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POST-PRIMARY

... the force of the explosion of the flying bomb on impact. This development does not call for any modification in present fire guard arrangements. Flying bomb bases in Northern France were attacked by R.A.F-bombers last evening. ...

Published: Friday 11 August 1944
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 341 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

DEATH CAMP HORRORS

... only voiced what the man-in-the-atreet i» saving, namely, that present war conditions make* fire-watching unneceesary in this part of the country. It the Fire Guard Orders issued Westminster provide for the loosening of the strict rota of duties in various ...

Published: Wednesday 30 August 1944
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 777 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

FIRE-WATCHING

... FIRE-WATCHING Sir—ln view of the greatly altered war situation, would it not to do awav with fire-watching on premises in this city? I understand that the Fire Guard Orders themselves provide for a loosening the strict rota of duties in the various parts ...

Published: Monday 28 August 1944
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 978 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

News In Brief

... News In Brief BCDR guard for trial—At a special court in Donaghadee yesterday a year-old railway guard, Edward John Toman, of Elisabeth Street, Belfast, was returned for trial on bail at the Assises charged with stealing £4 from a postal packet in the ...

Published: Wednesday 23 August 1944
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 252 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Shelled

... in the area of Bayonne, on the French Atlantic coast. 18 miles from the Spanish frontier, before dawn to-day. They ceased firing at 7-45 a.m. An American motorised column is reported to have passed through Angouleme. 130 miles south of Nantes, and is ...

Published: Tuesday 22 August 1944
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 249 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

RESCUE

... his 74- year-old mother-in-law escaned unharmed In their night clothes before their house caught fire and was gutted. Members of the U.S. Army formed a guard of honour at Freckleton, near Preston, for fouryears-old Martin Peter Alsto, one of the 37 child ...

Published: Tuesday 29 August 1944
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 237 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

General De Gaulle Arrives ENEMY’S LAST HOURS ON THE SEINE

... to enter the city with a thundering welcome fled to the safety of buildings when machineguns and rifles started to crackle fire. South-east Paris, General Fatten';- patrols have reached Troves, only PiO miles from Gei-.man frontier Par lo I lie 'vest ...

Published: Saturday 26 August 1944
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 422 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Sunk

... D.S.C., R.N.V.R., encountered an enemy auxiliary vessel escorted eight R-boats Despite heavy enemy fire H.M. ships pressed home their attacks and fired torpedoes. Two large explosions were heard, and it is considered that the auxiliary vessel was hit ...

Published: Monday 14 August 1944
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 499 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

AT ALL COSTS-BERLIN'S ORDER TO TRAPPED D IVISIONS

... between the parties. No date has been fixed for the sitting. First Nazi Towns Crumbling Under Fire of Russian Guns FIRST German towns are crumbling under the fire of Soviet artillery and mortars massed along the river Sesupe, which forms the East Prussian ...

Published: Friday 18 August 1944
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 924 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

TWO ATTACKS IN 60 HOURS

... last night, continued for approximately 60 hours —by far the longest since the attacks began. In the dawn light the enemy fired several waves bombs across the Channel. The coast was shaken by the cannonade of A,A. guns and the explosions of the bombs ...

Published: Monday 28 August 1944
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 298 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

R.A.F. SMASH AT GERMAN

... of the Boyne. The famous U.S. General. Stonewall Jackson.” was descendant of John. Guards’ Officer Major-General Allan H. S. Adair, D.S.O-, M.C., who commands the Guards’ Armoured Division, is the eldest son and heir of Sir Shafto Adair, Bt.. of Ballymena ...

Published: Friday 25 August 1944
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 848 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

REDS OVER BORDER OF HUNGARY

... the road to 'entral Rumania. Front line reports sptak of intermittent firing between the Germans and Rumanian units in the woods near the garrison town. FIGHTING PRISONERS Russian guards find it difficult to stop their German and Rumanian prisoners from ...

Published: Monday 28 August 1944
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 346 | Page: 3 | Tags: none