Thanks to the growth of the iron and steel industry here, plans for local shipbuilding, now being vigorously pushed ahead, provided for ...
Article : 406 wordsHundreds of volunteers attended local area offices on the resumption of A.I.F. recruiting in Victoria. Army officials described first day ...
Article : 229 wordswhen A.I.F. recruiting was resumed. At Bouverie street, Carlton, drill hall hundreds of men applied to join home coastal defence units. Top:—New recruits at the Royal Park camp. Lower:—Interviewing the men onxious to join home ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 49 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—Efforts, which proved futile, were made to-day to settle three strikes which at present are interfering with war ...
Article : 289 wordsHere is General Sir Archibald Wavell Commander-in-Chief or the British and Imperial Army or the Nile, as revealed by some or his sayings: ...
Article : 593 wordsformed a guard of honour for the Governor when he arrived at the Elizabeth street post-office yesterday to buy Red Cross seals. Six million seals have been prepared for sale throughout the Commonwealth. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 38 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—Police raids on boot factories to-day may lead to serious disclosures about the manufacture of Army boots. ...
Article : 196 wordsSYDNEY Monday- Until 1939 the League of Young Democrats had been the Young Communists' League, said Mr. Hughes, Federal Attorney-General; ...
Article : 209 wordsArmy officials were unprepared yesterday for a hectic last-minute rush by men in the 19 and 25-33 age groups to enrol for universal service. They were ...
Article : 129 wordsBRISBANE, Monday.—A candid survey of the war situation in Europe and the Far East was given to members of the State Cabinet to-day by Mr. Fadden, ...
Article : 135 wordsShouted interjections which often developed into almost general arguments, repeated calls for withdrawals and points of order, and ...
Article : 773 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.— The new system of home derence training by which hair the Australian military forces would always be in camp was to be carried out ...
Article : 169 wordsPERTH, Monday.—Mr. Sinclair J. McGibbon, recently appointed Commonwealth business and financial representative abroad on matters relating to ...
Article : 188 wordsCANBERRA, Monday. — Estimates of cost placed before the Commonwealth Government. It is understood, showed that about 16 vessels of up to 10,000 tons ...
Article : 164 wordsThe plate which the R.S.L. Volunteer Defence Corps will take in Australia's derence plans will be discussed at a conference called by Sir Gilbert Dyett, ...
Article : 65 wordsWELLINGTON, Monday.—The ban on the impoitation of linoleum and other floor coverings from Australia and other Empire countries has been modified. ...
Article : 49 wordsWhen officials of the Fascist National party, solicitous for the comfort of Italian soldiers in North Africa, arranged for writing paper to be placed in recreation ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Advertising : 160 wordsCANBERRA, Monday. — Remarkable progress has been made in Australia in becoming self-sufficient in production, of optical instruments for use of fighting ...
Article : 218 wordsA casualty list issued by the Army Department yesterday is:- OVERSEA NEW SOUTH WALES ...
Article : 105 wordsAbout 200 officers and N.C.O.'s of the A.I.F. Armoured Division began special courses at the School of Mechanisation and Armoured Fighting Vehicles ...
Article : 89 wordsRemoved from Dangerously III List.— ELWELL, Gnr. L.. Manly, N.S.W. (Arty.), now placed on seriously ill list; MEAKIN, Pte. R., Redfern, N.S.W. (Inf.). ...
Article : 58 wordsFirst shipment of comforts for British prisoners of war in the Middle East is now being accumulated by the Australian Red Cross Society. Valued at £6,000. ...
Article : 143 wordsPRIVATE JOHN McDERMITT WILSON, who was reported in a casualty list last month as wounded in action, ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 79 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—A further reduction in State unemployment relief tax will be announced when Parliament meets to-morrow, and another reduction is ...
Article : 48 wordsEstablishment of a Danube flotilla, the latest development in the Soviet Navy, is announced by Admiral Isakov, Deputy Marine Commissar. ...
Article : 247 wordsThere has been a splendid response to the Commonwealth-wide drive for recruits for the R.A.N., and the Naval Board now has an unmobilised pool of ...
Article : 64 wordsPhotographs and short personal details of members of the A.I.F. who have been reported killed or wounded in action will be published in "The Argus" if they are ...
Article : 34 wordsAlphonse Stakelum, 11, of Donald, died yesterday from internal injuries received on Sunday when he tripped over signal wires and fell on the railway line when ...
Article : 37 wordsM. Sautot, Governor of New Caledonia, has received a congratulatory letter from General de Gaulle, thanking those who "succeeded in dominating the resistance ...
Article : 38 wordsPORT MORESBY (Papua), Monday.— Following an attack on a mission in the Mekeo district. Iovaeko has been committed for trial on a charge of having ...
Article : 108 wordsAircraftman S. Donnelly, of the R.A.A.F. Showgrounds camp who was critically injured when he was struck by a car in Batman av. on Saturday night, ...
Article : 41 wordsHOBART, Monday. — A contract has been signed for a bronze statue of Mr. A.G. Ogilvie, late Piemler of Tasmania. It will be executed by Mr. Stanley J. ...
Article : 51 wordsLady Sargood, widow of the late Sir Frederick Sargood, has died in England. Daughter of the late Mr. J. Tomlin, of London, Lady Sargood was married in ...
Article : 119 wordsThieves who entered the Cornish Aims Hotel, in Sydney rd., Brunswick, between midnight and 6 a.m. yesterday, removed a safe containing more than £100 from ...
Article : 34 wordsBRISBANE, Monday.— Captain Alan Cameron, one of Australia's best-known commercial pilots, was killed in an Air Force accident oversea at the week-end ...
Article : 84 wordsStruck by a car in Royal pdc., Parkville, yesterday afternoon, Frances Stevenson, 70, of North rd., Gardenvale, sustained a fractured leg, a fractured pelvis, ...
Article : 46 wordsAttention of those interested in the Australian [?] is directed to an exhibition of scuiptures by Mr. W. Ricketts which will be open all this week at the Velasquez Gallery. These ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tue 25 Feb 1941, Page 5
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