When William Reynolds, 54, of Kent st., Ascotvale, collapsed at the wheel of his meat waggon in High st. south, Kew, yesterday, the ...
Article : 247 wordsTwo more initial training schools are to be established by the end of the year under the Empire. Air Scheme, bringing the total to five. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 221 wordsand district marching along Elizabeth street yesterday to Royal Park camp. The Fire Brigade Band led the procession of more than 200 men. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 30 wordsand bewildered, and in many cases iniured in brutal Nazi attacks, refugees continue to stream into Paris from those parts of France which have ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 47 wordsO Death, where is thy sting? This is that dastard king, On, profitless parole, Who could not save his soul; ...
Article : 712 wordsBox Hill-Berlin," read the placard carried by this A.I.F. recruit, who marched with other recruits from Flinders street to Royal ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 29 wordsGEELONG, Monday.—"Directors ex pect every single man of military age to offer himself to his country for military service, other than militia," read a notice ...
Article : 195 wordsTo the question how a "puny Australian Army Corps" could influence the course of the war a ready answer was to be gleaned from the history of Australia's ...
Article : 283 wordsplucked from her peaceful home to flee before the menace of the Hun, nestles against her mother, whose careworn face gives ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 44 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—Both Federal and State Governments could declare to-morrow that the King's Birthday must not be observed as a ...
Article : 263 wordsOn Sunday night Captain Geoigc Sutton, of Southern Command, broadcast an appeal to the public of Australia not to be "Wankles." He suggested that wankles ...
Article : 352 wordsAt [?]1 a.m. yesterday, two weeks and two hours after the Town Hall recruiting bureau opened the 8,000th recruit enlisted for the A.I.F. at the depot finished ...
Article : 151 wordsThe third "in-take" of air crew personnel under the Empire Air Scheme will be made on June 24, when another 282 recruits will enter schools at Bradfield Park ...
Article : 155 wordsFERNTREE GULLY, Monday. — Employees of the Ferntree Gully Shire Council are to swear allegiance to the King and country, or be dismissed instantly. This ...
Article : 94 wordsFive men enlisted, were medically examined, and passed as fit at the "Winthe-war Rally" held in Hawthorn Town Hall last night. Subscriptions received at ...
Article : 121 wordsSYDNEY, Monday. — The remarkable response of recruits for the A.I.F. in N.S.W. continues. Except for a number of specialists the N.S.W. quota for the ...
Article : 130 wordsSYDNEY, Monday. — A conference of motoring transport and service station organisations at N.R.M.A. House to-day decided to inform the Federal Government ...
Article : 97 wordswho escaped with her life when the convent Religieuses de St. Audae was bombed by Germen aircraft during the invasion ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 37 wordsDespite a report that no limit was being placed on enlistment in the R.A.A.F., which had led to a certain amount of confusion at recruiting centres, it was ...
Article : 129 wordsSpeeches by Mr. Menzies and Major Kent Hughes at the patriotic rally in the Rialto Theatre, Kew, on Sunday afternoon will be relayed through an ...
Article : 180 wordsSYDNEY, Monday. — Twelve hundred members of the N.S.W. police, at a meeting to-day, unanimously decided to forgo one of their two days off a ...
Article : 78 wordsImmediate equitable rationing of petrol, while maintaining essential industry and maximum production, was urged yesterday by resolution of the 56th convention ...
Article : 73 wordsIntake of A.I.F. recruits at Royal Patk yesterday was 400. Army doctors worked late giving second medical examinations. Most rccruits preferred to have tea in the ...
Article : 81 wordsBRISBANE, Monday. — A largely attended meeting in the City Hall to-night unanimously passed a resolution urging formation of a National Government ...
Article : 105 wordsFERNTREE GULLY, Monday. — Military authorities are to be asked by the Ferntree Gully Shire Council to take over the German Club adjacent to Sherbrooke ...
Article : 55 wordsAustralia's principal purpose in investigating possibilities of buying pianos in U.S.A. was to obtain training planes for the Empire Air Scheme, Mr. Menzies said ...
Article : 75 wordsSince January aggregate attendances at free military camp entertainments prov[?] by the Soldiers' Motion Picture Entertainment Fund have numbered ...
Article : 70 wordsA.C.T.U. officials conferred again yesterday with Mr. Menzies on the creation of a trade union defence advisory panel and the proposed industrial peace ...
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Advertising : 92 wordsSYDNEY, Monday. — Sir Ernest Fisk, Director of Economic Co-ordination and secretary to the Economic Cabinet, appealed for national unity and support for ...
Article : 136 wordsThe fifth Victorian and oversea A.I.F. casualty list was issued yesterday by the Defence Department. It showed that VX786, Gunner A. S. Watson (Artillery), ...
Article : 87 wordsOnly one unit at Puckapunyal, an anti-aircraft battery, remains to be filled. All other units are at full strength, and more men are now in the camp than at ...
Article : 47 wordstakes no account of age or infirmity. An old couple, worn out by their hardships, being comforted by a woman ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 40 wordsWith the Empire fighting for its life it was no time to question sales of commodities already made, or to claim increases in their price, Mr. J. P. Abbott, chairman ...
Article : 93 wordsBENDIGO, Monday.—Troops will enter camp at the Bendigo Jockey Clubs racecourse at Epsom on Monday next. Horse stalls are being converted into ...
Article : 174 wordsCANBERRA, Monday.—Longer clerical hours will as a war-time measure operate in the Commonwealth public service from Thursday. ...
Article : 73 wordsMr. Menzies expects to be sworn in to-day as Minister for Munitions. He will thus hold four posts—the Prime Ministership, the portfolios of Defence ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 348 wordsMr. R. N. Partington, deputy director Posts and Telegraphs, urged yesterday that letters directed to members of the A.I.F. abroad should bear upon the backs ...
Article : 49 wordsA Dutch vessel which evacuated Americans from the East Indies when Germany invaded Holland has reached Melbourne. During the voyage £30 was ...
Article : 48 wordsBRISBANE, Monday.—With the arrival of recruits from Toowoomba to-day, 2,953 are now in camp. Applications for the Seventh Division and corps troops ...
Article : 40 wordsWONTHAGGI, Monday.—Lively contests are expected at the annual elections of the Wonthaggi Miners' Union, to be held this week. Several leading officials ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 344 wordsReturned soldiers in the Brighton district are requested to assemble at the Wilson Hall, Middle crescent, Brighton, on Thursday, at 7.45 p.m., to discuss the ...
Article : 37 wordsAfter Requiem Mass at St. George's Church, Carlton, at 10 o'clock this morning the funeral of Mr. Michael Collins will leave the church at 2 p.m. for Melbourne ...
Article : 35 wordsAlthough the new Red Cross waste depot at 684 Elizabeth st. has markets for paper, rags, tins, and metals, organisers appealed yesterday to the public not to ...
Article : 316 wordsWAGGA (N.S.W.), Monday. — The British Empire has never been in such danger as it is in now," said Bishop Burgmann, of Goulburn, in an address to the ...
Article : 179 wordsWife of Major-General F. G. Hughes and sister of the late Janet Lady Clarke and the late Rev. Canon Evelvn Snodgrass, Mrs. Agnes Eva Hughes died at ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 150 wordsMrs. Elsa Carlyle Smythe, widow of the late Carlyle Greenwood Smythe, died yesterday morning at her South Yarra home Aged 61, she was the elder ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 79 wordsTo assist war funds, R.S.L. members, Kulwin sub-branch, have offered 10 per cent of their last season's wool clip as an interest-free loan to the Government ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tue 11 Jun 1940, Page 5
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