DRIVE ON SINGAPORE. (Continued from Page Five.) the Japanese forces have crossed Perak River and are attacking the British ...
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Article : 406 wordsDue to the army call-up, Victorian schools are experiencing a scarcity of teachers. The permanent staff of the Education Department has lost 1400 ...
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Article : 298 wordsAt midnight last night the war had reached one of the strangest moments since it began. While Japan was confronting the ...
Article : 436 wordsAdmiral Chester Nimitz has arrived to take over the command of the Pacific fleet. ...
Article : 20 wordsMajor General J. M. Wanwright, commanding the forces at Lingayen Gulf, issued a communique at 12.30 p.m. which states: "The Japanese ...
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Advertising : 1,740 wordsA Russian communique states that in the past 10 days' fighting on the Kalinin front the Russians have driven out the Germans from 332 towns and ...
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Article : 53 wordsA two-year-old boy, Graham Benny, of Wynnum, was killed, and eight people injured when two motor cars collided at Wynnum this afternoon. The car driven ...
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Article : 57 wordsTwo hundred New Zealand prisoners were snatched from the enemy in Libya by the daring action of Lieutenant P. L Crane, who has been awarded the ...
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Article : 49 wordsAn air raid warden caught Harry Jaegar standing on a lonely beach alternately flashing a light to sea and peering through high-power binoculars. ...
Article : 70 wordsAlthough there was an appreciable reduction compared with the previous Saturday in the number of racegoers at Albion Park yesterday who sought tram ...
Article : 305 wordsA Navy communique issued at noon states:— Eastern Pacific.—Enemy submarines are still operating on the west coast ...
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Article : 54 wordsRecruiting, which lagged during the week because of the holidays, picked Up yesterday. Sixty-five offered their services for the A.I.F. at Desmond ...
Article : 125 wordsThe Chungking "Central News" reports that Japanese troops are pressing their offensive against Changsha, where an artillery duel is in progress. ...
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Advertising : 66 wordsMalta had 10 air raids in 24 hours. A communique says that the raiders lost one bomber and one fighter, while three bombers and one fighter were ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Motion Picture Operators' Union has bought a 250 dollar defence bond for the first American aviator to bomb Tokio. ...
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The Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1965), Mon 29 Dec 1941, Page 2
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