ADELAIDE, Friday. — More than 400,000 men have been trained and equtpped in Australia for service with the ...
Article : 355 wordsQuestions arising from the regulations "freezing" petrol stocks were clarified by Senator McLeay, Supply Minister, yesterday. ...
Article : 319 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—Borrowings for civil requirements in 1941-42 were limited by the Loan Council tonight to a total of £ 20,000,000. This covers the programmes of the Commonwealth and ...
Article : 1,178 wordsNon inflamed opinion on the west coast of USA believes war in Pacific is inevitable. The public accepts this fnevitability with enthusiasm, ...
Article : 345 words[?] the denial by Mr. Eden, British Foreign Secretary, Japan believes that Britain, USA, China and NEI are attempting to encircle ...
Article : 331 wordsPrincipal German thrusts in the third offensive are apparently in the Ukraine, reports "The Times" correspondent on the German frontier. He writes that the wilhelmstrasse ...
Article : 575 wordsThe Battle of Russia is the most unpronounceable campaign of World War II. Communiques are peppered with place names in not only Russia, ...
Article : 325 wordsTwo hundred taxi-cabs less than the normal number plied foi service in Melbourne yesterday. The cabs were withdrawn from service in an ...
Article : 114 wordsGiving details of the Imperial troops sent to Greece and Crete and the numbers evacuated, according to the latest information, Capt. ...
Article : 122 wordsA delegation of British workers will vislt USA during the next few weeks to investigate the industrial war effort. They will comprise ...
Article : 279 wordsBritaln at present has 3 to one air superiority over the Luftwaffe in Western Europe, says New York Sun Superiorlty is due partly to ...
Article : 149 wordsIran is expected to grant Britain tranit facilities for supplies to Russia, says Istanbul correspondent of Associated Press. ...
Article : 76 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—Charle., Tarleton, 43, was recently found guilty by a jury of the murder at Chullora of Henry Hennoss on April 21; but, on ...
Article : 164 wordsSYDNEY. Friday.—Without waring about 200 ironworkers employed in the brass foundry of Austral Bronze Co. Pty. Ltd., Alexandria, ...
Article : 201 wordsWithdrawal of many private cars from service as a result of diastlc petrol rationing is indicated by car registration figures for July, when ...
Article : 115 wordsM.Speak, the Belgian Foreign Minister, and M. Malsky, Soviet Ambassatdor. met at the Foreign Office today, mid made arrangements to ...
Article : 36 wordsMr. Ickes, petroleum controller, said yesterday that the first shipment or petrol to Russia left, Los Angeles last week in steel drums on ...
Article : 47 wordsConsiderable success against Japanese troops in fighting on the Yangase River is reported by the Chinese Government. Three ...
Article : 49 wordsGovernment control of the plant of redcial Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company at Kearny, New Jersey, will probably be recommended ...
Article : 156 wordsWealths mines in the South Wales [?]alfleld arc not ylelding the quota they should to the war effort because the miners cannot get enough to eat. ...
Article : 273 wordsADELAIDE. Friday.—A gift to the Commonwealth of 20 drums of petrol is one of the earliest results of "freezing" of petrol by the ...
Article : 64 wordsWhen riding motorcycles along Hume Highway last night 3 soldiers were injured in a head-on collision near Fawkner. V. J. Langland and ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Sonate decided today by 33 yotes to 28 to extend the period of mllitary service by l8 months beyond the period for which the men were ...
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Advertising : 132 wordsDetails of mass seizure of French rolling stock found by the Allies among secret Vichy documents in Syria show how desperate are the ...
Article : 111 wordsBritain's newest tank, Sister of the "Crusader," has been named "Covenanter" by Lord Beaverbrook. It has a top speed of 40 m.p.h., [?]ut ...
Article : 150 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.— The bride was half an hour late and the bridegroom was 20 minutes early at the wedding tonight of Miss Betty ...
Article : 319 wordsThings seem to have changea out little in Tobruk after an absence of more than 2 months. The town is more battered, the dust still blows, ...
Article : 394 wordsMr. Duff Cooper, who will be British Minister in the Far East, left here yesterday for Singapore by clipper, but the flying-boat was forced back by ...
Article : 37 wordsTen million yards or cotton goods, suitable for uniforms for Chinese troops, have, states Mr. Morgenthau, Sceretary to the Treasury, been ...
Article : 36 wordsProduction of light tanks has increased many times since the beginning of the year. Upward of 225 a month are now being delivered. ...
Article : 66 wordsEnemy planes dropped bombs on the coastal area off Nicosia list night. A fen people were injuted, but ...
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Advertising : 15 wordsThe so-called "Doomed Battalion" of Imperial soldiers who took to the hills in Crete after the German occupation is commanded by a British ...
Article : 90 wordsEmphasising the improvement in the health of British troops in the Middle East compared with the last war, a senior medical officer stated ...
Article : 115 wordsLatest RAF awards include a bar to the DFC to Wing-Cdr. A. M. Bowman, of Tasmania, No. 39 Squadron. Citation says he has commanded a ...
Article : 149 wordsGreater successes for AA gunners when German bombers again at tacked Britain was predicted by Gen. Sir Fredrick Pile, C-in-C. A A ...
Article : 119 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—State Goyernments may haye £1,000,000 specially allotted to them for ARP work for this financial yeal. ...
Article : 141 wordsMore patrol activity is reported at Tobruk. Patrols in the frontier area shelled and dispersed enemy transports. ...
Article : 27 wordsM. Lozovsky, Soviet spokesman, denied reports of Russo-Japanese clashes on the Manchoukuo frontier. He added Russo-Manchoukuoan and ...
Article : 64 wordsRecord wartime aviation air traffic was created recently when British Airways had 6 services leaving the country, and 3 arriving from abroad. ...
Article : 88 wordsOn the bank of the Hoogli River the body of Sir Rabindranath Tagore, famed Indian poet, dramatist, and reformer, who died on Wednesday, ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 9 Aug 1941, Page 5
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