The chairman of directors of the Commonwealth Bank, Sir Claude Reading, announced yesterday that the rates of interest payable on fixed ...
Article : 271 wordsA record number of A.I.F. recruits, 841, was passed into camp from Sydney yesterday, thus easily passing the objective of 800 set by the Eastern ...
Article : 632 wordsAt the meeting of the Loan Council to-day, the Commonwealth Government submitted a plan for a Coordinator of Works, who would direct ...
Article : 1,930 wordsThe Germans have apparently made some progress in their thrust westward across the Scheldt River, the French having announced a withdrawal from the Valenciennes region. The French still held Calais at 9 a.m. yesterday, according to the military spokesman in Paris. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 50 wordsThe exchange Telegraph Agency at Rome states that the British Embassy has advised British residents to leave Italy. ...
Article : 983 words"Events of the past fortnight have shattered the illusion that the United States is remote, isolated, and secure against dangers from which no other ...
Article : 1,013 words"The possibility of Invasion is in everyone's mind in Switzerland, but there is no panic," says the Zurich correspondent of the "Daily ...
Article : 104 wordsThe Home Secretary, Sir John Anderson, to-day authorised the temporary internment of all Austrian and (German women in Britain between the ...
Article : 389 wordsThe Japanese offensive which was launched in Kwantung Procince (South China) on May 22 has reached its maximum intensity in the Tsungfa sector, ...
Article : 152 wordsPolice have been called upon to investigate several incidents occurring in Italian-owned fruit shops in the last few days. Forty-five Italians have applied for ...
Article : 223 wordsMr. N. Roberts, Amalgamated Engineering Union organiser, said to-day that the union had decided to do everything it could to help the nation. ...
Article : 81 wordsNorwegian refugees who reached Britain in a fishing boat say that the Germans are constantly shooting their own soldiers for breaches of discipline. ...
Article : 189 wordsFollowing, the paper conservation order which came into effect to-day, evening papers, for the first time since the outbreak of war did not produce contents bills, except for ...
Article : 73 wordsThree more deaths from road accidents. making 10 in Sydney and suburbs since Saturday, occurred yesterday. Andrew Gibson, 25, single, and Alleyne ...
Article : 407 wordsThe Director-General of Recruiting, Brigadier-General H. W. Lloyd, at a conference with senior army officers to-day, planned an expanded recruiting organisation, embracing ...
Article : 95 wordsThe Prime Minister, Mr. Menzies, expects to confer with representatives of trade unions on Wednesday with regard to establishing a trade union advisory panel. ...
Article : 60 wordsA call-up for employment is published on page 16, column 6. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 193 wordsThe appointment of itinerant recruiting officers to supplement the work of mobile air force recruiting units was announced in the House of Representatives to-day by the ...
Article : 80 wordsIt is understood that the union leaders, at the conference with the Prime Minister tomorrow, will ask for extra wages and improved working conditions if unionists are to ...
Article : 57 wordsA great national speed-up of war matetial production was launched during the week-end and reports from every part of the country show that ...
Article : 162 wordsWhen Albert Spencer Masters, 33, a member of the A.I.F., appeared at the Central Police Court yesterday, charged with offensive behaviour in the Domain on Sunday, Mr. ...
Article : 139 wordsA series of lectures has been arranged by the R.A.A.F. Central Recruiting Drive Committee to sustain the interest of men who have been accepted for air crews under the Empire ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Minister for Food, Lord Woolton, announced that Britain had been divided into 800 self-contained areas, each having one main and one "buffer" food depot, all of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 252 wordsFormer ratings of the R.A.N. not over 45 are urgently required for various duties in the expanded naval programme announced recently. ...
Article : 85 wordsTo-morrow will mark the 880th meeting of the United Intercessory Service, at which more than 200,000 prayer requests and 50,000 praise notes have been presented. ...
Article : 84 wordsThe death has occuned of Sir Walter Lawrence at the age of 83 years. Sir Walter Lawrence entered the Indian Civil Service in 1877 and was Under-Secretary ...
Article : 108 wordsThe Minister for Lands, Mr. [?] said yesterday that excellent work was being done by voluntary groups in the country to pro tect the interests of soldier farmers who were ...
Article : 195 wordsIt is expected that President Roostvelt will ask Congress soon to increase the statutory national debt limit to 50,000,000,000 dollars (£A15,625,000,000) ...
Article : 182 wordsPrince Wilhelm of Prussia, eldest son of the former Crown Prince of Germany, died yesterday of wounds received in Flanders. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Central District Ambulance took Mrs. Gwendoline Mary Bakewell, 40, of Liverpool Street. Darlinghurst, to the Sydney Hospital last night. She was suffering from cuts and ...
Article : 115 wordsE. Longton, an A.l.F. recruit, taking leave of his one-year-old son on the steps of the bus which look him from the Marlin Place recruiting booth to Paddington for medical examination yesterday. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 35 wordsMinerva Theatre: "French Without Tears," S, 15. Theatre Royal: "The Mikado." S Tivoli Theatre: "Oriental Nights." 2.15. S Century Theatre: "The Primrose Path." ...
Article : 353 wordsAdmiral Y. [?] (U.S.N., retired) doubts that the Nazis will be able to invade England in force. He points out that 500 transports would be required to carry men and many ...
Article : 102 wordsThe Japanese Foreign Office spokesman Mr. Suma, said that Japan was awaiting information from the Consul-General in Australia. Mr Aktyama, to clarify a reported ...
Article : 83 wordsIn contributing a cheque on behall of himself and Mrs. Cric to the Lord Mayor's Patriotic and War Fund yesterday, the Lord Mayor, Alderman S. S. Crick, said that the ...
Article : 55 wordsAfter six years of valuable service to the Northern Territory as its "flying, doctor." Dr Clyde Fenton has been called up for duty with the Royal Australian Air Force. ...
Article : 120 wordsIt is stated authoritatively that Sir Stafford Cripps, Socialist M.P., has left Britain for Moscow. He will represent the British Government ...
Article : 51 wordsCraig Wood won the metropolitan open golf tournament with the lowest score on record in a major tournament. He had rounds of 64. 66. 68. and 66. for a total of ...
Article : 46 wordsTin was quoted to-day at £266/15/ a ton. compared with [?] on Friday. Rubber was quoted to-day at 11gd [?] lb. Mining quotations: North Broken Hill, 25/7½. ...
Article : 125 wordsThe Prime Minister, Mr. Menzies, said to-day that there was no authority for the cabled report that Dr. Clunies Ross, the officer in charge of the Wool Secretariat in London, was ...
Article : 46 wordsIndia's economic contribution to the Allied war effort, already impressive, is steadily expanding, both in volume and diversity. India's strategic position means that her ...
Article : 57 words[?] Army of Eire will be bought to war strength and placed on a war footing almost immediately. A campaign is being commenced to new recruits. ...
Article : 39 wordsThe fifth army casualty list, which was issued to-day, contains the names of six officers and 224 men either killed, wounded, or captured by the enemy. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 28 May 1940, Page 10
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