The setting up of an Imperial War Cabinet and a Pacific Council, with Australian representation' on each, was advocated by the Prime ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 366 wordsMELBOURNE, Jan. 25.—"As a result of the new war position, instructions have been issued that the Australian army must be put on a ...
Article : 651 wordsLONDON, Jan. 25.—Heavy fighting now appears to be taking place between the British Eighth Army and General Rommel's Axis forces ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 299 wordsNo Anniversary Day in Australia's 154 years of settled history since Phillip's First Fleet reached Botany Bay has dawned so blackly overcast ...
Article : 1,141 wordsSir Keith Murdoch, managing-director of the Herald and Weekly Times, Ltd., Melbourne, has returned to Australia by air after having ...
Article : 356 wordsWASHINGTON, Jan. 23.—Both the Associated Press and United Press correspondents at Rio de Janeiro (where the Pan-American ...
Article : 127 wordsLONDON, Jan. 24.—Sir Stafford Cripps, who has just relinquished his post as British Ambassador in Moscow, said in a statement today that ...
Article : 418 wordsToday (the Australia Day holiday) the commercial office of "The West Australian" will be closed all day. Advertisements may be left ...
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Advertising : 52 wordsLONDON, Jan. 24.—The Budapest radio quotes a Rumanian newspaper which complains of German domination. The paper speaks of a war ...
Article : 121 wordsBENARES, Jan. 24.—Speaking at a political conference today, Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru, who was named recently by Mr. Gandhi as his ...
Article : 130 wordsLONDON, Jan. 24.—Prominent Norwegians arrested by the Germans as a reprisal for the recent British commando raids are being sent to ...
Article : 174 wordsWASHINGTON, Jan. 23.—The United States Army has urgently requested Congress to appropriate 12,526,000,000 dollars (£3,131,500,000 ...
Article : 502 wordsCANBERRA, Jan. 25.—No fear that Australia will experience a shortage of meat are entertained by the Minister for Commerce (Mr. ...
Article : 123 wordsMELBOURNE, Jan. 25.—The Deputy Prime Minister (Mr. Forde) late tonight issued an appeal to all workers in war factories to make ...
Article : 209 wordsLONDON, Jan. 23.—According to the Swiss radio the Germans have announced that two Frenchmen have been shot in Paris for having ...
Article : 85 wordsLONDON, Jan. 24.—The Berlin radio quoted a Rome report that British forces had attacked an Italian convoy and sunk a destroyer. The ...
Article : 97 wordsDARWIN, Jan. 25.—That loss of the main points of the northern archipeligoes would foreshadow one of the greatest disasters to the white ...
Article : 493 wordsBRISBANE, Jan. 25.—A direct appeal to the Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin), to declare a state of emergency and to conscript men and ...
Article : 305 wordsMELBOURNE, Jan. 25.—An Australian squadron of Kittithawk fighters operating in Libya now holds the record "bag" of enemy aircraft shot ...
Article : 178 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. J. Curtin) arrived in Perth by the Westland express on Saturday for a short visit. A large crowd was at the ...
Article : 246 wordsSYDNEY, Jan. 25.—After a long conference yesterday between the Federal Minister for Labour (Mr. Ward), the Minister for Information ...
Article : 270 wordsMELBOURNE, Jan. 25.—The Deputy-Prime Minister (Mr. Forde) had a telephone conversation with Mr. Curtin yesterday afternoon. ...
Article : 194 wordsA break in the normal routine will be enjoyed by many people today In commemoration of the founding of Australian settlement by Captain ...
Article : 394 wordsLONDON, Jan. 25.—Alerts at Malta were sounded almost hourly last night, but the results of enemy air raids were only slight. Fourteen ...
Article : 58 wordsLONDON, Jan. 25.—Rome radio today admitted that British planes had again raided the aerodromes at Catania and Comiso in Sicily. ...
Article : 23 wordsMELBOURNE, Jan. 25.—Announcing today that the new £35,000,000 War Loan to be launched in the middle of February would be called ...
Article : 208 wordsLONDON, Jan. 24.—Their Majesties the King and Queen have taken a fiat on the fourth floor of a new steel and concrete building now ...
Article : 138 wordsSYDNEY, Jan. 25.—The suspension of horse and dog racing and all holidays, the introduction of a complete black-out throughout Australia, ...
Article : 260 wordsDARWIN Jan. 25.—All A.R.P. wardens at Darwin will resign at noon on Monday unless they are given legal powers to do the work ...
Article : 192 wordsLONDON, Jan. 24.—After a heavy snowstorn in the Straits of Dover, a thaw has set in and the temperature is now above freezing point for ...
Article : 167 wordsLONDON, Jan. 25.—The Admiralty announced today that British warships had captured the Italian liner Duchessa d'Aosta (7,872 tons) ...
Article : 177 wordsCLOSING TIMES.—Closing times hereunder are for the Perth G.P.O. Registered articles must be posted one hour before closing time for letters, but ...
Article : 448 wordsMELBOURNE, Jan. 25.—"The equipment upon which you are engaged is of such vital importance that it is possibly the most ...
Article : 149 wordsAfter the breakdown of the Industrial Relations Council in Sydney on Friday through dissatisfaction by the employers' representatives with ...
Article : 179 wordsMELBOURNE, Jan. 25.—A strong force of police in motor cat, on motor cycles and on foot-gave protection to more than 500 milk ...
Article : 182 wordsNEW YORK, Jan. 24.—The Dublin correspondent of the "New York Times" reveals that Mr. De Valera's Government is systematically ...
Article : 225 wordsLONDON, Jan. 24.—Visitors to the Australian Forces centre during the past week included C. S. Merle (Kalgoorlie), serving with a British ...
Article : 189 wordsThe main features of today's programmes from the national stations 6WF and 6WN are given below:— Station 6WP.—6.30 and 7.45 am., ...
Article : 198 wordsMELBOURNE, Jan. 25.—A semiofficial hint of a still further cut in petrol rations was given today. It is not likely to operate, however, ...
Article : 82 wordsCANBERRA, Jan. 25.—The Minister for Commerce (Mr. Scully) is expected to make a statement early this week to growers of apples and ...
Article : 126 wordsJOHANNESBURG. Jan. 23.—Diamonds worth £50,000 sterling, which disappeared from a ship bound for Durban from West Africa in 1939, ...
Article : 89 wordsLONDON, Jan. 24.—The secretary for Air (Sir Archibald Sinclair), in a speech today said:—"We have built air forces which have now ...
Article : 64 wordsCAPE TOWN, Jan. 24.—Passengers will be able to fly from the United States to South Africa in seven days by using the fortnightly ...
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