WASHINGTON, July 29.—At Pearl Harbour Admiral Nimitz has announced the capture of the Orote Peninsula, on Guam Island, by the ...
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Article : 394 wordsLONDON. July 30.—The British United Press correspondent with the Eighth Army in Italy states that New Zealanders yesterday broke up ...
Article : 567 wordsWASHINGTON, July 29.—The United Press states that competent military observers look on the current Normandy fighting as the "real ...
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Article : 279 wordsLONDON, July 30.—ln the Warsaw region, after a rapid 15-mile advance from Garwolin, Marshal Rokossovsky's tanks, cavalry and mobile artillery have reached the outskirts of the city, the defences of which are being shelled. German resistance, according to Reuters correspondent ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 223 wordsLONDON, July 30.—The Moscow communique issued this morning just after midnight stated: "The Russians yesterday north-west and ...
Article : 476 wordsLONDON, July "30.—Avenger planes from the Fleet Air Arm, operating with Coastal Command, without loss, bombed and machine ...
Article : 78 wordsSOMEWHERE IN SW PACIFIC AREA, July 30.—Dutch and Australian airmen early on Saturday took part in a successful co-operative ...
Article : 238 wordsLONDON. July 30.—Today a high ranking military spokesman told a correspondent of the Combined Press that Lt-General ...
Article : 175 wordsKANDY (Ceylon), July 30.—There is every indication that Japanese resistance along the Palel-Tamu road has cracked. Our attack has been ...
Article : 355 wordsWASHINGTON, July 29.—A Pacific Fleet communique issued today states: "Marines continued to advance yesterday, compressing the ...
Article : 363 wordsLONDON July 30.—King George VI spent the sixth day of his visit to the Italian front at the HQ of the Fifth Army, reports Reuters ...
Article : 396 wordsNEW YORK, July 29.—Yesterday Tokio official radio stated that the War Minister (General Sugiyama) and the Navy Minister (Admiral ...
Article : 104 wordsLONDON, July 30.—Typhoons of the RAF and Thunderbolts of the Ninth United States Air Force were responsible for one of the most ...
Article : 200 wordsLONDON, July 30.—Approximately 75 civilians were killed and 400 wounded in the fighting for Cherbourg, stated the Mayor of Cherbourg ...
Article : 36 wordsLONDON, July 30.—Supreme Allied HQ issued this communique (No 109) just before noon today: "Allied forces pushing south from ...
Article : 421 wordsNEW YORK, July 30.—In a dispatch to the "New York Times" from Bayeux, Drew Middleton states: "The French people have changed ...
Article : 330 wordsA view of the town of Avranches, Normandy, towards which American troops are advancing. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 18 wordsLONDON. July 30.—It is stated at Supreme Allied HQ that about 25 German divisions are in Normandy divided approximately equally in the ...
Article : 150 wordsLONDON, July 30.—An Admiralty communique states: "Our submarines, in the course of intensified operations against Japanese, ...
Article : 143 wordsNEW YORK, July 30.—The Cairo correspondent of the Blue Network (radio) reports that the German Embassy at Ankara has ordered all ...
Article : 35 wordsLONDON, July 30.—A special Yugoslav communique yesterday stated that 5,000 German troops, supported by tanks and planes, ...
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Article : 37 wordsCHUNGKING, July 30.—The Chinese communique today states: "After capturing Laifengshan on July 26 the Chinese are now ...
Article : 161 wordsLONDON, July 30.—From Estonia to the Czech border there seems to be nothing the Germans can do to stem the Russian avalanche, say ...
Article : 308 wordsLONDON, July 30.—General Montgomery's strategy in Normandy is becoming clearer. He opened his drive last Friday with a menacing ...
Article : 284 wordsLONDON, July 30.—A German officer made prisoner by the Americans stated that Marshal Rommel was wounded, ...
Article : 87 wordsLONDON, July 30.—Giant Messer schmitt 323 transport planes are rushing war material, including even heavy artillery and anti-tank guns, ...
Article : 108 wordsLONDON, July 30.—A "Daily Express" correspondent, Alan Wood (who visited New Guinea) states in a dispatch from the Caen front: "I ...
Article : 99 wordsNEW YORK, July 29.—Brazil and Nicaragua officially approve the United States refusal to recognise the present Government in ...
Article : 74 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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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 31 Jul 1944, Page 5
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