CANBERRA, Monday—A secret session of Parliament to discuss the leakage of vital information, particularly about the movements of ...
Article : 579 wordsCANBERRA, Monday—With the promise of recess at the end of the week and freed from the tension that marked the early stages of the ...
Article : 566 wordsCANBERRA, Monday — Suggestions made in Sydney in a Sunday newspaper that he was preparing the way for a National ...
Article : 706 wordsThe Issuing of the rum ration to exhousted rescue porties was adopted by the Stoke Newington Borough Council at the request of Major Creswick Atkinson, A.R.P. officer and chief warden. Here is Major Atkinson personally supervising the rum ration ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 53 wordsA thrilling account of a game of hide-and-seek with the enemy raider which sank the Port Brisbane in the Indian Ocean, 1,200 ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 687 wordsJapan has "missed the boat" in the Netherlands East Indies, say important oil men in close contact with Far Eastern affairs. ...
Article : 258 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—The metal trade industry will be practically at a standstill to-morrow, when the engineers will hold a stop-work ...
Article : 376 wordsStrategie Itahan base in southern Albonia, which has fallen to the Greeks in their advance. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 18 wordsAdolf Hitler is in an embarrassing predicament. He is a conqueror who has acquired a vast empire and yet possesses no means of binding it together. ...
Article : 360 wordsCANBERRA, Monday — Federal Government is considering extending to war pensioners the increased payment to old age and invalid pensioners provided ...
Article : 111 wordsEvidence that William John Cook, 50, of Shackell st, West Coburg, who was charged in the Ctiminal Court yesterday with the murder of his ...
Article : 473 wordsBritain's bulwarks against the Luftwaffe are the men and machines of the Fighter Command. The coolness of these daring aviators, even in the face of ...
Article : 161 wordsA full house gave an enthusiastic welcome to the first performance of the Borovansky Australian Ballet Company at the Comedy last night. Even those who ...
Article : 236 wordsSYDNEY, Monday. — Air trainees from Victoria and other States in camp near Sydney are indignant because they have been told that they will not be able to ...
Article : 137 wordsTo-day's winner of the Thomas Edison competition for the best labour-saving device or household hint is Mrs. D. McNale, of Hillside, Kangaroo Flat, ...
Article : 269 wordsJ.B. Priestley, English author and playwright, radiocast a story last night to illustrate the undauntable spirit of the British people in the war. He told of a ...
Article : 77 wordsMr. McNamara, M.L.C., acknowledges the following subscriptions to the Dr. Maloney Memorial Fund:—Previously acknowledged, £227/1/6, Amalg. Engineering Union, £5/5/; Plumbers and ...
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Advertising : 29 wordsCANBERRA, Monday. — Repeated questioning about a National Government in the House of Representatives to-day stirred the Prime Minister from his usual ...
Article : 296 wordsArrangements had been made with the Military Authorities to break camps at a time which did not conflict with the busy holiday period, Mr. M. J. Canny, one ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Premier yesterday commented on suggestions that Victoria should adopt a similar financial policy to New South Wales, which has just allowed a remission ...
Article : 211 wordsCANBERRA, Monday. — Militia forces will receive pay for their eight days' leave at Christmas, Mr. Spender Army Minister, said to-day in reply to a question in ...
Article : 60 wordsDecision to make an emphatic protest to the Federal Government in respect of the three rates of sales tax imposed was reached at a jouit conference of the ...
Article : 184 wordsSYDNEY, Monday. — Mr. Justice Nicholls directed in the Probate Court to-day that the will of Mrs. Ben Shashoua (formerly Miss Joan Norton) ...
Article : 187 wordsWillie being driven home by car last night, Mr. George W. W. B. Hughes, general secretary for 17 years of the Y.M.C.A., Melbourne, had a heart attack, ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 417 wordsCANBERRA, Monday. — More ships to carry Australian produce oversea will be available early in the new year. At present the Commonwealth has at its ...
Article : 97 wordsCANBERRA, Monday. — Immediate action was urged to-day in the House of Representatives against persons responsible for the publication in Sydney of an ...
Article : 71 wordsAlthough Comforts Fund officials consider that a new hostel with 400 or 500 beds to accommodate troops on weekend leave in Melbourne is urgently ...
Article : 177 wordsWhen a policewoman went to a Fitzroy home she found a family of five suffering greatly from poverty. The husband had contracted a miners' complaint, the ...
Article : 251 wordsCANBERRA, Monday.—Some members of the Official Labour party were deeply concerned at the resolution adopted yesterday by the Canberra branch of the ...
Article : 81 wordsNo details of the call-up of new age troups would be available until Cabinet had fully considered the matter, army officials said yesterday. ...
Article : 100 wordsStop-work meetings of all members of the Ironworkers" Union employed in ship repairing work, which were to be held to-day, have been postponed. ...
Article : 76 wordsBooks and magazines are urgently needed by the six working parties which handle them at No. 1 Red Cross Store, Red Cross House, Swanston st., as their ...
Article : 227 wordsState Cabinet last night made nine important appointments in the State Public Service. Eight of these were reappointments, the only new appointment being ...
Article : 111 wordsThe Premier said lost night that recent Government surveys of city accommodation available for troops on leave had shown that requirements were being met. ...
Article : 79 wordsThe Licensing Court has approved of the following transfers, &c. to victuallers' and other licences:- METROPOLITAN.—City Arms Hotel. Melbourne: ...
Article : 258 wordsMrs. John Shannon, of Tennyson st., Sandringham, holder of button No. 53,907, from the recent Red Cross Lucky Button Day, collected her prize of a ...
Article : 68 wordsAlthough there were 640 candidates for the Brunswick Technical School entrance examination last Thursday, only about 220 of them can be [?]commodated next year. Scholarships have been ...
Article : 180 wordsPERTH. Monday. — Hearing a baby crying in the bush near Noggerup, a man who was passing that way found a newborn infant lying on the ground. It ...
Article : 77 wordsCharged with having kept a fruit shop open on a Sunday, Percy Olarenshaw, Barkly st., West Footscray, was fined £1, with £1/3/6 costs, at Footscray Court ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tue 10 Dec 1940, Page 5
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