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  3. AUSTRALIAN ISLANDS INVADED

    FOR the first time in history, Australian territory has been attacked; for the first time, foreign invaders are trying to gain a footing; for the first time, Australian militia forces have been in action. These stirring announcements were made last night by the Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Forde) in a special ...

    Article : 1,240 words
  4. REDS ADVANCE ON SMOLENSK

    SOVIET troops driving towards Smolensk, which is more than 200 miles west of Moscow, and on the eastern extremity of White Russia, are making strenuous efforts to cut off more than 100,000 Germans who are endeavouring to escape westward from Mojaisk. The Russian ...

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  5. UNDER FIRE

    With the southward march of Japanese aggression in the Pacific, Australian militiamen are believed to have been in action for the first time, in the defence of the Mandated Territory of New Guinea. Members of two gun crews of a militia artillery unit are seen above at action stations. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 56 words
  6. AID FROM U.S.A.

    WASHINGTON, Friday.— The stream of-American reinforcements for the South-Western Pacific had already ...

    Article : 277 words
  7. CONFUSED FIGHTING

    JAPANESE forces are reported to be attacking the British flank in the Batu Pahat area of north-western Johore, and the position in Malaya is regarded as having become more serious in the past 24 hours. A cablegram received ...

    Article : 1,175 words
  8. EMERGENCY MEASURES

    MELBOURNE. Friday.—Important decisions relating to Australian defence were made by War Cabinet at an emergency meeting today held as ...

    Article : 266 words
  9. AUSTRALIA'S PERIL

    THE Australian Minister to Washington (Major Casey), in a broadcast, issued a warning that Australia might be just ...

    Article : 149 words
  10. Scorched Earth In Australia

    THE State Government will not order any evacuation likely to interfere with war production until such time as the danger of ...

    Article : 106 words
  11. MILITIA PAY

    CANBERRA, Friday.—An increase in pay to militiamen to place them on an euqal footing with the A.I.F. men in Australia would cost about £10,000,000 a ...

    Article : 99 words
  12. INDUSTRIAL COUNCIL

    SYDNEY, Friday.—The Industrial Relations Council which was formed this month to advise the Federal Government on conversion of the nation to maximum ...

    Article : 268 words
  13. PROLIFIC PRODUCER OF GOLD

    Bulolo, prolific gold-producing centre in New Gumea, has been attacked by Japanese bombers. The picture shows one of the huge gold dredges at work on the Bulolo field. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  15. Cartoonist's Tilt At Strategy In Pacific

    A CARTOON by David Low in the "Evening Standard" depicts three Australians manning a machine-gun in the ...

    Article : 122 words
  16. MUST WORK ON MONDAY

    REGULATION implementing the War Cabinet decision that all factories, mines, dockyards, and workshops engaged in work for ...

    Article : 569 words
  17. CONSTRUCTION OF SHIPS

    THE construction of Allied shipping was now forging ahead of the rate of sinkings, and the United States "had the world licked right now" on standard cargo ships and tankers, the chairman of the Maritime Commission (Admiral Land) ...

    Article : 337 words
  18. MINE DISPUTE RENEWED

    SYDNEY. Friday.—For half a day today all the coal miners on the northern field were at work. This unusual state of affairs ended at midday when 156 men ...

    Article : 140 words
  19. WAR PENSIONS INCREASED

    LONDON. Friday.—The Minister for Pensions (Sir Walter Womersley) announced today that pensions for men entirely disabled as a result of war service ...

    Article : 72 words
  20. SEPARATE PEACE IMPROBABLE

    WASHINGTON. Friday.—According to the United Press, a well informed diplomat has finally abandoned hope of a separate Russo-Finnish peace. He points ...

    Article : 63 words
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