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  2. "SHIPS 95 p.c. AUSTRALIAN"

    Thanks to the growth of the iron and steel industry here, plans for local shipbuilding, now being vigorously pushed ahead, provided for ...

    Article : 406 words
  3. MAW APPLY FOR AI.F.

    Hundreds of volunteers attended local area offices on the resumption of A.I.F. recruiting in Victoria. Army officials described first day ...

    Article : 229 words
  4. RECRUITING OFFICERS WERE KEPT BUSY YESTERDAY

    when 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 words
  5. STRIKES GO ON IN N.S.W.

    SYDNEY, Monday.—Efforts, which proved futile, were made to-day to settle three strikes which at present are interfering with war ...

    Article : 289 words
  6. DAILY DIGEST OF WOULD NEWS AND VIEWS

    Here 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 words
  7. RED CROSS TRANSPORT DRIVERS

    formed 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 words
  8. RAIDS ON BOOT FACTORIES

    SYDNEY, Monday.—Police raids on boot factories to-day may lead to serious disclosures about the manufacture of Army boots. ...

    Article : 196 words
  9. 'UNDER DICTATES OF MOSCOW'

    SYDNEY Monday- Until 1939 the League of Young Democrats had been the Young Communists' League, said Mr. Hughes, Federal Attorney-General; ...

    Article : 209 words
  10. HECTIC RUSH TO ENROL

    Army 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 words
  11. WAR SITUATION "SERIOUS"

    BRISBANE, 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 words
  12. CITY COUNCIL STORM

    Shouted interjections which often developed into almost general arguments, repeated calls for withdrawals and points of order, and ...

    Article : 773 words
  13. HOME DEFENCE TRAINING

    SYDNEY, 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 words
  14. APPORTIONING WAR COSTS

    PERTH, Monday.—Mr. Sinclair J. McGibbon, recently appointed Commonwealth business and financial representative abroad on matters relating to ...

    Article : 188 words
  15. ESTIMATES OF COST

    CANBERRA, 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 words
  16. R.S.L. CORPS PLANS

    The 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 words
  17. IMPORTATION OF FLOOR COVERINGS

    WELLINGTON, Monday.—The ban on the impoitation of linoleum and other floor coverings from Australia and other Empire countries has been modified. ...

    Article : 49 words
  18. WHEN AUSTRALIANS WRITE UNDER FASCIST EMBLEM

    When 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]

    Article : 256 words
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  20. OPTICAL INSTRUMENT PRODUCTION

    CANBERRA, Monday. — Remarkable progress has been made in Australia in becoming self-sufficient in production, of optical instruments for use of fighting ...

    Article : 218 words
  21. THREE A.I.F. DEATHS

    A casualty list issued by the Army Department yesterday is:- OVERSEA NEW SOUTH WALES ...

    Article : 105 words
  22. TRAINING ARMOURED DIVISION

    About 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 words
  23. IN AUSTRALIA

    Removed 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 words
  24. COMFORTS FOR WAR PRISONERS

    First 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 words
  25. WOUNDED IN ACTION

    PRIVATE JOHN McDERMITT WILSON, who was reported in a casualty list last month as wounded in action, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 79 words
  26. LOWER N.S.W. RELIEF TAX

    SYDNEY, Monday.—A further reduction in State unemployment relief tax will be announced when Parliament meets to-morrow, and another reduction is ...

    Article : 48 words
  27. SOVIET'S DANUBE FLOTILLA

    Establishment of a Danube flotilla, the latest development in the Soviet Navy, is announced by Admiral Isakov, Deputy Marine Commissar. ...

    Article : 247 words
  28. NAVAL VOLUNTEERS

    There 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 words
  29. HONOURING A.I.F.

    Photographs 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 words
  30. DEATH AFTER FALL

    Alphonse 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 words
  31. DE GAULLE THANKS NOUMEA

    M. Sautot, Governor of New Caledonia, has received a congratulatory letter from General de Gaulle, thanking those who "succeeded in dominating the resistance ...

    Article : 38 words
  32. ATTACK ON MISSION

    PORT 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 words
  33. AIRCRAFTMAN'S DEATH

    Aircraftman 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 words
  34. STATUE OF MR. A. G. OGILVIE

    HOBART, 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 words
  35. Obituary LADY SARGOOD

    Lady 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 words
  36. SAFE STOLEN

    Thieves 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 words
  37. PILOT KILLED

    BRISBANE, 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 words
  38. WOMAN INJURED

    Struck 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 words
  39. ABORIGINAL LEGENDS IN SCULPTURE

    Attention 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 ...

    Article : 54 words
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    Advertising : 27 words
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