LONDON.—Life in Japanese camps in Thailand and Burma was not entirely unbearable, according to an article written by two English soldiers who were rescued from a torpedoed Japanese ship during transit to another camp. The article was privately published and circulated in England by Mrs. P. M. Robinson, of Ilkeston, Derbyshire, whose husband is a prisoner of war in Japanese hands in a camp in Burma. ...
Article : 756 wordsWASHINGTON.—The Combined Chiefs of Staff are understood to be now planning the final stroke against Japan in the belief that it will be a land campaign on the Asiatic continent. The loss of the Philippines appears to have convinced the Japanese that their home islands cannot be held ...
Article : 375 wordsMANILA.—A number of Australian women and children evacuces from Santo Tomas internment camp will be arriving in Australia soon. ...
Article : 241 wordsBRITISH TROOPS of the Eighth Army advancing through a battered town on the east coast of Italy, in pursuit of the ret[?]ating Germans. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 24 wordsLONDON.—Replying to criticism of the Government's handling of food matters, President Roosevelt declared that the American people ...
Article : 117 wordsWASHINGTON.—Months may elapse after the collapse of Germany before an American force call be concentrated against Japan, according to well-informed Washington ...
Article : 177 wordsLONDON, Tuesday.— How future drives on the West Front binged on the Remagen bridgehead across the Rhine was described yesterday ...
Article : 131 wordsMONTREAL.—There are 400,000 Italian and German prisoners of war in the United States and 35,000 in Canada. ...
Article : 47 wordsMELBOURNE.—There is a dancing boom in Melbourne, but not in jitterbugging or American hot swing. Youngsters who pack city "dance academies" and suburban dance halls are doing old-time dances, and they like foxtrots, waltzes and the quick step. ...
Article : 281 wordsLONDON.—The full story of German fifth column activities and organisation in Persia, of how they landed by parachute before the Allied troops arrived in August, 1941, and how the RAF footed them, has just been revealed by the British Embassy at Teheran. ...
Article : 468 wordsLONDON.—The Duke of Windsor, who has resigned as Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Bahamas, is expected to settle in Paris. ...
Article : 132 wordsWASHINGTON.—The Australian Legation has announced that Flight–Lieutenant Frederic Eggleston, son of the Australian Minister to America, has ...
Article : 47 wordsWASHINGTON.—Mr. Cordell Hull, now 73, who served as a captain in the 4th Tennessee Volunteer Infantry during the Spanish–American ...
Article : 88 wordsLONDON.—The Red Army with about 30,000 square miles of Germany (Germany proper totals about 295,000 square miles) under its control has not found it necessary to place its confidence in any German group or individuals, and the Russians' government is strictly on a military basis. ...
Article : 230 wordsLONDON.—A man can earn £11 /10 a week, send his son to the best schools, and later to Cambridge or Oxford, getting assistance of £175 ...
Article : 181 wordsBRISBANE.—A bottle of champagne sold by Dutch auction for the Third Victory Loan brought £120 in the Brisbane City Hall last week. ...
Article : 137 wordsNEW YORK.—Numerous strikes and peace demonstrations have occurred in Bremen, says the Stockholm correspondent of the New York Times. ...
Article : 89 wordsSHAEF.—The first German civilian who wilfully defied the curfew was shot dead at Rheydt, at captured town in the Ruhr, says Reuter's ...
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Army News (Darwin, NT : 1941 - 1946), Fri 23 Mar 1945, Page 3
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