"Jitters" seem to be growing apace in Germany, according to the wild stories that are being circulated as truth by the Nazi news ...
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Article : 483 wordsProviding for 19 squadrons, the development programme of the Royal Australian Air Force had been so accelerated that it would ...
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Article : 159 wordsMotives of prudence only have impelled the State Emergency Council for Civil Defence to issue a public statement on the need for adequate aid raid ...
Article : 120 wordsOrders placed for defence requirements between September 3 (the date of the outbreak of war) and December 12 amounted to ...
Article : 99 wordsAustralia's new oversea short-wave broadcast service, which is designed largely to counteract anti-Empire propaganda, is a success. ...
Article : 233 wordsA man not yet definitely identified was killed by a motor-truck while he was crossing Royal parade, Parkville, near the intersection of Grattan street, last ...
Article : 38 wordsSir,—There is much to be said for and against the Sunday session given by a minister over national stations on Sunday; still, I agree with "Inquirer," who ...
Article : 155 wordsThe New Zealand anti-tank unit Rugby team recently beat teams from the Army Service Corps, the Army Ordnance Corps, Sandhurst, and other British units ...
Article : 179 wordsMost of the troops at Puckapunyal camp will be away on Christmas leave this weekend, but some will remain for essential duties, Visitors may go by a special train ...
Article : 128 wordsOne hundred Communists were arrested in the Paris area last night. ...
Article : 17 wordsPrincess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret returned to London yesterday from Scotland, and will spend Christman in the country with the King and Queen. ...
Article : 91 wordsFurther Italian defence measures were revealed when men born in 1917, 1919, and 1921, including those abroad and those already rejected on medical grounds ...
Article : 50 wordsApplications will be called soon for men between 18 and 45 to join the Australian Army Ordnance Corps of the permanent military forces as ...
Article : 152 wordsSir,—"Disillusioned Sixty" asks how to guard against a minimum of work being done when the incentive to work has disappeared. This apparently is to apply ...
Article : 210 wordsA United States Air Defence Command will be treated on January 1 to co-ordinate the nation's defences against possible air attack from abroad, the ...
Article : 46 wordsMurn Macdonald, of Dunedin (N.Z.), who fought among the volunteers of the International Brigade of the loyalist forces in the ...
Article : 205 wordsWhen a motor-car and a motor-truck collided at the intersection of Geelong and Kororoit Creek roads, Laverton, on December 4, First-constable Lee Fox ...
Article : 213 wordsThe State Department has extended the "moral embargo" on shipments of offensive war supplies to nations, which bomb civilian populations, to include ...
Article : 94 wordsA munificent gift by a citizen of Toronto has enabled Canada to meet the cost of establishing her first war hospital in ...
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Article : 77 wordsFighter planes went up last night when [?]identified aircraft appeared over the eastern counties. Anti-aircraft gun crews stood by and ...
Article : 49 wordsMr. R. R. Barbour, of the University of Adelaide, was appointed Warden of the University of Melbourne by the University Council yesterday. ...
Article : 148 wordsSir,—Something should be done to help men to take farm work without using such a high-handed method as striking them off sustenance for refusing it. Men ...
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Article : 98 wordsAdmiral Darlan, commander-in-chief of the French Navy, arrived in London yesterday for consultations with the Admiralty on co-operation between the ...
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Article : 67 wordsSir,—It is a pity "Non-Femina" did not read my letter more carefully before replying to something I did not say. In the first place, I did not ask for a ...
Article : 166 wordsMr. Walter Handy, aged 70 years, a Gloucestershire shepherd, will introduce the King before His Majesty's Christmas broadcast, ...
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Article : 77 wordsAn Italian airliner which is inaugurating a service from Rome to Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) took off this morning. The new line is ...
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Article : 136 wordsIf, by all the signs, you know you're heading for a nervous breakdown, why not take the matter in hand right now? Put office problems, household cares, ...
Article : 98 wordsThe President of the Supreme Council (M. Kalinin) honoured M. Stalin on his 60th birthday with the Order of Lenin and the title "Hero of Socialist Labour." ...
Article : 39 wordsThe seven sons of the Rev. H. H. Hopton and Mrs. Hopton, of Maylands (S.A.), are all members of the Second A.I.F., the Mili[?]ia forces, or their school cadet corps. The Rev. Hopton was formerly stationed in Melbourne and Ballarat. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 22 Dec 1939, Page 3
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