"Now or Never" will be the slogan of the intensified drive for recruits for the A.I.P. in Newcastle, which will start immediately. Plans for the speeding-up of the drive for men ...
Article : 553 wordsGeneral Georges, Commander of the French Army, with Lord Gort (left), Commander-in-Chief of the B.E.F., inspects anti-aircraft gun ammunition during his visit to the British Army in France. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 33 words"A flame-thrower generating 3600 degrees Fahrenheit (one-third of the estimated surface temperature of the sun) was instrumental in capturing the fortress of Ebenemael at Liege," says a Berlin report. ...
Article : 93 wordsIt was announced to-day that nom to-morrow a recruiting office for the A.I.F. will be open each day from noon to 2 p.m. ...
Article : 85 wordsCabinet has decided drastically to control British industry for the purpose of further speeding up the war effort, declares the "News-Chronicle's" political correspondent. The newspapers emphasise Mr. Churchill's saying that ...
Article : 583 wordsThe rate of enlistment in Newcastle of fitters in the R.A.A.F. has tripled within the last week, it was announced to-day. ...
Article : 379 wordsWherever an enemy target is to be found, on the ground or in the air, the Royal Air Force in France is adding new laurels to its glorious record. Continuous bombing raids have been delivered ...
Article : 1,009 words"The Dutch killed more Germans than the Germans killed Dutch," declared the Dutch Foreign Minister (Mr. van ...
Article : 236 wordsScenes that recalled the war years of 191.4-18 were re-enacted in Martin Place at 1 p.m. when fully 250 men crowded around ...
Article : 208 words"The Allied forces in trance are enduring an onslaught unparalleled in history," declares the special correspondent in ...
Article : 373 wordsA Belgian-born Australian, Cecil Alpen wearing a muddy, war-stained Red Cross uniform told an exciting story to-day of ...
Article : 349 wordsOrders have been issued that German wounded must not be sent back to their own districts, where they might indicate the ...
Article : 199 wordsMolly Jones, 21, of Jackson Street, Hamilton North, was scalded on the back, chest, right shoulder and right arm when she spilled a cup of hot tea ...
Article : 45 wordsA pall of smoke rising 8000 feet into the air hangs over Belgium and France, but the gloom and the terror and destruction wrought by the Totalitarian aerial warfare is lit by amazing stories of daring and courage ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 106 wordsMany neutral correspondents in Berlin, says the "Daily Telegraph's" Zurich correspondent, have found that they are being ...
Article : 109 wordsTwo Lockheed Hudson aircraft from Richmond are taking part to-day in the air search for the lost Avro Anson, which has been missing four days with ...
Article : 70 wordsThe belief if general in the Air Force here that had more fighter squadrons been spared from England, the raiders' wings over Belgium and France might have been crippled Instead of merely been clipped. ...
Article : 243 wordsThough dramatic events in Belgium and France have temporarily obscured them, the activities of the British Navy have not been relaxed. THE normal [?] of both the navy ...
Article : 211 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. MacKenzie King) told Parliament to-day that the Government planned to advance the date of despatch of the Second ...
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The Newcastle Sun (NSW : 1918 - 1954), Tue 21 May 1940, Page 5
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