These words appear in a secret order signed by the Nazi Foreign Minister (von Ribbentrop), and now in the possession of the Daily Mail's correspondent in Geneva. The correspondent says the order has been read privately by German diplomats to consular staffs, newspapermen, and Nazi leaders in neutral countries. The order instructs them to remain at their posts, and not to lose courage. "Even if, as is probable, the war is lost for Germany."

"If we all remain united and fight, Nazism will continue," adds the order. "The Third Reich will possibly be relegated to an inferior position for a time, but it will not cease by any means. Many traitors inside and outside Germany are known, and have already been tried and sentenced to death by the People's Courts.

"Hostile armies cannot long exist among a subjugated nation of 70,000,000 people. If everyone in Germany remembers his oath to the Fatherland and the Fuehrer, and will be responsible for one of the enemy, the Reich will live again. The time will soon come when the invaders will be faced with terrible difficulties. Germany will never capitulate."

Reichs-Marshal Goering has been relieved of his command of the German Air Force because of a heart disease. Hitler has appointed Colonel-General Ritter von Greim to succeed him. Greim has been promoted to the rank of Field-Marshal. Von Greim was formerly Chief of the German Air Force in Russia. The diplomatic correspondent of The Times says that for many months Goering had played little or no part in the conduct of the war or in the direction of policy. Recent information from independent sources said he had resumed drug-taking, had dressed up in a toga, and had painted his fingernails a bright red.

Sergeant H. Richardson, son of Alderman and Mrs E. Richardson, has been liberated from a German prison camp. Sergeant Richardson was in the 3rd Anti-tank Regiment which was hurried from Syria to Egypt when Rommel made his advance toward Alexandria. He was captured in July, 1942, taken to a prison camp in Italy and later transferred to Stalag 8A, which Alderman Richardson believes to be near Breslau.

Mr John Chandler, ex-sergeant of police, of Harle Street, Hamilton, has been notified that his son, Gunner Clarence John Chandler, escaped from a prisoner of war camp in Germany on April 4 and has arrived in England. Gunner Chandler left for the Middle East in 1939 and was captured in Greece in 1941. Before enlisting in the AIF he was employed by Stewarts and Lloyds. He was associated with Merewether Surf Club.

Corporal Vic Peters, formerly a tramway employee in Newcastle, has arrived in England from a prison camp in Germany. He was captured in Crete in 1941. In a cable to his mother at Charlestown, Corporal Peters said his health was good.

Bombardier Wallace Douglas Clark, son of the late Inspector and Mrs. James McAlpin Clark, formerly of Bulga, near Singleton, has been released from a prison camp in Germany and is now in England. He was taken prisoner about four years ago in the Western Desert, and has been in prison camps in Italy and Germany. On enlistment, Bombardier Clark was teller at the Bank of NSW, George and King Streets, Sydney.

Private Garvin Maher, who was a prisoner in German hands for about four years, has been released. News was contained in a cable to his mother, Mrs M. E. Maher, of Singleton, which he sent from Britain. Private Maher, a member of the Sixth Division, was captured in Crete. He spent most of his captivity working on farms.

Decisions which must be taken soon by the High Command must inevitably lead to the diversion of bombers from the European theatre to the Pacific to press home the war against Japan, the Sunday Times says. Activities of long-range bombers over Europe have been decreasing for weeks. Less than a tenth of the numbers employed against the Germans on D-Day are now being used. Now that the Americans have island bases within a comparatively short distance of the Japanese mainland, it is reasonable to assume they will call on some of the superfluous squadrons of Lancasters and Halifaxes in Europe as reinforcements to intensify the attack against Japan.

The Australian forces advanced a mile closer to the Hongorai River, in southern Bougainville, in one of the most spectacular attacks ever made by our men in jungle warfare. Backed by magnificent air and artillery support, the Australians quickly achieved their objective.

In two hours before the attack developed, Corsair dive-bombers of the New Zealand Air Force dropped 30 tons of high explosives on the 1400 yards of the Buin road ahead of the Australians.

Within seconds of the last air strike our 25-pounder guns and mortars opened up on the road. Our infantry men went in behind the barrage, which moved ahead of them with perfect timing. In three hours our guns plastered 3500 shells along the road. It was the greatest number of shells ever fired on Bougainville in support of an Australian advance.

The New Zealand airmen, whose task was to straddle the road but not to hit or damage it, gave a remarkable display of precision bombing. Some of their bombs fell evenly on either side of the road within 30 feet of each other, but left the surface unscathed.

After forcing a crossing of the Harwain River, along the northern New Guinea coast, advanced Australian troops are now only 12 miles from Wewak. New positions have also been established by probing patrols in the inland area, south of the Torricelli Mountains. They have crossed the Screw River, cleared two more villages and cleared out the Japanese who were commanding high ground. In their advance from Balif, begun early in March, the Australians have cleared the enemy from 90 square miles of the toughest country in New Guinea, killing 484 of the enemy. Since the commencement of the Torricelli campaign five months ago, 1000 Japs have been killed. Total enemy dead counted in the whole Aitape-Wewak areas since the Australians took over is now 3000.

