GIRLS TO RETURN
MR. CHIFLEY’S REQUEST AMERICAN EXPLANATION (9 a.rn.) MANILA, Jan. 9. Major-General Clements McMullen, commander of the Far East Air Service Command, announced that the 15 Australian girls who were brought to Manila without passports for confidential secretarial work at r .E.A.o.L. headquarters, would be returned to Brisbane to-day. , , , General McMullen said he had been advised by the F.E.A.S.C. rear echelon command at Brisbane that the Australian Prime Minister, Mr. J. B. Chiney, had requested the girls' return to appease the press.” The General said he had assumed that the girls did not need passports, because Australian pilots flew to the Philippines without passports. _
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GISH19460110.2.5
Bibliographic details
Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21916, 10 January 1946, Page 2
Word Count
106GIRLS TO RETURN Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21916, 10 January 1946, Page 2
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Gisborne Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in