Awards of the DFC to 2 RAAF officers and of the DFM to another Australian airman for gallantry in operations in Malaya were ...
Article : 252 wordsAustralian patrols were busy again on Friday night and on Saturday. A patrol from a NSW battalion, led by Lt J. K. Thompson, from the ...
Article : 448 wordsState Cabinet yesterday decided that an order be Issued within a few days to prevent hotels in the metropolitan area opening for trade belore 10 ...
Article : 293 wordsA long line of "Plebes," or freshers, arriving at US West Point Military Academy to be trained as officers. Normally the course is 4 years, but under war conditions it can be shortened. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 42 wordsSYDNEY, Mon: Judge O'Mara said in the Commonwealth Arbitration Court today that the demand for equal pay for the sexes would ...
Article : 398 wordsA correspondent who waa aboard the aircraft-carrier Eagle when she was sunk during the battle of Malta convoy has now told the story of ...
Article : 308 wordsIn 1884 this is what a Hindu, the Prime Minister of Baroda. Sir Madhara Rao, said to Lord Roberts: We have heard of the cry "India for ...
Article : 546 wordsSYDNEY, Mon: The Australian Comforts Fund no longer sends tobacco to troops in Darwin because the Customs Department demands ...
Article : 185 wordsCurtailment of the North rd and Middle Brighton bus routes, which Mr Fraser, Director of Emergency Road Transport, had announced ...
Article : 226 wordsAll-India National Congress party's newspapet National-Herald, published at Lucknow, prints a letter from Gandhi to Chiang Kai-shek, ...
Article : 231 wordsMORNINGTON, Mon: The action of Cr W. Walsh, acting shire president, in declining to have the shire hall flag flown at halfmast for a ...
Article : 309 wordsThe Federal Government was anxious to see that Australia's war effort was not impeded by any abuse of liquer, Senator Keane, Minister ...
Article : 160 wordsMaine roast shipyards had an unprecedented mass launching yesterday, when 6 merchantmen, aggregating 61,000 tons, slid down the ...
Article : 64 wordsCANBERRA, Mon: Senator Collings, Minister for the Interior, announced today that on the recommendation of the War Memorial ...
Article : 114 wordsNetherlands Legation on Sunday flew Its flag at half-mast in commemoration of the five leading Dutch citizens who were executed by ...
Article : 108 wordsSome of the death traps laid by Nazis and Italians in the Western Dcseit were revealed yesterday by Flying-Officer A. Abl[?]ar, of Coburg. ...
Article : 93 wordsExemption from duty of cigarettes and tobacco sold to Australian soldiers in Northern Australia was now being considered, Senator Keane, ...
Article : 85 wordsKing George of the Hellenes has awarded medals for outstanding acts in the Mediterranean to PettyOfficers Herbert Roy Clothworthy. ...
Article : 74 wordsThe following communique was issued by Allied HQ yesterday: NORTH- WESTERN SECTOR: Timor: Our medium bombers ...
Article : 85 wordsA meeting of the State Parliamentary UAP yesterday decided to seek a conference with Mr Dunstan, Premier, on liquor control, gas ...
Article : 243 wordsSYDNEY, Mon: Senator Ashley, Minister for Information, said today that he had received a repot from military ...
Article : 131 wordsHow a 20-year-old RAAF navigator in the Middle East saved his aircraft from fite destruction, and rendered aid to his wounded comrades ...
Article : 178 wordsUSA War Budget for 1943 is expected to reach the astronomical total of £90,000,000,000, which will represent an expenditure of ...
Article : 119 wordsThe belief that 100-passenger land planes would be as common after the war as the 21-passenger Doughs planes of today was expressed ...
Article : 199 wordsSYDNEY, Mon: Judge O'Mara to-day postponed the operation of a new award for women employees in the metal trades industry because he ...
Article : 148 wordsSYDNEY, Mon: Trading bants have been asked by Mr Dedman, Minister for War Organisation of Industry. to prepare a plan for ...
Article : 175 wordsProposals of the Operative Bakers' Union for introduction of day baking would be opposed by Master Bakers' Council, Mr A. M. Hayton, secretary, ...
Article : 137 wordsSYDNEY, Mon: The first coal stoppage to take place on the South Coast since latest regulations were gazetted occurred today at Mount ...
Article : 98 wordsInstructors handling Australian pilots in British operational training units ranked them of outstanding calibre, Mr Drakeford, Air ...
Article : 105 wordsThe first number of Brttanski Soyuznik, published in Moscow by the British Government, and which uas in great demand in Russia on ...
Article : 96 wordsCANBERRA, Mon: An appeal for a more austere standard of living will be made by Mr Curtin, Prime Minister, when Australia's new "war ...
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Article : 104 wordsSYDNEY, Mon: Military police followed him from the church where he was married and arrested him after he had been photographed with ...
Article : 107 wordsA handsome double-page plate in colour, by Harold B. Herbert, is the outstanding feature of the introduction of full-colour work into the ...
Article : 102 wordsNone of the record shoal of salmon at present trapped in Wingan Inlet has so far reached Melbourne Fish Market. The fish are being delivered ...
Article : 76 wordsThe city police are resting easier tonight after the capture of a youthful holdup gang responsible for more than 20 robberies in 6 weeks. ...
Article : 75 wordsFighting French headquarters in London claim that the German Government is negotiating with Vichy with a view to obtaining explosives ...
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Advertising : 118 wordsSYDNEY, Mon: An undertaking that requests for the restoration of the waistcoat to the new men's wartime Victory suits would receive ...
Article : 86 wordsAt an inquest yesterday Mr Wade, city coroner. recorded that Robert Charles Workman, 31, labourer, of Barry st. West Brunswick, died from ...
Article : 91 wordsSYDNEY, Mon: Mr Dedman. Minister for War Organisation of Industry, said in Sydney today that he was not surprised at the attacks ...
Article : 116 wordsStruck by the 9.5am steam train from Stony Point at the Lochiel av, Edithvale, level crossing yesterday, Mrs Jane Tatnall, 69, of Keith av, ...
Article : 35 wordsPit-Off L[?]s ("Skeets") Harvey who is missing from a recent raid over Germany had participated in over 40 operational bombing raids with the RAF. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 370 wordsThe death on August 13 of Dr Maurice Patrick MacGill[?]cuddy at New York is reported by cable. Dr MacGill[?]cuddy with his wife and 2 ...
Article : 297 wordsOwing to shortage of canvas with which to manufacture new tarpaulins many covers in use in the Railways Department can no longer be ...
Article : 111 wordsCANBERRA, Mon: Price of binder twine for the coming harvest will be 9[?]d per lb, compared with 8½d last season, and 8?d in 1940-41. The ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tue 18 Aug 1942, Page 3
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