These Australian cavalrymen in their "steel steeds" took part in the capture of Demo. Department of information pictures of this Italian defeat, which preceded Benghazi, reached Melbourne by airmail yesterday. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 173 wordsThe international situation in the Pacific was represented last night by Mr. Fadden, Acting Prime Minister, as like a fierce bush fire being swept by wind in the direction of a house. ...
Article : 2,415 wordsActing Prime Minister, was the gueslof honour at a dinner given last night by the R.A.C.V. From left:—Mr. G. D. McKay; Mr. Fadden; Mr. R. A. Rower, R.A.C.V. president; and Major-General E. J. Mitford, Master-General of the Ordnance. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 45 wordsIt is common to speak of the news paper's of to-day as purely commercial enterprises managed with an eve singly to profits which are to be got from ...
Article : 693 wordsSYDNEY Wednesday. — Hundreds of people in Botany rd., Waterloo, saw a fierce fight to-day between two men, who had been arrested, and four detectives. ...
Article : 255 wordsNight and carly morning jaunts to Marysville on which a safe was allegedly stolen from Marylands guest house, dumped in the bush, and later blown ...
Article : 404 words"I've been with her for more than 40 years—I wouldn't do such a thing," John Burns, 64, of Blazey st., Richmond, labourer, said to detectives when they were ...
Article : 250 wordsWith the exception of a New South Wales engineer who enlisted in Victoria, all oversea casualties announced yesterday by the Army ...
Article : 78 wordsCharged with having. on November 15, 1939, stolen a car worth £185, belonging to William Gray. munition worker, of Barkly st., Carlton, and with having,on ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 93 wordsFirst phases of the desert warfare in Libya were re-enacted in the Sea Lake district yesterday, when about 300 gunners from a picked A.I.F. artillery unit ...
Article : 147 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday. — A general desire by people to take a more direct, part in the war effort was noticed by Major Gorman. A.C.F. Commissioner in the ...
Article : 219 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—A writ was issued from the High Court to-day on behalf of Jehovah's Witnesses and others against the Commonwealth and the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 53 wordsAccording to the "A.I.F. News," which is published in Palestine, Lady Blamey, wife of the G.O.C. First Australian Army Ccrps, has joined the overseas unit of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 15 wordsAlthough agreeing that the discovery of a "strange" grass which drives away mosquitoes and other insects is acceptable, opinions in Melbourne are inclined ...
Article : 177 wordsVictorian coal stocks for defence works aie being supplemented by 1,200 tons dally in a seven-day week by full pressure production of briquettes at ...
Article : 145 wordsIn the in Australia casualty list which appeared yesterday, the names of Pte. A. McDonald, Mildura, V. (Arty.), and Pte. G. E. Smith, Nabiac, N.S.W (Med.), ...
Article : 50 wordsThe last has been heard of the pipeline by which it was proposed to discharge effluent from works at Deer Park into the bay at Altona. Mr. D. Bon, chairman ...
Article : 71 wordsMr. John Henry Nichols, who died on Tuesday night as a result of injuries sustained when knocked down by a car last December, was a newsagent at ...
Article : 168 wordsYARRAM, Wednesday.— The Search to-day for Roy Wight, 21. of Yarram. who with another man and youth, was trapped by tide while flounder-fishing on ...
Article : 92 wordsHow a number of Italians were captured without a shot being fired was told in a recent letter by Gunnel Neil Leggett, who has now been reported injured in ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 349 wordsWONTHAGG[?], Tuesday.— The Delyston agricultural show was hed to-day. Congratulating the farmers on their their exhibits Mr. McKenzie. M.L.A., said he was proud of the part the miners and ...
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Advertising : 47 wordsAn appeal by the Royal Automobile Club of Victoria for funds to purchase 25 military ambulances for the A.I.F. at a cost of £500 each. was launched by Mr. ...
Article : 279 wordsPilot-Officer Louis Barry, English professional sculling champion in 1936. who has been reported missing, is a member of a Thames ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 20 Feb 1941, Page 5
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