This Bedouin sheik is actually a R.A.F, wing commander. Any illusions upon this point are soon shattered by the Blenheim aircraft in the rear and the "Sheik's" Tommy gun.(Photograph from Department of Air.) ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 38 wordsSINGAPORE, Jan. 16.—The movement of the A.I.F. from their former positions to the front line in north-western Malaya without a casualty is one of the great stories of the war in this theatre. ...
Article : 1,612 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—The Australian official war artist, Mr. William Dargie, to-day was awarded the Archibald Prize for ...
Article : 72 wordsLONDON, Jan. 16.—While the Russians are almost within shelling range of Kharkov and Kursk, Byelgorod also appears ...
Article : 316 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—Decisions of importance involving war strategy in the Australian and New Zealand sectors of the Pacific have been reached by the Allied defence chiefs. ...
Article : 623 wordsLONDON, Jan. 16.—"The enemy has developed considerable air activity against our forward troops, but, as a result of our fighter protection, ...
Article : 449 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.—Service Chiefs in London took a more modest view of air requirements for Singapore and Malaya than those on the spot, Mr. R. G. Menzies said in a broadcast to-night. ...
Article : 674 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) said today that the news that Australians were in contact with the enemy was ...
Article : 354 wordsLONDON, Jan. 16.—Reports of bestial treatment of Russian prisoners in German camps in Poland have reached ...
Article : 343 wordsNEW YORK, Jan. 16.—American and Philippine troops north-west of Manila on Luzon Island, in the Philippines are holding their well ...
Article : 225 wordsSINGAPORE, Jan. 16.—No unit serving in Malaya has earned greater praise than the Australian reserve motor transport company attached to ...
Article : 196 wordsCABERRA, Friday.—No further increase in taxation is contemplated by the Federal Government this financial year. ...
Article : 84 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—Following the intervention of the Federal Government, the threatened stop page of work by members of the ...
Article : 348 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—The Minister for the Interior (Senator Collings) said to-day that A.R.P. work at Darwin was being rushed under the ...
Article : 124 wordsWASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—The Secretary of War (Mr. Stimson) announced that the Army had begun to expand to approximately 3,600,000 ...
Article : 76 wordsWASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—Colonel Lindbergh has been ansigned to a technical commercial project in which the War Department is interested. He ...
Article : 39 wordsWhen struck by a fall of coal at Richmond Main colliery yesterday afternoon. Oliver Butler, 57, a miner, of Allandale-street, Spion Kop, ...
Article : 138 wordsField signaller at work at a coastal defence station. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 13 wordsLONDON, Jan. 10.—For the second day in succession there were 14 alerts at Malta in 24 hours. A communique states that a small ...
Article : 82 wordsBURNIE, Friday.—A post-mortem examination showed that Clarence Athol Carter, 40, whose body was found in a freshly-dug hole in ...
Article : 99 wordsBATAVIA, Jan. 16.—It is authoritatively stated that after the town of Tarakan (on the island of Tarakan off Borneo) had been occupied ...
Article : 68 wordsNEW YORK, Jan. 16.—A United States submarine operating ill the Far East has sunk a Japanese liner of the 17,000-ton Yawata class, it is ...
Article : 260 wordsCHUNGKING, Jan. 16.—Chinese troops have captured Lapao, in Hunan Province. This means that they have cleaned the area between ...
Article : 95 wordsBOMBAY, Jan. 16.—Mr. Gandhi announced at a meeting of Congress that Jawaharlal Nehru would succeed him as Leader of the Congress Party. ...
Article : 59 wordsLONDON, Jan. 16.—The Air Ministry announces that an enemy bomber was destroyed in a small raid on the north-east coast of England ...
Article : 56 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—The appointment of Messrs. F. H. Brewster, Chief Engineer of the Water Conservation and Irrigation Commission, ...
Article : 110 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.—Women will be employed in a Melbourne brick factory next week. The union announced today that ...
Article : 85 wordsThe new line taken up by Gener al Rommel after his relreat, runs from Agheila to Marade (Marada). ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 22 wordsLONDON. Jan. 16.—To save shipping space, the Government has banned the sending of food parcels from Britain to English or Allied ...
Article : 82 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.— Oswald McLeod, 40, builder, who was found fatally injured on the footpath outside a hotel at South Kensington early ...
Article : 50 wordsMADRID, Jan. 16.—Despite its obvious interest, the newspapers inconspicuously publish a decree demobilising the 1933-34-35 army classes. ...
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954), Sat 17 Jan 1942, Page 3
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