Final All-out Assault on Cherbourg
THE FINAL AMERICAN ASSAULT ON THE ALMOST COMPLETELY ENCIRCLED FORTRESS OF CHERBOURG BEGAN AT 2 P.M. YESTERDAY, BEING PRECEDED BY THE HEAVIEST BLASTING FROM THE AIR YET…
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Courts & crime, 1944
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All-out Assault on Cherbourg Violent Artillery Barrage
The final all-out American assault on the now almost completely encircled fortress of Cherbourg began at 2 p.m. yesterday, being preceded by the heaviest blasting from the air yet concentrated against a single area…
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All hotel-keepers in Singleton but one yesterday appeared before Mr. J. McElroy, P.M., in the special licensing, court, the have…
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After Mr. Gray departed, Mr. E. Denny Day was appointed P.M. He was very just and strict, keeping the police as well as citizens up to the…
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LONDON June — The final all-out American assault against the fortress of Cherbourg began at 2 p.m. to-day, being concentrated against the ring of defences on the heights west and south-west of the city, where the Germans appeared in strength…
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John Henry Rohan, of Moore Street, Cessnock, a second-class shiftman at Bellbird colliery, who was injured on the way home from work on October 19…
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SYDNEY Saturday— Frederick Jackson, 39 motor driver, charged with housebreaking would probably be crippled for life through…
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A charge against James Smith, of Bourke-street, West Maitland, of having committed a breach of the Auctioneers’ Act was listed…
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NEWCASTLE Monday — The case in which Allan Gorgon Dugan (28), police constable, is charged, under the National…
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John Wesley Hicks. 48, a showman, pleaded guilty at West Maitland court to-day to having used indecent language in the…
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NEWCASTLE Mon.—Cleveland Atkinson (33), lorry driver, was fined £10, or 20 days, in the Police Court to-day for stealing four…
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(AUCKLAND (NZ) MondayâA married woman, Helen Lewis, 32, whose husband is working in another town, was charged with…
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A sentence of 10 years' imprisonment was imposed on Keith Kenneth Keillor, 26, salesman, of Petersham, at Sydney Quarter Sessions for…
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The Foreign Secretary, Mr. Eden, after reading the House of Commons the German explanation of the shooting of 50 Allied Air Force…
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At Sydney Quarter Sessions it was stated that Frederick Jackson, 33, motor driver, charged with housebreaking, would probably be crippled…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Is Poker a Game of Skill? Attitude of Sydney Police
High police officers in Sydney said that, because the Crown Law Department some time ago rejected a police application to…
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NEWCASTLE Tuesday.—In the police court to-day, Phyllis Katherine Fortescue, on remand, was charged with being a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cessnock Police Court. (Before Mr. I. Beavers, P.M. Indecent Language
At Cessnock Police Court this morning, Robert Stephen Woods was charged with using indecent language. Sergeant Booth said on June 17. at…
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Robrt Stephen Woods, a soldier was charged at Cessnock court to-day with using indecent language in Main-street, near the…
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It is reported from Melbourne that women in the public galleries wept as Antonio Agostini (41), to-day told the…
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