The Defence Committee has affirmed its views that protective measures, including shelter protection and protection of vital plant, ...
Article : 399 words"Everything we celebrate today will not be celebrated 100 years hence unless victory is assured to our cause," Mr Curtin, Prime Minister, ...
Article : 623 wordsWithout display or pageantry because of wartime conditions, Melbourne yesterday celebrated the centenary of its incorporation as a ...
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Article : 542 wordsOverwhelming evidence that the right of collective as well as of individual worship is steadily and systematically being stamped out in ...
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Article : 388 wordsThe threatened closing of war plants because of shortages of raw materials has reached a point at which War Production Board is ...
Article : 191 wordsLandings by US marines in the Solomons had opened the door to an Allied offensive in the South Pacific said a statement issued yesterday by ...
Article : 319 wordsZurich says it is reported there that 60 high-ranking Rumanian officers have been arrested on the Russian front and in Rumania in ...
Article : 63 wordsDefence defaulters are being maintained in gaols at expense of States and this led to requests by Premiers at the Premiers' Conference ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Quartermaster-General's Department of the British Army has so far issued to troops 8,500,000 blankets,3,500,000 ground sheets, ...
Article : 123 wordsDuring the afternoon session of the conference of interstate ARP authorities it was agreed that the Commonwealth should arrange a school ...
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Article : 68 wordsDiscrepancies in the statement issued by the Mctropolitan Gas Company on the report of the investigating committee were pointed ...
Article : 178 wordsLord Gowrie, VC, Governor-General of Australia, has been appointed colonel of the Welsh Guards. He commanded the regiment from 1920 ...
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Article : 135 wordsOperations in the Solomons will be discussed by the Advisory War Council today. Preparations for the present battle were discussed at the ...
Article : 94 wordsThe German News Agency announces that Col Rlmington, of the British Army, was captured by a U-boat with other survivors from ...
Article : 61 wordsLAUNCESTON, Wed: On the ground that there was no evidence that a police constable had been authorised in writing by the Police ...
Article : 102 wordsGerman High Command announces that Maj Rudolph Pfianz was shot down and killed in combat with RAP fighters over France on July 31. He ...
Article : 98 wordsWar Department casts doubt on the recent story of air-markers pointing to important defence installations, which was officially released at ...
Article : 79 wordsRationalisation of the dry-cleaning industry was under review by the department, but it was not yet committed to any plan, Mr Dedman, ...
Article : 201 wordsParis Radio reports that "an incident in which terrorists were involved" occurred in a street of Paris on August 10. Machineguns were ...
Article : 68 wordsAll aspects of the military match in Melbourne streets last Friday are covered in several pages of pictures in, The Australattan this week. Many ...
Article : 143 wordsYesterday's communique from Gen MacArthur's HQ says: North-Western Sector: Timor: Allied medium bombers attacked enemy ...
Article : 111 wordsLionel Atwill, the actor has been indicted by the County Grand Jury on a charge of perjury arising from questions about reports of immoral ...
Article : 70 wordsClark Gable, film star, will be sworn in as a private in the Army Air Force today. Requesting assignment as an aerial ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Weather Bureau advises that considerable rises in rivers are expected in the next few days Rivers likely to be mainly affected are ...
Article : 71 wordsMarlene Dietrich, film actress, who was born in Germany, has been acclaimed America's leading war bond seller. The Trensury has awnrded her ...
Article : 36 wordsWearing slacks while ariving a motorboat at Jacksonville (Florida), Mrs C. F. Thompson caught her foot in the engine. She amputated it at ...
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Article : 101 wordsWar Cabinet yesterday approved a compensation scheme for members of the Emergency Civil Medical Practitioner Service under which all civil ...
Article : 57 wordsMiss Mavis Gully, of Melbourne, and Miss W. Long, also an Australian, are now on the Chungking staff of the British Ministry of ...
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Article : 46 wordsBRISBANE, Wed: Mr Makin. Navy and Munitions Minister, said tonight that the King had approved the Commonwealth Government's ...
Article : 45 wordsIn its annual report, which will be presented to the general meeting of members on Thursday, August 20, the committee of the Melbourne ...
Article : 177 wordsWAGGA, Wed: Mr Jack Rodham, farmer, of Uranquinty, on Tuesday night found quantity of military clothing on the bank of a creek ...
Article : 43 wordsMr and Mrs D.Tregonnlng, 14 Irllbarra rd, Canterbury, have been notified that their son, Plt-Off Ron Tregonning, RAAF, lost his life as a result of enemy ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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