SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, May 25.—Switching from lea which had been the focal point of Allied air attacks for a fortnight, our aircraft yesterday carried out a heavy plastering of the main Japanese aerodrome at Vunakunau, 12 miles south of Rabaul. The attack was ...
Article : 370 wordsSOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, May 25.—The phrase "air strength in the Pacific," which was used glibly and more or less unthinkingly ...
Article : 1,003 wordsSYDNEY, May 25.—In an Empire Day address to members of the Royal Empire Society today the Minister for the Army (Mr Forde) ...
Article : 658 wordsWELLINGTON, May 25.—In marked contrast to the reception given to the SW Pacific Commander- in-Chief (General MacArthur) in ...
Article : 137 wordsCAIRO, May 25.—Yesterday's RAF communique said that night fighters over Malta on Friday night shot down a Breda 20 and on Saturday ...
Article : 53 wordsExcept where otherwise designated the overseas intelligence published in "The West Australian" is transmitted to Australia by the Australian Associated Press ...
Article : 32 wordsMEXICO CITY, May 24.—Thousands of Mexicans demonstrated against the Axis Powers at a huge meeting in the central plaza here ...
Article : 112 wordsCANBERRA, May 25.—A sidelight on the importance to the Pacific theatre of Mexico's declaration of war on the Axis was provided in a ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 107 wordsWASHINGTON, May 24.—The United States has added 323 firms and individuals in Latin American and neutral European countries to ...
Article : 29 wordsNEW YORK, May 24.—Writing in the "New York Times". Mr Hanson Baldwin, the paper's military and naval expert, states: "The influence ...
Article : 416 wordsWASHINGTON, May 24.—The Navy announced today that a medium-sized US merchantman was torpedoed and sunk off the Cuban ...
Article : 101 wordsNEW YORK, May 24.—The Associated Press reports from Buenos Aires that an official of the Argentine State merchant fleet said today ...
Article : 151 wordsWASHINGTON, May 24.—President Roosevelt has approved of a plan whereby mothers who have lost sons in the armed services will be ...
Article : 70 wordsSYDNEY, May 25.—John Dallas Gavan (20), of a home defence unit, was accidentally shot dead while on military manoeuvres in the ...
Article : 40 wordsCHUNGKING, May 25.—A hundred thousand Japanese are battering from three directions at the Chinese defences on the outskirts of ...
Article : 207 wordsNEW DELHI, May 25.—General Stilwell, who commanded the Chinese forces in Burma, has arrived here for a conference with the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 170 wordsLONDON, May 25.—A special correspondent of the "Dally Telegraph" says that before the British attack on Madagascar commandos ...
Article : 90 wordsLONDON, May 25.—The Berlin radio says that Italy's battleship strength now exceeds her total of June, 1940. The warships damaged ...
Article : 144 wordsWASHINGTON, May 25.—Brig-General James Doolittle, leader of the recent American air raid on Japan, declared over the radio last ...
Article : 130 wordsNEW YORK, May 24.—The moot question of what army girls will wear has been settled, the War Department having announced that the ...
Article : 90 wordsLONDON, May 25.—The German radio announced yesterday that Italian, German and Japanese military staff officers had met in Rome. ...
Article : 30 wordsLONDON, May 25.—Two south- coast towns were attacked by enemy raiders last night. "There was some district over coastal districts of ...
Article : 127 wordsMELBOURNE, May 25.—Because of their teamwork and determination to put all their energy into their studies, Australian air crew trainees ...
Article : 127 wordsNEW YORK, May 24.—The "New York Times" says that private advices from Europe predict the imminent removal by the Germans of M ...
Article : 230 wordsLONDON, May 24.—Recent air raids have demonstrated in a remarkable manner the value of the Morrison indoor shelters. During a ...
Article : 375 wordsLONDON, May 24.—A doctor aboard a bucking destroyed in a gale sad to be held wedged against an operating table by another officer ...
Article : 138 wordsLONDON, May 24.—One man was fatally injured, 2 were seriously hurt and 2 slightly when a gun exploded at the Denham Film Studios during ...
Article : 59 wordsLONDON, May 25.—No major change in the Kharkov bottle is reported. The latest Russian communiques refer to offensive operations and consolidation of positions without making specific territorial claims. It appears that the main fighting is in the Isyum-Barvenkova ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 979 wordsLONDON, May 24.—A British United Press message from Lisbon says that information has come from a reliable source that Germany has ...
Article : 84 wordsLONDON, May 25.—The Berlin radio says that a Russian submarine sank the Turkish motor vessel' Safat 1 mile off Bulgaria. Nine of the ...
Article : 32 wordsLONDON, May 24.—A crowded meeting at the London Hippodrome organised by the "Daily Express" passed a resolution welcoming the ...
Article : 120 wordsLONDON, May 24.—The diplomatic correspondent of the Daily Telegraph" states that Field Marshal Gering's establishment of a ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 248 wordsLONDON, May 24.—A radio report from Stockholm says that Australian troops have arrived in Iceland. No Information in London suggests that ...
Article : 63 wordsTORONTO, May 24.—In a speech to the Canadian Institute of International Affairs the New Zealand Minister to the United States (Mr ...
Article : 109 wordsCAIRO, May 25.—Yesterday's RAF communique said that bomber and, fighter activity on Saturday was on an increased scale over Cirenaica. ...
Article : 242 wordsWASHINGTON, May 24.—In a debris-covered area at Honesdale, Pennsylvania, at least 32 dead have been counted and many others are ...
Article : 159 wordsLONDON. May 25.—A considerable detachment of members of the Royal Australian Air Force has arrived in England. They came ...
Article : 29 wordsLONDON. May 25.—The British United Press correspondent in Ankara says that approximately 100,000 Poles from Siberlan prisons will join ...
Article : 55 wordsCAIRO, May 25.—Gaza House, which is for use by the Australian soldiers in the Middle East, opened its doors last week 25 years after the ...
Article : 235 wordsLONDON. May 24.—"War gases— their nature, effects and treatment," is the title of a new penny folder issued by the. Ministry of Home ...
Article : 108 wordsLONDON, May 25.—The "Daily Telegraph's" New Delhi correspondent says that Dr Henry Grady, leader of the American technical ...
Article : 199 wordsSYDNEY, May 25.—A dispute at Malleable Castings Pty, Ltd, where a number of moulders were alleged to have ceased work because of a ...
Article : 107 wordsIt was a still night with half a moon and a light rain falling among the broad-leaf trees. In the tent alongside me a man stirred ...
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