BOUGAINVILLE.—Having been thrown and blasted from their fortress on the southern extremity of Downs Ridge, the Japanese show no inclination to surrender further ground, and are continuing to stage fanatical counterattacks in a desperate attempt to regain their lost positions. ...
Article : 301 wordsLONDON.—Neutral eye witnesses; who watched the Germans launching V2 rockets, asserted that they were not fired from concrete bases or other fixed installations at, present, but were projected from transport trailers. The Daily Express says that rockets arrive at The Hague railway station ...
Article : 266 wordsDETROIT.— The Ford Motor Company, which has built 30,000,000 cars and trucks, has been officially permitted to buy a new car for the ...
Article : 98 wordsSYDNEY. — First Naval George Cross winner, Lieutenant-Commander J. Hodge, RNVR, has arrived in Australia for service with the ...
Article : 146 wordsUNITS OF ADMIRAL FRASER'S PACIFIC FLEET are playing an increasing part in the Pacific war. In this picture, British naval gunners ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 31 wordsLONDON.— One of every 200 Londoners was a patient in a mental hospital, and one of every 274 was a mental defective, said professor D. ...
Article : 213 wordsSYDNEY.— Corporal Webb, of the Royal Marines, has acted as orderly to King George VI, King Haakon of Norway, and Mr. Winston Churchill. ...
Article : 172 wordsLONDON. — In Middlesex there is a man who has been tossing a coin for months and making it come down heads 99 times out of 100. He does ...
Article : 191 wordsLONDON.— David Selznick's application for an injunction retraining Vivien Leigh from appearing in the play "Skin of Our Teeth" was refused by Mr. Justice Romer in the Chancery Division. The play will be produced by Vivien Leigh's husband, Laurence Olivier. ...
Article : 224 wordsLONDON.—Germany has released the first description of a secret weapon "which no one has seen"—one-man midget submarines, says the Daily ...
Article : 143 wordsCANBERRA.—Girls harvesting opium poppies at Armidale, New South Wales, have shown signs of intoxication in certain weather conditions. ...
Article : 120 wordsAUCKLAND.—Flood damage is mounting in many parts of Otago district, Water pouring through breaks in the banks of the Molyneau River has ...
Article : 107 wordsLONDON.—One of Britain's largest shadow factories at Coventry has been allocated on lease by the Government to the present occupiers— ...
Article : 102 wordsNEW YORK. — William C. Morland, 44, took to the Idaho hills in 1932 because he did not like Mr. Roosevelt ousting Mr. Hoover as President ...
Article : 192 wordsADELAIDE:—Like the old soldier, swing in Adelaide will fade out but never die, according to an Adelaide dance teacher, Mr. L. Heading. He was commenting on a London report that dancers there had had ...
Article : 183 wordsNEW YORK.— "Big Bill" Bangert became national indoor shot putt champion at Madison Square Garden with a heave of 50 feet 5¾ inches. ...
Article : 118 wordsNEW YORK. — The Herald Tribune reports that Lieutenant Colonel Jack Cram, who, led 74 continuous night aerial attacks against Japanese ...
Article : 82 wordsLONDON. — British Crocodiles—flame-throwing tanks—have a range of 100 yards, propelling at 120 mph a three-inch flame which spreads ...
Article : 102 wordsLONDON.—Berlin's defences consist of three girdles of varying depth intended to suit specially trained troops with different weapons, says the Sunday Times correspondent in Stockholm. The first zone lies immediately outside the circle formed by motor roads around Berlin and stretches from Oranienburg in the north through Bernua, Altlandsberg and Erkner to Zozzen, Trebbin and Beelitz and consists of powerful gun positions. ...
Article : 418 wordsLONDON.—After having lain unconscious for 51 days in Westminster Hospital, Mrs. Audrey Stewart, 32, who was found in her flat stripped ...
Article : 73 wordsMANILA. — Before the Americans captured Intramuros, the old walled city of Manila, the Japanese ordered 130 priests to enter their church's ...
Article : 121 wordsQUEBEC.—At least 100 people were injured at Drummondville when mounted and military police were attacked by a crowd of more than ...
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Army News (Darwin, NT : 1941 - 1946), Sat 3 Mar 1945, Page 3
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