SMASHED PLANES, huge clouds of smoke and more bombs still falling marked the destruction of the Japanese air base at Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea, by Allied bombers. In an attack lasting three days at least 288 enemy planes were demolished.— (U.S. Fifth Air Force photo.) ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 48 wordsS.W. PACIFIC HEADQUARTERS, Thursday.—The Japanese garrison at Bogadjim, former big base on the New Guinca-Rai coast, is believed to be withdrawing to Madang, 18 miles to the north. ...
Article : 553 wordsNominations for the annual municipal elections to be held on Thursday, April 27, closed at 4 p.m. yesterday. In seven of the 13 North-West and West Coast municipalities elections will not be neces-. sary. Thirty-three candidates, including 12 retiring councillors, will ...
Article : 1,227 wordsHOBART, Friday. — There would have to be a good deal of improvement in the administration of the Forestry Department before it come ...
Article : 586 wordsHOBART, Thursday.—Providing that the Minister for Health, if he thinks it necessary or desirable, may enter into a voluntary agreement with any local authority, and with the board or managing authority of any public hospital in the municipality of the local authority for the provision of free hospital ...
Article : 1,351 wordsS.W. PACIFIC HEADQUARTERS, Thursday.—Captain Richard I. Bong, of Polar, Wisconsin, became the American "ace of ...
Article : 139 wordsNEW YORK, Thursday.—Complete details of the three-day Caroline operations revealed that U.S. carrier forces damaged the enemy ...
Article : 333 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.—A new and substantial subsidy for the dairying industry to offset production costs is now being considered ...
Article : 116 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday,—The Minister for Customs (Senator Keane) will consider coupon rationing of cigarettes and tobacco if some inventor can produce a "nicotine detector." "Apart from nicotine-stained fingers or a dry cough in the ...
Article : 114 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday.—Chevrons to be worn by members of the R.A.A.F. in future will denote years of service, whether at home or abroad, and will ...
Article : 106 wordsHOBART, Thursday. — A protest against the introduction in the House of Assembly to-day for a bill providing for quarterly payments to ...
Article : 433 wordsWASHINGTON, Thursday.—The House of Representatives Appropriation Committee approved the Navy Appropriation Bill, providing ...
Article : 111 wordsHOBART, Friday. — There were angry scenes in the House of Assembly this morning when repented protests from Opposition members at ...
Article : 205 wordsHOBART, Friday.—The Speaker (Mr. J. J. Dwyer) took the chair in the House of Assembly at 2.30 p.m. yesterday. ...
Article : 397 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday.—She had not told Dr. Palmer-Benbow that a girl named Nellie had been battered on the head and killed at Quinn's shack on Albury Common, Mrs. Lucy Collins said at the inquest on the Pyjama Girl before the Coroner (Mr. Tingate) to-day. ...
Article : 667 wordsHOBART, Thusday.—As announced, to-day, the Federal Attorney-General (Dr. Evatt), who is due in Hobart on Monday, intends to make a final appeal ...
Article : 61 wordsCHICAGO, Thursday.—Incomplete and unofficial returns show that General MacArthur swept Illinois in the preferential presidential primary election. In ...
Article : 196 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday. — Stockmen at the Homebush abattoirs to-day ended their dogs' two-day "lie-down strike," but an output of 2000 careases of ...
Article : 84 wordsTwo Allied servicemen received fatal knife wounds in a brawl at an Australian port on Wednesday, and seven other soldiers had to ...
Article : 112 wordsLONDON, Thursday. — The air offensive against the north European coast was continued this afternoon, when U.S.A.A.F. fighters, including ...
Article : 101 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday.—Penalties totalling £778/12/ were imposed on Mrs, Lilian Pund, proprietress of Majora Modes, mantle manufacturers, ...
Article : 64 wordsHOBART, Thursday — The Government did not contemplate taking over the responsibility of municipal assessments in the near future, said the Minister for ...
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Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 - 1954), Fri 14 Apr 1944, Page 5
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