Potsdam leaflets warn Japan as raids loom over cities
Three million Potsdam ultimatum leaflets dropped over wide areas of Japan warn of forthcoming raids. General Spaatz warns twelve more cities including Yawata Akita Mackinohe Urawa Tottori Iwakuni Takayama Fuku shima Saga Miyakonoso Otaru Imabari of imminent bombing. Pacific communique notes August 3 air raids on Kataoka naval base and Kolutan cape while August 4 naval action sinks a small cargo ship in the Tsushima Strait and likely a lugger off Honshu. Two enemy fighters shot down and two damaged.
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Guam
A.A.P
20Th Air Force
Japan
Associated Press
Spaatz
Yawata
Akita
Mackinohe
Urawa
Tottori
Iwakuni
Takayama
Fukushima
Saga
Miyakonoso
Otaru
Imabari
Allied Air Power Sinks Japanese Tonnage In Wide Sweep
General MacArthur announced heavy Allied air actions across the Pacific destroying or damaging nearly three million tons of Japanese shipping. Air forces from the United States, Australia, and the Seventh Fleet conducted 150000 sorties, targeting ships, rail yards, and airfields from the Philippines to the East Indies.
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MacArthur
East Indies
5. Air Force
RAAF
Seventh Fleet
Ayers
China
Malaya
Barneo
South-west Pacific
Australian Division presses Bougainville advance
General MacArthur announces the Third Australian Division is steadily compressing isolated enemy forces at Bougainville's northern tip and driving scattered remnants toward the coast as an official new work.
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MacArthur
Bougainville
Former Serviceman Searched for Missing Wife in Auburn
In Sydney Aug 5 a former serviceman on Marion street Auburn sought a missing wife and child believed in a small firelit room. Neighbours supplied minimal furniture and warmth while police said no agency had approved intervention and an agent may interview Mr Philips.
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Sydney
Marion-street
Auburn
Mee
Enid
Fredey
Aborn
Ochere
Philips
Sabotage in Sudetenland Blamed on Germans
Prague reports sabotage by German directed saboteurs in the Sudeten area of Czechoslovakia. Bridges are blown and trains derailed as Czech security police step up actions against the saboteurs.
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Prague
AAP
Sudeten Area
Czechoslovakia
Questions unsettled at Potsdam conference
New York Times correspondent James Easton outlines unsettled issues from Potsdam. Key points include withdrawal of foreign troops from Iran, a potential revision of the Montreal Convention for Dardanelles shipping, Italian colonial trusteeship proposals, and a four power Syria Lebanon conference. Russian gains from movable German property are discussed with US and Britain seen as not seeking the assets.
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New York
New York Times
James Easton
Potsdam
Iran
Dardanelles
Black Sea
Council of Foreign Ministers
Syria
Lebanon
Italy
Aegean
Africa
Washington
Russia
United States
Britain
Spain rejects Potsdam references as unjust
Madrid government denounces Potsdam wording as defamatory and false about Spain. The Spanish State says it will not attend international conferences but will continue to cooperate at home and abroad in the work of peace.
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London
Madrid Radio
Spain
Truman proposes Washington for next Big Three conference
In Potsdam closes, AP reports President Truman floated another Big Three meeting in Washington. Stalin smiled and said, God willing, in response to the proposal to hold talks with Stalin and Attlee in the U.S. capital.
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New York
Associated Press
Truman
Stalin
Attlee
Washington
Doctors oppose Australia free medicine pledge in Australia
The British Medical Association in Sydney plans opposition to the Federal Government free medicine scheme and will display a circular in surgeries. It argues doctors must have freedom to prescribe medicines outside the formulary and says doctors will not be forced to sign the pledge.
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Sydney
British Medical Association
BMA
Austalia
Zionist Conference Calls For Thirty Thousand Emigrants
Dr. Chaim Weizmann opened the world Zionist Conference in London with stark warnings of a shattered Jewry after the war. He urged a new Palestinian emigration wave as essential, requesting an immediate first instalment of one hundred thousand emigrants to flee postwar danger and preserve Jewish continuity. Eighty delegates from over a dozen countries attended the gathering, the first since 1899.
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London
Chaim Weizman
Weirman
Eearebie
Petrol rationing fairness disputed by Country Party
The Country Party led by Mr A W Fadden argued that petrol distribution favors pleasure boats with a 25 percent increase while primary producers get only 15 percent. They noted wartime disabilities and high meat and dairy outputs and urged a review of the ration scale before September as the United States forces require significant supplies.
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Country Party
A.W. Fadden
British Cabinet List of Portfolios Officials Also Chosen
August 5 report lists the Prime Minister and a full British cabinet slate. Names include Lord President of the Council, Foreign Secretary, Chancellor of the Exchequer, First Lord of the Admiralty, Home and Indian Secretaries, War, Air, and Scotland ministers, with many under secretaries and junior posts named.
