LIFTING ITS HEAVY LOAD OF BOMBS from the runway on Saipan, this Super-Fortress was headed for Tokio in one of the heavy attacks on the Japanese capital. —U.S. Office of War Information photo. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 39 wordsLEYTE, Wednesday.—Fighters sweeping over the southern provinces of Luzon yesterday did widespread damage to warehouses, railway installations and power plants. Medium units operating further north caused fires and explosions af Laoag, and ...
Article : 502 wordsAgain the first two lines of "The Watch on the Rhine," Germany's most popular song, have come true: "You hear a call like thunderstorm, From rattling swords and wave clash born...." ...
Article : 920 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Plans are being made to ensure that the greatest publicity shall be given to the activities of the British Fleet. Despite doubts in some quarters that the "silent service" would continue to live up to its tradition of reticence, the Admiralty has started preparations ...
Article : 316 wordsNEW YORK, Wednesday. — The N.B.C. correspondent in the Philippines, George Folster, says the Australian squadron attached to the ...
Article : 106 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.— Shipping and service authorities to-day discussed plans for the immediate employment of members of ...
Article : 105 wordsWASHINGTON. Wednesday.— A War Department communique says that Saipan-based Super-Fortresses to-day made a daylight attack on ...
Article : 228 wordsWASHINGTON, Wednesday. — Charles Haslet, of the Associated Press, describes the bulldozer earth-moving machine as a real fighting weapon. ...
Article : 247 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday. — Hundreds of unposted servicemen's referendum votes were burnt in an Army incinerator at Larrakia ...
Article : 152 wordsLONDON, Wednesday. — Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsav, Allied Naval Commander, was killed yesterday in a plane crash in France. His plane ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 300 wordsThe Government White Paper on the United Kingdom war effort astounded the world by its revelations of the degree of British military and ...
Article : 565 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.—There is little prospect of the Premiers' Conference taking place before the coming Federal Parliamentary session. ...
Article : 69 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday—A youth who died during a hike in the lonely Black Dog Banges, near Katoomba, on Saturday, will probably be ...
Article : 236 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.—New Year greetings have been exchanged between Australia and China. ...
Article : 136 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday—A wireless operator and two trainee navigators were killed when an R.A.A.F. aircraft crashed during navigational ...
Article : 76 wordsWASHINGTON, Wednesday. — Inquiries in Australian official circles and elsewhere indicate that the light transportation situation ...
Article : 348 wordsLONDON, Wednesday. — Children throughout Britain will be able to continue free education up to the age of 18 or 19 as from April 1. After ...
Article : 340 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.—The mints in Victoria and W. Australia have been inadequate to meet wartime requirements, it was stated officially to-day. Coinage has had to be obtained from America and India. ...
Article : 124 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday. — The diversion of single girls and women between 18 and 40 from all parts of Victoria to city and country ...
Article : 94 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.—Reduced maximum wholesale prices for tomatoes of 5d per 1b. in S.A. Victoria and Tasmania and 7d 1b. ...
Article : 157 wordsLONDON, Wednesday. — Dr. J. A. Kitchener, scientist in the Department of Physical Chemistry at the Imperial College of Science and ...
Article : 148 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday — Prompt action by a ma[?] of 71 resulted in two lives being saved at the Mordialloc bench tins afternoon, ...
Article : 168 wordsWASHINGTON, Wednesday. — The War Department opposes the reported British proposal to give Field-Marshal Montgomery or another British ...
Article : 68 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday. — Although three idle collieries resumed work to-day, coal losses in N.S.W rose to 8140 tons as the ...
Article : 141 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday — When a city-bound car crashed into the side of a tram in Lygon street, Br[?]swiek, soon after 6 p.m., a man was killed and ...
Article : 179 wordsAUSTRALIANS WHO TOOK PART IN THE LANDING AT MINDORO, in the Philippines, lined the rails of their ship and eagerly watched the coastline as they drew towards the shore. Digger hats were in evidence among the R.A.A.F. engineers aboard the ship which formed part of a big convov. —Department of Air [?] ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 52 wordsLONDON, Wednesday—An American counter-attack near Weberlin, two and a half miles west of Volkllnger, on the Saar River, ...
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Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 - 1954), Thu 4 Jan 1945, Page 5
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