GUAM, SUNDAY.— ALTHOUGH NO DETAILED REPORTS HAVE YET BEEN RELEASED OF THE GREAT TWO-DAY ASSAULT ON TOKIO ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY BY U.S. CARRIER PLANES, ADMIRAL NIMITZ HAS ANNOUNCED ...
Article : 888 wordsMessages from war correspondents again emphasise the difficulties met by Australian troops in clearing the Japanese from the ...
Article : 77 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—Delegates of overseas nations should learn the story of Australia's remarkable contribution to General MacArthur's Command, take it home and tell it and retell it to their people, Brigadier-General Paul Johnston declared in an ...
Article : 565 wordsTAKING IT EASY IN BURMA. FLYING-OFFICER BOB BARCLAY, of Launceston, Tasmania, a navigator in a R.A.A.F. Mosquito squadron in Burma, sits on a 500 lb. bomb manicuring his nails with a Gurkha kukri.-Department of Air Photo. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 37 wordsLONDON. Sunday.—If a spirit of hostility to any plan for the organisation of peace triumphed because of an ingrained reluctance to limit ...
Article : 440 wordsADELAIDE, Sunday. — Thousands of pounds' worth of damage was caused in 20 minutes by a violent storm in the Whyalla district ...
Article : 287 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday — Industrial trouble on the Sydney waterfront continues. Several ships were not worked by wharf laborers during the week-end ...
Article : 103 wordsLUZON, Sunday.—With the seizure by American forces of Bataan Peninsula and successful landings on Corregidor Island, the entrance to Manila Bay is being cleared, and this great harbor, one of the finest in the Pacific, will soon be available to the Allied ...
Article : 745 wordsLONDON, Sunday. — Reverting the customary inverse relation between good news and prices, the stock market displayed firmness after the ...
Article : 384 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—The Federal executive of the Federated Union of Loco. Enginemen was asked to-day to authorise an Australia-wide ...
Article : 146 wordsTSIMBA (Bougainville), February 14 (delayed).—Alone the coastal track north of the Genga River the Australians have forged ahead ...
Article : 224 wordsAITAPE (Northern N.G., delayed — More than half the casualties of the Japanese in Northern N.G., the Solomons and New Britain to ...
Article : 280 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—A Dutch airman was dragged from his blazing plane after it had burst into flames in a forced landing at Muswellbrook early ...
Article : 120 wordsMANILA, Sunday. — The Americans recaptured General MacArthur's Rolls-Royce in good condition and highly polished in ...
Article : 78 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday — Smokers' hopes that the 5 p.c. reduction in the quota of cigarettes and tobacco for civilians ...
Article : 97 wordsMANILA, Sunday.—"With fiendish yells, every Japanese soldier bared his bayonet and attacked defenceless men, women and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 114 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday—Cloudbursts, hall and electrical storms in Victoria and N.S.W. at the?week-end caused three deaths, ...
Article : 225 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday.—When a rowing-boat containing five children was Llown a mile out to sea at Rosebud shortly after noon to-day. one boy ...
Article : 77 wordsMOSCOW, Sunday — The most Important tank action on the eastern front is being fought out between the Hron and Nitra Rivers, ...
Article : 290 wordsBUENOS AIRES, Sunday.—Two leading pro-Axis newspapers, "Cabildo" and "E. Pampero," have been suppressed by the police after complaints by foreign ...
Article : 132 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.— A man and his wife were electrocuted at Bexley, a south-western suburb, to-night, when they walked into electric wiles brought ...
Article : 66 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday.—A boy aged 13 pulled a large revolver from the pocket of his short pants and attempted to hold up a city cafe proprietress ...
Article : 59 wordsCANBERRA, Sunday.—Further industrial disturbances are likely unless the Commonwealth Government modifies or suspends the recently-amended wage-pegging regulations, union officials believe. Their interpretation of the regulations is that union claims which were before the State Court and almost ...
Article : 302 wordsLONDON, Sunday—A cheque for £25,000 was sent to the Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in England by Lord Beaverbrook. writing from the Lord Privy ...
Article : 70 wordsCANBERRA, Sunday.— Members of the public will not see the opening of the Federal Parliament next Wednesday by the Duke of Gloucester. Attendance will be by invitation only, and this list will be strictly policed. Owing to the small confines of the Senate Chamber where the opening ...
Article : 231 wordsSYDNEY. Sunday.—At Terrigal this afternoon, Sheila Sheardown (21) was killed when her horse shied at a flash of lightning. A Royal Marine officer ...
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Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 - 1954), Mon 19 Feb 1945, Page 5
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