Seated before a microphone in the Melbourne studios of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, the Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) ...
Article : 400 wordsDRAMATIC PICTURE OF THE SINKING OF THE BRITISH OIL TANKER San Calisto, which struck two German mines off the south-east coast of England. Two of her crew were killed and forty-one were picked up and brought ashore.—(By Airmail). ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 40 wordsParts of the Admiral Graf Spee were still blazing late yesterday. There have been many small ex[?]osions, accompanied by bursts of ...
Article : 152 wordsScathing comment on the scuttling of the German raider Admiral Graf Spee in Montevideo harbour was made by the First ...
Article : 419 wordsA fortnight's delay in sending Australian wool oversea had a direct bearing on the Naval engagement between the Admiral Graf and the British ...
Article : 154 wordsSomewhere in France, Tuesday. Continuing his inspection of Royal Air Force bomber and fighter squadrons, the Australian Minister ...
Article : 130 wordsThe King paid his second visit to the Navy at Plymouth yesterday, when he inspected mine-sweepers and trawlers, whose crews have one ...
Article : 243 wordsApparently in vicious retaliation for the defeat of the Admiral Graf Spee, German planes bombed and machine-gunned trawlers and ...
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Advertising : 905 wordsLAUNCESTON, Tuesday.—The Rev. Hugh Adams, who came to Chalmers Presbyterian Church, Launceston, from Auburn (V.), nearly two years ago, died ...
Article : 48 wordsThe owners of the Doric Star, which was sunk in the South Atlantic by the Admiral Graf Spee, report that when the crew was transferred from the Admiral ...
Article : 59 wordsExtension until March 31, 1943, of the term of the Farmers' Debt Adjustment Board was approved yesterday by the State Cabinet. ...
Article : 94 wordsAppointment of on engineer as chairman of the Metropolitan Board of Works is probable, as a result of a discussion yesterday by ...
Article : 287 wordsThe British Government has asked the United States Embassy in Berlin to protest to the German Government against the detention of Mr. Gordon Vereker, ...
Article : 68 wordsA sum of 9,000 dollars (£2,250) has been presented from Canada to help the Finns, and since their greatest need is ambulances four are shortly being sent ...
Article : 91 wordsDuring the first week of the fortnight before Christmas mail branches in the six capital cities handled 20,389,000 letters, 4,686,000 newspapers and small ...
Article : 49 wordsSelection of two candidates for appointment as commissioners of the State Savings Bank was discussed yesterday by the State Cabinet, but a decision was ...
Article : 59 wordsCarlyon's, Spencer Street. Phone Reservations M2251.—[Advt.] ...
Article : 14 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday. — Strong representations are being made to the Federal Government by a section of the Australian ...
Article : 180 wordsBequests totalling £11,500 to various institutions in Queensland were provided for in the will of Mr. James Taylor, late of Toowoomba, glazier, which was lodged ...
Article : 265 wordsThe first batch of certificates has been sent by the Australian Wheat Board to licensed receivers, but the board has authorised receivers to make advances by ...
Article : 201 wordsAlleged to have said in an affidavit that a girl's family had forced him into marriage with her, Keith Norman Stevenson, aged 25 years, of Shepparton, ...
Article : 113 wordsIn a special holiday warning, the Marine Board directs attention to the fact that boats in which passengers are carried and the persons in charge of ...
Article : 94 wordsAUCKLAND (N. Z.), Tuesday.—The Melanesian Mission vessel Southern Cross has arrived at Auckland with news of a terrific hurricane in the New Hebrides. ...
Article : 62 wordsFinger-marks are easily washed on walls if enamelled with "DULSETTA," the new overseas vogue dull-satiny wall and ceiling enamel, which is used in all ...
Article : 70 wordsTucked away in the hills, surrounded by beautiful fern gullies, is VICTORIA'S LEADING HYDRO. Here tired folk, weary of the noise and strain of city ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wed 20 Dec 1939, Page 3
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