(From an "Advocate" War Correspondent) S.W. PACIFIC HEADQUARTERS, Wednesday.—The Australians advancing northward along the coast of thc Huon Peninsula are meeting little resistance from the retreating Japanese, and ...
Article : 747 wordsWASHINGTON, Wednesday.— The U.S. Secretary of the Navy Colonel Knox) told a Press conference that the U.S. air forces ...
Article : 259 wordsFIRST WAVE OF MARINES to land are shown pushing their way through the dense undergrowth and jungle swamps fringing the Cape Gloucester beach. —Dept. of Information photograph. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 30 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.—"The public is advised not to take any notice of reports supplied by anonymous meat authorities in Sydney giving advance information on meat rationing," said the Minister for Trade and Customs (Senator Keane) to-day. ...
Article : 453 wordsHOBART, Wednesday. — Major prizewinners in Tattersall's 55th "War Service Funds" Consultation drawn at Hobart today Mere— ...
Article : 168 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—Since the beginning of the war the Australian Army has suffered 55,890 casualties. In 1943, the total, excluding prisoners of war, was 9031. The Minister for the Army (Mr. Forde), announcing this to-day, said ...
Article : 221 wordsHOBART, Wednesday.—Questioned to-night, the Deputy Director of Meat Supplies (Mr. S. R. Adams) said that when the chairman of the Rationing ...
Article : 74 wordsMELBOURN, Wednesday. — A Battle-for-Britain Spitfire, which was flown by the 472nd Spitfire Squadron, the first R.A.A.F. fighter ...
Article : 76 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.—In a Victorian military casualty list issued to-day for Australia and the islands, the following Tasmanians appear:— ...
Article : 47 wordsMr. G. H. Johnston, the T.T.U. handicapper, will be set a difficult task to assess what weight Mac Rob should be allotted in the Launceston Cup. The Parenthesis ...
Article : 361 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.—An analysis of nearly 30,000 battle casualties admitted to Middle Hast hospitals from the beginning of April, 1942, until the ...
Article : 85 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.—Residents of the Cotswolds village of Shipton underWyehwood have signed a petition calling for the removal of Sir Oswald ...
Article : 111 wordsDANCE—A successful dance was held on New Year's Eve in the Athenaeum Hall. Mr. H. Prouse was M.C., and the "Waratah Dance Band provided music. A ...
Article : 92 wordsMELBOURNE, wednesday. — balloting ivas heavy when final acceptors were declared to-day for the charity meeting at Moonee Valley on ...
Article : 561 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.— With stoppages at 17 mines in N.S.W. today, the State experienced its second most serious coal loss — ...
Article : 164 wordsHOBART, Wednesday. — Referring to a statement by the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Maddeu) which implied that, hay was in short ...
Article : 349 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday. — Moderate trading was observed in a firmer market on the Stock Exchange to-day. Industrials gained eight rises. Government ...
Article : 106 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday. — The basis of newsprint rationing for the next three months for daily and weekly newspapers will be the same ...
Article : 187 wordsLONDON, Wednesday. — According to the "New York Times" correspondent at Berne, the Germans are reported to have taken over complete ...
Article : 39 wordsNEW GUINEA, Wednesday.— In the heaviest night attack ever made in the south-West Pacific hy the K.A.A.F., Beaufort bombers ...
Article : 446 wordsWASHINGTON, Wednesday.— The War Department has announced that troops on Bougainville no longer call officers "Sir," but by ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 683 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday. — More than 9OO additional men had been released from the Army for work in rural industries and essential services, the ...
Article : 140 wordsRAILTON. — The annual meeting was held recently at the club room. The report disclosed that Mr. D'Altbn's trophy, for the most consistent loft was ...
Article : 412 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday. — When an Allied ship was attached by Japanese planes at Millingimbi, Northern Territory, Warrant Officer Frank Albert ...
Article : 199 wordsWASHINGTON, Wednesday. — The president of the Council of industrial Organisation (Mr. Philip Murray) announced that the newly-formed "C.I.O. ...
Article : 141 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday. — War Cabinet has decided to issue cadets of the A.T.C. with free summer uuiforms. Announcing this to-night, the Minister for ...
Article : 78 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday. — Customs officials to-day raided an overseas sliip in port and seized 17 lbs. of crude opium, valued at £1700. ...
Article : 29 wordsPERTH (W.A.), Wednesday.—While plans for the next war loan have not yet been completed, the Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) announced to-day that the interest rates would be the same as for the 4th Liberty Loan. An carly intimation of the interest rates was given, ...
Article : 144 wordsHOBERT, wednesday.—An amendment to the Hobart Bridge Act to enable the extension of a temporary certificate will be submitted to the State ...
Article : 78 wordsSEATTLE, Wednesday.—Mr. Magnuson, M.H.R.. and Senator Wallgren told the Press that the conversion of Liberty ships into transports should be ...
Article : 148 wordsNEW YORK, Wednesday.—The Tokio official radio says: "Naval aircraft on Friday morning attacked enemy transports off Capo Merkus. They ...
Article : 124 wordsHOBERT, wednesday.—The annual conference of the Australian Teachers' Federation will be held in Adelaide on January 10, ll and 12. Tasmanians who ...
Article : 123 wordsThe Deloraine branch of the Fathers' Association is untiring splendid progress. It recently joined forces with the local branch of the R.S.L; in ...
Article : 450 wordsFollowing are the handicaps for the Danbury Park Cup meeting at Elphin on Saturday— Novice Handicap, lim.: Tamar Pronto, ...
Article : 250 wordsEmphasising the remarkable courage anti endurance of the homing pigeon, a bird owned by Mr. C. T. Thorne, of Waratah, ...
Article : 72 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.—as a sequel to the disturbance in a Footseray boarding-house yesterday when a man ran amok with an axe, Ferdinand ...
Article : 140 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.— Miss G. H. Williams, addressing the Association of Assistant Mistresses, of which she is president, said: "Many of us are concerned ...
Article : 136 wordstimatcd at £30,000 was caused by a fire at the premises of Marchant and Co. Pty. Ltd., printers, Broadway, early to-day. The entire photographic and ...
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