People should not be content with merely drawing their window blinds at night but should prepare their homes for a complete blackout, ...
Article : 299 wordsUSA's naval losses at Hawaii on December 7 were one battleship, 3 destroyers (2 of which visited Australia in March), a minelayer, and a training ship; other vessels were damaged severely, including a ...
Article : 796 wordsA wartime policy for the guidance of industrial unions was adopted by the full executive committee of the ACTU in Melbourne yesterday. ...
Article : 482 words"The enemy has been outmanocuvred and outfought at all points, and driven back more than 60 miles," Gen. Sir Claude ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 460 wordsto which British forces have withdrawn from Kowloon. The Hong Kong garrison is now being subjected to severe Japanese attacks. The island itself is little more than an irregular range of hills rising sharply from the sea. On ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 66 wordsA suggestion that an early revision of priority provisions might be made by the Commonwealth in regard to air raid shelters was made ...
Article : 483 wordsAn analysis of national debt increases for 5 major nations during 1930-40, published today by the U-S Federation of Tax Administrators, ...
Article : 372 wordsI have Just returned from a second trip to the Australian defences on the east coast, and there found what a few weeks ago was a ...
Article : 410 wordsThree hours 40 minutes after the Japanese attack on the Hawalian Islands had begun on December 7, Mr. Grew, U-S Ambassador In Tokio, ...
Article : 368 wordsRailways, tramways, and electricity departments have plans well In hand to play their part in blackouts. ...
Article : 216 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday,— Applications from all parts of Australia for enlistment in the RAAF have increased 6 times since outbreak of the ...
Article : 84 wordsMembers of the Plumbers and Gas Fitters' Union endorsed last night a recommendation by the executive committee, that the services of Mr. ...
Article : 90 wordsPremature explosion of a bomb killed 2 would-be saboteurs who intended to cut the JohannesburgLourenco Marques railway on ...
Article : 110 wordsA number of ex-American pilots from 3 Eagle squadrons operating with the RAF Fighter Command has applied for return to America. They ...
Article : 107 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday. — Aimed at "streamlining" arbitration, National Security Regulations have been gazetted requiring notification to ...
Article : 227 wordsMr. William Cust, whose death occurred in private hospital at Brighton on Monday, was one of the oldest of Victorian colonists. Born ...
Article : 140 wordsIn the event of air raids, Essendon Grammar School will, if possible, evacuate as a complete unit to Hamilton, and under its own staff, ...
Article : 64 wordsAuthorisation for expansion of the U-S Navy was approved quickly to-day by the House Naval Affairs Committee. At the Navy's request the ...
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Article : 67 wordsToday's Italian communique reports raids by British aircraft on places in the "heel" of Italy, on the east coast of Sicily, and on ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Times says in a leader that Australia and New Zealand are facing the new danger confronting them with high courage and cheerful ...
Article : 133 wordsAn Australian spitire pilot preparing to made a forced landing at Dagenham (Essex) circled a few feet over the town's fire and ...
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Advertising : 23 wordsVichy says that Italy has agreed to free all French war prisoners. The first batch has arrived at Grenoble. A Washington message says that ...
Article : 71 wordsThe House of Representatives Military Affairs Committee today approved a bill permitting the War Department to conscript men aged ...
Article : 53 wordsAnother service of the Germancontrolled Condor airline—that operating across Uruguay and Argentina to Santiago—was suspended today. ...
Article : 37 wordsLend-Lease aid approved for the Allies totalled $1,202,000,000 to November 30, but actual Lend-Lease exports to December 1 amounted to ...
Article : 312 wordsAn Air Ministry communique states:—"One of our fighters is missing from a patrol over the English Channel today, after engaging an ...
Article : 63 wordsThe whole of the Victorian coastline and some inland districts were now prohibited areas, and enemy aliens were now forbidden to travel ...
Article : 107 wordsFirst WAAF flight mechanics are now working at a big RAF training station in the South of England. In a recent examination WAAF ...
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Advertising : 54 wordsBerlin Radio says that U-boats attacked a squadron of British cruisers oft Alexandria. It is claimed that one cruiser was hit and broke ...
Article : 44 wordsIt was revealed today by Mr. G. H. Ince, Director-General of Manpower, that 12,000 women are entering industry and war services ...
Article : 69 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.—"It is not my intention at this stage to prevent people for purely military reasons from holidaying at the seaside at ...
Article : 134 wordsIt is officially announced that submarine Tetrarch is overdue, and must be considered lost. She normally carried a complement of 53. ...
Article : 147 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday. — Senator Ashley, PMG, said today that Cabinet yesterday authorised immediate expenditure of £50,000 for provision ...
Article : 133 wordsThe Vichy Government has ordered the majority of factories to close down for 2 weeks from December 21 because of the shortage of ...
Article : 49 wordsBritish bombers last night attacked the docks at Ostend and Brest and laid mines in enemy waters. Fighters attacked an enemy ...
Article : 44 wordsThe House of Representatives to-day passed and sent to the Senate legislation providing the death penalty for sabotage. ...
Article : 26 wordsHeaviest bombardment by German cross-Channel guns was experienced by Dover area today. Shelling continued for 3 hours. ...
Article : 24 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday. — Sale of land to former subjects of Finland, Hungary, Rumania, and Japan who are now naturalised British subjects ...
Article : 58 wordsDynamite was today thrown into a requisitioned Paris restaurant. Serious damage was caused, but there were no casualties. Another attack ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wed 17 Dec 1941, Page 5
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