Reports received at R.A.A.F. Headquarters revealed that in the present assault on Bougainville, Australian troops are receiving the heaviest air ...
Article : 73 wordsFull Cabinet yesterday decided that legislation be enacted to continue the Universities Commission at present constituted under National ...
Article : 206 wordsRapid increase in the expenditure of Legacy due to growing responsibilities arising from the war, was emphasised at the annual meeting of ...
Article : 733 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) has been admitted to Allawah Private Hospital, Canberra, suffering from congestion of the lungs, which ...
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Family Notices : 103 wordsThe role, which is being built up for the British Fleet Air Arm in the war against Japan, has been demonstrated at a naval air station on the ...
Article : 176 wordsLAST week, interest was centred on education by the Canberra People's Education Conference. The purpose of the conference was originally to stimulate the inteiest of the community in education. This objective was successful, but the conference could only cover a ...
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Article : 283 wordsThe Third Victory Loan has been over-subscribed, stated the Federal Treasurer (Mr. Chifley) yesterday. He said that an analysis of the ...
Article : 96 wordsIt was announced at SHAEF that as strategic bombing has finished in Europe, American personnel and planes will be sent ...
Article : 42 wordsAn Australian memorial is to be erected to the late President Roosevelt. The form the memorial is to take ...
Article : 123 wordsUpwards of 300 American planes participated in a raid to-day against industrial targets around Tokyo and air installations on Kyushu. The ...
Article : 157 wordsCabinet decided that a sub-committee of Cabinet, assisted by a panel of officers associated with the departments concerned, should ...
Article : 163 wordsCabinet decided yesterday that an Australian National Film Board be established to undertake the production and distribution of ...
Article : 146 wordsHis Royal Highness The Governor-General received the Honourable J. B. Chifley, Commonwealth Treasurer, at Government House, yesterday. ...
Article : 75 wordsSir.—My wife and I, and many other passengers, arrived by train from Sydney yesterday morning at 5.20. It was frosty and very cold. All were ...
Article : 330 wordsHundreds of delegates to the United Nations' Conference, including the Australian Deputy Prime Minister (Mr. Forde), attended a ...
Article : 89 wordsFor her concert to-night in the Albert Hall, the international pianist, Beatrice Tange, has selected some favourite works. The programme ...
Article : 203 wordsDuring the march of thousands of inmates from the Buchenwald prison camp, German S.S. troops continually shot at the prisoners and by the ...
Article : 160 wordsThe day after cessation of hostilities in Europe is announced, a combined undenominational thanksgiving service will be held in Queanbeyan at 11 a.m. ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Army Disposals Commission has offered to make available to the various housing authorities by direct transfer, surplus materials which ...
Article : 133 wordsThe Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) announced last night that Cabinet had decided that provision should be made for the appointment ...
Article : 53 words"I expect the Balmain ironworkers to return to work to-day or to-morrow," said the Minister for Labour and National Service (Mr. Holloway) ...
Article : 128 wordsThe Minister for Air (Mr. Drakeford) announced to-day the award of the D.F.C. to Flight Lieut. Peter Kingsford-Smith, nephew of the late ...
Article : 67 wordsCommenting on the reply by the Minister for Information (Mr. Calwell) to his statement on Sunday, the President of [?] Newspaper Proprietors' ...
Article : 171 wordsAllied troops, who overran the German concentration camp at Dachau, released 32,000 prisoners. They also found 50 railway trucks laden ...
Article : 63 wordsHigh ranking R.A.A.F. officers and the Director of Aircraft production (Mr. Essington Lewis, to-day watched the first Mustang long-range ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 95 wordsDuring yesterday, Lancaster bombers were used for a different mission—that of taking succour to the starving people of occupied Holalnd. ...
Article : 127 wordsA report in Victorian country papers stated that the Victorian Premier (Mr. Dunstan) had said that at a recent conference he ...
Article : 113 wordsThe U.S. hospital ship, Comfort, was damaged by a Japanese plane, while engaged in evacuating American wounded, 50 miles south of ...
Article : 95 wordsThe Balmain waterfront workers involved in the ironworkers' strike, decided at a mass meeting to-day to continue to support the strike and not ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 47 wordsLONDON, Monday.— The Yugoslav radio says that Yugoslav infantry and tanks were engaged in heavy street fighting [?] after breaking ...
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The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), Tue 1 May 1945, Page 2
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