CANBERRA, Thursday.--Women favored for selection as Commonwealth peace officers should be over 30, tactful, firm, and ...
Article : 139 wordsUnder the American flag, at his RAF fighter station in England, stands Pilot Officer Malta Leon Stepp, of San Jose, California, USA, a member of the second of the three American squadrons now flying and fighting in cooperation ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 52 wordsLONDON, August 5.--Latest reports from Moscow indicate that the situation on the southern front is hourly growing more tense. The fighting, unparalleled in violence, is raging ...
Article : 1,215 wordsSuggestions that the Allies had made great sacrifices in men and materials for the defence of Australia was ridiculed to-day by ...
Article : 204 wordsLONDON, August 5.--The All-India Congress Working Committee's new resolution, which was adopted, includes the passage: "A free India will assure the success of freedom and Democracy by throwing in all resources into the ...
Article : 893 wordsTOKIO, August 6.--The military spokesman declared: If the British and Americans continue anti Japanese military activities in ...
Article : 64 wordswomen had made claims for payment of widows' pensions. Of these it is estimated about 30,000 will receive the grant as ...
Article : 63 wordsTHE Japanese occupation of the Gona-Buna-Kokoda region of Papua is "no special threat" to Port Moresby or the Australian mainland. This is the view of the Allied Command. The official spokesman for General MacArthur made this ...
Article : 815 wordsLONDON, August 5.--The Supply Minister (Sir Andrew Duncan) said in the House of Commons that the Government ordnance factories were producing four and ...
Article : 196 wordsWASHINGTON, August 5.--Lieut.-General Arnold, chief of the army air force, testifying to the Senate military sub-committee, ...
Article : 192 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.--The Repatriation Minister (Mr. C. W. Frost) announced to-day that the Repatriation Commission had placed more ...
Article : 105 wordsLONDON, August 5.--The Daily Mail, in a leader, stated it was disturbing to learn from American sources that divergencies arise ...
Article : 150 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.--The War, Financial (Military Force) Regulations were amended to-day to provide that wherever possible, in cases in which ...
Article : 48 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.--Prejudices against the employment of women in work hitherto regarded as reserved for men are being rapidly ...
Article : 204 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.--The promulgation yesterday of amending National Security (Manpower) Regulations marks a new stage in the organisation of Australian manpower, and the Director-General (Mr. W. C. Wurth) to-day ...
Article : 342 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.--Rationing regulations were amended today to provide that where a person is in unauthorised possession of a ...
Article : 126 wordsMOSCOW, August 5.--Pravda' says former Tsarist officials, officers, and noblemen, hatched a pro-German plot in Leningrad ...
Article : 164 wordsBRISBANE, Thursday.--Plans to organise Queensland's clothing so that factory facilities could be fully utilised and a larger volume ...
Article : 279 wordsWith the award of the Congressional Medal of Honor, America's greatest military decoration, Lieut.-Commander John D. ...
Article : 107 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.--About 1200 enemy aliens so far have been called up for service under the Allied Works Council, the Minister for the Interior ...
Article : 76 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.--Six members of the crew of the trawler shelled and machine-gunned off the East Coast arrived in Sydney ...
Article : 120 wordsThis picture, taken during realistic tank exercises in England, shows a British "Valentine" tank advancing while explosive charges provide the effect of shell-fire or mines and enable the crews to get used to the din of modern battle. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 47 wordsThe 1870-ton HMS Eskimo, one of 14 destroyers of the British "Tribal" class, photographed when on escort duty with a British aircraft-carrier. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 34 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.--A meeting of the Union Secretaries' Association decided to seek the cooperation of the Australasian Council of Trade Unions ...
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Daily Mercury (Mackay, Qld. : 1906 - 1954), Fri 7 Aug 1942, Page 5
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