WASHINGTON.— The desperate Japanese resistance on Lwo Jima, where the bloody fighting is now apparently drawing to an end, has strengthened the opinion long held by many competent observers in the United States that the most costly Pacific operations have yet to come. These may last years, some observers predict. The Vice-Chairman of the War ...
Article : 591 wordsBOYS AND GIRLS of the SMCIYC (San Min I Youth Corps), China's youth organisation, do a thousand and one different war jobs. They also keep themselves fit by physical exercises and training so that they will be strong in battle and so that they will be ready to build a new China when the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 77 wordsLONDON.—Reports from Stockholm say that Berliners are convinced that Hitler has completed plans to use gas as a "last secret weapon." A special correspondent of the Sunday Chronicle in Stockholm, says ...
Article : 226 wordsSYDNEY.—Water and irrigation schemes to be constructed after the war at a cost of many millions of ponds have been approved by the ...
Article : 196 wordsWASHINGTON.—Surprise has 'been expressed in Washington that Mr R. G. Menzies and other internationally-known Australians have not been, included in the delegation to the San Francisco conference. No Australian visitor since the war has impressed the United States like Mr. Menzies, and ...
Article : 357 wordsMELBOURNE.—Hawn from thick jungle at Majaraka, about 30 miles from Torokina, on Bougainville Island, is the Vernon Airstrip. It ...
Article : 117 wordsLONDON.—A Bucharest message says that Prince Stirbey has agreed to form a Government believed to be as a result of a special request ...
Article : 65 wordsOTTOWA.—The Prime Minister, Mr. Mackenzie King, announced that a short session of Parliament would begin on March 19, says Canadian ...
Article : 82 wordsLONDON.—Instead of the time-worn "Watch on the Rhine," the German propaganda machine's reaction to the west front disaster ...
Article : 111 wordsNEW YORK.—Major General Willis Hale has been appointed acting commander of Army Air Forces in the Pacific Ocean area, replacing Lieutenant ...
Article : 47 wordsLONDON.—The Australian Air Vice-Marshal H. V. Champion de Crespingny, DFC, has joined the British Labour Party and will be available as a candidate at the next elections. He is new to politics, but his friends say that he will do well in Parliament. He comes from Victoria. ...
Article : 293 wordsCANBERRA.—Because of shipping shortages, it is unlikely that there will be any large-scale repatriation of Itlalian war prisoners from ...
Article : 60 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Two famous Australian bombers—the Lancaster G for George, and a Beaufort which has completed 132 ...
Article : 70 wordsLODON.—Those attending Earl Lloyd George are having to practise a number of innocent deceits on their patient to maintain his ...
Article : 157 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.—Airletter cards were more popular than ever, the Postmaster-General, Senator Cameron, announced today. ...
Article : 47 wordsLONDON.—Dresden ,was completely wiped out by the massive Allied air blows on February 14 and 15. Not a single building remains and tens ...
Article : 153 wordsLONDON.—It is officially announced that out of six names submitted to him by the Yugoslav Prime Minister Dr. Subasic, who is at present ...
Article : 64 wordsNEW YORK.—A hunter claims to have short the largest rabbit in the world in a forest near Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania). ...
Article : 43 wordsLONDON.—It was disclosed that Allied troops landed on the Dodecanese island of Piscopi, north-west of Rhodes, on Wednesday night last ...
Article : 64 wordsCHUNGKING.—American officers helping Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek in the formation of a, new Chinese Army are finding that they are also learning a good deal about the Chinese and what may be achieved in, the way of international understanding and tolerancce after the war Saving of face must be considered. At a general staff school near ...
Article : 401 wordsNEW YORK.— Japanese artillery is still being made from American scrap metal, according to the Batelle Memorial Institute in Columbus (Ohio). ...
Article : 49 wordsLONDON.—Supreme Allied Headquarters. has apologised for the bombing of Calais last week by six RAF planes, says the Paris correspondent of ...
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Army News (Darwin, NT : 1941 - 1946), Fri 9 Mar 1945, Page 3
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