Fighting in the Dove Bay Area, east of Wewak, has flared up suddenly, with the Japs making a number of bold attacks and attempting to infiltrate and harass our positions on the coast. The Australian forces suffered casualties in repulsing these determined ...
Article : 867 wordsWASHINGTON, Sunday.—The War Department announces that two new incendiary bombs are being used against Japan. One, ...
Article : 104 wordsHOBART, Sunday.—"I will fight these obstructionists until I win. I will not accept defeat on this vital matter of employment for our soldiers and protection and regeneration of our forest assets," said the Minister for Forests (Mr. Taylor) to-night, when attacking members of the Legislative Council for ...
Article : 529 words"HERE'S SOMETHING TO HELP TUE BATH ALONG," said Flying-Officer E. A. McKenzie, of N.S.W., as he douched Pilot-Officer Arnold Webster, N.S.W., with a bucket of cold water. Pilot-Officer Webster was washing off the Arakan dust in a portable bath outside his bamboo ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 51 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday. — Cargo valued at £8000 has disappeared from an Australian ship. It comprised 20 bales of cotton piece goods, ...
Article : 221 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday.—Early action is expected toward laying the foundations of an export trade which will put the Commonwealth in the race for world markets. Thc race has already begun, and some Federal ministers are concerned that ...
Article : 448 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday. — The medical secretary of the Victorian branch of the B.M.A. (Dr. C. H. Dickson) said yesterday the ...
Article : 184 wordsAccording to the chairman of the U.S.A. War Production Board (Mr. J. A. Krug), the tremendously expanded military needs of the ...
Article : 387 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday. — Conditions in the teaching profession were quoted by the secretary of the Victorian Teachers' Union (Mr. ...
Article : 217 wordsADELAIDE, Sunday.—Members of the Adelaide Stock Exchange were unofficially informed yesterday morning that Mr. H. W. Hodgetts, well-known Adelaide ...
Article : 133 wordsLONDON, Sunday.—A German crew scuttled a U-boat which surfaced at dawn two miles north of Leixoes (Portugal), says the Associated Press correspondent ...
Article : 46 wordsLONDON, Sunday.—A standard reconnaissance Mosquito, piloted, by Squadron Leader K. J. Newman, of Hokianga, New Zealand, covered 4700 ...
Article : 194 wordsLONDON, Sunday. — Three unnamed Czech Army volunteers, dropped by parachutes from a British plane, killed Reinhardt ...
Article : 355 wordsLONDON, Sunday. — The British Second Army has captured two more senior Nazi officials, General Hans Juttner, Himmler's deputy chief of the home army, ...
Article : 138 wordsADELAIDE, Sunday. — The charred body of a man believed to be Melville Coker (about 35), single, of Salisbury, was found at St. Kilda in the ashes ...
Article : 106 wordsLONDON, Sunday.—The Moscow-Berlin military highway, stretching about 1100 miles, has now been fully restored along its entire length, saya Reuter's Moscow ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 717 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday. — Police and ambulance men had to smash into a locked house in Alexandria to-day to remove Mrs. Agnes Wilson (82), who had been ...
Article : 98 wordsAccording to a statement issued by the office of the British High Commissioner in Canberra, Britain's finances have been so ...
Article : 120 wordsLONDON, Sunday.—Allied authorities state that 189,046 German soldiers have been removed from Denmark. Ten million kroner taken from German ...
Article : 54 wordsLONDON, Sunday.—The world's, richest convoy, with some lorries carrying as much as £22,000,000, recently drove from Merkers, near Mulhausen, to ...
Article : 83 wordsLONDON, Sunday. — British, American and Russian intelligence sevices which, since Hitler was reported to be dead on May 1, have been ...
Article : 78 wordsTarakan Island, off the north coast of Borneo, on which troops of Australia's Ninth Division are fighting, will probably come to be known to many of its invaders as the island of contrasts. Never before, even in the mixed compound of races and customs of the Middle East, and the many facets of ...
Article : 876 wordsLONDON, Sunday. — Scores or British troops and marines we iniured, though few are believed to have been killed when a German ...
Article : 77 wordsLONDON, Sunday.—General Eisenhower has sent a message to all members under his command announcing that the first anniversary of the Normandy ...
Article : 104 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday.—The Army, and not the Disposals Conmission, released trucks for use by essential users, the Disposals spokesman said yesterday. ...
Article : 97 wordsLONDON, Sunday. — The Pope, broadcasting from his study in the Vatican, traced the history of the Roman Catholic Church's relations ...
Article : 335 wordsCHUNGKING, Sunday. — The High Command to-day announced that the Chinese had captured the important highway junction of ...
Article : 230 wordsLONDON, Sunday. — "Colonel Britton." mystery radio leader, who played an important part in building up the resistance ...
Article : 168 wordsNEW YORK, Sunday. — The American Baptist Foreign Mission Society roports that the Japanese beheaded 11 Baptist missionaries and one ...
Article : 33 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday.—Many men with long battle service would be retained in the forces under the Government plan, said the president of the Victorian ...
Article : 159 wordsLONDON, Sunday. — In a match at [?] yesterday the R.A.A.F. defeated an R.A.A.F. eleven by 10 runs. The R.A.A.F. batted first, and was ...
Article : 76 wordsSTOCKHOLM, Sunday. — The Swedish Red Cross, in answer to an urgent appeal is sending a medical mission by air to aid 30,000 Russians, formerly prisoners of war ...
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