The House of Representatives to-day passed bills providing for an expenditure for war and defence purposes of £77,740,000, of which £68,740,000 is to ...
Article : 414 wordsColonel Somerville, who is organising the recruiting campaign in the Eastern Command, said last night that no man in the city or country need fear that he ...
Article : 489 wordsThe Minister for Laboui and National Service, Mr. Einest Beun announces that the Ministiy intends to train workers for armament industries at the ...
Article : 430 wordsThe share of the Allied forces in the final triumph at Narvik, the iron ore port in Norway, passes almost unnoticed in Britain, as ...
Article : 657 wordsIn a broadcast the President of Harvard University, Dr. J. B. Conant, in god that the United States should give immediate aid to the Allies in ...
Article : 769 words[?]h Germans have been unable to break the positions protecting the line of retreat of the British and French forces in Flanders towards the North Sea coast. The British Army is now confined to a narrow pocket of flat country laced with canals. The pocket is nowhere 20 miles wide and probably no British troops are more ban 30 miles from the coast from Dunkirk, heroic efforts are still apparently being meade to evacuate the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 114 wordsMilitary authorities said heie that Japan was determined to end the Sino-Japanese war very soon to enable hei to turn her attention fully to the Allies' Far Eastern territory. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 178 wordsJapanese planes, for the fifth consecutive day, bombed Chungking, the temporary Chinpse capital. The raids have caused more than 2,000 ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Director-General of Recruiting, Brigadier-General H. W. Lloyd. in a nation-wide broadcast over 100 stations to-night, said that the rate of flow of recruits would be governed ...
Article : 153 wordsMembers of the Government and Allied diplomats are believed to be discussing plans for settling European refugees in Alaska. ...
Article : 92 wordsThe Argentine steamer Uruguay (3,425 tons), bound for Ireland with a cargo of wheat, was sunk by a German submarine 130 miles west of Finisterre ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Soviet Premier and Minister for Foreign Affairs, M. Molotoff, has despatched a Note accusing the Lithuanian Government of conniving at the kidnapping and torturing, of ...
Article : 96 wordsLord Frederick Cambiidge, nephew of Queen Mary, who was reported missing in France, was killed in action Lord Piederlek Cambridge was the brother ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 258 wordsThe organiser of the National Unity Party, Joseph Farr, and a member of the party, John Lorimer, were charged at Toronto under the Defence of Canada regulations. ...
Article : 157 wordsThe Victorian quota of 8,5OO men for the 7th Division and Corps Troops has been exceeded with to-days enlistments. QUEENSLAND ENLISTMENTS. ...
Article : 125 wordsThe question of dpfeiicd pay continues to gue rise to complaints by officers of the A.I.F., who contend they are unfairly treated in this regard. ...
Article : 233 wordsThe Germans sank two hospital ships some days ag[?] at Dieppe. The ships were clearly marked, and it is impassible Hint the Germans did not recognise them from the air. ...
Article : 79 wordsA reward of 5,000 pesos has been offered for information as to the whereabouts, of Leon Ttotsky's assailants. Five Mexicans have been arrested and also ...
Article : 109 wordsTwo eminent Sydney experts last night commented on the suggested use by the Nazis of a power boal capable of a speed of 80 Knots propelled by a gas operated engine. Their ...
Article : 240 wordsThe Italian Cabinet is to meet on June 4 ...
Article : 21 wordsA further contingent of Canadian airmen reached a British port yesterday. ...
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Article : 345 wordsMr. Anthony (C.P. N.S.W.) pointed out, in the House of Representative to-day, that ma[?] men who were anxious to enlist were prevented from doing so by their ...
Article : 90 wordsThe 49 Lockheed planes which had been ordered by the Commonwealth Government for delivery late this year will be made available to the British ...
Article : 174 wordsThe appeal by the Secretary for War, Mr. Anthony Eden, for volunteers between the ages of 17 and 65 for the Defence Force to Heal with German parachute troops, met with an immediate response. Workmen are shown waiting to register at a police, station al Hendon, ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 300 wordsThe Minister for Works and Loral Government, Mr. Martin, said yesterday that the Mayor of Taree had asked him to convey to the military authorities the offer of the people ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Panamanian Ambassador. Mr. Boyd announced that arrested in the Canal Zone a[?] Panama had thwarted a Communist Socialis[?] plot forelbly to prevent the national [?]ections ...
Article : 70 wordsDetectives visited the Radical Bookshop in William Streel this evening and arrested the manager, William Dean, 43, described as an Englishman, on two charges under the ...
Article : 121 wordsSir Samuel Hoare, newly-appointed British Ambassador to Spain, arrived on his way to Madrid. He will continue his journey on June 1. ...
Article : 83 wordsTin was quoted to-day at £273/10/ a ton[?] compared with £270 yesterday. Rubber was quoted at 11 11-16d a [?]b. Mining quotations: North Broken Hill, 30/; ...
Article : 68 wordsAn appeal has been made by the Postal Department to employees in the engineering branch to volunteer for service as guards for departmental premises during certain hours. ...
Article : 54 wordsProgrammes of Suburban and Country Picture Theatres will be found in the Amusement Advertisement section. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 31 May 1940, Page 12
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