Word: australian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME's release. The editors may, however, feel it worth while, since Major General Bennett is likely to be in the news again shortly as the result of appointment (not yet announced) to a responsible position, to quote, in part at least, the enclosed statement made by the Australian Prime Minister John Curtin, after hearing Major General Bennett's report. I have been assured privately, by cable from Mr. Curtin, that this statement is in no sense a whitewash of General Bennett...
...Australian News & Information Bureau New York City...
Fourteen heavy Japanese bombers in two formations raided Port Darwin, northwest Australia, again Monday and there were increasing indications today that the Nipponese would attempt to occupy the entire Australian sub-continent...
Behind, they left perhaps 3,500 British, Australian and U.S. troops, fighting with Java's under-equipped Army of 75,000-odd under Major General Heinter Poorten. Aneta, the official Dutch news agency, cabled a last, bitter account of a country lost for want of a few ships, a few hundred planes, a few thousand well-armed troops. A Dutch dispatcher, radiophoning commercial messages (in English) to RCA. spoke the last word from Java: "We are shutting down now. Good-by till better times. Long live the Queen...
Melbourne reported that United Nations planes had knocked out at least 13 Japanese transports and one or two warships of the Nipponese invasion fleet which was believed to be heading for Port Moresby, New Guinea, off the Northeast Australian Coast...