Although many members of the crew of the British vessel which sank after an explosion off the Australian coast, agree that "it ...
Article : 1,398 wordsDramatic accounts of the sinking of the American freighter City of Rayville by a mine on Friday night 10 miles off Cape Otway were given by officers and crew when they were landed at Apollo Bay early on ...
Article : 1,186 wordsThe American freighter City of Rayville, which foundered after striking a mine, survivors trom me vessel were landed at Apollo Bay. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 25 wordsThe Popular Front in France bogged down the country from 1936 to 1938 Critical years these were for both Germany and France. But how differently ...
Article : 713 wordsAustralia's minesweepers are now at work safeguarding Australian shipping from the danger of mines. An Australian minesweeping flotilla is pictured here conducting operations. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 28 wordsUnless the wheat stabilisation scheme announced on Friday is varied to give a higher price to the grower than 3/6 a bushel f.o.r. ...
Article : 343 wordsMr. Menzies suggested on Saturday that' there had been a breach of the oath of secrecy by some member of the Advisory War Council. ...
Article : 486 wordsTo-day is Armistice Day, and at 11 a.m. there will be a nation-wide observance of the two minutes' silence. ...
Article : 208 wordsLess than a quarter of a mile from the Gipps st. premises of Austral Waste Products Pty. Ltd., where two firemen were killed and four injured in a fire on ...
Article : 199 wordsArrangements for provincial branches activities of the Comforts Fund will be goods and materials required for providing transports with comforts in ...
Article : 184 wordsPremiers and Ministers for Agriculture or other State representatives will meet at Canberra in a week's time to discuss the Commonwealth's new plan for wheat ...
Article : 237 wordsOfficials of the British Bombing Relief Fund ask that all outstanding amounts in other lists be sent to the Melbourne Town Hall at once. The following were ...
Article : 175 wordsThe State Department will make no comment on the sinking of the City of Rayville, and has given no indication that there is any cause for an extension of the ...
Article : 143 wordsAn enemy vessel believed to be responsible for the minefield which caused the loss of two ships off the southern coast is believed by many shipping ...
Article : 613 wordsThe British and Foreign Bible Society aims to provide every Australian soldier with a Bible. For this purpose an appeal for funds is being made, and contributions may be sent to the Editor. "The ...
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Advertising : 169 wordsMr. Mcnamara, M.L.C., treasurer of the Dr. Maloney Memorial Fund, desires to acknowledge the following additional subscriptions to the fund; Previously acknowledged, £121/11/6; Senator ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Statistics Bureau estimates that the 1940 wheat crop will be 547,179,000 bushels, which is 13,925,000 bushels below the previous estimate. ...
Article : 26 wordsLetter Mails close at Eliz, St. P.O. as under; G. P. O., Spencer st., 20 minutes later, unless marked thus which indicates same time at both offices:— AUSTRALIA-ENGLAND AIRMAIL.—Viz Egypt. ...
Article : 286 wordsFollowing the closing of Bass Strait to shipping, Australian National Airway's sent three airliners across Bass Strait from Essendon yesterday to cope with a ...
Article : 56 wordsTERANG, Saturday.—At the annual synod of the Western district section of the Methodist Church of Australia, held at Terang, it was decided to urge upon ...
Article : 102 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—A suggestion that the mines in Bass Strait might have been laid at night by an ordinary merchant ship was made to-night by Mr. ...
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Advertising : 57 wordsA bureau for the issue of petrol ration tickets will be opened by the Royal Automobile Club of Victoria, 94 Queen st., on November 26. ...
Article : 54 wordsPOSTAGE RATES (for To-day's Issue of "The Argus")—Australasia and New Zealand, 1d.: United Kingdom (overland). Id.: (all-sea route), Id,; other Britten possessions, 1d, U.S.A. and ...
Article : 82 wordsYALLOURN, Sunday.— When Jack Frost, 16. was operating a meat-cutting machine in the Yallourn butchery, where he is employed, his hand came in ...
Article : 49 wordsFINLEY (N.S.W.), Sunday. — Miss Jeanie Gwenneth Martin, 19. of Moama, was killed in a car accident about six miles from Finley early yesterday ...
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Article : 5 wordsPORT FAIRY, Sunday.—Thrown overboard in a bottle from a transport, a message has been received by Mrs. H. Routledge, of Port Fairy, from her son, ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 11 Nov 1940, Page 5
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