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  2. MENACE TO NAZIS.

    Germany last night admitted the appearance of a new menace to its raiders—the British night fighter; and also referred awesomely to the ...

    Article : 416 words
  3. ATTACKS ON TOBRUK.

    A platoon commander reported this morning that the enemy was employing hooded infantrymen with flamethrowers in an attempt to smoke out ...

    Article : 652 words
  4. PROTEST BY GERMANY.

    Germany has protested to the United States against the pending Congressional legislation to gire President Roosevelt power to requisition ...

    Article : 919 words
  5. 2,430 ANSWER A.I.F. CALL.

    Applications for enlistment in the A.I.F. yesterday were 122, making the total in New South Wales since the beginning of the present recruiting ...

    Article : 229 words
  6. MOBILE RECRUITING CAMPAIGN OPENS.

    Recruiting vans went to the suburbs last night to open the joint mobile recruiting campaign for the A.I.F. and R.A.A.F. The unit shown above, drawn into the kerb in Hurstville's main street, brought an immediate response. A sergeant is shown addressing the large crowd. Below, left Sergeant H. Hallet (Army) and Sergeant R. Nash (Air Force) calling for recruits; and, right, the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 82 words
  7. MUNITIONS COSTS.

    Government purchasing systems of acquiring war supplies were defended to-day by the Minister for Supply, Sentator McBride who said that all ...

    Article : 294 words
  8. RESERVE DUTY BADGES.

    The Minister for the Army, Mr. Spender, said to-day that the reserved occupation badge is to be issued only to men in reserved occupations who, ...

    Article : 229 words
  9. LABOUR CAUCUS SPLIT UNLIKELY.

    Suggestions of an open breach in the Federal Labour caucus between the leader of the Opposition. Mr. Curtin, and two of the other Labour members of the War Council. ...

    Article : 123 words
  10. CONGRATULATIONS OF WAR CABINET.

    It is now revealed that of 24 raiders destroyed on Wednesday night, 20 were shot down by fighters, and three by anti-aircraft fire, and one was destroyed ...

    Article : 319 words
  11. M.P.s' REASONS FOR CRITICISM.

    In another joint statement issued last night[?] Mr. Beasley, M.P., and Dr. Evatt, M. P., declared that demands they had made for an immediate overhaul of the adminstration of ...

    Article : 162 words
  12. TOBACCO BOARD SOON.

    An Australian Tobacco Board, with wide powers, is to be set up immediately under National Secunty Regulations gazetted to-night to control the ...

    Article : 392 words
  13. WAR UNITY IN CANADA.

    His Canadian tour over, it can be said that the single strongest impression the Australian Prime Minister, Mr. R. G. Menzies, carries away from his ...

    Article : 468 words
  14. TRADE TREATIES SIGNED.

    Further details have been published in Tokyo regarding the new economic treaties signed on Tuesday by Japan and French Indo-China. ...

    Article : 533 words
  15. SYDNEY MAN GIVES £10,000 TO WAR EFFORT.

    The Acting Prime Minister, Mr. Fadden, to-day aknowledged "a free gift to the Federal Govenment to assist the war effort" of 10,000, from Mr William Mc[?]rath, a ...

    Article : 79 words
  16. THE CALL-UP.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 11 words
  17. FLIES BIG FACTOR.

    With the setting-in of hot weather, medical worries, due to flies, have arisen. The problem was tackled at the outset, and a huge campaign has ...

    Article : 239 words
  18. Advertising

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    Advertising : 292 words
  19. HEAVY AIR RAID ON CHUNGKING.

    Chungking was raided by 63 Japanese bombers yesterday. It is estimated that 50 persons were killed. Bombs damaged the home of the British ...

    Article : 143 words
  20. A.I.F.'s "MOLOTOFF COCKTAILS."

    The Minister for the Army, Mr. Spender, said to-night that one of the features of the defence of Tobruk was the success achieved by the use of "Molotoff cocktails" (impiovised ...

    Article : 60 words
  21. BOMBARDMENT OF BENGHAZI.

    An Italian communique states that British naval units heavily bombarded Benghazi on Wednesday night. The communique adds that simultaneously ...

    Article : 159 words
  22. JAPANESE SENTENCED TO PRISON.

    Yukichi Hayashi, 70, former chairman of the Japanese Ratepayers' Association at Shanghai, was sentenced to imprisonment for two years with hard labour in the district ...

    Article : 125 words
  23. TIME TO PAY TAXES.

    All cases of hardship and difficulty in meeting income tax were receiving sympathetic consideration, the Acting Prime Minister and Federal Treasurer, ...

    Article : 195 words
  24. FREE FRENCH SOLDIERS.

    The first contingent of the Expeditionary Corps of the Free French forces in the Pacific has arrived in Sydney. The men are in camp, pending their ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 205 words
  25. BIRMINGHAM BY-ELECTION.

    The by-election for the King's Norton division of Birmingham, which was caused by the death on active service of Mr. J. R. H. Cartland, was won by Sir Basil Peto ...

    Article : 146 words
  26. LUXURY INSTEAD OF TANKS.

    Every day Australians were spending on silks, satins, and other luxuries enough money to buy-large numbers of tanks and guns, said the Minister ...

    Article : 168 words
  27. WOMEN IN CHURCH CAUSE RAID ALARM.

    Alarm was caused at Bo'ness (West Lothian, Scotland) when the bell of the parish church ra. out at 3 a.m. to-day. The Home Guard and Civil Defence ...

    Article : 78 words
  28. HIGH INCOMES IN U.S.A.

    The Securities and Exchange Commission reports that the following were among high incomes earned by Americans in 1940:— Louis Mayer, film executive, 697,000 dollars ...

    Article : 60 words
  29. ENDOWMENT FORM COMPLETE.

    After a two-day conference, Commonwealth and State officials have completed details of the four-page form which applicants for child ...

    Article : 132 words
  30. BRITISH SHIP SINKS RAIDER.

    H.M.S. Cornwall, which has sunk a German raider in the Indian Ocean. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 18 words
  31. DEATH SENTENCE UNDER TREACHERY ACT.

    George Johnson Armstrong, 39, an engineer, was sentenced to death at the Old Bailey after his trial, which was heard in camera, for an oflence under the Treachery Act. ...

    Article : 84 words
  32. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    Tin was quoted to-day al £270/15/ a ton, unchanged from yesterday. Rubber was quoted at 14¼d a lb. Mining quotations: Zinc Corporation, 46/3. ...

    Article : 66 words
  33. COCKTAIL PARTIES CONDEMNED.

    The Housewives' Association yesterday appealed to social hostesses and society leaders to refrain from giving cocktail, sherry, or beer-and-sausage parties, as these were a bad ...

    Article : 35 words
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