SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, Thursday.—A battle that may well decide the fate of Port Moresby has begun on the southern slopes of the Owen Stanley Range, in New Guinea. General MacArthur's Headquarters announced to-day that ...
Article : 553 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday. — The Minister for Customs (Senator Keane), on behalf of the Federal Treasurer (Mr. Chifley), said in the ...
Article : 164 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.—On Saturday, October 3, no horse race meetings or greyhound races will be held in any part of Australia. National Security Regulations embodying the Federal Government's racing restriction plans, which were gazetted to-day, will operate from September 30, after which date ...
Article : 979 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday. — A member of the crew of a N.S.W. goods train was killed when the train was derailed at Wodonga, a ...
Article : 117 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.—A deputation of Tasmanian Senators and M's.P. waited on the Brime Minister (Mr. Curtin) to-day to place before him ...
Article : 138 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.—The Minister for the Army (Mr. Forde) to-day gave an assurance that the fullest available information regarding ...
Article : 129 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday. — A National Security Order issued to-night obliges holders of superphosphate above one ton in Tasmania to declare it to ...
Article : 87 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday.—Only the fact that Mrs. Florence Williamson, of Mordialloc, is unusually slim saved her from death as she ran along the ...
Article : 152 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday. — Mr. Menzies (U.A.P., Vic.) alleged in the House of Representatives to-day that the Government was ...
Article : 916 wordsBRISBANE, Thursday.—Found guilty of an attempt to communicate to Lord Riversdale, of Sheffield, England, information in respect to munition ...
Article : 95 wordsJust how the allocating of dates in Tasmania following the further cut in racing will work out is difficult to forecast. During a big portion of the period from ...
Article : 329 wordsLONDON, Thursday. — The British advance in Madagascar is continuing pending the outcome of the negotiations with the plenipotentiaries which the Vichy ...
Article : 61 wordsWASHINGTON, Thursday.—The land situation on Guadalcanal, the vital Island base of the Solomons, seems relatively unchanged. The latest news indicates that the Japanese counter-attacks launched during the week-end have brought the enemy no results. Fighting has now decreased, with the ...
Article : 455 wordsHOBART, Thursday.—The Treasurer (Mr. Dwyer Gray) to-day expressed dissatisfaction with the explanation of the ...
Article : 416 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday. — The Minister for Commerce (Mr. Scully) to-day announced that a wartime meat control committee would be ...
Article : 409 wordsWhile those connected with the dairying industry on the North-West Coast do not favor the Commonwealth Government's proposal to take over control of the industry "to rescue it from its present uncertain position and energise it to meet post-war demands," they ...
Article : 1,067 wordsWASHINGTON, Thursday. — A Navy resume states that America hitherto has lost 32 ships in Pacific operations and Japan 59. ...
Article : 76 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.—Both Mr. Theodore, Director-General of Allied Works, and his aide (Mr. Packer), proprietor of a Sydney newspaper, could ...
Article : 339 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday. — Russia's brand of austerity is infinitely morE severe than Australia's, according to Madam Vladimer ...
Article : 174 wordsHOBART, Thursday.—Ample hydro-electric power could be made available in Tasmania to serve an aluminium industry when such could be established said the Premier (Mr. Cosgrove) to-day, replying to the Minister for Supply (Mr. Beasley). ...
Article : 491 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday. — The Minister for the Army (Mr. Forde) to day revealed that the rate of enlistment from the Militia and Permanent ...
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Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 - 1954), Fri 18 Sep 1942, Page 5
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