CANBERRA, Tuesday. — The meeting of War Cabinet will be attended not only by members of the Cabinet and by the 3 chiefs of the ...
Article : 228 wordsWar correspondents from Singapore who have reached a port in NEI, pay warm tributes to the superb Job Australian and British warships ...
Article : 248 wordsBritish, Indian, and Australian forces defending Singapore are faced with a similar situation to that which confronted Australian and New Zealand forces in Crete. They may have to fight, for the present at ...
Article : 392 wordsin the Western Desert. The guns are mounted on trucks known as "mystery ships of the desert," and the highly mobile, hard-hitting units speed across the desert and make unexpected attacks. In contact with a German column ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 55 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.—Under regulations gazetted today male aliens in Australia between 18 and 60 must register for national service. ...
Article : 259 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.—In view of picssing needs of war finance the Loan Council today unanimously agreed to a substantial reduction in ...
Article : 347 words"The economic structure of Japan is not, in general, such as to give her a high war potential.... Her natural disadvantages in metallurgy ...
Article : 540 wordsImperial troops manning the defences along Singapore's 75-mile coastal perimeter had a quiet time yesterday. ...
Article : 210 wordsMiddle East, and Lt.—Gen. Eugene Gorman, ACF Commissioner in Middle East, at the opening of the fourth ACF hostel for men on leave in Jerusalem. Lt.—Col. German has recently been appointed Australian ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 48 wordsAttacks by the U-S Pacific Fleet on Japanese bases in the Marshall and Gilbert Islands had been made in considerable force by ...
Article : 124 wordsMembers of the Board of Works yesterday received their copies of the report on the Yarra dam project recently compiled by Dr. L. J. ...
Article : 342 wordsMr. C. A. Crofts, ACTU secretary, was appointed yesterday by the ACTU executive as liaison officer between industrial unions and the ...
Article : 181 wordsFollowing the Egyptian Cabinets resignation yesterday King Farouk has asked Mohamed Mahmoud Khalll Bey, President of the Senate, ...
Article : 183 wordsJapan lost 32 ships out of about 100 in the large convoy which was attacked some days ago in Macassar Strait, between Borneo and Celebes. ...
Article : 284 wordsThe desire of Australian women to give practical help in the war effort was evinced yesterday in many inquiries at THE ARGUS office for ...
Article : 667 wordsI talked today by radio-telephone to Lt.—Gen. ter Poortcn, C-in-C of the NEI forces, who stated that co-operation between British, ...
Article : 283 wordsGranting of a loan of £50,000,000 to China by the British Government together with Lease-Lend aid, is announced here almost simultaneously ...
Article : 185 wordsDust-covered, unshaven, and wearied, but jubilant, men of a South of England regiment have arrived at this desert fort after having burst ...
Article : 298 wordsTemporary suspension of the Emplie Air Service was announced yesterday by Mr. R.N. Partington, deputy Director of Posts and ...
Article : 142 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday. — In a broadcast to the Australian forces in Singapore Mr. Forde, Army Minister, tonight said: ...
Article : 145 wordsAn allegation that £500,000 had been wrongfully obtained from the Government was made during the hearing of a case at Liverpool ...
Article : 280 wordsFour Flying Fortresses which were on their way to attack Japanese shipping at Balik Papan, on the cast coast of Borneo, were ...
Article : 75 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.—No extension of the age limit for calling up men for military service was likely at present, said Mr. Forde. Army ...
Article : 44 wordsMr. Casey conferred with Mr. Harry Hopkins, Lend-Lcase Administrator, in connection with supplies for Australia. Invitation for the meeting ...
Article : 61 wordsADELAIDE, Tuesday. — ARP wardens and special constables rushed to their posts with alacrity in Mitcham district at 5am today ...
Article : 146 wordsWhen she fell into the Collingwood municipal quarries at the bottom of Ramsden st., Clifton Hill, about 5.45 pm yesterday, Helen Lorraine ...
Article : 96 wordsA 77mm. German field gun captured in the last war will be made available by Prahran Council for the artillery training of Wesley College ...
Article : 52 wordsPan-American Airways have sold to British Overseas Airways on Lease-Lend terms 3 Boeing 314A flying-boats, each of which cost ...
Article : 102 wordsEnemy aircraft dropped bombs today at 2 points on the East Coast of England and at a place in cast Scotland, according to official ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Japanese followed up their Mculmein success with power and rapidity. Machine-guns strafed the British rearguard retreating across ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 262 wordsMr. Hugh D. McIntosh, formerly of Sydney, died in hospital yesterday after an illness of several months. Born in Sydney in 1876, son of Mr. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Advertising : 190 wordsWing.—Cdr. Norman George Mulholland, DFC, commanding officer of the Australian Wellington Squadron is plaintiff in a libel action, ...
Article : 221 wordsChinese forces have thrown back a new Japanese offensive about 70 miles west of Nanchang, 180 miles due east of Changsha. ...
Article : 50 wordsMoscow Radio says that Stalin has telegraphed to Ali Feranghi, Premier of Iran, congratulations on the signing of the Anglo-Russian-Iran treaty. ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Government has removed a number of Dutch National Socialists interned at Ngawi, Java, to a place somewhere outside NEI. ...
Article : 28 wordsMr. Robert John Sanderson, who died in a private hospital in Melbourne on Monday was closely associated with the development of Lorne ...
Article : 76 wordsVirtually all British people and Americans in Hank[?]w, Pelping, and Tientsin have been interned, smuggled letters disclose. They have not been ...
Article : 43 wordsMr. Mackenzie King told the House of Commons that Canada had opened negotiations with Russia for an exchange of diplomatic ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wed 4 Feb 1942, Page 3
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