The Department of Supply was investigating thc possibility of generating further units of power to enable the aluminium Industry to be ...
Article : 485 wordsHEADED by Great Britain, the United States of America, and Russia, 26 Governments have signed a declaration of the Allies' war aims against the Axis Powers based on the principles accepted by Britain and America in the Atlantic Charter of last August. lt ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 1,194 wordsIT is believed that although General Wavell will be charged with the defence of Singapore among his other duties, he will probably make his ...
Article : 1,555 wordsCANBERRA, Sunday.—Stocks of most types of new hand tools in shops and garages were "frozen" by an order issued at the week-end by ...
Article : 246 wordsReady to give a warm reception to any sky raiders, members of the A.I.F. man an anti-aircraft gun at Darwin. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 26 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday.—Following his statement last week announcing the suspension of licences for an extensive range of commodities from non-sterling ...
Article : 182 wordsTHE Treasury spent in December 2,500,000,000 dollars (£A833,000,000), more than in any month In United States' ...
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Advertising : 231 wordsTHE mass murder of Serbs in Croatia is described in a ghastly record which wns compiled by an archbishop of the Serbian ...
Article : 475 wordsLONDON, Sunday.—Imperial air forces in 1941 destroyed 2,095 enemy aircraft on fronts ranging from Greece to Italian Somaliland and the Western ...
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Advertising : 529 wordsALEXANDRIA, Sunday. — British naval forces in the Mediterranean have sunk there enemy submarines (two German, one Italian), off the coast of Libya. ...
Article : 194 wordsADMIRAL Sir Andrew Cunningham, Commander-inChief of the British Mediterrancan Fleet, stated in an ...
Article : 128 wordsBRISBANE, Sunday.—The Brisbane Hospital's store of radium, worth £13,000, is to be buried for safety from air raids. ...
Article : 24 wordsBATAVIA, Sunday.—The Japanese are continuing attempts to terrorise civilians by bombing and machine-gunning them. Three Japanese aeroplanes bombed and ...
Article : 100 wordsTHE "New York Times," in an editorial, warns Americans to view the world conflict with a greater sense of proportion, ...
Article : 73 wordsOTTAWA, Sunday.—A Russian trade delegation consisting of 22 members is proceeding to New York, to facilitate Russo-American trade movements. ...
Article : 23 wordsHailed as the modern outlook on the convict days, Bev. C. Smith's sensational book, "SHADOW OVER TASMANIA" ...
Article : 32 wordsNEW YORK, Sunday.—The "New York Herald-Tribune" correspondent at Freetown reports that numerous Axis submarines, sneaking through ...
Article : 79 wordsLONDON. Sunday.—Many delivery vans will disappear from the roads in Britain under a joint scheme by three Government departments to reduce retail ...
Article : 88 wordsLONDON, Sunday.—A despatch to Vichy from Sofia says that Yugoslav troops, alter violent fighting, captured the, town of Banjabagcha, where ...
Article : 47 wordsLONDON, Sunday.— The Admiralty announces that the light cruiser Neptune and the destroyer Kandahar have been sunk by mines in the Mediterranean. ...
Article : 156 wordsIT has been disclosed officially that the Vultee Aircraft Plant at Nashville, Tennessee, has delivered the first batch of Vultee dive—bombers. ...
Article : 218 wordsMELBOURNE, Suriday.—The Department of Air announced yesterday that R.A.A.F. aircraft carried out a further bombing raid on the Japanese base at ...
Article : 64 wordsCANBERRA. Sunday.—Mr. Justice de Baun, of the New South Wales Industrial Commission, will be chairman of the new Maritime Commission which will have ...
Article : 62 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday.—All University students who were medically fit and were not members of faculties regarded as reserved occupations would be ...
Article : 83 wordsCANBERRA, Sunday.—Selection of the personnel for the new Industrial Relations Council is expected to be completed by tomorrow, and the first meeting of ...
Article : 118 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—Diving into the open sea to save his six-year-old daughter, George Hart (35), ironworker, of Balmain, was drowned at Coledale this ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Mon 5 Jan 1942, Page 2
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