WITH HELLCAT FIGHTERS and Helldiver dive bombers lined up on her flight deck, a U.S. Navy Essex class aircraft carrier speeds across ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 42 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.—Courts and other industrial authorities may now extend any time-off provision or stipulated period of ...
Article : 100 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.—The Commonwealth Government to-night applied the guillotine to the Commonwealth Bank Bill in the House of Representatives. The action was taken by the acting Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) after the House had spent ...
Article : 882 wordsHOBART, Tuesday.—After legal argument in the Criminal Court to-day the Chief Justice (Sir John Morris) decided to admit as evidence statements allegedly made to the police by Harry Cleaver (24), ex-member of the A.I.F., who is charged with the murder of Mona Hazel Gladys Elliott, 24-yr.-old ...
Article : 844 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.—Six different proposals for the manufacture of a wide variety of motor cars had been placed ...
Article : 91 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday, — The A.C.T.U. Congress to-day directed its officers to make representations to the Federal Government for ...
Article : 376 wordsLONDON, Thursday. — The Viceroy of India (Field-Marshal Lord Wavell), broadcasting from New Delhi, announced that an order ...
Article : 231 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—The Windsor, Richmond and Kurrajong districts, on the Nepean and Hawkesbury rivers, are now the most seriously-affected flood areas in N.S.W. Elsewhere the position is much easier ...
Article : 574 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday. — A demand that immediate orders be issued to the High Command prohibiting the sending of men with ...
Article : 115 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday. — Because of the acute fodder position, racing may be suspended temporarily in Victoria. This possibility ...
Article : 120 wordsLONDON, Thursday. — Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, the Attorney-General, was asked in the House of Commons what action it was proposed to take in the case of ...
Article : 92 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—An Athens court has sentenced to death five E.A.M. militiamen convicted of executing 38 civilians in Athens last December. Two others ...
Article : 60 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday.—Unless the sugar strike is settled and the men resume work immediately, the manufacture of confectionery, ...
Article : 242 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday. — Small parties of former A.I.E. prisoners of war were still arriving in England from Western Europe, the acting Minister ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 176 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—A party of 30 British scientists, headed by Sir Robert Watson, a member of the Royal Society, and including the Astronomer Royal (Sir ...
Article : 63 wordsDAMASCUS, Thursday. — President Kuwatly, at a press conference, revealed that the Syrian Government had requested Britain and America to call a ...
Article : 297 wordsLONDON, Thursday. — "I expected the Curacoa to alter her course to starboard, and keep clear until the Queen Mary had ...
Article : 433 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.—Commenting on a statement by Mr. White (Lib., Vic.) that the £7,500,000 spent on tank production in Australia could have been ...
Article : 93 wordsLONDON, Thursday. — The Admiralty has announced that 4280 Allied merchantmen, totalling 19,720,000 cross tons, were lost by ...
Article : 121 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday. — Trapped in his cabin, the injured driver of the Riverina express which was derailed between Tahmoor and ...
Article : 99 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday. — The majority of the persons on rein-statement committees should have rendered war service, said Senator ...
Article : 323 wordsLONDON, Thursday. — The Czechoslovak Prime Minister (Mr. Fierlinger) announced that estates belonging to Germans and Hungarians proved to have been ...
Article : 72 wordsLONDON, Thursday. — Carmody replaces Stanford in the Australian Victory Test team which will meet England at Sheffield on June 23. This ...
Article : 65 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday. — Facilities for the British Navy in the Pacific costing £5,000,000 in materials alone are to be provided ...
Article : 240 wordsLAS VEGAS, Thursday. — Deanna Durbin has wedded her film producer, Felix Jackson, who is 43 years of age. Jackson had been married three times ...
Article : 32 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday. — Only one of 24 mines on the South Maitland coalfield was working to-day, the remainder being idle because ...
Article : 62 wordsHOBART, Thursday. — Northern growers were anxious to continue importing pine timber for packing cases, but thought the duty should be ...
Article : 200 wordsPERTH (W.A.), Thursday.—Forcing the lock of a railway truck at the Kalgoorlie railway station last night, thieves stole 10,800 packets of ...
Article : 34 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—The Prime Minister has sent the following personal message to the commanding officer of the destroyer H.M.S. Kelvin:— ...
Article : 180 wordsLONDON, Thursday. — The voluntary recruitment has begun of 15,000 Italian laborers, with 150 firemen and engineers, to work under contract to ...
Article : 137 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday. — A total of 474 members and ex-members of the forces are now in Australian civil gaols serving sentences imposed by ...
Article : 83 wordsLONDON, Thursday. — Mr. Churchill told the House of Commons that a meeting of the Big Three would take place before the ...
Article : 255 wordsLONDON, Thursday. — Through Allied psychological teams, with a staff numbering 1000, the Germans for the first time since the advent of ...
Article : 197 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—The inspectorgeneral of German concentration camps (S.S. General Walther Schmitt) has been arrested near Prague, says the ...
Article : 60 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday.—Defying the terrific air and artillery bombardment of their headquarters area, the Japanese on Tarakan yesterday clung desperately to their outpost defences and fought off infantry attacks. The Army said to-day that 23,000 lb. of bombs devastated the target area, but some ...
Article : 245 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.—A demand that the Government insist on the three services giving access to the newly-appointed ...
Article : 135 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.—A conference of potatogrowers from all States will be called by the Minister for Commerce (Mr. Scully), probably in September, to draft a Commonwealth-wide post-war marketing and stabilisation scheme for the potato industry. ...
Article : 156 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday. — Because of improved supplies since last January, stocks of woollen goods were not moving as quickly as previously, and ...
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