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  2. WOMEN SOLDIERS

    The "Daily Mirror" says that Sir Dar J. J. Singh, President of the India League in America, in a statement said that the Japanese drive ...

    Article : 138 words
  3. TWO SOVIET BREAK-THROUGHS

    The Russians within an hour last night announced two massive break-throughs toward Central Europe and the Balkans, says Reuter's correspondent. Stalin's Orders of-theDay revealed that Marshal Zhukov's troops, driving into the ...

    Article : 221 words
  4. TURKISH CHROME.

    Exports of Turkish chrome to Britain during the last few months have decreased, but on the other hand exports to Germany have increased. ...

    Article : 142 words
  5. FIERCE AIR BATTLES.

    Fierce air battles were fought out an April 8 when a strong force of U.S. Fortresses and Liberators from the Eighth Air Force ...

    Article : 450 words
  6. BEATING JAPANESE.

    The "New York Times" correspondent (Frank Kl[?]khohn) at New Gulnea headquarters says: "You can get "odds on" bets in ...

    Article : 384 words
  7. POWERFUL PACIFIC STRIKES

    The most powerful striking force ever assembled in the Pacific carried out the recent attacks on Palau Islands and the Western Carolines, said a naval spokesman at Pearl Harbour. For a debit of 25 planes and 18 aircraft personner lost, the ...

    Article : 222 words
  8. DRIVE ON IMPHAL.

    Japanese pressure on the Imphal Allied base in Manipur State, in India, near the Burma frontier, continues, and a Tokio ...

    Article : 235 words
  9. NOT RECOGNISED.

    The United States is not prepared to recognise General de Gaulle and the French Committee of National Liberation as the ...

    Article : 214 words
  10. FIRMLY ESTABLISHED.

    The "Pravda" war correspondent says: "The Russians, despite terrible weather conditions, are firmly established beyond the Pruth River. An ...

    Article : 135 words
  11. STORY OF DAMAGE.

    Palau Islands were attacked on March 29-30, Yap and Ulithi Islands on March 30 and Woleai Island on March 31. The damage to enemy surface ...

    Article : 303 words
  12. TERRIFIC LOSSES.

    The Associated Press correspondent at Washington says the Chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee (Mr. Andrew ...

    Article : 131 words
  13. LONG FIGHT.

    A R.A.F. Coastal Command Mosquito carried out a long-range reconnaissance flight, covering all of Germany's Baltic ports as far ...

    Article : 130 words
  14. PATROL CLASHES

    A communique from Allied headquarters in Italy states: "There were numerous patrol clashes in which casualties were inflicted and prisoners ...

    Article : 317 words
  15. PONAPA COMBED.

    A Pacific fleet communique states "Mitchells bombed Ponape on April. 6, hitting the airfields and the bauxite works. Flak was moderate. Dauntlesses, ...

    Article : 74 words
  16. BIG GROUPS SURROUNDED.

    The Red Army is "running rings" round the Germans in South Russia. It has surrounded three big groups and, sweeping round like a sickle, has cut ...

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  17. CONTINENTAL RAIDS.

    It is officially stated that Marauders, escorted by Thunderbolts, on the afternoon of April 8 attacked the railway centre of Hasselt, in Belgium, and the ...

    Article : 113 words
  18. FEDERAL CABINET.

    Drastic reorganisation of the Federal Cabinet, including the introduction of at least one new Minister, is expected soon after. Mr. Curtin ...

    Article : 385 words
  19. HAWKER TORNADO

    First details have been officially revealed of a British single-engined fighter with the greatest speed ever announced, but which has not yet been in action. It ...

    Article : 141 words
  20. AUSTRALIANS PRAISED.

    Under the shadow of Shaggy Ridge, the scene of the most bitter fighting in the Finisterre Range, decorations were yesterday presented to members of a ...

    Article : 176 words
  21. ALLIED COUNTER-ATTACKS.

    A South-east Asia communique says that the Japanese are maintaining the pressure on the outskirts of Kohima. We successfully counter-attacked ...

    Article : 118 words
  22. LUFTWAFFE LOSSES.

    U.S.A.A.F. announces that Liberators attacking Brunswick on Saturday shot down 60 enemy planes. Our fighters in the operations against Germany on ...