Australian troops are now in action against the Japanese in Borneo. This was announced in the House of Representatives on Tuesday night by the Acting Prime Minister (Mr Chifley). Tokio Radio said earlier that the Allies had landed near Tarakan, on the east coast of Borneo. Mr Chifley, whose announcement was cheered on both sides of the House, said the Australians were members of a famous division that served in the Middle East. He added that further news would be contained in a communique to be issued by General MacArthur. Tokio Radio said the forces landed late Tuesday, under cover of a naval bombardment.

"In the Tarakan area, the Japanese are engaged in fierce combat with the enemy," Tokio added.

It claimed that a previous landing attempt at noon on Tuesday was repulsed. Tarakan has been bombed almost daily for two months from the Philippines.

Tokio Radio said that an Allied task force, which included two aircraft-carriers and two battleships, bombarded the Carnicobar Island Tuesday afternoon. A task force that included two battleships shelled Port Blair, on Andaman Island, Tuesday night. The Japanese shot down four planes.

Getting rich quickly and without effort was the way of the Australian community where black markets and other dishonest rackets flourished, said the Chaplain-General (Bishop Riley) at St. Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney.

"Australians are growing soft, and want things the easy way," he said. "The lesson of Anzac is that anything worthwhile is tough," he continued.

"The men of the Second AIF had to learn to be 'tough' in a hard way. They didn't become Anzacs by wearing a uniform with "Australia" on it."

Many of the women at Stewarts and Lloyds who several weeks ago were temporarily retrenched because of restricted supplies of industrial gas from the Steel Works will resume on Monday. A spokesman for the company said all women who had been displaced in the fitting department and fabricating shop, and some in the shell annexe, push bench finishing department and inspection department, would be returned to work. An improvement in the gas position had made it possible to re-employ the women, he said. About 180 women were displaced over several weeks when the gas position became acute.

The present meat ration will be reduced throughout Australia on Monday, May 7. Cuts on the present ration will be 12 1/2 per cent in the civilian ration, 12 1/2 per cent in meat supplies to commercial users, such as makers of sausages, small goods and the like, and 25 per cent in supplies to cafes and hotels.

Cut in the civil ration will be effected by making seven adult coupons available every four weeks instead of eight coupons as at present. The cut is designed to save 70,000 tons of meat in the next eight months. The Acting Prime Minister (Mr Chifley) said that Cabinet had no hesitation in coming to its decision. Australia was faced with the choice of reducing her present ration or cutting down on exports to Britain. "To reduce supplies to Britain the present circumstances would be unthinkable," he said.

Mr Chifley said the factors responsible for the decision were: The severity of the drought which had caused, and was still causing meat supplies to diminish over large part of Australia; the world shortage which might restrict supplies to Britain from elsewhere; urgency of Australia's meat allocations which she honourably had undertaken to fulfil. Mr Chifley said that Australia, as one of the United Nations' food depots, had always met her supply responsibilities. Australian citizens shared their food with the same readiness and in the same spirit as her men shared the risks in battle.

Rationing of milk will be eased in Sydney and Newcastle from next Friday. The cut will be one-seventh instead of one-fifth of normal supplies. This is a result of the improved production following recent rains. A fodder shortage described as desperate in the Hunter district may cause the withdrawal of horse-drawn milk floats. The Chairman of the Milk Board (Mr A. A. Watson) said full rationing would probably not be imposed until July. The Dairy Farmers' representative on the Milk Board said the fodder position in the Hunter district was desperate, and no supplies could come from that area to Sydney.

Edward John Bell, Singleton; Edward Edwin Botham, Speers Point; Phillip David Bulbert, Cardiff South; Norman Wallace Burgmann, Singleton; Leslie James Coombes, Wickham; Reginald Vernon Dein, Adamstown; Doreen Ellen Folbigg, Islington; George Edward Gorton, Aberdare; Alan Edward Higgins, Singleton; Arthur Mervyn Kimber, Adamstown; Colin Charles Lawless, Stockton; Bernard Lyttleton O'Neill, Merewether West; Sydney Darrell Osborn, Raymond Terrace; Andrew Snedden, Johnsons Creek; Frank Lindsay Stone, Wallsend; Mervyn Walterback, Mayfield; Mervyn James Windsor, Charlestown; Eric John Miller, Carrington; William Graham Walmsley, Merriwa; Allan Roy Dyas, Cessnock; Arthur Joseph Keevers, Cessnock; Leonard Leslie Duncan, Merewether; James Findley, Cessnock; Gordon Baker, Wallsend; George Bernard Cosier, Singleton; Stanley Ernest Howard, Merewether; Lawrence James Sharpe, Hamilton; Ernest Henry Williams, Edgeworth.

Private Albert Edward Ingham, Bellbird, POW; Private Allan Robert McLachlan, Woodville; Captain Gilbert Victor Strong, Merewether; Private Victor Sinclair Fittock, Stroud; Private Cecil Gordon Smith, Cessnock.