CANBERRA.—Certain re-orientation and re-alignment of the area in which Australian forces are serving under Gen. MacArthur is now being planned, the Leader of the Country Party (Mr. Fadden) said yesterday in the House of Representatives. Mr. Fadden, who is a member ...
Article : 509 wordsCANBERRA.—Federal Parliamentary Labour Caucus yesterday decided that invalid and old age pensions should be increased by a flat rate of 5/6, irrespective of outside earnings. The party also adopted a recommendation by the Treasurer ...
Article : 325 wordsProviding front line A.M.F. troops with a first class mail service, the versatile Anson skirts up the coast of Bougainville Island, as the crew watch for the concealed position of the froops. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 42 wordsSir,—The executive of my league has instructed me to make a statement upon the decision of the City Council to reject our petition for the adoption Of ...
Article : 1,231 wordsCANBERRA — "Gestapo methods" were attributed to the Taxation Department by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr. Harrison) in the ...
Article : 179 wordsCANBERRA. — About £7,500,000 had been spent on the development of the Australian tank, said Mr. Beasley, ...
Article : 87 wordsStating that a lasting pence coccerned women as much as much, the W.C.T.U. at Its 53rd convention at Hobart this week passed a resolution ...
Article : 257 wordsSYDNEY.—Details of Jap. brutality to Allied prisoners of war in Siam and in the Philippines have been given to Australian authorities by five British soldiers and a British seaman who recently reached Australia after having been prisoners ...
Article : 323 wordsLONDON (A.A.P.) — Amazing scenes outside Pentonville gaol developed into a demonstration by a crowd of about 200 before Karl Hulten, U.S. ...
Article : 259 wordsCANBERRA—The Australian delegation to the san Francisco Conference was not being sent on any selfish mission, the Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) ...
Article : 92 wordsTasmanian dairymen are in a much better position this year than producers in many areas on the mainland, according to the Minister for Trade ...
Article : 255 wordsSYDNEY—In a review of Australia's manpower position the Director-Gencral of manpower (Mr. Funnell) said yesterday that if estimates of labour ...
Article : 256 wordsCANBERRA.—An agreement has been concluded between the Australian and U.S. Governments for the mutual waiving of claims arising, from marine ...
Article : 189 wordsLONDON (A.A.P.)—A British Parliamentary delegation headed by Mr. Walter Elliot (Conservative), after a 42. days tour of Russia, has issued a state. ...
Article : 202 wordsThe landing of an Australian force on Saposi 'Island, one of a group of islands off the north-west coast of Bougainville, on Tuesday was ...
Article : 253 wordsBRISBANE. — Disaster overtook a mixed goods train trapped by a sudden flood on the Inkerman Bridge over the ...
Article : 74 wordsCrewmen watch a helicopter take off from the small deck of a U.S. coastguard combat cutter during a demon. stration somewhere at sea. Easily ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 67 wordsThe Minister for Forests (Mr. Taylor) has received letters from the Latrobe Vigilance Committee and the Northern Tasmanian Development League ...
Article : 233 wordsLONDON (A.A.P.).—Over 1250 R.A.F. heavies were over Germany on Wednesday night, with Dessau, now an important base for the Eastern Front, ...
Article : 119 wordsBro. George Ewington (Queenstown) was elected Grand Master of the I.O.O.F. at sessions of the rand Lodge at Which yard" yesterday. The sessions. which ...
Article : 195 wordsCANBERRA — The Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) told Mr. Sheehan (Lab., N.S.W.), in the House of Representatives yesterday that he would consider ...
Article : 51 wordsNEW YORK (A.A.P.)—How Lieut. General Patton. commander of the U.S. Third Army, twice swam the swift, icy Sure River in Germany in ...
Article : 151 wordsCANBERRA. — Mr. Barnard (Lab., Tas.) complained in the House of Representatives yesterday that Tasmania had been left out of previous war loans ...
Article : 60 wordsMELBOURNE. — Geoffrey William Hutton, special staff correspondent of the "Argus" in Europe; Ian Ernest McLeavy Morrison, of "The Times," ...
Article : 58 wordsWASHINGTON (A.A.P.)—The U.S. Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Morgenthau), testifying before the House of Representatives Committee on Banking ...
Article : 134 wordsCANBERRA — Services mail had never been off-loaded from planes because cause members of the forces were required to travel, except of a high ...
Article : 112 wordsBRISBANE.—Sixty bottles of whisky which the police said had been sent to Brisbane from Melbourne by plane in jars marked "Earthenware samples: ...
Article : 74 wordsLONDON (A.A.P.)—Lord Dawson of Penn, physician to Kings and Queens since the beginning of the century, died yesterday. He was aged 79. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 170 wordsLaunceston—Fine, cloudy and cool: moderate westerly to south-westerly winds: squally at times. West Coast, far N.W. and Huon ...
Article : 432 wordsFLINDERS ISLAND—Mr. O. C. Messner, who has been on holiday ill Launceston, returned to his home at Whitemark Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Wise have ...
Article : 419 wordsLONDON (A.A.P.)—Lord Cranborne, replying in the House of Lords to Admiral of the Fleet Lord Chatfield, said it was impossible to say until after the ...
Article : 106 wordsAccounts amounting to £2600/18/1 were passed for payment at the monthly meeting of the Launceston General Hospital Board last night. Mr. J. E. ...
Article : 150 wordsIn the Aitape area, New Guinea, owing to jungle tracks being impassable in some spots, jeeps are forced to take to the beach. A jeep is shown ploughing through the sand on the way to the front line. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 47 wordsCables in "The Examiner" endorsed "The Examiner Special Service" are published by arrangement with the Sydney "Morning Herald" Cables endorsed ...
Article : 43 wordsSYDNEY—The officer in charge of Manpower Office at Mascot was arrested yesterday and charged at Central Police Station with having obtained a ...
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Article : 176 wordsBELGRADE (A.A.P.)—Marshal Tilo's new Cabinet, in which Milan Grol is Vice-Premier and Dr. Subasic Foreign Minister, has been sworn in in the ...
Article : 71 wordsMrs. Truskett, 25 Lawrence St., Launceston, has received word that her son, Flight-Sgt. Terence Truskett, was killed at Rutland. England, on March 4 in an ...
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