The Supply Minister (Mr Beasley) has recovered from a slight attack of influenza. He left Canberra last night for Sydney, where ...
Article : 203 wordsMELBOURNE, May 10.—It was very evident that there had been a substantial improvement in the defences of the northern States in ...
Article : 451 wordsWASHINGTON, May 10.—The Navy announced yesterday that one United States and one Honduran merchantman have been torpedoed ...
Article : 561 wordsLONDON, May 10.—On the occasion of the second anniversary of the German invasion of Belgium—May 10—the Belgian Foreign ...
Article : 311 wordsLONDON, May 10.—Hitler's delusion that there are people in Britain who would be prepared to make peace with him was the ...
Article : 753 wordsNEW YORK, May 10.—The Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Kearny, New Jersey, has agreed to comply with the National ...
Article : 190 wordsThroughout the week-end Australians have been heartened by the accumulating evidence that the first I big naval and aerial action ever to ...
Article : 973 wordsThe manager for Australian National Airways (Mr D. A. Gair) said last night that the East-West airliner which left Melbourne ...
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Advertising : 115 wordsMELBOURNE, May 10.—The recruiting of 1,000 women who are urgently needed for the Australian Corps of Signals will open tomorrow in ...
Article : 97 words"Reading matter was at a premium and 100 cases of it meant nothing in the Middle East," said Mr W. E. Pickering on Friday ...
Article : 629 wordsNEW YORK, May 10.—The Wright Aeronautical Corporation has announced, after 5 years of research, the production of a machine ...
Article : 205 wordsRecruiting of women for the Australian Corps of Signals will start in the metropolitan area today, when enrolment forms may be obtained at ...
Article : 64 wordsThe wide search for John McLean (4), who was reported missing from his parents' home at the corner of Wavell-road and Bellevue-avenue, ...
Article : 331 words"I felt a heel when people treated me with deference on the grounds that we had come here just to save Australia. We are here to save our ...
Article : 497 wordsAustralians are fairly evenly divided on the question of whether the Government should take over essential defence industries for the ...
Article : 378 wordsWASHINGTON, May 10.—President Roosevelt yesterday asked American citizens to honour the peoples of all the United Nations in ...
Article : 201 wordsOTTAWA, May 10.—The Minister for the Navy (Mr MacDonald) told the House of Commons yesterday that ships lost by enemy action ...
Article : 79 wordsWELLINGTON, May 7.—New Zealand's famous thermal region is playing a particular part in the nation's war effort. Regular bathing ...
Article : 185 wordsThree addresses on church problems in wartime were given on Wednesday afternoon to a gathering of laymen and ministers during the ...
Article : 720 wordsWASHINGTON, May 10.—The War Production Board, because many spice-growing regions are now in enemy hands, has ordered a quota ...
Article : 64 wordsCAIRO, May 10.—Incredible though it may seem, Australian fighting-men in the Middle East have recently received white feathers ...
Article : 131 wordsLONDON, May 10.—The Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Dominions (Mr G. H. Shakespeare), addressing South Derbyshire ...
Article : 217 wordsWASHINGTON, May 10.—The Secretary for Agriculture (Mr Claude R. Wickard), testifying before the Senate Agriculture Sub-Committee ...
Article : 79 wordsCANBERRA, May 10.—Light clothes brought from hot climates of WA, Queensland and other States by girls in Canberra Government ...
Article : 155 wordsCANBERRA, May 10.—Marine war risk insurance under amended regulations gazetted covers goods afloat on a barge, hulk or other craft ...
Article : 65 wordsCANBERRA, May 10.—When the Australian Food Control Council holds its first meeting on Monday it will review the vast problem of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 191 wordsNEW YORK, May 9.—The US Vice-president (Mr Henry A. Wallace) predicted today that the supreme crisis of the war would ...
Article : 105 wordsAUCKLAND, May 9.—New Zealand was in a strong military position, the Minister for Defence (Mr Jones) emphasised when speaking ...
Article : 300 wordsSYDNEY, May 10.—Drinking among soldiers constituted a real danger to the defence of Australia, said the president of the NSW ...
Article : 59 wordsSYDNEY, May 8.—All the metropolitan area, involving 1,410,000 people in 480,000 homes, is now zoned for block delivery of milk. The ...
Article : 113 wordsLONDON, May 10.—During a three-day tour of the west country the King and Queen drove through the devastated areas of Plymouth. ...
Article : 121 wordsIn his report to Convocation of the University of Western Australia on Friday night the Vice-Chancellor (Dr G. A. Currie) said that an ...
Article : 281 wordsMELBOURNE, May 9.—To coordinate and collect all news of the Netherlands East Indies received by radio, escapees and other sources. ...
Article : 83 wordsCANBERRA, May 10.—Dr L. W. Nott, of Canberra, has proposed that the Australian Government should offer the Soviet a site free of charge ...
Article : 57 wordsKALGOORLIE, May 10.—The general, secretary of the Chamber of Mines (Mr Anderton) made the following statement today: "In the ...
Article : 142 wordsIn their calmer moments those Australians who participated in the scrimmage should blush for the shopping scenes that were enacted ...
Article : 219 wordsFeatures of today's programmes from the national stations 6WF and 6WN are as follows: Station 6WF.—6.40, 7.45 and 9 am, ...
Article : 208 wordsF.C.B. writes: Mr J. C. McDonnell who has died at the Australian Inland Mission Hospital at Hall's Creek was one of the few ...
Article : 233 wordsCLOSING TIMES.—Closing times here-under are for the Perth GPO. Registered. articles must be posted 1 hour before, closing time for letters, but between 9 ...
Article : 211 wordsAUCKLAND, May 9.—Stating there was an air of unreality about Parliamentary debates now when the fate of New Zealand was in the ...
Article : 67 wordsSYDNEY, May 10.—The Chairman of the New South Wales Cheese Processing Society (Mr H. J. Bate) former MLA and prominent ...
Article : 138 words(Every request for information must be accompanied by the name and address of the writer, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith.) ...
Article : 124 wordsCANBERRA, May 10.—Regulations gazetted yesterday suspend polls of growers to elect members of the Apple and Pear Board, formed ...
Article : 75 wordsCANBERRA, May 9.—Replying to Mr Rosevear (Lab, NSW) in the House of Representatives yesterday the Prime Minister (Mr Curtin) said ...
Article : 55 wordsIN CHAMBERS.—At 10.30 am before the Chief Justice. ARBITRATION COURT.—At 10.30 am. ...
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