Correspondents with the British Air Force in France report that the greatest day of air activity experienced by the R.A.F. there since the war began was the subject of a congratulatory telegram from Air Marshal Barratt, ...
Article : 202 wordsSeeking a larger share of war work Northern Ireland intends to urge the greater use of her resources when the Minister for Supply (Dr. ...
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Article : 269 wordsThe "News-Chronicle's" special correspondent in Ismailia says that British troops are mounting ceaseless guard in the Suez-Canal zone, ...
Article : 234 wordsNaval intelligence officers are perturbed by the difficulty of controlling enemy aliens throughout Britain and detecting possible enemy agents ...
Article : 99 wordsThe State conference of the Australian Railway Union to-day carried a resolution supporting the "Hands off Russia" decision ...
Article : 325 wordsPresident Kallio, in a message to the retiring Government, paid a tribute to its unselfishness and untiring efforts during the ...
Article : 382 wordsThe United Press correspondent at Shanghai reports that "British warships have seized a Russian vessel carrying copper from San Francisco. The vessel ...
Article : 36 wordsThe War Secretary (Mr. Woodring), giving evidence before the committee investigating the sale of aircraft to the Allies, said that the United States had ...
Article : 247 wordsThe British United Press Berlin correspondent says that a fire broke out at 10 p.m. in a munitions factory in northern Berlin, and was still ...
Article : 156 wordsHere in his own words, is his graphie story of his engagement with the enemy which took place during the afternoon battle: "I was the ...
Article : 1,248 words"Le Temps" and "Journal des Debats" both urge the Premier (M. Reynaud) to follow up the Souritz affair by breaking off diplomatic ...
Article : 122 wordsIn the Souritz matter, the Cabinet is examining the Russian reply. Official circles emphasise that the whole matter is confined to the personal actions ...
Article : 86 wordsGandhi in an article in the news-paper "Harijan" urges the conversion of the entire Congress into fighting machinery. He also orders the ...
Article : 69 wordsIllustrating the rise in Russian purchases of United States metals, the Commerce Department revealed that the Soviet had purchased 53,205,784 lb. ...
Article : 86 words"The Times" Rotterdam correspondent says that according to reports from Sourabaya, German agents in the Dutch East Indies recently bought ...
Article : 153 wordsThe Italian ship Italo Balbo (5114 tons) and an unnamed Danish steamer were involved in a violent collision to-day off the south-east coast of ...
Article : 77 wordsGermany's spring campaign to rush Rumanian and Russian oil for the army opened when 30 barges, carrying 18,000 tons, one-seventh of Germany's ...
Article : 115 words"The Times" Delhi correspondent says that the decision of the Moslem League to support the establishment of Hindu and Moslem nations in ...
Article : 145 wordsA Stockholm message states that in an endeavour to defeat the intensified British blockade of iron ore shipments to Germany, the Nazis have ...
Article : 158 wordsNewspapers reveal for ihe first time that Greece since 1936 has built an elaborate system of fortifications known as the Metaxas Line. It ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Governor-General (Lord Gowrie) inspected the militia units at Enoggera and Redbank to-day, and at the latter camp saw the men in a mock battle. ...
Article : 41 wordsTo avoid delay to neutral shipping the British contraband committee continued its daily meetings during the Easter holidays, and held its 200th ...
Article : 91 wordsOwing to the increased requirements of the defence and war-time industry a shortage of copper is developing, and difficulty is being experienced in filling ...
Article : 167 wordsThe Royal Air Force followed up its success in France' yesterday by shooting down a German bomber off the north-east coast of ...
Article : 244 wordsBy an "unofficial agreement" French and Germans have installed electric lighthouses on the banks of the Rhine, six miles north of Basie, to warn their ...
Article : 46 wordsFor the first time in ten years police opened fire when a gang of municipal scavengers, who are striking, attacked a police picket There were none ...
Article : 37 wordsThe official news agency says: "German reconnaisseurs over the North Sea met British planes trying to fly over Heligoland Bight, and shot down ...
Article : 43 wordsRecruiting since the outbreak has not slackened. The Botha, regiment, which draws men from Northern Transvaal, has brought two battalions ...
Article : 60 wordsThe "Telegraaf's" Berlin correspondent says that Germany ia concentrating solely on the outpnt of singleseater Messerschmitt 109 planes. ...
Article : 89 wordsAids to navigation were inadequate on the west coast of Tasmania. The most dangerous he had ever tried to navigate was where the motorship ...
Article : 157 wordsThe development of inter-Dominion trade is illustrated by the placing of orders for steel rails and fish plates aggregating £750,000, including ...
Article : 48 wordsKeith Sinclair, the Australian Associated Press special correspondent at headquarters of the R.A.F. advanced air striking force in Prance, says:— ...
Article : 241 wordsA Nairobi message states that General Sir Archibald Wavell paid a tribute to the East Africa Force. "The King's African Rifles are good ...
Article : 50 wordsTwo Dutch Fokker fighter planes shot down a British Bristol Blenheim bomber near Rotterdam yeterday. One of the crew used his parachute ...
Article : 78 wordsThe latest advice received in London states that one woman has been elected to the Canadian Parliament. The Liberal's majority is a record in the ...
Article : 56 wordsIt is officially announced that seven were killed and several are missing as the result of an explosion on the destroyer La Railleuse at an unnamed ...
Article : 56 wordsWilliam Martin (19), the third victim of the Moore shooting tragedy on Sunday last, died in the Esk Hospital to-night. He had both arms ...
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