CANBERRA, Friday.—A drop of 2d. per lb. in the wholesale and retail prices of tea took effect throughout Australia from today. ...
Article : 184 wordsIn one of the bluntest speeches yet made by an Australian, Mr. Beasley, Supply Minister, yesterday warned Britain of the dire consequences to ...
Article : 484 words"Within the last 2 days the leading Australian newspapers have pressed for action to provide greater Allied air, land, and naval ...
Article : 678 wordsin the northern So[?]mon Group, where a Japanese landing has been made, Kieta is the centre of administration of the islands, which farmerly belonged to Germany and were included in Australia' s mandated ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 45 words"We cannot let Australia fall, just as we cannot let the British Empire fall," writes George Sokolsky. New York Sun columnist, in a stirring ...
Article : 409 wordsThere is apparently increasing contact in the east coast area, with the possibility of the Japanese developing a second thrust toward Singapore. Maj.-Gen. Bennett snld that an ...
Article : 323 wordsYou may look for peace about 1943.... Mussolini will bo "bumped off" in 3 or 4 months' time... Hitler will crack up about next May. So ...
Article : 577 wordsWhile the main body of the AIF has been in action against the Japanese in fairly solid bodies, patrol jobs have kept some of their ...
Article : 685 wordssetting off for on outing on the island of New Britain before entry of Japan into the war.. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 25 wordsWar Cabinet has decided that all factories, mines, dockyards, and workshops on defence work or munitions production, must work on, the ...
Article : 249 wordsWriting in the Evening Standard, under the heading "Send Them Planes by Air," Maj. Oliver Stewart, says: ...
Article : 421 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—The industrial relations council, which was formed to advise Federal Government on conversion of the nation to ...
Article : 522 wordsMr. Richard Windeyer, KC, of Sydney, in a letter to Daily Mail, [?]ays that hitherto Australia's burning sense of Empire unity has proved ...
Article : 205 wordsProduction of Army war planes in USA has been stepped up to a point where, with Britain's output, it will soon exceed the output of the Axis. ...
Article : 398 wordsIn giving his finding that the death of Lenin Pope, 20, of Fishermen's Bend military camp, was caused through misadventure when ...
Article : 188 wordsIn order to meet the convenience of employers in regard to provision of labour for employment in establishments engaged on war ...
Article : 68 wordsSYDNEY, Friday. — Evacuation of 800 women and children from Rabaul in 10 days by a fleet of civil aircraft will live as an epic ...
Article : 123 wordsThe executive committee of the Trades Hall Council made an appeal last night to workers engaged in essential industiies to work on ...
Article : 77 wordsHow a crew of Russian. Dutch, and Chinese seamen mutinied on a Jpanese-chartered ship and presented it from reaching Yokohama ...
Article : 96 wordsSuspension of Red Cross, Comforts Fund, and other patriotic activities, and the transfer of suitable members of those organisations to war ...
Article : 501 wordsExcept for key men, staffs at the head offices of the railways, tramways, and Board of Works will be on holiday on Monday. At Spencer ...
Article : 114 wordsThe RAAF is appealing for applications from male University students or men with an equivalent education for training as radio location ...
Article : 159 wordsCANBERRA, Friday. — If the Militia was put on the same footing as the AIF, Australia's war Budget would be increased by £10,000,000, ...
Article : 46 wordsMr. G. R. Strauss, Labour MP, will ask Capt. Margesson, Secretary for War, in the Commons for particulars of the difficulties ...
Article : 116 wordsBritain's advance in acrodrome defence from "the extraordinary, even alarmingly low" standard existing after the battle of France, ...
Article : 233 wordsWhile attempting a forced landing near Deniliquin, NSW, yesterday afternoon, an RAAF trainer plane spun off a steep turn and crashed. ...
Article : 80 wordsChinese bombers dropped 20 tons of explosives on a Japanese air base in Indo-China yesterday, causing heavy damage. All the Chinese ...
Article : 124 wordsBoilcrmakers employed at a Victorian dockyard decided yesterday to make a strong protest to Mr. Makin, Navy Minister, against the practice ...
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Advertising : 55 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—An appeal for quick and effective help for New Caledonia from Australia and USA was made today by M. Andre Brenac, ...
Article : 137 wordsLower house of the Anglican Convocation carried a resolution, with one dissentient, recommending Christian people to give practical ...
Article : 81 wordsThe Japanese have renewed their attacks on Batan Peninsula, on Luzon Island, in the Philippines, and Particularly heavy fighting is in ...
Article : 93 wordsAccording to an NEI communique slight air activity has taken place over many points in the outer provinces; with bombing and ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Air Ministry publishes a story obtained from Japanese sources of a British pilot's bravery during the enemy ...
Article : 93 wordsThe Archbishops of Canterbury and of York, Cardinal Hinsley, and leaders of the Free Churches have agreed to observe Sunday, February ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Pan-American Conference is still trying to overcome the hitch in the proposal to break off diplomatic relations with the Axis. ...
Article : 195 wordsMr. Stimson, Secretary for War, has announced that plans have been completed for the formation of a [?]egro infantry division and for a ...
Article : 60 wordsSYDNEY. Friday. — State schools in NSW will reopen on February 3 unless the war situation becomes worse. Some schools in the inner ...
Article : 50 wordsCircumstances under which 138 men were sent to Hong Kong with the Canadian Army without a minimum of training ...
Article : 115 wordsUnited Press says best-informed diplomats have finally abandoned hope of a separate Russo-Finnish peace. They point out that there ...
Article : 51 wordsArtillery practice will be carried out in the vicinity of Port Phillip Bay on January 26, 28, and 29. Southern Command states that the ...
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Article : 121 wordsThe Astronomer Royal, Dr. spencer Jones, recently completed the most accurate determination yet recorded of the sun's distance from the earth. ...
Article : 139 wordsSYDNEY, Friday. — A finding that Bruce Edward Holden, 17, a Cockatoo Island apprentice. died on January 4 as a result of "a very ...
Article : 96 wordsThe mail plane which crashed shortly after taking off from Gibraltar carried no prominent passengers. A message published yesterday ...
Article : 42 wordsThere were 2 alerts in Cairo on Thursday morning. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 24 Jan 1942, Page 3
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