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MELBOURNE, Sunday.—The Australian Advisory War Council, in consultation with representatives of the United Nations, at the weekend reached a series of important decisions on the principles of high strategy. ...
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MELBOURNE, Sunday. — The requisitioning by the Commonwealth of all tea held by merchants and traders and ...
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LONDON, Sunday.—A despatch to Berlin from Vichy says a Marseilles military court has sentenced to penal servitude for life two students for ...
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VICHT, Saturday.—At the resumption of the Riom trial M. Deladier, a former French Prime Minister, declared that bad distribution of the defence ...
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.—A warning to all newspapers to reduce their size to "an irreducible minimum," or their newsprint stocks would be taken ...
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Two hundred girls in one section of an aircraft factory in Victoria last week proved to the Minister for Aircraft Production (Senator D. Cameron), on a visit of inspection, that women could take their place efficiently alongside men in aircraft production. In this picture girls ara shown working on the fuselage of a plane. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Major-General Gordon Bennett, who escaped from Singapore after his surrender to the Japanese, arrived in Sydney to-day, and will reach Melbourne to-morrow. He flew from Jave to Australia in a dutch plane, and will make the trip to ...
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CANBERRA, Sunday. — "Our peril is your peril, and your danger is our danger," said Mr. D. G. Sullivan, a member of the New ...
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CAMBRIDGE (Massachusetts), Saturday.—The discovery of a remarkable red star, estimated to be 100 ...
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Certain sections of transport employes in New South Wales will be placed on the reserved occupation list, the ...
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NEW YOKE, Saturday.—A magnetic storm, apparently caused by a giaut sunspot, disrupted short waye radiotelephone communications between the ...
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NEW YORK, Saturday.—Siamese twin daughters, joined facing each other, which were born to Mrs. Carmino Picciotto at St. Vincent's ...
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LONDON, Sunday.—It is officially stated that losses in the Battle of the Java Sea are:— ...
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MELBOURNE, Sunday. — A new Kittyhawk squadron in the Western Desert, composed of young Australians trained under the ...
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LONDON, Saturday.—The Quisling Government has dismissed Dr. Bergera v. Bishop of Oslo, who hitherto was the Nazis' foremost opponent. He was ...
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Several shells were fired by anti-aircraft gunsin a defence area at Melbourne about 2.45 yesterday morning at an R.A.A.F. plane which was off its course while carrying out night flying exercises. The Minister for the Army (Mr. Forde) said that when the R.A.A.F. ...
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MELBOURNE, Sunday. — Two aircraft crashes—one in New South Wales and one in Victoria—were reported by R.A.A.F. ...
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MELBOURNE, Sunday. — While bombing squadrons of the R.A.A.F. continued their successful series of raids on Japanese-occupied contres in ...
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WASHINGTON, Saturday.—A communique from the Philippines this morning said fighting, had lessened in the Batan area, with operations limited ...
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Prom personal observations, senior members of the Pcderal Government are satisfied that some form of ...
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SYDNEY, Sunday. — Two false air raid alarms in the thickly populated King's Cross and Darlinghurst areas yesterday afternoon provided striking contrasts. ...
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DARWIN, Sunday.—Damage fo civilians' property in the Japanese bombing was slight. The town is being cleaned up, and will soon be back to normal. Since I have been back in Darwin I have made a two days' survey of the conditions in the town, and I haye found that, as far as civilian activity is ...
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LONDON, Sunday.—The Department of Agriculture for Scotland is arranging for 10,000 schoolboys and ...
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CANBERRA, Sunday. — More than 100,000 applications have now been received for the £35,000,000 Liberty Loan. ...
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WASHINGTON, Saturday.—The bureau of labor statistics reported to-day that wholesale prices had reached their highest point since July. 1920. They ...
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A suggestion from the Northern Tasmanian Association that triangular matches be abandoned this season, and that the championship games be played ...
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ONE HOUR TEAMS' RACE. — A successful one hour teams race was conducted by the riding section of the Devonport Athletic Club on Saturday ...
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LAUNCESTON, Sunday. — The "A" prade mixed doubles championship of the Northern Association championship series waa won yesterday by E. C. Stewart and ...
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