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Article : 73 wordsFour naval ratings, T. R. Andrews, of Belfast, Edwards Matters, of Wales, John H. Cooper, of Liverpool, and John McBth, of Metherwell, ...
Article : 347 wordsAccording to the Buenos Aires correspondent of the American Associated Press, Acting-President Castilla told ...
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Article : 89 wordsThe Beirut correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says that all the accounts of suffering and famine in Greece and the heroic resistance by ...
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Article : 56 wordsCompared 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 wordsNotwithstanding regulations which demand the screening of lights facing the sea, thousands of street and house lights were visible along the ...
Article : 215 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.—The Yugoslav Government in London reveals that German artillery and dive-bombers completely demolished Eudnik ...
Article : 33 wordsAn expansion of munition factories in next six months will make a heavy demand on female labour the Minister for War Organisation of ...
Article : 79 wordsSqd.-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 wordsLONDON, Tuesday.—Lt.-Cdr. R [?]T. H. Fletcher has assumed the title of Lord Winster, Capt. W. Wedgwood Benn becomes Viscount Stansgate ...
Article : 41 wordsLONDON, Tuesday.—An Admiralty communique announces the loss of the destroyer Vimiera (900 tons). ...
Article : 14 wordsUnless the war situation in the Pacific becomes more threatening than at present it was announced to-day that all metropolitan schools will ...
Article : 82 wordsLYNN (Massachusetts), Tuesdsy.— A disastrous fire, which raged throughout the night, detroyed a large apartment building. Five victims have ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Minister for the Army (Mr. Forde) announced today that labour battalions, by conscription if necessary, were to be formed at once from ...
Article : 209 wordsHis Excellency the Governor-General (Lord Gowrie) received at Government House [?]Melbourne, yesterday, the Honourable John Curtin (Prime ...
Article : 131 wordsDesigned to cover the maintenance of stocks of certain dangerous drugs at first aid posts controlled by the National Emergency Services the ...
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Article : 54 wordsHaving promised the Senate Committee not to retain both offices, Mr. La Guardia, Mayor of New York, has to decide whether to give up the ...
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Article : 41 wordsNurse Dorothy Robertson, of the Maryborough General Hospital, claims that she is the world's smallest living baby. ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Australian Broadcasting Commission has sent to Malaya. Mr. Henry Stokes, a former Reuter correspondent and a well known radio ...
Article : 64 wordsAUCKLAND, Wednesday.—It was announced to-day that under the scheme for remedial treatment of men rejected from military service ...
Article : 34 wordsThe promotion of two morp Brigadiers to the rank of Major-General was announced tonight by the Minister for the Army (Mr. ...
Article : 59 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Broadcast listener's licences in New South Wales exceed 500,000. During December licenes in the Commonwealth ...
Article : 43 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—Since Japan's entry into the war selected police officers have slept at night at strategic points in the metropolitan [?] ...
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The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), Thu 22 Jan 1942, Page 2
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