Results of many conferences which were held in London on the question of air strength in Malaya were described by Mr. Menzies, former PM, ...
Article : 350 words"The AIF is very fit, and is ready to do its best," was the message which Maj.-Gen. Gordon Bennett gave me for the Australian people ...
Article : 586 wordsSINGAPORE, Friday, AAP. The news that the Australians had gone into action at this critical stage acted like a tonic to the tired British troops, says Reuter's special correspondent ...
Article : 464 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—Mr. Curtin, Prime Minister, had said recently that Australia looked to USA in the Pacific war, and when the full story ...
Article : 279 wordsHow shall they sleep, the soldiers and the kings, When their rich, centuried dust is stirred and tossed ...
Article : 461 wordsThere is little prospect of a general delivery of milk in Melbourne tomorrow, but deliveries may be made to consumers in some eastern suburbs. ...
Article : 292 words"The battle for Libya has reached a temporary standstill, with the enemy on prepared positions between El Agheila and Marada," Cairo ...
Article : 533 wordsA long report. which violently indicts the "complete inefficiency of national defence production," and contains a warning that radical ...
Article : 224 wordsAlthough greatly outnumbered, Gen. MacArthur's forces in the Philippines are reported to be holding their positions NW of Manila. ...
Article : 432 wordsThe movement of the AIF from their former positions without any casualties is one of the great stories of Malaya. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 940 wordsFruitgrowers are maintaining their representations to Federal Government to permit the employment of prisoners of war in irrigation areas ...
Article : 121 wordsARARAT.—Before he left Willaura for Penshurst, Mr. H. E. Schmidt, of the staff of the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney, and Mrs. ...
Article : 583 wordsBecause of labour shortage and its far-reaching effects on primary industries, Mr. Dunstan, Premier, yesterday said he hoped the Federal ...
Article : 117 wordsLionel Wright pleaded guilty in the city court yesterday to the larceny of a Winchester repeating rifle, valued at £8, the property of S. ...
Article : 380 wordsMr. Stimson, Secretary for War, has announced to the Press that the Army has begun expanding to approximately 3,600,000 officers and ...
Article : 175 wordsNews of the torpedoing of the tanker Nomess (9,500 tons) 60 miles off Long Island, New York, has aroused concern ...
Article : 222 wordsAdvice 'has been received by Mr. R. C. Donaldson, of Union st., North Brighton, of the death of his third son, Sgt.-Pilot John ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 195 wordsPrevious acknowledged £9,419/5/2; Treasurer's Dept. of Tramways Board, £30; W.A.V., £7/7/: W. J. Grout, £4; Wytex Ptv. Ltd., Jocelyn Shaw, each ...
Article : 173 wordsLONDON, Friday. AAP. Stories of "bestial treatment of Russian prisoners in German camps, and of the Polish people in general, ...
Article : 287 wordsPrince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, only surviving son of Queen Victoria, died yesterday, aged 91. Born on May 1, 1850, at Buckingham Palace, ...
Article : 266 wordsDUIVENBODE, C. R. Capt., Cremorne, Art. KILLED IN ACTION, PREVIOUSLY REPORTED MISSING, BELIEVED PRISONER POCOCK, E. A., L-Bdr., St. Peters, Art. ...
Article : 302 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.— A fight between a man and a shark which had taken a woman's body was graphically described to the city coroner at ...
Article : 101 wordsNEW YORK, FRI., AAP. Tokyo Radio says that Britons and Americans who were captured at Hong Kong are now interned in an ...
Article : 87 wordsOn the retirement of Mr. A. W. Steane, head master of the junior technical school, he will be succeeded by Mr. C. F. Jeffery, of the ...
Article : 79 wordsWith Australia engaged in a total war effort the present was not opportune to introduce unemployment insurance, Mr. L. Withal, general ...
Article : 89 words"We must be cracked enough to do things which sensible men would not do in ordinary circumstances," said Mr. Donald Nelson, head of U-S ...
Article : 152 wordsWARRNAMBOOL. Friday.—Professor Copland, Commonwealth Prices Commissioner, who addressed a representative gathering of ...
Article : 70 wordsThe few surviving airmen of the small RAF Force in Greece and Jugoslavia were booed by British troops during the evacuation because ...
Article : 200 wordsMore than 50 Bendigo business and professional men were sworn in yesterday as special police reservists before Mr. D. J. Duggan, PM. ...
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Advertising : 29 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—A Temperance Alliance deputation to Mr. O'Sullivan, Transport Minister, claimed to-day that liquor bars on trains ...
Article : 77 wordsFor the second day in succession Malta on Wednesday had 14 air raid alerts within 24 hours. The communique which announces ...
Article : 98 wordsEnemy planes, shortly before dusk yesterday, bombed points on the NE Coast, causing damage and casualties. A raider swooped down over a ...
Article : 91 wordsGnr. Laurie Horne, who up to the time of his enlistment with the AIF was assistant track representative at Flemington for THE ARGUS has ...
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Advertising : 180 wordsCharles Lindbergh, who resigned his commission in the Army Air Corps last April, and who recently offered his services to his country, ...
Article : 63 wordsFollowing injuries received when she was struck by a car near her home, Mrs. Sarah Nickels, 56, of Queen st., Altona, was admitted to ...
Article : 38 wordsSYDNEY, Friday. — Employees who are on strike at the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation demanding reinstatement of 8 dismissed men ...
Article : 52 wordsAn Australian film unit headed by Jim Collins, former general manager of the State Theatre, Sydney, is now operating in the war areas in ...
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Article : 56 wordsA U-S submarine in the Far East has bunk a Japanese liner of 17,000 tons of the Yawata class. [Yawata Maru (16,500 tons), the ...
Article : 46 wordsRIO DE JANE[?], [?] The Brazilian Government Press Department declined to issue admittance cards for tile Pan-American ...
Article : 58 wordsHamburg and Emden were attacked last night for the second successive night by strong forces of British bombers, states the Air ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 17 Jan 1942, Page 3
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