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  2. Government Is Expected To Surmount Secret Fund Obstacle

    CANBERRA, Monday.—A special meeting of the Advisory War Council has been called for to-morrow to preview the statement which the Prime Minister (Mr. Fadden) will make in Parliament on Wednesday on the Government's secret fund. ...

    Article : 518 words
  3. DARWIN GARRISON TO BE RELIEVED

    SYDNEY, Monday.—A.I.F. men now serving at Darwin would be transferred to the Southern States for six weeks as part of a new Army plan to end boredom, the Minister for the Army (Mr. Spender) announced to-night. ...

    Article : 230 words
  4. BLIND, DEAF AND DUMB

    HOBART, Monday.—An increase in the bank overdraft of £2729 was shown in the report adopted at the annual meeting of the Tasmanian Institution ...

    Article : 159 words
  5. CASUALTY LISTS FOR FOUR STATES

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 962 words
  6. HERE IS THE SPIRIT OF TOBRUK

    [?]Free-and-easy courage and tenacity, It is not easy to believe that these carefree diggers, nonchalantly eating lunch in the sun, were photographed less than 300 yards from the German lines. A head poked a couple of Inches above the protecting sand-bags would bring a deadly fusillade. But that's how things are at Tobruk. (Department of Information Picture.) ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 64 words
  7. BLACKOUTS ON MAINLAND

    SYDNEY, Monday. — It was stated to-day that the blackout teat over 3000 square miles of the metropolitan area and districts last night was perfect. Only a ...

    Article : 214 words
  8. NO CHANGE IN PETROL RATION FOR OCTOBER

    CANBERRA, Monday.—Petrol ration scales now in operation would prevail for October, the Minister for Supply (Senator ...

    Article : 225 words
  9. "BLEEDING STATE WHITE"

    CANBERRA, Monday. —In a statement on the continued concentration of war industries in two or three capital cities, Senator C. A. Lump, Tasmania) ...

    Article : 337 words
  10. No Limit Set On Sir Earle Page's Stay Abroad

    CANBERRA, Monday.—No limit has been set on the period of Sir Earle Page's stay abroad. The Prime Minister (Mr. Fadden) ...

    Article : 100 words
  11. S.A. Builds Cheaper Houses

    ADELAIDE, Monday. — In spite of the great increases in costs of labor and materials, four-roomed houses are still being built under the Housing ...

    Article : 550 words
  12. Empire Leads in Gas Defence

    The use of poison gas in the last war came us a complete and terrible, surprise. In the Second Battle of Ypres in ...

    Article : 555 words
  13. Trouble in Industry Advantageous to Enemy

    CANBERRA, Monday. — "I hope these unions will direct their energies to the prevention of industrial trouble, irrespective of the political party ...

    Article : 209 words
  14. Sydney Bridge Now Liability

    Petrol rationing has turned the Sydney Harbor Bridge into a big liability for the New South Wales Government. ...

    Article : 112 words
  15. WAR ON CANBERRA'S "DIVE BOMBERS"

    CANBERRA, Monday.—War has been declared by the Government on Canberra's "dive-bomber menace"—the nesting magpies, which ...

    Article : 140 words
  16. Concession to Fighting Services

    SYDNEY, Monday. — Members of the fighting forces will be charged only half rates on trunk line phone calls in the future. ...

    Article : 54 words
  17. CONFISCATION OF LAND HELD BY ALIENS

    CANBERRA, Monday.—A suggestion that land held by aliens should be confiscated and given to returned soldiers does not meet with the ...

    Article : 106 words
  18. EMPLOYMENT ON ANZAC DAY

    MELBOURNE, Monday. — Except for the "unavoidable delivery of smallgoods," no member of the Australasian Meat Industry Employes' Union who is a weekly ...

    Article : 109 words
  19. FARMER KILLED BY LIGHTNING

    MELBOURNE, Monday. — A farmer was killed by lightning during a violent storm at Albacutya, 12 miles from Rainbow, this morning. ...

    Article : 153 words
  20. Australian Airmen Decorated

    MELBOURNE, Monday. — Three Australian airmen serving in overseas theatres of war have been decorated for outstanding bravery ...

    Article : 122 words
  21. WAR COMMENTARY HITLER BELIEVED TO BE PLANNING ATTACK ON TURKEY

    MELBOURNE, Monday. — Heavy concentrations of Germans in the Ballians, combined with the report of large Bulgarian forces now ...

    Article : 391 words
  22. Tea May Soon Be Cheaper

    SYDNEY, Monday. — The price of tea may soon fall again, the Minister for Customs (Mr. Harrison) said to-night. The price of tea on the Java market had ...

    Article : 77 words
  23. £700,000 Bequeathed to University

    MELBOURNE, Monday. — Mr. David Edwards Lewis, a proprietor of Love and Lewis, drapers, of Chapple street, Prahran, and Bourke street, Melbourne, who ...

    Article : 72 words
  24. MR. DUFF COOPER TO VISIT AUSTRALIA

    CANBERRA, Monday.—The British Minister to the Far East (Mr. A. Duff Cooper) would visit Australia as soon as possible after establishing ...

    Article : 84 words
  25. 'Quake in California

    LOS ANGELES, Monday. — An earthquake at 8 o'clock last evening extended from Bakersfield to San Diego. Damage was confined to broken ...

    Article : 27 words
  26. Returned Soldier Preference Talks

    CANBERRA, Monday.—In an effort to bring about an Australia-wide observance of the "preference to returned soldiers" principle, the ...

    Article : 179 words
  27. Blitz Victims Get Millionaire's Suits

    Suits made in London for an American millionaire have gone back across the Atlantic. They will be handed on to London working men left by air ...

    Article : 222 words
  28. ATTEMPT TO AVERT STOPWORK MEETING OF MUNITION WORKERS FAIL

    MELBOURNE, Monday.—A last attempt by the Minister for Munitions (Senator M'Bride) to avert the stop-work meeting of 10,000 munition workers to-morrow failed, when the Arms, Explosives and Munition Workers' Federation at a conference to-night rejected his offer to expedite the hearing ...

    Article : 257 words
  29. £1 a Day For Privates Suggested

    CANBERRA, Monday.—"It is a policy which will commenced itself to a great many, but I doubt if it is practicable," said the ...

    Article : 130 words
  30. Tried to Enlist at 92

    SYDNEY, Monday. — Military authorities said to-day that a man aged 92 years tried to enlist in the Home Defence Forces in Sydney last week. ...

    Article : 40 words
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