Royal Australian Air Force squadrons serving overseas will be more than doubled within a few months. This decision of the War Cabinet was announced by the Minister for Air (Mr. M'Ewen) to-night. ...
Article : 267 wordsOvertime was banned to-night by delegates from 70 unions witt 250,000 members in Sydney. The decision requires ratification by ...
Article : 419 wordsThe War Cabinet has approved the issue of badges to rejected volunteers for war service, men in reserved occupations, women ...
Article : 231 wordsTwenty men will leave Alexandria at 3.15 a.m. to-morrow for the wrecked aeroplane near the top of Mt. Tobrec. near Eildon ...
Article : 204 wordsAustralian warships have played a leading part in the assault on Italian positions in Libya. This was revealed to-night by the Minister for the Navy (Mr. Hughes), who said it was gratifying indeed to know that Australian successes ashore had been supported by ...
Article : 260 wordsThe names of two airmen who have been reported missing in the Middle East and an airman found drowned in England are contained ...
Article : 95 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Cosgrove) said to-day that, as far as the Government was aware, there was now no acute shortage of ...
Article : 278 wordsWith the release of another casualty list by the Ministry of Information to-night, the total of A.I.F. casualties in the ...
Article : 519 wordsA majority of the Federal executive of the A.L.P. has decided against holding a special Federal conference, as requested by the ...
Article : 97 wordsThe R.A.F. on Tuesday night attacked targets in the Dusseldorf area. The raid was not so heavy as the recent attack ...
Article : 385 wordsIt is reported from Struga that the Greeks are fortifying their lines in expectation of an early Italian counter-offensive ...
Article : 281 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Mr. Jones) announced to-day that a special naval training establishment would be set up in New ...
Article : 111 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—Striking seamen who have held up a ship in Sydney harbor since Saturday have agreed to a settlement "on the terms of the ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Federal Government would set up a small executive committee to deal with merchant shipbuilding in Australia, the Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) announced to-night. The proposal to create the committee was adopted by the War ...
Article : 157 wordsFive tons of stone crashed from the roof of an underground tunnel at the State coal mine to-day and killed Walter White (24), ...
Article : 77 wordsThe advance staff of the Japanese Legation to be established in Australia is expected in Canberra within the next two weeks. ...
Article : 93 wordsLAUNCESTON, Thursday. — Wool cheques worth about £700,000 will be paid to-morrow, when brokers in the North and South will render account ...
Article : 73 wordsHONG KONG, Wednesday. — Thai forces are reported in Bangkok to have reached the Mekong river and taken the first town on the bank in enemy ...
Article : 192 wordsEight Australian soldiers were killed and 27 wounded by bombs while unloading A.C.F. Christmas hampers from a lighter on ...
Article : 141 wordsLAUNCESTON, Thursday. — The conference of area school teachers and education officers which ended at Launceston, decided to recommend to ...
Article : 85 wordsTwenty-eight foreign ships have been placed on the black list by the British Government for continuously evading the British blockade and for ...
Article : 164 wordsThe release of the first of a group of Australian women trapped in Germany at the outbreak of war has been successfully ...
Article : 186 wordsFor the third night in succession no alert was sounded in London last night. In daylight raids yesterday, two ...
Article : 154 wordsThe first move to boycott beer in Queensland is being taken by the Brisbane branch of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters ...
Article : 65 wordsInformation regarding the fruit acquisition for the forthcoming season is not yet available, but the work of estimating the crop ...
Article : 190 wordsThe State Education Department already has lost 40 of its men teachers to the serving forces. Women teachers in the cities are ...
Article : 179 wordsDeclaring that Jehovah's Witnesses could not shelter behind neutrality, the Minister for the Navy (Mr. Hughes) said to-day ...
Article : 201 wordsIt is understood that at the meeting of the Loan Council next week the Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Fadden) will urge State Government representatives to consider seriously the question of reducing unemployment taxation. ...
Article : 213 wordsHOBART, Thursday. — The Lord Mayor's London Air Raid Relief Fund total now stands at £23,717/17/11. ...
Article : 19 wordsSir Bertram Stevens, former Premier of New South Wales, has been appointed Australian representative on a new Empire Supply ...
Article : 149 wordsMONTREAL, Wednesday.—At an East Canadian port, hundreds of German airmen who had been captured in Britain were landed from a British ...
Article : 70 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—Mr. Baddeley, M.L.A., deputy leader of the Official Labor Party, is drafting a bill for State control of coalmining in N.S.W., ...
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Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 - 1954), Fri 24 Jan 1941, Page 5
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