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PICTURED WITH HIS CHINESE WIFE is Major-General Claire Chennault, who says the Communist conquest of China means United States is being drawn into a third world war. Gen. Chennault. former leader of the famous Flying Tigers, added people on the Pacific coast could be sure that World War III. would begin with the Pacific…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Washington, May 5.—Unittd States officials were highly sceptical about the successful conclusion between Russian and the Western Powers…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →London. May 9.—The radio battle between Western Russian broadcasting stations was resumed yesterday when several B.B.C. and Voice…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Brisbane.—An eye of Trevor Keith Dare, a 2-year-old boy who was electrocuted at his home on Monday, may…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →London, May 11.—Detective. Inspector George Chesney of Scotland Yard has been ordered to read the American war novel…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Melbourne, May 13.—The establishment of a joint war production committee was announced today by the Minister for Defence, Mr. Dedman. Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tokio, May 17—Military plant valued at £100,000 has been found at two industrial plants about 60 miles north of Tokio…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Bombay, May 16—Troops today took over the manning of Born bay's water pumping, stations and purification works because of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Canberra. May 16.—Australia would play an increasingly important part in Pacific defence since the appointment of the Joint War Production Committee the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tokio, May 23— A New Zealand Soldier, clad in rags, gave himself up to a United States provost in Yokohama last week. He is Private…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Detroit, May 25.—Victor Reuther, brother of Walter Reuther (President of the American United Automobile Workers Union), was shot in the face…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr Jahn Storey, wartime director of the Beaufort Division of the Department of Aircraft Production, has…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cologne, May 29.—Herr Erich Onnerhaber (vice-chairman of the Social Democratic Party) told a party congress tonight that…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →GEN. LUCIUS D. CLAY got a big hug and a "welcome home, massa" from Reuben Johnson, his 88-year-old gardener, when he returned to his Marietta, Georgia, home last week from Germany, where he recently retired as U.S. Military Governor…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →La Pax, June 2.—Bolivia stands on the brink of civil war and with a state of siege and general mobilisation already ordered the Government…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sydney.—Since the war, 50.000 homes have been erected in New south Wales. The 50,000th home completed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Berlin, June 6.— An American soldier was stabbed four times this afternoon by a Russian…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Launceston.—It was announced at the annual conference of Tasmanian branch of the Returned Servicemen's League at Devonport…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ottawa.—Canadian, British and United States soldiers and scientists have completed an intense series of cold weather tests in the Hudson's Bay area— a crowded winter of research on the problem of waging war in the Arctic. Top secrets are now being prepared for study by military experts in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sydney, June 6.—The Federal Conference of the War Widows' Guild will present to the Federal Government a petition sinned by 12,000 war widows…
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