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  2. U.S. DEFENCE PLANS.

    While the Senate Naval Committea has approved of the Bill authorising a 70 par cent. increase in the fighting fleet. President ...

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  3. MONEY FOR ALIENS.

    At a meeting of the Rockhampton subbranch of the Returned Soldiers' League last night a motion that the State Council protest against the ...

    Article : 135 words
  4. ITALIAN WAR MACHINE.

    "The Timas" correspondent formerly in Rome says it is difficult to determine the Value of the Italian war machine. Italians ...

    Article : 418 words
  5. IN NAZI CAMPS.

    Mr. Joseph Luhan, American Ambulance officer, in a message from Paris describes the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps in France. Mr. ...

    Article : 116 words
  6. SIX NAZI BOMBERS DESTROYED

    Six German bombers were destroyed and four damaged by fighters during yesterday's daylight raids on England and Scotland. They made a series of hit and run attacks between dwan and dusk, dropping high explosives, incendiaries and ...

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  7. GERMANS TORPEDO PRISON SHIP

    The liner Aramdora Star (15,501 tons) has been torpedoed by a U-boat in the Atlantic, while carrying 1500 German and Italian aliens and prisoners of war to Canada for internment. Also on board were British soldiers, guards, and ...

    Article : 231 words
  8. NEW CONSTITUTION.

    The Freneh Government proposes to call a national assembly to revise the constitution, according to the Havas Agency, ...

    Article : 217 words
  9. DEFEAT THE INVASION.

    The Under-secretary for War (Sir Henry Page-C[?]ft) said to-day: "Our intention is to defeat the invasion at sea or even before ...

    Article : 390 words
  10. SENATE APPROVES.

    The Senate Naval Committee approved by nine votes to five Mr Knox's nomination as Secretary for the Navy, Mr. Knox testified that any ...

    Article : 195 words
  11. INTERNED NAZIS.

    The Justice Department said that immigration inspectors had been sent to San Francisco to cheek reports that members of the ...

    Article : 79 words
  12. AMAZON FORCE.

    Under the leadership of Mrs. Venetia F[?]ster, wives of naval men are forming their own local defence service entitled "Amazons' ...

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  13. GERMANS TRUE TO FORM.

    Soldiers bitterly critised the conduct of the German prisoners who were "big hulking brutes who tried to sweep the Italians aside and had to be ...

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  14. DEFENDERS' SUCCESSES.

    About lunch time raiders appeared over the north-east coast of Scotland. A little later two raiders were forced down in the sea off Scotland, and the ...

    Article : 587 words
  15. "NOT UNDERSTOOD."

    The spokesmen at the War, Navy and Foreign Offices to-day again told the Australian Associated Press that the action of the Governor of Hong ...

    Article : 480 words
  16. OBLIGATIONS TO ALLY.

    The Premier (Senator Hassan Sabry) in a statement in Parliament said: "Our foreign policy is based on friendship with all countries not affected by ...

    Article : 93 words
  17. NEW ZEALANDERS IN ACTION.

    The Associated Press special correspondent says: "A New Zealand squadron in association with an English squadron at the same bomber ...

    Article : 221 words
  18. OCCUPATION COMPLETED.

    Authorised circles in Berlin declare teat the German occupation of France has been completed according to schedule and the armistice terms. ...

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  19. ANGLO-ITALIAN CLASH.

    To-day's Italian communique claims that strong British forces, attacking at Metemmawere, were put to flight by vigorous counter-attack and left ...

    Article : 95 words
  20. REASON FOR EVACUATION.

    The evacuated wife of the British military leader stated that the evacuation of women and children from Hong Kong was to relieve the food problem ...

    Article : 118 words
  21. BRITISH CHILDREN.

    Mr. Havenna introdnced in the House of Representatives a Bill to permit 100,000 British children to enter the United States, over the ...

    Article : 152 words
  22. CAMEL CORPS IN ACTION.

    A communique states that the Camel Corps inflicted casualties on Italian regulars on the Somaliland frontier on Sunday. The only British loss was ...

    Article : 34 words
  23. ANOTHER VICTIM.

    One of the four women seriously injured in last night's raid over south-east England has died. It is officially announced that a small ...

    Article : 57 words
  24. MALTA RAIDED.

    A heavy enemy air raid occurred this morning. One raider was sho[?] down in flames. ...

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  25. REFUSAL OF DEMAND EXPECTED.

    The Associated Press correspondent at Tokio says it is reliably stated that Britain will refuse, the Japanese demand to close the arms route across Burma. ...

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  26. SIXTY FASCIST PLANES DOWNED.

    R.A.F. planes had officially destroyed at least 60 Italian planes up to last Sunday. Another 29 are believed to have been lost. The R.A.F. losses have been ...

    Article : 122 words
  27. MAKES MAIDEN SPEECH.

    The Minister for Labour (Mr. Ernest Bevin) had the unusual experience of making his maiden Parliamentary speech in the House of ...

    Article : 199 words
  28. FIFTH COLUMNISTS.

    Cyril Stephens (18) was sentenced to three years' hard labour for damaging a machine in the war factory in which he was employed. The ...

    Article : 176 words
  29. JAPAN AWAITS REPLY.

    The British United Press correspondent at Tokio says that the spokesman of the Foreign Office (Captain Okuma) said Japan still awaited a British reply to the ...

    Article : 164 words
  30. REFUGEES REACH CANADA.

    One thousand refugees from the United Kingdom have arrived. There are 300 children. Some come from the families of nobility and others from ...

    Article : 32 words
  31. ITALIAN CLAIMS.

    The High Command communique No. 23 states: "A strong British force violently attacked the Italian garrison at Metemma, in Italian East Africa. The ...

    Article : 61 words
  32. A.I.F. IN BRITAIN.

    The fact that there are now two Australian forces on service abroad in widely separated fields has led to some confusion and a rood deal of delay in ...

    Article : 115 words
  33. AMERICAN'S COMMENT.

    Mr. C E. Gauss, the American Minister to Australia, predicted that if the British resist the Japanese attack on Hong Kong they "will give the attackers ...

    Article : 70 words
  34. ADVICE TO AMERICA.

    The navy vice-spokesman expressed the opinion that Japan was not particularly relieved by the admissions by Colonel Knox and Mr. Walsh at ...

    Article : 160 words
  35. PRESS OPINION.

    The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. C. R. Attlee), in the House of Commons, said that the Government was not prepared to guarantee non-interference in ...

    Article : 107 words
  36. GRAVING DOCK.

    The Minister for the Interior (Senator H. S. Foll), who arrived to-day from Canberra, stated that the £3,000,000 graving dock in Sydney Harbour ...

    Article : 85 words
  37. ALEXANDRIA BOMBED.

    Ten Italian planes dropped about 120 bombs on Alexandria to-day. Little damage was done. ...

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  38. ARMY WANTS STRONGER LINE.

    It is authoritatively stated that the army is planning to insist that the Government adopt a stronger foreign policy, based on Germany's present ascendancy. ...

    Article : 109 words
  39. GENERAL WEYGAND IN SYRIA.

    The Associated Press Istanbul correspondent says that Gsneral Weygand is reported to have arrived in Syria. ...

    Article : 30 words
  40. KING SEES MR. CHURCHILL.

    Mr. Churchill had an audience [?] the King at Buc[?] Palace [?] evening. ...

    Article : 26 words
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