CROWD at the saluting base watching one of the heavy guns passing in the passing of artillery units through the city yesterday ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 1,383 wordsSYMBOLICAL of the State's increasing war effort, yesterday was a big day for military and air force men in Brisbane. Five hundred artillerymen of the 5th and 11th Field Brigades and 131 air force recruits marched through the city ...
Article : 820 wordsAt Ipswich and Marburg 5000 militia troops, representing all arms, established bases yesterday preparatory to the biggest army ...
Article : 221 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.—Details of the first five schools for the training of crews under the Empire air scheme were announced ...
Article : 231 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.—An anonymous artisan living in a Melbourne suburb has sent a cheque for £100 to Sir Henry ...
Article : 132 wordsHorace Lindrum, world-famous snooker player, who began a tour of Queensland with matches in Brisbane yesterday, is a member of a family ...
Article : 194 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—Mrs. Jean Cox, also known as Jean Gillies, and Constable Alexander Johnson Brown, 42. were admitted to ...
Article : 216 wordsFirst of the 1940 series of celebrity concerts, orchestral concerts in the City Hall was an auspicious opening to Brisbane's musical season. ...
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Advertising : 80 wordsThe chairman of the City Council transit committee (Alderman F. Dent) announced yesterday that the tramways department was arranging ...
Article : 202 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—John Woolcott Forbes, Sydney financier, whose whereabouts is not known, was declared bankrupt by Mr. Justice Lukin in the ...
Article : 77 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.—Refusal to-day by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr. Curtin) to accept an apology from the Acting Minister for Information ...
Article : 153 wordsMEMORIES, as well as dust, will be stirred as the pickaxes of demolition gangs commence the immediate wreckage of old Lennon's Hotel, George Street, to make way for a new building to cost £240,000. ...
Article : 483 words"My sermons against war were preached some time ago," said the Rev. Rowellyn Ramsay at a meeting or the Presbyterian Men's Association ...
Article : 252 wordsThe Minister for Mines (Mr. Gledson) and the Chief Government Geologist (Mr. L. C. Ball) will be present at formation tests of oil sands at the ...
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The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), Wed 17 Apr 1940, Page 5
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