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FROM Our Correspondent.—U.S. marines continue to make headway in the Cape Gloucester area against enemy resistance, says today's communique. Latest enemy casualties are reported at 300, bringing the enemy's aggregate loss of killed alone to over 2,400. Three enemy barges in the vicinity, which may have been attempting to supply…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Although some move was made in the town to have Wilcannia included as a special District War Agricultural Committee. It is now learned that several…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Russians continue to smash away the Nazi defences in Russia, and in one sector they have carried their spearheads 35 miles over the old Polish…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY.—The President of the A.T.C.U. (Mr. P. J. Clarey) stated last night that the trade union movement was pressing now for the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The South-east Asia communique reports that after the occupation of Maungdaw our forward elements occupied two villages, one and four miles…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"The New York Times" in an editorial says a spectacular assault against Germany by the largest American armada ever sent in the skies is beginning a new and possibly a final phase of the air war in Europe in which, as General Arnold says, the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Discharged from the AIF as medically unfit some months ago after serving 27 months overseas. Maxwell Giddings, employed as a tally clerk on a Brisbane…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY.—During a quarrel with colored Allied servicemen in Surry Hills last night two Australians had their throats slashed…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →WASHINGTON, January 16.—Mr. Churchill, it can now be revealed, took a hand in a wartime romance during the Quebec conference last…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CANBERRA.—To the end of last November the war had cost Australia £1,339,000,000, more than five times the total cost to Australia of World War I. The expenditure averages £186 a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →NEW YORK, January 17.—A 12-point programme for the drastic treatment of Germany after the war is proposed by Lord Vansittart, formerly British Permanent Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Tokio official radio today admitted that Allied attacks against Rabaul were growing in intensity and that the war situation was "assuming real proportions." The radio claimed that the Japs had killed or wounded 3500…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New records in Australian loan raising will be asked of the Australian people by the Federal Government late in March, said the Prime Minister. Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →When this war is over the present economic system will still remain. So the struggle between the capitalist class on the one hand and the workers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ball in £500 was allowed Clifford Robert Hogan (42), when he was remanded at the Central Police Court today on charge of having stolen £100 from…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soldiers find soothing, healing Double "D" Ointment most effective for casing tired feet; healing minor injuries, chapped lips, burns. Double "D"…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY.—The Lands Minister (Mr. Tully) said today that the first batch of land holdings would be made available for soldiers in the Western…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →WAR cost figures just released show that up to the end of November last the Australian war effort had cost the country £1,339 millions—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Reviewing the monetary cost of the wa[?] the latest edition of the Department of Information's official review of Australia's war effort "Facts and Figures…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Representatives of the Australian and New Zealand Governments who were conferring in Canberra today gave a lead to the world on post-war civil…
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