MELBOURNE, Saturday (3 a.m.).—Fourteen persons are known to be dead and a number of others believed dead in disastrous bush fires which are sweeping many parts of Victoria. Hundreds of houses, homesteads and buildings have been ...
Article : 1,357 wordsNIGHT ACTION IN PACIFIC.—Smoke and flame piercing the night sky as two U.S. cruisers fired broadsides at enemy installations when units of the U.S. Navy shelled ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 41 wordsAdvice was received at the monthly meeting of the Circular Head Council on Thursday that the Government would permit the borrowing of an additional amount up to £1000 required to meet increased cost of materials, etc., in connection with the Stanley water scheme. The council already has borrowed ...
Article : 2,396 wordsS.W. PACIFIC HEADQUARTERS, Friday.—American Marines have carried out successful raids on enemy positions at Arawe (New Britain), which Tokio radio claims has been recaptured by the Japanese. The raids made on January 11 and 12 were announced ...
Article : 521 wordsAn Australian Boston light bomber squadron has just completed a year of magnificent achievement, in which it bombed and ...
Article : 623 wordsNEW DELHI, Friday.—Troops of the 14th Army in Burma have pushed on towards the south-east of Maungdaw, captured two days ...
Article : 195 wordsCINCINNATI, Friday.—"Unless the United Nations destroy the Nazi educational philosophy that that trains children to be young ...
Article : 161 wordsLONDON, Friday.—The "Times'" Istanbul correspondent says reports from Rumania indicate that the situation there is deteriorating almost every ...
Article : 88 wordsLONDON, Friday. — Asked how many more raids would be needed to neutralise Berlin, the Commander of the U.S. Strategic Bombing ...
Article : 264 wordsCANBERRA, Friday. — No drugs of any real value would be excluded from the formulary of 500 standard prescriptions, which would form the ...
Article : 252 wordsWASHINGTON, Friday. — Although Congress nullified the Presidential order to that effect, the Budget Bureau receipts table ...
Article : 61 wordsNEW YORK, Friday.—According to the "New York Times'" Berne correspondent, French commandos from Corsica raided Nice, threw hand ...
Article : 86 wordsLONDON, Friday.—There was a brief alert early last evening. Antiaircraft guns put, up a heavy barrage when the raiders came in over the ...
Article : 49 wordsLONDON, Thursday. — The British submarine Unruffled, the commander of which may now be disclosed for the first time, has just returned to its ...
Article : 300 wordsWASHINGTON, Friday. — To-day's Pacific Fleet communique reports that 7th Anny Air Force bombers again struck the ...
Article : 131 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—Australia's female labor force has increased by 205,000 since the outbreak of war, and there are now 849,000 women in full time war or civilian employment. This represents 30.1 per cent. of the country's 2,820,000 females aged 14 years and over. ...
Article : 449 wordsWASHINGTON, Friday. — The Foreign Economic Administration has temporarily suspended normal exports to Bolivia, "until there is a recognised Government ...
Article : 84 wordsWASHINGTON, Friday. — The U.S. Secretary for War (Mr. Stimson) said to-day the Soviet Army had been aided in its successes by ...
Article : 113 wordsLONDON, Friday. — According to the German Radio, trailing balloon bombs were used for the first time by the German air defences against the U.S. bombers over ...
Article : 104 wordsWYNYARD CLUB—A Stableford played last week-end was won by R. Jones, 27 points. To-day a flag competition will be played. ...
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Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 - 1954), Sat 15 Jan 1944, Page 5
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