MANILA, June 14.—The Australian Ninth Division in North Borneo advanced eight miles yesterday to within two miles of Brunei town and captured Brunei airstrip. Announcing this, in his communique, General MacArthur ...
Article : 475 wordsCHUNGKING, June 14.—The Chinese High Command announced today that Chinese troops had reached the suburbs of the former ...
Article : 275 wordsLONDON, June 14.—The Viceroy of India (Field Marshal Lord Wavell) broadcasting from New Delhi today announced that an ...
Article : 315 wordsNEW YORK. June 14.—"Possibly, presaging a series of banzai charges as a climax to their Okinawa stand. 300 Japanese counter-attacked the ...
Article : 278 wordsPARIS, June 14.—Following a note from President Truman, General de Gaulle is expected soon to visit the United States, says ...
Article : 411 wordsLONDON, June 14.—Belsen concentration camp, perhaps the most hideous revelation yet of German infamy, is today a remarkable ...
Article : 775 wordsSAN FRANCISCO, June 13.—The committee on voting procedures in the Security Council has approved by 30 to 2, the Yalta voting formula, ...
Article : 444 wordsNEW YORK, June 13.—The Washington bureau of the "New York Times" states that there are persistent reports that the ...
Article : 467 wordsVehicles at an embarkation area for North Borneo waiting to be loaded on to LST's. (Australian Official Photograph.) ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 22 wordsNEW YORK, June 14.—"The Americans on Okinawa are using against the Japanese a 500ft flame throwing fire-hose attached to a ...
Article : 95 wordsMELBOURNE, June 14.—Defying a terrific air and artillery bombardment on their headquarters area, the Japanese on Tarakan yesterday ...
Article : 422 wordsSAN FRANCISCO, June 13.—The New York "Herald-Tribune" states: "Russia proposed to the sub-committee on membership that the ...
Article : 447 wordsMOSCOW, June 14.—"The creation of a western bloc between Britain, France, Belgium and Holland would only set Western Europe ...
Article : 102 wordsLONDON, June 14.—Mr Churchill told the House of Commons today that the meeting of the Big Three would take place before the results ...
Article : 79 wordsNEW YORK, June 14.—Tokio radio, virtually acknowledging defeat on Okinawa, quotes the Japanese Premier (Admiral Suzuki) as saying: "All ...
Article : 99 wordsBRUNEI BAY, June 11 (delayed dispatch).—Consternation and amazement were expressed here by all arms of the forces over the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 230 wordsLONDON, June 14.—A White Paper on India states that the Government proposes that the Executive Council should be reconstituted. ...
Article : 379 wordsLONDON, June 14.—The British United Press correspondent in Rome says the six major Italian parties have invited Signor Ferruccio Parri ...
Article : 191 wordsLONDON, June 14.—The Inspector General of German concentration camps, SS General Walther Schmitt, has been arrested near ...
Article : 174 wordsLONDON, June 14.—Through Allied psychological teams with a staff numbering 1,000 the Germans for the first time since the advent of ...
Article : 205 wordsGUAM, June 14.—The communique issued last night by the C-in-C Pacific Ocean Area (Admiral Nimitz) was as follows: "There was no ...
Article : 289 wordsLONDON, June 14.—German civilians under the direction of the United States Military Government are ...
Article : 72 wordsLONDON, June 14.—The Allied authorities have intervened in the Italian Government crisis with the warning that the new Ministers, ...
Article : 123 wordsLONDON, June 14.—The Were wolves are becoming bolder throughout Germany, says Reuters correspondent at Tegernsee, in Bavaria ...
Article : 101 wordsNEW YORK, June 14.—The Associated Press reports that the Japanese used women suicide pilots in a frantic ...
Article : 70 wordsLONDON, June 14.—The American forces' radio network has increased its chain to 50 transmitters with the opening of a station at ...
Article : 67 wordsGUAM, June 14.—Yesterday Tokio radio declared that 40 Super Fortresses dropped mines on shipping lanes south of Kyushu on Tuesday ...
Article : 101 wordsWASHINGTON, June 13.—The United Press says that President Truman will submit the United Nations' charter to the Senate soon ...
Article : 188 wordsBRUNEI BAY, June 14.—The Brunei River is about 1,000 yards wide at its mouth and two to five fathoms deep. Its course is seven ...
Article : 247 wordsLONDON, June 14.—Bands of men and women carrying red flags marched through the main streets of Trieste on Tuesday night setting fire ...
Article : 162 wordsLONDON, June 14.—Seventeen American soldiers were killed and three were injured when a Liberator crashed into a hill in South ...
Article : 69 wordsLONDON, June 14.—An Athens, Court has sentenced to death five EAM militiamen convicted of executing 38 civilians in Athens last ...
Article : 43 wordsLONDON, June 13.—Moscow radio last night stated that Bulgaria was adopting Britain's voting procedure for the Parliamentary elections. ...
Article : 57 wordsMELBOURNE, June 14.—A special correspondent of "Wings," the official magazine of the RAAF, reveals in its latest issue that on December ...
Article : 307 wordsLONDON, June 14.—"German scientists believed that in less than two years they would have been able to develop giant V-2 rockets capable ...
Article : 257 wordsLONDON, June 14.—An investigating Commission of the High Court yesterday announced that Pierre Laval and Marcel Deat would be ...
Article : 90 wordsLONDON, June 14.—The Belgian Minister of Communications (M Ernest Rongvaax) yesterday announced that he had obtained from ...
Article : 69 wordsCANBERRA, June 14.—The Acting Prime Minister (Mr Chifley) tonight denied a report that the Federal Government had cabled Dr ...
Article : 60 wordsLONDON, June 14.—About 9,000 German prisoners are being released daily, says the British United Press correspondent at Ems. They are ...
Article : 43 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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