The highlights of the Pacific war today were the intensified bombing of the Philippine Islands, including large scale damage in Manil a, the reported landing on the Philippine island of Lubang, 80 miles south-west of Manil[?]a, and the Japanese claim to have occupied Guam—an important American Mid-Pacific base—and the ...
Article : 1,418 wordsVigorously determining what are essential war measures and a stepping up of Australia's defence projects, the Commonwealth Cabinet to-day reached important decisions. They were: ...
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Advertising : 342 wordsNew constitutional procedure, based on the constitutional theory that King George is King of Australia as well as of Britain and that ...
Article : 132 wordsIsolated coastal showers, otherwise fine, warm day, cool, misty night; moderate to fresh south-east to south-west winds. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe American Navy and Maritime Commission are now ready to begin the arming of all merchantmen to the Pacific and to start convoys keep ...
Article : 137 wordsFOR the first time, Australia has declared war in her own right. The declaration of war with Japan was not merely an adoption of the status of war declared to be existent between the United Kingdom Government and the Empire of Japan, as happened ...
Article : 364 wordsThe Japanese, who, attempting landings in Malaya, were evidently surprised by the strength of the defences. The ...
Article : 285 wordsThe night air service will be maintained between Melbourne and Sydney even though the Government has commandeered several of the ...
Article : 115 wordsThe British Government has sent a message to Japan, Finland, Hungary and Rumania advising that Britain intends to comply strictly with the ...
Article : 57 wordsThe German military spokesman admitted to-day, that the winter was interfering with German plans in Russia. He said that the German army did not expect the capture of Moscow this year. ...
Article : 411 wordsMajor-General Victor W. Odlum, who is due to take the place of Mr. C. J. Burchell as the Canadian High Commissioner in Australia, left ...
Article : 130 wordsAustralian land forces have not yet been in action; they are manning defensive areas, fully prepared for what may come. I spent last ...
Article : 85 wordsFor the purpose of stimulating increased industrial activity in support of the war effort, a special meeting of Union secretaries and organisers has ...
Article : 58 wordsAll aid to the Commonwealth Government in ensuring a maximum coal production and all possible assistance in construction of deep air ...
Article : 70 wordsJapanese air raids so far do not seem to have shaken Singapore residents out of their normal ways of life. Radio monitors of the Department ...
Article : 51 wordsThe representative of the American National Broadcasting Corporation at Manila mentioned in a broadcast tody that terrific dmage was caused by ...
Article : 203 wordsBecause of the number of nations involved in the war, the exchange of Australian and Japanese Legations is providing a problem for the ...
Article : 184 wordsThe outbreak of war in the Pacific has stimulated recruiting in Canberra and both Kingston and City offices have had a continual stream ...
Article : 83 wordsHis Excellency the Governor-General (Lord Gowrie) presided at a meeting of the Federal Executive hold in Melbourne yesterday morning. ...
Article : 33 wordsAir Force headquarters report that Australian bomber and fighting squadrons were operating in Malaya; they wers equipped with ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 82 wordsThe Minister for the Navy (Mr. Makin) to-day said that so far as the Navy Department was concerned, all vulnerable points had been manned. ...
Article : 110 wordsDominican Republic declared war on Japan. Argentina conformed the United States that in view of Japan's ...
Article : 100 wordsMELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Stocks of fertilizers held in Australia were sufficient for this season, stated the British Phosphate Commission today[?] ...
Article : 37 wordsMELBOURNE, Tuesday. — The Postmaster-General (Senator Ashley) announced that the extra halfpenny postage war tax would come into ...
Article : 42 wordsMELBOURNE, Tuesday.— Large stocks of drugs and other Medicast supplies have been built up in Australia to meet any emergency. ...
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The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), Wed 10 Dec 1941, Page 2
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