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  2. MILITIAMEN FOR A.I.F.

    To stimulate militiamen to join the A.I.F., the Army authorities will establish an A.I.F. recruiting office in every militia training camp in New ...

    Article : 558 words
  3. CONVOY ISSUE.

    Mr. Carl Vinson (Democrat, Georgia) chairman of the House of Representatives Naval Affairs Committee, said yesterday: "If convoys are needed to ...

    Article : 380 words
  4. FEW INDIVIDUALS TAKE UP LOAN.

    On an average, only 21,000 persons, out of a population of 7,000,000, have subscribed individually to each of the three war loans so far issued by the ...

    Article : 277 words
  5. DAGGER OF TOBRUK.

    A thorn in the enemy's side that became a dagger—that will be the verdict on Tobruk when the story can be told fully and connectedly. ...

    Article : 314 words
  6. HEAVY NAZI RAIDS.

    German air raiders last night inflicted extensive damage on the Clydeside, their main objective, and on the Merseyside, which was raided ...

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  7. NIGHT EXERCISES WITH MACHINE-GUNS.

    A Garrison Battalion held night exercises in firing at targets last night at the Long Bay Rifle Range, where they are encamped. Top: Sighting the target 600 yards away with the aid of a searchlight beam. Lower: Machine-gunnere firing tracer bullets. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  8. £20,000,000 TAKEN UP.

    Twelve thousand applicants, who will subscribe about £20,000,000 to the Commonwealth's £35,000,000 war loan, had come forward up to this afternoon. ...

    Article : 381 words
  9. CUTTERS FOR GREENLAND.

    It is learned that the united States is planning to send four cutters to Greenland to prevent any further Axis activity. The vessels will possibly include the Byrd ...

    Article : 45 words
  10. NEW ASSAULT AVERTED.

    Yesterday's communique from British G.H.Q., Cairo, said: "On Saturday, night our troops launched a counter-attack at Tobruk, inflicting heavy casualties ...

    Article : 325 words
  11. PENETRATION IN MOROCCO.

    Details of Axis activities in French Morocco given to the Lisbon correspondent of the "News-Chronicle" by an independent witness indicate that Nazi ...

    Article : 366 words
  12. BIG CITY MARCH.

    The longest, column of mechanised and motorised units seen in Sydney since the outbreak of war will make up the bulk of the mile and a half ...

    Article : 184 words
  13. NEW COMMAND IN CRETE.

    Major-General B. C. Freyberg, V.C., commander of the New Zealand Forces, has been appointed Commander-inChief of the Allied forces in Crete, to ...

    Article : 372 words
  14. "WILL FIGHT IF THREATENED."

    "We want to live in peace with everyone, but not at any price," declared the Dutch Foreign Minister, Dr. Van Kleffens, in a radio speech. "No move ...

    Article : 429 words
  15. STRIKE EXTENSION AVERTED.

    Extension of the strike of 70 members of the Amalgamated Engineering Union at the works of Emmco. Ltd., Waterloo, has been averted through the reference of the dispute ...

    Article : 106 words
  16. BIG SUBSCRIPTIONS.

    The Federal Treasurer, Mr. Fadden has specially appealed to employers throughout Australia to subscribe to the £35,000,000 Commonwealth loan on ...

    Article : 301 words
  17. MR. MENZIES WAS CENSORED.

    The recorded Broadcast of the Australian Prime Minister. Mr. Menzies, on Sunday had to be censored. He paid a tribute to the bomb disposal ...

    Article : 127 words
  18. COLLECTING WASTE.

    A request from the State Controller of Salvage, Mr. Weaver, for the co-operation of local government bodies in collecting waste was received by North Sydeny Council last ...

    Article : 98 words
  19. MORE GAINS IN ABYSSINIA.

    "Our forces advancing northward of Dessye (Abyssinia) have made further progress on the rear of the Ialian position around Amba Alagi," says to-day's ...

    Article : 321 words
  20. THE CALL-UP.

    A call-up for employment is made to-day. Details are published on page 21. ...

    Article : 18 words
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  22. PREMATURE BROADCAST

    The Minister for Information, Senator Foil, said to-day that the B.B.C.'s premature announcement of the departure of the Prime Minister. Mr. Menzies, from England for the ...

    Article : 107 words
  23. JAPANESE AND INDO-CHINA.

    Japan and Indo-China this afternoon signed two treaties regarding navigation rights, customs tariff, and trade payments. ...

    Article : 235 words
  24. PROFESSOR AN AIR RAID CASUALTY.

    Professor John Gordon, of Harvard University, U.S.A., who arrived in England recently to investigate health questions under wartime conditions, ...

    Article : 175 words
  25. BRIGADIER PUHICK TO LEAD N.Z. FORCES.

    The New Zealand Minister for Defence, Mr. Jones, announced to-day that, while Major-General Freyberg was Commander-inChief of the Allied Forces in Crete, Brigadier ...

    Article : 86 words
  26. NAZI DEMANDS ON JAPAN.

    The Japanese Government is resisting increasingly persistent demands by Germany that Japan shall begin to coordinate policies in the Far East with ...

    Article : 328 words
  27. PLANS IN U.S.A.

    The Australian Prime Minister, Mr. R. G. Menzies, was delayed in his arrival in the United States by unfavourable weather, which prevented the Clipper leaving Lisbon on time. ...

    Article : 193 words
  28. TWO DETECTIVES WOUNDED.

    Two detectives were wounded by shotgun pellets to-day when they tried to arrest two men at a farmhouse at Blaxland, on a charge of having conspired ...

    Article : 225 words
  29. SUSPENSION OF AIR MAILS.

    Because of the position in Iraq, British Empire Airways—which carries the Empire air mails part of the way between Britain and Australia—and ...

    Article : 137 words
  30. BLAZE IN HOLD OF STEAMER.

    Wearing special headgear and gas masks, 53 firemen from six city stations fought a fire in the lower hatch of No. 1 hold of a steamer at Walsh Bay for ...

    Article : 184 words
  31. RETURN TO AUSTRALIA.

    The Acting Prime Minister, Mr, Fadden, said to-night, that as Mr. Menzies was now on the point of arriving in America, the date of his arrival in Australia would doubtless ...

    Article : 47 words
  32. CANADIAN SOLDIERS LOST AT SEA.

    The Canadian Minister for the Navy announced to-day that 75 Canadian military personnel had been lost at sea. He refused to give any further information. ...

    Article : 35 words
  33. WAR PRECAUTIONS IN PHILIPPINES.

    Declaring that the trend of events "seems to point strongly to the entry of the United States into the war," President Quezon last night asked the National Assembly of the ...

    Article : 58 words
  34. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    Tin was quoted yesterday at £269/10/. Mining quotations: New Broken Hill 8/6; Wiluna, 5/. MARY BRIAN MARRIED ...

    Article : 44 words
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