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CANBERRA Friday—Announcing the decisions of the War Cabinet regarding shelters in war raids, the Prime Minister, Mr. Cardin stated last night that the Cabinet had dopted recommendations by the Defence Committee that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BRITISH WOMEN TO WORK BESIDE MEN ON ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS IN ACTION.—These girls of Britain's Auxiliary Territorial Service have volunteered to take over anti-aircraft duties, and are among the many women now being trained at a depot in England. They are…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Pte. W. H. Huggins, of Aberdeen, in a letter to his wife from abroad under date 7th December, gives a thrilling acconut of his…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At the monthly meeting of the Ladies' Auxiliary of the Patriotic Fund, held in the C.W.A. Rest Rooms on Saturday afternoon, the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Under regulations issued this week, all members of the Volunteer Defence Corps are required to enlist. This is to ensure that they…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Following the announcement of the Minister for the Army (Mr. Forde), that the Volunteer Defence Corps would be the Australian equivalent…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY Saturday—Shots rang out on the beach front at 4 a.m. to-day, and a leading aircrafts man, a soldier, and his wife,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Japanese arc racing against time to secure a ring of bases before the growing Allied power in the Western Pacific becomes too great. They are not concentrating on one objective at a time, but are exploiting in all possible…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →[?]cose Saturday — Word was received in sc[?]ne Secretary afternoon of the death in [?] following [?] of L c[?]eal…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SYDNEY, Monday.— while neither the police nor the military authorities have issue a statement yet on the controversy that…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →WASHINGTON Feb. 8—The combined naval forces In the Australian and New Zealand (Anzac area) have been placed under the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Although seriously wounded in a 10,000-feet encounter with a Japanese fighter over the Bismarck Archipelago this week,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The war is having its usual effect on names for the new generation, according to recent birth registrations, says Reuter from…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →While neither military authorities or, police have yet issued official statements on the controversy which has developed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Night-time in a British country town during a vast invasion exercise in which hundreds of thousands of troops, Home Guards, and Civil Defence Services took part. Here a Canadian tank unit, part of a supposed invading army, are severing local…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →CANBERRA Monday.—The Canadian High Commissioner, Major-General Colum, stated that in 1941 Canada launched almost as many…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.—The diplomatic writer of the Washington Press, summarising the week of war in the Pacific, says the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON Feb. 8.— “We were told that we could not provide adequate defence for Singapore and at the same time deal with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →NEW YORK Feb. 8.—Britain and America cannot expect full military co-operation from their Allies until they have established…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The engineer’s prints, without which Britain could not produce a single battleship, tank, or aeroplane, or even the smallest [?]ut…
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