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  2. SCALE OF PETROL RATION.

    The Minister for Supply, Sir Frederick Stewart, said yesterday that he would announce details of the petrol rationing scheme on Tuesday, when he ...

    Article : 417 words
  3. RECRUITING FOR A.I.F.

    The proportions of married and single men enlisting for the A.I.F. have been almost reversed since the appeal last week by the ...

    Article : 525 words
  4. BATTLE OF ORAN.

    The Foreign Secretary, Lord Halifax, when announcing to the House of Lords, the destruction of units of the French fleet at Oran, said that ...

    Article : 436 words
  5. FRENCH NAVAL UNITS CONCERNED IN LATEST ACTION.

    Top: The battleship Dunkerque, which was set afire during the action with British warships at Oran (Algeria.) A sister-ship, the Strasbourg, escaped to Toulon. Centre: The seaplane-carrier, Commandant Teste, which was sunk. Lower left: The battleship Bretagne, which was sunk. A sister-ship, the Provence, was set on fire. Lower right: The submarine Surcouf, aboard which a scuffle occurred in a British port. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 70 words
  6. KING WITH A.I.F.

    The King, during his visit yesterday to an A.I.F. location, "somewhere under the Southern Command," watched the Australians training in the use of ...

    Article : 618 words
  7. PRODUCER GAS UNITS.

    The Minister for Mines and Forests, Mr. Vincent, announced yesterday that 400 persons had applied for the conversion of their motor vehicles from ...

    Article : 148 words
  8. FIGHTING IN AFRICA.

    A British Army communique issued yesterday stated that the enemy had advanced against Sollum, on the northwest Egyptian border, on July 3, but ...

    Article : 495 words
  9. WORLD'S FAIR OUTRAGE.

    Two detectives were killed and four patrolmen were injured—two seriously —by a bomb which exploded a few minutes after its removal from the ...

    Article : 405 words
  10. RETAIL PRICES.

    The Commonwealth Prices Commissioner, Professor D. B. Copland, said to-night that the C index of retail prices had risen less than two per ...

    Article : 250 words
  11. FUTURE OF SYRIA.

    The British United Press correspondent at Beirut states that the French authorities in Syria have reaffirmed their determination to defend Syria ...

    Article : 314 words
  12. U.S. SHIPPING STRIKE CANCELLED.

    The marine strike has been cancelled and a 10 per cent, wage increase has been granted on a formula based on the proposal made by Harry Bridges, the Australian leader of the ...

    Article : 82 words
  13. MAN FALLS OVER 200 FEET CLIFF.

    A man about 05 years of agc was rescued by police from a ledge on the face of a brick pi[?] about 200 feet deep behind the gasometers oil Euston Road, Alexandria, yesterday morning ...

    Article : 208 words
  14. NERVE CENTRE OF THE A.I.F.

    Australian headquarters are in an ancient stone mansion, scaly with age. To-day the huge old building is alive with khaki, orderlies march from room ...

    Article : 470 words
  15. ITALIAN AIR SERVICE IN MEDITERRANEAN.

    A bi-weekly Italian air service connecting Brindisi (south-east Italy) and Athens (Greece) and Rhodes (the largest of the Dodecanese Islands) has been re-established. ...

    Article : 35 words
  16. CANADIAN ACTION AGAINST JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES.

    The Canadian Government has declared the sect known as "Jehovah's Witnesses" an illegal organisation. ...

    Article : 23 words
  17. MR. HUGHES'S COMMENT.

    The Federal Attorney-General, Mr. Hughes, declined yesterday to indicate whether any action was likely to be taken in Australia in regard to the organisation. ...

    Article : 74 words
  18. WOMEN BUS CONDUCTORS.

    The London Transport Board will engage women conductors for country routes. They will receive an initial wage of £2/14/ a week plus a war wage. ...

    Article : 32 words
  19. ITALIANS HOLD MICA.

    Large quantities of mica, which is valuable in the nation's war effort, are held by Italians, who have control of the Commonwealth's richest mica ...

    Article : 236 words
  20. STATE ELECTION.

    At the meeting of the central executive of the Australian Labour Party (non-Com.) last night, it was decided to call for nominations of candidates for the next State election ...

    Article : 43 words
  21. AMERICANS LEAVING EUROPE.

    En route to the United States from Europe, 700 American citizens have arrived in Eire on their way to Galway to join the liner Washington. Americans have been warned ...

    Article : 56 words
  22. FARES ON OVERSEA AIRLINERS.

    On Empire air services east and west from Singapore, passenger fares and freight charges will be increased by 25 per cent. There will be no increase, however, in either the ...

    Article : 221 words
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  24. NO MORE OIL FOR SYRIA.

    The oil pipeline ending at Tripoli (Syria) is to be diverted to Haifa (Palestine) under an agreement between the Mosul Petroleum Company and the ...

    Article : 105 words
  25. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    Tin was quoted at £266/5/ a ton to-day. compared with £265/15/ yesterday. Rubber was quoted at 12[?]d a lb. Stock Exch[?]ge prices were firm and ...

    Article : 88 words
  26. AFRICAN WAR ZONE.

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  27. DUTCH COMPANY'S OFFER.

    The Federal Government is considering an offer by the Royal Netherlands Indies' Airways to assist in the carriage of mail to the A.I.F. in the Middle East, to Darwin, and ...

    Article : 134 words
  28. BUILDING UP COAL STOCKS.

    Contracts for the supply of 40,000 tons of coal for the Sydney County Council electricity undertaking have been placed. This is in addition to ordinary contract ...

    Article : 288 words
  29. PRICE CONTROL ANNOUNCED.

    The Minister for Trade and Customs, Senator McLeay, to-day declared mica and almonds, shelled and unshelled, subject to Commonwealth price control. ...

    Article : 78 words
  30. SECRET SESSION SOUGHT.

    The leader of the Federal Labour Party, Mr. Curtin, has asked the Prime Minister. Mr. Menzies, to summon the Federal Pailiament for a secret ...

    Article : 159 words
  31. ALLEGED OFFER TO ITALIAN.

    Marino Donato, of King Street, city, gave evidence at the Central Police Court yesterday that Thomas Dunn, 38 fruiterer, had told him that he knew politicians who could obtain ...

    Article : 159 words
  32. DUKE OF WINDSOR.

    Officials of Pan-American Airways said that they had received many queries as to whether the Duke and Duchess of Windsor were exported to arrive on the Dixie Clipper from ...

    Article : 60 words
  33. SONJA HENIE MARRIED.

    Sonja Henie, the ice-skating champion and film player, was married in Chicago yesterday to Daniel Topping, a mlllionahe sportsman who divorced Theodora Boettger in 1935 and ...

    Article : 49 words
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