Australian 155 mm guns mounted as long toms proved very effective during the Australian assault on Japanese positions in the Wewak Peninsula.—(Australian Official photo.) ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 26 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—The deathroll as the result of the terrific cyclone which has swept the N.S.W. Coast from the Queensland border to Sydney for three days had reached 14 to-night, but fears are held that several other lives may have been lost. ...
Article : 715 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.—A strong protest against the Government's continued failure to consult Parliament on matters affecting finance was voiced by Mr. Spender (Ind., N.S.W.), when the committee stages of the banking legislation were resumed in the House of Representatives to-day. ...
Article : 748 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.—The Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) said this evening outside thc House that taxation ...
Article : 81 wordsLONDON, Tuesday — General Eisenhower told correspondents that the American non-fraternisation policy in Germany no longer applied to very ...
Article : 345 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.—Federal revenue for the current financial year is expected to exceed the budget estimate by £15,000,000 to £20,000,000. Whatever the excess is, the amount will be used to meet war expenditure, thus taking a corresponding load off the funds allocated from loans for this purpose. ...
Article : 285 wordsHOBART, Tuesday. — The Southern Tasmanian Dairymen's Association at a meeting to-night decided to accept under protest the Federal Government's ...
Article : 196 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.—The revised National Security (Landlord, and Tenant) Regulations, to become operative on July 2, were ...
Article : 659 wordsHOBART, Tuesday.—The trial was begun before the Chief Justice (Sir John Morris) in the Hobart Criminal Court to-day of Harry Cleaver (24) ...
Article : 894 wordsCANBEBRA, Tuesday. — A denial that rayon goads were available coupon free while coupons still had to be surrendered for woollen goods was given ...
Article : 98 wordsLONDON, Tuesday. — A cooling off of the old enthusiasm for the Ottawa system of imperial preference was perceptible, and sometimes marked in the ...
Article : 331 wordsLONDON, Tuesday. — "After Mr. Churchill's criticisms of the Conservative Party from 1936 till 193S, he would be well advised to ...
Article : 306 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday. — For the first time, it was revealed to-day that when the liner Queen Mary began her war duties as a troop carrier in 1940 ...
Article : 140 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday. — A bill to give effect to the Government's decision to increase the old-age and invalid pensions by 5/ per week from July 1 will ...
Article : 91 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday. — Following a heated debate, the A.C.T.U. Congress decided to-day to affiliate with the World Trade union Congress and send ...
Article : 147 wordsSYDNEY, Monday. — Already the mother of twins. Mrs. Mabel Reckes (30), of Toongabbie, gave birth to triplets (two boys and a girl) in the ...
Article : 61 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.—Despite earlier intentions to put into effect the Pharmaceutical Benefits Act on July 1, its operation would ...
Article : 169 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday. — The Minister for Commerce (Mr. Scully), in the House of Representatives to-daypromised Mr. Guy (Lib., Tas.) that he ...
Article : 62 wordsLAUNCESTON, Tuesday.—Thieves broke into a clothing factory at Launceston to-night, and, with other articles of clothing, removed about 40 suit ...
Article : 135 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.—Mr. Fadden, C.P. Leader, in the House of Representatives to-day, ashed that a review be made of the "pay-as-you-earn" ...
Article : 89 wordsLONDON, Tuesday. — Whether Mr. David Owen Evans, 69-year-old member of the House of Commons, who received a knighthood in the dissolution honors, ...
Article : 75 wordsLONDON, Tuesday.—Paris Radio says that a homicidal maniac who has been running amok in Rouen since Sunday, has killed 14 persons, including two ...
Article : 82 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday. — Mr. Guy (Lib., Tas.) asked in the House of Representatives to-day whether it was true that the fines imposed for ...
Article : 108 wordsSYDNEY, Monday. — One of the busiest shops in Sydney to-day was the tobacconist opposite the Trades Hall. Delegates to the Trade Union ...
Article : 95 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday. — The forgotten men of the war, the Volunteer Defonce Corps, should he recognised for their services by the ...
Article : 63 wordsROME, Tuesday. — Werner Schmiedel, the United States Army deserter who last autumn and winter led a band of American and Canadian deserters in ...
Article : 83 wordsBRUSSELS, Tuesday.—Three more traitors have been executed in Belgium. One was Victor Bommaert, who worked for the Gestapo at Malines and became ...
Article : 69 wordsLONDON, Tuesday. — Moscow Radio says Marshal Stalin sent a message to President Truman on the third anniversary of the signing of the lend-lease agreement ...
Article : 72 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday. — Allocation of tobacco supplies to the Australian Comforts Fund has never been stopped, the acting-Minister for the Army ...
Article : 130 wordsMELBOURNE, Monday. — "It is a quaint way of winning the war, even supposing the liquor is to be used to drink the health of the Government," ...
Article : 60 wordsLONDON, Tuesday. — A tragedy in which 25 officers and 313 ratings left their lives when the liner Queen Mary collided and cut in halves the cruiser Curacoa in ...
Article : 117 wordsLONDON, Tuesday.—The Norwegian Government, which has held office since before the German invasion in 1940, has resigned. ...
Article : 54 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.—In the House of Representatives to-day, the Treasurer (Mr. Chifley) introduced a bill to provide supply to carry on the normal services of the Government for the first three months of next year. ...
Article : 247 wordsLONDON, Tuesday. — Twelfth Army Group headquarters revealed that the Nazis still have a radio operating in the Weissen, ...
Article : 113 wordsCANBERRA, Monday. — In the House of Representatives to-day, the Minister for Munitions (Mr. Makin) denied that 24 machine-guns whose ...
Article : 101 wordsMELBOURNE, Monday. — To save fodder, horses engaged in transport are to be replaced where possible with motor vehicles in the metropolitan area ...
Article : 89 wordsSYDNEY, Monday. — For illegally acquiring 232 bottles of unlabelled wine and refusing to say where he got it, Ernest Raymond Toshack, of Stanmore, ...
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Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 - 1954), Wed 13 Jun 1945, Page 5
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