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  2. Family Notices

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    Family Notices : 53 words
  3. BATTLE OF ROADS

    The present struggle in western Malaya might well be described as a battle for roads. The Japanese flanking move in Muarbatu area is ...

    Article : 421 words
  4. JAPANESE AIR RAID ON PACIFIC ISLANDS

    Enemy raids were launched this morning against Lorengau (Manus Island) and Kayleng (New Britain) in the Bismarck ...

    Article : 322 words
  5. NATIONALISING OF INDUSTRY

    Differences of opinion in Ministerial circles on important aspects of the Commonwealth Government's latest man-power ...

    Article : 388 words
  6. Display Advertising

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    Advertising : 103 words
  7. R.A.A.F. PILOTS

    Two Australian airmen are mentioned in the latest list of Empire awards for gallantry and outstanding service. ...

    Article : 154 words
  8. EAST INDIES

    In a radio message to the Netherlands East Indies the Lieut.-Governor (Dr. van Mook) said that the East Indies stood as a wall between the ...

    Article : 188 words
  9. ACTION WANTED NOT ORACLES

    FROM a cleft in the earth on the south-western spur of Mount Parnassus issued in ancient times a stream which caused a goat herd to gesticulate and dance in the most frenzied manner, uttering weird expressions which for some time were accepted as ...

    Article : 624 words
  10. INDUSTRY IN N.Z.

    Early additions to the list of essential industries was forecast today by the Minister for National Service (Mr. Semple). ...

    Article : 100 words
  11. SIAMESE TROOPS CROSS BORDER

    Siamese troops are reported to have crossed the Burma bolder near Myawaddi and fighting is now in progress north from Myawaddi. ...

    Article : 51 words
  12. SECOND NURSE CAVELL

    Mrs. Yvonne Roberts, a French woman who married an Englishman, and was called a second Nurse Cavell, for planning the escapes of hundreds ...

    Article : 165 words
  13. TOOLMAKERS

    The Minister for Aircraft Production (Senator Cameron) said to-day that there were men employed in railway workshops who could be ...

    Article : 73 words
  14. JAP. ATTACK ON BATTLESHIPS

    Four naval ratings, T. R. Andrews, of Belfast, Edwards Matters, of Wales, John H. Cooper, of Liverpool, and John McBth, of Metherwell, ...

    Article : 347 words
  15. ARGENTINA NOT TO BREAK WITH AXIS

    According to the Buenos Aires correspondent of the American Associated Press, Acting-President Castilla told ...

    Article : 46 words
  16. RADIO SERVICE TO CHINA

    The Postmaster-General (Senator Ashley) announced yesterday that a direct radio telegraph service between Australia and China was opened for ...

    Article : 120 words
  17. RESTRICTED AIR MAIL SERVICES

    The Postmaster-General (Senator Ashley) said yesterday that the Empire air mail service between Australia and the Middle East was still ...

    Article : 89 words
  18. PILLAGE OF GREECE

    The Beirut correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says that all the accounts of suffering and famine in Greece and the heroic resistance by ...

    Article : 112 words
  19. NAVAL CHARTERS BOARD

    CANBERRA, Wednesday.—By a notification published in the Commonwealth Gazette yesterday the Minister for the Navy (Mr. Makin) appointed ...

    Article : 56 words
  20. PRICE LEVELS

    Compared with the previous quarter, price levels making up the cost of living increased in the six capital cities and 30 principal cities and ...

    Article : 179 words
  21. LIGHTING BAN

    Notwithstanding regulations which demand the screening of lights facing the sea, thousands of street and house lights were visible along the ...

    Article : 215 words
  22. SLAV TOWNS DEMOLISHED

    LONDON, Wednesday.—The Yugoslav Government in London reveals that German artillery and dive-bombers completely demolished Eudnik ...

    Article : 33 words
  23. MUNITION FACTORIES

    An expansion of munition factories in next six months will make a heavy demand on female labour the Minister for War Organisation of ...

    Article : 79 words
  24. HEROISM OF PILOT

    Sqd.-Ldr. M. M. Stephens has been awarded the D.S.O. for climbing back into a blazing plane in midair and shooting down an enemy plane. ...

    Article : 100 words
  25. NEW TITLES OF LABOUR M.P.'s

    LONDON, Tuesday.—Lt.-Cdr. R [?]T. H. Fletcher has assumed the title of Lord Winster, Capt. W. Wedgwood Benn becomes Viscount Stansgate ...

    Article : 41 words
  26. DESTROYER LOST

    LONDON, Tuesday.—An Admiralty communique announces the loss of the destroyer Vimiera (900 tons). ...

    Article : 14 words
  27. SYDNEY SCHOOLS

    Unless the war situation in the Pacific becomes more threatening than at present it was announced to-day that all metropolitan schools will ...

    Article : 82 words
  28. DISASTROUS APARTMENT FIRE

    LYNN (Massachusetts), Tuesdsy.— A disastrous fire, which raged throughout the night, detroyed a large apartment building. Five victims have ...

    Article : 38 words
  29. LABOUR CORPS

    The Minister for the Army (Mr. Forde) announced today that labour battalions, by conscription if necessary, were to be formed at once from ...

    Article : 209 words
  30. PERSONAL

    His Excellency the Governor-General (Lord Gowrie) received at Government House [?]Melbourne, yesterday, the Honourable John Curtin (Prime ...

    Article : 131 words
  31. DRUGS FOR MEDICAL A.R.P. POSTS

    Designed to cover the maintenance of stocks of certain dangerous drugs at first aid posts controlled by the National Emergency Services the ...

    Article : 101 words
  32. DEATH OF WAR VETERAN

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Claiming to be the oldest surviving soldier from the first world war and a veteran of eight other wars, Harry ...

    Article : 41 words
  33. AIR PROTECTION FOR WEST INDIES

    U.S. Army Headquarters at Balboa, Panama Canal Zone, announces that the United States, co-operating with N.E.I., has sent air forces to Aruba ...

    Article : 54 words
  34. NEW YORK'S MAYOR

    Having promised the Senate Committee not to retain both offices, Mr. La Guardia, Mayor of New York, has to decide whether to give up the ...

    Article : 115 words
  35. RECALL OF R.A.A.F. PILOTS LIKELY

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday. — The War Cabinet at its meeting in Canberra next week is expected to agree to the recall of outstanding ...

    Article : 41 words
  36. 12-oz. BABY

    Nurse Dorothy Robertson, of the Maryborough General Hospital, claims that she is the world's smallest living baby. ...

    Article : 48 words
  37. A.B.C. BROADCASTS FROM MALAYA

    The Australian Broadcasting Commission has sent to Malaya. Mr. Henry Stokes, a former Reuter correspondent and a well known radio ...

    Article : 64 words
  38. N.Z. TREATS MEDICAL REJECTS

    AUCKLAND, Wednesday.—It was announced to-day that under the scheme for remedial treatment of men rejected from military service ...

    Article : 34 words
  39. ARMY PROMOTIONS

    The promotion of two morp Brigadiers to the rank of Major-General was announced tonight by the Minister for the Army (Mr. ...

    Article : 59 words
  40. RADIO LISTENERS

    MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Broadcast listener's licences in New South Wales exceed 500,000. During December licenes in the Commonwealth ...

    Article : 43 words
  41. POLICE GUARD

    SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Since Japan's entry into the war selected police officers have slept at night at strategic points in the metropolitan [?] ...

    Article : 32 words
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