Destruction on Tarakan Island as Dutch hold off Japanese assault
Eyewitness accounts describe a Dutch battalion defending Tarakan Island against a Japanese landing on January 19. Fire and oil wells burn as sloops bring in reinforcements, with fierce street fighting, heavy losses, and a final Japanese retreat after oil installations are destroyed.
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Tarakan Island
Minister For Information
Ashley
NEL
Siahted
Amal
At & Pm
N.C
Kangaroos Escape Dingoes Amid Sneeze Grass Chase
In Cape York Peninsula dingoes chase young kangaroos. A newborn koala is tiny, about a sixpence in size. A newborn kangaroo is two inches long, with adults reaching seven feet. Diggers of sneeze grass cause hay fever, delaying dingoes as roos slip away across patches of grass.
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Cape ‘York Peninsula
Crows and Melons Stir North Journal Debate
A northern paper notes crows destroying a subscriber’s melon patch. A local grower, who markets four acres of melons yearly, says ordinary crows take dozens, black crows from the reserve harvest 50 dozen in weeks, and white crows nearby extract a similar toll.
Evacuation plan mocked at Lismore dairy meeting
A R. R. Herald report notes Mr T Gibson of Murwillumbah ridiculed a proposal to evacuate dairy cattle from the north coast. He cited a stockowners meeting claiming mobs of 400 cows would be moved with eight men to milk, and joked about milking methods and branding pigs, provoking laughter.
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Lismore
T. Gibson
Murwillumbah
Trespass and hunting notice on Willamby property
H C Dengate local agent warns that all persons found trespassing or taking wood or interfering with stock will be prosecuted without further notice. All previous permissions cancelled. K Patterson states shooting or hunting on Willamby will be prosecuted regardless of persons, with permissions withdrawn by R H Hudson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willamby
R, H, Hudson
Prosecution Warning for Trespass on Moss Vale Stock
Any person found duck shooting fishing trespassing or in any way interfering with stock on Moss Vale Upper Manilla will be prosecuted. C ByrneS.
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Moss Vale
Upper
Manilla
Byrnes
Germany Dutch Exchange Before Blitzkrieg Humor
A fragment depicts a grim wartime exchange where a Dutchman mocks German hardship and a German retorts that only ersatz rats remain as the government feeds them. The dialogue ties to looming conflict and occupation theater.
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Germany
Holland
Mails From Manilla Post Office Schedules Revealed
Outward mails from Manilla Post Office close at specified times on listed days for Sydney Tamworth North West T.P.O. North Down Newcastle Barraba Upper Manilla Gunnedah Montarn View Rushes Hall Wonee Cheek Namoi River with times ranging from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. on varied weekdays. Printed for Manilla Newspaper Co. by Alton Richmond Macleod in Manilla NSW.
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Manilla
Sydney
Tammworth
T.P.O
North West
Down
Tp.o
North
Newcastle
Barraba
Upper Manilla
Gunnedah
Montarn View
Hall’s
Wonee Cheek
Namoi River
Manila Newspaper Co
Alton Richmond Macleod
Manilla Street
N.S.W
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York Cafe
Canberra
Glitsos & Domino
Post Office
Len Ridgewell
C. N. Scott
Cual
Manilla and District News
Japan
Australia
Inglalmente
Matchwood
Shanghai
Balikpapan
N.ei. Director of Information
R.R.’ Herald
Gibson
Newcastle Wool Appraisement Centre
the Pioneer Company
ITH Whigh 5
THE
Commonwealth Wool and Produce CO. Ltd
NENCO
Box
P.O
N'castle
C. L. Wilshire
yMi
Wory Sonia
Svay
Paramount
Radio & Radiograms
H. C. Dengate
K. Patterson
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