Gaunt and emaciated, but with new hope, these Allied prisoners of war, released from a camp near Yokohama, packed up to leave for home after their release by mercy squadrons of the U.S. Navy. (U.S. Office of War Information ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 48 wordsMOUNTBATTEN'S H.Q., Sept. 7.— A terrible story of torture, starvation, and brutality by the Japanese is told by Lieut.-Colonel J. M. Williams, Proctor ...
Article : 121 wordsSydney warmly greeted yesterday the first group of prisoners of war whose return had been announced in advance. The welcome would have been even more ...
Article : 726 wordsThe Acting Premier, Mr. Baddeley, and many Labour members of the State Parliament, it is believed, are keenly ...
Article : 426 words"There were three A.I.F. battalions fighting on the west coast of Java—the 2/2nd Pioneers, 2/3rd Machine-gunners, and a ...
Article : 589 wordsYOKOHAMA, Sept. 7.—More than 20 Australian survivors from the Japanese transport, Rakyo Maru, which was one of ...
Article : 471 wordsWASHINGTON, Sept. 7 (A.A.P.).—Among recommendations he has made to Congress, President Truman has urged ...
Article : 196 wordsSHANGHAI, Sept. 7.—The Deputy Chief of the Japanese 13th Army, Lieutenant-General Toii Minfu, received his surrender instructions in Shanghai to-day from Lieutenant-General Chen Shu-sun, of the Third ...
Article : 402 words"Many camps we slept in were previously occupied by coolies and were filthy. In one such camp mud was 18 inches deep in ...
Article : 520 wordsOSLO, Sept. 7 (A.A.P.).—As Norway's laws did not permit capital punishment at the time when Vidkun Quisling, allegedly ...
Article : 143 wordsLONDON, Sept. 7 (A.A.P.)— The telephone service between Britain, Australia, and New Zealand will be opened again for ...
Article : 124 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—Some controls whose relaxation was announced on Wednesday by the Minister for Post-war ...
Article : 195 wordsOTTAWA, Sept. 7 (A.A.P.).— The Red Ensign will be used as the Canadian flag, pending Parliament's approval of a ...
Article : 132 wordsThere were scenes of excitement and confusion at Central Railway Station late yesterday afternoon when a special train ...
Article : 167 wordsLONDON, Sept. 7 (A.A.P.).— Two Australians were in the "human mine-sweeper" division of the Royal Navy, it is now ...
Article : 85 wordsLONDON, Sept. 7 (A.A.P.).— The Control Commission in the British zone in Germany is carrying out a sweeping ...
Article : 107 words"Men were sentenced to five years' solitary confinement if caught talking to natives. "We had to number in Japanese on ...
Article : 526 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.—The Minister for Air, Mr. Drakeford, said to-day that several R.A.A.F. flying and ground staff training ...
Article : 123 wordsApplication forms and posters for the 4th Victory Loan have been sent to Tokyo by air. Mr. C. F. Lewis, N.S.W. Deputy ...
Article : 72 wordsLONDON, Sept. 7.—A new east-to-west Atlantic air record was esablished yesterday by an R.A.F. Mosquito. ...
Article : 94 wordsHELSINKI, Sept. 7 (A.A.P.).—A typhus epidemic is raging here and spreading fast. A total of 2,350 cases has been ...
Article : 29 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—The Minister for Air, Mr. Drakeford, said in the House of Representatives to-day that there had been no delays in ...
Article : 68 wordsLABUAN, Sept. 7.—All the Australian prisoner of war— mostly officers—at Kuching, western Borneo, are in good ...
Article : 193 wordsLONDON, Sept. 7 (A.A.P.).—No fewer than 288 new commercial vessels are at present building, or on order, for famous shipping lines, including ...
Article : 71 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—A Douglas airliner with a full complement of 23 passengers reached Canberra to-day on one engine ...
Article : 124 wordsBRISBANE, Friday.—Trams resumed normal running in Brisbane to-day after a nine days' strike by employees. ...
Article : 47 wordsLONDON, Sept. 7 (A.A.P.).—The Australian Minister for External Affairs, Dr. Evatt, has arrived in the Lancastrian airliner, after 4 flight ...
Article : 34 wordsLONDON, Sept. 7 (A.A.P.).—The last Spanish troops have left the international zone at Tangier under the order of the Allied Control Council. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 8 Sep 1945, Page 3
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