The one topic of conversation, public and private, in the week-end was the Australians' advance through the defences of Bardia. ...
Article : 477 wordsDisregarding the advice of the Miners' Federation central executive, Wonthaggi coalminers will hold a general stop-work meeting at 10.30 a.m. to-day as a protest ...
Article : 217 wordsBroadcasting from Cairo last night Mr. Spender said that the Australians, who had stormed Bardia were of the same stock as the heroes of Dunkirk, of the ...
Article : 379 wordsTHOUSANDS OF AUSTRALIAN TROOPS, who left Australia in recent months, have arrived safely in the Middle East. Men from Victorian camps are shown on board a transport about to leave Port Melbourne. These photographs illustrate three recent embarkations. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 38 wordsWhat made this Coventry at which we gaze Outraged, three thousand miles away? What mean these plain pine coffins end ...
Article : 500 wordsIn recognition of the courage and resource of Miss Marie Agnes Conroy, of Main st., Mordialloc, in rescuing John Robertson, 20, son of Mr. Lou Robertson, ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 280 wordsEither the head or the tall of a 2ft. snake struck Leonard Parsons, nine, of Research, in the eye while he was in his father's orchard on Saturday. ...
Article : 138 wordsA trail of scrapes and bumps along nearly a mile of streets in Montague and Albert Paik on Saturday led Seniordctectlve Rosewarne, Detective Coe, and ...
Article : 218 wordsCOFFEE AND BISCUITS were served to members of the A.I.F. immediately they arrived on board the troopship on the first night emborkation ever made in New South Wales. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 31 wordsBENDIGO, Sunday.—The bodies of two woodcutters, James Corbett, about 62, and John O'Halloran, about 55, were found floating in the Murray River near ...
Article : 58 words"What has so far been accomplished Is in my opinion but the forecast of events to come," says Mr. Spender, Army Minister, who is in the Middle East, in a ...
Article : 195 wordsWhen a yacht capsized 150 yards off Parkdale beach on Saturday afternoon. Donald Butler, 16, of Herbert st, Parkdale, and Harold Caldwalder, 17, of Pt. ...
Article : 53 wordsWARRNAMBOOL, Sunday.— Struck by a horse at the finish of a race at a gymkhana at the showground yesterday Mr John Neale jun., of Tooram. ...
Article : 104 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday. — No fresh cases of meningitis had been reported at Darwin for six days, Sir Frederick Stewart. Minister for Health, said on Saturday. ...
Article : 50 wordsAustralian forces had participated in the attack on Bardia with "very great success," the Prime Minister announced on Saturday. ...
Article : 116 wordsVICTORIAN DIGGERS wave a cheerful good-bye as the big liner transporting them to the Middle East pulls out from Port Melbourne. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Advertising : 158 wordsExpressing his delight and that of his colleagues of the Military Board at the success of Australian arms in the Middle East, ...
Article : 259 wordsWarm welcomes extended by men of the A.J.F. in the Middle East to Mr. Spender Army Minister and Lieut.-General Sturdee, Chief of the General ...
Article : 300 wordsARARAT.—At a public meeting it was decided to reform the Ararat Citizens' Band. Cr. R. J. Burke, Mayor, was elected president. The band, which has ...
Article : 262 wordsSergeant-Pilot A.L.B. Smith 24, married of Darling Point Sydney was killed and three other members of the R.A.A.F. were injured on Saturday as a result of ...
Article : 161 wordsThe Premier, accompanied by Sir George Goudie, Minister for PublicWorks, will make an official visit to Geelong on Tuesday. He will be accorded a civic ...
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Advertising : 89 wordsBENDIGO, Sunday — Six men were taken to the Bendigo Base Hospital on Satin day following a collision between two cars on the Bendigo-Marong road. ...
Article : 126 wordsBecause of the partial suspension of the Bass Strait shipping services, many passengers who had originally intended to return from Tasmania to Victoria by ...
Article : 77 wordsGEELONG, Sunday. — Every screening for the week of the newsreel of the A.I.F. in which Private Tom Arthur gave a Christmas greeting to Australia, was ...
Article : 65 wordsCASTLEMAINE Sunday. — When the ropes anchoring one end of a girder became detached at Thompson's engineering works on Saturday afternoon, two ...
Article : 81 wordsBALLARAT, Sunday. — Mr. Michael O'Neill, a member of the Ballarat Society of the Ballet who has achieved success in ballet work at South St competitions ...
Article : 90 wordsFirst-constable F. Phipps, of Ballarat North, has been informed of his transfer to Tallarook. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 6 Jan 1941, Page 5
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