CANBERRA, Oct. 23.—All discussions about the probable Cabinet personnel which the Prime Minister (Mr. Menties) hopes to be in a position to announce ...
Article : 618 wordsFurther steps in the development of a flax industry in this State were announced yesterday by the Minister for Industrial Development (Mr. A. R. G. ...
Article : 375 wordsNEW YORK, Oct. 22.—Speaking in the "Herald-Tribune's" "forum" (a radio session sponsored by that paper), the Secretary for the Navy (Colonel Knox) said ...
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Advertising : 293 wordsNEW YORK, Oct. 22.—There is fairly general agreement between the Presidential election "polls" conducted by a variety of sources in so-called doubtful or crucial ...
Article : 646 wordsLONDON, Oct. 23.—While the Near Eastern situation does not become less obscure or tense, and it is suggested that it may be complicated as a result of the ...
Article : 613 wordsNEW YORK. Oct. 22.—Producing, it is estimated, 3,750,000 tons in excess of the 1929 total, the steel industry has expanded its operations to a rate of 94.9 ...
Article : 76 wordsCANBERRA, Oct. 23.—Asked tonight whether the resolution last night of the Labour caucus was to be taken as an undertaking that the Federal Labour ...
Article : 344 wordsLONDON, Oct. 22.—The British Ambassador to Washington (the Marquess of Lothian) tonight met British Press representatives, following his return to ...
Article : 115 wordsMELBOURNE, Oct. 23.—The United States Secretary for the Navy (Colonel Knox) pointed out on Tuesday that America can only be approached by sea ...
Article : 323 wordsSections of the Burma Road, which runs for 726 miles through mountainous country from Lashio in Eastern Burma to Kunming in South China. The road was closed by Britain for three months, but was reopened on October 18. Since then Japanese planes have bombed bridges on the road in the Chinese section ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 57 wordsMr. L . Boas, assistant timber controller for the Department of Supply and Development and chief of the division of forest products of the Council for ...
Article : 218 wordsADELAIDE, Oct. 23.—The Premier (Mr. Playford) expressed disappointment today at the decision to establish a War Council as the arrangement, he said, did ...
Article : 100 wordsSYDNEY, Oct. 23.—The hearing was begun in the Supreme Court today before Mr. Justice Street and a jury of a case in which William John Smith, ...
Article : 520 wordsThe 14th Field Battery, the West Australian artillery unit of the 2/7th Field Regiment, 9th Division, A.I.F., will parade through the streets of Perth on Tuesday ...
Article : 216 wordsThe result of the Senate poll for the three West Australian vacancies, for which voting took place on September 21, was declared yesterday at noon from ...
Article : 405 wordsNEW YORK, Oct. 22.—Mr. Walter Lippman, the well-known commentator and special writer for the New York "Herald-Tribune," speaking in that ...
Article : 172 wordsMEXICO CITY, Oct. 22.—It is reported that Mexico is planning to sell 18,000 tons of scrap-iron to the Allied Purchasing Commission. ...
Article : 92 words"I very much regret that arrangements could not be made for a National Government, which in my opinion is essential," the Leader of the State ...
Article : 131 wordsLONDON, Oct. 22.—The United States Ambassador (Mr. J. P. Kennedy) has left the Embassy and will shortly leave for the United States. ...
Article : 24 wordsLONDON, Oct. 23.—The Batavia correspondent of the United Press said yesterday that well-informed persons stated that the British, American and Dutch ...
Article : 306 wordsWASHINGTON, Oct. 22.—President Roosevelt has created a board with sweeping powers to require production and delivery of all national defence materials ...
Article : 40 wordsBROOME, Oct. 23.—For many months the activities of the German Missionary Brotherhood here has engaged the attention of the authorities. As an outcome ...
Article : 99 wordsCANBERRA, Oct. 23.—The manufacture of machine-gun belts for which Australia has previously depended on supplies from Britain is now being ...
