Heralded by sheets of vivid lightning and violent claps of thunder, a cloud burst over Melbourne yesterday afternoon, and within half an ...
Article : 482 wordsCANBERRA, Thurs: An Increase in the rate of sales tax from 10% to 12[?]% on goods in the general field, and from 20% to 25% on less ...
Article : 499 wordsACK-ACK GUNS ARE READY FOR ANY INVASION. Above, left—A Us divebomber gun crew at its station. Right—A US Ack-Ack gun crew completes protection of its gun emplacement. Below, left—US anti-parachute troops going into action. Right—Heavy Ack-Ack guns of the US Army rear their menacing muzzies from unlikely places near strategic points round Australia. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 55 wordsHarold Guard, US war correspondent, in a despatch which was published in newspapers yesterday, describes experiences on his first ...
Article : 867 wordsAttacks were made and hits by bomb and torpedo registered by planes on the watch for convoys taking reinforcements and supplies ...
Article : 197 wordsNews from Burma is critical in the extreme says Daily Mail. The Japanese have reached Lashio, and we must now be prepared for total ...
Article : 475 wordsAccording to the 1942 yearbook of the Travellers' Insurance Company, New York, 40,000 Americans were killed, almost 1,500,000 were injured, ...
Article : 233 wordsWhile Italian sources semi-officially deny reports that Italy desires a separate peace, Mr Ward Price in Daily Mail asks what is behind secret ...
Article : 240 wordsSYDNEY, Thurs: The hearing of the case of 2 RAN stokers who are at Long Bay gaol under sentence of death on a charge of murder was ...
Article : 264 wordsCANBERRA, Thurs: Debate on the notice of motion by Mr Blackburn (Lab, V) lo disallow Regulation 77 was resumed in the House of ...
Article : 953 wordsSYDNEY, Thurs: Two fresh stoppages occurred in the mining industry today at John Darling mine, in the north, and at South Clifton, ...
Article : 359 wordsPercival Jones. 42, gardener of no fixed address, was sent to gaol for 7 days by the City Court Bench yesterday on a charge of having been ...
Article : 164 wordsConstable Thomas Kelso Hay, 36 was fatally injured in a gun accident at Boomahnoomoonah, near Cobram, on Tuesday. For the ...
Article : 238 wordsLack of co-ordination between the Allies had enabled Japan, after 4 years of exhausting war against China, to win notable victories in ...
Article : 223 wordsSince prices of raw wool had risen appreciably overseas, especially in USA, the average price of wool should certainly be raised to at least ...
Article : 94 wordsBack to the Middle East this week carne a group of RAAF men who have been fighting the Japanese from Sumatra to Rangoon. They ...
Article : 395 wordsThe directors of the Myer Emporium issued the following statement yesterday: "The directors of the Myer ...
Article : 214 wordsThe following goods at present subject to 5% sales tax will be exempt as from May 1, 1942: Fishing equipment (and parts therefor), ...
Article : 650 wordsPrices of potatoes fell again yesterday. Compared with a week ago, best quality have declined about £3/15/. and medium grades about £4/10/ a ...
Article : 64 wordsHAMILTON, Thurs: Charged today in the Hamilton Court of Petty Sessions with failure to notify a change of address and failure to serve when ...
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Advertising : 192 wordsSteps are being taken to break the serious shipping bottleneck by the establishment of a network of coastal port agencies, which will expedite ...
Article : 96 wordsBendigo Rotary Club members who contribute to Red Cross parcels for the Prisoners of War Fund were gratified to hear yesterday that these ...
Article : 233 wordsFighter pilots in yesterday's offensive over North France were met on their return by the King, to whom they described their engagements. ...
Article : 235 wordsDr Juan Antonio Rios, Chilean President, has sent the following birthday congratulations to Hirohito: "I am honoured to present cordial ...
Article : 29 wordsThe body of Lt-Cdr Esmonde, VC, who was shot down while leading the Swordfish torpedo planes against the escaping German battleships ...
Article : 48 wordsNorwegian Information Office says enormous defence preparations are going on throughout the county of Trondelag, in which Trondheim is ...
Article : 110 wordsTwenty-two Shorthorn and Black Poll cows from the Metropolitan Board of Works farm offered yesterday at the cattle sales were of more ...
Article : 187 wordsCANBERRA, Thurs: Regulations are about to be gazetted containing a reserve power compelling medical practitioners, if necessary, to remain ...
Article : 67 wordsSir Thomas Beecham was conducting the opera Romeo and Juliet at the St Denis theatre, Montreal, last night, when he turned on ...
Article : 64 wordsUnder the terms of the will of the late Edward A. Austin, formerly MLA for Geelong and secretary of the Geelong Grammar School ...
Article : 186 wordsBENDIGO, Thurs: Bendigo Football League has decided that no competition football will be played this season. Mr B. L. Rogers stated, ...
Article : 92 wordsAccording to Mr William Davis, chairman, the War Labour Board would not freeze wages under President Roosevelt's anti-inflation ...
Article : 62 wordsA Tokio broadcast picked up here said that the Japanese were "preparing to fight a 100 years' war," for which Emperor Hirohita was ...
Article : 57 wordsRita Hayworth, the film actress, explains that she is seeking a divorce from Edward C. Judson, "because he proved more of a manager than a ...
Article : 70 wordsIrving Berlin has arrived at Camp Upton (Long Island) to arrange for the production of "This is the Army." which is to be staged on Broadway ...
Article : 99 wordsSTORM WATER SWEEPING DOWN ELIZABETH STREET, MELBOURNE, YESTERDAY, after sudden thunderstorm had turned some streets running rivers. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 19 wordsBister Kenny delivered a lecture to 500 distinguished doctors at a meeting of New York Medical Society, when she demonstrated her methods ...
Article : 97 wordsToday's GHQ communique says both sides were active yesterday, when our light mobile forces drove off small enemy columns, including ...
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Advertising : 104 wordsAs a result of an appeal to suburban and other gardeners to grow onion seed as a gift for home gardeners of Great Britain, it is ...
Article : 79 wordsMr Henderson, Price Administrator, said that standard newsprint price would remain at $50 a ton as the result of a regulation issued ...
Article : 30 wordsA message from Phœnix (Arizona) says "crapshooting," the American soldier's favourite form of gambling, has been declared legal by Superior ...
Article : 66 wordsCuba has granted do facto recognition of Free French control over 5 French territories, and will deal exclusively with them through the ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 1 May 1942, Page 3
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