WASHINGTON, June 4.—President Roosevelt has asked Congress for 1,277,741,170 dollars (about £319,435,300 sterling at the current rate of exchange) ...
Article : 541 wordsThe number of applicants for air-crew service in the Royal Australian Air Force yesterday was almost double the usual daily total received at the Perth ...
Article : 236 wordsFollowing a quiet period over the holiday week-end, there was a rush of applications during the past two days in the metropolitan area for enlistment in the ...
Article : 300 wordsALEXANDRIA, June 5.—Hundreds of Italians are leaving Egypt, Syria and Palestine. Today 250 Ballila boys travelled by, train to Port Said to board the ...
Article : 60 wordsMELBOURNE, June 5.—The subscription of £15,500,000 to the £20,000,000 war loan was announced tonight by the Federal Treasurer (Mr. Spender) at the ...
Article : 109 wordsALEXANDRIA, June 5.—The majority of 500 Germans in Egypt who have been ordered to leave or be interned prefer Internment. ...
Article : 23 wordsAt a meeting of the Perth Road Board on Tuesday night it was decided to co-operate with the war loan and war sayings certificate organisation by arranging ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 477 wordsWASHINGTON, June 4.—Mr. Stephen Early, secretary to President Roosevelt, said today that the President was continuing his "correspondence" with ...
Article : 58 wordsMOSCOW, June 4 —"Trud," the trade union paper published in Moscow, says that Italy's sabre-rattling against the Allies is only aimed at concealing her ...
Article : 53 wordsCANBERRA, June 5.—Public response today to the Government's appeal for financial assistance for the war effort brought the total gifts and ...
Article : 72 wordsATHENS, June 4.—The Greek Prime Minister (General Metaxas) said in a speech before the national youth organisation today:—"Though we are at ...
Article : 42 wordsSYDNEY, June 5.—Sir Donald Cameron, chairman of the Royal Australian Air Force recruiting drive committee, said today that 88.809 applications to join ...
Article : 54 wordsWar loan subscriptions recorded at the Commonwealth Sub-Treasury, Perth, yesterday, amounted to £7,445/10/11. Free-of-interest loans lodged have ...
Article : 258 wordsISTANBUL, June 5.—General Mittelhauser, the new Allied Commander-in-Chief in the Levant, arrived at Ankara yesterday. He was received by the ...
Article : 44 wordsBRISBANE, June 5.—Another 160 applications for enlistment in the Royal Australian Air Force were received today. Because the unabated rush of applicants ...
Article : 95 wordsALEXANDRIA, June 5.—The British authorities are establishing the navicert system of contraband control for all shipping bound for European neutral countries ...
Article : 29 wordsLONDON, June 5.—It was announced over the Moscow radio yesterday that the Soviet accepted Sir Stafford Cripps as the British Ambassador in Moscow in ...
Article : 176 wordsMELBOURNE, June 5.—A decision to introduce a correspondence tutorial system, designed for Royal Australian Air Force reservists waiting to be called up. ...
Article : 174 wordsA comprehensive programme will be presented in the Capitol Theatre tomorrow night, when a rally will be held to raise money for the conduct of the war. ...
Article : 512 wordsOTTAWA, June 4.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Mackenzie King) told the House of Commons today that Canadians had relieved British troops in the West ...
Article : 62 wordsWASHINGTON. June 4.—The American Embassy in Berlin is reported to have been handed a Press announcement alleging that Britain and France intend to sink ...
Article : 93 wordsBRISBANE, June 5.—Queensland's plan for training 100 air fitters for the air force has been rejected by the Air Board. The State Government was ...
Article : 135 wordsThe Commissioner of Police (Mr. D. Hunter) said yesterday that members of the police force were not allowed to join the military forces in any ...
Article : 83 wordsGAZA, June 5.—After a preliminary inspection of the A.I.F. In Palestine to-day, the commanding officer of the second contingent (Major-General ...
Article : 277 wordsWASHINGTON, June 4.—It is learnt that the Administration has placed a complete embargo on the export of machine-tools for defence reasons and has ...
Article : 106 wordsFlying-Officer Percival John Hamilton Rowan (24), of the Royal Air Force, who has been missing since May 10. The only son of Mr. A. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 70 wordsADELAIDE, June 5.—With the number of enlistments barely 200 short of South Australia's quota of 2,258 for the 7th Division, it is confidently expected that ...
Article : 210 wordsT. V. Williams (Duranillin), writes:— I am sure we are all convinced that the war position is serious. Men and money are the sinews of war. Many would like ...
Article : 214 wordsTOKIO, June 5.—Again America has shocked the Japanese by its forthcoming prohibition on the export of important products to all countries. This is likely ...
Article : 89 wordsNEW YORK, June 4.—The British Ambassador (the Marquess of Lothian), in an address today, outspokenly criticised the democracies' peacetime ...
Article : 176 wordsAUCKLAND, June 5.—Some 250 soldiers of the third echelon, who were in training at the Papakura camp, are suffering from influenza. Wards at the ...
Article : 86 wordsCANBERRA, June 5.—Arrangements have almost been completed for the guarding of all post office property by a volunteer organisation of post office employees. ...
Article : 82 wordsAt a largely-attended meeting of railway employees at Narrogin on Sunday. it was decided to inaugurate a war savings certificate group. Following an ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 219 wordsIn the Royal Australian Air Force there is one cardinal rule. Only a qualified pilot is entitled to wear "wings," worn over the left breast pocket. It is a ...
Article : 103 wordsAUCKLAND. June 5.—A New Zealand taxi-drivers' award issued by the Arbitration Court today provides for a weekly wage of 5 for a working week of ...
Article : 41 wordsAUCKLAND, June 5.—A secret sitting of Parliament to discuss the war effort began this afternoon. All the doors were locked and guarded and there remained ...
Article : 71 wordsSYDNEY, June 5.—"We wish these men to be punished as severely as possible," said Mr. R. A. Shires at the Central Police Court today, when 52 Lascars, ...
Article : 233 wordsBRISBANE, June 5.—Dixon Hudson 4 50). carpenter, was found guilty in the Criminal Court today of having wilfully murdered Agnes Kate Lennon (about ...
Article : 88 wordsADELAIDE, June 5.—Captain Henri Teesdale-Smith—who, according to a cablegram from London, has been killed in action-was a brother of Mr. Paul ...
Article : 95 wordsLONDON. June 4.—Lieut.-Col. Sir Arnold Wilson. K.C.I.E., D.S.O., an air gunner in the Royal Air Force, is reported missing. He had represented the ...
Article : 161 wordsSir,—Mr. Hawke still makes great play about my rushing into print and in doing so successfully evades the real issue. So cutting out the frills and padding, will ...
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Advertising : 584 wordsLONDON, June 5.—Six persons were killed and eight. injured in an explosion at the Upton Colliery, Yorkshire, today. ...
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