GUAM, Sunday.—Before dawn this morning about 225 Super-Fortresses from Guam, Tinian and Saipan launched a great assault on the Mitsubishi aircraft plant on the outskirts of Nagoya. The raiders pounded the plant with high explosive ...
Article : 663 wordsAt the Air Maintenance Unit Depot where parachutes are packed for dropping supplies to Australians operating against the Japanese in the Aitape Area of New Guinea, Pte. Wally Graham of Kyogle, N.S.W., attaches a parachute to a large case standing on the scales and weighing ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 69 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday.—A tightening up in the control of butter coupons was announced by the Director of Rationing (Mr. J. B. Cumming) to-day. He said it was essential that all butter above the ration for civilians be saved in order to maintain supplies on as high a level as possible to the services ...
Article : 362 wordsA Chinese student studying aviation engineering at a U.S. Army air base in the Western United States concentrates on the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 49 wordsMELBOURNE, Sun.—Freely using the bayonet, the Australians made a fast advance to take the Dagua airstrip in New Guinea, and clear out Japanese from an extensive pillbox system near Tokinotu, on Bougainville (Solomons). ...
Article : 261 wordsCANBERRA, Sunday. — On the success or failure of the San Francisco security conference hinged the future of the world for peace ...
Article : 255 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday. — The first two weeks of the £100,000,000 Third Victory Loan campaign will end on Monday, with the rate of ...
Article : 409 wordsLONDON, Sunday.—In a message to all troops of the Twenty-first Army group before the attack across the ...
Article : 399 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday. — Repetition of the complete stoppage yesterday of Sydney and Neweastle tram and bus sorvices is threatened next Saturday ...
Article : 128 wordsLONDON, Sunday.—The National Council of the Independent Labor party, in what it calls "a socialist plan for Britain" for submission ...
Article : 269 wordsWASHINGTON, Sunday.—High Army and Navy commanders have disclosed that the defeat of Germany will mark the beginning of ...
Article : 179 wordsLONDON, Sunday. — Soichi Tcraoka, a British-born Japanese, who is a private in the R.A.M.C, was persistently pressed ...
Article : 103 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday. — Claiming that punishment of black marketing, price and rationing offences was inadequate, the Minister for Customs ...
Article : 73 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday. — Making three trips, an A.N.A. Douglas brought six tons of crayfish and fish fillets to Molbourno from Flinders Island ...
Article : 81 wordsCANBERRA, Sunday. — A scheme is being prepared under which the Commonwealth will buy surplus dressed poultry coming on the market and place ...
Article : 72 wordsLONDON, Sunday.—The Victoria Cross has been awarded to Squadron-Leader Robert, Anthony Palmer, D.F.C. (24), of the R.A.F., who ...
Article : 219 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday. — Flown by plane from King Island to Melbourne vosterday in an effort to save her life, Lola Perry (11), of Currie, K.I., who ...
Article : 110 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday. — Behind the campaign being launched to step up consumption of potatoes in Victoria is an attempt to change ...
Article : 331 wordsLONDON, Sunday. — When armadas of planes swept over the eastern coast of England yesterday morning people ran out into their ...
Article : 137 wordsLONDON, Sunday. — The Germanexecuted seven Danish patriots lmme diately after a court-martial. They were refused the right to appoal. ...
Article : 32 wordsLAUNCESTON, Sunday.—The Bourke Cup, rowed over a mile and an eighth of the home reach course on the Tamar yesterday, resulted in a comfortable win ...
Article : 126 wordsLONDON, Sunday. — "Across the Rhine nothing was to be seen yesterday but smoke drifting gently against the bright, blue, cloudless sky," says a ...
Article : 156 wordsWASHINGTON. Sunday. — The Surplus Property Board has announced the allocation of five Lockheed Lodestar and two Douglas DC3 aeroplanes to the ...
Article : 60 wordsCHRISTCHURCH. (N.Z.), Sunday. — Running amok with a rifle, a farmer killed a soldier and an elderly widow before shooting himself at Balearin ...
Article : 65 wordsHOBART, Sunday.—Unless the Hobart Greyhound Racing Club agrees to accept nominations from members of the Greyhound Owners, Trainers and Breeders' ...
Article : 146 wordsHOME, Sunday. — Prince Umberto's presence at a requiem [?] for 340 Italians whom the Germans shot aroused hostilo demonstrations. When ...
Article : 57 wordsLONDON, Sunday.—The British and American naval forces which ferried Montgomery's forces and heavy equipment across the Rhine rehearsed for ...
Article : 236 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday. — A new record term for a Labor Premier of N.S.W. will be achieved by Mr. W. J. M'Kell to-morrow. His term of office will then ...
Article : 77 wordsMADRID Sunday. — The Spanish Foreign Minister announced that Spain had sent a strong note to Japan protesting against atrocitie's committed by ...
Article : 73 wordsROME, Sunday. — Reuter's corre spondcnt at Vatican City roported thal the Pope yesterday excommunicated Don Tullig Calcagno, priest of the ...
Article : 51 wordsNEW YORK, Sunday.—The Domei Agency broadeast, quoted by Tokio Radio, says sharp queries on Japan's defence policy were tossed ...
Article : 310 wordsAfter eight months with the British East Indies Fleet, the destroyers H.M.A.S. Norman and Nepal have returned to Australia. ...
Article : 158 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday. — The latest R.A.A.F. casualty list contains the names of 118 members serving overseas snd 20 in Australia and the Australian ...
Article : 64 wordsLONDON, Sunday. —The British United Press correspondent nt FieldMarshal [?]'s headquarters says the fighting east of the Rhine is ...
Article : 233 wordsATHENS. Sunday.—The Regent of Greece (ARchbishop Damaskinos) has decorated General Seobie, Commander of the British forces in Greece, with ...
Article : 46 wordsHOBART, Sunday. — With the serious shortage of homes, only public buildings of an urgent nature could be erected by the ...
Article : 141 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—Australia made a bold move when at a time that it had no capital ships of its own it decided to construct a huge dock for such vessels, the Duke of Gloucester declared yesterday when officially opening Sydney's graving dock, which is the largest of its kind in the Southern ...
Article : 297 wordsLONDON, Sunday.—Luxembourg Radio broadcast a proclamation from General Eisenhower, addressed to the German Army, threatening severe punishment for ...
Article : 32 wordsGUAM, Sunday.—Admiral Nimitz has announced that Japanese aircraft Bank a 4000ton escort carrier in the Bismarck Sea on Feb. 21, off Iwo Jima. ...
Article : 85 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday. — Mr. O. W. Walters, of Manly. N.S.W., is the winner in the ballad section of the Australian song competition organised by ...
Article : 66 wordsCHUNGKING, Sunday. — The Chi nese High Command has announced that the Japanese have captured Ich eng, only 55 miles from the America: ...
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