WASHINGTON, August 17.—The Navy announced that the shore positions taken by U.S. Marines in the Solomon are now well established, following a naval engagement between American warships and a force of cruisers and destroyers in which the enemy ...
Article : 875 wordsAmerican "crocodile" boats are designed to speed ashore from Warships or transports, bearing marine artillery, light tanks, motor tracks, and armored scout cars. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 53 wordsStrategic reasons for selecting the Solomon Islands for the first large-scale attack against the Japanese have not been disclosed, but the fact that ...
Article : 1,146 wordsLONDON, August 17.—The situation is tense for the Russians within the Dos Elbow, North-west of Stalingard, and is daily growing more difficult. The Germans seem to have followed their usual policy of disregarding cost, and have established some positions on ...
Article : 1,200 wordsLONDON, August 17.—The "Times" correspondent to the Western Desert says Rommel's forces in the Egyptian battle area are beginning to feel ...
Article : 164 wordsCANBERRA, August 18.—The Associated Chambers of Commerce of Australia and the Australian Council of the Employers' Federation viewed ...
Article : 261 wordsBRISBANE, August 13.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin), revealed to-day that the Department of War Organisation of Industry was actively ...
Article : 127 wordsBRISBANE, August 18—What is an overall? This is one of the problems the Rationing Commission has had to solve. It has done so in this way, said ...
Article : 250 wordsCANBERRA, August 18.—Mr. Beasley to-night declared the continued attacks on the Government's handling of food production by certain public ...
Article : 236 wordsBRISBANE, August 18.—A review of the State's liquor control measures, and consideration of the Premiere' Conference decision that hotel trading ...
Article : 350 wordsMELBOURNE, August 18.—Four prominent American Red Cross women have arrived in Australia to open Red Cross Service Clubs for the ...
Article : 118 wordsSYDNEY, August 18.—Warwick Fairfax has resigned from the Press Advisory Committee on Censorship as a protest against political censorship ...
Article : 544 wordsBRISBANE, August 18.—Before the hewing of the conscientious objects cases to-day, Stipendiary Magistrate Knyvett read a letter which, he said. ...
Article : 209 wordsBRISBANE, August 18.—Unless there is complets co-ordination of the distribution with the Australian Comforts Fund, no organisation will be ...
Article : 96 wordsWASHINGTON, August 17—Colonel Knox has telegraphed the employees' leader at the General Cable Company's plant at Bayonne, that the ...
Article : 86 wordsMELBOURNE, August 18.—The membership of the Voluntary Defence Corps did not exempt men from the military call-up. said Mr. Fords (Army ...
Article : 74 wordsCLEVELAND (Ohio), August 17.—Representative Martin Smith told a gathering of Spanish war veterans that, by the end of next year, control ...
Article : 105 wordsMELBOURNE, August 18.—Mr. I Forde said to-day that women farmers are not wanted in the Australian Women's Army Service. The A.W.A.S. ...
Article : 64 wordsSYDNET, August 18.—The profits of the Australian Jockey Club for the current season will be applied as formerly in aid of funds raised for ...
Article : 66 wordsCANBERRA August 18.-The proposed austerity campaign, which will shortly be announced by Mr. Curtin, will be designed by the Government ...
Article : 129 wordsRIO DE JANEIRO, August 17—The Government has announced the sinking of three ships, the Baependy, Araraquara and Annibalbenevolo, on ...
Article : 119 wordsMONTE VIDEO, August 17.—Leaders of the Free Italian Legion would be organised and trained in the United States using arms solicited from ...
Article : 86 wordsSYDNEY, August 18.—Mr. Justice Drake-Brockman said to-day that if a more little more fact and commonsense had been exercised by the miners and ...
Article : 94 wordsLONDON, August 17—It is officially stated the R.A.F. attacks on Mainz on August 11—12 completely destroyed an area of about 180 acres. ...
Article : 65 wordsCHICAGO, August 17—Mr. Roy Hendrickson, Administrator of Agricultural Marketing told the Press that meatless and rationing was a ...
Article : 155 wordsLONDON, August 17—The Fighting French Headquarters claim the German Government is negotiating with Vichy with a view to obtaining ...
Article : 48 wordsCANBERRA. August 18—Lucerne, sun-dried and cut fine will be served and mixed with other foods to troops because of its high vitamin content ...
Article : 45 words"Every sign points to the war's fury increasing and our peril becoming graver. In order to carry the war to a victorious finish we must have ...
Article : 158 wordsCANBERRA, August 18—Mr. Scully said to-night that he was concerned about the prices being paid by buyers for fresh pork processors to pig ...
Article : 88 wordsBRISBANE, August 18.—Panic buying made record retail sales of £516,000 a month for the three months ended May 31, according to the ...
Article : 78 wordsThe City Council's special street-to-street drive on Tuesday yielded a further there and a quarter tons of rubber scrap. Mora than 63 tons are now ...
Article : 87 wordsWASHINGTON, August 17.—The Navy announced the first sinkings to-day since August 12. A medium-sized United States merchantman was ...
Article : 74 wordsJOHANNESBURG, August 17.—The Gold Producers' Committee end the Transvaal Chamber of Mines have announced that South African gold ...
Article : 71 wordsBRISBANE, August 18.—It was ascertained at the State Health Department to-day that meningitis is still occurring only sporadically in ...
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The Townsville Daily Bulletin (Qld. : 1907 - 1909 ; 1912 - 1966), Wed 19 Aug 1942, Page 3
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