SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Minister for the Navy (Mr. Hughes) is in trouble again with his Cabinet colleagues. ...
Article : 359 wordsTHE Commonwealth Prosecutor (Mr. C. B. Brown), addressing the City Court today in a case in which George Stewart (36), salesman, of St. Kilda, appeared on a charge of having forged and uttered' an application for petrol ration ...
Article : 865 wordsMR. MENZIES' statement is cheap and evasive, and is not what is expected of a national leader in these critical times," Mr. Forde replied tonight. ...
Article : 749 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—It is stated authoritatively that there is clear evidence that the R.A F.'s offensive in the west is proving increasingly ...
Article : 269 wordsSTOCKHOLM messages say big tank battles are raging in the outer suburbs of Kiev the capital of the Ukraine but the Russians claim to he ...
Article : 618 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Cosgrove) explained yesterday that the post-war reconstruction committee set up by Cabinet at the request of the Federal authorities would ...
Article : 285 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.—Friendly aliens othei than enemy aliens can now be exempt from provisions of the Alien Control Regulations. District military ...
Article : 139 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—One of the most remarkable feats of piloting during the war has been performed by a young Australian pilot. ...
Article : 317 wordsPERTH, Thursday.—A further spirited appeal to the workers of Australia not to hamper Australia's war effort by unnecessary petty disputes, was made by the ...
Article : 141 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—A 3 500-ton enemy supply ship was bombed off the French coast this morning. It was cleverly camouflaged and accompanied ...
Article : 161 wordsA RUSSIAN communique says that serious disturbances occurred at Piraeus among soldiers of an Italian division about to be ...
Article : 58 wordsACCORDING to a British United Press message from Berlin, a "competent" quarter stated that though nothing could be said to reveal ...
Article : 75 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.—The Commonwealth today let tenders for knitted goods, woven materials, and blankets valued at more than £4,250,0000. ...
Article : 81 wordsNEW YORK, Thursday.—Col. Josiah Wedgwood, M.P. (Lab.), who will leave on return to Britain on Saturday told ...
Article : 92 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—Police claimed in the Central Court today that a man had gone through a form of marriage with the wife of a friend in the hope of escaping ...
Article : 109 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—The promotion of the Minister for War Organisation of Industry (Mr. Spooner) to the Economic Cabinet, of which Mr. Fadden is ...
Article : 69 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—Berlin Radio broadcast an eye-witness account of a terrific battle which resulted from a Russian attempt to recapture an unnamed ...
Article : 338 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—It was announced officially in Vichy that the French Commander-in-chief in North Africa (General Weygand) has been appointed ...
Article : 44 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—The question whether officers and non-commissioned officers of the Australian Military Forces should be called up for the duration of ...
Article : 87 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday.—Australian cities probably are as well supplied with radio programmes as any in the world, the Director-General of Posts and ...
Article : 215 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—The first inquiry by the recently-constituted Parliamentary Select Committee on Social Security will be held in Sydney on Monday. ...
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Advertising : 24 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—Pilot-Officer Harold Isaac Conat stepped from a British bomber after having raided Brest to find detectives waiting to arrest him. ...
Article : 155 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.—Hotels, inns, and boarding or lodging houses must pay 10/ year in future for every extension from a master radio receiving set. ...
Article : 97 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—The Minister for Information (Mr. Duff Cooper) is now charged with full day-to-day control of the news and propaganda services of the ...
Article : 187 wordsTons of blazing copra sent up a cloud of acrid smoke for more than two hours from a steamer in an Australian port yesterday, while 70 firemen, assisted by ...
Article : 113 wordsWASHINGTON, Thursday.—The War Department announces a major shuffling of officers, involving 12 important changes in command, including ...
Article : 57 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday.—The Italian radio station I.E.M. in a broadcast picked up by Army headquarters in Melbourne today, attributed statements of ...
Article : 182 wordsNEW YORK, Thursday.—A third of the population of South-Eastern Shansi Province has been wiped out in recent weeks by starvation and pestilence, according to ...
Article : 65 wordsMonthly quotas tor each State tor sales of war savings certificates and stamps have been adopted for the 1941-2 financial year An objective of £25,000,000 was fixed for the ...
Article : 300 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—An Admiralty communique announces that H.M. auxiliary vessel, Lady Somers (Commander G. L. Dunbar) has been sunk. Spanish ...
Article : 40 wordsMrs. M. Baker, Sandy Bay, has been informed that her son, Spr. L. V. Baker, previously reported missing and believed a prisoner of war, is a prisoner of war. ...
Article : 31 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—About 113,000 persons were employed in the industrial metals and machinery group of war industries compared with the ...
Article : 97 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—American officials sent to England by the Mayor of New York (Mr. La Guardia) to observe civilian defence work, will arrive in ...
Article : 56 wordsLISBON, Thursday.—Five members of the crew of the Canadian steamer Silveryew (6,373 tons), which was sunk in the Atlantic, have been landed at Lisbon. ...
Article : 101 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.—Regulations gazetted today give greater safety to waterside workers loading and unloading ships. They provide for testing and care ...
Article : 50 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—A stop-work meeting of 250 taxi-drivers at the Trades Hall tonight appointed a deputation to ask the Minister for Supply, (Senator ...
Article : 78 wordsIt is not the intention of the Government to proceed with the erection of a new Government Printing Office for the time being. The Premier (Mr. Cosgrove) said ...
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Advertising : 11 wordsTOKIO, Thursday.—Five persons were killed and many others injured in an earthquake on Tuesday night in the Nagana Prefecture. Thirty houses ...
Article : 35 wordsOTTAWA, Thursday.—The Canadian Defence Minister (Col. Ralston) announced that 33,500 recruits had raised the total strength of the Army to 215,000. There ...
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