MEN OF THE NEW A.I.F. will gain from the experience of W. Willder (left) and V. Roberts, who marched into Royal Park camp yesterday with the new instructional section. Both were members of the original A.I.F. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 220 wordsWhile German planes continue their raids over England, R.A.F. bombers are striking with telling effect on objectives in Germany ...
Article : 470 wordsThe flow of planes, munitions, and other war supplies to England will be enormously accelerated as the result of a decision to give the ...
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Article : 979 wordsThe ceaseless vigilance of the Navy and the splendid part played by the R.A.N. were described by Rear-Admiral Sir Ragnar Colvin, ...
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Advertising : 275 words"Our bombers scored direct bits on a troop concentration near Sabderat. There was no serious opposition. All our aircraft returned," ...
Article : 134 wordsAn emergency meeting of the Congress Working Committee has been summoned after a telephone conversation between the president of the Congress party and ...
Article : 97 wordsM. Petain's Government has arrived at Clermont-Ferrand, in the Auvergne region of France. Later it will move to Vichy, where the Chamber of Deputies ...
Article : 36 wordsWanted—a bass soloist, a boy soprano, a male alto, and some carpenters. Anyone who would like to assist in this way the Voluntary Service Register in some of its ...
Article : 110 wordsAmerican Republics were urged to unify their economic power, possibly by forming one great inter-American corporation, by the U.S. Secretary of ...
Article : 122 wordsAfter five days or speculation as to its whereabouts, the United States Fleet has returned to Lahoma Roads, Hawaii, as suddenly as it left there on June 25. ...
Article : 219 wordsLittle light can be shed on the attitude of M. Pierlot's Government, whose intentions are not clear, due to the difficulties of communication between England ...
Article : 117 words"When we go in we must win," declared Sir Thomas Blamey, C.O.C., A.I.F., in a special order issued to-day, in which he exhorted his men to be patient and train ...
Article : 267 wordsPaymaster-Commander H. A. Gibbons, who was missing after the loss of the aircraft-carrier Glorious in northern waters recently, visited Australia in H.M.S. ...
Article : 45 wordsConstruction of the third set of bombproof locks, which will cost 277,000,000 dollars (about £A92,500,000), was begun to-day on the Panama Canal. ...
Article : 124 wordsCurtailment of City Council estimates for the next financial year as a contribution to the war effort was discussed by the Lord Mayor and chairmen of council ...
Article : 53 wordsOver 70,000 men have volunteered for Eire's defence forces in the last few weeks, said Mr. Frank Aitken, Defence Minister. "We fully realise the value of unity ...
Article : 73 wordsMuch "spit and polish" has been going on at Puckapunyal camp during the last two or three days. A private has been seen cleaning his buttons, the canteens ...
Article : 151 wordsSir Percy Loraine, British Ambassador in Rome, together with 300 other British subjects, including diplomats, journalists, and residents in Italy, arrived in Glasgow ...
Article : 37 words"This is a war of revenge by the Germans," declared Mr. Naesmith, chairman the General Federation of Trade Unions at the annual conference at Blackpool. ...
Article : 83 wordsThe R.A.F. has called for volunteers between 18 and 45. The announcement says that volunteers will be stationed probably in the Middle East, and would ...
Article : 39 wordsIndia has informed the International Sugar Council that, having regard to Britain's desire for additional sugar supplies, it wishes that arrangements would ...
Article : 49 wordsSignor Mussolini entered France by the Maddalena Pass, inspected Larche and the Roja Pass, 73 kilometres from Nice, and returned to Italy. ...
Article : 50 wordsGerman Radio says that a German motorised division will visit San Sebastian, where Spaniards are preparing a welcome. ...
Article : 110 wordsRear-Admiral Yates Stirling, commenting on Mr. Arita's speech in a special article, advises U.S.A. and Britain to seek friendship with ...
Article : 125 wordsNearly half the calls answered by metropolitan fire brigades in the 12 months just ended were false alarms, and two-thirds of these were made maliciously. ...
Article : 98 wordsCrude oil supplies, though drawn from the ground in enormous quantities, show no sign of diminishing. Underground reserves are, in fact, reported to be ...
Article : 84 wordsSale of matches by manufacturers and importers has been placed under official control. It is stated that there is no likelihood of ...
Article : 43 wordsTwo bombers, the pilots of which were lost or wanted to drop their cargoes where they would do least harm, dumped 24 British bombs into peat bogs and ...
Article : 58 wordsFor the first time in history, a great nation has set aside an extensive watershed for the purpose of learning how best to control and conserve its waters. The ...
Article : 165 wordsAdvice has been received that the Briish steamer Guido has been torpedoed in the Atlantic, about 180 miles W.S.W. of Land's End. ...
Article : 96 wordsSYDNEY, Monday. — For having employed two Polish refugees at scarcely half the award rates prescribed, the General Paint Co. of Australia Ltd., ...
Article : 69 wordsTo consider how to take advantage of the offers of the services of members of all institutes to help the Government in the present emergency, presidents and ...
Article : 102 wordsGerman High Command states:- "A British cruiser of the Orion class has been torpedoed. Eighteen British planes were shot down. One ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Marine Cooks and Stewards' Union has called a strike, effective as from midnight to-night, against the Pacific American Ship Owners' Association. ...
Article : 52 wordsGeneral Le Gentilhomme, French commander at Djibuti, French Somaliland, replying to a telegram from Major-General Dickinson, British G.O.C. in East ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tue 2 Jul 1940, Page 3
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