ADELAIDE, Thursday.--An eloquent expression of a new and growing American public opinion, was how the Prime Minister (Mr Menzies) described the transfer of 50 American destroyers to Britain, in a ...
Article : 1,325 wordsBUSY LIFE AT LONDON DOCKS recorded in a picture sent from The Herald's London office on August 17 by Clipper mail to Melbourne. The picture disproves the German claim that the docks have been destroyed. It shows normal activity going on as fond, cloth, timber and all kinds of commodifies pour into the Empire's capital. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 61 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.--British naval and air activity off the Scandinavian coast has caused substantial losses to the Germans, according to messages from various sources. ...
Article : 485 wordsAmmunition fired by H.M.A.S. Sydney when she sank the Italian cruiser Bartolomeo Collooni was made in Australia, it was revealed ...
Article : 173 wordsLONDON, Today.--Americans, Poles, Norwegians and Dutchmen were among a fresh contingent of Canadian troops which arrived at a British port ...
Article : 101 wordsThe Commonwealth Auditor-General (Mr Abercrombie) has been requested to investigate not only the accounts, but the full activities of the Commonwealth apple and pear acquisition scheme, which was originally ...
Article : 338 wordsThe march by 2000 troops of the 8th Division A.I.F. from Seymour to the new camp at Bonegilla, near Albury, 136 miles, will be the ...
Article : 193 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.--If the present petrol rationing scheme did not reduce pre-war consumption by one-third, further ...
Article : 730 wordsLONDON, Today.--Pilots who raided a German coastal target last night reported a new type of enemy anti-aircraft fire. ...
Article : 62 wordsLONDON, Today.--The air war was intensified last night, when London and Berlin, the belligerent capitals, were again heavily raided. German raiders made the biggest attack yet experienced in the London area. The ...
Article : 1,309 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.--The Times correspondent at Athens says that six special emissaries of the French Government passed through Athens by ...
Article : 74 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.--"We do not feel lonely when the sorts of the Dominions overseas--where they breed the finest fighters--come ...
Article : 177 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.--The 35th War Office casualty list contains the names of 758 men, including six officers and 122 rankers killed and 19 ...
Article : 37 wordsThree batches of auxiliary constables enrolled for wartime emergency duties have been sworn in, and another group will be called up on Monday for lectures and instruction at seven night parades. ...
Article : 399 wordsDARWIN, Thursday.--Early today, Victor Nelson Venables, 30, a well-known Queensland footballer, dived 60 ft. to his death from a water tank ...
Article : 120 wordsAddressing a meeting of union officers and staffs at the Trades Hall today, the Federal Labor Leader (Mr Curtin) said that Labor stood for the ...
Article : 508 wordsPERTH, Thursday.--When his bed caught alight as he slept, Frank J. Campbell, a city dentist, was badly burned early today. With his pyjamas ...
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Advertising : 60 wordsMelbourne today had its highest temperature to noon this season. The thermometer had risen then to 67.4, which was 8.8 deg. above normal. ...
Article : 149 wordsArrangements have been made by the Archives Department of the Public Library to search seven tons of old records from Ballarat Supreme ...
Article : 75 wordsBRISBANE, Thursday.--The Loan Council has approved the flotation of a new £100,000 loan by the Brisbane City Council, with interest of 4⅛ p.c. ...
Article : 58 wordsNo one could say that the railways had not pursued an all-in war policy during the first year of hostilities, the Railways Commissioners said today. The Department had shouldered the ...
Article : 221 wordsMELBOURNE saw its first Anderson steel air raid shelter today outside the main entrance to the Town Hall. It will be a feature in tomorrow's Tin Hat Day drive, an admittance of a silver coin will be charged. Story in Page 16. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 49 wordsCheque for £100 was handed to the Lord Mayor (Cr. Coles) today by the president of the Swiss Club (Mr L. F. Martin). It represented proceeds from ...
Article : 91 wordsThe Chief Secretary and Attorneys General (Mr Bailey) said today that the question of refusing enemy aliens the right to take out or renew motor ...
Article : 66 wordsIn General Sessions today, before Judge Richards, Percy Gordon Smilie of Heidelberg Road, Fairfield, boot trade employe' was acquitted of ...
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The Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954), Thu 5 Sep 1940, Page 3
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