Top: A Japanese torpedo-plane attacking a Liberty ship bound for Leyte, Philippines. Lower: Explosion of a torpedo from the plane, which pressed its attack to the target despite intense anti-aircraft fire. (U.S. Signal Corps photographs.) ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 40 wordsLONDON, Dec. 20 (A.A.P.).— Battles are raging across Czechoslovakia on an ever-widening front, says Reuter's Moscow ...
Article : 205 wordsWITH U.S. FIRST ARMY, Dec. 20.—There were many heart-rending scenes when the German counter-offensive forced us to evacuate a small Belgian frontier town. ...
Article : 699 wordsSINGLETON, Wednesday.—The feed position in the Singleton district is so acute that the threat by dairy farmers to strike unless they are paid what they claim is a fair all-the-year-round price for milk is now ...
Article : 307 wordsINVERELL, Wednesday.—Eight trainee nurses were suspended at the district hospital this morning for alleged ...
Article : 205 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—No date has been fixed for a meeting of Mr. Churchill, Marshal Stalin, and himself, President ...
Article : 286 wordsLONDON, Dec. 20 (A.A.P.).— "The Battle of Italy is tough, not only because of the terrain and the weather, but we have ...
Article : 244 wordsLEYTE, Dec. 20.—With the capture of Valencia and its excellent airfield the campaign in west Leyte has entered a phase which a communique from Southwest Pacific Headquarters to-day describes as "rolling ...
Article : 383 wordsUnsettled weather culminating in extensive rainstorms is forecast for most of New South Wales before the week-end. ...
Article : 164 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (A.A.P.).—The Commander-in-Chief of the British Pacific Fleet, Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser, has ...
Article : 182 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.— Terms of reference for the special committee recently appointed by the Federal ...
Article : 239 wordsBritish Navy authorities in Australia have already prepared for the arrival of Royal Navy personnel by taking over ...
Article : 181 wordsBATHURST, Wednesday.—A proposal from Dubbo that public meetings should be called in every town in western New South Wales to press for ...
Article : 69 wordsOTTAWA, Dec. 20 (A.A.P.).— Details of the flying-suit which eliminates "black-out" in highspeed flying, and has been in ...
Article : 175 wordsLONDON, Dec. 20 (A.A.F.).— Gangs of impressed labourers are now working to convert the German town of Constance, on the ...
Article : 118 wordsLONDON, Dec. 20.—German frontier guards have arrested two directors of the Messerschmitt aircraft factory at ...
Article : 131 wordsNew branches of the Commonwealth Bank are being opened in two Western Australian towns where trading banks formerly ...
Article : 196 wordsADELAIDE, Wednesday.—Two Chinese seamen, Wu Su Ling, 29, ship's engineer, and Low Yung Fui, 36, captain's boy, were ...
Article : 198 wordsLONDON, Dec. 20 (A.A.P.).— The Orient Line now discloses that the Orford was lost in May, 1940, while acting as a ...
Article : 138 wordsAt the annual dinner of the "Nothing Under 70 Club" last night, the treasurer announced that nearly £1,000 had been ...
Article : 148 wordsNEW YORK, Dec. 20 (A.A.P.). —Converging American forces are within six miles of snapping shut a trap on the largest ...
Article : 124 wordsKANDY, Dec. 20 (A.A.P.).—The advance of the 15th Corps down the Arakan coast towards Akyab has been speeded up by a series ...
Article : 273 wordsLONDON, Dec. 20.—Persia has proposed a compromise solution of the dispute arising from her refusal to grant oil concessions ...
Article : 113 wordsLONDON, Dec. 20 (A.A.P.).—A young pigeon belonging to the R.A.F. Pigeon Service has flown from Gibraltar to Gillingham (Kent), a ...
Article : 65 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (A.A.P.).—The pilot of a small Navy float plane in the Central Pacific taxied up to a flaming ...
Article : 70 wordsLISMORE, Wednesday.—More than nine tons of jewfish were landed in one haul at the entrance of the Richmond River at Ballina yesterday. ...
Article : 110 wordsIce will be delivered on Christmas and New Year's Days. The Deputy Director of W.O.I., Mr. Ifould, has issued directions that ice ...
Article : 79 wordsThe Minister for Transport, Mr. Ward, said last night that he believed that the Federal Government should abrogate the ...
Article : 198 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (A.A.P.).— Columnist Drew Pearson says the Australian Government will ask the United States Government this week ...
Article : 41 wordsThe body of William John Finlay, 31, who had been missing from his home in Wollongong since Friday, was found yesterday hanging from a tree ...
Article : 33 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (A.A.P.).—High officials in Washington say that liberated Europe is not getting adequate ...
Article : 221 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.—The Minister for Munitions, Mr. Makin, said to-day that Government munition establishments will this year observe ...
Article : 75 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (A.A.P.).— The Attorney-General, Mr. Biddle, disclosed that a Federal Grand Jury in New York indicted Norden, Inc., ...
Article : 137 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (A.A.P.).—The War Department has announced that successful experiments have established ...
Article : 170 wordsThe High Commissioner for India, Sir Ragunath Paranjpye, last night opened the Indian Seamen's Club, which has been organised and is ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 21 Dec 1944, Page 3
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