LONDON, August 11.—Speaking at Blackpool this afternoon the Secretary for India (Mr. L. S. Amery) said:—"The close of the first year of war finds this country left to face the coming storm alone. ...
Article : 973 wordsWading at times almost knee-deep in water, the chairman of the City Council works committee (Alderman E. P. Decker) and ...
Article : 259 wordsAlderman E. P. Decker chairman of the worKs Committee of the City Council, in shorts, sandshoes, and sou'-wester, about to descend a manhole shaft to inspect ii quarter-mile section of the old Pinkenba Sewer yesterday. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 73 wordsMORE than 2000 of the estimated total of 4500 eligible men in the 20 to 24 years age groups who have been called up for registration for home defence reported at metropolitan drill halls yesterday. It was recruiting officers' busiest day since the ...
Article : 673 wordsWASHINGTON, August 11.—The Red Cross announces that a plane has been chartered for an emergency mobilisation ...
Article : 55 wordsIF they were aged 20, 21, 22, 23, or 24 on June 30 last, all British subjects who have lived in Australia for six months must apply ...
Article : 103 wordsHONOLULU, Monday.—Covering the 3000 miles from San Pedro (California) in 17 hours 18 minutes the American Clipper on ...
Article : 167 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—Some of the boys who have reached Sydney in a liner which brought about 300 evacuated English children, come from ...
Article : 139 wordsLONDON, August 12.—The Secretary for War (Mr. Anthony Eden) will be asked in the House of commons this week about the detention of Major A. ...
Article : 193 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—Nearly 1000 men of the 2/13th Battalion, A.I.F., marched into Wallacia about 5 p.m. to-day as though they were leaving ...
Article : 185 wordsLONDON, August 12.—The Admiralty reports that the transport Mohammed Ali El Kebir (an Egyptian steamer of 7290 tons) was torpedoed in the Atlantic to-night and sank in two hours, as carrying troops and naval ratings. ...
Article : 252 wordsIPSWICH, Monday.—On the application of Senior-sergeant E. M. James, Mr. Johnstone Smith, J.P., ordered the Police Court to be cleared while a ...
Article : 123 wordsLONDON, August 12.—The Japanese Government at present was not planning further requests to belligerent nations ...
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Advertising : 64 wordsLONDON, August 11.—The Dally Telegraph correspondent at Cape Town states that it is understood that the late Sir Abe Bailey, the South African ...
Article : 185 wordsNEW YORK, August 12.—A message from a radio amateur in Charlton, South Carolina, states that six people were drowned in a 12ft tide, following ...
Article : 80 wordsRECONSTRUCTION IN FRANCIS.— The Petain Government has begun a reconstruction programme for housing, agriculture and industry involving an ...
Article : 104 wordsLONDON, August 12.—Tin was quoted to-day at £264 a ton and rubber at 13ld. per lb. On the Stock Exchange quotations ...
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