Article : 172 wordsWASHINGTON, Oct. 23.—The United States Government has requisitioned 110 dive-bombers originally consigned to Sweden, under the law signed by ...
Article : 155 wordsCHUNGKING, Oct. 23.—Despite the Japanese bombings, traffic on the Burma road (which Britain reopened last week), remains unaffected. Only minor ...
Article : 156 wordsTwenty-one donations amounting to £107/17/4 were received yesterday for the Lord Mayor's fund for the relief of distress among bombed British civilians, ...
Article : 185 wordsLONDON, Oct, 22.—A suggestion that the Government should publish a White Paper in a number of foreign languages, also in English, containing a selection of ...
Article : 279 wordsSYDNEY, Oct. 23.—One of four vessels recently bought by the Government of Thailand (Siam) has shown the flag of Thailand in several Australian ports. ...
Article : 198 wordsWASHINGTON, Oct. 22.—After a conference with the Under-Secretary of State (Mr. Sumner Welles) today the French Ambassador (M. Henry Haye) ...
Article : 96 wordsKALGOORLIE, Oct. 23.—Crushed beneath a five-ton slab of rock, William Spinks (28), machine miner, of Moran- street, Boulder, was killed almost ...
Article : 233 wordsWith a resounding crash, two bogie tramcars collided head on on the Causeway a few minutes before 5 p.m. yesterday. As a result, both trams were badly ...
Article : 200 wordsNEW YORK, Oct. 22.—The Washington correspondent of the "New York Times" states that the Japanese Government is making a census of all Japanese ...
Article : 74 wordsADELAIDE, Oct. 23.—The British air raid victims' fund now amounts to £56.529. SYDNEY, Oct. 23.—The fund for the ...
Article : 31 wordsSINGAPORE, Oct. 22.—The "straits Times" publishes a dispatch from Batavia which states that it is reliably reported that a joint Japanese-Dutch ...
Article : 90 wordsMARCHFIELD (California), Oct. 22.— A score of Boeing "flying fortresses" are waiting here, it is reported, for a mass flight to Langley Field (Virginia). Army ...
Article : 74 wordsMINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 22.—Dr. Miland Knapp, head of the physio-therapy department of the University of Min. e[?]polis, has written to Sister Kenny, of ...
Article : 186 wordsTOKIO, Oct. 23.—The Navy Ministry announced today that Vice-Admiral Yorio Sawamato had been appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese ...
Article : 41 wordsLONDON, Oct. 23.—A Stockholm message states that the railway linking Oslo and Bergen (in Norway) has been blocked as a result of the derailment of a ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Leader of the Opposition (Mr. Latham) asked in the Legislative Assembly yesterday whether the Main Roads Department had information showing ...
Article : 170 wordsLONDON. Oct. 22.—A mine recovered from the sea was being used to stimulate a Spitfire fund in a coastal town after the fuse was believed to have been ...
Article : 85 wordsAUCKLAND, Oct. 23.—Referring today to a cable message from Sydney that Tasman Empire Airways, Ltd., may have to increase the Australia-New Zealand ...
Article : 102 wordsNEW YORK, Oct. 22.—Miss Dorothy Thompson, the well-known political commentator, declares that the Dies Committee (which has been ...
Article : 280 wordsLONDON, Oct. 22.—Replying to a Parliamentary question today, the Minister of Shipping (Mr. Cross) announced life-jacket lights had been supplied ...
Article : 102 wordsSYDNEY. Oct. 23.—No settlement was reached at the compulsory conference presided over by Mr. Justice O'Mara today in connection with the strike at the ...
Article : 70 wordsLONDON, Oct. 22.—A message from Bukarest this morning stated that Rumania had been shaken by the most severe earthquake in living memory. The ...
Article : 81 wordsLONDON. Oct. 22.—The latest War Office casualty list includes the names of six army chaplains who have been taken prisoner. ...
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