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  3. NO DETAILS OF CASUALTIES

    No official statement of the details of actual A.I.F. casualties at Bardia has yet reached Army authorities in Australia Although certain figures of killed and ...

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  4. BUILDING SHIPS RAPIDLY

    The proposal made to the Commonwealth Government for assembling commercial ships at centralised slipways from materials made in large quantities ...

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  5. DESERT WAR DIARY

    In the first 10 days of the western desert offensive, British and Allied forces advanced about 160 miles, crossing the Libyan frontier. Then ...

    Article : 523 words
  6. Letters to the Editor

    Sir,—Mr. Fadden threatens us with dire consequences if we dare to discontinue buying war savings certificates. He confiscates the margin we used to have over ...

    Article : 276 words
  7. PREMIER VISITS GEELONG

    GEELONG, Tuesday. — No time would be lost in preparing a scheme to check crosion on Geelong's western foreshore north of Rippleside, said the Premier, ...

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  8. EDUCATION A VITAL NEED

    Trenchant criticism of economic conditions in Australia, which were described as "more destructive in their influence than Hitler," and of ...

    Article : 571 words
  9. CARELESS SPEECH

    Sir.—I have waited in vain for some advocate of correct pronunciation to direct attention to what I consider is the most common fault of all. I refer to vowel ...

    Article : 85 words
  10. PETROL SALES

    Sir. — From newspaper announcements it appears that the petrol rationing plan has failed to effect the anticipated reduction of 33½ per cent, in consumption. ...

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  11. SAND DRIFT IN MALLEE

    Sand-drift control is one of the great problems of Mallee farming. Drift is present more or less every year, but during a drought year it is capable of changing ...

    Article : 476 words
  12. A.I.F. WIDELY PRAISED

    Congratulations on the part played by the A.I.F. in the Bardia victory are reaching the Commonwealth Government from many sources inside and outside the ...

    Article : 269 words
  13. RADIO ANNOUNCERS ARE WEARY OF WORDY ARGUMENTS

    One really certain way of annoying a radio announcer these days is to ask him to comment on attacks made about pronunciation of words in broadcasts. It ...

    Article : 309 words
  14. AESOP VERSUS HITLER

    Sir,—Even if Hitler remembers "The Boy and the Nuts" he is too obstinate to let enough nuts go; and, unless he does, the neck of the jar will never let his ...

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  15. POLAND AND JEWS

    Sir,—In reply to Dr. Jacob Jona's statement in "The Argus" of Monday that Poland has for centuries been an antiJewish State, how did it come to pass ...

    Article : 107 words
  16. FEDERAL PLAN OPPOSED

    HOBART, Tuesday.—Opposition to the argument that education should be a Commonwealth rather than a State responsibity was expressed to-day by Mr. ...

    Article : 79 words
  17. TAXI-CAB DIFFICULTIES

    Officials of taxi-cab companies operating in Melbourne denied yesterday a contention of members of the licensed vehicles committee of the Melbourne City ...

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  18. HIGHER SCHOOL LEAVING AGE

    Admission of the desirability of raising the school leaving age to 15 years; acknowledgment that the cost was well within the compass of the State's ...

    Article : 298 words
  19. LABOUR UNREST

    Sir,— In supporting Mr. Gully's letter, I would go further. With wages, conditions, and pay surely the best in the world I would name as treachery the ...

    Article : 105 words
  20. P.M. REPLIES TO BERLIN RADIO

    "Silly propaganda" was the description applied by the Prime Minister yesterday to the comment by the Berlin Radio on Monday afternoon, that when the day ...

    Article : 272 words
  21. BROADCASTING

    Old and new ideas are presented in a modern manner in "Out of the Bag" from 3AR at 8 to-night, featuring Jim Davidson and his A.B C. Dance Band. News ...

    Article : 363 words
  22. STUDENTS' VACATION WORK

    Only six students at Melbourne University this year have offered themselves for employment on farms during the vacation. It was unlikely that there would ...

    Article : 139 words
  23. BARDIA

    Sir,—In view of the part that the A.I.F. are now taking in the action in Libya, the publication of the following extract from a letter from one of the ...

