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NEW YORK, May ll.—American Super Fortresses have laid large numbers of mines in Japanese home waters, including the inland sea between Shikoku and Honshu Island. One of the mine laying operations is described…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Canberra, May 11.—Australia's Great War No. 1 Prime Minister, Mr. W. M. Hughey, today launched a bitter attack on the seven years' limitation imposed on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CANBERRA.—Australia's expenditure on war for the past 12 months was £387 millions, or almost £10 millions a week…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →From Bob Nelson, on Bougainville, May 13.—News of final victory in the European war was flashed to all Australian units on Bougainville by Army signal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Orange, May 11—Card Hutchinson (20), soldier, was shot dead in a gun duel with the police at Orange early this evening. Hutchinson, who it is stated bad ran…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY.—An ex-serviceman, Anthony Murray (25), of Coogee, was killed, and his bride of three weeks was seriously injured at Randwick…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →London, May 13.—The death is announced, following an illness, of the Vichy Minister for Justice, Joseph Barthelemy, According to Paris radio he…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →NEW YORK. May 14.—The huge bronze swastika before which the Nazi faithful performed their rituals in the city of Nuremberg is coming…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, May 16.—A German Army Corps, which surrendered at Bremerhaven, has been put to work repairing railways, roads, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, May 16.—A soldier husband who killed his wife's lover with 19 shots from a Sten tommy-gun walked out of Bedford Assizes a free man. The jury found the soldier, Edward William Jones (32) not guilty of murder, but guilty…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The fact that the war with Japan remains to be won, even although peace has come to Europe was poignantly brought home to Mrs. Gill when she…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CANBERRA.— The Treasurer, M[?] Chifley, gave notice in the House [?] Representatives today of his intentio to move next week for leave to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Nothing very startling has occurred In the Pacific war situation. However, at Okinawa fighting has been very bitter and attended by heavy losses…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, May 17.— Ninety-three German staff officers, including Field-Marshal Kesselring and General Guderian, were moved on Wednesday from the luxury of Berchtesgadenhof, says a "Daily Express" special…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →London, May 17.—Not only Admiral Doenitz and Marshal Goering but Generals Kesselring and Von Runstedt are being held as war prisoners. General Eisenhower's Deputy Military Governor, Lieut-General Clay, told SHAEF correspondents that Goering…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BRISBANE.— Two men were killed and three others were injured when a live shell was fired from a tank striking the turret of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Washington, May 18. It is [?] that [?] have now present the [?] as the total just announced, [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →London, May 18.— Civilian [?] in the London region during the war comprised 20,800 Killed and 30,742 injured and detained in hospital. There were many…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →THERE is rising indignation in Britain concerning the soft treatment accorded some Nazi high-ups now held captive by the Allies. Indeed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, May I8.—A vast flow of men and material from Europe to the Pacific is gathering apace. Already there is almost enough material in first-class condition to defeat the Japanese. Eight thousand men a day are going…
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