War Updates From Front Lines Across Europe and Pacific
Soviet armies circle Kharkov with pockets near the suburbs as German hold falters. In Bryansk, Khotynets falls to Russians, threatening German forces between Khotynets and Kara Chev. Churchill tours Canada amid war talks as Italy, France, and postwar plans loom. Allied shelling targets Castellammare and Naples yards while Eighth Army advances toward Messina. Italian Interior Minister resigns over martial law. A new Yugoslav Cabinet forms in London. Nuremberg attacked by RAF, with losses and air support. Pacific forces reach the Bairoko River two miles from Bairoko Harbour as Japanese defenders fight to hold the line.
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Hilarkov
Kharkov
Bryansk
Khotynets
Orel
Karachev
Churchill
Canada
Roosevelt
French Committee of National Liberation
Italy
Russia
Naples
Gulf of Naples
Castellammare
Sicily
Messina
Randazzo
Measuring fencing and drains by wheel revolutions
A method for contractor payments uses a white cloth tied to a sulky wheel to measure distance. After establishing wheel circumference, drivers and counters tally wheel revolutions along the drain route, converting revolutions into feet and chains. Example: 436 revolutions with a 14 ft 8 in wheel equal about 6394 ft or 97 chains. Leslie Rye in Gloucester handles election matters.
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Leslie Rye
Barrington Street
Gloucester
Commercial Homebush stock sales report highlights prices
Winchcombe Carson Ltd notes 1173 cattle yarded as market remains strong with prime bullocks up about 10 percent. Prices quoted include steers 60s per 100 lbs, heifers 54s, cows 47s, and bullocks 54s. Pitt Son Badgery Ltd confirms 1173 head with more prime trade, values firmer to 10s dearer. Rabbit skins steady, best fox 37s 6d to 44s 9d. Sydney pig market restricted. porkers not sold, backfatters and baconets to 200 per head, baconers 110 to 160 lb with varied prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Homebush
Winchcombe, Carson Ltd
Pitt, Son and Badgery, Ltd
Sydney
Australian Hosiery Mills Deliver 24 Million Pairs to Forces
News in Brief notes Australian hosiery mills have supplied 24,000,000 pairs of socks and stockings to the forces and continue at a rate of 10,600,000 per year while maintaining 25,000,000 for civilians. The item also covers a local government clean-up in Innisfail and wartime awards totals through June 1943 with nine Victoria Crosses among 2,305 decorations and Salamaur bombing by Allied planes.
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Shire
W. E. Prichard
Innisfail
K. Page
Earle's
Labor
Prichard
A.S.P
C.M.F
Also Mentioned on This Page
Garnes’s Cash
Carner
Badoglio
Trifunovic
London
Puritch
Nuremburg
R.A.F
Germany
Ra.f
Pacific
Bairoko River
Bairoko Harbour
Munda
Solomons
New Guinea
Salamaur
F.E. Jones
Church ST
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