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  2. NAVAL LOSSES AUSTRALIAN OFFICER

    Capt. Hector MacDonald Laws Waller, commander of H.M.A.S. Perth, was awarded the Distinguished Sercise Order in September, 1940, ...

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  3. FUNCTIONS "DRY"

    CANBERRA. Friday. — By an order issued today, the Minister for the Interior (Senator Collings) has decreed that in future all dances, ...

    Article : 264 words
  4. MODERATOR APPEALS

    MELBOURNE, Friday. — An urgent appeal to Mr. Curtin in Australia's hour of peril to form a "ministry of all ...

    Article : 241 words
  5. "SHELLBACKS" IN DESERT

    British R.A.F. armoured cars advance in a forward area of the Western Desert in Libya. Known as "Shellbacks," these units have done valuable work in defence of forward aerodromes and other dangerous tasks. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  6. NATIONWIDE PRAYER

    SPECIAL prayers will be offered in all churches throughout Tasmania tomorrow, when a national day of prayer will be observed. The Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) last night appealed for the fullest possible ...

    Article : 543 words
  7. HARD TASK AHEAD

    ADMIRAL YATES STIRLING, in an article for the United Press, poses the question of whether the United States, cooperating with Australians, will bc able to turn the tide against the Japanese in the forthcoming battle for Australia. He ...

    Article : 544 words
  8. MAY DECLARE WAR

    BRAZIL, with a population of 40,000,000, and an area larger than Australia, is believed,to be on the eve of a declaration of war on the Axis, because of the torpedoing of Brazilian ships by U-boats. ...

    Article : 320 words
  9. SHIPMENTS CEASE

    TORONTO, Friday.—Mrs. Dwight Davis, National Director of Volunteer Services for the American Red Cross, said all shipments of ...

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  10. V.C. Winner Appointed To R.S.L. Post

    SYDNEY. Friday. — Lieut. A. R. Cutler, of Sydney, a V.C. winner of the present war, has boen appointed State secretary of the Returned ...

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  11. OPERA STAR ARRESTED

    NEW YORK, Friday. — The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested the Italian. Ezio Pinza, the most prominent basso at the Metropolitan ...

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  12. Sabotage Attempt

    SYDNEY, Friday.—The Minister for Mines (Mr. Baddeley) is convinced that sabotage was attempted when sand was placed in oil cups ...

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  13. INTEREST RATES FIXED

    MAXIMUM rafes of interest on bank overdrafts, fixed deposits, savings bank deposits, and some other types of transactions have been fixed by an order issued under the National Security (Economic Organisation) Regulations by the ...

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  14. BILLETING TROOPS

    MELBOURNE, Friday. — Accommodation available in Australia for billeting Australian or Allied troops was now the subject of a ...

    Article : 166 words
  15. Tasmania's Air Raid Precautions

    AFTER careful consideration of the regulations governing the treatment of glass to prevent it from causing injury if shattered by bomb blasts, the Civil Defence Legion has decided not to amend the regulations ...

    Article : 538 words
  16. BUSINESS HOUSES

    To overcome the difficulty of attending to persons who might crowd into selected buildings for shelter in an air raid, the Hobart Chamber of Commerce ...

    Article : 288 words
  17. KING VISITS FAMOUS GUARDS UNITS

    The King recently visited the Guards, which have now been mechanised, and watched them training "somewhere in England." He is taking the salute at the march past. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  18. DETAILS RELEASED OF A.I.F. CASUALTIES

    THE grand total of A.I.F. casualties. Including prisoners of war, in Malaya and Singapore was 17,031. In the Middle East ...

    Article : 326 words
  19. HUGE FOOD RESERVE

    CANBERRA, Friday. — The food position in Australia is satisfactory and there are huge reserves of food which will be available in almost ...

    Article : 108 words
  20. FIGHT FOR AIR SUPREMACY

    LONDON, Friday.—The battle for Libya has resolved itself into a fight for air dominance, suys the Cairo correspondent of "The Times." ...

    Article : 114 words
  21. DAYLIGHT TESTS

    No date has been fixed for the first daylight A.R.P. test in Hobart, but it will be held in a week or two. Plans are being prepared for transoort ...

    Article : 77 words
  22. FOUR STOPPAGES OCCUR

    SYDNEY, Friday.—Four stoppages occurred in the mining industry to-day. At Glen Davis Shale Works 170 miners struck as' a protest against ...

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  23. Additional Trenches Being Dug

    Launceston City Council employees began digging trenches in Caledonian Square and Monash Reserve on Thursday and in Albert Square yesterday. ...

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  24. TEST OF SIREN

    Three blasts were sounded by an air raid siren at New Town yesterday afternoon. Many people thought it was a false alarm, and ...

    Article : 132 words
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  26. Further Cut On Sport And Petrol In Britain

    THE Home secretary (Mr. Herbert Morrison) announced in the House of Commons that the Government is taking additional powers ...

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  28. READY FOR ATTACK

    COLOMBO, Friday. — The drone of aeroplanes, the arrival of Indian and British troops, new anti-aircraft measures and ...

    Article : 204 words
  29. WINDOWS IN SCHOOLS

    The Premier (Mr. Cosgrove) denied yesterday a statement made at a meeting of the Parents' Association at the Princes St. School that the Government ...

    Article : 74 words
  30. Land Transport

    CANBERRA, Friday. — After a conference between the Prime Minister (Mr, Curtin), the Minister for Transport (Mr. Lawson), and the ...

    Article : 109 words
  31. NAZI BATTLESHIP DAMAGED

    LONDON, Friday. — Royal Air Force photographs revealed that the German battleship Gneisenau, considerably Bamaged, is lying in the ...

    Article : 210 words
  32. ORDERED TO WORK

    CANBERRA, Friday.—Acting immediately to give effect to yesterday's decision of the Federal War Cabinet that work must be ...

    Article : 142 words
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  35. Anniversary Of Pope's Coronation

    BERNE, Friday. — The Pope celebrated the third anniversary of his coronation. The chief ceremony in Rome was Papal Mass in the Sistine ...

    Article : 86 words
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