SECTION OF THE MIGHTY ARMADA which carried General MacArthur's troops to the invasion of the Philippines. Here the ships are being loaded before assembling in a convoy to sail for their objective. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 37 wordsWASHINGTON, Friday.—The Japanese capital ships which were damaged in the great naval battle in the Philippines area are in an extremely bad way, and have possibly fallen victims to persistently attacking carrier planes within recent hours, says the N.B.C. correspondent at Pearl Harbor. Naval leaders at headquarters are still receiving fragmentary reports, and are all smiles at ...
Article : 1,287 wordsAlthough members of the Devon Hospital Board are looking forward to the construction of a new building, it was stated at the monthly meeting at Latrobe yesterday that there were urgent needs which would not wait. Strong representations are to be made to the Minister for Health to have improvements ...
Article : 1,215 wordsWASHINGTON, Friday.—The Navy Department has disclosed that 23 battleships are now operating with the U.S. Fleet, at least 16 of which ...
Article : 343 wordsThe two Allied invasion forces which landed on Leyte last week have now joined up, states yesterday's communique from Gen. MacArthur's Headquarters. Their beachhead now stretches for 40 miles along the coast from the San Juanico Strait to Dulag. Progress is also being made on Samar Island, where ...
Article : 400 wordsPERTH (W.A.), Friday.—The first Britisher ashore in Normandy on D-Day was probably an Australian naval lieut., John White, ...
Article : 97 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.—After a career of safe-blowing following their escape from a reformatory in N.S.W., two 16-year-old ...
Article : 259 wordsNEW YORK, Friday.—Tokio Official Radio, commenting on the naval battle in Leyte Gulf, said: "If is impossible to reveal ...
Article : 95 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.—H.M.A.S. Geelong, na Australian-built corvette, has been sunk as the result of a collision. None of ...
Article : 211 wordsLAUNCESTON, Friday.—After being buried under stone at the Cambria mine, near Wellborough, all night, the crushed body of ...
Article : 113 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.—When a hand grenade exploded during throwing practice at the R.A.A.F. officers and non-commissioned ...
Article : 229 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.—Two thousand more subscriptions to the Second Victory Loan were lodged to-day than on any other ...
Article : 123 wordsPEARL HARBOR, Friday.—The Associated Press points out that H.M.A.S. Australia was presumably damaged in Surigao Strait on Tuesday ...
Article : 72 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—The simplifying of formalities had not drawn any increased response from American servicemen wishing to settle in Australia ...
Article : 82 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—A Victorian R.A.A.F. trainee, who was drowned when swimming across the Lane Cove River on Sunday with other members ...
Article : 170 wordsWASHINGTON, Friday.—The Secretary for War (Mr. Stimson) has disclosed that U.S. Army casualties up till October 14 totalled 403,074, comprising 78,522 ...
Article : 36 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—The Sydney wharf strike continued to-day, when between 1500 and 1600 men in the Towns Bond (deep sea section) refused ...
Article : 181 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—The Deputy Prime Minister (Mr. Forde) and the Minister for External Affairs (Dr. Evatt) will visit N.Z. to confer with ...
Article : 121 wordsHOBART, Friday.—Two donations of 10 to the Second Victory Loan have been received by the Treasurer (Mr. Dwyer-Gray) ...
Article : 68 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—Convened by the N.S.W. Labor Council, a conference of trade unions, provincial labor councils and shop committees at the Trades ...
Article : 174 wordsHOBART, Friday.—The Tasmanian Farmers, Stockowners and Orchardists' Association has applied to the Prices Commissioner for an increase of 1/ bushel in a ...
Article : 116 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.—A military work boat which left Geelong at 10 a.m. to-day is missing in Port Phillip Bay. Anxiety is felt for the safety ...
Article : 130 wordsHOBART, Friday.—A complete stoppage of zinc production as threatened at the works of the Electrolytic Zinc Co. of Australasia at ...
Article : 228 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.—Two hundred officers, N.C.O.'s and men of the R.A.A.F. who returned from the Middle East, India and Italy were met ...
Article : 65 wordsCompleted at an estimated cost of £250,000, a new water pumping scheme between Coward Springs and Darwin was officially opened by the G.O.C. Northern Force on ...
Article : 94 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—A most cordial regard for Australia existed in America, and there had been individual inquiries from American soldiers as to the chancse of migrating here, the retiring Australian Minister to the U.S. (Sir Owen Dixon) said on his return to Sydney to-day. In conversations ...
Article : 505 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—The sale of one bottle of beer per man in New Guinea was made in unit canteens and not on the parade grounds, the Minister ...
Article : 112 wordsLAUNCESTON, Friday.—An old English custom known as "clypping the churche" will be revived at Longford on Sunday as part of the centenary ...
Article : 79 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—After hearing a deputation to-day the Minister for the Army (Mr. Forde) said he would order an immediate ...
Article : 212 wordsPORT AUGUSTA, Friday.—Details of eight attacks by enemy submarines on Allied merchant shipping in Australian waters between July, 1942, and December, 1943, were given by the Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) to-day. These are additional to attacks already ...
Article : 263 wordsHOBART, Friday.—Concern is felt in Ministerial circles at the growing tendency among members of Parliament to take advantage of Parliamentary privilege. ...
Article : 82 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—Excessive delays in completing soldier pension eases were destroying the heart and spirit of ex-soldiers and undermining ...
Article : 107 wordsBOSTON, Friday.—Rear-Admiral Hussey, Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance, said that when the Navy reached the peak of its rocket ...
Article : 65 wordsHOBART, Friday.—The Premier (Mr. Cosgrove) denied to-day that he had any financial interest in the Hobart Bridge. In a circular signed by a Hobart ...
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Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 - 1954), Sat 28 Oct 1944, Page 5
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