DRAMATIC PICTURE of a blazing Japanese cargo ship caught off Palau, in the Western Carolines, by bombers of the U.S. Navy carrier task force which carried out a heavy assault on enemy bases. In a three-days attack 46 Japanese ships were sunk or damaged.—U.S. Office of War Inf.) ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 48 wordsS.W. PACIFIC HEADQUARTERS, SUNDAY.—AT DAWN YESTERDAY AMERICAN TROOPS LANDED ON THE SOUTH-EAST COAST OF BIAK ISLAND, IN GEELVINK BAY (DUTCH NEW GUINEA). After overcoming initial Japanese resistance, they are now driving on the island's three ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 830 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—Overwhelming endorsement of the M'Kell Labor Administration, which was returned to office with practically the same personnel it had in the last Parliament, and failure of the Opposition parties to consolidate their positions were the main features of the N.S.W. State elections yesterday. ...
Article : 359 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday. — When two aircraft living in formation crashed into high ground near Mt. Disappointment, north of Whittlesea on Thursday, two ...
Article : 79 wordsWASHINGTON, Sunday.—The Australian Minister for Supply and Shipping (Mr. Beasley) said that his talks with British and American rubber ...
Article : 235 wordsLONDON, Sunday.—"The successive Royal Yugoslav Governments in London seem very far away to these peoples of liberated territories," writes the correspondent representing the combined British and American press at Marshal Tito's headquarters. "They have proved a stumbling block to Allied ...
Article : 506 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday. — Steel and woodwork of an electric train were shattered, part of one train was derailed and ten persons were ...
Article : 193 wordsSAN FRANCISCO, Sunday.— Schools of sharks attacked exhausted survivors of the torpedoed troop transport Cape San Juan in the South ...
Article : 137 wordsLONDON, Sunday.—Goebbels, in an article in "Voelkiseher Beobachter," says that Allied airmen, not content with haphazardly bombing residential ...
Article : 198 wordsWASHINGTON, Sunday.—It is believed that a highly placed American official, possibly President Roosevelt himself, will participate in the ...
Article : 168 wordsLONDON, Sunday.—German firing squads in Norway have executed 11 more Norwegians, three of whom, aged between 20 and 22, were arrested ...
Article : 147 wordsCHUNGKING, Sunday.—A communique states that after sweeping through the Honan Province in the past 40 days, the Japanese ...
Article : 314 wordsCommuniques from General MacArthur's headquarters state: SATURDAY Dutch New Guinea — Geelvink Bay: ...
Article : 778 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday. — Detectives to-night are searching for a sneak thief who found an old man's heard of £19,000 in banknotes when he ...
Article : 119 wordsLONDON, Sunday.—Authoritative reports reaching London state that the Germans are moving three divisions from the Eisonza Valley, ...
Article : 123 wordsLONDON, Sunday.—"German parachute detachments in Cassiuo had enough ammunition for at least a fortnight, and food for another 10 days. ...
Article : 225 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday. — A warning to employas against leaving their jobs because of Wednesday's decision of the State Full Court in N.S.W. invalidating ...
Article : 96 wordsCANBERRA, Sunday. — The Commonwealth Government is enlisting the assistance of big private businesses overseas for the establishment of new ...
Article : 187 wordsNEW YORK, Sunday.—Allied gains in the Pacific had already, so to speak, set fire to one end of Japan and were about to reduce ...
Article : 97 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—The present war could have been prevented by the League of Nations if the great Powers had supported it, Mr. W. ...
Article : 202 wordsDETROIT, Sunday.—The present wa[?] would only be a rehearsal for a more terrible combat unless greed were eliminated, religious disunity overcome, and ...
Article : 62 wordsLONDON, Sunday.—Details of an R.A.F. secret a year old were revealed with the announcement that British planes had been attacking land ...
Article : 263 wordsCANBERRA, Sunday.—With a net increase of 40,000 migrants a year, which some authorities believe is the maximum that can be absorbed, it is estimated that Australia, at the best, can expect a population of another 2,000,000 by the year 2000. This is an important element in the statistical background ...
Article : 485 wordsLONDON, Sunday.—The Swedish liner Gripsholm, carrying over 900 British, American and other sick and wounded ex-prisoners of war, yesterday ...
Article : 264 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday.—In future wireless operator air gunners are to be known as wireless operators (air) and will wear a single-winged breast badge ...
Article : 62 wordsGEELONG, Sunday. — Mr. J. Turley, of Swanston st., Geelong, a goods checker at Geelong railway station, believes he is the father of the only ...
Article : 152 wordsLONDON, Sunday. — The Fifth Army is within three miles of the stronghold of Valmontonc, the capture of which would jeopardise the ...
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Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 - 1954), Mon 29 May 1944, Page 5
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