MELBOURNE.—Stories of grim heroism are told by Clifford Bottomley, official war photographer of the Department of Information, who is in Melbourne after his third campaign. Now, wearing the carmine, blue and white ribbon of the Philippines Liberation Medal, a general award "to express the recognition of Filipino people for their liberation from Japanese domination," Bottomley has seen the fall of Leyte. ...
Article : 439 wordsLONDON.—The Nazi propaganda chief, Dr. Goebbels, who is district gauleiter for Berlin, will-take command of the final house-to-house defence to make berlin another Stalingrad, carrying poison should he face capture. The Daily Mail splashes this highly ...
Article : 266 wordsSYDNEY.— A 16 year-old youth's unwillingness to admit to his pal and two girl friends making up a swimming party, that he could not ...
Article : 202 wordsTHIS NAZI BLOCKADE RUNNER was intercepted by a Liberator of a Czechoslovak squadron of RAF Coastal Command, and after direct hits had brought the vessel to a standstill, low-level bombing and strafing attacks set her ablaze from end to end. The picture was taken from the attacking plane. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 51 wordsLOS ANGELES. — Crowds of news paper reporters and photographers met the Union Pacific's crack flyer "The City of Los Angeles" on its arrival ...
Article : 201 wordsFrom the outbreak of war in September, 1939, to November last. Australia had spent a total of £1,850,000,000 directly on war. ...
Article : 188 wordsLONDON.— Details of the loss of five P & O liners off North Africa in 1942 have been released. The Viceroy of India (19,627 tons), ...
Article : 135 wordsBRUSSELS, Tuesday.—The Government of Belgium is threatened with defeat if improvement is not affected in the country's supply position. ...
Article : 51 wordsLONDON.— There is one doctor who does not believe the weaker, sex theory. That is Dr Nora Acheson of Aldeburgh, Suffolkshire, England. During this war, she has— Ploughed through mine-infested waters ...
Article : 239 wordsLONDON.—Fish and chips are being fried in black market sanctuary oil. Racketeers pose as buyers for churches ...
Article : 103 wordsNEW YORK,—According to Major General Nasu, Director of the Recruitment Bureau, reported by Tokio Radio, Japan has an ample reserve ...
Article : 52 wordsSYDNEY. Wednesday.— A lorry load of butter — 14,112 pounds in all—was stolen on Monday. The butter was in 252 boxes, and owned by ...
Article : 77 wordsSYDNEY. — Royal Navy officers say that Sydney motorists are not so obliging as those in London and Colombo. ...
Article : 92 wordsLONDON. — The Rome correspondent of the British United Press says that the Italian Cabinet has approved a women's suffrage law giving a vote to women over ...
Article : 42 wordsROME. Tuesday.—The Italian Prime Minister, Signor Bonomi, said yesterday that the Italians desired to fight the Germans, but could not do so until the ...
Article : 31 wordsSYDNEY. — The opening of the Sydney-London air service has been delayed by the need to build more warplanes in Britain. The service, ...
Article : 76 wordsLOUGAINVILLE.— In this war of patrols and tracks, the latest act of individual heroism is by an Australian corporal, who faced intense fire to recover the body of one of his men wounded near a Jap outpost. ...
Article : 265 wordsAITAPE. — There is deep friendship and mutual regard between groups of Australians fighting independently in the Torricelli Mountains, and the ...
Article : 162 wordsCAPETOWN. — South African casualties in all war theatres totalled 27,874, the Prime Minister, Field-Marshal Smuts, announced in Parliament. This ...
Article : 31 wordsNEW YORK.— "This time I'm going to do things right; this is a real marriage," said 45-year-old Gloria Swanson, former film star, this week. The comment was during an interview in her dressing room on ...
Article : 218 wordsLONDON.— A small Left-wing group is allegedly circulating anarchist propaganda among British servicemen and war workers. ...
Article : 142 wordsLONDON. — Mr. Charles [?] of the Duke of York Theatre, has denied that the theatre had been leased to Miss Kathleen Robinson and ...
Article : 120 wordsLONDON. — Marshal Zhukov's Russian armies striking for Berlin are now closer to London that to Moscow. This is measuring from Benschen, on ...
Article : 105 wordsSolution to Crossword No. 35 ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Army News (Darwin, NT : 1941 - 1946), Thu 8 Feb 1945, Page 3
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