MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The Advisory War Council to-day scrapped its agenda and devoted almost its entire sitting to the discussion of Australia's home defence policy in the light of developments in the ...
Article : 656 wordsLONDON, Tuesday.--The advance of the British Imperial Army of the Nile continues with the capture of Cyrene, 50 miles to the west of Derna. The official communique from Cairo announcing this capture to-day ...
Article : 2,913 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday. --The purchase of land near Rocklea, Brisbane, for a £1,000,000 ammunition factory, to employ 2500 workpeople, was ...
Article : 344 wordsLONDON, Tuesday.--The Bulgarian Minister for Agriculture (M. Bagrianoff), a staunch pro-German, resigned to-day as the result, it is believed, of a quarrel with the Prime Minister (M. Filoff) over the ...
Article : 500 wordsLONDON, Wednesday. -- It is announced that Lord Lloyd (Lord George Ambrose Lloyd, of Dolobran), Secretary of State for the Colonies and Leader ...
Article : 431 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday.--A flight of bombers will fly over the city and dip at the saluting base when a record number of around staff recruits for the ...
Article : 72 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday. -- The War Cabinet late last night rejected a proposal that Australian women should go to the Middle East for ...
Article : 171 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday. -- Following an altercation at Coorparoo tonight regarding a horse given as security for a loan, a man was shot dead ...
Article : 355 wordsLONDON, Tuesday.--A message received in Hong Kong from Tokio says that the Japanese Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Chuichi Chashi) ...
Article : 660 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.--In a broadcast address to his people at Christmas, 1939, King George used certain words which attracted a great deal of ...
Article : 277 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday. -- The death occurred to-day of Andrew Barton ("Banjo") Paterson, at the age of 77 years. He had been ill for the past ...
Article : 268 wordsLONDON, Wednesday. --British bombers last night mode a successful attack on Dusseldorf and the industrial areas surrounding ...
Article : 134 wordsHAVANA, Tuesday.--It has been reported from a reliable source that an anonymous telephone call to President Batista threatening to "set the Palace ...
Article : 218 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday. -- "The effect of increased Federal taxes on the State Government's revenue from taxation sources cannot be assessed ...
Article : 208 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday. -- Virtual agreement on a new wartime marketing scheme for the Australian tobacco crop was reached at a conference of ...
Article : 84 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday. -- The War Cabinet's decision to place upon postmasters the task of conveying news of fatal A.I.F. casualties to the BRISBANE, Wednesday.--The cyclonic disturbance operating south of Willis Island has caused strong winds and heavy seas along the coast during ...
Article : 181 wordsLONDON, Tuesday.--M. Tilea, formerly Roumanian Minister in London, whom the Roumanian Cabinet deprived of his nationality, in a ...
Article : 104 wordsLONDON, Tuesday.--Commodore L. W. Murray, of the Royal Canadian Navy, has taken up the newly-created post of Commodore Commanding ...
Article : 163 wordsCLONCURRY, Wednesday.--Duncan McIntyre Stewart, a shearers' cook, also known as William Stewart, was admitted to the Cloncurry District Hospital ...
Article : 78 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.--The realisation of Australian holdings of American securities, ordered to be sold by Australian owners to enable the ...
Article : 61 wordsLONDON, Tuesday.--A White Paper includes supplementary war expenditure estimates amounting to £600,000,000 for the year ended March 31. ...
Article : 106 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday. -- Figures received from the State Governments by the Statistician's Department disclosed that war babies are beginning ...
Article : 94 wordsBOSTON, Wednesday.--Lieut.-Colonel Paul French, in a radio address, said the United States Army had a mechanical ...
Article : 65 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday. -- The battle casualties in the A.I.F. announced so far total 715. In the list issued to-night five Victorian and six ...
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The Toowoomba Chronicle and Darling Downs Gazette (Qld. : 1922 - 1965), Thu 6 Feb 1941, Page 5
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