LONDON, April 9.—The end of the defence of Batan, as described by the United States Secretary for War (Mr. Stimson), is told in a Washington message. Mr. Stimson said a force of about 36,800 Americans and Filipinos went down fighting against ...
Article : 1,087 wordsLONDON, April 10.—An Admiralty communique announces that the aircraft carrier Hermes, Captain R. E. J. Onslow, was sunk by a Japanese air ...
Article : 122 wordsThe aircraft carrier Hermes, which has been sunk in the Indian Ocean. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 24 wordsNews from an advance R.A.A.F. base reports a highly successful raid on Thursday afternoon on an enemy aerodrome, shipping and wharves at ...
Article : 286 wordsNEW DELHI, April 9.—A general understanding on the male point between the Congress leaders and Sir Stafford Cripps has been as good as ...
Article : 738 wordsMELBOURNE, April 10.—A warning that the Japanese air power was not shrinking was given by Mr. Drakeford to-day. "Our air blows in ...
Article : 506 wordsLONDON, April 9.—A Cairo R.A.F. communique reports: The R.A.F. Tuesday night attacked targets in Liby. Fighters are carrying out ...
Article : 326 wordsMELBOURNE, April 10.—"The Allies have been on the offensive against the Japanese in the past two weeks," said Lieut.-General Brett ...
Article : 323 wordsLONDON, April 9.—The Berlin radio claimed that, after four days' heavy fighting, the German forces smashed four Russian regiments and ...
Article : 683 wordsLONDON, April 9.—Chinese forces are still fighting on the Sittang front in Burma. They engaged Japanese troops across the Burma Road between ...
Article : 309 wordsMELBOURNE, April 10.—Although the sinking of the British cruisers Dorsetshire and Cornwall by Jap bombers in the Indian Ocean is a ...
Article : 265 wordsNEW YORK, April 8.—Two bundred prominent intellectuals, including Professor Einstein, Miss Dorothy Thompson, Mr. McLeish, Stgrid ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 96 wordsSYDNEY, April 10—It was estimated to-day that 20,000 tons of coal were lost to production this week through the miners' strikes. There were five ...
Article : 278 wordsATHERTON, April 7.—A few weeks of very oppressive weather have been the means of drying the ground thoroughly. On Thursday, however, there was a break ...
Article : 828 wordsNEW DELHI, April 10.—Mr. Pandit Nehru issued a stirring appeal in the Campaign House to rouse the Indiana Inside and outside India to resist ...
Article : 208 wordsLONDON, April 9.—The two British cruisers, the Cornwall (of 10,000 tons) and the Dorsetshire (9975 tons) were sunk in the Indian Ocean as a result ...
Article : 249 wordsSYDNEY, April 10.—About 500 employees are on strike at a New South Wales munitions factory They are members of the Amalgamated ...
Article : 96 wordsBRISBANE, April 10.—The Q.T.C. committee to-day decided not to stage the Brisbane Cup carnival meeting this year. The fixture was scheduled ...
Article : 108 wordsSTOCKHOLM, April 10.—The "Tidningen's" correspondent at Oslo says Quisling has arrested and sent to a concentration camp, the Bishop of ...
Article : 103 wordsLONDON, April 9.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill), receiving a cheque for £35,000 from Danes in London for the purchase of Spitfires, said: ...
Article : 137 wordsNEW YORK, April 9.—The "Times" Washington correspondent says the Administration is considering a major increase in the present ...
Article : 139 wordsBRISBANE, April 10.—Sir Raphael Cliento left Brisbane to-night to investigate work being done in North Queensland to prevent the ...
Article : 95 wordsLONDON, April 8.—A woman working to avenge her husband's death is believed to be the new leader of the illegal Irish Republican Army, says ...
Article : 81 wordsWASHINGTON, April 9.—President Roosevelt, in a message to King Haakon on the second anniversary of the invasion of Norway on April 9, ...
Article : 89 wordsOTTAWA, April 9.—Dr. Evatt spent two hours with members of the R.A.A.F. among whom was the Queensland rugdy player, "Bimbo" ...
Article : 102 wordsWASHINGTON, April 8.—Colonel Eugene Eubank, of the Army Air Corps, who has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for leading a ...
Article : 67 wordsCOLOMBO, April 9.—It is officially stated the attack on Trincomalee was carried out by a large force of bombers and fighters, of which six were ...
Article : 140 wordsLONDON, April 9.—The intensification of the R.A.F.'s offensive against German controlled targets in France, Belgium and Holland is assured by the ...
Article : 108 wordsBRISBANE, April 10.—Fourteen waggons were derailed when two goods trains collided head-on at Eumundi to-night. The crews of both ...
Article : 77 wordsMELBOURNE, April 10.—The arrested members of the Australia First Movement are likely to be publicly charged and tried. This has been ...
Article : 86 wordsLONDON, April 9.—This morning two enemy aircraft dropped bombs on a town on the South Coast of England. There was a small number of ...
Article : 36 wordsSANTIAGO (Chile), April 9.—Salvador Ucampo, Under-Secretary to the Chilean Federation of Workers, in a statement to-day, said that Chilean ...
Article : 75 wordsLONDON, April 9.—The "Times" diplomatic correspondent says the heavy Bulgarian troops movements into Serbia are the first result of King ...
Article : 137 wordsBRISBANE, April 10.—L. Petersen, [?] was disqualified when he struck A. Walker, Sydney, junior middleweight, 11.4. Stadium to-night. Walker was on the floor ...
Article : 81 wordsFurther news comes from New Guinea of the Japanese treatment of the natives at Salamaua. Natives who were captured on the ...
Article : 107 wordsLONDON, April 9.—With the sinking of an Italian cruiser in the Mediterranean, announced by the Admiralty communique to-day, five of the seven ...
Article : 44 wordsNEW YORK, April 9.—The Speaker of the House of Representatives (Mr Rayburn) addressing a unity rally at Sulphur Springs, disclosed the United ...
Article : 80 wordsSTOCKHOLM, April 9.—On the second anniversary of the German occupation of Norway, the Government introduced a Defence Bill in the ...
Article : 48 wordsMELBOURNE, April 10.—Another aluminium fabrication factory will be erected immediately at a cost of £760,000 stated the Prime Minister ...
Article : 48 wordsNEW YORK, April 9.—The Tokio Radio states the Domel Agency has reported that 63 diplomats captured in Hongkong would be sent home under ...
Article : 41 wordsLONDON, April 10.—The Admiralty states that British submarines sank one large and one medium sized supply ship in the Mediterranean. ...
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The Townsville Daily Bulletin (Qld. : 1907 - 1909 ; 1912 - 1966), Sat 11 Apr 1942, Page 5
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