AUSTRALIA PREPARED
NEARING WAR FOOTING
KEY POINTS GUARDED
PRECAUTIONS IX X.S.W
(Klee. Trl. Copyright —United Press Assn.) (Reed. August 26, 1.20 p.m.) SYDNEY. August 26.
Extraordinary and comprehensive powers to safeguard national interests have been taken by the Commonwealth Government in a series of national security regulations promulgated at Canberra at midnight.
The steps to prepare Australia for an emergency have been intensified and it is stated that the country can now be placed on a war footing in a few hours.
The New South Wales State authorities have taken precautions to guard against all possibilities. All leave has been cancelled in the navy, garrison artillery and the police. More thas 40,000 people, who have enrolled under the national emergency scheme, have been warned to be prepared for service. About 12,000 have actually been called up for service. The militia is guarding _ the Bunnerong power station, railway bridges and industries and the wharves at Port Kembla.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20027, 28 August 1939, Page 7
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156AUSTRALIA PREPARED NEARING WAR FOOTING Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20027, 28 August 1939, Page 7
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