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Newspaper
Bridgetown Advocate
Location
Bridgetown, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Feb 11, 1944
Page
3
The piece argues Churchill's drive to defeat Germany sustains him despite illness and age. It notes his habit of cutting excess and his ability to recover from pneumonia, suggesting his obsession powers his leadership and resilience during wartime. The author credits a Bulletin contributor "Paw ang" with a pragmatic view on the causes of major events.
The author argues postwar peace requires enduring universal principles, not nationalism or League of Nations flaws. The piece urges forgiveness of foes, mutual aid, and a global Magna Charta guiding trade, movement, and law, with Turkey’s neutral stance as a tested example and calls for shared tariffs to lift all nations.
A family doctor remarks on the young man's heart trouble and chides him for misnaming her name. The young man confesses enduring angina pectoris, and the exchange ends with the patient noting the doctor has the wrong name.
James P. Murray of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce reports the US air industry produced 333,500 tons of air frames in 1943, totaling about 86,009 military planes, up from 138,000 tons and 47,694 planes in 1942 and 41,750 tons and 19,403 planes in 1941, with December alone matching all of 1991.
A Melbourne fall injures jockey T. Unkovich at Moonee Valley. Prime Minister John Curtin sent a personal letter of sympathy praising Western Australia's spirit, triggering discussion over the extent of official concern and sentiment in public notices and editorials.
A brief, devotional reflection quotes Bakac on conviction bringing silent beauty to ordinary faces and a devout worshipper's glow, likening it to a noble love's light emanating from a woman's face.
U S column suggests General MacArthur, long absent from the United States, faces a paradox of power and restraint. In Australia he pursues victory while wary of political ambitions, keeping a quiet family life and a sparse, disciplined office environment with Washington Lincoln and Washington engravings.
San Francisco reports from Chungking papers including Ta Kung Pao and National Herald detail Japanese coercion in occupied China. Merchants face payments under threat, audits, asset seizures, and forced bankruptcies as warehouses are closed and stocks seized securing puppet regime deals.
Reports reveal 15 people in a single cottage with two rooms and no bathroom. Water pipes rusted, sanitation poor, and many families overcrowded in Randwick Marrickville and Paddington. Officials urge immediate demolition and housing schemes to house thousands more, with costs pegged at around £1,000,000 for repairs and new dwellings.
Sheepmen in the Cloncurry district warn that dingoes are decimating flocks with 75 percent of sheep at risk unless government action occurs. Many shepherds recruit dingo shooters, drovers chase higher bounties, and selectors push larger properties to exterminate wild dogs. Livestock mutilations, targeting liver and kidneys, force routine destruction of compromised sheep. Authorities urged immediate measures to curb the slaughter.
Wealth of artificial manures has forced a revival of guano mining on islands off the Western Australian coast. About 30 tons a week are sent to Fremantle from these deposits.
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