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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Mar 05, 1940
Page
4
The text outlines Canberra Times ad rules including no responsibility for insertion and right to omit ads. It requires ads to reach by 6 p.m. the day before publication and states all copy must be in ink with proper names and numbers, endorsements required, and ads may be held over if not conforming.
Fragmentary Canberra Times text lists subscriptions and local newsagents in Canberra. It names publishers, newsagents, and individuals across districts including Kingston and Duntroon, with unclear contact details and prices.
The Prime Minister's Department in Sydney informed the Returned Soldiers League that compulsion to naturalise aliens living in Australia is impracticable. It notes allegiance to the British Crown as essential, and says compulsory naturalisation would not guarantee true loyalty or ensure learning English, though many desire it. The department monitors any tendency to form colonies across nationalities.
Japanese freighters Insuatrolle and others are expected to bring back by month end the first shipment of 200,000 tons of Australian wheat from orders placed late last year. Only 50,000 tons had arrived by February, and the outlook improves with more Japanese ships due.
Canberras 9 am barometer reads 3005 smelter. Temperature at 9 am 60 degrees and at 3 pm 72 degrees. Maximums and minimums noted: 84.2 degrees by a past period, 43 degrees minimum. Wind velocity measured at Canberra aerodrome.
Forecast for Canberra predicts mainly fine weather with a moderate day. Winds shift from southeast to northeast as conditions remain dry and mild.
A reflective excerpt urges action for injustice and collective duty. It contemplates the fight for a better future and the good humans can accomplish together.
The Australian Country Party urges government reform to ensure fair terms for sale of primary exports and to remedy defects in wartime export policy. It supports a government representing a parliamentary majority and notes ongoing Corio by election dynamics and party maneuvers in Melbourne and Sydney.
The article reports renewed gun practice on active service as Russia advances along a Arctic route into northern Finland. It notes heavy bombardment near Robany jenil and a potential breakthrough toward Torr aloy, with Finnish defense hampered by forests and lakes. It also discusses German strategic moves, air power limits, and unclear air superiority plans tied to a broader Allied scheme.
The speech reports Hitler claiming Providence blessed Nazi aims after the Munich Beer Hall explosion. It recalls his past pledges, territorial boasts, and violations toward Czechoslovakia Poland and Russia, contrasting with Chamberlain and Australian calls for unity and urging Menzies to resign.
In Melbourne a five member committee representing the Munitions Branch Aircraft Construction, Customs, State Government, and the Assistant Minister for Supply will control and purchase machine tools in Australia and overseas. The panel will assess needs of government and private industry, prioritize orders, promote local manufacture, and approve overseas purchases to counter export restrictions and rising demand.
In Sydney Mariday a meeting of the Australian wool producers council was held in camera to determine matters arising from the sale of Australian wool to Britain. The proceedings were private and no statement will be issued today, a statement to follow after the meeting concludes.
J Dedman, who won the Corio by election for Labour, urged that Geelong’s rising industrial importance would help hold the seat long term. He spoke in Melbourne as he considered resigning from a ministry post amid party discussions.
In Melbourne on Monday Mr. Menzies was asked if he would meet One Country Party leader Mr. Cameron. He said he arranged to see Cameron next Thursday but newspaper reports may be accurate, and he would visit if Cameron came. He noted arrangements were made a week ago, not after the Coro by election.
German brothers in Hamburg have each been sentenced to five years imprisonment for listening to the British Broadcasting Corporation. The court said the harsh sentence reflected the public’s failure to treat the crime seriously enough. In Danzig five others were jailed one to two years for listening to foreign broadcasts.
Istanbul reports the Turkish government has decreed food rationing with sigur announced as the first commodity to be rationed. Public details and implementation dates remain unclear as authorities prepare the measure.
Stockholm dispatch reports a fire at a Communist Party building and newspaper office in Lulen that killed at least two people and possibly five. Belief persists the outbreak was caused by anti-Communists.
Russians report occupation of the Vyborg railway station and encirclement of the city. Vyborg, Finland’s second largest town, sits on the Gulf of Bothnia route to Helsinki and the Mannerheim Line. Royal Air Force flights over Germany continue, delivering leaflets and gathering intelligence as German advances face erosion.
A committee of combined mining unions today decided to threaten the electricity supply to public stations and stop non union mine work. The move aims to pressure stations to back union labor and halt production at non union Imbourousoperations.
The Air Ministry reported that a British bomber was shot down this afternoon near Gravesend after misidentified as an enemy plane. Fighters from an adjacent coast station attacked, machine gunned the aircraft, and flames enveloped it causing the plane to break apart and crash.
An official from the German Embassy reports a pontifical High Mass honoring a papal delegate. The remarks condemn totalitarian governments and stress human dignity before ideology, urging the church to play a major role in advancing peace.
An archival note reports a Yangtse River disaster with a capsized tender between Ningpo and Shanghai after an air raid alarm. Initial figures claim 250 drowned, while later tallies from Chungking list 400 deaths.
A German Heinkel bomber attacked the liner Domala in the Bay of Bengal between 4 and 5 am, dropping four bombs that caused a blaze from bow to stern. Rescue ships saved many passengers as British and Indian casualties mounted, with 88 British Indians believed dead and 48 British crew among the dead. The Albany and Gato were sunk in separate attacks over the weekend, and other ships were damaged or mined.
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