Although seriously wounded in a 10,000-ft encounter with a Japanese fighter over the Bismarck Archipelago last week, ...
Article : 313 wordsConfidence, that the reverses suffered in the Pacific by the Allied forces to date will be offset by "great strategy" now being developed, was expressed by the Minister for the Army (Mr. Forde) to-day. ...
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Family Notices : 104 wordsEvidence of the increasing interest of Americans in Australia is provided by the recent development in news services to the United States ...
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Advertising : 458 wordsThe Minister for Air (Mr. Drakeford) in a broadcast last night chided those whom he described as "faint hearts and prophets of ...
Article : 226 wordsFOR the first week since the outbreak of the war in the Pacific, the Japanese have failed to make any measurable advance. Their guns are shelling Singapore and their planes roar overhead, but they have not progressed an inch beyond the mainland of ...
Article : 499 wordsThe Assistant Secretary for State (Mr. Sumner Welles) told the Press to-day that the United States had asked the ...
Article : 45 wordsThere is a strong possibility that the State Government will approach the Minister for the Army (Mr. Forde) to have released from ...
Article : 136 wordsThe State Department announced the establishment of a United States Consulate in Darwin. ...
Article : 54 wordsSenator Gillette said to-day that Korean sources had advised last October that Japan would attack the United ...
Article : 84 wordsThough he did not under-estimate the loss of Malaya, the former Minister for Information (Senator Foll) said that the loss of the Dutch East ...
Article : 76 wordsA passenger on a ship which has reached an Australian port from New Guinea stated that all men over 50 years of age who were ...
Article : 200 wordsAustralia may yet be the principal offensive base from which ultimately the Allies will embark upon the reconquest of a free Asia and free ...
Article : 318 wordsHis Excellency the Governor-General (Lord Gowrie), attended by Squadron-Leader S. J. Moir, was present at Divine Service at St. ...
Article : 31 wordsLONDON, Saturday. — The stock market yesterday had one of its dullest sessions since Japan entered the war. The Singapore siege and ...
Article : 34 wordsA Navy communique to-day announced that the com[?] naval forces in the Australian-New Zealand area had been ...
Article : 155 wordsAn air raid alert was sounded at Darwin on Sunday morning but no attack developed. Announcing this last night, ...
Article : 265 wordsDuring recent offensive patrols over northern France, Hurricane Fighters of the British Royal Air Force set on fire an ammunition train at point-blank range and derailed it, despite the barrage put up by anti-aircraft guns mounted on the train. "It blew up with ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 104 wordsJapanese air activity over the Solomon Islands and New Guinea was reported to the Minister for Air (Mr. Drakeford) yesterday. ...
Article : 72 wordsTwenty-five persons, including six British subjects, one of them a British consular messenger, were reported to be killed by an explosion on a wharf. ...
Article : 146 wordsDespite the serious outlook of the war in the Pacific, any despondent view on the situation was to be deprecated, commented the Premier ...
Article : 81 wordsA special day of prayer was observed throughout the State today when prayers were offered for the British Empire, America, Russia, ...
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The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), Mon 9 Feb 1942, Page 2
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