A Paris message states that Anglo-Italian negotiations for the relaxing of the Mediterranean blockade are progressing, and that an agreement ...
Article : 191 words[?]am sure that while the people of Australia will be ready, to condemn any Government which falls to make adequate and appropriate provision for the ...
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Article : 129 wordsThe Commonwealth Government will tell the State Premiers at the Loan Council meeting tomorrow that defence considerations in ...
Article : 150 wordsOf the £10,000,000 the Commonwealth Government aims at raising through war savings certificates by June, 1941, it hopes to have £1,000,000 in ...
Article : 153 wordsAddressing members of the Southern Tasmanian Friendly Societies' Association on Saturday, the president (Mr. S. Weaving) said the world ...
Article : 187 wordsTHE Premier of Tasmania (Mr. Cosgrove) announced tonight that immediately on his return to Hobart he ...
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Article : 89 wordsPraise for the Commissioner of Transport (Mr. M. S. Wilson) was voiced by speakers at the annual meeting of the Launceston branch of ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Mon 27 May 1940, Page 6
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