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  2. WIDE N.E.S. POWERS.

    The National Emergency Bill which was introduced into the State Parliament yesterday will give the Government wide powers for action, ...

    Article : 393 words
  3. BREAD CASE.

    The State Parliamentary Labour Party will decide next week whether the leader, Mr. McKell, should move in Parliament a vote of censure on the ...

    Article : 284 words
  4. ALASKAN AIR DEFENCE.

    The United States is sending six additional Air Corps units to Alaska. The Secretary of War, Mr. H. L. Stimson, announced that three of the ...

    Article : 406 words
  5. PICTURESQUE COSTUMES IN GREEK DAY ' MARCH.

    Colourful and picturesque Greek costumes were seen by Sydney citizens at yesterday's Greek Day procession. Left: Miss Katherine Zikos, as Miss Greece, took the salute during the march past the Town Hall. Right: Greeks wearing the traditional ceremonial uniform of the Evzones, leading the march. (Other pictures on page 16.) ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 58 words
  6. BRITAIN HAS RESPITE.

    London and the rest of Britain spent a night free of raids last night. The Air Ministry announced this morning that there was nothing to report. ...

    Article : 517 words
  7. "GUILTY" VERDICT REVERSED.

    William Stuart, 61, labourer, was acquitted to-day of a charge of having committed, a serious offence against a boy after the foreman of a Supreme Court jury had explained ...

    Article : 191 words
  8. MARTIAL LAW IN AMSTERDAM.

    Amsterdam is now under martial law as a result of young Jews attacking uniformed Storm Troopers marching through the Ghetto on February ...

    Article : 312 words
  9. CONFIDENCE VOTE.

    The Prime Minister, Mr. Churchill, for the first time since his election to that office, yesterday asked for a vote of confidence from the House of ...

    Article : 654 words
  10. ALFONSO DIES IN ROME.

    The death is announced in Rome of Alfonso, ex-King of Spain, after a severe illness caused by heart trouble. Alfonso died at 11.15 a.m., following ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 664 words
  11. "CHARTER" FOR DOCKERS.

    Explaining what he described as a dockers' charter" for the duration of the war, the Minister of Labour, Mr. Ernest Bevin, said that transport had ...

    Article : 252 words
  12. 1,250 CITY WARDENS BY APRIL.

    Enrolment of the 1,250 air-raid waldens needed in the city will be completed by the end of March, the chief warden, Mr. A. M. Pickford, said yesterday. ...

    Article : 180 words
  13. WESTERN HEMISPHERE DEFENCE.

    President Roosevelt, in a message to the annual awards dinner of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Hollywood, said that America's ...

    Article : 102 words
  14. NEW SHORT STIRLING BOMBERS.

    It has now been revealed that in a raid on occupied France a few nights ago the R.A.F. for the first time used Short Stirling four-engined bombers. ...

    Article : 278 words
  15. MR. S. A. LLOYD ENDORSED FOR CONCORD.

    A special meeting of the Concord U.A.P. State Electoral Conference last night decided to endorse the candidature of Mr. S. A. Lloyd, M.L.A., as U.A.P. candidate for the electorate. ...

    Article : 64 words
  16. AUTOMOBILES SMASHED.

    The early stages of the strike of employees of the Bethlehem Steel Company plant at Lackawanna, New York State, brought a flare of violence. ...

    Article : 102 words
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  18. ANGLO-AMERICAN PEACE AIMS.

    A basic agreement on peace objectives between American and British officials is already well advanced, states the Washington correspondent of the ...

    Article : 166 words
  19. ATTACK ON TRADE ROUTES.

    "We must expect a great attack on our trade routes in the next few months," declared the former First Sea Lord and Minister for the Co-ordination ...

    Article : 332 words
  20. MUSSOLINI'S AID TO FRANCO.

    Mussolini has issued through the Stefani News Agency an imposing list of armaments supplied to General Franco in the Spanish civil war. ...

    Article : 167 words
  21. CROWDING IN SHELTERS.

    The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry for Home Security, Miss Ellen Wilkinson, said, in the House of Commons yesterday, that there had been ...

    Article : 91 words
  22. RESCUED SEAMEN IN EAST AFRICA.

    Two hundred Allied seamen were rescued after the fall of Mogadishu, capital of Italian Somailand. A Nairobi communique states: "Not the ...

    Article : 134 words
  23. A.I.F. COMFORTS IN MIDDLE EAST.

    Alderman A. T. Tait, Deputy Lord Mayor of Brisbane and Commissioner of Queensland patriotic funds, arrived by air from the Middle East, where he stayed in the camps ...

    Article : 109 words
  24. FILM AWARDS FOR 1940.

    Awards by the Academy of Modern Picture Arts and Sciences for 1940 are:— Best picture, "Rebecca"; best actress, Ginger Rogers in "Kitty Foyle"; best actor, ...

    Article : 72 words
  25. VISCOUNT GORT'S SON FOUND DEAD.

    General Viscount Gort's son and heir, Second-Lieutenant Charles Vereker, of the Brigade of Guards, was found dead to-day, at Corfe Mullen, near Wimborne, Dorset. A ...

    Article : 94 words
  26. GRAZIANIS ARREST DENIED.

    It was officially denied in Rome that the Commander-in-Chief of the Italian forces in Libya, Marshal Graziani, was under house arrest in Rome. ...

    Article : 84 words
  27. MR. MENZIES SEES SIR KINGSLEY WOOD.

    The Australian Prime Minister, Mr. Menzies, aw the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir kingsley Wood, this morning, and later lunched at Gray's Inn, of which he is an ...

    Article : 107 words
  28. ANOTHER CUT IN BRITAIN'S WHISKY SUPPLY.

    Supplies of whisky throughout Britain will be reduced next week to 35 per cent, of the amount allowed before the war. They are at present 80 per cent. ...

    Article : 173 words
  29. BUBONIC PLAGUE IN PACIFIC.

    Because of bubonic plague in New Caledonia, a very thorough medical examination of the passengers and crew of the Honolulu Clipper was made ...

    Article : 98 words
  30. JAPANESE ESTIMATE OF A.I.F. IN MALAYA.

    Belittling remarks regarding the Australian forces in Singapore were made by the Tokyo Radio announcer yesterday. He said that "reliable advices" from Singapore indicated ...

    Article : 94 words
  31. SEVEN KILLED IN U.S. AIR CRASH.

    Seven persons were killed and nine injured when a sleeper plane of Eastern Air Lines crashed about four miles north of Johnsboro, hear Atlanta, Georgia, at about 1 a.m. ...

    Article : 90 words
  32. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    Tin was quoted to-day at £266 a ton, compared with £264/10/ yesterday. Turnover was 500 tons. Rubber was quoted at 13 13-32d a lb. ...

    Article : 59 words
  33. THEATRE COLLAPSE CAUSES 200 CASUALTIES.

    More than 200 Chinese are believed to have been killed and injured when a theatre collapsed at Kunming, in Yunnan Province, shortly before midnight to-night. ...

    Article : 35 words
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