Great as Australia's war effort has been, recent developments abroad have been so grave as imperatively to demand further expansion of war ...
Article : 563 wordsSHIPPING difficulties and defence considerations are expected to throw into prominence once again the question of the unification of Australian railway gauges. It is likely that the matter will be raised at an early meeting ...
Article : 299 wordsMr Arthur Blakeley, former Minster for the Interior, who has ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 75 wordsMr F. H. Rowe, the deputy chairman of the Repatriation ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 64 wordsLegal experts had examined constitutional aspects of the Commonwealth Government's child endowment scheme, and were convinced it could not be successfully challenged, it revealed to-night. ...
Article : 222 wordsSince the ban of overtime in the metal trades was imposed on January 11, about £150,000 had been lost by employes in overtime ...
Article : 77 wordsCasualty lists for Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland were issued by the Minister for the Army (Mr. Spender) to-night. Six ...
Article : 260 words"Holland's reactions to the Nazis," said Mr. Van Kleffens, the Dutch Foreign Minister, "may be summed up in two words: intense ...
Article : 717 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—The suggestion that every man who enlisted for service should be asked on enlistment to give the name of some person who ...
Article : 111 wordsIn spite of the Nazis' redoubled efforts to cut oil Britain's communications with the rest of the world, Britain's ships are still ...
Article : 903 wordsWhen the Australian Newsprint Mills Pty. Ltd.'s huge paper-making machine at Boyer settled down, with a subdued hum, to continuous ...
Article : 719 words"Kisses will be forbidden in future letters between R.A.N. sailors and their girl friends," a naval spokesman said to-day, ...
Article : 56 wordsSnow on the Albanian mountains, rain and fog have impeded activity in the battle zone, but the Greeks carried out ...
Article : 150 wordsThe Minister for Air (Sir Archibald Sinclair), in a speech on the British air offensive, paid a tribute to the Australians' lighting ...
Article : 437 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.—A fifth R.A.A.F. flying school for intermediate and advanced Empire air trainees would be established at Uranquity, 14 ...
Article : 62 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.—The Navy Department announces that Leading Seaman Kenneth G. Hedley, R.A.N., and Leading Seaman Robert ...
Article : 57 wordsBlack-out regulations proclaimed in Wellington to-day require immediate disconnection of all electric advertising signs which emit ...
Article : 86 wordsHOBART, Wednesday.—Alfred Alexander Den choy, who was found guilty the previous day of unlawfully wounding, was sentenced to ...
Article : 68 wordsA blackwood casket containing ten sovereigns was presented to the Governor (Sir Ernest Clark) to-day, to be ...
Article : 94 wordsAt a meeting of district officers of the Northern Division of the Land Army it was stated that the Army had been affiliated with the Women's ...
Article : 199 wordsWar expenditure in Australia for the current financial year may be considerably less than that provided for when the Federal budget was passed by Parliament late last year. Total expenditure was estimated at £200,000,000 for this ...
Article : 102 wordsSpecial adjustment will probably be made by the Federal Government of income tax payments by universal trainees who, under the ...
Article : 145 wordsDrastic powers have been assumed by the Federal Government to prevent deliberate or accidental interference with defence and other ...
Article : 197 wordsFederal plans for building merchant ships in Australia are already so far advanced that the first keels will be laid before ...
Article : 108 wordsWASHINGTON, Wednesday.—United States naval circles declined to comment, on a New Caledonia report that units of the United States Fleet ...
Article : 65 wordsPrince Konoye, the Japanese Prime Minister, declared in reply to a question in the Lower House iu Tokio to-day that the Japanese ...
Article : 185 wordsThe Minister for Air (Mr. M'Ewen) announced to-day details, of ranks and uniforms for the newly-formed Women's Auxiliary ...
Article : 295 wordsReports from reliable quarters in Sofia suggest there is no likelihood of Russian intervention to check German aggression in the Balkans. A suggestion that Russia has already informed the Balkans States that she is not prepared to help them against Germany is regarded in diplomatic circles as unlikely, but ...
Article : 253 wordsHOBART, Wednesday.—Proceedings before Cliief Justice Morris in the Criminal Court at Hobart to-day during the second day of the trial of ...
Article : 81 wordsHOBART, Wednesday.—Albert Reuben Burnside, Ronald Burnside, Florence Emily Watt and Ruby Evelyn Drew appeared before Mr. Justice ...
Article : 221 wordsHOBART, Wednesday.—In conformity with recently-passed legislation, the Government will have two representatives on every fire brigade board ...
Article : 104 wordsAll New South Wales stores will be asked to keep three months' food supplies always in stock as a war emergency measure. ...
Article : 86 wordsBATAVIA, Wednesday.—Dramatic and unexpected happenings added to the reality of Batavia's first three nights of blackout. A bomber ...
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Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 - 1954), Thu 27 Feb 1941, Page 5
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