WITH GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HQ IN NEW GUINEA, March 5.—Japanese forces were completely defeated in one of the fiercest battles of the South-West Pacific war when they attempted to recapture Momote aerodrome, in the Admiralty Islands, on Friday night. ...
Article : 450 wordsLONDON, March 5.—In the first daylight operation against Berlin since January 30, 1943 (when RAF Mosquitos twice bombed the city) 1 American Air Force long-range Lightnings were over the German capital on Friday. ...
Article : 663 wordsLONDON, March 5.—"The Red Army has forced its way further into both gateways to the Baltic—north and south of Lake Peipus," ...
Article : 336 wordsLONDON, March 5.—Stockholm "Dagens Nyheter's" Helsinki correspondent said yesterday: "The Finnish Parliament is reported to have ...
Article : 147 wordsWASHINGTON, March 4.—President Roosevelt disclosed at a Press conference that Britain and the United States were already using ...
Article : 508 wordsSYDNEY, March 5.—Meetings of the striking miners on the south coast today rejected an instruction issued by the central council of the ...
Article : 478 wordsLONDON, March 5.—Today's communique from Advanced HQ in Italy states: "Allied beachhead forces repulsed an enemy attack in the ...
Article : 227 wordsLONDON, March 5.—Dr Schmidt, a Wilhelmstrasse spokesman; commenting on the Russo-Finnish peace negotiations over the Berlin radio ...
Article : 67 wordsLONDON, March 5.—"The Bulgarian peace moves have reached a stage where a definite rendezvous has been named for the proposed ...
Article : 136 wordsLONDON, March 5.—Reuters correspondent reports that the Commander of the Fifth Army (Lt-General Clark) in a message to the ...
Article : 262 wordsWITH GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HQ IN NEW GUINEA, March 5.—For the first time since February 15 Rabaul missed its daily dose of ...
Article : 460 wordsLONDON, March 5.—The RAF's biggest bomb, the new 12,000-pounder, which was used on Thursday night in the attack on an ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 264 wordsLONDON, March 5.—Last night's Berlin High Command communique reports that the Russians in the Shepetovka area (west of Kiev) ...
Article : 309 wordsLONDON, March 5.—The Ankara correspondent of the British Unite Press says that authoritative Turkish sources have stated that the only ...
Article : 85 wordsNEW YORK, March 4.—A Domel Newsagency English-language broadcast beamed to America said that heavy fighting was in progress ...
Article : 49 wordsSYDNEY, March 5.—By almost two-to-one majority aggregate meetings of south coast miners at four centres today rejected the proposal ...
Article : 621 wordsLONDON, March 5.—The Italian Government has issued the following communique, a Naples dispatch reports: "The Italian Government ...
Article : 285 wordsNEW YORK, March 4.—The "Herald-Tribune's" Washington bureau states that the Secretary of the Navy (Col Knox) told his Press ...
Article : 133 wordsNEW YORK, March 4.—The Washington bureau of the "New York Times" says that the Acting Secretary of State (Mr Stettinius) ...
Article : 163 wordsThe first picture of the attack on Truk received in Perth. It shows Japanese ships in the lagoon endeavouring to escape from the attacking American aircraft. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 35 wordsWASHINGTON, March 4.—John Hightower; Associated Press correspondent, states: "A series of High Command conferences on the Pacific ...
Article : 229 wordsLONDON, March 5.—Flying Fortresses on Friday for the first time for six months bombed military objectives in Rome, says Reuters ...
Article : 274 wordsLONDON, March 5.—The Ministry of Aircraft Production states that the output of aircraft in United Kingdom factories continues to ...
Article : 112 wordsNEW YORK, March 4.—Tokio official radio quotes a Domel News-agency report explaining why Japanese pilots have not resisted Allied ...
Article : 75 wordsNEW YORK, March 4.—The Santiago correspondent of the United Press says that in a Foreign Affairs Department announcement the ...
Article : 119 wordsNEW YORK, March 4.—The "Herald-Tribune's' Washington bureau reports: "Senator Styles Bridges, a member of the Senate ...
Article : 181 wordsLONDON, March 5.—The Columbia Broadcasting System's reporter at Naples states that the Italian Committee of National Liberation ...
Article : 132 wordsLONDON, March 5.—The chief features of air warfare in February were that the Anglo-American strategic bombing of Germany from ...
Article : 167 wordsGeneral Omar Bradley, who has been appointed senior American Ground Forces Commander under General Eisenhower. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 17 wordsPHILADELPHIA (USA), March 4.—Stating that 250,000 gallons of lubricating oil in drums has been loaded at an east coast port bound ...
Article : 103 wordsWASHINGTON, March 4.—A Pacific Fleet communique announces that a small force of Navy Ventura medium bombers attacked ...
Article : 147 wordsLONDON, March 5.—"The Red Army today in the Narva sector continued its offensive for the extension of its bridgehead south-west of ...
Article : 214 wordsWASHINGTON, March 4.—President Roosevelt has revealed at a Press conference that the Under-Secretary of State (Mr Stettinius) ...
Article : 425 wordsLONDON, March 5.—Taking such sharp evasive action that one of the crew was knocked unconscious, the captain of a Coastal Command ...
Article : 313 wordsLONDON, March 5.—The immense anti-aircraft barrages which the London defences put up in recent night raids were the heaviest of the ...
Article : 113 wordsCANBERRA, March 5.—The War Cabinet will consider in Canberra tomorrow the latest developments in the NSW south coast coal strike. It is ...
Article : 157 wordsNEW YORK, March 5.—Nearly 10,000 high-class Tokio entertainment places, ranging from the Imperial Hotel restaurant to geisha ...
Article : 84 wordsLONDON, March 5.—The Ministry of Health announced today that a military patient from the Middle East who was admitted in the middle ...
Article : 54 wordsLONDON, March 5.—Allied HQ in Italy has announced that the Desert Air Force destroyed between 25,000 and 30,000 tons of enemy shipping ...
Article : 39 wordsExcept where otherwise designated the overseas intelligence published in "The West Australian" is transmitted to Australia by the Australian Associated Press ...
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