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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
May 10, 1940
Page
3
Prime Minister Churchill defended Britain's Norwegian campaign amid doubts and censure threats. He blamed policy shifts and German naval strength for aborting Trondheim plans and argued the withdrawal saved northern Norway from a disastrous entanglement.
The document lists a dense broadcast timetable including Essential Services News Luncheon Music and various sessions across multiple time blocks. It notes special segments from Canberra Times 2BL and Goulburn Penny Post with Rugby Union talk and Essential Services.
The Rev. Hector Harrison and his wife with three children arrived in Canberra by car from Melbourne yesterday. Welcomed at the Manse by Presbyterian Church Board of Management and ladies, he previously served in Victoria and Hobart, taught at Theological Hall in Perth, and chaplained the Presbyterian Ladies' College. He will be inducted tonight at 8 by the Presbytery of Goulburn, and will lead services at St Andrew's in the morning and Braddon in the evening on Sunday.
An ad asserts that germ caused diseases are best treated by a vaccine like approach and promotes Lantigen therapies based on Pasteur research. It claims rapid antigen detoxification and cites various named products for colds catarrh bronchitis and whooping cough, urged by chemists and bacteriologists.
Government awards contracts totaling £ 37,207 for completion of Narromine dying school and transfer of pilot trainees from No 1 Initial Training School at Somers Victoria. Greta military camp work advances with contracts worth over £ 31,000. Heavy machinery erection at Cockatoo Island Dockyard awarded to Cody and Willis of Glebe Sydney for £ 11,043.
The Krakauer Zeitung proclaims the opening of an institute for German work in the Fast and states its aim to study and employ brutal methods to exploit the Governorate for the benefit of Greater Germany.
Chinese-like fragments describe a wartime conference on supplying food for England’s apple crop. Attendees include Mr. Canon and Mr. Mabenev discussing wartime destruction impacts and potential repurposing of apples in the supply chain.
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