MANILA.—Today the city of Manila, once a romantic tropic seaport and centre of the central Pacific trade, has become the focal point of the world's eyes. Suddenly, and with the same drama that brought lesser known cities like Yalta, Potsdam and Dumbarton Oaks into house hold conversation, Manila will remain until this week the "capital of the Pacific." It was here that the Japanese troops, the last of the Axis enemies, came to receive ...
Article : 915 wordsLONDON.—When the Australian High Commissioner, Mr. Bruce, returned to Australia House recently after a War Cabinet meeting, he found letters on his desk from two young boys whose imagination had been stirred by the newspaper story that Australia was eager to take 17,000 British and ...
Article : 257 wordsLONDON.—The Duke and Duchess of Windsor shortly will take up residence in France, where they are expected next month. ...
Article : 133 wordsNEW YORK.—Around 1948. radically new motor cars will be offered to the public. These are some of the changes likely ...
Article : 162 wordsA TYPICAL BERLIN SCENE. Workmen are clearing the debris from a building wrecked by Allied bombs.—Brisbane Telegraph. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 17 wordsNEW YORK.—At 85, Theodore Grant was getting too old and frail, to wield his burglar tools himself, so he rented them to some sturdy young ...
Article : 102 wordsLONDON.—Parisian artists and models are having a hard time. Painting materials can now be obtained only on the black market, and there ...
Article : 89 wordsLONDON.—Rene Stevel, aged 12, of Avignon, has been awarded the Croix de Guerre by the French Government for holding up by rifle ...
Article : 50 wordsLONDON.—Although Russia is the only country in Europe in which the war has not brought an aftermath of social and political upheaval, and there are no signs of any drastic internal change, the war has in fact brought profound changes beneath the surface which, in future may have ...
Article : 275 wordsLONDON.—The Royal. Navy's new light aircraft carriers, of which the Colossus, Glory, Venerable, Vengeance, and others at present are ...
Article : 114 wordsLONDON.—"The Japanese ruling clique is trying to repeat the tactics of the German General Staff in 1918. "said Moscow Radio in broadcasting an article ...
Article : 92 wordsNEW YORK.—Plans for a world-wide oil co-operative which would eventually operate its own oilfields. refineries and tankers, and sell oil on ...
Article : 173 wordsPORTLAND, US.—Vice-Admiral Willis A. Lee, Kentucky-born naval tactician and hero of Guadalcanal in 1942, has died as a result of a heart attack while engaged on a special secret tactical assignment. ...
Article : 190 wordsLILLE.—The French High Command has mobilised more than 20,000 troops in the Lille mining region for France's "battle for coal." ...
Article : 100 wordsSAN FRANCISCO.—The American flag flown by Commodore Perry when he entered Tokio. Bay in, 1853 and opened the doors of Japan to the ...
Article : 75 wordsAUCKLAND.—In a review of the New Zealand Air Force demobilisation scheme, the Minister for Defence, Mr. Jones, said that the plans involved ...
Article : 99 wordsLONDON.—Meat supplies from the Dominions earmarked for American troops, will be switched to Britain as a result of the sudden cessation of American lend-lease supplies. ...
Article : 183 wordsLONDON.—The Belgrade radio says the Government has announced penalties provided under Yugoslavia's new press law. ...
Article : 74 wordsBOUGAINVILLE.—The men who have levied the lives of moles for years on Bougainville are coming to the surface now that peace is only a pen stroke away. says an Australian correspondent. ...
Article : 214 wordsLONDON.—A willowy blonde ushered a caller into, a Mayfair flat and displayed a set of exquisite undies which she offered for sale for £37. ...
Article : 106 wordsLONDON.—Parts of planes which crashed in central African jungles are being salvaged and brought to Nairobi, where a special factory under the supervision of ...
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Army News (Darwin, NT : 1941 - 1946), Fri 31 Aug 1945, Page 3
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