THE Italians have not yet attempted to advance further eastward from Sidi-Birrani, but their task of consolidating supplies in that area is being made anything but easy by a heavy bombardment from the three British services. ...
Article : 1,693 wordsLONDON, September 19.--Continuing their relentless hammering of the enemy's Channel ports, bomber squadrons of the R.A.F. last night again attacked shipping concentrations, docks and harbor installations from Flushing in the ...
Article : 907 wordsBuckingham Palace, London residence of the Royal Family, which was bombed by a German Plane. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 15 wordsLONDON, September 20.--The 'Daily Telegraph' declares:--Telegrams sent by train, letters lying at railway stations for days, ...
Article : 339 wordsLONDON, September 20.--An Air Ministry communique states that enemy air activity last night was on a smaller scale and less ...
Article : 469 wordsLONDON, September 19.--On September 9, a declaration was made by the Government of Luxemburg concerning the violation, ...
Article : 239 wordsAT midnight on Thursday well-informed sources described the Indo-China situation as critical. Members of the Japanese mission announced they were leaving and 400 Japanese civilians were ordered to journey to Haipong on ...
Article : 653 wordsLONDON, September 19.--The Home Secretary (Mr. John Anderson) sent out 2,000,000 leaflets giving employers and workers ...
Article : 219 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.--Wearing a de Gaulle emblem in his lapel, an Australian with large business interests in Noumea arrived in Sydney to-day as ...
Article : 158 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.--Wearing full battle kit 1000 men of the 8th Division A.I.F., under the command of Lieut.-Colonel Roach, will leave Rokeby camp ...
Article : 149 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.--Application has been made for probate of the will of the late Herbert Royse Lysaght, of Darling Point, director of John ...
Article : 84 wordsBUCHAREST, September 19.--It is reliably reported that 400 lorries, intended to collect German nationals in Bessarabia, were refused permission ...
Article : 72 wordsWASHINGTON. September 19.--Questioned whether he conferred with the British Ambassador (Lord Lothian) and the Australian Minister ...
Article : 78 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.--Returning a verdict of accidental death at the inquest into the fatal accident to four men in Woy Woy tunnel on August 22, the ...
Article : 103 wordsLONDON, September 19.--It is officially announced from General Headquarters of the French Forces that General de Brigade Eon. ...
Article : 56 wordsLONDON, September 19.--The daily occurrence of people spending all day waiting for release from beneath debris of razed ...
Article : 926 wordsTOWNSVILLE, Friday.--At a meeting of the Townsville subbranch of the R.S.S.I.L.A. to-night, a motion was carried unanimously: ...
Article : 83 wordsBRISBANE, Friday.--A total of 500 volunteers are being called to form an auxiliary fire fighting force to cope with any wartime emergency in ...
Article : 89 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.--Another specific assurance was given to-day by the Prime Minister that the Federal Government intended that the ...
Article : 69 wordsARMIDALE, Friday.--Gordon Bramwell Sewell (36), single, of Metz, had his left leg so badly shattered by a blast from two barrels of a shot-gun ...
Article : 90 wordsCAIRO, September 19 (by Sergeant Fitchett official Australia war correspondent).--Despite Italian penetration of the western desert of Egypt, men ...
Article : 145 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.--The Commonwealth, in cooperation with New Zealand, will discuss soon practical plans for an increase in trade and, closer ...
Article : 91 wordsADELAIDE, Friday.--The Minister for the Army (Senator M'Bride) said to-day that large-scale recruiting for the A.I.F. was not likely to be resumed ...
Article : 109 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.--Machine tools to the value of £120,000 for equipment of munition factories in Australia will be purchased ...
Article : 71 wordsSIMLA, September 19.--The Nawab of Bhopal has given Britain, American securities valued at £75,000, to purchase Spitfires. ...
Article : 23 wordsBRISBANE, Friday.--The Minister for Air (Mr. Fadden) stated to-day that a R.A.A.F, home defence unit would be established early next month ...
Article : 60 wordsNEW YORK, September 19.--The 'Daily News' says:--The Civil Aeronautics Board announces that the Mayor (Mr. la Guardia) is negotiating ...
Article : 43 wordsOTTAWA, September 19.--The loan total is £294,465,000. The Minister for National Revenue announced it would close at noon on September ...
Article : 32 wordsWASHINGTON, September 19.--The Secretary for War (Mr. Stimson) announced that the army ordered 9174 of 18,641 airplanes appropriated by ...
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Daily Mercury (Mackay, Qld. : 1906 - 1954), Sat 21 Sep 1940, Page 7
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