Motor cycles and Bren gun carriers of the Grenadier Guards during exercises. Britain's and perhaps also the world's most famous foot regiment is now a mechanised and quick-striking force of modern warfare. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 488 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday.—Salient features already decided in the Commonwealth Child Endowment scheme were announced to-night by the Minister for Labour and National Service (Mr. Holt). They included:— ...
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Article : 95 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday. —A programme of merchant shipbuilding in Australia, for which the Federal ...
Article : 267 wordsTOKIO, Jan. 27.—Some day, perhaps, Australia will startle the diplomatic world with talk of "expansion to the north." It will, of course, be like the southward expansion of Japan, "peaceful and economic." In the Australian ...
Article : 1,202 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.—The Postmaster-General said to-day that four phrases appeared so frequently in cables sent to ...
Article : 59 wordsThe establishment of the sugar beet industry in Tasmania was worthy of consideration if representations by the State Government to get ...
Article : 444 words"Turkey's policy is tightly linked to Britain's by an alliance that has not been changed and is not being ...
Article : 328 wordsThe Commonwealth authorities' insistence on a rigid petrol rationing, it is believed, will prevent a number of ...
Article : 312 wordsDespite efforts on behalf of the Pakenham Racing Club, its meeting to-day was broadcast by a commercial station. ...
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Article : 495 wordsThe New Zealand Government has forbidden the importation into the Dominion of mutton birds, and the industry on the Bass Strait islands will ...
Article : 571 wordsAdmiral Harold Stark, Chief of Naval Operations, said to-day that Congress should pay no attention to Japanese objections ...
Article : 268 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—A complete stoppage of work took place at the factory of G. E. Crane and Co. Pty. Ltd. at Forest Lodge to-day, when ...
Article : 182 wordsThe question of financial relief to berry fruit growers and orchardists who had suffered losses as a result of hail, frost and wind damage during ...
Article : 140 wordsThe total receipts from state taxation would be about £112,000 less in 1940- 41 than in 1939-40 and the new special income tax was estimated to return ...
Article : 152 wordsThe value of the game industry to the state was shown by figures quoted at the meeting of the Fauna Board at Hobart yesterday by the newly-elected ...
Article : 109 wordsLONDON, Thursday.— Night fighters challenged a stream of raiders arriving over South Wales last night, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 54 wordsMELBOURNE. Thursday—The Air Board announced to-night that the bodies of two airmen were recovered from the sea near Fremantle, West ...
Article : 228 wordsThe Commissioner for Transport (Mr. S. M. Wilson) has announced that the following transfers among the staff of the railway branch of the ...
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Advertising : 271 wordsMELBOURNE. Thursday.—The Federal Government hopes to double the yield of flax in Australia by next harvest. First crops in Victoria. ...
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Examiner (Launceston, Tas. : 1900 - 1954), Fri 21 Feb 1941, Page 5
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