The grave news from Singapore was discussed by Londoners in buses and tubes this morning, quietly, but with the kind of desperate patience reminiscent of the dark days of Dunkirk, Greece, and Crete. ...
Article : 262 wordsPraise for the thoroughness of last night's blackout was given by Mr. Dunstan, Premier; Mr. A. M. Duncan, chief A R P warden, and most district wardens. ...
Article : 921 wordsMr. Churchill presided over the first meeting of the Pacific War Council at No. 10 Downing Street yesterday afternoon. ...
Article : 264 wordsof a Vickers gun on an Australian-built RAN corvette the order to fire during trials in an Australian porr. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 22 wordsHow survivors of the garrison at Balik Papan (Dutch Borneo) boarded trucks, and, preceded by armoured cars, charged through the Japanese ...
Article : 335 wordsThis grim essay is not an interval Of your real life, transient and set apart. This is your life itself: live it with all ...
Article : 301 wordsCANBEERA, Wednesday. — Treasury officials, commenting on the new economic plan, pointed out that except in the manpower section ...
Article : 392 wordsfiring a gun aboard an Australian-built c[?]rvette during trials. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 12 wordsRussia's present attitude toward the war in the Pacific is immobilising al least 30 Japanese divisions, said Field-Marshal Lord Birdwood ...
Article : 104 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.—Lord Cowrie, Governor-General, has sent the following message to Maj.-Gen. [?]. Gordon Bennett at Australian ...
Article : 84 wordsGen Chiang Ka[?]-shek replying to speeches at a banquet in his honour at New Delhi, said that at Chungking he had promised Gen. Sir ...
Article : 333 wordsThe Times Singapore correspondent says that a visit to the naval base after the Navy had evacuated it was a moving experience Hardly ...
Article : 283 wordsAlong a line from Gazala Imperial troops are engaged with the main German column, which has pushed down the coastal road from ...
Article : 346 wordsWASHINGTON, Wednesday. President Roosevelt told his Press conference yesterday that the first objective of the Allies was to try to ...
Article : 176 wordsSeen from Fire Brigade lower, Eastern Hill:- 9.15 p.m.: Melbourne under brownout conditions. The sky deep navy ...
Article : 338 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—Bound in sheeting and weighted with 4 pieces of from resembling rail fishplates, the body of a one-legged man, William ...
Article : 257 wordsWhite the mined Normandie lies grotesqucly on her side in the Hudson naval authorities are non-committal on the question everyone is ...
Article : 317 wordsThe Spanish Foreign Ministry has issued a statement purporting to explain the bomb explosion at Tangier on Saturday, when 11 persons (6 of ...
Article : 117 wordsDelegates to the Australian industrial conference in Melbourne, called at the invitation of the Federal Government to consider ...
Article : 109 wordsWhile exercising an aircraft detector unit during the hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour. Staff-Sergeant Joseph Lockard ...
Article : 82 wordsThe pattern of Allied strategy in the Far East is taking specific shape. The Pacific War Council meeting in London coincided with important ...
Article : 168 wordsBALLARAT, Wednesday.—During the blackout tonight a motortruck who seen going down Sturt st. with its lights full on. The truck was ...
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Article : 166 wordsSix British minesweeper-trawlers, returning to their base, recently took part in the destiuction of 2 enemy bombers. It was snowing and ...
Article : 107 wordsFor courage, determination, and complete disregard for his own safety in rescuiug a wounded British officer near Tobruk on ...
Article : 279 wordsRepresentative McKeough in the House yesterday denounced a leader in the Chicago Tribune, and accused Col. Robert Mccormick, its ...
Article : 168 wordsThe majority of Victorian industrial leaders believe that Federal War Cabinet has taken the only effective means of ensuring a total ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 12 Feb 1942, Page 3
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