They have completed their major task in Tarakan, while the Allied air forces have hammered airfields, supply dumps and dispersal areas in Borneo proper. Over in Bougainville an important supply area has been ...
Article : 373 wordsDIGGERS WERE PLEASED with their Jap. trophies captured on Tarakan. Above: Twin-barrel 20 mm. Jap. gun ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 74 wordsHOBART Friday. — The Tasmanian potato target for the 1945-46 season has been fixed at 76,000 acres, a reduction of 9,000 acres compared with the 1944-45 season. Of this total 20,000 acres have been allocated to Bismarcks. ...
Article : 312 wordsLONDON, Friday. — A special correspondent of the Copenhagen newspaper, "Politikerin," who is visiting Bornholm, says pirate ...
Article : 65 wordsLONDON, Friday, — The amazing feat of a corporal of the Indian Army is told in an announcement of the award of the fourth V.C. ...
Article : 201 wordsBOUGAINVILLE, May 21. — Sudden switching of Matilda tanks to a road which the Japanese did not know existed resulted in ...
Article : 256 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—Members of the fighting services confined to the mainland would not generally be eligible for the award or a ...
Article : 271 wordsLONDON, Friday. — The Wi[?]ringerwaard area, in the north of Holland, which, was flooded by the Germans as a panic defence ...
Article : 195 wordsLONDON, Friday. — At the Labor Party Conference at Blackpool the president (Miss Ellen Wilkinson) moved a resolution, which was carried in silence ...
Article : 104 wordsLONDON, Friday. — One hundred and fifty members of the A.I.F., who for the past few weeks have been toiling on Silesian coalfields or trooping ...
Article : 518 wordsCANBERRA, Friday. —The Government's intention to keep the Arbitration Court up to date was declared in the House of Representatives to-day ...
Article : 128 wordsLONDON, Friday. — To-day's S.E.A.C. communique says: "We have reached the important inland port of Bassein. Troops sailed up ...
Article : 99 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.—Colin David Alexander Lindsay (56), of East Melbourne, former salaries section employe at the Maribyrnong explosives factory, ...
Article : 298 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—Interest of the Labor Caucus in the rights of servicemen and women was indicated by the fact that only five out of 49 deemed it necessary to be present when important aspects of the Re-Establishment and Employment Bill were being discussed, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition ...
Article : 1,063 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—All prisoners of war detained in Australia would be repatriated to their own country in accordance with the ...
Article : 80 wordsThe gallant little destroyer Laffey took everything the Japanese could throw at her for two hours off Okinawa on April 16, says a correspondent. Six suicide ...
Article : 360 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—Faulty liaison between the Australian Government and the British Ministry of Information in the supply of information ...
Article : 124 wordsLONDON, Friday.—Nowhere in Europe are there huskier girls and young women than in northern Germany, and most of them behave as ...
Article : 177 wordsCANBERRA, Friday. — The acting Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) said to-day there was not a vestige of truth in a London report that Australia had ...
Article : 217 wordsBBISBANE, Friday.—As the result of intervention by the State Industrial Court, there now seems no likelihood of a strike by members of the ...
Article : 91 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—Tho regulations controlling new manufactures were attacked by Messrs. White (Lib., Vic.) and Holt (Lib., ...
Article : 177 wordsBRISBANE, Friday. — Early to-day, a soaman of a U.S. Liberty ship stole a gun from a sentry, and, going to the room of the officer in charge of the gun ...
Article : 140 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—The story of the alleged attacks by the Minister for Labor (Mr. Holloway) on Arbitration Court judges at a meeting of the Trade Union ...
Article : 149 wordsLONDON, Friday. — Men and women of the Empire services marched proudly in the pageant before Their Majesties and the Princesses in the Albert Hall last ...
Article : 97 wordsLONDON, Friday.—The Greek War Ministry has confirmed reports of the enlistment of Greek volunteers for the war against Japan. The Allies have ...
Article : 50 wordsSAN FRANCISCO, Friday.—Norwegian officials have disclosed that a court of three professional judges and four laymen will try Quisling when he faces ...
Article : 139 wordsHOBART, Friday.—Surprise at a motion by the Glenorchy Council included in the agenda for the municipal conference at Hobart next week was expressed ...
Article : 113 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—The War Gratuity Bill brought down in the House of Representatives to-day by the acting-Prime Minister (Mr. ...
Article : 149 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—The establishment of a Commonwealth Government insurance office is provided for in the Life Assurance Bill introduced into the House of Representatives to-day by the acting Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley). He said in his second-reading speech that it was proposed to provide ...
Article : 356 wordsCANBERRA, Friday. — Australian soldiers were watched constantly for signs of leprosy, but there was little fear that any would ...
Article : 173 wordsSYDNEY, Friday. — Following allegations of pillaging, 120 soldiers working on Sydney wharves have been confined to barracks for seven days. ...
Article : 153 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—With price control as a base for its post-war planning, the Commonwealth Government is expected to advance two propositions to the Premiers' conference in July or August with a view to giving price control some permanency. ...
Article : 195 wordsGUAM, Friday.—A strong force of Super Fortresses from the Marianas to-day dropped thousands of fire bombs on Tokio. No reports ...
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Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 - 1954), Sat 26 May 1945, Page 5
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