MANY people in Brisbane have done nothing whatever to provide air-raid shelter for themselves and their families. Their excuse is that they are prepared to take the risk rather than go to the trouble of digging a trench ...
Article : 704 wordsWfHATEVER is happening elsewhere, New Guinea remains a bastion on Australia's vital flank. It should be held. But I do not think defence alone is going to hold it, any more than defence held the Maginot Linc, Crete, or Singa ...
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Advertising : 779 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.—_The Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) received a card to-day from an Australian prisoner of war in ...
Article : 53 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.— A suggestion that Sunday next, March 15 be set aside as a day of national prayer for guidance ...
Article : 304 wordsNOW that the general position in the Pacific has changed so basically, both belligerents have to answer difficult questions. Japan must decide where she Japan must decide where she is to strike next, both in order to extend her gains and to prevent the marshalling of an ...
Article : 910 wordsLONDON, March 10.—The Government order pro-hibiting the wasting of paper, under heavy penalties, is likely ...
Article : 65 wordsMELBOURNE, Tuesday.—_Japanese ill-treatment of British prisoners in Singapore is unlikely, in the opinion of Mrs. J. ...
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Advertising : 196 wordsAN evaluation of both the physical and mental make-up of each recruit would be made in the ideal system of recruiting, ...
Article : 281 wordsTHERE is much to applaud in Mr. J.K. Little's suggestion that competent civilians should be armed. Even in ...
Article : 708 wordsAn Auburn (N.S.W.) couple, who are old-age pensioners, have sent a £10 note to Mr. Curtin as a gift to the war effort. The husband, a ...
Article : 330 words'"THE Australians have made another name for themselves, this time in Malaya; there are no troops to equal them," writes ...
Article : 153 wordsLONDON, March 10. — When Sergeant Maundern, a 21-year-old prisoner of war in Italy, had a chance to broadcast over the Vati ...
Article : 89 wordsLONDON, March 10.—Every citizen who throws away a tram or bus ticket or a cigarette packet, or leaves a newspaper in a train is ...
Article : 49 wordsTHE Governor (Sir Leslie Wilson) will present decorations at Government House at 10.30 a.m., to-day, and at 8 p.m. will attend ...
Article : 167 words"DIG yourself a slit trench and you will survive Japanese bombing," is the advice invariably given by service officers who have been through it. Many instances of their worth are given. In one case 50lb bombs straddled a slit trench, 12 feet on each side. ...
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The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), Wed 11 Mar 1942, Page 4
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