"Thousands of English, Australian, and American soldiers are in Java at our side," said Lt.-Gen. ter Poorten, C-in-C NEI Army, in an invasion eve broadcast to Dutch, Indonesian, and Allied troops, in ...
Article : 620 wordsAfter viewing traffic lighting in the brownout from various points with other traffic officers during the week, inspector Fowles, chief of the ...
Article : 220 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—Further increases in prices of petrol and power alcohol blends, and lighting and power kerosene will take effect from ...
Article : 182 wordsThis year would be the most dangerous period in the shipping crisis, Mr. Alexander, First Lord of the Admiralty, told the House of ...
Article : 852 wordsThe Cockney conceives of England as three-parts covered by Greater London. Nowhere is more than a fourpenny bus ride from the ...
Article : 612 wordsat Wadhurst, which is to be vacated to enable Defence authorities to occupy the buildings, seemed unperturbed yesterday at the thought of leaving their present rooms and grounds. They will transfer to Grimwade House, MGS junior school in Caulfield. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 44 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—Rationalisation of banking business in country towns and in some suburbs for the purpose of releasing manpower for ...
Article : 214 wordsOn his arrival at Pndang (Sumatra) Maj.-Gen. Gordon Bennett told Dutch officers that the Australians fought gallantly right to the ...
Article : 392 wordsEvacuation of Rangoon is now almost complete, and only the police, demolition squads, and some essential workers and army men remain. ...
Article : 290 wordsAs a result of several offers wide dispersal of Wesley College, portion of which has been taken over by Defence authorities, will be avoided. ...
Article : 272 wordsDiscussing night parking of cars, Cr. Frank Beaurepaire, Lord Mayor, said yesterday that, while he was a believer in "street reasonableness," ...
Article : 242 wordsNetherlands authorities regard Java's position as serious, and make no secret of it, declaring that reinforcements in planes and ships alone ...
Article : 198 wordsCANBERRA, Friday. — Commenting on fears expressed by brokers that the Government's ban on speculation would cause the closing ...
Article : 73 wordsMore firefighters and equipment for firefighting in Victoria were absolutely essential for the safety of people in danger areas, Mr. Dunstan, ...
Article : 146 wordsThe Tokio newspaper Asahi Shimbun is credited by Berlin Radio with having stated that 200 Allied merchantmen were captured at ...
Article : 76 words"If we are to beat Hitler and win peace we must not only understand the minds of our enemies, but endeavour to understand our friends," ...
Article : 308 wordsSYDNEY, Friday. — After a retirement of 3 hours the jury in a murder trial found Cecil Raymond Ellem, 21, guilty of manslaughter. ...
Article : 112 wordsRAF medical officers are still puzzling how 2 members of the RAF ever survived to tell the stones of how they had received their extreme ...
Article : 185 wordsAn appeal by Sydney Albert Labb, of Barkly st., Carlton against his conviction and sentence of one month's impilsonment for vagrancy ...
Article : 83 wordsAccording to a Washington message, Mr. Stimson, U-S War Secretary, disclosed that just before Singapore fell, General Wavell ...
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Advertising : 38 wordsLast night Mr. Forde, Army Minister, had received no word of Maj.-Gen. Bennett's escape from Singapore. ...
Article : 86 wordsIf male volunteers cannot be recruited to dig slit trenches for airraid shelteis at Emily McPherson College of Domestic Econom, ...
Article : 334 wordsOne of the problems confronting the Federal Government is whether some action should be taken to curb excessive drinking, which is said to ...
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Advertising : 294 wordsMrs. Carmine Picciotto gave birth yesterday at St. Vincent's Hospital Staten Island to Siamese twindaughters, who are joined facing ...
Article : 65 wordsAllied Governments in London have issued a statement on the food position in Europe, revealing that starvation is due largely to ...
Article : 332 words"Target for Tonight," the film made by the Ministry of Information, featuring a typical bombing raid on Germany, has won another ...
Article : 78 wordsConsideiation is being given by the Department of War Organisation of Industry to the question of restrictions on the liquor industry. ...
Article : 101 wordsFit.-Lts. A.C.H. Wearne, of Midlands Junction, WA; A. V Hodgkinson of Sydney; and G. R. Thurston, of Perth, who did the same cadet ...
Article : 83 wordsFollowing a statement that the Government had "frozen" all supplies of milk from Bacchus Marsh, which had previously been bought ...
Article : 228 wordsEvidence is already accumulating of a sterner war effort which Sir Stafford Cripps demanded and promised. A further drastic cut in ...
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Advertising : 27 wordsAn appeal was made to members of the Methodist Conference yesterday by Rev. R. W. Macaulay, of Camberwell Presbyterian Church, ...
Article : 188 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—Full authority for air raid wardens, even to the point of arresting offenders, is favoured by Mr. Lazzarini, Home ...
Article : 51 wordsA Washington communique states that in a surprise thrust, Gen. MacArthur's troops on the Batan Penisular attacked sharply all along ...
Article : 122 wordsCommenting on the fact that the NSW Parliament could only sit in daylight hours because Parliament House was not blacked out, ...
Article : 50 wordsCANBERRA, Friday. — In certain circumstances the sale of farming and pastoral lands would be exempted from the National Security ...
Article : 145 wordsThrough Geneva, Japan has given permission to the world's committee of the YMCA to extend its War Prisoners' Aid Service to prisoners ...
Article : 153 wordsThe Building Trades Federation will appeal to members of affiliated unions to join ARP organisations in the arcas in which they live. Mr. ...
Article : 49 wordsAs a result of activities of the emergency committee dealing with rural fire prevention a great number of small towns which formerly had ...
Article : 86 wordsSYDNEY, Friday. — "If Mr. Lazzarini or anyone else thinks he can make a bettei job than I have done he can have a try," said Mr. ...
Article : 115 wordsHerald-Tribune's Washington correspondent says that an increasing number of U-S citizens as well as newspapers and politicians, both ...
Article : 43 wordsBRISBANE, Friday.—Because of the war the council of the Royal National Association has decided not to hold the Brisbane exhibition this ...
Article : 46 wordsHEYFIELD, Friday. — William John Shaw, 52. grazier, was found dead at his home at Glenmaggie this afternoon. His wife found him ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 28 Feb 1942, Page 3
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