Vladivostok the Pacific gateway in war plans
A Soviet port city near Japan, Vladivostok, emerges as a key strategic base with air and naval facilities, distant from threats and protected by fortifications. The article outlines its location, ice conditions, defenses, and role as a link between Siberia and the Western Hemisphere amid Allied Axis tensions.
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Vladivostok
Russia
Pacific
Japan
United States
Siberian
Acore Geographic Society
Siberia
Bulletin
Manchukuo
Sea of Japan
San Francisco
Strait of la Perouse
Hokkaido
Sakhalin Island
Francisco
Strait of Tsugaru
Honshu
Vladivietok
Redune
Hokior
Ciscomens
Komsomisk
Arthurville Silos Closed as Trucks Await
Mr. and Mrs. F. Gosper of Pine Glen and Arthurville hosted their visiting parents from Yarrabin. Silos have been closed for days awaiting trucks while workers stack wheat in railway yards. Nearby, Mr. and Mrs. A. Wilson Jr. returned from Narromine and Mrs. Daley enjoyed a weekend with brothers Bert and Dave Green and Dave Green’s wife and family. Neville Veech of the RAAF, long in Richmond Hospital, has been home for the weekend.
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F. Gosper
Pine Glen
Arthurville
Yarrabin
A. Wilson
Junr
Daley
Herbert
Dave Green
Neville Veech
RAAF
Richmond Hospital
Oime
Fabulous wealth and frugal rule of Hyderabad Nizam
The Nizam of Hyderabad, among India's great princes, is described as extremely wealthy yet frugal. He owns vast jewels and gold, earns about £1009 daily, donated millions to Britain at the war’s start, and lives simply in a palace, while directing state affairs and promoting democracy. He funded a communal wireless program in 1937, built a tuberculosis sanatorium and four orphanages, and continues to influence India's princely states amid looming war stakes.
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Nizam
Hyderabad
Twentes
Britain
India
Jes
Hitler
Ndo
Empire News
Nizam of Hyderabad
Maler Kotba
Goering Pills and Italian Simpamina Compared
The article notes Goering Pills in tablet form affecting the sympathetic nervous system. It claims effectiveness during the Norway campaign as a preventive of air sickness. It also mentions Aquilone citing Italians with Simpamina as possibly more effective, tested by the Italian Aeronautical Medical Research Institute before the German product appeared.
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Norway
Italian Aeronautical Medical Research Institute
Corporal James Heather Gordon Wins Victoria Cross
Corporal Gordon confirmed as Victoria Cross recipient amid mud and trenches on the Lebanon front. His unit in the Arab Liberation Forces praises him as the same steadfast Jim, proud of the award with hundreds of fellow diggers nearby.
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James Heather Gordon
Gordon
Lebanon
A.lf
Jim
Australian bearings improve Pegasus engine Seagull airframes
The Minister for Air Mr Drakeford announced Australia now manufacturers a wide range of lined bearings for aeroplane engines. The bearings, mainly from high grade Australian metals, are used successfully in Pegasus engines installed in Seagull Amphibians.
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Australia
Air
Drakeford
Charmsan Xmas Gifts Advert Says Will Counts More Than Money
An old style ad promotes Charmosan as a Christmas gift emphasizing the will to give over the amount spent. It lists products like Creme Charmecan dressing powder and Charmecran hand lotion, with prices around 2/6 and notes widespread availability in chemists and stores. The copy uses lively, promotional language and nonsensical spellings typical of period advertising.
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Ang Dra
Sti . Veh Ghove Alfonty
Dynamic Democracy in Britain Weathering Postwar Crises
Francis Williams argues in Dynamic Democracy that wartime experiences on political and industrial fronts have strengthened Britain’s determination to maintain and develop democracy, ensuring it can weather crises and postwar disagreements. Urquhart notes W A Urquhart Plumber Wellington Park Street phone 54.
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Britain
Francis Williams
W. A. Urquhart
Park Street
Wellington
Amur River Route Shaped By Airliner Service Switch
The Amur River path to Nikolaevsk lies a few miles upstream from the mouth as commercial airliners now fly between Vladivostok and Moscow with 11 stops, cutting travel time to about 94 hours.
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Amur
Nikolaevsk
Vladivostok
Moscow
Army Postal Service figures in the Middle East
A report to the Minister for the Army discloses monthly Army Postal Service figures for the Middle East. More than 12 million letters and 400 thousand newspapers and periodicals are sent, along with 60 thousand parcels, with 80 percent of letters airmailed.
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Army Postal Service
A.lf
Middle East
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Amur River
Sea of Okhotsk
Kirile Islands
Kamchatka Peninsula
Sakhalin-Siberian
Devenster
II Idsts
Goering
Modist
V.C
NAN
S. A. Shineberg
New South Wales
Mont DE Piete BD. & 1. CO. Ltd
Castlereagh Street
Ees
GWE. Wew
G.M.C
Virtues Garage
Arthur Street
General Motors
Health and Medical Research Council
Toby
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