IN the mountain wilderness of Portuguese Timor, less than 450 miles from Australia's north-west coastline, an A.I.F. commando force, which for 59 days was written off as lost, together with Dutch guerrilla forces, is to-day pinning down a big Japanese force, denying them the conquest of ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 2,282 wordsMANY leading A.R.P. wardens yesterday supported The Courier-Mail suggestion that A.R.P. organisations should be invited to cooperate with City Council inspectors to assure a ...
Article : 715 wordsAustralian troops in New Guinea crossing a stream on an improvised bridge on the road to Buna.—Department of ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 51 wordsDURING 1943 Queensland Red Cross wants £,300,000 if she is to play her full part and pay her full share of the ...
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Article : 216 wordsThe modified restrictions on the employment of domestic servants are expected to fail almost completely to achieve the ...
Article : 233 wordsTHIS month, Brisbane has received more than 15 inches of rain. Greatest weekly fall was last ...
Article : 38 wordsSome relaxation of the brownout rules, especially in the southern parts of the State, is expected by the Acting Premier and Civil ...
Article : 218 wordsCo-operation between the men and authorities at a Civil Construction Camp in Southern Queensland has largely overcome ...
Article : 107 wordsNow that both the Buna air-strips are in Allied hands, after five weeks of fighting, another phase has developed in the ...
Article : 270 wordsRetailers rushed eggs which were available yesterday from the Egg Board after a gap of more than a week. ...
Article : 74 wordsThroughout Australia came the call for the not-gainfully employed woman, and is most of the States the first call-up had ...
Article : 166 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—New rules on the employment of domestic servants were explained by the Director-General of ...
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Advertising : 503 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.—Efforts are to be made to grow papaws for the troops in New Guinea on the spot. ...
Article : 150 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—About 25 engine-drivers employed at Too-heys brewery went on strike to-day because they did not receive ...
Article : 114 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—As illustrations of the futility of Allied Works medical examination, Mr. Rosevear, M.H.R., said to-day that he could produce quite a number of men, who had been medically examined, sent to North ...
Article : 486 wordsThe Federal Opposition Leader (Mr. Fadden) yesterday supported protests made by the Lord Mayor (Alderman Chandler), the Federal ...
Article : 148 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.— A young, fit soldier went A.W.L. for 184 days because he resented being a nurse's batman, a district ...
Article : 140 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Prices Commission officials said to-day that a rise in the price of wireless sets now in stock ...
Article : 71 wordsAlthough their 11 days' Christmas leave expired last Monday night, many workers at a Queensland shipyard did not resume on ...
Article : 74 wordsThirty people shared in the first five prizes in Golden Casket 753, which was drawn last night. All the main prizes were won by sixth ...
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The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), Thu 31 Dec 1942, Page 3
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