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The Commonwealth's war expenditure for 1941-42 may reach £250,000,000 compared with the Budget estimate of £221,000,000 given to Parliament by the Treasurer (Mr. Chifley) last October. This will involve a recasting of the Federal Government's…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CANBERRA Friday.—Owing to a heavy increase in war expenditure due to the entry of Japan into the conflict, the Federal Government will be obliged to recast the financial programme for the remainder of the financial year…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →British prisoners of war in Germany are working for honours degrees at London University. In all, 1,832 of our men there…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In an address to the Japanese Diet when it re-opened in Tokyo, the Premier, General Tojo, outlined Japan's war aims They were,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BRITISH PARACHUTE TROOPS TRAINING FOR COMBAT WITH THE GERMAN ARMY.—Britain is now building up a powerful parachute army, equipped with the most modern weapons in readiness for the day when the British Army will once more face the German Wehrmacht, in what may be the decisive battle. The parachutists sit with legs in a well in the bottom of the aircraft, parachutes hooked up by a strap…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →It is authoritatively stated that General Rommel's new move in the desert is not likely to prove a counter-offensive. It is probably designed to discover information concerning enemy dispositions. The fact that British light forces retired does not mean that Rommel…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Saturday night last the people of the town and district again demonstrated that they are always ready to support any function which has for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →DARWIN Friday—The two soldiers, a sergeant and private, who had been lost 30 miles from Darwin, are reported to have…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sapper N. M. C[?]nion fecently returned invalided from Tohruk is full of praise for the services he received from the Red Cross…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ONE Of the easy ways in Which every member of the community can make a contribution to the war is by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MELBOURNE Saturday—The suspension of the public collection of funds for the Red Cross Comforts Fund and other…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MELBOURNE Saturday— The War Cabinet amended National Security Regulations to compel…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON Jun 23—Colonel [?] or the Russian Air Force, who regularly inspects German planes which have been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The secretary’s report and treasurer's statement, presented the annual meeting of the Homerville, Rutherford and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →With the A.I.F in Malaya Jan 23—The enemy push south from Endan (90 miles north east of Singapore mentioned in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The long expected threat on our own Australian territory has now become a reality. Baaed on the Caroline and Marshall Islands, formerly German colonies, but handed to Japanese as a mandate after the last war, Japanese air,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SINGAPORE Jan. 23.—The withdrawal the Australian troops south of the Segmat River several days ago was necessitated by strong Japanese pressure being maintained in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Alexander Hayward, 24, a soldier, was brought before the Branxton Police Court yesterday charge of having at Greta…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Virtual civil war has been declared by the Norwegian Quislings against loyal Norwegians, reports the Stockholm "Aftonbladet." Few arms are…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Australia wants a greater say, in the conduct of the war At the week-end, the Prime Minister, Mr. Curtin. explained that Australia wanted representation on an Imperial war Cabinet, so that her voice and counsel might be heard in…
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