WASHINGTON, Sunday.—American forces, in the biggest amphibious operation of the Pacific war, have landed on Okinawa, the main island in the Ryukyu group, only 325 miles from Kyushu, the southernmost of the Japanese home islands. ...
Article : 1,029 wordsCREW AND OFFICERS OF AN AMERICAN AIRCRAFT CARRIER assembled to learn of a strike against military arne s in the Tokio area as their ship neared Japan. The attack was earned out on February 15 and 16 by a powertulbarrier task force. The Ota aircraft factory north of Tokio was damaged and two engine plants were heavily bombed. More than 500 Japanese aircraft were destroyed or damaged. —(U.S. Office of War Information.) ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 80 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday.—The Victorian A.L.P. conference has instructed Victorian Federal Labor members to vote against the Soldier Preference Bill now before Parliament. This decision was made after conference had discussed for three hours the Government's preference proposals. ...
Article : 411 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday.—Queens, land alone among the States is in arrears with its £100,000,000 Third Victory Loan applications ...
Article : 506 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday. — Nine passengers were taken to the Manly Hospital and many others were treated on the roadside by ...
Article : 216 wordsLONDON, Sunday. — One of the greatest transport holocausts cince the air onslaught of the Falaise Gap blazed upon the ...
Article : 112 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday.—Warning delegates to the Labor conference that they would have to face greater sacrifices before the war ended, the Minister for Trade and Customs (Senator Keane) said the Japanese war would be appallingly long, with shocking casualties. ...
Article : 340 wordsNEW BRITAIN, Sunday.—Decisive victories by Australian troops on ail dominating features overlooking Tol in the Wide Bay ...
Article : 224 wordsSir,—I ask potato-growers to pay no attention whatever to the Ulverstone T.P.O. meeting, the report of wihch said that the Potato Marketing Board ...
Article : 105 wordsLONDON, Sunday. — Reuter's correspondent with the Third Army quotes a high ranking captured German officer as ...
Article : 67 wordsBOMBAY Saturday.—Political history was marde by Mr. R. G. Casey, the Governor of Bengal, last night, when he announced that he ...
Article : 320 wordsLONDON, Sunday. — Revelations of German soldiers looting German home: were made in a recently captured or der issued by Hitler in Berlin on Feb ...
Article : 120 wordsIn a report which at the time was confidential, the general manager of an Australian bank forwarded the following statement, anion" others, to his ...
Article : 1,234 wordsLONDON, Sunday.—The United States has rejected a Soviet request that the present Warsaw Government be invited to San Francisco. ...
Article : 93 wordsLONDON, Sunday. — "Hitler wents to be a martyr," MajorGeneral Hans Boehlen told the Associated Press correspondent ...
Article : 64 wordsLONDON, Sunday. — The Pans Radio says the trial of Potain on charges of betrayal of the French Stale will open on April 24, before the ...
Article : 91 wordsHOBART, Sunday. — Of a Third Victory Loan quota of £l,483,470, Tasmania had subscribed £550,000 as at Thursday last, according to figures ...
Article : 155 wordsMANILA, Sunday. — Units of the American Fortieth Division which a few days ago landed on Negros Island in the Philippines ...
Article : 238 wordsWhen a small double-scnter car got out of control whilo descending "Devil's Elbow" hill, about 10 miles west of Wynyard, on the ...
Article : 418 wordsALAMEDA (California), Sunday. — Survivors from the carrier Bismarck Sea, which was sunk on March 23, said over 300 of the crow perished. At least ...
Article : 41 wordsCANBERRA, Sunday.—The Government's recognition of the cescation of hostilities in Europe will probably be marked by thanks giving services and a day of prayer. A Commonwealthwide public holiday is most unlikely. ...
Article : 141 wordsLONDON, Sunday,—The German radio, in its home service, said: ' 'A German freedom movement has been formed in the western areas ...
Article : 247 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday. — More than 64,000 workers in Munition and aircraft factories and annexes had been released since the period ...
Article : 181 wordsDETROIT, Sunday. — Henry Ford has announced that he will abandon aviation construction alter the war His Willow Run plant, which at present ...
Article : 131 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday—The Japanese Air Force is rapidly diminishing in the area west of Dutch New Guinea as the rosult of recent attaeks by ...
Article : 156 wordsBRISBANE, Sunday, — Jack, Hooper (19), one of five persons injured in the explosion of a land mino at Towns, ville on Friday, died yesterday. Thomas ...
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Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 - 1954), Mon 2 Apr 1945, Page 5
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