CANBERRA, Friday.—For the third time since the war began Ministers were obliged to-day to rely on private sources for ...
Article : 158 wordsAustralia is vitally interested in preserving the independence of the Dutch East Indies because that rich territory has a common frontier ...
Article : 232 wordsFirst news of the Nazi attack on the Netherlands was the report that German aeroplanes were flying over Dutch territory so far inland as to encourage belief ...
Article : 1,090 wordsshowing cities of strategical importance and defence bases. Britain is reported to have closed the Straits of Gibraltar —the gateway to the Mediterranean. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 25 wordsGiving a last-minute review of the Nazi invasion of the Low Countries, the Information Department diplomatic commentator said last ...
Article : 828 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—Germany's invasion of Holland may assist materially in solving the Allies' oil supply problems. Australia, in ...
Article : 95 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—Recriminations in the House of Representatives last night over Victoria's exclusion from the marginal wheat ...
Article : 136 wordsMr. Hogan said last night that Mr. Cameron's references to his attending the Canberra conference because it would discuss potatoes was irrelevant, petty, and far ...
Article : 113 wordsOfficial action to authorise three gas companies to ration supplies has been deferred until Monday. When rationing becomes effective, ...
Article : 197 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—An emergency meeting of the War Cabinet will be held here on Monday morning to discuss the German invasion ...
Article : 54 wordsDuring the afternoon descriptions of the Ascot and Randwick races will be interspersed with the Melbourne-Footscray match from Melbourne ground through ...
Article : 385 wordsWhen a wife leaves her husband, and the husband has a feeling of relief that she has gone, the fact that he does not make efforts to ...
Article : 225 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—Mr. Curtin, Opposition leader, said that if the civilised world needed any confirmation of the German ...
Article : 317 wordsMiss Lillie Bryer, who died in Fitzroy on Thursday on the same site upon which she was born 73 years ago, was an old pioneer of the stage. She was a popular ...
Article : 111 wordsWhen the British and Foreign Bible Society first announced that it would supply every member of the forces abroad with a New Testament, it expected ...
Article : 136 wordsA 73-year-old cattle dealer, Thomas Edward Welsh, of Waverley road, Glen Waverley, was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment in General Sessions ...
Article : 125 wordsThe funeral of Captain John McIntyre, of the Nairana, who died on Thursday after a short illness, at the age of 55 years, took place at Springvale ...
Article : 87 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—Large surplus of £6,750,000 in the Federal consolidated revenue account for 10 months ended April 30 is due partly to an unprecedented ...
Article : 61 wordsIt may not be easy for you or me to lift 300lb. of iron above the head, but it is a common feat for Harry Cleghorn, of New Zealand. ...
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Advertising : 384 wordsAt 4.45 p.m. to-morrow Mr. Churchill will speak through 3LO in rebreadcast from the Empire station. At 8.50 p.m. Lord and Lady Gowrie will speak to Boy ...
Article : 482 wordsIn the dark back entrance of a West Melbourne shop a man is tampering with the door. A passer-by, his suspicions aroused, ...
Article : 307 wordsFive more unlicensed radio transmitters in various parts of Australia have been seized. Owners will be prosecuted. Mr. D. McVey, Postal Director-General, ...
Article : 53 wordsCompetition for insurance business had expanded to such a degree that many non-tariff organisations and Government departments were competing for the ...
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Advertising : 34 wordsClive Harris, 24, of Nichollsdale road, Camberwell, was killed, and Phyllis Norman, 27, of Seymour grove, Camberwell, suffered a fractured leg and severe shock ...
Article : 49 wordsProceeds from all productions in war time by the National Theatre Movement of Australia will be devoted to Red Cross and Comforts Funds. A special appeal ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 170 wordsMilitary authorities consider that enlistment of allens for tile A.I.F. is unnecessary and undesirable. Allens' applications for enlistment will be ...
Article : 83 wordsPleasure was expressed at headquarters of Returned Soldiers' League War Service Fund yesterday at receipt of 22 cases of parcels from Traralgon. This was one of ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 11 May 1940, Page 2
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