After meeting for two hours this afternoon, the party managers appointed to explote the prospects of procuring a stable war Government ...
Article : 1,137 wordsThe State Treasurer, Mr.Richardson, announced in his Budget speech in the Legislative Assembly last night that the Government had decided to make ...
Article : 1,108 wordsBy good fortune, I was present last week-end when three Italian destroyers were sunk in the Eastern Mediterranean by H.M.S. Ajax (6,985 tons), famed for her part in the defeat of the German "pocket" battleship Admiral Graf Spee. ...
Article : 174 wordsPresident Roosevelt, in a broadcast to-day, called upon the people of the United States for "united action in the cause of liberty." ...
Article : 392 wordsThe troop movements in the Balkans increasingly convince military commentators that the big challenge of the Axis Powers to the British Empire is coming in the Middle East. Russia has concentrated 44 infantry battalions in the ...
Article : 184 wordsThe Germans made their first mass night raid on London last night. Hundreds of tons of high-explosive bombs, besides many plane loads of ...
Article : 1,080 wordsThe fact that the British Fleet can cruise up and down the Mediterranean without interference from the Italian Grand Fleet is not the least curious ...
Article : 389 wordsThe Turkish Cabinet is believed to have discussed Turkey's relation to the Rumanian situation. The "Son-Posta" (Istanbul) says, in an ...
Article : 802 wordsPresident Roosevelt, in reply to a question at a Press conference yesterday, said that machine tools not required for defence would be available ...
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Article : 140 wordsFull details of the Mediterranean engagement and of other recent forays against the Italian forces are contained in an Admiralty communique. ...
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Article : 185 wordsMystery surrounds a report that a plane has crashed in the Wilcannia district. Apparently two reports have been confused. ...
Article : 281 wordsThe Parliamentary Secretary for Economic Warfare, Mr. Dingle Foot, in the House of Commons to-day said that the British Government had ceased to maintain trade relation. ...
Article : 36 wordsAddressing the National Conference of Labour Women, the chief woman executive of the Labour Party, Miss M. E. Sutherland said: "We should not be carried away on the ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Vichy Government, it is reported from Hanoi, has ordered French Indo-china to resist any attempt by Thailand to violate the Cambodia and Laos ...
Article : 154 wordsThe Berlin Radio, which claimed that H.M.S. Ajax was sunk in the engagement with the Graf Spee last year, to-day again announced its sinking—this time by the Italians in the ...
Article : 48 wordsMr. Alex. Wilson, the Independent Country Party member for Wimmera, has no present intention of participating in the negotiations now taking place in Canberra. ...
Article : 160 wordsThe German Propaganda Minister in Norway, Dr. Lunde, has claimed the whole of the Antarctic, including the South Pole, for Norway, but under German, control. ...
Article : 114 wordsViolating a pledge given by radio to respect the Moslems' holy month, Italian planes unsuccessfully raided Alexandria last night. To-day's Rome communique claims that the ...
Article : 98 wordsSuch of the oversea news in this issue as is headed "From Our Own Correspondent" or "Herald Exclusive Service" is from a service owned and conducted entirely by "The Sydney Morning Herald" ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 17 Oct 1940, Page 7
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