INSTANT ACTION.—A touch on the trigger and this anti-aircraft gun would bunt into action. Like thousands of others in Britain for every minute of the 24 hours of each day, it points untiringly to the sky. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 37 wordsThe possibility of Mr. Justice Evatt, who is contesting Barton, welding all the wrangling parties together in the event of Labor being returned at the Federal elections is emphasised in Labor circles. ...
Article : 439 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday.—When an R.A.A.F. training plane crashed half a mile east of Wagga (N.S.W.) late on Friday night, its only occupant ...
Article : 68 wordsMore in sorrow than in anser, but with his fingere still sticky, the Deputy Assistant Director of Postal Services with the A.I.F. in Britain has asked ...
Article : 443 wordsWhen a stalled New Zealand Air Force 'plane crashed into the sea in Rangitoko Channel and sank yesterday, Pilot-Officer R.M. Goldstone (21) ...
Article : 127 wordsGerman raiders bombed the London area this afternoon. There were no casualties. Two of the raiders are believed to have been ...
Article : 184 wordsR.A.F. headquarters at Cairo report that the South African Air Force carried out a highly successful attack against a large concentration of motor transport at Morgadishu. The raid was carried out in waves of planes. When the last wave reached ...
Article : 385 wordsUnless consumers applied for their petrol ration licenses before September 9, there was no guarantee that ...
Article : 87 words"The Labor Party is of the opinion that the rates of pay for the A.I.F. should be reviowod," said Mr. Erie Reece, Labor candidate for Darwin ...
Article : 321 wordsAmended regulations setting out the powers of the Director-General of Information (Sir Keith Murdoch) over the press, broadcasting ...
Article : 155 wordsANKARA (Turkey), Sat. Turkey's modernised defence forces were strikingly displayed in victory ...
Article : 63 wordsIn conformity with Federal law, all comment on the Federal elections has to be signed by the writer. ...
Article : 30 wordsBRISBANE, Sunday.—Queensland is to have armed volunteer parashots, on the lines of the local defence volunteers in England, to cope with an ...
Article : 66 wordsWhile fighting the war vigorously, people should try to remain free from hatred, the Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) said yesterday afternoon. Courage did not involve hatred, he added. The peace for ...
Article : 96 wordsA picture taken in Melbourne on Friday of the Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies), right, and the Leader of the United Country Party (Mr. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 48 wordsFurther unrest has developed on the Russo-Rumanian frontier. Before the Russian occupation of Bessarabia during the last days of June, similar ...
Article : 455 wordsThe Domci Agency's Nanking representativo says General Wang Chiug-wei, head of the puppet Government, and General Abe ...
Article : 122 wordsThe Duke of Kent recently visited a Royal Air Force station and examined two types of American aircraft which are now being ...
Article : 226 wordsMr. James Patrick Keogh, M.L.A., who died yesterday, aged 52, had been reported dead twice before. During the last war he was ...
Article : 103 wordsA report from Moscow says the Russian Black Sea and Pacific fleets have begun manoeuvres. Submarines are ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Australian national Airways Douglas DC, Warana, flying from Sydney to Brisbane last night, ran into a fierce storm, and ...
Article : 134 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—If certain Sydney Interosts persisted in attacking his administration of the Ministry of Supply, Sir Frederick ...
Article : 341 wordsA recount of the votes cast at the general clection, to fill the vacancy in the Darwin division of the House of Assembly caused by ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 129 wordsLONDON, Saturday.—The 44th Air Ministry casually list incitudes the following Australians: Filght-Lientenant A. L. Pitfield (Hobart), previously ...
Article : 110 wordsAn Admiralty communique states that the armed merchant cruiser H.M.S. Dunvegan Castle, 15,000 tens (Captain H. H. Ardrill, R.N.) ...
Article : 241 wordsCAIRO, Saturday.—The Prime Minister (Hassan Sabry) announces that he is assuming the portfolios of Foreign Affairs and Minister for the Interior ...
Article : 58 wordsTo-day was celebrated by Dutchmen all over the world as the Netherlands day of freedom. ...
Article : 60 words"Buttons are still being put in the collection plate, and it is up to people to give more generously," said the ...
Article : 75 wordsOTTAWA, Saturday.—The Minister for Munitions Supply announced the war expenditure commitments had passed the 550,000,000-dollar mark, of ...
Article : 58 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday.—While watching the Melbourne v. North Melbourne football match at the Molbourue ...
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Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 - 1954), Mon 2 Sep 1940, Page 5
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