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  2. Survivor Tells How HMAS Perth Went Down

    NEW YORK.—An estimate that there were at least 250 survivors from the Australian cruiser Perth, and a vivid description of how the cruiser went down in the Java Sea battle of February 28, 1942, were given by a liberated Australian medical officer to the Associated Press correspondent in Tokio. ...

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    JAPANESE SOLDIERS HELP to refuel one of the C-47 planes which took the advance party of Americans to Ataugi aerodrome, near ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 32 words
  4. JAP SPY TOUR OF QUEENSLAND

    BRISBANE.— Japanese plans to land troops in Australia may have been based on information sent by a Jap spy who before the war stayed at a Brisbane hotel. That is the opinion of Australian secret service agents. The Jap's spying tour through ...

    Article : 319 words
  5. Japs Allowed To Move Ashes Of 6000 Dead

    MANILA. — The commander of the United States 32nd Division. Brigadier-General J. R. McBride, has granted Japanese troops in his zone, ...

    Article : 106 words
  6. RAF's FEAT ON EPIC POLAR FLIGHT

    LONDON. — When the Lancaster Aries went out last May on the' first exploratory flight ever made by the RAF to the North Pole, the ...

    Article : 105 words
  7. JAP FAIRY TALES

    "JACQUINOT BAY—The Japanese told white prisoners at Rabaul be fore their rescue that: President Roosevelt had had a ...

    Article : 64 words
  8. Brigadier Not To Go Back To His Bus

    LONDON.— Brigadier Thomas Evers, Middle East Army welfare officer, who rose from the rank of Private, has been offered his pre-war job as a bus ...

    Article : 102 words
  9. Defiant Jap General Tips War In 20 Years

    JOHORE. — Lieutenant General Seissiro Itagaki, defiant Jap commander at Singapore, expects Japan to the at war in 20 years ...

    Article : 128 words
  10. ROOSEVELT'S DOG REMEMBERS

    NEW YORK.—President Roosevelt's dog Fala. who is kept in the gardener's house on the Hvde Park estate still rushes to the grave of his late master every time ...

    Article : 76 words
  11. Australians In Nagasaki Injured By Atomic Bomb

    YOKOHAMA: Wednesday.—Captain Jacob Vink. a Netherlands Army doctor who was in , Nagasaki Hospital when the second atomic bomb was dropped, said ...

    Article : 57 words
  12. Offers To Wed Woman Who Killed Husband

    LONDON.—Twenty proposals of marriage have been received by Mrs. Madge Allen, 31 . who was released last July on a charge of manslaughter of her husband. ...

    Article : 81 words
  13. Jap Betrayed Nazi Plans

    NEW YORK — Early in 1941, Yusoke Matsuoka, then Japanese Foreign Minister, revealed Germany's plan to Moscow, and thus attack Russia to obtained a neutrality pact. This was alleged in Yokohama by ...

    Article : 211 words
  14. Liner Afire In Dock

    LONDON.— The liner, Empress of Russia, was extensively damaged by fire while being refitted' as a Government transport, in a dock at Barrow ...

    Article : 94 words
  15. STOLE U-BOAT AND FLED TO ARGENTINE

    NEW YORK. — Thirty-two German naval, men who feared that 'they would spend the rest of their lives in Russian labour gangs, stole the ...

    Article : 113 words
  16. SPEEDING UP OF US NAVY RELEASES

    WASHINGTON.—The Navy Secretary, Mr. Forrestal. announced a liberalisation of the point discharge system under which an additional 423.000 naval personnel ...

    Article : 70 words
  17. No Passage For 160 Brides Of US Servicemen

    BRISBANE.—More than 160 Queensland wives of American servicemen were informed of the cancellation of their passages in the bride ship ...

    Article : 118 words
  18. LATEST VC LAUGHED IN BATTLE

    WEWAK.—The Sixth Division Victoria Cross winner, Private E.. Kenna, laughed his way through his single-handed blitz against the Japs at Wirui Mission .last May, which won for him the highest war honour. ...

    Article : 301 words
  19. Royal Navy Stands No Nonsense From Japs

    LONDON. — British Navy men are standing no nonsense from the Japanese, says the Daily Express representative at Singapore. ...

    Article : 160 words
  20. Russians Allow Germans To Sell Surplus Products

    LONDON, Wednesday.—The. Russian controlled Berlin Radio has announced details of new plans 'for restoring. community life in the "Red Army's ...

    Article : 84 words
  21. Met Death With A Song

    YOKOHAMA.—How American prisoners captured on Bataan 'met, their death by' a. Japanese firing spuad, while singing' 'God' Bless America." ...

    Article : 164 words
  22. KING LEOPOLD MAY LIVE AT GENEVA

    LONDON.— The Swis Government has agreed to permit King Leopaid of the Belgians and his family to live near Geneva ...

    Article : 41 words
  23. Lady Clive Engaged To Duke's Chief Of Staff

    SYDNEY.—The engagement of Brigadier Derek; Schreiber," MVO, chief of, "staff to the Governor General, the Duke of Gloucester, and Viscountess ...

    Article : 128 words
  24. AMAZING STORY OF RAFT ORDEAL

    NEW YORK.-Lieutenant Louis Zamperini, a US flier who was. given up for dead when he failed to return from. a mission in a Liberator 28 months ago,. is now on his way home after having survived 47 days on a raft. Another survivor of the Liberator is Lieutenant Russell Phillips, but a ...

    Article : 542 words
  25. Nancy Now Wants Divorce

    NEW YORK.— Pretty red-haired Nancy Oakes de Marigny wants to divorce her husband, Count Alfred de Marigny. ...

    Article : 112 words
  26. Londoners To See V-2

    :LONDON.—Londoners this week will view for the first time an unexploded V-2 .rocket bomb' at an exhibition to be held in Trafalagar Square in aid, of the ...

    Article : 53 words
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