ALLIED airmen dealt another heavy blow at Japanese air strength at Wewak, north-west New Guinea, in a double-barrelled raid on Thursday. In two strikes they destroyed 80 enemy aircraft—72 on the ground and eight in air combat—and damaged another, yesterday's communique said. Lightning fighters which followed closely behind the bombing force caught airborne six Jap medium bombers, with a fighter escort, and shot down six planes. Thunderbolts and Kittyhawks ...
Article : 499 wordsU.S. Marine, Lieut. Jim Hackett (right), of Rumson, New Jersey, with his girl friend, Miss Kathleen ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 69 wordsNot lightning, but a burst from a 155 mm. artillery gun, on German positions at Mignana, Italy, lit up the countryside during a night attack in December, silhouetting the gun crew and outlining the emplacement with light. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 43 wordsAUSTRALIAN troops have made further advances in the Finisterre Ranges and along the Rai coast of New Guinea. Ground forces operating from the Ramu Valley have ...
Article : 423 wordsNEW GUINEA, Saturday.—Faced with certain destruction at the hands of the Australians at Memau and the Americans who ...
Article : 231 wordsTWO families are 'living" on a veranda of a house in one of Brisbane's suburbs. The only privacy they have is given by hessian blinds and a plywood partition. Each family consists of a mother and two young children, who sleep, cook, and eat on their small portion of veranda. ...
Article : 546 wordsHAVE you a garden "secret"—something that makes all the difference between ordinary and first-class flowers or ...
Article : 131 wordsPOLICE fear that underworld warfare may break out in Brisbane at any time now, and are taking wide precautions to prevent it. Factions involved are engaged in ...
Article : 213 wordsMore beer for the workers by [?]adjusting supplies is the main proposal to be placed before the Primer (Mr. Cooper) and the ...
Article : 214 wordsCANBERRA, Saturday.—Four Queenslanders are among the 25 candidates chosen for entry into the Royal Military College ...
Article : 61 wordsSYDNEY, Saturday.—A plan under which 600,000 people aged 60 and over would obtain superannuation of £5 week ...
Article : 108 words"MR. Johnny Ceratadus," alias Queensland lung-fish, who lives at the Brisbane Museum, has been granted his meat rationing coupons. Mrs. Ceratodus and Ceratodus, junior, and the fresh water ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 228 wordsIMPORTANT decisions to improve the not-so-happy lot of the Queensland civilian have been announced in the last few weeks. In every case they have been improvements for which The ...
Article : 351 wordsNEW YORK, Feb. 5—Because so many of Uncle Sam's fighting men have taken to wearing wedding rings, some brides will be faced with the possibility that they will not get a gold band if they do get their man. ...
Article : 258 wordsNine airmen were killed when two planes collided during cross-country training exercises in southern New South Wales. A tenth ...
Article : 128 wordsMost of the taxation assessments for salary and wage-earners are now out, and all will be out within the next two weeks. ...
Article : 153 wordsThe Trades and Labour Council has decided to convene a Statewide conference on April 16 to discuss closer unity between the ...
Article : 140 wordsNEARLY 2000 couples go dancing every night in and around Brisbane. There is nothing formal in the way they do it. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 313 wordsWaitresses employed in most city cafes seldom stayed more than a fortnight, cafe managers said yesterday. The girls preferred ...
Article : 185 wordsFor the last three days both the maximum and minimum temperatures in Brisbane have been well below normal. ...
Article : 81 wordsADELAIDE, Saturday.—A 9-year-old boy made unsuccessful efforts to rescue his 13-year-old pal who was drowned before his ...
Article : 120 wordsHOBART, Saturday.—Experimental classes under an age group system have been instituted by the Education Department ...
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Advertising : 127 wordsARTICLES by Osmar White, Sunday Mail special correspondent and "A Digger Returning to New Guinea" slating the "little Hitlers" of civilian life have brought spirited support from Sunday Mail readers. A "Business Girl," of Hamilton ...
Article : 738 wordsMr. J. B. Edwards, the sitting member, was selected as Country Parry candidate for Na[?]ango electorate at the State general ...
Article : 69 wordsThe trade union movement proposes to raise £10,000 by Labour Dar week-end, May 1, for comforts for the troops, said Mr. M. Healy ...
Article : 100 wordsSYDNEY, Saturday.—Sixty-one miners were fined £3 each to-day, for absenteeism at Aberdare Extended mine on January 25. ...
Article : 41 wordsLONDON, Feb. 5 (Special).—Heddle Nash, operatic tenor, well known to Australian audiences, allegedly "smocked the vast ...
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Sunday Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1926 - 1954), Sun 6 Feb 1944, Page 3
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