The "Daily Telegraph" says that an analysis of the Ministry of Labour figures shows that the full-time weekly wages for 19,995,000 ...
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Article : 172 wordsTwo German secret service agents were executed in London this morning. Both were aged 35, one being a native of Germany and the other ...
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Article : 77 wordsLarge reinforcements of British and Indian troops, R.A.A.F. personnel, navy ratings, marines and engine room artificers arrived from a north-west ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Associated Press Bangkok correspondent says that banking circles confirmed the earlier Tokio announcement of the granting of a credit of £10,000. ...
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Article : 693 wordsThe arrival of British and Indian troops and air force personnel is welcome not only because they will numerically increase the garrison but ...
Article : 106 wordsThe Price Administrator (Mr. Henderson) testifying before the House of Representatives Banking Committee said that increases in wages and ...
Article : 161 wordsThe Minister for Economic Warfare (Dr. Hugh Calton), in the House of Commons, replying to Sir Frank Sanderson (Con.), who suggested in view ...
Article : 138 wordsIt is officially stated that a considerable number of Italian Breda guns and ammunition captured in Libya have arrived. Ordnance experts carried out ...
Article : 42 wordsThe publication of a telegram from the Premier (Pibul Songgram) to the Premier of Manchukuo officially confirms Thailand's recognition of ...
Article : 30 wordsThe limes singapore correspondent says it is known that captured Italian guns also passed through the Netherlands Indies army ordnance ...
Article : 29 wordsReuter's Bangkok correspondent says that Japanese pressure has succeeded in effecting a small breach between Thailand's avowed policy and actual ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Soviet Ambassador (M. Smetanin) conferred for an hour today with the Foreign Minister (ViceAdmiral Toyoda). ...
Article : 25 wordsThe Secretary for State (Mr. Cordell Hull) at a Press conference to-day said he hoped to receive direct assurances from Vichy that the French. ...
Article : 49 wordsAustralia lost 1,500,000 working days in 1940 because of industrial disagreements, the Minister for the Army (Mr. P. C. Spender) told a public meeting ...
Article : 342 wordsThere is no confirmation in London of the Saigon report that a large well equipped Chinese detachment has arrived at the Burmese frontier ...
Article : 130 wordsOpponents of the Prime Minister (Mr. R. G. Menzies) in the United Australia Party are making plans for another attempt to remove him from the ...
Article : 235 wordslt is officially stated that Hungarian troops rea[?]d the River Bug and operations, are proceeding according to plan. Figures of prisoners and ...
Article : 32 wordsThe "Sun" states that British Empire securities were strong in the foreign bond division of the Stock Exchange today. All Australian issues reached new ...
Article : 45 wordsFour members of the crew of H.M.A.S. Perth have been decorated for bravery by boarding a burning merchantman during an air attack. ...
Article : 78 wordsMany heavy Japanese bombers arrived at Pinompenh to-day. Travellers from Thailand report that there are heavy concentrations of Thai infantry ...
Article : 60 wordsFinland has been blockaded since June 14. Then Britain learned early last June that many German troops were being stationed in Finland, ...
Article : 62 wordsA meeting of metropolitan bakers at the Trades Hall to-night decided by 97 votes to 3 not to start work earlier than 7 a.m. The State secretary of the ...
Article : 113 wordsThe United Press Shanghai correspondent states that travellers arriving from Tokio say that the Japanese internal economic condition is serious. ...
Article : 122 wordsIt is officially announced to-day that tank headquarters for Thailand's eastern armed forces have been established at Battambang, which is in the ...
Article : 61 wordsThe increasing shortages of luxury and semi-luxury goods, resulting from import restrictions, are being reflected in the sharp rise in savings bank deposits ...
Article : 76 wordsTo-night's Moscow communique states: "Our troops all day continued fighting the enemy in the directions of Smolensk, Korosten and Byelaya ...
Article : 436 wordsA representative of the Japanese paper "Asahi" present at to-day's Press conference with the Prime Minister (Mr. R. G. Menzies) said: "I am ...
Article : 115 wordsIf the Government accepts a recommendation from the Local Authorities' Conference, parents and guardians who fail to accept free immunisation ...
Article : 103 wordsThe spokesman of the Japanese army in China (Major Akiyama) told the Shanghai correspondent of the Associated Press yesterday that a minor ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Minister for Air (Mr. J. McEwen) said yesterday, that Air Marshal R. Williams, Air Board Member for Organisation and Equipment, had been ...
Article : 146 wordsMr. G. Mander (Labour), in the House of Commons to-day asked for an assurance that economic sanctions put into operation in the Far East ...
Article : 199 wordsAddressing shareholders of the Austral Oil Drilling Syndicate at a special meeting to-day, the managing director (Mr. C. S. Demaine) said the ...
Article : 86 wordsThe Minister for War (Captain D. Margesson) said in the House of Commons that a court-martial had found Major Scott, commanding officer of the ...
Article : 138 wordsThe R.A.F. dropped pamphlets on Berlin on Saturday night, declaring that the Russians are still capable of long resistance and would soon be ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Foreign Secretary (Mr. R. A. Eden), in his reply to the debate on the war in the House of Commons this afternoon said that any ...
Article : 124 wordsThe Soviet Vice-Commissar of Foreign Affairs (M. Lozovsky), at a Press conference, declared that the disintegration of the German army had ...
Article : 76 wordsHitler from his field headquarters on Monday gave the order "forward" to heavy reinforcements of armoured columns and infantry. It was the signal ...
Article : 433 wordsThe war Dspartment announces that Colonel Van[?]at Merle-Smith has been appointed Military Attache to Australia, also as Assistant Attache, lieutenant ...
Article : 45 wordsLiquid fuel control authorities estimate that private stocks frozen by the Government's order total about 10.000,000 gallons. About 90 per cent, of this is ...
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