WHEN Americans complete the consolidation of the ridge which they captured 2500 yards north of the western end of the Mokmer aerodrome on Biak Island, in Dutch New Guinea, they will have command of the northern approaches to the Japanese positions defending the 'drome. ...
Article : 297 wordsThis is what the Super-Fortress bomber (B29), used by the Twentieth U.S. Air Force, in the raid on Japan last week, looks like, with the normal Flying Fortress (B17) as a basis for comparison. Dimensions of the two machines indicate the huge proportions of the new air weapon. -U.S. Otüce o( War Information radiophoto. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 115 wordsACCUMULATIONS of rubbish 15 or 16 years old had been found by council inspectors engaged on the present clean-up of backyards of city premises, said the chairman of the Health ...
Article : 368 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.—A gradual reduction is planned in the number of Allied Works Council employees; also a ...
Article : 251 wordsMELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Admitting that in the good old days he was a great lover of a nico juicy steak and roast beef ...
Article : 104 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.—Half the houses being erected under the Commonwealth war housing programme will be allotted to ...
Article : 314 wordsCOAL. shortage was the most serious problem facing the Queensland Railway Department to-day, and the move ment of civilian passengers and the carriage of many sup plies could not be continued as at present, the Transport ...
Article : 745 wordsSHE was hit twice, was on fire, had men killed and wounded, but one sheli dispatched by her probably decided ...
Article : 137 wordsAvelino Fernandex, 30, Allied soldier, was charged before Mr. W. Rillie, S.M., yesterday with the wilful murder of Doris May Roberts ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 258 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—Queensland Rhodes scholar, Percy Reginald Stephenson, was alleged at the Australia First inquiry to-day to have shown himself anti-English, anti Empire, anti-American, and also pro-Japanese and ...
Article : 484 wordsMELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Naval ratings have died as the result of drinking "hooch," and scores of servicemen have suffered ...
Article : 155 wordsTHE Commonwealth Bank in Darwin has been reopened for business after having been closed since the first enemy ...
Article : 63 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.—Machinery pools have been so successful in stimulating vegetable production af low cost that the scheme ...
Article : 165 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.—Central bank credit totalling £365 million has hod to be used to finance the cost to Australia of the war so far. ...
Article : 175 words"D day would come in China as it had in Europe, where D day had passed inro its first and second phase. and through 'D' day would ...
Article : 247 wordsPensions to totally incapacitated servicemen range from a maximum sf £2/10/ weekly to ranks below captain up to £3/8/ weekly for ...
Article : 254 wordsSINCE the 1942 convention Australians hod experienced bureaucracy, regimentation, and Government control at their worst, said the Federal Country Party leader (Mr. Fadden) yesterday. ...
Article : 499 wordsMELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Case for the Crown in the Agostini murder trial was opened to-day by the senior counsel for the Crown, Mr. ...
Article : 198 wordsAn increase in freight of 5d. a case to stop the sending of too trains pineapples on C.O.D. trains to Melbourne, in preference to ...
Article : 174 wordsAfter 12 months of butter rationing it was difficult to soy whether it hod had much beneficial effect, said the president of the ...
Article : 122 wordsWhen Japan was expected to invade Australia there was every appearance of a collapse in diocesan finances, said the treasurer (Mr. ...
Article : 164 wordsRumour that a number of nurses had been brought out of Japanese-occupied territory, after having suffered the worst possible ...
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Advertising : 192 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Chief Judge in Equity directed to-day that the claims of the Taxation Commissioner against the Scottish ...
Article : 78 wordsSupport for a reclamation and development scheme at Tewantin, as a post-war project, was sought by representatives of the Tewantin ...
Article : 129 wordsAustralian troops ford a swiftly-flowing river in pursuit of the Japanese along the north coast of New Guinea affer the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 60 wordsMELBOURNE, Tuesday.—The following Navy awards were announced to-day: Distinguished Service Order to Lieutenant H. M. Shean, R.A.N.V.R., and ...
Article : 41 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday. — Opals worth more than £1000 were either left in a train or stolen from the telegraph office at Central ...
Article : 120 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.—First American forces to land in Australia arrived 15 days after Pearl Harbour in ships originally destined for the Philippines. this was stated to-night by the ...
Article : 274 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—Mr. A. E. Berry, a member of the textile mission to the United States and Britain, has been killed in England ...
Article : 108 wordsJuly petrol tickets will be available at all issuing offices on Monday. Announcing this yesterday. the ...
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The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), Wed 21 Jun 1944, Page 3
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