LONDON. Jan. 10.—The War Cabinet issued a communique last night announcing the appointment of Air Marshal A. S. Barratt as Air Officer ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 565 wordsLONDON. Jan. 10.—The frankness of the warnings against complacency delivered by the Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain) in his Mansion House ...
Article : 610 wordsLONDON, Jan. 10.—There was marked activity by French patrols on the western front throughout yesterday according to a war communique issued in Paris last ...
Article : 343 wordsFor the present there is a comparative full in the hostilities in Finland, whose forces have obtained this respite as a result of the recent series of salutary victories over the Russian invaders on the eastern front and the repulse of large-scale onslaughts on the ...
Article : 812 wordsLONDON, Jan. 10.—Mr. Leslie Hore-Belisha, whose dismissal from the post of Secretary of War raised a storm of protest throughout Britain and the Empire, ...
Article : 653 wordsLONDON, Jan. 10.—Germany's latest major British victim in the war at sea is the Union Castle liner Dunbar Castle, of 10,000 tons, which, bound for the ...
Article : 719 wordsLONDON, Jan. 10.—German aircraft have been particularly active during the last few days in bombing and machine gunning ships in the North Sea and off ...
Article : 399 wordsLONDON, Jan. 10.—Before leaving France on his return to England yesterday after a tour of the western front the First Lord of the British Admiralty (Mr. ...
Article : 108 wordsBERLIN. Jan. 10.—A communique Issued by the High Command claims that German fighter planes sank eight ships off the English and Scottish coasts ...
Article : 77 wordsLONDON, Jan. 10.—The Royal Air Force flights to Germany have created a new standard of flying achievement. Before the war only planes carrying mails ...
Article : 220 wordsLONDON, Jan. 10.—A sub-committee of the Cabinet is considering methods for increasing and directing skilled labour. controlling many types of raw materials, ...
Article : 152 wordsOf the moral value of seasonal and reasonable leave for troops on service no one has a better understanding than the Minister for the Army (Brigadier ...
Article : 190 wordsPARIS. Jan. 9.—The Chamber of Deputies opened today with an outbreak of fisticuffs, resulting from objections voiced by Right-wing members to ...
Article : 156 wordsLONDON, Jan. 10.—Regarded as one of the most curious paradoxes of the war is the fact that despite over 1,000,000 Britons being under arms, approximately ...
Article : 113 wordsLONDON, Jan. 10.—Machines of the Royal Air Force carried out another successful reconnaissance flight over the northern parts of Germany last night. ...
Article : 45 wordsCOPENHAGEN, Jan. 10.—An unidentified aeroplane dropped three bombs on Romo Island, which adjoins the Nazi air base on Sylt Island. The plane arrived ...
Article : 69 wordsThe West Australian branch of the Australian Natives' Association has asked the federal council of the association to protest to the Minister for War against ...
Article : 91 wordsAir Marshal Arthur Sheridan Barratt, C.M.G, M.C., was born in India in 1891. He was educated at Clifton and Wool- wich and entered the Royal Artillery ...
Article : 107 wordsLONDON, Jan. 10.—It was officially stated today that it is at present unlikely that any of the age groups between 24 and 28 years made liable for military ...
Article : 46 wordsLONDON. Jan. 10.—An unidentified aircraft, which is believed to have been a German plane, was seen over a south-east coastal town yesterday evening. ...
Article : 33 wordsLONDON, Jan. 9.—Two members of the crew of the British tanker British Liberty (8,500 tons), which was mined and sunk in the North Sea last week-end, ...
Article : 68 wordsWASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—Continuing today his evidence before the Naval Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives, which is conducting ...
Article : 222 wordsLONDON, Jan. 9.—A cross-section of the Royal Air Force for the Empire air training scheme in Canada has been selected, and will leave shortly for Canada. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 44 wordsSYDNEY. Jan. 10.—Thirty-one men of the 16th Brigade, Second A.I.F., were shown by re-examination by X-ray to be suffering from tuberculosis. ...
Article : 144 wordsLONDON, Jan. 10.—The Rotterdam correspondent of "The Times" reports that German Government quarters no longer deny that Germany, at the urgent ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 557 wordsNEW YORK, Jan. 10.—Four hundred members of the crew of 580 of the former German luxury liner Columbus (32,565 tons), who are of military age. ...
Article : 142 wordsCANBERRA, Jan. 10.—Stringent orders to prevent the photographing or sketching of fortifications, aerodromes, wireless stations and a large number of ...
Article : 360 wordsLONDON, Jan. 9.—The Secretary for the Dominions (Mr. Anthony Eden) and the High Commissioner for Australia (Mr. S. M. Bruce) will, on Sunday next, visit ...
Article : 130 wordsOwing to the number of applications for enrolment for compulsory military training that were made by members of the 21-age group at the Subiaco drill hall ...
Article : 188 wordsWASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—President Roosevelt hopes that his efforts for peace will find practical encouragement by the spring, according to a group of ...
Article : 129 wordsThe federal council of the Australian Natives' Association has been asked by the West Australian branch of the association to protest against the ...
Article : 213 wordsLONDON. Jan. 9.—The Jersey Assizes today sentenced Arthur Woodhall, proprietor of the Mayfair Hotel, Jersey, to a month's imprisonment for having ...
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Advertising : 223 wordsLONDON, Jan. 9.—It is now reported from Madrid that 18 members of the crew of the French patrol vessel Barsac, have been lost. The vessel went aground ...
Article : 53 wordsLONDON, Jan. 9.—Colonel Sir Charles Wright (chairman of Baldwins, Ltd.., and other companies and a former president of the Iron and Steel Institute and the ...
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