IN the little military cemetery at Wer[?] Matruh, the lads of the Second A.I.F. could find conclusive, but happily not extensive evidence that they are not the ...
Article : 1,048 wordsWith British feet treading the soil of Libya, Mussolini is watching the dissolution of a dream—a dream with its roots in the romantic past ...
Article : 628 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.—Complaints that some retailers are supplying customers with half a dozen boxes of matches at 4½d., instead of a dozen at 8½d., and ...
Article : 326 wordsMr. Mackroll, State Labour Minister, told city councillors yesterday that it was "up to them" to move their Town Hall to the Exhibition site. ...
Article : 316 wordsPERTH, Wednesday. — "I have little doubt that we may be reading now the progressive story of a battle that will end in the departure ...
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Family Notices : 2,476 wordsAn indication that the Department of Information might be continued after the war even if it then had another designation, was given yesterday by Senator ...
Article : 267 wordsConversion to standard gauge of 252 miles of railway between Broken Hill (N.S.W.) and Port Pirie (S.A.) is strongly favoured by the Commonwealth Railway ...
Article : 179 wordsSYDNCY, Wednesday.—Five carriages filled with passengers on the express train which left Sydney for Brisbane at 2 p.m. yesterday were derailed when the ...
Article : 138 words"Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me."—Psalm lix, 1. ...
Article : 22 words"Good holiday weather at Christinas on present indications." This was the welcome long-range prophecy made by the Weather Bureau ...
Article : 145 wordsAt 11 p.m. on Christmas Day a special Christmas broadcast entitled "Christmas Under Fire" will be heard in Australia from the B.B.C. It will continue until ...
Article : 121 wordsThe Master Drapers' Association Hardware Merchants' Association, Grocers' Association and Chain Store Grocers' Association have recommended to their ...
Article : 208 wordsWith the Australians fighting again in the desert, men of the old A.I.F. are reminded of their days in the hot stand. Major Rex Hall, who was on officer in ...
Article : 307 words"I am In the place where I am demanded or conscience to speak the truth, and therefore the truth I speak, impugn it whoso list." ...
Article : 792 wordsNo major constitutional changes should be undertaken in Australia during the war, Mr. Hollway, State Opposition leader, said yesterday, commenting on Cr. ...
Article : 129 words"The Federal Budget, by lessening the purchasing power of the people, will interfere fundamentally with the economic structure of Austr[?]la," said Mr. ...
Article : 103 wordsTheir Excellencies the Governor-General and Lady Gowrie left Canberra for Sydney by train yesterday evening. Mrs. B. M. Osborne has left ...
Article : 467 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday. — Following the report of the Public Service Board that Mr. L. A. Robb, Official Secretary to Lord Wakehurst, the Governor, was ...
Article : 118 wordsMr. J. J. Ryder, J.P., was at a meeting of the State executive yesterday selected as the Labour party candidate for the Toorak seat in the Legislative Assembly. ...
Article : 100 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—Captain Frank Hurley's exclusive motion pictures of the Italian rout in the Western Desert will arrive by air in Sydney next week. ...
Article : 179 wordsFor favours received and expected, Laval's reinstatement is bought by his German friends. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 21 wordsEstate valued at £327,258 was left by Richard Wadeson White, late of Auckland (N.Z.), who died intestate in New Zealand on June 27. A retired contractor, ...
Article : 83 wordsMelbourne's menfolk have often been accused of stuffiness, timidity, and moral cowardice. They deserve it. Yesterday a dozen business, men, ...
Article : 257 wordsGEELONG. Wednesday.—As a result of the steamer Orungal running on the Eastern reef, near Barwon Heads, the engineer of the South Barwon Shire Council ...
Article : 75 wordsPERTH, Wednesday. — Two thousand five hundred members of the Shop Assistants' Union, who held a stop-work meeting yesterday, decided by an ...
Article : 84 wordsNot 1 per cent. of the A.B.C.'s revenue for the year ended June, 1940, was spent in bringtag foreign artists to Australia. Dr. Keith Barry, Federal controller of ...
Article : 138 wordsMr. Noel Coward said farewell to Melbourne yesterday. He devoted more than an hour of the morning to an inspection of the works of the Commonwealth ...
Article : 138 wordsRobertson and Bartlett, eminent duopianists, who are husband and wife, have been engaged by the A.B.C. for its 1941 corcert season Previous engagement ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 19 Dec 1940, Page 4
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