MELBOURNE, May 21.—In a dawn attack which took the Japanese by surprise in their pyjamas, Australian infantrymen on Tarakan yesterday ...
Article : 567 wordsThe Pacific campaign is moving slowly but steadily in favour of the Allies against bitter resistance by the Japanese on all the islands where fighting is in progress. Correspondents say there is certainly no sign yet of any ...
Article : 662 wordsBEIRUT, May 21.—The Governments of Lebanon and Syria bare issued the following joint statement as a sequel to the arrival yesterday ...
Article : 287 wordsLONDON, May 21.—Official circles in London by no means despair of being able to reach an amicable settlement of the delicate ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 335 wordsLONDON, May 21.—The Third Reich will be decentralised. Political and administrative power hitherto concentrated in Berlin will be taken over by the great industrial, maritime and agricultural provinces, says a Reuters ...
Article : 406 wordsCHUNGKING, May 21.—The Chinese High Command announced today the capture of Namoi and also that a sudden Chinese offensive had ...
Article : 184 wordsSAN FRANCISCO. May 20.—The Foreign Ministers of the Big Five have agreed on the text of an amendment placing regional ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 347 wordsMELBOURNE, May 21.—RAAF Catalinas for some time have been mining the China coast, paralysing Japanese shipping and forcing ...
Article : 266 wordsLONDON, May 21.—With the lives of hundreds of thousands of Germany's one-time slave labourers at stake, British troops in Hamburg ...
Article : 438 wordsLONDON, May 21.—Strikes are spreading throughout Greece following the rapid rise in prices. while wages have not changed, says ...
Article : 122 wordsMANILA, May 21.—Covered by, fighters 90 Liberators of the American Fifth Air Force delivered another smashing blow on Formosa, ...
Article : 206 wordsLONDON, May 21.—"The American Military Government has blocked the financial assets of upper-class Nazis and limited them to ...
Article : 211 wordsMADRID, May 20.—General Franco, in the course of a speech, declared: 'The present world events demonstrates the clear-sightedness ...
Article : 202 wordsLONDON, May 21.—As more evidence of German brutality to Allied prisoners on the Channel Islands arrives it becomes plainer ...
Article : 193 wordsMANILA, May 21.—After a heavy airstrike Australian and NEI forces on Tarakan took Hill 105 and with Mt Ap in their hands now have two ...
Article : 175 wordsLONDON, May 21.— Belgrade radio today broadcast a statement from Marshal Tito's Government which declared that ...
Article : 101 wordsADVANCED HQ, BURMA, May 21.—The main battlefield in Burma has shifted to the eastern Shan states, where the Japanese are ...
Article : 194 wordsMANILA, May 21.—The communique issued by General MacArthur yesterday stated: "During the past fortnight 13,886 enemy dead have ...
Article : 269 wordsWASHINGTON, May 20.— The US War Department today revealed that Army transport planes had flown over ...
Article : 64 wordsLONDON, May 21.—Italian partisans must hand in their arms by' June 7 said Milan radio quoting al proclamation signed by the patriots' ...
Article : 80 wordsLONDON, May 21.—"This week-end has seen the beginning of the anal vast movement of surrendered German forces within the British ...
Article : 215 wordsNEW YORK, May 20.—About 50,000 useless Nazi prisoners of war in the United States would be shipped to Germany this summer ...
Article : 147 wordsMELBOURNE, May 21.—Several RAAF Squadrons are now operating from the Tarakan airstrip which was reconditioned by RAAF airfield ...
Article : 223 wordsLONDON, May 20.—Fifteen U-boats which passed the Shetland Islands yesterday after surrendering to RN ships off Norway, arrived ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 143 wordsLONDON, May 21.—The greatest treasure hunt of all time is in progress throughout the length and breadth of conquered Germany, says ...
Article : 174 wordsLONDON, May 21.—Milan radio said today that the Allied Military Government had banned all public meetings in Milan. ...
Article : 139 wordsNEW YORK, May 21.—Tokio radio today quoted the Japanese Information Board spokesman (Sadao Iguchi) as saying: "Japan at no ...
Article : 111 wordsThrough an error in the transmission of a dispatch covering the Bougainville campaign it was stated in yesterday's issue that since ...
Article : 53 wordsMANILA, May 21.—Col Richard H. Ellis has been appointed Deputy Chief-of-Staff to General Kenney, commander of the Far East Air ...
Article : 24 wordsCANBERRA, May 21.—Twin-engined modern B25 bombers soared overhead as the tri-motored Southern Cross—the "old bus" made ...
Article : 459 wordsLONDON, May 21.—The Rome correspondent of 'The Times" states that American troops found 23 tons of gold at Fortezza, near the ...
Article : 85 wordsSAN FRANCISCO, May 21.—John Loughlin, a correspondent with the British Pacific Fleet, in a delayed dispatch dated May 4, writes: ...
Article : 440 wordsLONDON, May 21.—"Burmese citizens who left Japan four months ago report seeing gangs of European war prisoners whom they believed to ...
Article : 178 wordsLONDON, May 21.—The final figures for the French municipal elections in 957 localities of over 4,000 inhabitants confirm a swing to the ...
Article : 77 wordsExcept where otherwise designated, the overseas intelligence published in "The West Australian" s transmitted to Australia by the Australian Associated Press ...
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