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London
G. Tomlinson
L. Silkin
National Insurance
G. A. Griffiths
Lord Winsteir
E Williams
Earl of Listowel
Duchy of Lancaster
J. Hynd
H. Shaw Cross
F. Loslice
Admiralty
W Bavatde
J. Dug
Air Ministry
J. Strachey
Colonial Office
A. Jones
Dominions
J Parker
Foreign Office
H. McNeil
G. Oliver
India
Burma
A. Henderson
Scottish Office
G. Buchanan
T. Fraser
Agriculture and Fisheres
Earl Hunton
A. Jenkins
Summerskill
W. Foster
C. Hey
NS. Edwards
G. Lindgren
Jenny Adameen
W Leonard
A. Woodburn
Board of Trade
Illegal Use of Kew Fork Supposed by Denials
August 4 report claims Tekis radis deny U S State Department claim that Japan seeks to shield targets by near by war prisoner camps. Deniel Agency asserts Americans bomb indiscriminately. camps near Mount Fup are described as targets, though located in open areas near a hospital.
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Kew Fork
AAF
Tekis Radis
U.S. State Department
Arene
Deniel Agency
Japan
Mount Fup
First lower deck sailor turns political Lord in Admiralty
The Sunday Express notes that Admiralty Civil Lord Mr W Edwards, formerly a wartime stoker, becomes a political figure in the Admiralty and warrants a general salute on the quarter-deck. The Observer emphasizes a radical parliamentary shift, portraying a truly national Parliament with broad representation beyond party lines.
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Sunday Express
Admiralty
W. Edwards
Sittang River Action Report in Southeast Asia
A release from Colombo dated August 4 cites SEAC figures: over 8600 enemy dead since the Pegu breakout, plus 650 prisoners. Main activity between Mandalay Rangoon road and the Sittang River focuses on patrols and mopping up stragglers, with Indian troops crossing 12 miles east of Pyu and killing over 100 enemy on the east bank.
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Colombo
S.E.A.C
Mandalay Rangoon Mad
Sittang
Pyu
Burma battle toll rises as Allied troops push in paddy fields
Colombo reports an SEAC communique saying over 10,000 Japanese killed or captured in the Sittang River fight in Burma. British and Indian forces wade through water to mop up in paddy fields and chaungs. RLAF strikes a 2500-strong Japanese concentration with good results.
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Colombo
S.E.A.C
Sittang
Burma
Chaungs
RLAF
Carrier Hornet weathered giant Okinawa wave
The Associated Press reports a vast wave about 150 miles from Okinawa at 7 am on June 5 lifted the Hornet’s bow and dropped it with a severe impact folding the forward corners of the flight deck. The engines stopped and the ship drifted for hours in a 13 mile per hour gale. The Hornet and its planes had previously downed 668 enemy aircraft this year and claimed sinking a cruiser and a carrier along with multiple ships.
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Washington
A.A
Associated Press
Okinawa
U.S
Hornet
Marianas
Two Australian Generals Survive Sea Plane Crash Near Lae
Melbourne August 5 Two Southwest Pacific divisional commanders of the A M F Major General H C Red Robertson and Major General J E S Stevens survived a dramatic near death night plane crash on the sea near Lac a few days ago Both were badly injured and the plane sank slowly until an American cruiser spotted distress signals and answered with a swift rescue
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Melbourne
A.M.F
H. C. (“Red”) Robertson
J. E. S. Stevens
Lac
Dramatic Plane Crash Toward Lae Rescues and Survive
A plane arriving near Lae from an operational base faced darkness and misjudged the landing site. General Robertson sustained facial injuries while General Stevens suffered broken ribs. Both officers ended in the sea as the craft sank. An American cruiser rescued the injured and one officer later traveled to Melbourne to reunite with his ailing wife. General Robertson commands the Fifth Division in New Guinea. General Stevens leads the Sixth Division there.
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Lae
Pee Crais
Uo Liesea
Genera Robertson
Stevens
Robertson
Melbourne
Middle East
Chmomand
New Guines
Comind
New Guinea
SIXTH DIVISION'S PINCERS CLOSE ON JAPANESE INLAND AREAS
Australian Sixth Division infantry pressed a major advance in central Bougainville, trapping and overrunning key Japanese positions around Kaboibus and nearby villages. The 25th battalion captured Kabobuss village after two weeks of patrols, with over 100 enemy weapon pits seized. Allied forces pushed toward Momongan and Yibominu, while South Bougainville saw ambushes by the 28th brigade in Mivo. Aerial strikes aided coastal pushes toward Seeongu, and many Japanese casualties were reported.
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Melbourne
Agguel
Kew
Wewsk Beses
Torricellis
Kaboibus
Pee S
Momongan
Yibominu
Kabotbus
H.A.A. Beauforts
Prince Alexander Mountains
Indogem
Seeongu
Bougainville
Mivo
Australian sergeant recalls German prisoner abuse
Sgt. Jock Drain of Elsternwick testifies on brutal treatment by a German guard while held as a prisoner of war. Drain describes beatings, clubbing, and a death ride from Salonika to Austria, with eight teeth lost and four ribs broken. He fled Greece, endured tunnels, and witnessed a guard shooting an Australian. He vows hospitalisation for a year.
