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Advertising : 14 wordsPloughing through water Several feet deep, this bulldozer of a R.A.A.F. airfield construction squadron hauled machinery ashore at Balikpapan for work th begin on repairing the captured Seppinggar airstrip. At least one R.A.A.F. man came ashore with day feet, he rode on top of the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 59 wordsBERLIN (A.A.P.).—Important Primary objective appear to have been achieved by the "Big Three." ...
Article : 165 wordsWhile the biggest force of Super Fortresses which has yet operated dropped 4000 tons of hight explosives and fire bombs on four Japanese cities yesterday ...
Article : 530 wordsGroup Capt. D.J. Rooney O.B.E., of Melbourne (right), discussing at Balikpapan details of the repairing of the Seppinggar airstrip. The culnination of his work and of the R.A.A.F. airfield construction squadrons under his command came last week-end when the first R.A.A.F. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 61 wordsMOSCOW (A.A.P.).—"The prospect of mass unemployment lies upon the whole social life of Britain like an evil shadow," ...
Article : 65 wordsFor every shell the Japs. have landed recently among advanced troops of the Third Australian Division in Southern Bougainville, 100 of our own shells have been fired in exchange, according to an official Army statement issued yesterday. ...
Article : 456 wordsBALIKPAPAN (A.A.P.).—When Australians entered the rich Sambodja oil centre afternoon on Wednesday they found only two Japs. who were promptly killed. Other Australians fighting along the inland highway toward Samarinda, a second major oil centre, 36 miles farther ...
Article : 590 wordsPARIS (A.A.P.).—The Russian language newspaper, "Russian News," which interprets the official Russian viewpoint, states that the Kremlin at ...
Article : 146 wordsBOUGAINVILLE.—When Private Robert Minchin, Hobart, walked into front line H.Q. in Southern Bougainville yesterday ...
Article : 203 wordsSYDNEY.—Another dislocation of railway services is threatened as a result of a decision by 1500 permanent way ...
Article : 116 wordsWASHINGTON (A.A.P).—Representative Rankin (Democrat) urged in the House of Representatives yesterday that the Secretary of War (Mr. ...
Article : 107 wordsWASHINGTON (A.A.P.).—The Duke of Windsor yesterday lunched with a group of Senators and high Government officials at the Statler Hotel. ...
Article : 178 wordsCANBERRA.—Both the late Pope Pius H. and the present Anglican Primate Australia (Archbishop Le Fanu) had supported the principles of ...
Article : 138 wordsMANILA.—Shanghai, the largest Jap. held city and shipping centre in China, received its first full-scale air attack yesterday, ...
Article : 109 wordsSALZBURG (A A.P.).—"I am human and have made mistakes, but they are mistakes of method, not principle," said King Leopold in an interview ...
Article : 98 wordsLONDON (B.O.W.).—Thousands of tons of poison gas buried underground in the German chemical warfare experimental station at Raubkammer, 12 miles from Belsen, have created a problem for the British authorities. ...
Article : 711 wordsROME (A.A.P.)—The Vatican paper, "Osservatore Romano," in a leading article, declared that the Church could not approve of the Soviet Union ...
Article : 70 wordsG.H.Q., MANILA—The dropping of 16 million surrender leaflets on the Japs, on Luzon and Mindanao Islands in the Philippines during June ...
Article : 62 wordsLONDON (A.A.P.).—"In my experience the Australian authorities have always been careful to observe the correct procedure in matters of ...
Article : 184 wordsNEW YORK (A.A.P.).—A new non-inflammable high octane aviation petrol has been demonstrated by Standard Oil Co. engineers. A lighted match ...
Article : 71 wordsLONDON (A.A.P.).—War damage claims for the last year of the raids on Britain are likely to be the heaviest of the war. ...
Article : 62 wordsMANILA (A.A.P.).—The Supreme Commander, S.E. Asia (Lord Louis Mountbatten) held a three-day conference with Gen. MacArthur, Pacific Supreme Commander, "to arrange complete co-ordination between the respective commands." ...
Article : 320 wordsCHUNGKING (A.A.P).—President Chiang Kai-shek, interviewed by "Yank" magazine correspondent. Sergeant Walter Peters, said that an ...
Article : 57 wordsNEW YORK (A.A.P.)—Mr R. J. Thomas, president of the C.I.O. United Automobile Workers Union, declared yesterday that victory over Japan would be the signal for him to start ...
Article : 81 wordsLONDON (A.A.P.).—The Spanish Pretender, Don Juan, is not impressed by Gen. France's declaration favouring the restoration of the Spanish ...
Article : 84 wordsCANBERRA—The procedure of selling by the Disposals Commission may he altered to ensure a better deal for small traders. Mr. Beasley, representing the ...
Article : 90 wordsLONDON (A.A.P.).—The only known British casualties from poison gas in this war occurred in a Luftwaffe raid on Bari (Italy) in December, 1943, from ...
Article : 58 wordsNEW YORK (A.A.P.)—The strange story of a woman mental patient, Anna Hutchinson, former employee at the Office of Strategic Services, ...
Article : 221 wordsIN some countries including Australia the readjustment of agricultural production programmes after the war will be difficult, But ...
Article : 156 wordsLONDON (A.A.P.).—The Russians have arrested the President of the Vienna Jewish Community (Dr. Richard Loewenherz) for collaboration with ...
Article : 64 wordsHALIFAX (A.A.P.).—As the danger of explosions at the navy arsenal waned 80,000 evacuees streamed back home. The Canadian Navy announces that ...
Article : 32 wordsOKINAWA (A.A.P.).—The Army estimates that 10,000 Japanese troops are still hiding in the North Okinawa mountains. Americans are killing an ...
Article : 56 wordsCOLOMBO (A.A.P.).—Between 6000 and 8000 Japanese isolated in the Pegu Yomas area may take advantage of the present temporary lull in the monsoon and attempt to break out east towards and across the Sittang River. ...
Article : 254 wordsCANBERRA.—Innocent wives and children of soldiers suddenly found their allowances and allotments cut off, and were often left without any ...
Article : 102 wordsBERLIN (A.A.P.).—The four Allied commanders in Berlin have decided to take joint action to eliminate the black market, which is described as a menace ...
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Examiner (Launceston, Tas. : 1900 - 1954), Sat 21 Jul 1945, Page 1
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