LUZON, Thursday — The opening of the second week of the Luzon campaign finds forward American columns a third of the way to Manila from the beachhead on Lingayen Gulf. Further advances have been made in all sectors, and the main ...
Article : 904 wordsDIGGERS GIVE A HELPING HAND — A party of engineer working nearby gave a helping hand when a jeep driver became bogged half-way across a stream in the Aitape area in New Guinea ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 43 wordsHOBART, Thursday — The lifting of the wage-pegging regulations and establishment of marketing bureaux within the States were urged by the half-yearly meeting of the A.W.U this evening. It was not desired to see wages go skyrocketing, but some adjustment ...
Article : 517 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday. — Federal Cabinet discussion on the principle of soldier preference was to-day adjourned until a later sitting without any ...
Article : 305 wordsLONDON, Thursday — In his war review in the House of Common Mr. Churchill said that in Moscow he and the Foreign Secretary (Mr. Eden) reached an understanding with Marshal Stalin that Britain and Russia would pursue a joint policy in the Balkans. This agreement raised no question of ...
Article : 454 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—Admitting full responsibility for organising the Grovelly detention camp mutiny, Hugh Parker, former soldier and now a prisoner ...
Article : 175 wordsWASHINGTON, Thursday.—A 20th Air Force communique states that a sizable force of China-based Super-Fortresses bombed installations in the ...
Article : 380 wordsADELAIDE, Thursday.—When a troop train crashed into the middle of a freight train at Bordertown, traffic on the main line ...
Article : 189 wordsHOBART, Thursday — A forecast that before long Tasmania would be the State foremost in the production of Granny Smiths was made by Mr. J. R. ...
Article : 117 wordsSYDNEY. Thursday — Dr. Reginald Stuart Jones was again in hospital fol lowing a relapse it was stated when his name wns called as defendant in ...
Article : 158 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday — The Minister for Aircraft Production (Senator Cameron) said to-day the installation of Rolls Royce Merlin engines had put ...
Article : 151 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday. — The form of administration of the Commonwealth Bank proposed by the Federal Government ignored the dangers ...
Article : 271 wordsLONDON, Thursday. — Mr. Churchill, in the House of Commons to-day, gave it as his opinion that the battle of the Ardennes ...
Article : 339 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday — The Commander-in-Chief of the Australian Military Forces (General Sir Thomas Blamey) said to-day the ...
Article : 318 wordsCpl. Keith Winter and Leading Aircraftsman Bert Winter found themselves together recently in an R.A.A.F. photographic section in northern New ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 201 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday. — Seamen who who do not work on ships for four months out of six may be debarred from the maritime industry ...
Article : 84 wordsLONDON", Thursday.—The Navy League celebrated its jubilee yesterday. The King sent the following message: "As patron of the League I send hearty ...
Article : 177 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday — Having called off their milk strike pending the out come of an independent inquiry into the industry by a firm of accountants, ...
Article : 80 wordsBRISBANE, Thursday, — Flame, throwers and poisoned bait has failed to stem the invasion of grasshoppers at Ayr, where the main section of the ...
Article : 70 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.—Federal Cabinet to-day approved of the Commonwealth post-war works programme as agreed to by the ...
Article : 144 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday—Unheralded for security reasons, almost obliterated by the worst dust storm for years, and unrecognised by most persons round the harbor, H.M.S. Howe, 35,000-ton flagship of the British Pacific Fleet, received only a silent ...
Article : 530 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—Renter's correspondent at Allied headquarters in Italy says the Germana in the Eighth Army sector have thrown a bridgehead across ...
Article : 93 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.—The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. W. J. Scully) said to-day that wheat stabilisation was not a restriction plan, ...
Article : 100 wordsWhen a sack that had been set on fire by a spark was dumped over the ship's side, oil on the water burst into flame and caused a blaze which resulted in hundreds of thousands of pounds' worth of damage to the vessel and destruction of several hundred yards of wharves at an Australian port on ...
Article : 369 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.— The Minister for Trade and Customs (Senator R. V. Keane) said to-day American opinion was that in the ...
Article : 202 wordsLONDON, Thusday — Mr. Churchill said in the House of Commons to-day that General MacArthur's recovery of the Philippines, which ...
Article : 132 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday. — An o[?] washed ashore at Albert Park and part[?] of wreckage picked up from the sea b' fishermen near Geelong yesterday have ...
Article : 63 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday. — Advocating 6/ per day battle bonus for all mem bers of the fighting services, the Iron workers' Union executive points out that ...
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Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 - 1954), Fri 19 Jan 1945, Page 5
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