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Melbourne
Jock Drain
Elsternwick
Drain
Messins
Greece
Crewe
Salonika
Himmler
Jugoslavia
Bulgaria
Austria
N.C
Rommelson Says Father Died By Own Hand
In a sworn statement from London dated August 4, Rommels on says his father Rommel committed suicide to avoid death by a Nazi People’s Court for alleged complicity in the 1944 bomb plot against Hitler. Rommel, wounded in an Allied raid, was told by two generals of Hitler’s choice between poison or condemnation before an escort left with a salute.
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London
Rommelsson
Naz
Hitler
Associated Press
Germany
Rommel
People's Court
Brisbane Race Prize Money Totals 208 Disbursed in 1945
Brisbane and Melbourne race clubs distributed prize money totaling 208 pounds in 1945. The events ended July 31 with figures showing £98,200 in Sydney and £30,281 in Melbourne, plus £617,175 at various meetings. Names of clubs or precise event details are unclear due to fragmented OCR.
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Brisbaane
Brisbane
Malebourne
Oe Son
Sydney
Melbourne
Laval Defends France Service by Cutting Burden
In London on August 4, M Laval testified at Marshal Petain's trial, asserting he helped France by minimizing the labor burden sent to Germany. He claimed a prisoner exchange yielded 100,000 prisoners for 300,000 French workers, contrasting Belgium and France's wartime contributions and arguing the government reduced hardship.
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London
M. Lavalre
Marshal
Petain
Germany
Laval
Belgium
France
Laval defense on North Africa landings and war directives
Laval testified before the judge about Admiral Darla’s orders to repel aggression from any side and about French generals’ morale after the North Africa landings. He claimed no surrender of the fleet and defended wartime decisions as necessary to aid France, while noting Petain’s supposed awareness and approval of his efforts. He also alleged he saved two former premiers from execution and discussed German relations and the fate of French officers.
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North Africa
Laval
Darla
Amex
Wadetter
Jadu
Lowel
Britein
France
Toasoreele Pever
Prenace
Petain
Ilhugren
Vranee
von Nida
Tudlow
Body found in trunk after years in New York cellar
In a musty cellar of a 45 room house, the trunk of a transient actor Markes Mavroudis carried a decomposed body. Police say the victim, clothed in dark trousers and cork shoes, appeared murdered long before discovery. Vic Levine, in a nearby neighborhood, notes prior similar murders.
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New York
Markes Mavroudis
Aker
Jneke
Vitor
Porrol
Vic Levine
Bluok
Nester Hi
Lie Teres
Bice
Duke of Windsor denies Laval’s Abyssinia talk claim
The Duke of Windsor released a statement saying he met Laval at a social function at the British Embassy in Paris in September 1935 but that no political discussions occurred. Laval testified at the Petain treason trial in Paris, asserting political talks took place and naming Britain’s leaders.
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London
Duke of Windsor
Pierre Laval
Laval
Paris
Petain
Prince of Wales
Anna
Britain
France
Germany
Hoare
Lord
Mr. Baldwin
Canberra's point system for military enlistment outlined
In Canberra on August 4 a points system was described for army enlistment. Points accrue for each month of service including months abroad, with dependents affecting totals. Five years’ service outside Australia yields no extra points beyond decorations or wounds not counting.
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Canberra
Esvinn
Australis
Orontes Returns After Five Year Absence
After a five year silence the Orontes, Orient Line liner, returns to Australia. The ship was attacked during its war service and saw action in North Africa, including the Algiers landing, with the reach of its wartime routes and service noted in the brief historic recap.
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Orontes
Aus Rahe
Algiers
Hess for Trial as War Criminal
London reports that Herr Hess likely will be moved from England to Germany to face war crimes charges with a trial expected to begin in Nuremberg next month. He has been in British custody since his dramatic arrival in 1949 and is described as frail and near collapse.
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London
Herr Henn
England
Germany
Nuremberg
Hees
Britain
Ness
Orontes and Orient Liners in World War II Actions
Report notes the Orontes as the first Orion liner to visit Australian shores in March 1943 and later lost in the South Atlantic in October 1942. It mentions other Orient liners such as the Oguma, Orfort, and Armmy attacked by German forces with varying fates near Salerno and the West African coast.
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Ving Trove Wie
Wistier Am Mir
Kwur Lmn
Daly
Sicily
Varrolo
Salerno
Aipce
Ae Orendes
South Atlantic
Guma
Africa
Maturing Loaks Prompt Government Loan Conversion
The Prime Safausor Mr J Bey urged investors to leave funds on loan to the Government by converting holdings into a new loan. He claimed that the previous loans had fallen in value and encouraged acceptance of the new loan terms.
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Jon
Safausor
Mr. J. Bey
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