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Article : 182 wordsCaptain Frank Hurley's films of the fighting in the Western Desert are expected to arrive in Australia about Christmas Day. They are the only ...
Article : 189 wordsAll tram services will stop in Adelaide to-morrow at noon as a result of two mass meetings of tramway employees held to-day. The second meeting finished at 11 p.m. ...
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Article : 52 words"The world will soon be given a fresh declaration of our war aims," said the Minister for Economic Warfare, Dr. Dalton, to-day. ...
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Article : 294 wordsAn Australian commercial air service, linking Darwin with Dilli capital of Portuguese Timor, will be authorised by the Civil Aviation Department. ...
Article : 241 wordsAn important new principle of import control was announced in Canberra to-day by the Minister for Trade and Customs, Mr Harrison, in a ...
Article : 270 wordsNow awaiting court-martial in England is a deserter from the A.I.F. who succeeded in putting 600 miles of the Atlantic Ocean between himself and the ...
Article : 239 wordsThe release of 30 aliens interned in Australia has been authorised, announced the parliamentary Under-Secretary for Home Affairs, Mr. Peake, in the House of Commons ...
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Article : 93 wordsPresident Roosevelt's forthright approach to the question of additional help for Britain has evoked the greatest interest in Britain. ...
Article : 92 wordsThe George Cross has been awarded to Lieutenant J. M. S. Patton, a Canadian engineer. Lieutenant Patton was clearing away debris, ...
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Article : 116 wordsFurther steps to control the investment of capital in non-essential enterprises in war-time were taken by the Commonwealth Government to-day in additional amendments of ...
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Article : 36 wordsSuch at the oversea news in this issue as [?] headed "From Our Own Correspondent" or "Herald Exclusive Service" is from a service owned and conducted entirely dy "The Sydney Morning Herald" ...
Article : 154 wordsThe first announcement of an Italian being punished for listening to a British news broadcast is reported from Rome. A bar proprietor at Padua was sentenced to a ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 19 Dec 1940, Page 7
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