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Advertising : 121 words"Island forts" protect east coast shipping from low aircraft. These forts are commissioned as H.M. ships and are called after the sands on which they stand. Each consists of two concrete towers, 50ft. high, connected by a steel superstructure on which the A.A. guns and equipment are ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 83 wordsLONDON (A.A.P.)—There has been no let-up in the Allied air offensive on Europe since Wednesday morning. In 30 hours up to Thursday afternoon 5000 bombers dropped more than ...
Article : 415 wordsBombing practice on the ranges from "zero" height. At a famous air armament school in eastern England, bomb-aimers who have proved themselves in operation are trained as "captains" of squadon bomb-aimers ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 34 wordsLONDON (A.A.P.)—Reports from neutral countries say the Germans have been swarming into Rumania since Thursday at dawn. They now control all communications, railways and ...
Article : 377 wordsGen. MacArthur's H.Q.—In a coastal sweep of 90 miles between Aitape and Wewak, New Guinea, on Wednesday, two Japanese fighters, seven luggers, 23 barges, several parked planes and gun positions were destroyed. ...
Article : 300 wordsMELBOURNE.—Evidence of identification of the body as that of Linda Agostini, was given yesterday when the inquest into the death of the ...
Article : 262 wordsLONDON (A.A.P.)—An escort of armoured cars guarded the King and Queen against possible air attacks during a two-days tour of inspection of ...
Article : 100 wordsLONDON. (A.A.P.)—With a triple thrust over, a 500-miles front, the Red Army is throwing the last German divisions from the Ukraine. In Bessarabia, Russian forces have captured a town only 15 miles from the river Pruth, which marks the ...
Article : 356 wordsCANBERRA.—When the Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) was entertained by members of all parties at Parliament House yesterday on the occasion of ...
Article : 120 wordsMELBOURNE.—The Tasmanian Treasurer (Mr. Dwyer-Gray) submitted to the Commonwealth Grant Commission yesterday that the payment to ...
Article : 204 wordsWASHINGTON (A.A.P.)—Army and Navy Liberators on Wednesday bombed Penape and Kusaie in the eastern Carolines, starting large fires in ...
Article : 67 wordsWASHINGTON (A.A.P.)—So far as he new, the Russo-Finnish peace negotiations had not yet ended, said the! Secretary of State (Mr. Cordell Hull) ...
Article : 59 wordsCANBERRA—The Government. is preparing a measure designed to cover preference for ex-servicemen as part of the general scheme of ...
Article : 37 wordsCANBERRA.—The transfer of members of the A.I.F. and R.A.A.F. to base or civil jobs after completion of a specified period of service was urged ...
Article : 146 wordsLONDON (A.A.P.)—Allied planes took a hand in the battle for Cassino again yesterday by attacking German gun positions which have been holding up the Allied advance. THE GUNS are on high ground ...
Article : 325 wordsLONDON (B.O.W.)—After a close analysis of reconnaissance photographs of Berlin, the Air Ministry announces that 326 factories were destroyed or damaged between November 18 last and February 2. Since then there, have been. several more ...
Article : 297 wordsCANBERRA.—The Pay-as-you-earn Taxation Bill was brought down in the Senate by Senator Keane yesterday. Senator McLeay secured the ...
Article : 299 wordsCANBERRA.—Daylight saving, or Australian summer time, will end to-morrow at 2 a.m. At that hour clocks should be put back one hour. ...
Article : 88 wordsWASHINGTON (A.A.P.).—Dr. Ivor Cornman, Philadelphia Institute of Anatomy, says studies of mouse cancer cells have revealed that penicillin ...
Article : 77 wordsLONDON (A.A.P.)—London had a brief alert on Thursday night. Flares were dropped in one area. but no bombs have been reported. ...
Article : 26 wordsNEW YORK.—The arrival of what may prove the bloodiest spring in history finds some 325 German divisions stretched tautly around the shrinking Fortress of Europe, already facing a catastrophe gathering in momentum along the eastern fringes. ...
Article : 252 wordsLONDON.—Despite rumours from Calcutta, it is understood that the Japanese columns which descended on to the plain of Manipur, Assam Province, have been, held 30 miles north of Imphal air base. THEY HAVE NOT CUT the ...
Article : 305 wordsCANBERRA.—The appointment of a Commission of Enquiry into transactions of the National Debt Sinking Fund from 1929-30 onward was ...
Article : 200 wordsDespite an extensive search yesterday over a wide area of Bass Strait and miles of north-western and northern beaches, no trace was ...
Article : 168 wordsCANBERRA—The date for the referendum on the transfer of additional powers to the Commonwealth had not yet been considered, the ...
Article : 110 wordsIF there is a sound case for some expansion of federal powers for e the orderly transition to a peace time economy—and we believe ...
Article : 135 words"It will he a sad day for Australia when the majority is going to deprive the minority of God-given rights." These words were used by Dean W. ...
Article : 230 wordsLOS ANGELES (A.A.P.).—The trial of Charles Chaplin for alleged violations of the Mann Act (which prohibits the taking of a girl across a ...
Article : 78 wordsLONDON (A.A.P.).—Back in London from a tour of his invasion army, General Montgomery said yesterday— "I found the forces in very good trim. ...
Article : 117 wordsLONDON (A.A.P.)—Strikes on Wednesday spread through South Yorkshire coalfields and by night 40,000 men were on strike at 25 pits. It is feared the ...
Article : 57 wordsLONDON (A.A.P.)—Turkey a month ago decided to go to war beside her ally, Britain, but the decision lapsed because Britain and Turkey disagreed on the supply of war materials, says the "Daily Express" correspondent in Ankara. ...
Article : 144 wordsNAPLES (A.A.P.)—The Vesuvius eruption shows signs of slackening and the lava flood now stands stagnant several hundred yards from the centre of Cercola. UNLESS something uncredictable ...
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Examiner (Launceston, Tas. : 1900 - 1954), Sat 25 Mar 1944, Page 1
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