GENERAL MACARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Tuesday — The air war over Rabaul continues with undiminished fury. To-day's official communique states that during raids on Lakunai and Tobera aerodromes on Saturday morning 24 Japanese planes were shot down ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 769 wordsThe story of an amazing escapade in a "borrowed" car, with a policeman clinging to the running board while the car careered along at 40 miles an hour, culminating in the car getting out of control and crashing on the Brickport road near Cooee, was unfolded in the Burnie Police Court yesterday, ...
Article : 1,196 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.—Soon after Parliament meets next week the Government will bring down resolutious in both Houses formally ...
Article : 387 wordsHOBART, Tuesday.—At a meeting of the Salmon and fresh Water fisheries Commission at Miena, Mr. H. W. Cramp, of Hobart, was re-eleeted ...
Article : 258 wordsWASHINGTON, Tuesday — The furious American air and naval onslaught against the Marshall Islands is being pressed home under circumstances indicating that landing forces are now battling with the Japanese for control of these stategic island bases, says the ...
Article : 502 wordsMELBOURNE, Tuesday—This year might prove to be a year of crisis on the food front, the leader of the United Kingdom Food ...
Article : 155 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday — Six coal mines were idle in N.S.W. to-day, for a total loss of 5850 tons of coal and involving 1867 men. ...
Article : 182 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.—A special committee, is sitting continuously in Melbourne working out plans for the eventual demobilisation of the Army ...
Article : 110 words(By Leo Cherne, Executive Secretary of the Research Institute of America). NEW YORK, Tuesday.—In his lend-lease report to the U.S. ...
Article : 568 wordsSOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINES, Tuesday.— Determined to avenge his three brothers killed in fighting the Japanese, Pte. Charles M. Stewart, of ...
Article : 116 words"We have been greatly impressed with the districts we have visited and the Brownell and Bismarck crops we have seen, many of which ...
Article : 806 wordsAlthough the actual target acreage for 1944-45 had not yet been determined, it was certain a considerable increase on this year's ...
Article : 172 wordsLAUNCESTON, Tuesday — After hearing a number of appeals, the War Pensions Entitlement Appeal Tribunal completed a session at Launceston ...
Article : 84 wordsHOBART, Tuesday. — "This gay life seems to be meeking half the homes," declared Mr. Justice Clark in the Supreme Court to-day during the ...
Article : 661 wordsLONDON, Tuesday.—Social security costing £98,000,000 a year is envisaged in a scheme recommended by a social security committee appointed in ...
Article : 110 wordsLAUNCESTON, Tuesday.—For having, between November 6 and 12, being an employe of Patons and Baldwins, absented herself from her place of ...
Article : 104 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.—Advice was received by the Minister for Extenal Affairs (Dr. Evatt) to-day that the N.Z. Government this morning ratified ...
Article : 55 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) made it clear to-day that the appointment of the Chief Jistice of Queensland (Sir ...
Article : 78 wordsMELBOURNE, Tuesday. — Tasmanian sassafras had proved satisfactory for the manufacture of clothes pegs, which are now being ...
Article : 161 wordsMr. Churchill's personal statement, following his recovery in Egypt, explains perhaps better than any other event the real and immense benefit to ...
Article : 329 wordsCANBERRA Tuesday — Answering demands by both unions and other interests for the release of men from the Army, the Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) said to-day that the accumulative effect of meeting all such demands would be that Australia would not have an adequate Army. ...
Article : 750 wordsNEW YORK, Tuesday.—The "New York Times" Washington correspondent says the Japanese are holstering home morale by ...
Article : 221 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—The hearing of the cases against Sydney train and 'bus employes summoned as a result of last week's transport hold-up has been ...
Article : 169 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.— Urging an immediate review of beer quotas to hotels, especially in N.S.W., Mr. J. Beale, M.L.A., said to-day that a number of ...
Article : 69 wordsMELBOURNE, Tuesday—There were 27½ tons of rabbitskins offered at the Melbourne sales to-day. Opening sales were weak, being Sd to 18d lower, but ...
Article : 81 wordsMELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Three more victims of the bush fires of January 14 have died, bringing the deathroll to 25. ...
Article : 64 wordsBRISBANE, Tuesday. — Norman James Burton (54), railway employe, of Spring Hill, who was walking beside a locomotive carrying a red flag and ...
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Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 - 1954), Wed 2 Feb 1944, Page 5
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