SMALL GAS BALLOONS are used as targets for anti-aircraft gunners in training at the Armored Fighting Vehicles School, Puckapunyal. Here are gunners in action. Left: Captain W. J. Leighton behind a Bren gun and a pile of expended shells. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 46 wordsANOTHER unit of the Royal Australian Navy serving in the Middle East—this time H.M.A.S. Parramatta—had distinguished itself in a heavy engagement with enemy aircraft, the Minister for the Navy (Mr. Hughes) announced to-day. ...
Article : 515 wordsIn spite of claims by the German propaganda machine that the Red Air Force has been eliminated, it is evident that Soviet aircraft are still playing a vital part in delaying the German advance. Soviet communiques still claim that heavy losses are being, inflicted on the Germans in aerial combat and by ground ...
Article : 479 wordsBRISBANE, Monday. — Alderman Frederick Woolnough Patterson, barrister, who was narrowly beaten for the Bowen seat at the recent State ...
Article : 120 wordsSome of the fiercest and most bitter fighting in the Syrian campaign has taken place in recent days in the Jiyun sector, north-west of Marjyun. In impossible mountainous country, 4500 feet above sea level, strong elements of colored Vichy troops with ...
Article : 698 wordsCANBERRA, Monday. — Making his first public statement since his appointment as Australian Minister to China. Sir Frederic Eggleston said ...
Article : 158 wordsIt is well to remember that many communiques do not always represent the facts. Truth is not one of the weapons in Goebbels' armory. But ...
Article : 537 wordsSYDNEY, Monday. — Alexander MacGillivray, leader of Jehovah's Witnesses in New South Wales, and Judge Rutherford's ...
Article : 196 wordsEvery Australian citizen must regard the milking of regular voluntary financial contributions to the national war effort as a ...
Article : 583 wordsSidelight on the continuous recruiting drive throughout Australia. A member of the recruiting staff displaying a poster in Swanston Street, ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 31 wordsThe Empire continues to trade by sea in spite of the so-called "total blockade" by the enemy. That is the economic miracle of these times, and ...
Article : 702 wordsLONDON, Sunday.—Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, who has just returned from Canada and the United States, interviewed for a Dutch "Radio ...
Article : 165 wordsHOBART, Monday.—The assistant Minister for Education (Mr. M'Donald) announced to-day that 260 men had completed their training as litters ...
Article : 34 wordsSYDNEY, Monday. — Involving 240,000 residents and 63,000 homes, more than 170 square miles of Sydney's northern suburbs were ...
Article : 142 wordsSYDNEY, Monday. — As a freightor drifted helplessly in the harbor last night a young coastal patrol volunteer worked to free its anchor from ...
Article : 114 wordsMELBOURNE, Monday.—The Minister for Air (Mr. M'Ewen) said to-day that extension of deferred pay and taxation concessions to the ...
Article : 63 wordsIndustrial co-operation between employers and employes through the creation of an Advisory Industrial Council is proposed by the Commonwealth ...
Article : 133 wordsHOBART, Monday. — "Every individual request by a farmer for an additional petrol ration will be considered on its merits." said the Secretary of the ...
Article : 70 wordsCANBERRA, Monday. — Feeding soldiers in Australia has cost the Army Department £3 millions since the war began. ...
Article : 132 wordsRecruits would be accepted for all types of ordnance requirements, the Minister for the Army (Mr. Spender) announced to-day. ...
Article : 96 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.— Clarence Read, who is being held in custody by the master of a foreign ship for the alleged murder of Thomas James ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 264 wordsBROKEN HILL (N.S.W.), Monday. Severely injured at the Zinc Corporation mine yesterday, John Martin O'Shannessy (51), shift boss, died in ...
Article : 47 wordsAdvice has been received by his mother that Private E. Bennett, of Burnie, has been wounded in action. He is a son of Mrs. S. Brown, of Burnie, ...
Article : 116 wordsMINISTER FOR AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION: Senator Leckie, ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 88 wordsMr. C. A. Smart, of Alphington (Victoria), has received word that his brother, Private T. A. Smart, formerly of Mt. Hicks, is a prisoner of war. ...
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Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 - 1954), Tue 8 Jul 1941, Page 5
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