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  2. PLANES FROM BRITAIN.

    The Minister for Air, Mr. Fairbairn, announced to-night that he had been informed by cable from the Secretary for Air in Britain, Sir Archibald ...

    Article : 399 words
  3. SHIPBUILDING PROJECT.

    The Premier, Mr. Mair, said to-day that efforts would be made to induce private enterprise to build ships at Walsh Island, Newcastle. ...

    Article : 309 words
  4. BRITAIN AND FRANCE.

    The French Charge d'Affaires in London, the Marquis Castellene, yesterday called at the Foreign Office and delivered a communication from the ...

    Article : 1,011 words
  5. SWIFT ATTACK BY ROYAL NAVY.

    The British Navy put out of action the Richelieu (35,000 tons), the most recently completed of France's battleships, at Dakar (Senegal) yesterday. This action was described by the First Lord of the ...

    Article : 1,483 words
  6. £50,000,000 A WEEK.

    British war expenditure is now more than £50,000,000 a week, and the cost of the fighting services has increased from £4,000,000 a day in March to ...

    Article : 199 words
  7. BRITISH SHIP SEIZED.

    The British Navy is investigating the Japanese seizure of the British steamer Hsenking, which was carrying munitions from the French ...

    Article : 449 words
  8. BRITAIN NOW FORTRESS.

    A specific Government move to inform the people of Britain—the island fortress—and of the Empire on how the homeland is prepared to ...

    Article : 775 words
  9. GIBRALTAR MAY BE ATTACKED.

    Increasing interest is being taken in a suggestion that Germany, either before or during an attack on Britain, may try to take Gibraltar. ...

    Article : 251 words
  10. GRAVING DOCK.

    North Sydney aldermen last night, criticised the State Government for not using its influence to have the construction of the £3,000,000 graving dock at Potts Point ...

    Article : 103 words
  11. ENLISTMENT RATE DOUBLED.

    Sir Donald Cameron, chairman of the New South Wales R.A.A.F. Recruiting Drive Committee, said yesterday that the rate of call-up of air crew applicants on the waiting list had ...

    Article : 119 words
  12. COMPULSORY LOANS.

    A system of compulsory lending, spread over the whole community, has been suggested to the Commonwealth Government as part of extreme ...

    Article : 253 words
  13. JAPANESE PRESSURE RESISTED.

    Britain's reply to Japan's protest about the passage of military supplies to China by way of Hong Kong and Burma does not admit a Japanese right ...

    Article : 419 words
  14. DRIVEN OUT BY SHELLS.

    British bombardment of the beleaguered Libyan frontier fort of Capuzzo has made it untenable, and the 1,000 Italian defenders have taken to the ...

    Article : 482 words
  15. CIVIL AIR GUARD PLAN.

    A plan to form a civil air guard patterned on the British body of the same name was evolved at a meeting called by Mr. C. D. Elder, a vice-president of the Royal Victorian ...

    Article : 112 words
  16. NO FREE LIFT FOR SOLDIERS.

    The secretary of Associated Motor Transport of New South Wales, Mr. R. J. Fitzgerald, said last night that on officer of the Transport Department had on ...

    Article : 155 words
  17. MARTINIQUE NOT BLOCKADED.

    British officials have assured the United States Government that British cruisers are not blockading the French island of Martinique, in the West ...

    Article : 215 words
  18. 8th DIVISION.

    Headquarters of the 8th Division. A.I.F., will be established at Rosebery Racecourse, which will be taken over by the military authorities to-morrow. ...

    Article : 160 words
  19. "SPARTA HAD NO WALLS."

    The Secretary for War, Mr. Anthony Eden, replying to a suggestion in the House of Commons that every village in Britain should be fortified, said it ...

    Article : 86 words
  20. JAPANESE ACCUSATIONS

    Colonel Peck, Commander of the United States Marines in Shanghai, gave the blunt retort, "It's a lie," to Japanese accusations that the [?]6 ...

    Article : 210 words
  21. FRENCH POSSESSIONS IN PACIFIC.

    British, Allied, and French ships normally engaged in trading between Australia or New Zealand and French possessions in the South Pacific will be allowed to maintain their usual ...

    Article : 248 words
  22. SWEDISH FEARS.

    Great Britain has protested to the Swedish Government against the new transport agreement between Germany and Sweden, allowing the passage of ...

    Article : 233 words
  23. LABOUR'S AID TO BRITAIN.

    Measures to end all industrial disputes in Britain will be taken soon They include arbitration and the regulation of wages. ...

    Article : 153 words
  24. WRONG DIVIDEND ANNOUNCED.

    A mistake in the announcement of the first dividend of a company caused confusion on the Sydney Stock Exchang[?] yesterday afternoon. ...

    Article : 235 words
  25. SCUTTLING THWARTED.

    A New York report that the crew of the French liner Pasteur (30,000 tons) tried to scuttle the ship while it was anchored in Bedford Basin, near Halifax ...

    Article : 80 words
  26. PRO-RUSSIAN OUTBURSTS.

    Pro-Russian demonstrations were made at Belgrade after the arrival of M. Plotnikogg, first Sovict Ambassador to Yugoslavia, states the Budapest ...

    Article : 81 words
  27. THREEFOLD CAMPAIGN.

    Germany and Italy have agreed on a threefold attack on Great Britain, according to Signor Gayda, who is regarded as Signor Mussolini's ...

    Article : 155 words
  28. U.S. FLEET STILL IN PACIFIC.

    "Admiral Richardson Commander-in-Chief of the United States Fleet, has arrived in Washington from the Pacific for a series of conferences, after which ...

    Article : 150 words
  29. KING HAAKON'S POSITION.

    King Haakon of Norway who is at present in England has sent a reply to a telegram he had received from the Presidential Board in Norway, refusing to abdicate on the ...

    Article : 149 words
  30. V.C. ENLISTS AGAIN.

    Joseph Maxwell, who rose from private to lieutenant in the last war, and was awarded the Victoria Cross, Military Cross with bar, Croix de Guerre, and Distinguished Conduct ...

    Article : 121 words
  31. OVERSEA NEWS.

    Such 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 ...

    Article : 165 words
  32. H.M.S. WHIRLWIND SUNK.

    The British Admiralty announced yesterday that the destroyer Whirlwind (1,100 tons) had been sunk by a torpedo Another British warship took off the survivors before the ...

    Article : 64 words
  33. THE AXIS TALKS.

    The Hungarian Premier, Count Telcki, and the Foreign Minister, Count Csaky, left for Berlin by air to-day to join the talks between German statesmen and the Italian Foreign ...

    Article : 38 words
  34. A.I.F. CASUALTY LIST.

    The latest Army casualty list reports the deaths in Australia of two Victorian members of the A.I.F., Ptc. H. P. Bowler, infantry, and Sig. D. H. Allan, signals. They died of ...

    Article : 41 words
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