Australians lined up on the wharf at the point of departure from Australia before embarking for Timor Island. Below is a view of the convoy departing. The Japanese claim to have landed at Koepang, Dutch Timor and Dilli. Portuguese Timor ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 44 wordsCANBERRA.--Gold bullion worth £2,379,000 has been recovered from the strongroom of the Niagara, which was sunk by enemy mines 27 miles off the New Zealand coast last year. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 516 wordsHenceforth no light must be shown from any building anywhere within territory 10 miles back from the ocean coast from the South Australian border on the west to the New ...
Article : 916 wordsCommenting on the muddle over the digging of trenches and filling them in again at the North Williamstown ...
Article : 476 wordsSYDNEY. -- Seventeen members of the New South Wales Police Association, including the president, the ...
Article : 276 wordsCANBERRA.--"Utter disgust" was expressed by the Prime Minister (Mr Curtin) today because two race meetings were being held in Melbourne this afternoon. He said that, in taking action under the National Security Regulations to make this possible, the Victorian Premier (Mr ...
Article : 343 wordsCANBERRA.--The Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) has communicated with the High Commissioner in London (Mr Bruce) in relation ...
Article : 89 wordsLONDON, Friday. -- When British War Office plans for preventing Army "square pegs going ...
Article : 144 wordsCANBERRA.--Following the latest tendency to increase racing in Victoria and the failure in certain other States to respond to his appeal for a decreased public interest in racing, the Prime Minister (Mr ...
Article : 205 wordsNEW YORK, Friday. -- The Brazilian freighter Olinda (4053 tons) was shelled and sunk by a submarine on Wednesday off the United States coast.-- The crew of 46 was saved. ...
Article : 249 wordsLittle alteration in the position regarding milk deliveries is expected tomorrow in comparison with recent Sundays. ...
Article : 186 wordsCANBERRA. -- Describing the Japanese attempt to justify the occupation of Timor as clearly ridiculous, the Prime Minister (Mr ...
Article : 301 wordsGroceries will be unobtainable on Monday in the metropolitan district, and in Geelong and Ballarat. Every grocery trade employe must ...
Article : 91 wordsSYDNEY. -- William Ernest McDonald. 40, soldier, appeared before Mr Hardwick, S.M., at the Central Police Court today on a ...
Article : 116 wordsCANBERRA.--Parcels may still be addressed to A.I.F. troops in the Middle East, the Postmaster- General (Senator Ashley) said ...
Article : 82 wordsSYDNEY.--The State Government did not feel that all possible use was being made of the scientists in the Government service, ...
Article : 147 wordsIn his first despatch since the Japanese raids D. W. LOCKWOOD, The Herald's Darwin correspondent, who has reached Katherine, pays tribute to the anti-aircraft gunners and stresses the need for fighter aircraft. ...
Article : 686 wordsLONDON, Friday. -- Vichy News Agency says that three British bombers on Monday sank two French trawlers off Arcachon, in ...
Article : 43 wordsVIC[?]Y, Friday.--When the "war guilt" trial was resumed at Riom today, M. Ribet, Counsel for M. Daladier, ...
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Advertising : 177 wordsCANBERRA.--The Prime Minister (Mr Curtin) was deeply touched by the sacrifice of four women, who have sent ...
Article : 278 wordsSYDNEY.--Showered with broken glass and flung to the floor, 20 persons were injured when three trams were ...
Article : 90 wordsChinese working on the Burma Road find that Japanese bombing helps them to do their road maintenance and repair jobs. ...
Article : 121 wordsHOBART.--Pickers of hops in Derwent Valley probably will earn more money in the field this year than at any time in the ...
Article : 138 wordsTo present two ambulances bought with money contributed by the staffs of 94 branches of O. Gilpin Ltd., Private J. S. Stenner ...
Article : 92 wordsHOBART.--Cornwall coal mine closed down on Thursday because of a shortage of trucks to get the coal away. The Minister for ...
Article : 42 wordsLONDON, Friday. -- War risk cargo rates between Britain and Australia have been increased to 15 per cent.-- ...
Article : 26 wordsADELAIDE.--Evidence that a hoarding 20ft. long and 10ft. high, attached to a city building, had been unsafely attached before it ...
Article : 97 wordsONCE upon a time -- this week, in fact-- there was a friendly Fox who lived near ...
Article : 302 wordsLONDON. Friday.--In daylight sweeps over the Channel and Northern France today British fighters attacked two factories and ...
Article : 49 wordsCANBERRA.--Whether it will [?] be possible to observe Anzac Day [?] usual this year in the capital [?]ities will be considered by the ...
Article : 21 wordsThe Combined Youth Committees have responded to the Premier's appeal for volunteers to dig trenches for school children. ...
Article : 56 wordsLONDON, Friday.--The Finnish Radio says that the first execution in Finland for 115 years was carried out yesterday on a man ...
Article : 49 words{No abstract available}
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The Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954), Sat 21 Feb 1942, Page 3
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