RENEWED faith in the supremacy of the traditional first arm of British defence, the fighting navy, is inspired by the ...
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Advertising : 147 wordsAfter one of the liveliest, and probably one of the most bitter, election campaigns in the history of the Labor movement, the Coburg seat in the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 738 wordsThe Minister of the Army (Mr. Street) paid a visit of Inspection to Dandenong A.I.F. camp on Saturday. Arriving early in the day he had ...
Article : 324 wordsDuring the last financial year Australia imported 346,000,000 gallons of petrol. On to-day's market the price at loading port would be 18,000,000 ...
Article : 272 wordsPetrol, that volatile and inflammable commodity, has caused more stir in the past few days amid commerce and the motoring community than is ...
Article : 1,165 wordsPrecedent to any analysis of the proposed petrol-rationing scheme the circumstances attendant on its disclosure ...
Article : 853 wordsAn appeal to young women to enter certain industries bearing upon the nation's war effort is being made by the Department of Labor. ...
Article : 272 wordsAdmitting the revolutionary nature of the rationing scheme, it is undoubtedly justified by the circumstances. With due regard to what has been ...
Article : 84 wordsIn giving effect to the decision to increase the home service army strength to 250,000 men, a number of additional age groups of universal ...
Article : 241 wordsThe decision of the trade union movement on the proposal to form industrial advisory, panels will not be known until a majority of the five ...
Article : 233 wordsThe proposal to extend the term of the Commonwealth Parliament during the war would require a referendum. Tire Statute of Westminster debars the ...
Article : 125 wordsMr. F. Banham seeks to explain France's collapse by other than the obvious reason of a crushing military defeat. He finds a scapegoat in "the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 307 wordsSince the outbreak of war the R.A.A.F. has increased more than fivefold. There are now 1250 officers and 16,715 men in the service, ...
Article : 256 wordsMore than one-third of the Polish ...
Article : 378 wordsI do not know who is responsible for the "decision" that the butchers would not deliver meat on Wednesdays. Little of a progressive nature ...
Article : 67 wordsarmy in France, which had totalled nearly 100,000, is now in England. Two divisions were cut off in the Maginot Increased anxiety has been caused in newspaper circles by Mr. Duff Cooper's disclosure that the idea of a compulsory censorship scheme has not yet ...
Article : 167 wordsHardest of all for the Germans to overcome in their projected invasion of Britain would be an unseen obstacle, the "hid battlements" of the ...
Article : 255 wordsOn Friday night I went to my bank (State Savings) to buy-war savings certificates through my account, certificates to be held by the bank for ...
Article : 105 wordsSir,--Dr. Wilson, the Commonwealth Statistician, denies that he has ever "said" that prices "have not been increased to any appreciable extent." I ...
Article : 321 wordsTo commemorate the centenary of the establishment of the British and Foreign Bible Society in Victoria, a bronze tablet was unveiled at the Bible ...
Article : 189 wordsThe Minister of the Army (Mr. Street) announced on Saturday that temporary military hospital accommodation at Yaralla (N.S.W.) and ...
Article : 83 wordsOn Saturday night I had occasion to go to the Flinders-street railway station to see a lady friend off to her home. Having purchased her ticket ...
Article : 163 wordsThe Lord Mayor (Cr. Coles) unveiled the centenary commemorative tablet of the British and Foreign Bible Society (Victoria) at Bible House, Flinders-lane, yesterday. Those present at the ceremony included left to right) Rev. P. W. Stephenson ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 57 wordsOur military trucks are painted dark green. On leave in the city I notice that a number of private trucks are the same color. Even the trained eye ...
Article : 82 wordsSir,--May I appeal through "The Age" to the general public not to use the Red Cross Waste Products Store as a dump for rubbish. My committee ...
Article : 149 wordsThe method adopted to raise, money by War Savings Certificates is undoubtedly sound, though 25 per cent. interest will be due in one lump sum ...
Article : 140 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.--A shortage of steel has led to a number of men in the allied industries working part time. Men in the sheet rolling mills of ...
Article : 72 wordsKOONDROOK, Sunday.--Unprecedented scenes were witnessed at the tiny Koondrook tramway station when a draft of 50 recruits from Barham ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Mon 15 Jul 1940, Page 6
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