Nerve Splicing Trial Aims to Restore Limbs After Bomb Wounds
Dr. Cairns of Oxford backs a nerve splice technique from Young and Medawar using a natural plasma cement to join severed nerve ends. The method, tested in animals and praised for rapid set and eventual natural healing, targets limbs maimed by bomb injuries. Cock eel plasma provides the best cementing material amid broader use of immediate wound sealing after tissue removal.
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Nufield
Oxford University
Oxford
Young
Medawar
Apple a Day Policy For Australian Troops Aims At Health
In a wartime note the Medical Corps in Australia plans to issue each soldier at least one apple every twenty four hours to bolster general health and morale. The writer notes apples cannot cure all ailments but can improve troops, while contrasting fruit shortages with train berth frustrations of Mr Ewen and the railways. Parliamentarians are scolded for leisure as Mr Ewen is criticized for absent official duties.
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Wing Medical Corps
Australia
Army
Ewen
Tobacco Industry Debate in Western Australia
The Perth Press urges expanding tobacco cultivation in Western Australia to meet local and potential export demand. It argues Australia could sustain billions of pounds of tobacco yearly, boosting Manjimup into a major hub, while criticizing policies to cut consumption and import Rhodesian leaf. The author claims a hidden motive behind policy shifts and calls for exploiting profitable local industry despite wartime restraints.
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Australia
Perth
W.A
Manjimup
Feed shortage threatens Tasmania pig industry crisis
Tasmanian Agriculture Minister DAlton warns of a critical pig position as feed grain shortages bite. Thousands of half finished store pigs face possible cull unless wheat and barley can be made available at reasonable costs amid tight shipping. The minister urges action to secure barley held on farms and to push wheat supplies to producers for pit feeding.
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Tasmania
D'Alton
United Kingdom
Australia
Tastmania
Popular Baby Competition Funds War Charities in Perth
French Forces Fund and the Citizen Reception Committee organise a popular baby contest to raise funds for war charities. Babies aged 9 to 24 months represent Navy Army Air Force and Home Defence. Penny voting cards are sold and can be returned to 62 West Australian Chambers Perth by April 30.
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French Forces Fund
Citizen
French Forces
Navy
Army
At Force
Home Defence Force
George's Terrace
Perth
Road Board
R S.L. and
Women's Auxiliary
Primary Producers’ Association
Countrywomen’s Associiation
Golf Club
Chemists
Navy small talk and dances spellbound Sydney
American Small Talk Gave Sydney New Vocabulary as Navy officers and recruits swap slang and slangy gags. Ensign Joe Harmon and Ensign Kelly Blair plus Butch Haker lead lively wardroom songs and dances. Officers joke about Annapolis grads and shipboard life while Sydney enjoys a whirl of rhumba and jitterbug amid naval camaraderie.
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Sydney
Girl in Cremorne Receives War Prison Camp Letter
A Sydney girl in Cremorne received a letter from her German prisoner of war boyfriend. Former merchant ship engineer, he is held at Oflag 8 near the Carpathians. He writes of studying languages, lectures, a Christmas pantomime, and daily drills before lights out at 9 15.
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Mm Cremorne
Sydney
Germany
Oflag 8
Tost
Carpathian Mountains
Poland
Czechoslovakia
I shall tell Franco on Britain's war plans
In a wartime message from Madrid the speaker asserts Britain fights on despite heavy axis bombing. He claims Germany and Italy planned quick victory but failed after Dunkirk, predicts Italy's collapse, and says Britain can endure a long war with rising aid from America while Spain remains neutral and independent, urging resolve and readiness to fight to the end.
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Italy
Axis
Europe
Dunkirk
Resistaut
Suez Canal
Britain
America
Franco
Santander
Spain
Madrid
London
Gibraltar
Tangier
The Real Thing Behind the Lines Rehearsal Joke
A general addresses troops before a rehearsal noting differences from the real attack. The sergeant major adds a punch line about the absence of the enemy and then the presence of the general. The exchange highlights military humor in a tense moment.
Soil Conservation Considerations for Erosion Control
Engineering forestry and soil and forestological aspects will be reevaluated. All factors of significance in choosing an erosion control technique will be determined.
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Australia
Cowra
Nsw
Wie Staee
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