LONDON. -- Advices from Kandy report that the American and Chinese troops have captured Myitkyina's main aerodrome, and are now besieging the town by mortar fire. The aerodrome was seized intact on Wednesday after slight ...
Article : 119 wordsLONDON. -- Allied headquarters in Italy have officially announced that Cassino and Formia have been captured. A special communique issued from ...
Article : 308 wordsIN A COMBINED amphibious action in the Wakde area, Allied troops landed and completely surprised Japanese forces, which, put up but a slight defence. This activity was followed by further landings at Wakde Islands, reports the ...
Article : 505 wordsMELBOURNE. -- "When the enemy was cleared from North Africa, and great publicity given to the valour of the ...
Article : 99 wordsMELBOURNE. -- The Victorian manpower authorities required at least 17,000 men and women to fill urgent jobs ...
Article : 90 wordsSYDNEY. -- The "Daily Telegraph," the first newspaper to be suppressed by censorship last month says in a leader ...
Article : 114 wordsGeneral Kesselring's 1st Parachute Division, comprising some of the cream of the German army, lost over half its fighting strength. It has been clear since Tuesday, according to an Allied spokesman, that the German position at Cassino would soon become untenable. ...
Article : 505 wordsSYDNEY. -- Addressing the Institute of Business Management yesterday, Mr. David Maughan, KC, declared that ...
Article : 124 wordsKANDY. -- An official spokesman, commenting upon the capture of Myitkyina airfield, said that the airfield was an ...
Article : 88 wordsSYDNEY. -- Maxwell Henry Kleinschafer, 31, postman, on his first day round hid 119 letters and 3 newspapers ...
Article : 87 wordsMELBOURNE. -- It was not possible to rush medical aid by air to the victims of the Copley train smash because ...
Article : 167 wordsSYDNEY. -- At the Quarter Sessions today, Florrie Moore, aged 50, residential keeper, Crown Street, was sentenced to two and ...
Article : 58 wordsINCLUDED in the 60 missionaries fatally wounded or killed outright on February 6, when Allied bombers strafed a Japanese prison ship off New Guinea, was the Catholic Bishop of Alexishafen, Dr. Francis Wolf, who died, three ...
Article : 212 wordsLONDON. -- A spokesman at the headquarters of the South-east Asia command at Kandy, frankly admitted that ...
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The Evening Advocate (Innisfail, Qld. : 1941 - 1954), Fri 19 May 1944, Page 1
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