FIELD reports from the Philippines indicate that the Japanese have begun evacuating key personnel from Manila to northern Luzon, and possibly Formosa, says the American United Press correspondent on Luzon. ...
Article : 580 wordsBRITISH sailors say Brisbane is "not so bad," but it could be a lot better." Of everything Brisbane has to offer. ...
Article : 462 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.—A soldier on Bougainville, Pte. Russell Keith Hoult, of Stanthorpe (Qld.), while defending ...
Article : 168 wordsArmy fire-fighters, trained at a specialist school at a camp near Brisbane, using a foam extinguisher on a petrol blaze yesterday, when the course was completed with gruelling practical tests. The display was watched by Major-General ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 90 wordsDishevelled, disillusioned and battle weary, this haggard Naxi ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 119 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—The sheep population of Australia would fall below 120 million this year, for the first time since 1940, unless ...
Article : 213 wordsAITAPE (N.G.), January 14 (Delayed).—Vigorous Australian commandos are giving the Japs no peace near their advanced outpost around Walum, deep in the Torricelli Mountains, 45 miles south-east of ...
Article : 453 wordsWELLINGTON (N.Z.), Friday.—Union protests against Parliament's increase of pay and travelling allowances to ...
Article : 97 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—During the Tobruk siege and the famous "Four-day Battle" in the Middle East Private Jack Wilson proved himself a very gallant soldier and did a sterling job when in charge of a section, a former ...
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Advertising : 15 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.—More than 100 decorations have been awarded to Royal Australian Naval Volunteer Reservists ...
Article : 63 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—Although the Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Forde) said to-day that the conference between representatives of the Army and the Information Department had clarified the position, it was learnt ...
Article : 307 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—First aircraft to be released by the R.A.A.F. for purchase by the public through the Commonwealth Disposals Commission are now on the market Sale will be by tender, which closes on February 20. ...
Article : 222 wordsThe Australian Comforts Fund has received hundreds of letters from people wonting to entertain British servicemen in their homes. ...
Article : 230 wordsFine weather, with a rise in Temperatures—at first in the west—is expected for the week-end-A Weather Bureau official said ...
Article : 290 wordsBy one vote, Mr. F. G. Nolan was appointed State secretary of he Australian Railway Union at he annual conference yesterday. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 102 wordsHundreds of cases of pears heavily coated with arsenate of lead arrived from the south on the Brisbane market this week and ...
Article : 214 wordsLAIDLEY, Friday.—Mr. Julius Wilhelm Schafferius, 79, of Plainland, whose death is announced, has left 106 ...
Article : 85 wordsCANBERRA, Friday. — The practice in some restaurants of imposing a heavy charge for corkage as a means of obtaining ...
Article : 112 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday. — The alertness of a Shepparton storekeeper led to the recapture of two escaped German ...
Article : 197 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—Mr. Joshua Smith was to-day announced the winner of the Archibald Prize for 1944 for his portrait of the Speaker of the House of Representatives (Mr. J. S. Rosevear). ...
Article : 394 wordsFirst shipment of Red Cross supplies to go through Soviet territory, 2005 tons, arrived in Kobe, Japan, on November 11. It is ...
Article : 136 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—The secretary af the Milk Zone Dairymen's Council (Mr. Sedgwick) said to-day that he had received protests ...
Article : 149 wordsIt was his intention to contact members of the union throughout the State as often as possible, said the newly-elected president of the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 150 wordsTownsville bakers yesterday accepted under protest a Prices Branch decision fixing the price of bread at 6d. a loaf, delivered at ...
Article : 141 wordsCANBERRA, Friday. — Black marketing of tyres, which were in short supply, was approaching sabotage of the nation's war effort ...
Article : 99 wordsWELLINGTON (N.Z.), Friday.—New Zealand is combing industry for fit men for foreign military service. Skilled engineering workers ...
Article : 93 wordsTOWNSVILLE, Friday.—Reports from outside centres show that the grasshopper invasion from the Lower Burdekin is steadily ...
Article : 56 wordsEVEN of the top of my form, I have never been what you would call a "drone," or a worker at heart, and I've been having ...
Article : 496 wordsAll milk from the Beaudesert district for consumption in Brisbane may soon be chilled in the local butter factory before ...
Article : 138 wordsThe Quantity of beef to be distributed for civilian consumption In Brisbane next week will be, about equal to that allotted this ...
Article : 103 wordsMEN, other than carpenters, who are about to become fathers had better begin learning wood-work right away, because indications are that they will have to make the cot for the new baby. ...
Article : 215 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—Thanks for Australian Red Cross Society's gift of clothing and medical comforts had been expressed ...
Article : 87 wordsSYDNEY.—Friday.—When three petrol tanker waggons, each containing 1000 gallons, caught fire it the Glebe Island depot of the ...
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The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), Sat 20 Jan 1945, Page 3
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