    Article : 95 words
  23. PENICILLIN PLANTS

    Twenty-one new plants in the United States and Canada, costing 20,000,000 dollars will soon be making nine pounds of penicillin monthly, an amount sufficient ...

    Article : 113 words
  24. REDUCING STRENGTH

    The Federal Government's recent re-assessment of the man-power posi[?]ion will result in a reduction in strength in the Australian army of ...

    Article : 229 words
  25. CANADA'S IMPATIENCE.

    The "New York Times" Ottawa correspondent says the anniversary of Vimy Ridge brought into the forefront the impatience of the Canadian ...

    Article : 177 words
  26. BITTER ARTILLERY DUEL.

    The Associated Press representative at Allied headquarters in Italy states that the bitter artillery duel along the stalemated Italian front continued ...

    Article : 128 words
  27. CIVIL AVIATION.

    The Lord Privy Seal (Lord Beaverbrook), presiding at a Press conference given by Mr. A. A. Berle, said the British and American ...

    Article : 140 words
  28. SPANISH "STALEMATE"

    The "Herald Tribune's" Washington correspondent says the State Department has dispatched the chief of its Spanish division. Mr. William George, on a ...

    Article : 115 words
  29. BASIC WAGE FIXING.

    The fixing of the basic wage by Parliament instead of by the Commonwealth Arbitration Court was favoured by the conference of the City branch of the ...

    Article : 140 words
  30. JAPANESE ESTIMATE

    The German overseas news agency's Tokio correspondent estimates the strength of the British Fleet in the Indian Ocean at seven to eight ...

    Article : 98 words
  31. JOBS FOR OFFICERS.

    The R.A.F. is asking officers who wish to remian in the service after the war to apply for permanent commissions, states the "Sunday ...

    Article : 88 words
  32. FILMS EXPLODE

    When films exploded while being placed into a portable biograph at the Seventh. Day Adventist Hall at Warburton last night, 250 persons, including ...

    Article : 249 words
  33. ALLIED AIR OFFENSIVE.

    An Air Ministry communique states: "Bomber Command Mosquitoes last night attacked Essen and other objectives in west and north-west ...

    Article : 92 words
  34. HUGE U.S. ARMY.

    The war Department has announced that the U.S Army has reached its planned strength of 7,700,000 selective service inductions. "However." he said, "we ...

    Article : 76 words
  35. PLAGUE OF LOCUSTS.

    It is now disclosed that the Sudan East Africa, Arabia, North India and Persia have just defeated the worst invasion of locusts since 1929. The ...

    Article : 85 words
  36. GIVE POWER TO SON.

    The former Italian Foreign Minister (Count Sforza) at a meeting of combined anti-Fascist leaders, demanded that King Victor Emanuel delegate his powers to ...

    Article : 72 words
  37. NEW GERMAN TAXES LIKELY.

    The German Minister of Finance (von Krosigk) over the Berlin radio warned the Reich that new taxation is likely in order to ward off inflation. ...

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  38. SERVICE CASUALTIES.

    Speaking at the A.L.P. conference to-day the Minister for the Army (Mr. F. M. Forde) gave a statement on the casualties of the R.A.N., A.M.F. and ...

    Article : 105 words
  39. HELP RED ARMY.

    General Ingr. Czechoslovak Minister for Defence, leas than two hours after Stalin's Order-of-the-day, broadcast from London over the B B.C's. service to ...

    Article : 86 words
  40. GHASTLY BOOBY TRAPS

    Colonel Sladen Bradley, who commanded the infantry regiment in the Saidor landing in January, said the Japanese were using the bodies of ...

    Article : 83 words
  41. SWEDES DENY HELPING GERMANY.

    The Swedish Government has flatly denied a report that Swedish experts were sent to Schweinfurt to help to repair the ball-bearing factories after ...

    Article : 38 words
  42. ENGLISH COAST

    Approximately two-thirds of England's coastline are included in the newlyregulated areas. The only unrestricted parts of the coast now are the coasts of ...

    Article : 84 words
  43. THREE YOUTHS KILLED.

    Three youths, Lewis Mills Reilly (19), Edgecliffe, Norman James Everingham (18), Concord, and Brian William Williamson (19), Kensington, ...

    Article : 47 words
  44. SEEKS THE IMPOSSIBLE.

    Tokio radio osays that after inspection of a munitions works General Tojo said: "You are undoubtedly doing your best but you must exert an ...

    Article : 55 words
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