THE "GRAND SLAM" ' BOMB, the R.A.F.'s 22,000-pounder. It is 35ft. 5in. in length, 3ft. 10in. in diameter and of a streamlined, deep penetration type. The tail unit is 13½ ft. long. The bomb can break down almost any fortification and makes a crater 120ft. wide and over 35ft. deep.—(British Official Beam Wireless.) ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 60 wordsMANILA, Friday.—The Guam correspondent of the Associated Press of America says the conquest of Okinawa was the longest and costliest of all campaigns in the central and western Pacific, and with casualty figures still incomplete, the Americans ...
Article : 608 wordsSAN FRANCISCO, Friday.—General Smuts said in an interview that the Security Conference had succeeded, but it was only the beginning of a monumental task to rebuild a sad, dis[?] lusioned world. After the last war the victorious Powers bui[?] ...
Article : 706 wordsGUAM, Friday.—Americans with flame-throwers to-day stormed a giant coastal cave near Mabuni, on the ...
Article : 66 wordsLONDON, Friday.—Five units of the British Pacific Fleet, including an aircraft carrier, were hit by Japanese suicide planes during ...
Article : 343 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—Extraordinary scenes marked the end of the sitting of the House of Representatives to-day, when the business was brought to a close by the application of the gag, moved by Mr. Morgan (Lab., N.S.W.) after Mr. Holt (Lib., ...
Article : 377 wordsLILYDALE, Friday.—The penalty imposed on Tasmania by the Grants Commission because the State had increased its expenditure ...
Article : 408 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—In the Divorce Court, to-day, Mr. Justice Edwards was asked by a divorced couple who had become reconciled to restore the ...
Article : 161 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—On Monday week, Full Cabinet will probably discuss the Government's import policy. This was stated in the Senate to-day ...
Article : 100 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.—From July 1 Australians who are sick or unemployed will be able to apply for assistance under the new ...
Article : 87 wordsNEW YORK, Friday.—The liner Queen Mary, in 60 wartime Atlantic crossings, of which 50 were without convoy owing to the ...
Article : 410 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—All woman except nurses and V.A.D.'s should be released from the services, said Senator Amour (Lab., ...
Article : 96 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—The Prices Commissioner had no intention of reducing the price of petrol on Monday or any other day ...
Article : 154 wordsLONDON, Friday.—A plane carrying Empress Fawzi[?] of Persia to Cairo circled over Damascus airfield while a ...
Article : 158 wordsHOBART, Friday.—Li[?]l Geoffrey Cooper pleaded guilty before Colonel J. P. Clark, P.M., in the City Police Court to-day to three charges of ...
Article : 214 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.—Rel[?] tion of the order prohibiting the use of copper and other non-ferrous metals in many forms of manufacture was ...
Article : 137 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—The censorship of all mails between the public of Australia, and the U.K., Northern Ireland, Canada, South Africa, N.Z. ...
Article : 68 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.—Several Victorian trade union leaders have signed a petition to be sent to the acting Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) ...
Article : 167 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—Very few compulsory call-ups were being ordered now by the C.C.C. and most enrolments were voluntary, the Minister for Works ...
Article : 77 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—The Minister for Customs (Senator Keane) stated in the Senate to-day that the only new aspect of ...
Article : 156 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—Appeals by Clifford Tasman Thompson and Alexander Jowett; against their conviction and death sentences for shooting Dr. ...
Article : 43 wordsHOBART, Friday.—While eggs continued to be in short supply those invalids who held eggs priority supply cards the currency of which would ...
Article : 83 wordsLONDON, Friday.—Many missionaries in the Far East had been killed [?] taken prisoner by the Japanese, said the Archbishop of York (Dr. ...
Article : 113 wordsLONDON, Friday—Thousands of Irishmen who deserted from the E[?] army and joined the British forces are now afraid to go home, according to evidence ...
Article : 81 wordsSpeaking at a meeting of the Wilmot branch of the P.P.U., Mr. H. H. M'Fie, M.H.A., said that when country power extensions ...
Article : 429 wordsBRISBANE, Friday.—Two women each stated at, the inquest, to-day into the accidental death of Henry James Bulock (47), a waterside worker, that ...
Article : 60 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.—More than 100 applications to buy surplus Army Bren gun carriers [?] £50 each were lodged to-day with ...
Article : 205 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—The Commonwelth Government has received details of Britain's four-year plan for agriculture, the acting ...
Article : 128 wordsLAUNCESTON, Friday.—The 50ft, Tamar-built motor cruiser Hal[?]yon, recently purchased by Mr. J. A. Thurston for use in Sydney, sailed late this ...
Article : 49 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—In the Senate to-day, Senator Matt[?] (Lib., S.A.) defended the Militia troops at Port Moresby, who were ...
Article : 365 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—The provision of woollen garments for destitute people in Europe would be recommended to the chairman of the Wool Board ...
Article : 76 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—A ship from India was in ballast when it called at Tasmania recently, Mr. Barnard (Lab., Tas.) complained in the House of ...
Article : 102 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—Coal losses in N.S.W. this week total 59,000 tons, the highest for any week this year. The deputies' ...
Article : 265 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—In the Senate to-day, Senator Amour (Lab., N.S.W.), who is chairman of the Parliamentary Broadcasting ...
Article : 269 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—The Government had learned a lesson from our Japanese enemy, which practised harakiri, for it could furnish ...
Article : 144 wordsHOBART, Friday.—The Coroner (Colonel J. P. Clark) found at an inquest at Huonville on Thursday that Leslie David Cordwell had feloniously ...
Article : 265 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—Victorian sugar supplies were being held up indefinitely and unnecessarily by a m[?] handful of men, ...
Article : 213 wordsLONDON, Friday.—Fierce north Syrian tribesmen are attacking French posts on the Turco-Syrian frontier, says a ...
Article : 155 wordsLONDON, Friday.—The Union Jack was hoisted over Cologne at an impressive military ceremony last night, says the B.U.P. correspondent in Cologne. ...
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Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 - 1954), Sat 23 Jun 1945, Page 5
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