SHEPPARTON, Tuesday. — Formation of a National Government and the immediate enactment of legislation on the lines of the ...
Article : 378 wordsA question will be asked in the House of Commons to-morrow whether Viscount Caldecote, Dominions Secretary, will inquire ...
Article : 338 wordsTank battles, fierce infantry charges, and courage of French troops are described in letters from poilus to relatives, says the "New ...
Article : 194 wordsSweeping new measures to prepare Britain for any emergency range from the conversion of schools into "shadow factories" for ...
Article : 289 wordsBelgian women and children had a cheery wave for British troops riding in armoured vehicles as they passed through a town on their way to the front. (By airmail.) ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Advertising : 442 wordsMembers of the Tramways Union at a stormy meeting last ngiht, by 159 votes to 142, suspended three delegates from holding any official ...
Article : 256 wordsGerman planes appeared off the south-east coast of England to-day. One is believed to have crossed the coastline. ...
Article : 64 wordsBefore Leopold of the Belgians capitulated it was reported that he had informed President Roosevelt that the Germans had deliberately bombed the ...
Article : 192 wordsIf Britain and France went down a light would go out which would not be rekindled in our time, said Mr. Casey, Australian Minister to ...
Article : 268 wordsJust before dusk last night R.A.F. bombers roared away from advanced bases in France on one of the most spectacular raids of the ...
Article : 125 wordsHer experiences as a child refugee of the last war have inspired Mrs. R. P. Messenger, president of the relief fund for Belgian refugees, to undertake this work. ...
Article : 238 wordsGerman shipping losses due to war have been 819,600 tons to May 22, equal to 20 per cent. of Germany's pre-war tonnage. Britain's ...
Article : 158 wordsFurther Now Zealand casualties in the R.A.F Include A. E. Q. Bourgeois, Hastings, and A. E. Wickham, Christchurch, both missing; Ian Dromgoole, Lyttelton, ...
Article : 50 wordsThe fate of the world was in the hands of youth, Mr. J. G. D. Medley, Vice-Chancellor of the University, said at a dinner of the Church of ...
Article : 182 wordsPresident Roosevelt has nominated Mr. Jay Pierrepont Moffatt, at present chief of the State Department's European Division, to succeed Mr. Cromwell, as ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Advertising : 42 wordsHAMILTON, Tuesday. — Following a gift of £500 for the nation's war effort by Messrs. A. Miller and Co., Hamilton, Messrs. J. and L. Young have given £500, ...
Article : 49 wordsAmericans are pouring into Galway (Eire) to board the U.S. liner President Roosevelt, which will take them home. The ship will be loaded to capacity. ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Dionne quintuplets will celebrate their sixth birthday to-day, marking the beginning of a new phase in their life. ...
Article : 108 wordsOn behalf of the King of Italy the Italian Charge d'Affaires in Tokio has conferred on Mr. Peter Russo, an Australian, the Order of the Knight of the ...
Article : 77 wordsYesterday, the coldest temperature for the year was registered in Victoria. At Omeo the thermometer dropped to 12deg. F., or 20deg. below freezing point. The ...
Article : 75 wordsWith an officer explaining the procedure to hundreds of visitors the 53rd Militia Anti-Aircraft Company went into action at the International Motor Show ...
Article : 95 wordsAn appeal to Pacific nations to adopt "long-sighted policies based on mutual helpfulness," was made by Mr. Grew, U.S. Ambassador, in a significant speech to the ...
Article : 148 wordsYou may never have heard of Venlo, until the recent R.A.F. bombing raid on this town was reported. Venlo is in Holland, close to the German frontier. Like ...
Article : 84 wordsTwenty of the crew are believed to have been killed when a Tropical Oil Co. tanker was destroyed in an explosion at Barranquilla, Colombia, South America. ...
Article : 48 wordsAsia Minor is reputed to be one of the oldest occupied countries in the world a connecting link between southern Asia and southern Europe, and in consequence ...
Article : 212 wordsBritish Air Ministry is buying American light commercial planes for directing artillery fire on the Western Front. About a dozen bought here will be flown to ...
Article : 47 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday. — Official reports received by the Government disclose that between May 10 and May 14 German air losses on the ...
Article : 94 words"Pravda," Moscow newspaper, praises the R.A.F. "Undoubtedly it is superior to the German Air Force," it says. "It has done great damage in Germany. ...
Article : 52 wordsSir Stafford Cripps, M.P., is on his way to Moscow to establish a basis for resuming trade talks between the Soviet and British Governments. ...
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Advertising : 183 wordsAugmented defence measures in Eire, including black-outs, semi-martial law, and an increased armed guard on the shores, were forecast by Mr. de Valera, ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wed 29 May 1940, Page 3
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