is the new clarion call, and hundreds of men answered it at the Town Hall yesterday. The story is told in this series of special pictures, reading from the top, left to right:—Crowds wait for enlistment papers. A bald head is no bar to service. Queues are formed as the men await medical examination. Recruits leave in trucks for Caulfield. The young men march into camp to become soldiers. With Slouch hats and ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 98 wordsTotal co-operation of all private individuals with all their resources was essential for a united Australian war effort, the Lord Mayor told ...
Article : 218 wordsSir,—While applauding the motives moving the executive of the R.S.S.I.L.A. to re-form units of the old A.I.F. for home protection, one must be chary of ...
Article : 164 wordsSinking of all party differences, formation of a National Ministry, and intense concentration of all war efforts were approved ...
Article : 251 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday. — Every Premier at the Loan Council meeting in Canberra on Tuesday supported a proposal made by Mr. ...
Article : 214 words"We do well to reject all revolutionary optimism and all romantic utopianism. For the fact of sin in man and the power of evil in the world are grimly real. But ...
Article : 516 wordsSir,—And so we all went to church last Sunday. As loyal citizens we obeyed the King. When were our churches so full! When did we have to drive from ...
Article : 154 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday. — Good progress towards the formation of an industrial advisory panel to assist in war industries was made ...
Article : 133 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday. — Two R.A.A.F. officers were killed this morning when a Wirraway machine crashed on private property on the ...
Article : 211 wordsAppointment of Mr. William K. Knudsen, president of General Motors Corporation, as one of two chiefs of ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 162 words"There must be no lull and no interruption to the flow of recruits for the A.I.F.," Brig.-General Lloyd, Director General of Recruiting, ...
Article : 630 wordsAlthough Mr. Menzies claimed on Tuesday that appointment of a Works Co-ordinator was a matter for the Government, Mr. Cosgrove, ...
Article : 183 wordsSir,—Women, like British trade unionists, will need no rallying if their representatives act with men in making and administering plans to win the war. ...
Article : 153 words"I have no doubt that the Legislative Council will stand firmly behind a National Government for this State, and will not be satisfied ...
Article : 200 wordsSir,—According to Press reports, attendances at race meetings, football, golf, and other sports have increased since war began. Supplies of motor fuels are being ...
Article : 117 wordsBefore leaving for Canberra yesterday, Mr. C. Crofts, secretary A.C.T.U., said that overwhelming acceptance of dilution of skilled labour by the Amalgamated ...
Article : 95 words"The Tiger" will take the place of "The Wolf" from to-day in tracking down murderers in Victoria. Yesterday Mr. Duncan, Chief ...
Article : 193 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday. — Although it is usual to discharge minors from the defence forces if parents so request, it is not ...
Article : 152 wordsMany gifts received for the Australian Comforts Funds canteen at the Town Hall recruiting bureau yesterday were acknowledged by the Lady Mayoress. ...
Article : 207 wordsWith dates set for restoring nearly all important train services in Victoria by June 18, Railways Commissioners announced yesterday that the special train ...
Article : 104 wordsSir,—I agree with E. Martin that refugee Jews should be permitted to join the A.I.F. and fight for the country that protects them. No wonder Australian ...
Article : 212 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday. — Mr. Menzies announced to-day that he had received on behalf of the Commonwealth Government a cheque for £10,000 from ...
Article : 64 wordsOpposition to joining a National Government under existing conditions was expressed yesterday by several Victorian Labour leaders, who claimed that ...
Article : 106 wordsJoseph O'Connor, 26, of East Trentham, was crushed to death at Gisborne yesterday when a tree which he was felling crashed on top of him. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Lord Mayor received a cheque for £100 yesterday from Mr. Edward Wiseman, wholesale seed merchant, of Essendon, with the request that it be sent to ...
Article : 46 wordsLatest war developments have caused the abandonment of the annual conference of the Young Nationalists' Organisation, which was to have opened on ...
Article : 48 wordsBENDIGO, Wednesday. — Resolutions passed by Bendigo Trades Hall Council to-night affirmed loyalty to the present system of government in Australia and ...
Article : 96 wordsTen Black Poll station-bred bullocks presented to the Commonwealth War Fund by Mr. Walter Bayles on behalf of Coomete Pty. Ltd., Coomete Station, ...
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Advertising : 185 wordsSir,—I notice that women are still playing competitive golf and croquet, and that draws and results are being published, as if it really matters whether ...
Article : 67 wordsADELAIDE, Wednesday. — No Royal Show will be held this year, the Showground being required by the Defence Department for training A.I.F. For many ...
Article : 102 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday. — An artisan in the electorate of Sir Henry Gullett, Acting Minister for Information, has lent to the Government for the duration ...
Article : 75 wordsSir,—Nearly 30 years ago a lady in Cape Town handed me a poem, which appeared, I think (but I am not sure), in a paper called "The Owl." In August, 1914, by a ...
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Advertising : 99 wordsSeveral well-known pennant tennis players, including five Grace Park members—Don Lovett, Keith Dalgleish, Elvis Hanger, Ian Turner, and Jack ...
Article : 53 wordsSir,—Is there any way of bringing to notice the "Marseillaise" in these days? It would be a compliment to our Allies as well as a stirring inspiration to us all ...
Article : 53 wordsCOLAC, Wednesday.—Following enlistment in the A.I.F. of his sons Harold, Arthur, Donald, and Robert, Mr. Joseph Spokes, of Gravesend st., has offered his ...
Article : 44 wordsSir,—The success of the Town Hall meeting has inspired the community with a wish to help further. I suggest that all men between 45 and 65 should be ...
Article : 116 wordsWith the death on Sunday of Mr. Daniel McCarthy, of Danora, Traralgon, Gippsland has lost an old and highly respected resident. Born at Carlton in ...
Article : 104 wordsSir,—Voluntary assistance to war and war charities has been given in a very practical manner. I know of one firm south of the Yarra (not a very large ...
Article : 124 wordsFederal Government could not expect a maximum war effort when every producer's effort was controlled by a ridiculous legislation, said Mr. J. M. Atkinson, ...
Article : 137 wordsSir,—Once again death has visited the aboriginal community in Melbourne, and, as invariably is the case with a people living on dole or sub-dole standard, they ...
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