A party of Canadian officers is touring Britain's defence areas and submitting their personal reports and suggestions upon what they have se en. Drawn from all units of the Canadian Forces, they travel on motor-cycles and meet at the end of the day for discussion. In this picture a Canadian officer explains an idea he gained on the day's tour. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 64 wordsLONDON, August 11.--Controverting the entire propaganda thesis of the Japanese Press, which has been charging United States and Britain with aggressive designs against Japan and Thailand, Mr. K. Wakasugi, former Consular According to a 'Daily Telegraph' [?] Japan's militarists have chosen [?] the British Commonwealth and [?] states and to threaten an United States Embassy at [?] reported to-day that it had [?] new representations to the [?] Embassy concerning the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 1,135 wordsLONDON, August 11.--Officials in Berlin to-day proclaimed the present operations will be "decisive," and added the intensified German offensive in Ukraine had not implied a ...
Article : 1,253 wordsWASHINGTON, August 11.--The U.S. Navy Department reports that there is no message from the Presidential yacht Potomac for the ...
Article : 48 wordsCAIRO, August 11.--On Saturday Royal Air Force Blenheims attacked gun repair shops at Bardla and started a number of large, ...
Article : 354 wordsBRISBANE, Tuesday.--The most successful "exhibition" at the show to-day was an Australian made Bristol Beaufort bomber. For ...
Article : 155 wordsMELBOURNE, Tuesday.--The Federal Parliament will meet on Wednesday, August 20, to discuss the Far Eastern crisis, and a request by the Federal Cabinet that the Prime Minister ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 866 wordsMELBOURNE, Tuesday.--Two Queenslanders have been awarded medals for bravery, the Minister for the Army (Mr. Spender) ...
Article : 404 wordsBRISBANE, Tuesday. -- An immediate review of petrol rationing and the establishment of committees in chief country ...
Article : 176 wordsBRISBANE, Tuesday.--City recruiting is increasing this week due to the presence of numbers of country men in town. Altogether 32 volunteered ...
Article : 126 wordsLONDON, August 11.--The Red Cross and St. John's war organisation announces that from the latest figures at their disposal it ...
Article : 121 wordsLONDON, August 11.--On the night of August 9 Italian troops attacked a British post in the outer perimeter defence of Tobruk. ...
Article : 173 wordsLONDON, August 11.--How the heroic Jugoslav decision to resist the Germans on March 27 helped to upset Axis plans to seize the Middle East and Russian oilfields in spring, 1941, is described in a broadcast from London by General ...
Article : 387 wordsLONDON, August 12.--Further reports of sabotage and unrest throughout Europe continue to filter through to London. ...
Article : 129 wordsA complete Czech bomber unit is now operating from Britain. Using the famous British Wellington long-range machines this squadron has made many daringly successful raids into enemy territory including Berlin. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 36 wordsBRISBANE, Tuesday. -- Norman Wright, a Bulimba boat builder, will begin the construction immediately on a Defence Department order of one of ...
Article : 79 wordsBRISBANE, Tuesday.--The last two of five men missing from the U.S.A. cruiser, Northampton, reported to the police to-day. ...
Article : 24 wordsNEW YORK, August 11.--The American Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, said if Congress failed to extend army service it would have an ...
Article : 39 wordsWASHINGTON, August 11.--The chairman (Senator Reynolds) and other members of the senate Military Committee leave next week for ...
Article : 30 wordsLONDON, August 12.--An A.I.F. forestry company has arrived in Britain and it will be linked with two other companies already here. All the ...
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Daily Mercury (Mackay, Qld. : 1906 - 1954), Wed 13 Aug 1941, Page 5
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