Appointaient of officers for the first draft of the VAD selected for oversea service was announced yesterday by Mr. Forde, Army ...
Article : 363 wordsWhile speeding up national mobilisation and expanding the armament industry. Lt.-Gen. Tojo wants to continue negotiations with ...
Article : 384 wordsGermany's offensive against Moscow, which has lasted 21 days, will not easily, and probably not this year, recover its old power, comments "The Times" military correspondent. ...
Article : 612 wordsProbable early diversion of labour and resources from production of luxury goods to essential war goods was again indicated last night by Mr. Curtin, Prime Minister, when he said that a vigorous war ...
Article : 766 wordsViews on proposed recalignment of forces in the State Parliament should be clarified on Tuesday, when the Legislative Assembly resumes the ...
Article : 361 wordsA Serbian army has its own GHQ in the mountains of Bosnia and western Serbia, state 3 Serbian officers, who have arrived in Cairo ...
Article : 269 wordsRegard the situation for a moment with Hitler's eyes! Has he accomplished his programme for 1941? Not by a long way. By force and by ...
Article : 440 wordsImmediately on his return to Washington yesterday, President Roosevelt conferred with Congressional leaders to determine whether ...
Article : 277 wordsGerman divebombers last night dropped high explosives and incendiaries on a south-east coast town. Arriving singly, they climbed to a ...
Article : 132 wordsMr. Jesse Jones, Federal Loan Administrator, announced that USA has advanced to Russia an additional £7,000,000 to pay for war equipment ...
Article : 45 wordsA gift of £138,860 made by Messrs. Ernest and George Connibere to Royal Melbourne Hospital covers the entire cost of the nurses' home now ...
Article : 232 wordsUnofficial Dutch sources in London are inclined to minimise any suggestion of immediate importance in Japan's Timor airline agreement. ...
Article : 48 words"China today has become the outer defence of Australia, since Chinese resistance has frustrated Japanese plans for ...
Article : 62 wordsDetailed plans for reorganisation of civilian industry and release of manpower and material for war purposes are being prepared by Mr. ...
Article : 330 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday. — Lack of living accommodation is a practical difficulty standing in the way of the new Government's policy to ...
Article : 231 wordsU-S District Court has sentenced William Fox, former millionaire motion picture executive, to a year and a day's imprisonment, and fined ...
Article : 62 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday. — Japanese troop movements in Manchoukuo were described by Dr. R. W. Hill and Rev. M. McCreery, of the Irish ...
Article : 138 wordsDuring his speech Mr. Morrison said he did not think the House wanted its members treated differently from their constituents. He ...
Article : 206 wordsThe Times diplomatic correspondent says some members of the Soviet Government have gone to Samara. Most leaders are staying in ...
Article : 106 wordsMajor J. B. Glubb, Royal Engineers Reserve of Officers, who during operations in Iraq was in command of the mechanised ports of ...
Article : 150 wordsMr. Howe, Munitions Minister, announced today that the Government had purchased Dufferin Shipbuilding Company in order to convert it into ...
Article : 54 wordsPostal notes for £3 were enclosed in an envelope received by the Defence Secretariat at Canberra on October 16. No communicationd ...
Article : 59 wordsWhen he announced the sinking of the U-S-owned freighter Lehigh (see page 1) to his Press conference. President Roosevelt said that ...
Article : 266 wordsTh[?] Australian factories are now producing aero, engines on a quantity basis. Melbourne factories are manufacturing Gipsy Major ...
Article : 140 wordsTwo Frenchmen have been shot in Troyes and one in Lotret for possession of arms, says The Times French frontier correspondent. ...
Article : 128 wordsAn agreement has been concluded between Turkey and Rumania whereby Rumania will supply petroleum products, which will be ...
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Advertising : 303 wordsDr. Charles Porter, addressing 1,600 members of the U-S Academy of Ophthalmology at their convention yesterday, said sulfadiazine has ...
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Advertising : 152 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—War work is likely to be seriously retarded because of a decision of the Moulders' Union not to permit overtime, ...
Article : 178 wordsContributions to the Lord Mayors Hospital Appeal were again disappointing yesterday, only £540 being received. This brought the progress ...
Article : 198 wordsDiscussing opening of a second front in Europe, Boston Radio, in its digest of American Press opinion session, said:—"No doubt it is bad ...
Article : 283 wordsDisappointment at the slow progress of the Russian campaign and doubt regarding its outcome are being widely expressed in Germany ...
Article : 172 wordsLow-flying RAP patrols early yesterday morning attacked an oil storage tank near Ostend, goods trains, an oil tank and waggons near ...
Article : 222 wordsFor having rescued a greaser from the blazing engineroom of a vessel that was taking in oil, Mr. George Sydney Smith, an Australian ship's ...
Article : 203 wordsThe desire to seek every possible means by which the building industry can assist the war effort is affirmed by the executive committee ...
Article : 229 wordsLord Beaverbrook, Minister for Supply, appealed for 100,000 tons of waste paper for making shell and cartridge cases. He pointed out that ...
Article : 70 wordsLady Violet Bonham Carter, in her presidential address to the Home Counties Women's Liberal Federation, said: — "As we watch the ...
Article : 117 wordsMaking a last-minute change of plans, Sir Earle Page yesterday flew to Ottawa for conferences with Sir William Glasgow, Australian High ...
Article : 66 wordsAir Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding, formel C-in-C, RAF Fighter Command, has been placed on the retired list. There are suggestions ...
Article : 139 wordsAt the invitation of the National Fitness Council, representatives of about 20 leading youth organisations of the State met at the Town Hall ...
Article : 98 wordsTwo new types of divebombers from USA will soon be in operation with the RAF and Fleet Air Arm. The performance of the new aircraft ...
Article : 39 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—The manager and owner of a leading Batavia paper, Mr. N. Metzelaar, who arrived in Sydney by plane tonight, said he ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Anzac War Relief Fund, New York, has cabled £1,000 to the ACF, with a request that it be used for purchase in Australia of special ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Navy Department announces that the following British warships are in U-S ports:—Auxiliary minelayer Agamemnon, auxiliary cruiser ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 23 Oct 1941, Page 5
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