CANBERRA, Sept. 8.—After conferences this evening, the Leader of the Country Party (Sir Earle Page) announced that, as his continued ...
Article : 855 wordsLONDON, Sept. 8.—Britain has been blacked-out nightly for a week. Theatres, cinemas and some restaurants are closed, dog-racing has ceased, and tens of ...
Article : 769 wordsOTTAWA, Sept 7.—An emergency session of the Canadian Parliament was opened today by the Governor-General (Lord Tweedsmuir), who did not disclose ...
Article : 237 wordsCANBERRA, Sept. 8.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) announced in the House of Representatives yesterday that the Ministry of Information, which ...
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Advertising : 181 wordsA Warsaw communique says that the capital was bombed eight times during Thursday. In the eighth raid the German planes also scattered a large ...
Article : 167 wordsThe isolated Polish port of Gdynia is reported to be still in Polish hands but the Germans repeat their claim to have captured the isolated garrison at ...
Article : 115 wordsCANBERRA, Sept. 8.—The importance of preventing neutral countries from acting as middlemen in transactions between Australia and enemy countries was ...
Article : 174 wordsLONDON, Sept. 7.—In the House of Commons today, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Foreign Office (Mr. Butler), replying to a question, said ...
Article : 50 wordsSYDNEY, Sept. 8.—A welter of rumour which circulated throughout Sydney today concerning the sinking. of large liners the capture of German vessels and ...
Article : 157 wordsLONDON, Sept. 7.—The "Paris Solr" reports that the German High Command has disbanded the Czech National Guard and stationed 60,000 troops in ...
Article : 354 wordsWASHINGTON, Sept. 7.—President Roosevelt held an emergency Cabinet meeting today. He indicated also that he was canvassing Congressional ...
Article : 257 wordsThe Metropolitan Council of the Australian Labour Party is pressing for the appointment of a full-time industrial magistrate. At a meeting of the council ...
Article : 244 wordsThe employees of Mills and Ware's cake and biscuit factory at South Fremantle, who ceased work on the morning of Monday, July 31, it order to hold ...
Article : 293 wordsCANBERRA, Sept. 8.—The feature of the first war session of the Commonwealth Parliament has been the terrific rush to enact emergency legislation to ...
Article : 178 wordsThe military authorities in Perth are being embarrassed by the rush of volunteers for military service and by the flood of applications received by letter from ...
Article : 236 wordsMELBOURNE, Sept. 8.—The venue for the meeting of the Federal Labour Advisory Committee fixed for Monday has been changed to Canberra. The war ...
Article : 164 wordsEarly this year a native wandering along the coast about 40 miles north of the Murchison River found coins, small ingots of silver, parts of a lock, breeches ...
Article : 285 wordsNEW YORK, Sept. 7.—The Maritime Union has demanded a 40 per cent wage increase and a bonus of 250 dollars (£50) for the members of crews in the war ...
Article : 112 wordsCANBERRA, Sept. 8.—A Senate Select Committee appointed to inquire into the discharge of Captain T. P. Conway from the military forces and the refusal of ...
Article : 117 wordsLONDON, Sept. 7.—The Moscow correspondent of "The Times" says it is understood that the Soviet Government has informed the Polish Ambassador that ...
Article : 60 wordsSYDNEY, Sept. 8.—At a meeting at the New Australians Club tonight refugees from Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia unanimously carried a resolution ...
Article : 84 wordsAUCKLAND, Sept. 8.—The maximum age limits for officers in the New Zealand military force will be as follows:—Subalterns, 30: captains, 35: majors, 40; and ...
Article : 210 wordsNEW YORK, Sept. 7.—The Rome correspondent of the "New York Times" says that if the Polish resistance collapses Germany will be free to turn her ...
Article : 143 wordsLONDON, Sept. 8.—The position of all connected with British horseracing is one of suspense. All next week's racing fixtures have been abandoned, also the ...
Article : 332 wordsSYDNEY, Sept 8.—The Commonwealth Small Arms Factory is to establish three shifts as soon as possible. It will then be on a similar footing to that ...
Article : 144 wordsSYDNEY, Sept. 8.—The operations of the National Oil Pty., which is about to develop the shale oil deposits in the Newnes-Capertee Valley, are being ...
Article : 93 wordsCANBERRA, Sept. 8.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) said today that the Government fully realised the necessity of keeping overseas freights within ...
