Capt. Hector MacDonald Laws Waller, commander of H.M.A.S. Perth, was awarded the Distinguished Sercise Order in September, 1940, ...
Article : 321 wordsCANBERRA. Friday. — By an order issued today, the Minister for the Interior (Senator Collings) has decreed that in future all dances, ...
Article : 264 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday. — An urgent appeal to Mr. Curtin in Australia's hour of peril to form a "ministry of all ...
Article : 241 wordsBritish 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]
Article : 39 wordsSPECIAL 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 wordsADMIRAL 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 wordsBRAZIL, 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 wordsTORONTO, Friday.—Mrs. Dwight Davis, National Director of Volunteer Services for the American Red Cross, said all shipments of ...
Article : 83 wordsSYDNEY. Friday. — Lieut. A. R. Cutler, of Sydney, a V.C. winner of the present war, has boen appointed State secretary of the Returned ...
Article : 43 wordsNEW YORK, Friday. — The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested the Italian. Ezio Pinza, the most prominent basso at the Metropolitan ...
Article : 100 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—The Minister for Mines (Mr. Baddeley) is convinced that sabotage was attempted when sand was placed in oil cups ...
Article : 51 wordsMAXIMUM 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 ...
Article : 635 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday. — Accommodation available in Australia for billeting Australian or Allied troops was now the subject of a ...
Article : 166 wordsAFTER 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 wordsTo 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 wordsThe 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]
Article : 34 wordsTHE grand total of A.I.F. casualties. Including prisoners of war, in Malaya and Singapore was 17,031. In the Middle East ...
Article : 326 wordsCANBERRA, Friday. — The food position in Australia is satisfactory and there are huge reserves of food which will be available in almost ...
Article : 108 wordsLONDON, Friday.—The battle for Libya has resolved itself into a fight for air dominance, suys the Cairo correspondent of "The Times." ...
Article : 114 wordsNo 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 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—Four stoppages occurred in the mining industry to-day. At Glen Davis Shale Works 170 miners struck as' a protest against ...
Article : 175 wordsLaunceston City Council employees began digging trenches in Caledonian Square and Monash Reserve on Thursday and in Albert Square yesterday. ...
Article : 47 wordsThree blasts were sounded by an air raid siren at New Town yesterday afternoon. Many people thought it was a false alarm, and ...
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Advertising : 246 wordsCOLOMBO, Friday. — The drone of aeroplanes, the arrival of Indian and British troops, new anti-aircraft measures and ...
Article : 204 wordsThe 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 wordsCANBERRA, Friday. — After a conference between the Prime Minister (Mr, Curtin), the Minister for Transport (Mr. Lawson), and the ...
Article : 109 wordsLONDON, Friday. — Royal Air Force photographs revealed that the German battleship Gneisenau, considerably Bamaged, is lying in the ...
Article : 210 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—Acting immediately to give effect to yesterday's decision of the Federal War Cabinet that work must be ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Sat 14 Mar 1942, Page 2
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