War Report: Three British Journalists Die Near Naples
Three British war correspondents with the Fifth Army were killed by shellfire in the Nocera area below Naples. A. B. Austin, Stewart Sale, and William Munday died after a jeep crewed by Basil Gingell left to observe Allied tanks. The tragedy follows their prior reporting across Africa, Burma, and Salerno.
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London
Fifth Army
Nocera
Naples
A. B. Austin
London Daily Herald
Stewart Sale
Reucer's
William Munday
Sydney Morning Herald
London News Chronicle
Basil Gingell
British Exchange Telegraph
Edgar Wallace
Berlin
Royal Air Force
Africa
Salerno
Austin
R.A. F
Monday
Sydney
Australia
Egypt
Burma
Eighth Army
Desert
Tunisia
Potter Hill Red Cross Marks All Day Meeting at Church Hall
An all day Red Cross meeting took place in the Potter Hill church hall yesterday. Tech Sergt Robert Haswell from Camp Edwards Massachusetts was a recent guest of his mother Mrs Helena Haswell.
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Red Cross
Church Hall
Tech
Robert Haswell
Camp Edwards
Mass
Helena Haswell
Australians Judge Americans By Their Glittering Ways
Excerpted remark notes Australians wary of American glamour, noting a difference in speech and city stories. It claims Americans have shown wealth and excess but conclude they have only sorted the good from the bad for Australian lads.
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Roosevelt
Melbourne
Australia
Eleanor Roosevelt
San Francisco
Mrs. Roosevelt
Enemy warship barely escapes as RAF Beaufighters strike
After a five day hunt an RAF spokesman said a hostile warship escorting armed merchantmen in the Aegean was found shrouded in smoke and listing badly. Two escort planes protected it as one was shot down and the other driven off. The carrier ships, also targeted, faced heavy action.
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R. A. F. Beaufighters
Cairo
Aegean Sea
RAF
Flood project nears end in Johnstown after years of work
The flood control effort on the Conemaugh River at Johnstown entered its sixth year since starting in September 1938. Deepening the river channel and paving the banks will cost about 8.6 million dollars. U S Army engineers oversee the project with a expected completion by December 1.
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Johnstown
U. S. Army Engineers
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