S.W. PACIFIC HEADQUARTERS, Monday. — With the Wakde airfield now in Allied hands, General MacArthur's air offensive is losing no time in pushing on to the remaining aerodromes in Dutch New Guinea. ...
Article : 809 wordsBillows of smoke and dust mushroom from the runway of the Japanese airfield on Saipan while enemy planes, dispersed on the airstrip fiercely burn from direct hits by carrier-bused U.S. Navy bombers during a heavy assault on the enemy-held Mariana Islands in the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 49 wordsHOBART, Monday.—Evidence would be given that the former Minister for Agriculture (Mr. T. D'Alton) told the directors of the Southern Tasmanian Co-operative Society Ltd. that unless they got rid of their manager, Mr. H. C. Little, he would "- well kick them out," said counsel for plaintiff in the ...
Article : 1,758 wordsAmerican and New Zealand troops were protected from enemy strafing by huge barrage balloons as they unloaded battle equipment from LST (landing ship-tank) vessels during the Allied attack on the I Japanese-held Green islands, in the South Pacific.— (U.S. Office ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 45 wordsLONDON, Monday.—On his arrival in Ottawa from London the Canadian Prime Minister (Mr. MacKenzie King) declared that the ...
Article : 288 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—Since Pearl Harbor the Australian Navy had increased its strength by 64 per cent., the Army by 55 per cent, and the Air Force by 147 per cent., the Federal Attorney-General (Dr. Evatt) said to-day. All States of the Commonwealth were producing invasion craft up to 150ft. ...
Article : 240 wordsLAUNCESTON, Monday. — Championship prizes were presented by the Mayor (Aid. W. Chirk) at the final concert given by the Launceston Competitions ...
Article : 135 wordsHOBART, Monday. — The cost, of the inquiry made by the Select Committee of the Legislative Council into statements contained in the report of ...
Article : 337 wordsNEW GUINEA, Monday.—Roaring across the sky above a large Markham Valley base without a soul on board, a four-engmed Liberator ...
Article : 372 wordsCANBERRA, Monday.—In face of coupon rationing, Federal authorities are puzzled at the vising consumption of meat. As a ...
Article : 135 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—A full meeting of the central committee of the Australian Communist Party had already decided against taking a course ...
Article : 85 wordsMELBOURNE, Monday.—After a spell of more than six months instructing at an operational training unit in Australia, Commander Clive ...
Article : 332 wordsHOBART, Monday.—The Launceston City Council has been awarded £24-1,000 for the transfer of its hydro-electric undertaking ...
Article : 285 wordsCHICAGO, Monday.—The "Tribune" says Mr. Churchill took the opportunity at the luncheon in honor of Mr. Curtin, over which the Duke of Gloucester ...
Article : 225 wordsCANBERRA, Monday.—The acting Prime Minister (Mr. Forde) said tonight further inquiries would be made into the circumstances under which ...
Article : 85 wordsLAUNCESTON, Monday. — "This war has pushed medicine on tremendously," stated Dr. N. F. Freemantle in an address, "Medical Services in ...
Article : 98 wordsCANBERRA, Monday. — Financial allocation to assist the States in their fight against V.D. and T.B. will probably be announced at the mid-yearly ...
Article : 200 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—Sums totalling £851 anil representing troops war loan subscriptions which a soldier bad misappropriated from the Commonwealth ...
Article : 82 wordsNEW YORK, Monday.—Tokio Official Radio says a United Stales task force attacked Marcus Island on Saturday and yesterday. ...
Article : 153 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—Because they did not obtain a building permit, a young newly-married couple, Mr. and Mrs. Boy Ferguson, of Swansea, have ...
Article : 123 wordsRepresentations have been made by the Attorney-General (Mr. Jas. M' Donald) for the appointment of a doctor to replace Dr. Lancaster at ...
Article : 187 wordsMELBOURNE, Monday.—Women of all ages will be directed from low priority undertakings for staff work in hospitals and mental institutions ...
Article : 76 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—The M'Kell Labor Government is practically certain of success at next Saturday's State election. Thirteen ...
Article : 137 wordsSYDNEY, Monday. —Pursuing every possible means ot increasing coal production, the Commouwealth would introduce open cut mining to Cessnock ...
Article : 276 wordsHOBART, Monday.—"Does Mr Nicol mean that he had no part in the industrial trouble at Butler's Gorge which ended in the aliens being sent ...
Article : 340 wordsLONDON, Monday.—The Holy Synod of the Kunian Greek Orthodox Church has elected Alexis, Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, as Incumbent Patriarch, ...
Article : 101 wordsMELBOURNE, Monday. — Because of the restoration of the first Saturday in the month and three holiday meetings—Boxing Day, New Year's Day and Easter ...
Article : 63 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—One of the most comprehensivo inquiries ever undertaken by the Industrial Commission is being sought by the Amalgamated Road ...
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Advertising : 35 wordsMELBOURNE, Monday. — In an excellent school over 15 fences at Flemiugton to-day Victory March and Trent Bridge both jumped well. Victory March ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 135 wordsL0NDON, Monday.—Without entering the harbor at all, one of Britain's ace commanders, Lieut. R. Gatehouse, D.S.C., torpedoed an anchored German ship in ...
Article : 127 wordsLAUNCESTON, Monday.—By 411 votes to 365 members of the Tasmanian Producers Organisation to-day consented to the dissolution of their organisation in order to effect amalgamation with the Primary Producers' Union. Only 38.5 per cent, of the 2053 members on the roll voted. ...
Article : 326 wordsMELBOURN, Monday. — Robby Pearce, who won three successive races at Flemington in the spring and summer, has returned from a spell and is once again a ...
Article : 56 wordsNEW YORK, Monday.—Maurice Rentner, one of New York's leading fashion stylists, predicts a season of feminine fashion glamor ...
Article : 53 wordsLONDON, Monday.—The Foreign Secretary (Mr. Eden) last week received a deputation of the British Council of Churches, led by the Archbishop of ...
Article : 73 wordsBRISBANE, Monday. — Disqualification for 12 months the previous day did not prevent the Brisbane trainer, R. Wall, from seeing Auction, who he trained, win ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 350 wordsPERTH, Monday.—Marble Bar is having a cold snap. The maximum for the past 24 hours has been only 75 degrees, which is almost unprecedented ...
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Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 - 1954), Tue 23 May 1944, Page 3
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