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Advertising : 317 wordsBRITISH SOLDIERS HAD A NEW EXPERIENCE when they took off their boots before entering the Shwedagon Pagoda in Rangoon. They were amused at the obscure notice at the gateway, "Foot wearing is strictly prohibited." ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 45 wordsLONDON, Friday.—Glasgow gave Mr. Churchill the most tumultous welcome of his tour. A crowd of more than 10,000, after his speech, in which he praised the Scots' courage during the war, stampeded wildly to get near him as he left. The police were overrun, and only a prompt getaway by the Premier's ...
Article : 386 wordsGUAM, FRIDAY.—ONLY ONE OF BETWEEN 450 AND 500 AIR GIANTS, WHICH, BETWEEN THEM, RELEASED ABOUT 3000 TONS OF INCENDIARY BOMBS ON JAPAN TO-DAY, FAILED TO RETURN. ...
Article : 474 wordsOSLO, Friday.—A Norwegian. Erik Johansen, who was a prisoner for four years in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, ...
Article : 134 wordsLONDON, Friday. — R.A.F. officers have disclosed that the Germans had nearly completed preparations to bomb New York ...
Article : 89 wordsLONDON, Friday. — A German gun with a range of 82 miles, designed to fire six-inch shells against London, has been found partly installed on the ...
Article : 108 wordsLONDON, Friday. — The Victoria Cross has been posthumously awarded to Lieut. Claude Raymond, of the Royal Engineers, who, by ignoring wounds which later ...
Article : 73 wordsLONDON, Friday. — German scientists' future plans envisaged the use of the sun's rays to scorch nations and cities out of existence, according to ...
Article : 200 wordsPARIS, Friday. — Between 50 and 100 persons were killed in French Morocco when an express train was derailed, just north of Meknes. The ...
Article : 150 wordsMANILA, Friday.—Allied warships are cruising in the Strait of Macassar between eastern Borneo and the Celebes, it was disclosed yesterday in General MacArthur's communique. Balikpapan, which has been bombed constantly for more than two months and which, according to Tokio, has been ...
Article : 573 wordsLONDON, Friday. — Lady Spears, in a letter to General de Gaulle regarding the closing down of the Hadfield-Speara hospital, renewed her allegation ...
Article : 232 wordsSIMLA, Friday. — A tentative agreement has been reached by the parties attending the Viceroy's conference about the functions of the ...
Article : 155 wordsLONDON, Friday.—Allied troops are engaged in mopping up Japanese over a large area between the Irrawaddy and Sittang rivers, and are ...
Article : 279 wordsSAN DIEGO, Friday.—Vice-Admiral Mitseher revealed that three days after being bombed out of the carrier Bunker Hill, he was forced to leave ...
Article : 151 wordsLONDON, Friday. — The British United Press correspondent in Cologne quotes the city's German Mayor (Dr. Konrad Adenhauer) as saying that ...
Article : 56 wordsLONDON, Friday.—Between the lofty, black-draped walls of an execution chamber constructed like a theatre, with spectators' seats and ...
Article : 196 wordsSAN FRANCISCO, Friday. — Mrs. Dorothy Perry has filed a divorce complaint against the tennis star, Fred Perry, alleging cruelty. They were married in ...
Article : 53 wordsLONDON, Friday. — Three German civilians were hanged at dawn to-day at a military prison in Rhinebach for the murder of an unknown American ...
Article : 120 wordsLONDON, Friday.—The Americans found gold valued at £7,000,000 and weighing four and a half tons beneath the burgomaster's house at Badgastein, ...
Article : 50 wordsOSLO, Friday.—Sonja Henie, on returning to Norway after six years abroad, found that the Germans had stolen both her cars, but her home in the outskirts ...
Article : 84 wordsOKINAWA, Friday. — A Marine, Lieut. George Thompson, and four other Marines watched 200 Japanese surrender to the lure of ...
Article : 239 wordsMALTA, Friday.—Bubonic plague has broken out, and four confirmed cases have been reported. The military and civil authorities are co-operating to take ...
Article : 100 wordsCHUNGKING, Friday.—The High Command has announced that the Chinese, in the battle for Liuchow, have seized a part of the former ...
Article : 127 wordsLONDON, Friday.—British military police are stamping out murder, rape and robbery by displaced persons in the Ruhr, where the Nazis employed ...
Article : 146 wordsBOSTON, Friday. — Admiral King told the annual Meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association that the "invasion of the Japanese Empire is ...
Article : 75 wordsLONDON, Friday. — Warsaw Radio has announced the composition of the new Polish Government. It is stated in London that the new regime will be required to provide a pledge that free, secret elections will be held in Poland. It was reported yesterday that, anticipating the withdrawal of British recognition and financial aid, the Polish Government in London was seeking ...
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Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 - 1954), Sat 30 Jun 1945, Page 1
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