WITH GENERAL MACARTHUR'S HQ IN NEW GUINEA, Oct 3.—Finschhafen has been captured. Troops of the Ninth AIF Division after fierce fighting on the spurs above the mission cleaned out the last pockets of Japanese resistance on Saturday morning. By 11 o'clock fighting had ...
Article : 307 wordsOTTAWA, Oct 2.—The Navy Minister (Mr MacDonald) has announced that the Canadian destroyer St Croix, has been torpedoed and ...
Article : 672 wordsLONDON, Oct 3.—While Allied engineers are working hard to recondition the shattered port of Naples, the Fifth Army is pressing northward. In the west coastal sector it is meeting stiff resistance from enemy armour. Its right Bank however has moved rapidly forward to take the ...
Article : 358 wordsLONDON, Oct 3.—"Naples was 'taken' on Friday by a jeep carrying three American correspondents and myself," writes Noel Monks, ...
Article : 547 wordsLONDON, Oct 3.—An Allied HQ communique states: "For the first time heavy bombers from north-west Africa crossed the Alps on ...
Article : 545 wordsLONDON, Oct 3.—Reports from Moscow on the great Russian offensive show that the main fighting at present is centred in the drive into White Russia. There is little news from other parts of the front. Reuters Moscow correspondent states that the Red Army is making Herculean ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 606 wordsLONDON, Oct 3.—Algiers radio gives this French communique: "In violent fighting the enemy has been forced to give ground everywhere ...
Article : 113 wordsLONDON, Oct 3.—It seems uncertain whether the Russians have crossed the Dnieper. Enemy reports speak of fighting on the west flank, ...
Article : 298 wordsWITH GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HQ IN NEW GUINEA, Oct 3.—Japanese attempts to bring supplies to their hardpressed outposts in the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 168 wordsMONTREAL, Oct 3.—How Italy's royal family passed unmolested through the German lines to southern Italy after the German ...
Article : 227 wordsLONDON, Oct 3.—"The advance over the last 12 miles to Naples was a Joy ride for the British and Americans," says Reuters correspondent ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 436 wordsLONDON, Oct 3.—A Cairo communique announced that the enemy early today launched a seaborne and airborne attack against the ...
Article : 114 wordsLONDON, Oct 3.—Reuters Moscow correspondent in a dispatch on Friday night skid: "The battle for the Dnieper over a 400-mile front is ...
Article : 68 wordsLONDON, Oct 3.—Swiss radio gave an official announcement yesterday that four American Flying Fortresses were shot down over east ...
Article : 148 wordsLONDON, Oct 3.—Over Berlin radio the commentator, Capt Sertorius, states that considerable new Allied forces have "already been ...
Article : 149 wordsWITH AUSTRALIAN TROOPS IN MARKHAM VALLEY, Oct 1.—For three days this force has trudged in oppressive heat. It has trudged ...
Article : 314 wordsMACEIO (Brazil), Oct 2.—The Associated Press states that a U-boat twice torpedoed the 5,000-ton Brazilian passenger ship Itapage, which ...
Article : 104 wordsLONDON, Oct 3.—The Moscow communique issued last night states: The Russians today on the Taman Peninsula in the Kuban captured the ...
Article : 256 wordsWITH THE FINSCHHAFEN LANDING FORCE, Sept 27.—No two operations have ever been exactly alike in New Guinea and those ...
Article : 930 wordsLONDON, Oct 3.—In a speech in Germany today the Minister for Propaganda (Dr Goebbels) said, speaking for Hitler who was unable ...
Article : 197 wordsLONDON, Oct 3.—Details of one of the worst shipping tragedies of the war—the sinking without trace last November, of the liner Ceramic ...
Article : 162 wordsNEW YORK, Oct 3.—In an interview at Seattle with the Associated Press the chief of the United States Air Forces (General Arnold) gave ...
Article : 120 wordsLONDON, Oct 3.—The Commander-in-Chief of the German naval forces in the Gulf of Finland (Admiral Boehm), speaking over the ...
Article : 106 wordsLONDON, Oct 3.—Yesterday's German High Command communique stated: "Our forces are withdrawing to prepared mountain ...
Article : 120 wordsLONDON, Oct 3.—The Nazi Minister for Propaganda (Dr Goebbels) in a speech over the Berlin radio said that the monthly bread ration ...
Article : 59 wordsLONDON, Oct 3.—It is officially stated in Algiers that a battalion of American-born Japanese is now in action with the American forces of ...
Article : 37 wordsLONDON, Oct 3.—Referring to the Red Army drive into White Russia, Berlin radio's military commentator (Capt Sertorius) says: "The ...
Article : 85 wordsWITH THE FINSCHHAFEN LANDING FORCE, Sept 28.—Out over the waters of Huon Gulf wasp-like Bostons are circling and ...
Article : 542 wordsLONDON, Oct 3.—Yesterday's Algiers communique stated: "Land—The successful advance of the Fifth Army continues. In addition ...
Article : 165 wordsMELBOURNE, Oct 3.—RAAF kittyhawks flown from Sicily with skeleton ground staffs made up the first Allied air unit to operate as a ...
Article : 454 wordsLONDON, Oct 3.—An interview given by Marshal Badoglio to Allied newspaper correspondents—his first Press interview since the armistice ...
Article : 88 wordsLONDON, Oct 3.—The Berlin correspondent of the Stockholm paper. "Tidningen," quotes a German front-line reporter as indirectly ...
Article : 71 wordsLONDON, Oct 3.—The present position of the Pope in the Vatican was discussed by President Roosevelt at his Press conference, states a ...
Article : 98 wordsLONDON, Oct 3.—The London area had a brief alert early today and anti-aircraft batteries went into action. No incidents were reported. ...
Article : 99 wordsLONDON, Oct 3.—Today's German High Command communique claims: "Local attacks in the Kuban and on the south and central ...
Article : 71 wordsLONDON, Oct 3.—Algiers radio says that British planes have dropped food and arms for Italian patriots and Anglo-American escaped ...
Article : 51 wordsExcept where otherwise designated, the overseas intelligence published in "The West Australian" is transmitted to Australia by the Australian Associated Press ...
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