CANBERRA, Wednesday. — After having taken the oath of office at the formal swearing-in ceremony at Government House this ...
Article : 332 wordsWhat—and when—is a safety zone? The answer to this question is puzzling departmental officers who are making a revision ...
Article : 288 wordsExpenditure on defence in Britain in the present year will be £630,000,000, said the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir John ...
Article : 1,088 wordsThe first step to enlist the aid of municipalities throughout Victoria in implementing plans for the protection of civilians against air raids was taken ...
Article : 200 wordsGermany is strongly pressing Japan to enter into a full military alliance with the Rome-Berlin axis, but present indications are that ...
Article : 268 wordsINTRODUCTION BY THE BRITISH CABINET of conscription for young men aged between 18 and 20 years would increase the strength of the Army by about 500,000. (Above) Roll call for a London division of the Territorial Army. (Lower) A light tank in the streets of London during an intensive recruiting campaign for Territorial Army units. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 56 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday. — The provision of air raids shelters below or above ground level and the digging of trendies in open ground are features of the national ...
Article : 194 wordsALBURY (N.S.W.), Wednesday.—The Minister for Agriculture (Major A. D. Reid) has advised that the Wakool Irrigation and Domestic and Stock Water ...
Article : 213 wordsIf it becomes necessary for the battleship Repulse to remain in home waters, the Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain) will probably announce at an early date ...
Article : 87 wordsWithout the evidence for the defence having been completed, Mr. Beers, P.M., in the Fourth City Court yesterday, dismissed, with ...
Article : 302 wordsFollowing the seizure of the British freighter Sagres (2,333 tons) by the Japanese on April 10, the Commander-in-Chief of the ...
Article : 266 wordsCOLONEL KIKKINAKI and Major Gordienko have made plans for a non-stop flight from Moscow to New York by way of Finland, ...
Article : 69 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.—It is believed that the Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) will endeavour to arrange for meetings of the Federal Parliament to conform to a ...
Article : 120 wordsApplause greeted a suggestion by a Blackburn ratepayer at a protest meeting last night that residents should refuse to pay their rates if permission to form a ...
Article : 175 wordsAnother dispute has arisen over the export to Japan of materials able to be used for munitions manufacture Concentrates from ...
Article : 250 wordsGermany is so short of qualified engineers that a number of Jews displaced by the new Hungarian anti-semitic laws are readily finding places in the Reich, very ...
Article : 82 wordsProhibition of the establishment of birth-control clinics in Victoria will be sought by the introduction of a private member's bill in the next session of the ...
Article : 165 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.—Because clear indications have been given that an overwhelming majority of the members of the new Federal Cabinet supports ...
Article : 129 wordsThe Gestapo (Nazi secret police) have wrested 100 Czechs at Pilsen, following a series of attacks in which a number of German soldiers had suffered from the ...
Article : 56 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—Jordan Eastaughffe, aged 35 years, was shot in the abdomen at a house in Forbes street, Darlinghurst, this morning, but it is not ...
Article : 130 wordsExtensions which will double the capacity of the Yooralla Hospital School and Free Kindergarten. Pelham street, Carlton, were opened yesterday by the Lord ...
Article : 141 wordsThe first auction sale of the famous Banyule Jersey herd ever held will be conducted at noon to-day at Banyule, Heidelberg. The sale has attracted ...
Article : 133 wordsFive bomb explosions occurred at Liverpool early this morning, and the fronts of several shops were blown out. No one was injured. ...
Article : 57 wordsAfter making an aerial survey of the Sino-Japanese fronts, I interviewed the Japanese puppet Governor of Honan Province (Shou Jui-chen). ...
Article : 233 wordsDARWIN, Wednesday.—In the early stages of a seven months' tour of 620,000 square miles of North Australia, the Bishop of Carpentaria (the Right Rev. ...
Article : 135 wordsNegotiations were completed with Australian National Airways yesterday for a series of charter flights for the interstate visits of the Roy Fox dance band. The ...
Article : 60 wordsPrice of gold, £7/8/6 (rise of ½d.) Exchanges.—Dollars 4/8¾; francs 176¾ guilders (Batavia). 8/9. Mines were quiet. Wiluna, 7/; Great ...
Article : 97 wordsSome anglers held that you should give a sword fish an even head when deep-sea fishing, Mr. G. L. McHenry told the Rotary Club yesterday. However, Zane Grey gave ...
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Advertising : 114 wordsThe need for a different appreciation of the importance of religion in education was emphasised by the Rev. Rex Mathias when he addressed Old Wesley Collegians ...
Article : 153 wordsAlmost under the noses of the Japanese, hundreds of little back-room factories are producing parts of trench mortars, which will later be smuggled piecemeal to the ...
Article : 45 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—A doctor, who examined the skeleton found near Warren on Thursday, to-day informed the detectives that it was the remains of an ...
Article : 186 wordsPrayers for the preservation of peace will be offered at a combined intercessory service at Scots Church at 12.30 p.m. to-day —the day preceding Herr Hitler's reply to ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 112 wordsThe 58th annual territorial congress of the Salvation Army will open in Melbourne to-day and will continue until May 2. ...
Article : 164 wordsTHE PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Menzies) and the Minister for Supply and Development (Mr. Casey) entering Parliament House, Canberra, after the new Federal Cabinet had been sworn in yesteday by the Governor-General (Lord Gowrie). This picture was brought to ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 43 wordsBRISBANE Wednesday.—Jugoslavian residents of the Mossman district (North Queensland) desire their country's alignment with the democracies. This morning ...
Article : 88 wordsLeft unconscious on the road after she had been struck by a utility truck. Evelyn Kennedy, aged 40 years, of Tennyson steet, St. Kilda, was admitted to the ...
Article : 125 wordsGratitude for the treatment given to her late husband 16 years ago lies behind the gift of £25 to the Royal Melbourne Hospital by Mrs. Melville Birks, ...
Article : 101 wordsThe Australian National Airways airliner Bungana is in the workshops at Essendon undergoing her annual overhaul. This will probably be finished on ...
Article : 63 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) emphasised to-night that his Government would adhere to the policy hitherto followed by the ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Minister for Education (Sir John Harris) visited Heldelberg yesterday to investigate the need for a high school. He was welcomed at the Heidelberg Town ...
Article : 69 wordsHOBART, Wednesday.—Tuna fishing will begin on a commercial basis in Taxmania next week. A fishing vessel, which was formerly a ketch, has been specially ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 27 Apr 1939, Page 11
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