SYDNEY, Wednesday.—After having clong desperately to their upturned boat as it was tossed in heavy seas on the Port Macquarie bar for more ...
Article : 77 wordsPicked up by a Royal Australian Air Force seaplane and brought to Australia, some of the 500 odd survivors of the 10 ships sunk by German raiders in the Pacific told yesterday of their experiences ...
Article : 1,227 wordsFOUR more Italian supply ships are reported to have been sunk in the Adriatic. Fierce fighting is in progress between the Greeks and Italians the northern front. Progress is difficult, because of the snowdrifts ...
Article : 584 wordsBERLIN, Tuesday. — Herr Hitler, in his New Year message to the German Army, refers to its "glorious victories," and adds, "You have not only ...
Article : 269 wordsThe capture of Valona is expected soon, now that the Greeks have penetrated the town's outer defences. The fall of Valona, one of ...
Article : 746 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday. — Defence work in nine metropolitan workshops will be held up to-morrow when 2000 engineers hold stop-work meetings. ...
Article : 59 wordsGraphic details of how Captain Frank Hurley and the staff of the Official Australian Photographic Unit with the A.I.F. obtained the greatest ...
Article : 1,073 wordsResidents going to work to-day saw the British Red Ensign flying over the building housing the ...
Article : 61 wordsThe loss of ten ships, 62,000 tons in all, was revealed in the announcement by the Minister for the Navy (Mr. Hughes) of the rescue ...
Article : 152 wordsOfficial and press silence in Germany regarding President Roosevelt's speech contrasts with the D.N.B. Newsagency's original ...
Article : 234 wordsAustralian seamen owed something to Australia, and while Australia was in trouble they must make up their minds to fight for ...
Article : 116 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday. — The War Council will be asked next week to investigate fully complaints that Air Force men have been given duties ...
Article : 62 words"The defence talks in Washington between the representatives of the United States, Australia and Britain have a hard reality that makes the Axis poet with ...
Article : 182 wordsThe Australian Minister to Tokio (Sir John Latham) has been supplied with an official statement dealing with the methods adopted by the ...
Article : 189 wordsWELLINGTON (N.Z.), Wednesday. —Nearly 200 New Zealand airmen, fighting 14,000 miles from home, have Riven their lives in their country's ...
Article : 76 wordsHOBART, Wednesday — Leo Clayton (45), of 3 Hall street, Cornelian Bay, is in the Royal Hobart Hospital suffering from a probable ...
Article : 60 wordsAbout 600,000 Australians will be engaged directly in wartime industries in the early part of this year, it is estimated officially. They will be employed as follows:—Militia and other home defence forces, 250,000; A.I.F. and reinforcements, 124,000; Empire ...
Article : 721 wordsA highly-placed official told the Associated Press that a review of the air war during 1940 emphasised the necessity ...
Article : 638 wordsAn R.A.A.F. training 'plane was damaged when it made a forced landing at Sorrento early to-day. Neither pilot nor co-pilot was ...
Article : 104 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday. — Despite initial difficulties and the absence of data to guide experiments, hundreds of thousands of bullet-proof steel helmets are ...
Article : 172 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday. — Capt. Frank Hurley's film of the British triumph against the Italians in the Western Desert will have its premiere ...
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Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 - 1954), Thu 2 Jan 1941, Page 5
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