WASHINGTON. August 15.—Reports reaching here from widely separated sources insist that a week of fierce fighting in the Solomon Islands has brought encouraging success. Washington circles believe that a big naval battle is imminent of is already in progress. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 1,027 wordsCAIRO, August 15.—A considerable increase in forward movement in enemy supply lines in the Western Desert has been noticed in the last ...
Article : 326 wordsWhen a train carrying military supplies was partly derailed on a bridge 13 miles from Rockhampton last June men of the Volunteer Defence Corps ...
Article : 402 wordsLONDON, August 15.—Just as the reoccupation of the Solomons is essential to Allied strategy in the Pacific, so the holding of Malta is imperative ...
Article : 875 wordsNEW YORK, August 15.—"The paramount consideration is winning the war," says Major Eliot the Herald Tribune's military correspondent. ...
Article : 742 wordsLONDON, August 15.—Latest reports indicate that the speed of the German drive in the Caucasus has been slowed down, but hence lighting continues in the two-pronged attack on the key city of Stalingrad. A desperate tank battle in the Kotinikova area gave ...
Article : 788 wordsCANBERRA, August 16.—Green vegetables, properly cooked, will supply all the vitamin nourishment contained in potatoes and will tide ...
Article : 354 wordsEL ALAMEIN, August 15.—(From Ken Siesor). Gunners of an Australian A.A Battery in the coastal sector of the desert front shot down a ...
Article : 276 wordsBRISBANE, August 15.—"The use of meat by Roman Catholics on Fridays, as indicated in the dispensation issued by Pope Pius XII., affects ...
Article : 226 wordsNEW YORK, August 15.—The Tokio official radio says Homma arrived at Tokio from the Philippines and received an audience with Hirohito in ...
Article : 50 wordsWASHINGTON, August 13.—M[?]Stimson has announced the re-organisation of the War Department with various public relations organisations ...
Article : 314 wordsCAIRO, August 15.—Australian and South African Air Forces light bombers on August 15 hit five enemy lighten carrying supplies to Marshal ...
Article : 63 wordsSYDNEY, August 16.—Sir Frederick Stewart addressed the Housewives Association on Saturday and said that in allowing wet canteens in ...
Article : 183 wordsBRISBANE, August 16.—With an unannounced reversal of policy, Australians were allowed into the American canteens yesterday and Americans ...
Article : 444 wordsBRISBANE, August 15—Queensland is ready to set in motion machinery for turning old military uniforms into reserve emergency ...
Article : 149 wordsSYDNEY, August 15—In order to get the actual position of the dairying Industry, a questionnaire was Sent out a few weeks ago to all dairy farmers ...
Article : 206 wordsBRISBANE, August 15.—Army contract priorities applying to the use of available refrigerated railway waggons for carrying beef to southern ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 181 wordsLONDON, August 15.—The Air Ministry says A. E. Clouston, the New Zealand record long range flyer is new engaged in experiments for the ...
Article : 73 wordsMELBOURNE, August 15.—"The beat possible use of the breathing space which we will probably have for a few months more must be made ...
Article : 115 wordsLONDON, August 15.—From August 11 to 14, air operations over the Alamein area have been on a reduced scale save the Air Ministry news ...
Article : 149 wordsSYDNEY, August 16.—Sir Earle Page, on his return from England, said there is no thought in England that this war can be lost. The spirit ...
Article : 77 wordsBRISBANE, August 16.—A protest against criticism of the conduct of A.I.F. men the made by the State President of the Returned Soldiers ...
Article : 143 wordsCANBERRA, August 15—Commenting on criticism of the decision to require union labor for Government clothing contracts, Mr. Curtin said ...
Article : 109 wordsA huge natural swimming pool, in which soldiers, lucky enough to be in the vicinity, take full advantage of a dip was round recently by a party ...
Article : 121 wordsBRISBANE, August 16.—Speaking in the Albert Street Methodist Church to-day, Rev. H. Wheeler said a Royal Commission should be appointed to ...
Article : 128 wordsBRISBANE, August 16.—Although it had been announced during the week that soldiers could drink in the new services canteen in Desmond ...
Article : 74 wordsNEW YORK, August 15.—The convoy system, plus Intensive air patrol, is slowly but surely, reducing the number of ship sinkings in the ...
Article : 90 wordsNEW YORK, August 16.—The "New York Times" Washington correspondent says there is a definite possibility that Chile will break off ...
Article : 120 wordsLONDON, August 16—The German radio station at Bremen want off the air a short time ago, as well as a Nazi station in Holland. This was about the ...
Article : 91 wordsMALTA, August 15.—A communique states Spitfires to-day shot down a German fighter and two enemy bombers were destroyed last night. There ...
Article : 68 wordsLONDON, August 15.—Germans in Holland are deciding the fate of more than 1000 hostages held for "more guilt" for wrecking a German troop ...
Article : 56 wordsBRISBANE, August 16—The Prime Minister (Mr J. Curtin) will arrive in Brisbane tomorrow. Included in the Prime Minister's ...
Article : 46 wordsCANBERRA, August 16—The Commonwealth Government has decided that Army Chaplains will become officers of the Australians Army and will ...
Article : 47 wordsLONDON, August 15.—The Germans in the Western Desert are using a new type of bomb and shell, both of which splinter 30 feet in the ...
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The Townsville Daily Bulletin (Qld. : 1907 - 1909 ; 1912 - 1966), Mon 17 Aug 1942, Page 3
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