    Article : 131 words
  24. SYDNEY BOYS ON TOUR

    Thirty members of the Church of England Boys' Society, Sydney, arrived in Melbourne yesterday, and will be engaged for the next six days in sightseeing in ...

    Article : 137 words
  25. DARWIN

    Sir,—Lieut.-Commander Tota Isimarl, in his book "Australia Must Fight Japan" says that-Darwin is a more important naval base than Sydney. ...

    Article : 159 words
  26. DEATH SENTENCE COMMUTED

    Sentence of death recently passed on William John Patrick Normoyle, 28. soldier, of Caulfield, for an offence against a nine-year-old girl at Chelsea, ...

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  27. LATE MAJOR MAFFY

    Major Morgan Herbert Maffy, whose funeral took place at Brighton yesterday was born at Birmingham, England, 78 years ago. He served in the Boer War, ...

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  28. FLAGS FOR VICTORY

    In contrast to Monday, when few flags were flown, nearly every mast in Melbourne displayed a flag yesterday to celebrate the Australian victory at Bardia. ...

    Article : 64 words
  29. POSTAGE RATES

    POSTAGE RATES (For To-day'S Issue oF " The Argus").—Australasia and New Zealand. 1d.; United Kingdom (overland). 2d.; (all-[?] route), Id.; other British Po[?]. 2d.; U.S.A. and ...

    Article : 76 words
  30. INFANTILE PARALYSIS

    BRISBANE, Tuesday.— Two more cases of infantile paralysis — a boy, 12, land a girl, 7 — and a fatal case of cerebro-spinal meningitis, all in Brisbane ...

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  31. AMBULANCE DASH

    Rushed in an ambulance nearly 100 miles to Melbourne, Stanley Chasemore 27, of Canterbury rd., Surrey Hills, was admitted yesterday to St. vincent's ...

    Article : 61 words
  32. 30,000 PRISONERS COUNTED

    More than 30,000 prisoners have been taken at Bardia, according to a message received at Army Headquarters from General Sir Archibald Wavell, C.-in-C. ...

    Article : 85 words
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  34. SHIPPING BLACK-OUT

    Sir,—what good is expected from blackout regulations on our coastal runs? I take it they were framed on English lines; but under present conditions the ...

    Article : 195 words
  35. NEW SALES TAX

    The Federal Ministry proposes to set up a Parliamentary committee to investigate the whole incidence of the new scheme of sales tax recently approved by ...

    Article : 87 words
  36. MORE RAIL TRAFFIC

    While acknowledging that State railway traffic was heavier and more difficult because of extra special trains and the greater number of people travelling than ...

    Article : 89 words
  37. ITALY SAYS BRITISH NOT INVINCIBLE

    The Italian Stefant agency replied last night to the broadcast from Cairo by Mr. Spender, Australian Minister for the Army, on Saturday, in which, after ...

    Article : 128 words
  38. WAR CORRESPONDENTS

    Discussing suggestions that Australian war correspondents in the Middle East were denied facilities given to British and American correspondents, Mr. Menzies ...

    Article : 82 words
  39. MAILS

    Letter mails close at Eliz. st. P.O. as under: G.P.O., Spencer st., 20 minutes later, unless marked which Indicates same time at both offices:— AUSTRALIA ENGLAND AIRMAIL.—Via Egypt. ...

    Article : 218 words
  40. TO TRAP THE RAIDERS

    Sir,—May I suggest that our own Sunderland flyjng-boats, which have proved so useful in other parts of the world, be transferred to the Pacific to ...

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  41. FEEDING PIGS

    The advantages of swill-feeding pigs, especially in war time, ore outlined in an illustrated article in "The Australasian," now on sale. ...

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  42. CRUELTY TO ANIMALS

    Sir,—It makes me sad and indignant to read of the numerous cases of cruelty to animals mentioned periodically in the newspapers. We are so fond of calling ...

    Article : 70 words
  43. AIR TRAVEL POPULAR

    More than 2,000 passengers had been carried by Australian National Airways planes, on their interstate network, each week, before and during the Christmas ...

    Article : 53 words
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