SYDNEY, Thursday.—Australian war prisoners, escaping from East Prussia, were lined up to be shot by Russians who thought they were Germans, a former AIF war prisoner said recently. He is private James McMillan, of Angel Street, Newtown, one of the first 10 Australian war prisoners ...
Article : 675 wordsLONDON.—Foreign securities valued at hundreds of millions of pounds, and representing the main national wealth of Austria and Bavaria, are part of the ...
Article : 150 wordsLABUAN.—While Australians were asleep in their ten on Labuan, a Japanese woodpecker machine-gun opened up from 15 yards away. It was the opening phase in the dramatic pre-dawn battle of "Hell Corner." With the first burst from the ...
Article : 552 wordsLONDON.—Max Schmeling, former heavyweight boxing champion of the world, is about to become a big-time publisher and re-educator of youth in the ways of democracy in post-war Germany. Gault McGowan, correspondent of ...
Article : 276 wordsSEATTLE.—The Japanese are attempting to cripple by means of mines Allied shipping in the north-west Pacific and Alaskan coastal Waters ...
Article : 118 wordsLONDON.—A first-class row is blowing up among British hair stylists over a display to be held in London's vast Albert Hall on July 7. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 157 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday.—A magic camera eye was tested for the first time in Melbourne during the running of two hurdle trials at Flemington. ...
Article : 181 wordsCANBERRA.—Twenty-six New Guinea natives, some of whom betrayed Australians to the Japanese, have escaped death by hanging only because culturally they belong to the Stone Age, it is stated. These natives took part in an orgy ...
Article : 200 wordsLONDON.—The Danes were thrilled by every sight or sound of Royal Air Force planes on the way to bomb Germany. ...
Article : 121 wordsLONDON.—Rules for successful marriage were laid down by Dr. Herbert Gray at a conference of the Leeds Marriage Guidance Council. ...
Article : 110 wordsLONDON.—Travelling by air at 500 miles an hour will become commonplace, believes Dr. Roxbee Cox, chairman of the Government-owned Power ...
Article : 98 wordsWASHINGTON.—President Truman has commuted to life imprisonment the death sentences on William Colepaugh and Erich Gimpel, convicted German ...
Article : 74 wordsAll local announcements for broadcast over [?]R must be forwarded to G3 (Int) HQ NT Force at least four days prior to date on which broadcast is desired. ...
Article : 148 wordsLONDON, Wednesday. — Australia failed by 41 runs to save the game against England in the second unofficial "Test," which ended at Sheffield ...
Article : 78 wordsThe sleek, once sparkling, grey, destroyer foamed up to a Pacific base, the captain gave an order, the ship dropped to a sedate gait and went in. First tour with the British Pacific Fleet and the strikes at Sakashima and Miyako had ended. Officers totalled up the efforts of their craft in mileage and oil consumption. Since her refit in Britain in August, 1944, she had steamed 64,900 miles, or about three times around the world. ...
Article : 570 wordsScoring 183, RAAF defeated AWC Workshops by 111 runs at Adelaide River. Other matches resulted:— AAAD 8 for 176 defeated Navy 124; ...
Article : 74 wordsProceeds from the Globe Stadium to the Australian Red Cross Society Prisoners of War Fund amounted to £100 to October 1944, and a similar amount ...
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Army News (Darwin, NT : 1941 - 1946), Fri 29 Jun 1945, Page 4
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