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  2. SEES U.S.A. IN WAR SOON

    Again appealing to the people to face war production problems objectively, and to lose no time in putting in hand a coordinated, well-directed war effort, Cr. ...

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  3. AFTER HORATIUS

    ALL readers have been thrilled in their school days by Macaulay's immortal lay of Horatius, who guarded the approaches to a bridge over which the ...

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  4. FROM CIVILIANS TO SOLDIERS

    The process of turning civilians into soldiers of the A.I.F. worked smoothly and efficiently at Royal Park recruit reception depot yesterday, when an official party ...

    Article : 564 words
  5. "SMOKES" SHORTAGE

    So much of the October-June quota of cigarettes was consumed between October and December that rationing by manufacturers has become necessary. ...

    Article : 296 words
  6. LESS IMPORTED FOOD

    SYDNEY, Thursday.—To reduce the drain on oversea exchange and to increase the consumption of Australian primary products, the people of the ...

    Article : 295 words
  7. MISSIONARIES' TROUBLES

    Japan had been mobilising her resources, both material and spiritual, in order to secure the maximum national effort, and relations between the Korean ...

    Article : 261 words
  8. Family Notices

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  9. "BUILD SHIPS HERE"

    A strong plea to the Commonwealth Government not to pass over Victoria's proposals for development of large-scale shipbuilding at the Melbourne Harbour ...

    Article : 202 words
  10. Advertising

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    Advertising : 21 words
  11. The Argus

    News just released of the resistance at Tobruk shows that in this essential theatre of war Australians are again giving proof ...

    Article : 662 words
  12. SCHOOLMASTERS TO FORE IN BATTLE

    The days when school teacheis were considered to be academic, rather frightening, and very dull people sheltering behind thick-lensed spectacles, seem to be ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 329 words
  13. 655,000 EMPLOYEES IN FACTORIES

    CANBERRA, Thursday. — The number of persons employed in Australian factories at the end of March was 655,000— 51.5 per cent, more than in the ...

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  14. MINISTER TO CHINA

    SYDNEY, Thursday. — Sir Frederick Stewart, Minister for External Affairs, said to-night he was still hopeful that he would be able to announce within the ...

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  15. COASTAL PATROL

    Formation of a Volunteer Coastal Patrol in Victoria was begun yesterday, when a call was made for motor-boats and men to man them. ...

    Article : 172 words
  16. TRADE ESTIMATES

    CANBERRA, Thursday.—Value of Australian imports will be down £A13,000,000 in the current financial year, compared with 1939-40, Mr. Carver, Acting ...

    Article : 108 words
  17. CENSORSHIP CHANGE

    CANBERRA, Thursday. — Cable and wireless messages to Australian newspapers from Britain would no longer be subject to censorship in Australia if they ...

    Article : 135 words
  18. CRIPPLED IN BUSH

    BROKEN HILL, Thursday. — Crippled by a fall from his horse and suffering intense pain, an employee of Monnaminta Station spent two and a half days in the ...

    Article : 187 words
  19. MELBOURNE'S DANGER

    Daily we read of the devastation being wrought in Britain by bombing attacks from the air. "Total warfare" spares no one; the Nazis have shown a callous ...

    Article : 248 words
  20. JOAN OF ARC DAY

    Yesterday was St. Joan of Arc's Day. To celebrate the feast of the patron saint of France, members of the French colony gathered at her statue outside the Public ...

    Article : 140 words
  21. VICE-REGAL

    His Excellency the Governor-General (Lord Gowrie) received Mr. Fadden, Acting Prime Minister, at Government House, Canberra, yesterday. ...

    Article : 50 words
  22. TRADERS WARNED

    CANBERRA, Thursday. — A warning that compulsion would be used against traders who would not co-operate in the price control system was given to-day by ...

    Article : 85 words
  23. "PLAY BOYS" ATTACKED

    Attacking '"play boys" whom he described as "blasphemers dicing for gain at the foot of Christ's cross," Rev. P. W. Baldwin, of St. John's Church, Latrobe ...

    Article : 80 words
  24. PERSONAL

    Mr. P. F. G. Gordon, general manager of the Commercial Bank of Australia Limited, accompanied by Mrs. Gordon, returned to Melbourne by the Sydney ...

    Article : 109 words
  25. BANKS AND ENDOWMENT

    Full co-opcration would be given by the trading banks to the Government in the work, of cashing child endowment orders, said Mr. G. D. Healy, chairman ...

    Article : 92 words
  26. FEW ALIEN MIGRANTS

    CANBERRA, Thursday. — Only 58 allens were admitted to Australia in the first three months of this year, and they did not include any Germans or Italians, ...

    Article : 80 words
  27. A.I.F. DECORATIONS

    CANBERRA, Thursday.—Many members of the A.I.F. are to be decorated for their services in the Greek campaign. Mr. Spender, Army Minister, said ...

    Article : 70 words
  28. FARM LABOUR

    A women's land army and expansion of the employment section of the Labour Department to exercise closer control over seasonal workers are measures which ...

    Article : 107 words
  29. CHINA'S NEW ARMY

    China's munition factories, shifted inland from the coastal regions, were producing all her needs of light arms, Mr. F. K. T. Loh (Chinese Government ...

    Article : 190 words
  30. "ESCAPE FROM SING SING!"

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  31. STUDENTS IN LOFTS

    Living conditions of many University students, who have made their homes in disused stables and lofts of old homes in Parkville and Carlton, are to be ...

    Article : 174 words
  32. WOMEN WANT TO HELP

    No difficulty had been experienced so far in obtaining female labour for munitions works, Mr. Holt, Minister for Labour, said yesterday. ...

    Article : 135 words
  33. TRAINEES' LEAVE COMPLAINT

    Complaints were made yesterday that some universal trainees in Balcombe and Mt. Martha military camps had been denied leave this week-end because a ...

    Article : 144 words
  34. V.D.C. AGES 18-60

    A misunderstanding about enlistments in the Volunteer Defence Corps had been satisfactorily cleaicd up, said BrigadierGeneral C. H. Foott, Victorian ...

    Article : 103 words
  35. CURTAILING BUILDING

    CANBERRA, Thursday.—Hints of further curtailment of private building activities to divert more material and men to the war effort were given to-nignt by ...

    Article : 96 words
  36. TAXI DISPUTE ENDED

    Forty-eight drivers employed by the Red Top Taxi Service will resume work this morning. They have been unemployed since Tuesday, when the ...

    Article : 55 words
  37. FLOWER DAY TO-DAY

    Organised by joint committees of the Lord Mayor's Fund and the Flowergrowers' Association, Flower Day will be held in Melbourne to-day, and, it is ...

    Article : 57 words
  38. IMMUNISATION SUCCEEDS

    Toronto, Canadian capital, with a population of 648,000, did not report one case of diphtheria in the last year, according to information received ...

    Article : 46 words
  39. TEXT FOR TO-DAY

    "Do good, O Lord, unto those that be good, and to them that are upright in their hearts."—P[?]alm cxxy.[?] ...

    Article : 23 words
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