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Advertising : 56 wordsThe t.s. St. Patrick, plying between England and Eire, was attacked with bombs by German aeroplanes, but not damaged. (Picture by courtesy of Mr. A. R. Gee, Launceston). ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 31 wordsRelations between Italy and Greece seem almost at breaking point. The Greek General Staff is reported to be ...
Article : 229 wordsAn Italian aeroplane was shot down over an arms factory, 30 miles from Athens to-day. The Greek general staff decided to investigate on the spot reports that Italian troops are massing on the Greek and Albanian ...
Article : 178 wordsCAIRO, Aug. 21—Answering rising demands from a crowded Parliament for immediate entry into the war on Britain's side, the Premier said, "Nothing has developed to change the Government's policy to keep out of the ...
Article : 132 wordsParis is an armed camp and the principal base for Hitler's projected assault against Britain, according to a neutral diplomat who has arrived from Paris after visiting Vichy where he was received by Marshal Petain and ...
Article : 339 wordsAlthough the Germans continued only small-scale raids to-day, a bomb falling on a south-eastern town converted eight workmen's homes into a huge debris-filled crater. ...
Article : 370 wordsThree ratings of H.M.A.S. Hobart have been reported missing and believed killed in action in shore operations in ...
Article : 548 wordsSquadron Leader P. R. Beare, D.F.C., explaining the bombing operations of the R.A.F., said that at first he doubted the value of the leaflet raids early in the war, but he now realised their exceptional value in training the crews ...
Article : 366 wordsThe establishment of a camel patrol corps in the Kimberleys, North-Western Australia, was "suggested in the House of Representatives to-day by ...
Article : 153 wordsAs a well-earned reward after two months' intensive training and hard work the men of the A.I.F. in Britain ...
Article : 182 wordsLONDON, Aug. 21.—It is authoritatively stated that reports of Japanese concern regarding rumours that Britain is offering the lease of Pacific bases to ...
Article : 166 wordsThe establishment of a R.A.A.F. nursing service, modelled on the lines of Princess Mary's R.A.F. nursing ...
Article : 203 wordsThe exiled Russian revolutionary leader, Leon Trotsky, who was stabbed in the head by a supposed ardent supporter yesterday, died to-night ...
Article : 88 wordsWASHINGTON, Aug. 21.—The House of Representatives has completed its Congressional action and sent to the White House a bill authorising United ...
Article : 90 wordsLONDON. Aug. 21.—Suggestions that the Polish Government's attitude towards Russia was hampering the British effort to improve relations ...
Article : 175 wordsLONDON, Aug. 21.—As a result of a change in design, the output of Bren guns has been increased and will eventually rise by 21 per cent. ...
Article : 164 wordsThe British Commander in Chief in the Middle East (Gen.Wavell) has returned from a secret visit to London ...
Article : 322 words"The British Commonwealth is now the main and almost the sole obstacle to the achievement of the aims of ...
Article : 300 wordsGerman guns mounted on the French coast to-day shelled a convoy passing through the Straits of ...
Article : 53 wordsWASHINGTON. Aug. 21.—The House of Representatives Military Affairs Committee rejected by 15 votes to three an amendment postponing ...
Article : 92 wordsLOS ANGELES, Aug. 21.—The Defence Production Co-ordinator (Mr. William Knudsen) said to-day that the aircraft industry was co-operating ...
Article : 93 wordsBulgaria and Rumania have reached an agreement over Southern Dobruja, the return of which has been claimed by Bulgaria, fixing the new frontiers on the 1912 line ...
Article : 273 wordsThe King has decided to take an unusual course and present the late Flying Officer E. J. ("Cobber") Kain's D.F.C. to his ...
Article : 82 wordsSHANGHAI, Aug. 22.—Reliable Japanese sources report that the army has completed the draft of a peace treaty with Nanking, which ...
Article : 119 wordsBRISBANE, Thursday—After flying 1650 miles over the eastern states, the 30 visiting American journalists arrived in Brisbane this afternoon. ...
Article : 131 wordsLONDON. Aug. 21.—The German propagandists had two considerable advantages, declared the Minister for Information (Mr. Duff Cooper) to day. ...
Article : 95 wordsBERLIN, Aug. 21.—The cinemas here are showing a newsreel of German troops moving enormous long-range guns into positions on the French coast ...
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Examiner (Launceston, Tas. : 1900 - 1954), Fri 23 Aug 1940, Page 1
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