G.I.'S Reach Australia (Universal Newsreel, Oct 1947)

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. DUTCH GIVE "IKE" SWORD: WASHINGTON - A jewel-encrusted gold sword, which took over a year to build at Utrecht and which represented the thanks of all Holland for "Ike's" war efforts, is presented to Gen. Eisenhower by Ambassador Van Kleffens. 2. NEWS IN BRIEF — YANKS TRAIN CHINA CADETS: TSINGTAO - Officers and men of the Chinese Naval Training Center stage a full dress parade, prior to gunnery training under American supervision on board small gun-boats. U.S. aid to the beleaguered Chinese! 3A/B. G.I.'s REACH AUSTRALIA: SYDNEY - Twenty-one ex-Servicemen, 12 wives and 12 children—the vanguard of more hundreds expected to make their homes "Down Under"—arrive on the "Marine Phoenix" and are greeted by Immigration Minister Calwell. / NEW CRISIS IN GERMANY: GERMANY - Severe Summer drought brings new hardships to the hard-pressed Germans. Trains and factories are idle due to the electricity shortage, while the shortage of fuel forces many to scavenge for coal pumped up from the bottom of rivers. 4A/B. THE SPORTS PARADE — CALIF. ROUTS WISCONSIN: MADISON - The hard hitting Golden Bears from California, visualizing Rose Bowl chances, claw the home-team Badgers in a 48-7 rout that stuns the Wisconsin rooters. Celeri tosses two touchdown passes. / STEEPLECHASE THRILLS: NEW YORK - The United Hunts meet brings out the riders and mounts for a fever-pitch of racing excitement, with spills keeping the huge crowd on edge at Belmont Park. Several are hurt during the meet. (LOCAL – CANADA) QUEEN’S TIES MCGILL.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library