Article : 55 wordsSYDNEY, Sept. 8.—Guards at the Kingsford Smith aerodrome fired shots at a man they surprised near one of the hangars tonight. The man escaped ...
Article : 248 wordsCANBERRA, Sept. 9.—The National Security Bill passed through all stages in the House of Representatives by 8.30 am. yesterday after 11½ hours' discussion and ...
Article : 651 wordsLONDON, Sept. 7.—A statement issued by the Ministry of Information today states that German merchant vessels are being driven steadily from the seas. They ...
Article : 136 wordsLONDON, Sept. 7.—Over 6,000 suspected enemy agents are now detained in various parts of Britain, including numerous British-born people, including ...
Article : 161 wordsGENEVA, Sept. 7.—The "City of Peace" has been taken over as one of the Swiss defended frontier towns. The long corridors of the palace of the League of ...
Article : 107 wordsMELBOURNE, Sept. 8.—The European war will probably cause considerable alteration in the scope and conditions of the training of pilot under the Civil ...
Article : 121 wordsCAPE TOWN, Sept. 8.—South-West Africa (a former German colony) is automatically at war with Germany as a result of the decision of the South ...
Article : 33 wordsLONDON, Sept. 7.—A report that Yugoslavia had ordered general mobilisation has been unofficially denied in Belgrade, where it is stated that only a ...
Article : 115 wordsLONDON, Sept. 8.—A "lecture" entitled "British warmongers" was given yesterday in a radio broadcast from Berlin. The British Cabinet was said to ...
Article : 80 wordsNEW YORK, Sept. 7.—Despite resistance to profit-taking, upward pressure continued on the Stock Exchange today. Gains ranged up to two points for war ...
Article : 78 wordsCANBERRA, Sept. 8.—Efforts will be made by the Federal Government to check the exodus of well-trained aeroplane pilots from Australia. The ...
Article : 105 wordsLONDON, Sept. 8.—As has already been indicated, Czech legions are being formed in London and Paris. Circulars in connection with the movement issued ...
Article : 96 wordsLONDON, Sept. 7.—The correspondent of the United Press in Rome says it is certain that General Franco will shortly visit Rome. ...
Article : 25 wordsLONDON, Sept. 7.—Sir Frederic Leith Ross, Chief Economic Advisor to the British Government, has been appointed Director-General of the Ministry of ...
Article : 44 wordsThe West Australian Fruitgrowers and Market Gardeners' Association is exporting about 2,000 bushels of lemons to the Eastern States a week. The ...
Article : 213 wordsNEW YORK, Sept. 7.—Indicating the ignorance in which the German public is kept, the Berlin correspondent of Associated Press reports that it is stated ...
Article : 126 wordsLONDON, Sept. 7.—The Rotterdam correspondent of "The Times" says that the successes on the eastern front have done something to lessen among ...
Article : 83 wordsADELAIDE, Sept. 8.—From yesterday until Wednesday next, G. and R. Wills and Co., Ltd. will celebrate the 90th anniversary of the establishment of the ...
Article : 72 wordsHELSINKI, Sept. 7.—The Scandinavian countries will in future obtain all their supplies of coal from Germany as a result of the visit of a German ...
Article : 78 wordsDARWIN, Sept. 8.—A military hospital is to be established at Darwin at once, as the Darwin Hospital is incapable of catering for the swollen civil ...
Article : 142 wordsJERUSALEM, Sept. 8.—The Czech Consul-General said he believed that a special legion of Czechs was being formed "Hundreds of Czechs in Palestine have ...
Article : 41 wordsLONDON, Sept. 8.—It is learnt that the Berlin High Command has issued a communique stating that British planes unsuccessfully attacked the steamer ...
Article : 37 wordsROME, Sept. 7.—Although the Italian Press gives prominence to German victories. "Popolo d'Italia" pays a tribute to the "heroic resistance of the Poles." ...
Article : 64 wordsLONDON, Sept. 8.—The Government has prohibited the sale of dried fruit at prices above those current during the seven days ended August 29. The ...
Article : 47 wordsNEW YORK, Sept. 8.—Colonel Joseph Stehlin, a member of the former Lafayette Escadrille, has cabled to Paris offering to furnish and finance an ...
Article : 38 wordsBRUSSELS, Sept. 7.—M. Hubin, a 76-year-old Belgian deputy, has left Brussels, having enrolled with the French pioneers. ...
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