MELBOURNE, Sunday. — Crowding the Port Melbourne foreshore and lining the route to Heidelbrg hospital more than 100,000 people yesterday gave a wild we[?]ome to almost 300 liberated Eighth Division veterans, who arived in the hospital ...
Article : 1,192 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday. — The U.N.R.R.A. appeal throughout Australia for clothing ended yesterday. The target was 2200 tons, and to date ...
Article : 52 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday.—About 35. minor clothing items will be removed from the coupon scale on Monday. This was announced by thc Director of Rationing (Mr. J. B. Cumming). The most important items to be released comprise: All hand-knitted yarns, ...
Article : 255 wordsAn SCR-547 radar set directs U.S. aircraft guns (not visible). Known as the "Mickey Mouse" because of the shape of its antennae, the SCR-547 measures electronically thc height of enemy planes for the information of anti-aircraft gunners.—(U.S. O.W.I.picture.) ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 39 wordsKUCHINB (Borneo).—Australians should have no difficulty in Retting administrative jobs with rubber companies in these islands. This ...
Article : 120 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday. — Waterside workers still refuse to work Dutch ships for the East Iudies, despite the Federal Government's undertaking to do all it could ...
Article : 135 wordsLONDON, Sunday.—The express from Perth to London was derailed between Boxmoor and Tring shortlyafter 9 a.m. to-day. Four carriages ...
Article : 197 wordsDARWIN, Sunday.—The horror of 50 days' close imprisonment by the Japanese caused Mrs. H. E. Laurence (57), wife of a Malayan ...
Article : 262 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday.—Some Australian troops may have to stay in the northern islands longer than was expected to guard surrendered JapaneseIn Tokio, General MacArthur has refused to allow the Japanese Government to use 260,000 tons of its own merchant shipping for repatriation ...
Article : 322 wordsCANBERRA, Sunday. — With a fractured neck and [?]ull the body of an unknown man was found late today under the Commonwealth bridge ...
Article : 129 wordsLONDON, Sunday.—More than 3000 mon and girls a week are now applying to Australia House for free passage to Australia under the ...
Article : 79 wordsTORIO, Sunday. — The R.A.A.F, force to participate in the occupation of Japan would arrive in Tokio from Barnco within a month, said Air ...
Article : 105 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday. — The Premier (Mr. Dunstan) submitted the resignation of the Government to the Governor (Sir Winston Dugan) ...
Article : 213 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—Return of Australian, prisoners of war from Japanese prison camps was taking priority over everything else, said the Minister for ...
Article : 108 words[?] KONG, Sunday.—Mystery surrounds [?] fate of a number of Australian [?] were in the mountains of Hainan [?] had not, been contacted ...
Article : 342 wordsBATAVIA, Sunday. — British occupation forces have landed inBatavia and are talcing over from the Japanese. ...
Article : 258 wordsWASHINGTON, Sunday.—A proclamation asserting Unitorl States jurisdiction over the oil resources of the continental shelf sub-waters ...
Article : 102 wordsWASHINGTON, Sunday. — The Office of Strategie services has disclosed that 20 women spies, mostly British and French, parachuted ...
Article : 45 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday. — Bitter complaints about conditions in the liner Otranto during the voyage from Britain were made on arrival in Sydney ...
Article : 318 wordsPARIS, Sunday.—The Democracies should break diplomatic relations with Argentina and Spain, declared the leader of the Russian delegation to the ...
Article : 390 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday. — The R.A.A.F. will maintain an Air Force of 40,000 officers and men until the Government decides what ...
Article : 204 wordsLAUNCESTON, Sunday. —Eleven former prisoners of war at Singapore, including three from the North-West Coast, arrived at Launceston yesterday ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 868 wordsLONDON, Sunday.—William Joyce's solicitors on Friday gave notice of appeal against his conviction and death sentence for high treason. Joyce will ...
Article : 42 wordsLABUAN, Sunday.—The catcring for 1100 released prisoners of war and internees on Labuan Island is about equal to catering for 3000 ...
Article : 276 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday. — First prisoners of war to arrive in Melbourne from Yokohama and Manila were on a train which reached ...
Article : 126 wordsCAIRO, Sunday. — The Empire Patrol (10,000 tons), which was repatriating Greek refugees from Abyssinia and East Africa, caught fire 60 miles ...
Article : 69 wordsLONDON, Sunday. — Reuter's Damascus correspondent says that a meeting of Moslerm religious leaders, under that chairmanship of the Mufti, ...
Article : 64 wordsWASHINGTON, Sunday.— The War Department has released a report, dated August 20, from General Eisenhower on the American zone, stating that ...
Article : 128 wordsWELBOURNE Sunday.—First ship back to Melbourne from Tokio Bay, the Australian destroyer Napier, berthed at Williamstown on Saturday. Her ...
Article : 67 wordsDARWIN, Friday.—In August, 1942, an A.I.F. captain and Warrant Officer James Richards, an Englishman who enlisted in Sydney, formed an A.I.F. Auxiliary Force in a Japanese prison in Sandakan Area, British North Borneo. ...
Article : 299 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday. — Chinese residents of Pontianak, in Dutch Borneo, were fervent in their greetings of the official ...
Article : 97 wordsCASERTA, Sunday.—General Freyberg said to-day that 4000 troops of the New Zealand division stationed in Egypt and Italy might be used as a ...
Article : 69 wordsLONDON, Sunday.—It is estimated that at least 16 were killed in the Perth-London express derailment this morning. One soldier was extricated ...
Article : 35 wordsNEW YORK, Sunday.—Admiral Hulsey has requested permission to retire from the U.S. Navy to make way fo[?] younger officers, according to a report from the ...
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Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 - 1954), Mon 1 Oct 1945, Page 5
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