LEYTE, Tuesday.—According to General MacArthur, Japanese lost troops at an average rate of 11,000 a week in trying to stave off the Americans on Leyte. This is the calculation made in his ...
Article : 588 words"WE reached entire agreement on what we should do in the Pacific, and it is going to be a great pleasure for a British Fleet to serve with people who, I feel confident, will give us ...
Article : 643 words"MOST people call me Alexander's Ragtime Band," smilingly said an apparently lonely little dark-haired man ...
Article : 151 wordsU.S. troops move up one of the narrow, muddy streets of Ormoc, Leyte Island, as the Japanese were expelled from the west coast port after a night-long battle. Loss of Ormoc by the enemy was the beginning of the end of the Leyte campaign. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 101 wordsIndications yesterday were that many holiday-makers will stay out of town until after the New Year. ...
Article : 187 wordsTOWNSVILLE, Tuesday.—Jack Savage, 18, a Thursday Island native, sold for 10/ a £180 diamond ring he had stolen, and ...
Article : 63 wordsNEWS of the decision by Miners' Federation leaders that men should resume work on January 2, taking only 10 days' holiday, reached Queensland after many miners had already begun their holidays, intending to resume on ...
Article : 263 wordsRe-establishment in Queensland of the District Court system is to be sought by the legal profession. The Attorney-General (Mr. ...
Article : 147 wordsSTRANGE effects of the collapse of a dust storm on country along the southern border, west of Goondiwindi, was ...
Article : 141 wordsAS a precautionary measure the American Navy shore patrol sent cars about the city and the Valley picking up sailors last night after a brawl at the Valley Corner about 6 o'clock. ...
Article : 427 wordsWASHINGTON, December 26 (Special).—Much of the success of the American landing at Mindore turned on the ...
Article : 99 wordsTwo firemen, part of the crew of a salvage truck answering a bogus telephone call, were injured at 11 o'clock last night when the ...
Article : 128 wordsFOLLOWING the finding of Mrs. Joan Culverhouse, 21, shot dead in a bedroom in Stoneleigh Street Windsor, ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 210 wordsAllied heavy and medium bombers dropped 115 tons of explosives on Rabaul (New Britain) states yesterday's communique ...
Article : 76 wordsNEW YORK, Dec. 26 (Special). — Two P.T. boats raced through Nino Strait, Philippines, on Christmas Eve to rescue five American ...
Article : 241 wordsVarious bodies now controlling different aspects of transport are expected to come under review when the Government's survey of ...
Article : 175 wordsTOOWOOMBA, Tuesday.—Damage caused by a fire which destroyed Forsyth and Thomson's timber and joinery works on ...
Article : 99 wordsWARWICK, Tuesday.—"Too much consideration is being given to post-war problems, with the result that the gravity of the war ...
Article : 173 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday. — Post-war development of television and frequency modulation radio in Australia will be aided by the ...
Article : 249 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.—Millions of acres of waste land in good rainfall areas of Australia can be reclaimed by a new method of correcting mineral deficiencies in soil. A report received by the ...
Article : 206 words"THERE is no immediate prospect of civilians having telephones connected to their homes," said the Acting Deputy-Director of Posts ...
Article : 257 wordsA ballot of all members of the Hospital Employees' Union to consider action, including a "walk out" strike, to improve general ...
Article : 196 wordsEleven cases of food poisoning, including a mother and five children, and a mother and three children, were treated by Sandgate ...
Article : 167 wordsA crowd so large that it almost knocked the auctioneer off his stand attended a sale of land, conducted by B. F. Canniffe Ptv. ...
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Advertising : 286 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.—When a grass fire started by a cigarette butt threatened the garden of his official residence yesterday, the ...
Article : 53 wordsIN the turmoil of rushing off to the nearer, or bayside, beaches yesterday, I was saved from being trampled into an early grave by ...
Article : 586 wordsPERTH, Tuesday.—Members of the Army, Navy, and Air Force began work together this morning at Fremantle wharf unloading a ...
Article : 87 wordsCecily Bowman, 6, of Webster Estate, Nambour, was bitten on the left thigh by a snake while she was playing at a creek near her home ...
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The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), Wed 27 Dec 1944, Page 3
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