To-day the B.A.A.F. Directorate of Transport and Movements ls operating the largest air transport system the nation has known — ...
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Article : 528 wordsCANBERRA Monday.—Under the proposed banking legislation to be introduced by the Federal Government in the parliamentary session commencing on Wednesday, the Commonwealth Bank will be brought firmly under Government control. ...
Article : 531 wordsMANILA, Monday.—The Corregidor landing from the sea was no picnic, states the United Press correspondent. Many veterans of previous landings said it was the toughest of all. Our troops thought that the air and naval bombardment had been too much for the Japanese, but found that they had ...
Article : 671 wordsMANILA, Monday. — At the moment the situation in the vicintiy of the walled city in south Manila is quiet, but a bloody fight is ...
Article : 142 wordsTSIMBA (Bougainville Island), February 15 (delayed).—For the first time In the Solomons, Japanese land mines have been encountered by ...
Article : 515 wordsHOBART, Monday.—At a sitting of the High Court to-day, Justice Sir Owen Dixon made an order for the removal into the High Court in ...
Article : 275 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—The threat of a 24-hour State-wide railway stoppage became stronger late to-day when the State council of the ...
Article : 200 wordsCANBERRA, Monday.—Federal Ministers on their way to Canberra yesterday were delayed by heavy thunderstorms in Victoria and N.S.W. ...
Article : 151 wordsSYDNEY, Monday — Two English merchant seamen faced a manslaughter charge in the Central Police Court to-day following the death at the ...
Article : 102 wordsCANBERRA, Monday. — The Red Army's successes followed from the firm alliance of the three Great Powers and from their common effort at, the ...
Article : 110 wordsMELBOURNE, Monday. — Elaborate enemy defensive positions have been overcome In the Torricelli Mountain area, northern New Guinea, ...
Article : 137 wordsCANBERRA, Monday. — The highlight this week will be the opening of Parliament at 3 p.m. on Wednesday by the Duke of ...
Article : 146 wordsMELBOURNE, Monday — When a circular saw in use at tho rear of premises occupied by Robert Underwood, Ascot Vale, shattered this afternoon, ...
Article : 104 wordsSYDNEY, Monday — A fifth N.S.W. death is reported from yesterday's widespread electrical disturbance. Struck by lightning while sitting in ...
Article : 83 wordsHOBART, Monday.—In the Hlgn Court to-day, before Justice Sir Owen Dixon, an action was mentioned in which the Commonwealth is appealing ...
Article : 322 wordsKing George shakes hands with General Dwight [?] Supreme Commander-in-Chief Allied Expeditionary Force, after a ceremony in Belgium at which the King decorated Lieutenant General Omar N. Bradley, Commander of the 12th U.S. Army Group, with ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 47 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—Eager buyers of the new set of Commonwealth postage stamps commemorating the appointment of the Duke ...
Article : 213 wordsCANBERRA, Monday. — The Social Security Committee is expected to recommend to the Commonwealth Government in its latest report on medical ...
Article : 108 wordsHOBART, Monday. — A complaint that with their parents' approval children remained seated on 'buses while elderly women and women with babies ...
Article : 178 wordsCANBERRA, Monday — The Prime Minister (Mr. J. Curtin) announced this evening that he had decided that a balanced delegation ...
Article : 258 wordsCANBERRA, Monday.—A bill dealing with insurance will be brought down during, the forthcoming Federal parliamentary session. Other measures ...
Article : 72 wordsCANBERRA, Monday.— The Prime Minister (Mr. J. Curtin) announced to-day that he had accepted the resignation of Mr. Dedman as Minister for War Organisation of Industry and that the formal amalgamation of War Orginisation and the Ministry of Post-War Reconstruction under Mr. Dedman as Minister ...
Article : 419 wordsCANBERRA. Monday.—The Minister for Commerce (Mr. W. J. Scully) announced to-day that the Commonwealth Government had ...
Article : 140 wordsGUAM, Monday.—The great strike at Tokio by carrier aircraft on Friday and Saturday is described by Admiral Nimitz as a decisive victory. The raiders shot from the sky 322 Japanese planes, destroyed 177 on the ground and probably destroyed 150 on the first day, and an unknown number was accounted ...
Article : 403 wordsLONDON, Monday. —The German Newsagency says the Russians, pushing westward from their Oder bridgeheads south of ...
Article : 150 wordsCANBERRA, Monday.—A report on the air crash at Redesdale, Victoria, on January 31, in which 10 people were killed, is being considered by the ...
Article : 87 wordsLAUNCESTON, Monday. — There was a good chance that aluminium smelters would be established in the Beaconsfield municipality, Mr. J. A. Guy, M.H.R., ...
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