CANBERRA, Friday.—The special release of at least 50,000 men from the Army and Air Force by the end of the year was announced by the acting Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) to-day. They would include men urgently required in civil economy; men ...
Article : 856 wordsSCENE AT THE GARDEN PARTY at Buckingham Palace at which the King and Queen were host and hostess to 1800 repatriated prisoners of war.. Here the King and Queen with the Princesses are seen moving among their ests. An Australian soldier is seen left foreground.—British ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 50 wordsCANBERRA, Friday. — Mr. J. V. Barry, K.C., Commissioner appointed nuder the National Security Regulations to inquire into the circumstances relating to the suspension of the Civil Administration of the Territory of Papua in February, 1942, found that the Administrator (Mr. L. Murray), and members ...
Article : 723 wordsHOBART, Friday. — The Deputy Prices Commissioner (Mr. L. C. Johnson) announced to-day increases in the maximum wholesale and retail prices ...
Article : 111 wordsLONDON, Friday. — Three Germans are being tried for their lives in the first trial of civilians for war crimes in Germany, ...
Article : 146 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—Photographs were exhibited in the House of Representatives to-day by the leader of the Country Party (Mr. Fadden) depicting natives and diggers working bushmade graders, comprised of logs pulled by natives, in the ...
Article : 534 wordsNEW YORK, Friday. — Mr. Alfred Benjamin, president of the Anglo-American Trading Corporation, told the New York "Sun" that millions bf pounds of lamb, ...
Article : 118 wordsJungle genius, according to Allan Dawes, well-known war correspondent, in his recently published book, "Soldier Superb," is an infinite capacity for ...
Article : 421 wordsBRISBANE, Friday. — Brisbane firemen who were rushed by an American motor torpedo bout to a burning Allied ship outside Moreton Bay yesterday ...
Article : 95 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—The confidence of people who had contributed to war loans would be undermined by removal of the guards ...
Article : 343 wordsCANBERRA, Friday. — Misunder, standing regarding the beginning of the Government's free medicine and free hospitnl scheme was cleared up in ...
Article : 99 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday. — R.A.A.F. headquarters to-day declined to give any indication of the reasons for the field general court-martial agninst Wing ...
Article : 92 wordsSYDNEY, Friday. — Severe coal rationing in all States will be inevitable in the next three months unless there is maximum ...
Article : 121 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—Although Mr. Justice Reed, in a final report on his inquiry into the mutiny at the Grovelly detention barracks in ...
Article : 445 wordsAfter they had been dealt with in the Launceston Police Court on Wednesday, two men went to the charge room, and, giving the names of two other accused, ...
Article : 269 wordsLAUNCESTON, Friday. — "Defendant apparently involved himself in this charge by being good natured and helping his friends, but nevertheless he did it with ...
Article : 179 wordsCANBERRA, Friday. — On the first scheduled flight in the new fast airmail service between Australia and England, a Lancaster ...
Article : 196 wordsLONDON, Friday. — A British Overseas Airways Corporation Lancastrian plane Which left the corporation's land base at Hurn, ...
Article : 161 wordsCANBERRA, Friday. — Although the Government had decided to withdraw notes of more than £10 in value on August 31, the fact ...
Article : 216 wordsFurther queries from servicemen regarding their entitlements on discharge under the Commonwealth Reconstruction Training Scheme are answered in ...
Article : 459 wordsA familiar ligure on the tracks which traverse the jungle in the Balif-Maprik area of northern New Guinea, linking the ...
Article : 440 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—The Minister for Commerce (Mr. Scully), on the adjournment of the House of Representatives to-day, told Sir Earle Pape (C.P., ...
Article : 104 wordsCANBERRA, Friday. — A preliminary report on the disturbance at the Tamworth detention barracks indiceted that most of the complaints ...
Article : 334 wordsPARIS, Friday.— The Cabinet, after a long meeting, in which the Foroign Minister (M. Bidault) reported fully on the Syrian ...
Article : 256 wordsLONDON, Friday. — The first Muscat grapes to arrive in London are selling easily at four guineas a pound, says the "Daily ...
Article : 77 wordsHOBART, Friday. — An appeal by Jack Edward (43), bookmaker's clerk, against a sentence of two years' imprisonment, was dismissed to-day by ...
Article : 85 wordsSYDNEY, Friday. — More than half the Albury mail train was derailed near Goulburn, about 2.30 a.m. to-day. and held up all traffic on the main ...
Article : 73 wordsCANBERRA, Friday. — Sir Earle Page (C.P., N.S.W.), on the adjournment of the House of Representatives to-day, made a plea for restoration of ...
Article : 118 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—Australia had made representations to Britain for extra tanker tonnage, Mr. Beasley, representing the Minister for Supply (Sen. Ashley) told Mr. Chambers (Lab., S.A.) in the House of Representatives to-day. Mr. Beasley said that at the moment there was no possibility of an ...
Article : 330 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday. — Returned sailors, soldiors and airmen, members of the Ex-Servicemen's Protest Club, marched in the city streets to-day with ...
Article : 143 wordsWASHINGTON, Friday. — The Assistant Secretary of State (Mr. Joseph Grew) told a press conference that the United States supported France's request to Spain ...
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Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 - 1954), Sat 2 Jun 1945, Page 5
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