighting column harassed Axis positions at Ras El Eleba on Saturday night Another ...
Article : 63 wordsTea rations to group consumers, such as tea clubs in business houses, will be made available only to groups existing, before March 29, and only on the ...
Article : 60 wordsAmerican bombers to reinforce the Allied air fleets in the South-west Pacific are being flown from the United States to Australia. ...
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The Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1954), Wed 1 Apr 1942, Page 5
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