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READ IN GERMAN FACES LONDON. Jan. 17. “The faces of our soldiers on the eastern* front in 1944 are very different from the faces of 1941,” says the Berlin radio. “The German soldiers* have lest the expression of youthful lightheartedness which they had vshen things were going well. Worries about the fate of their parents, wives and sweethearts in Germany can be read in their faces.” PROGRESS IN SOUTH PACIFIC SYDNEY. Jan. 17. Heavy bombers based in the Solomons at night bombed Vunekanau, Lalanui and Rapopo aerodromes and townships, causing explosions and fires. In a midday foray escorted dive and torpedo-bombers attacked shipping in Simpson Harbour, scoring direct hits and damaging near misses on seven cargo vessels, a light cruiser and a destroyer. Sixty to seventy enemy fighters intercepted and in the ensuing combat 29 enemy machines were reported to have been shot down, with many others probably destroyed. We lost two bombers and eight fighters. Allied ground forces captured Hill 660, a key defensive posiiton on Borgen Bay line. At Bunabun. New Guinea, fighter patrols destroyed a two-masted schooner LOCAL OPTION RECOUNT INVERCARGILL. Monday. The decision on the recount in the local option issue was given today. The recount resulted in each side losing two votes to informal. The figure? are- Restoration 3583, No License 5649. Majority for Restoration 43 4-5, an increase of two fifths on the original declaration.
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Waikato Times, Volume 194, Issue 22247, 17 January 1944, Page 3
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