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Advertising : 41 wordsThe Minister tor Munition (Mr. Makin) today revealed that members of the militia and Volunteer Defence Corps had been compelled ...
Article : 247 wordsDespite the loss of Singapore, the Commonwealth Government believes that the Pacific situation is not beyond control and is taking all possible steps to meet the position. This was indicated to-day by the Minister for the Army (Mr. ...
Article : 615 wordsA garage without cars,a bird without wings and a base without ships, was how the leader of the U.A.P. (Mr. Hughes) described Singapore ...
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Advertising : 49 wordsFIGURATIVELY speaking, the fall of Singapore has been called Australia's Dunkirk. Actually the parallel is by no means an exact one. We have suffered no collapse of a vital ally and the enemy which was responsible for the capture of ...
Article : 468 wordsThe Director-General of Health (Dr. J. H. Cumpston) has been appointed chairman of the Commonwealth Alien Doctors[?] Board. ...
Article : 139 wordsFollowing a conference with representatives of more than 100 municipalities and shires throughout New South Wales[?] today the Minister in ...
Article : 113 wordsThe price of tomatoes[?] in New South Wales has been fixed at 8/- per case of 24 lb. at the growers' point of production. ...
Article : 152 wordsA deputation of country and Sydney business men today waited upon the Assistant Minister (Mr. Lazzarini) and urged the decentralisation ...
Article : 62 wordsAustralian airmen shot down [?] enemy aircraft in a dog-fight near Acrona, in the Middle East, during last week, and one of these was ...
Article : 117 wordsR.A.F. and R.A.A.F. fighters on Saturday obtained the biggest individual success of the Libyan campaign when 18 Kittyhawks engaged a large force of enemy planes attacking troops in the Acroma area and, without loss, shot down 14 ...
Article : 222 wordsThe Air Ministry reports light enemy air activity over the coastal areas in the north-east of England and the south-east of Scotland last ...
Article : 53 wordsThe enemy's cleverly thought out plan for the defeat of the Allies in the Pacific has been brought one step nearer to their desired end by ...
Article : 144 wordsSingapore has fallen. This announcement was made in a broadcast tonight by the Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill) in which he painted a dismal position in the Pacific. ...
Article : 2,261 wordsThe list of goods which the Government may order to be stored for emergency purposes has been broadened by defining the prescribed goods ...
Article : 69 wordsRommel is believed to be preparing a new push against the Imperial forces between Gazala and Tobruk. He had had 11 days to bring up supplies ...
Article : 76 wordsThe secretary of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of Austra[?] (Mr. P. Wilkins), has written to the Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) support ...
Article : 262 wordsAccording to the Washington correspondent of the "New York Times'' it is the considered judgment of officials at Washington that the fall of Singapore makes the darkest-moment of the war for the United Nations; even Mr. Churchill' rehetoric did not ...
Article : 300 wordsA full scale A.R.P. rehearsal is to be held at the Canberra Community Hospital on Thursday night. Members of the staff will be required ...
Article : 241 wordsdirection given by Mr. W. E. Hooper. VICE-REGAL also attend a class while many of the residents from the Hotel Wellington ...
Article : 241 wordsPlanes of the Bomber Command last night attacked Mannheim and other objectives in the Rhineland and also bombed docks at Le Havre, ...
Article : 76 wordsCommenting on the fall of Singapore the Prime Minister (Mr. Fraser) said that it was a severe blow for the Allied cause and that Mr. ...
Article : 112 wordsThe fall of Singapore is a [?] call throughout Australia for prep[?]edness, said the Minister for N.E.S. (Mr. Heffron) when commenting [?] ...
Article : 70 wordsAccording to a French broadcast the Resident General in Tunisia (Admiral Esteva) and the Resident General in Morocco (General Nogues) ...
Article : 63 wordsMaximum temperature, 78.1 degrees; minimum in screen, 58.4 degrees; on grass, 56.5 degrees. CANBERRA, Sunday. ...
Article : 40 wordsMOSCOW, Monday.—According to the Tass agency a message from Lisbon says that Spain secretly agreed to grant Germany 50,000 tons of ...
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The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), Tue 17 Feb 1942, Page 2
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