Germany last night admitted the appearance of a new menace to its raiders—the British night fighter; and also referred awesomely to the ...
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Article : 652 wordsGermany has protested to the United States against the pending Congressional legislation to gire President Roosevelt power to requisition ...
Article : 919 wordsApplications for enlistment in the A.I.F. yesterday were 122, making the total in New South Wales since the beginning of the present recruiting ...
Article : 229 wordsRecruiting vans went to the suburbs last night to open the joint mobile recruiting campaign for the A.I.F. and R.A.A.F. The unit shown above, drawn into the kerb in Hurstville's main street, brought an immediate response. A sergeant is shown addressing the large crowd. Below, left Sergeant H. Hallet (Army) and Sergeant R. Nash (Air Force) calling for recruits; and, right, the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 294 wordsThe Minister for the Army, Mr. Spender, said to-day that the reserved occupation badge is to be issued only to men in reserved occupations who, ...
Article : 229 wordsSuggestions of an open breach in the Federal Labour caucus between the leader of the Opposition. Mr. Curtin, and two of the other Labour members of the War Council. ...
Article : 123 wordsIt is now revealed that of 24 raiders destroyed on Wednesday night, 20 were shot down by fighters, and three by anti-aircraft fire, and one was destroyed ...
Article : 319 wordsIn another joint statement issued last night[?] Mr. Beasley, M.P., and Dr. Evatt, M. P., declared that demands they had made for an immediate overhaul of the adminstration of ...
Article : 162 wordsAn Australian Tobacco Board, with wide powers, is to be set up immediately under National Secunty Regulations gazetted to-night to control the ...
Article : 392 wordsHis Canadian tour over, it can be said that the single strongest impression the Australian Prime Minister, Mr. R. G. Menzies, carries away from his ...
Article : 468 wordsFurther details have been published in Tokyo regarding the new economic treaties signed on Tuesday by Japan and French Indo-China. ...
Article : 533 wordsThe Acting Prime Minister, Mr. Fadden, to-day aknowledged "a free gift to the Federal Govenment to assist the war effort" of 10,000, from Mr William Mc[?]rath, a ...
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Advertising : 292 wordsChungking was raided by 63 Japanese bombers yesterday. It is estimated that 50 persons were killed. Bombs damaged the home of the British ...
Article : 143 wordsThe Minister for the Army, Mr. Spender, said to-night that one of the features of the defence of Tobruk was the success achieved by the use of "Molotoff cocktails" (impiovised ...
Article : 60 wordsAn Italian communique states that British naval units heavily bombarded Benghazi on Wednesday night. The communique adds that simultaneously ...
Article : 159 wordsYukichi Hayashi, 70, former chairman of the Japanese Ratepayers' Association at Shanghai, was sentenced to imprisonment for two years with hard labour in the district ...
Article : 125 wordsAll cases of hardship and difficulty in meeting income tax were receiving sympathetic consideration, the Acting Prime Minister and Federal Treasurer, ...
Article : 195 wordsThe first contingent of the Expeditionary Corps of the Free French forces in the Pacific has arrived in Sydney. The men are in camp, pending their ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 205 wordsThe by-election for the King's Norton division of Birmingham, which was caused by the death on active service of Mr. J. R. H. Cartland, was won by Sir Basil Peto ...
Article : 146 wordsEvery day Australians were spending on silks, satins, and other luxuries enough money to buy-large numbers of tanks and guns, said the Minister ...
Article : 168 wordsAlarm was caused at Bo'ness (West Lothian, Scotland) when the bell of the parish church ra. out at 3 a.m. to-day. The Home Guard and Civil Defence ...
Article : 78 wordsThe Securities and Exchange Commission reports that the following were among high incomes earned by Americans in 1940:— Louis Mayer, film executive, 697,000 dollars ...
Article : 60 wordsAfter a two-day conference, Commonwealth and State officials have completed details of the four-page form which applicants for child ...
Article : 132 wordsH.M.S. Cornwall, which has sunk a German raider in the Indian Ocean. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 18 wordsGeorge Johnson Armstrong, 39, an engineer, was sentenced to death at the Old Bailey after his trial, which was heard in camera, for an oflence under the Treachery Act. ...
Article : 84 wordsTin was quoted to-day al £270/15/ a ton, unchanged from yesterday. Rubber was quoted at 14¼d a lb. Mining quotations: Zinc Corporation, 46/3. ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Housewives' Association yesterday appealed to social hostesses and society leaders to refrain from giving cocktail, sherry, or beer-and-sausage parties, as these were a bad ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 10 May 1941, Page 16
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