The formation of an australian armoured corps and the manufacture in Australia of [?]anks were two important defence measures decided upon by the War Cabinet to-day. The corps wil embody all arms in the Australian Military ...
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Family Notices : 232 wordsThe Admiralty announces that Lieut-Commander W. E. Fletcher, commanding the trawler H.M.S Haslemere, lost his life in ...
Article : 282 wordsMILITARY experts are confident that the fall of Tobruk is imminent. This is attributed to General ...
Article : 858 wordsThe economic strength of Great Britain could not be more clearly evidenced than in large-scale operations such as the purchase of a ...
Article : 488 wordsREPORTS of the bombing of Britain convey an inadequate idea of the extent to which the forces of destruction have cast down the work of centuries. Indiscriminate bombing may have failed to inflict that measure of damage to the British ...
Article : 492 wordsThe Greek Minister for Marine has announced that a flotilla of Greek destroyers last night entered the Valona roadstead, unm[?]ested, shelled ...
Article : 166 wordsAn order will shortly be made, coming into operation on Monday next making it illegal to sell a large range of unrationed foodstuffs at ...
Article : 170 wordsWilliam Warnock, the Eirean charge d'affaires[?] lodged [?] with the Wihelmstrasse against the bombing of Eire. ...
Article : 147 wordsThe British Red Cross has been advised that a special ship carrying 20,000 parcels for prisoners of war in Germany has arrived at ...
Article : 119 wordsParties in the dispute at the Commonwealth Steel Company's works at Newcastle, failed to arrive at an agreement to-day as to the conditions ...
Article : 120 wordsMOSCOW, Wednesday.—"Izvestia" states that Soviet oil production ir 1940 exceeded that of 1939, but did not reach schedule. The newspaper ...
Article : 42 wordsLabour members of the Advisory War Council at to-day's meeting outlined a number of matters they desired the Prime Minister to raise if ...
Article : 102 wordsLISBON[?] Wednesday.—Mr. Harry Hopkins, who has been appointed as President Roosevelt's personal representative in London, has arrived ...
Article : 35 wordsANKARA, Wednesday.—The Assembly has agreed to a request by the Defence Minister for the extension of the service of all classes ...
Article : 34 wordsIn view of the present situation, the Pope has absolved the people of Italy from fasts and abst[?]nences in 1941, with the exception of Ash ...
Article : 79 wordsA motion proposing a ban on overtime after 0 p.m. to forestall the raising of the "new Commonwealth taxation was not put to the vote at ...
Article : 79 wordsHis Excellency the Governor-General (Lord Gowrie) has received the following message from His Royal High[?] the Duke of Kent:— ...
Article : 124 wordsWASHINGTON. Wednesday.—Admiral' Towers, chief of the Naval Aeronautics Bureau, told the Nava[?] Committee of the House of ...
Article : 43 wordsA 17-year-old baker's boy. James Pendleton, deserted from the [?]ner Rangitane shortly before it was sunk by a raider. ...
Article : 85 wordsWASHINGTON, Wednesday.— Exports of United States war material to Britain, during November totalled 18,000,000 dollars, of which 8,000,000 ...
Article : 32 wordsLord Baden Powell, the world's Chief Scout has died. He passed away at 6.10 a.m. His last message to the Boy Scout ...
Article : 109 wordsHis Excellency the Governor-General (Lord [?]owrie) attended by BrigadierGeneral A, T. Anderson, inspected Military Units in camp at Bonegilla, ...
Article : 27 wordsNAIROBI, Wednesday.—The Belgian Minister for Colonics (M. Vleeschauwer) after arriving here, stated that a complete British and Belg[?] an ...
Article : 59 wordsAlthough there is no confirmation in London, the Stockholm correspondent of Reuter states that Danish miners on their arrival in ...
Article : 86 wordsSouth Coast hotel keepers are to hold a meeting to-morrow to review the position created by the beer strikers. ...
Article : 72 wordsAustralia in the last few weeks has sold 10,000,000 bushels of wheat to overseas countries, bringing the total overseas sales from last ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 91 wordsCabinet, in deciding to adhere more strictly to 6 p.m. closing time regulations, never intended that bars should be absolutely empty at that ...
Article : 71 wordsCAIRO, Wednesday.—According to an R.A.F. spokesman, over 500 Ita[?]an planes were shot down in Africa after Italy's entry into the war. ...
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The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), Thu 9 Jan 1941, Page 2
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