NEW YORK, Oct. 15.—The Washington correspondent of the "New York Times" states that Administration leaders are expected to enlist all their reserves ...
Article : 248 wordsMELBOURNE, Oct. 16.—"Australia has become the arsenal of the Empire," declared the Minister for Supply (Mr. Casey), in a national broadcast tonight, ...
Article : 572 wordsLONDON, Oct. 16.—The Finnish delegation that has been negotiating with Soviet leaders in Moscow arrived back in Helsinki this morning to report to the ...
Article : 293 wordsLONDON, Oct. 16.—A dispatch from Paris at noon today stated that the Germans were making great preparations along the whole western front and that ...
Article : 383 wordsLONDON, Oct. 16.—Herr Hitler is now facing the gravest decision of his career—a decision on which hangs not merely his own future but the future of the Third ...
Article : 1,176 wordsWithin a week Britain and France, if the British battleship Royal Oak be included, have lost over 75,000 tons of shipping. The latest victims of German submarine warfare are the 10,000-ton Fresh passenger liner Bretagne, the French merchantman Louisiane ...
Article : 781 wordsLONDON, Oct. 15.—Much is being made in German newsagency reports of passages appearing here and there in French newspapers which give the ...
Article : 1,081 wordsMELBOURNE, Oct. 16.—Deliveries of Australian-made Wirraway war planes to the Royal Australian Air Force would soon be made at a rate equivalent to ...
Article : 212 wordsTALLINN, Oct. 16.—The first detachment of Russian troops to arrive under the Soviet-Estonian mutual assistance pact, numbering 300, landed at Paldiski ...
Article : 170 wordsLONDON, Oct. 16.—While Anglo- French strategy necessarily remains a most secret factor, nevertheless the events of the first weeks of war disclose ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 395 wordsLONDON, Oct. 16.—The Ministry of Information issued the following communique this afternoon:—"German aircraft attempted to attack coastal ...
Article : 95 wordsKAUNAS, Oct. 16.—Lithuanian troops began marching into Vilna at 11 a.m., the Soviet troops withdrawing. [Vilna, seized from Lithuania by ...
Article : 40 wordsLieut.-Col. A. J. Hobbs, commanding the 3rd Field Brigade (Militia) Artillery, has been appointed to command an artillery brigade to be included in the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 244 wordsLONDON, Oct. 16.—Conflicting reports from European capitals further confuse the real state of the protracted Russo-Turkish negotiations. The week-end ...
Article : 135 wordsMELBOURNE, Oct. 16.—Expansion of all arms of the fighting services was considered when the War Cabinet continued its deliberations at the Victoria Barracks ...
Article : 167 wordsLONDON, Oct. 16.—The Air Ministry announces that despite bad weather the Air Force' carried out a successful reconnaissance flight over northern and ...
Article : 31 wordsLONDON, Oct. 15.—A Berlin Official Newsagency report seems to clear up the mystery of last night's aerial activity over Berlin. It states that a German pilot lost ...
Article : 90 wordsOTTAWA, Oct. 15.—Lord Riverdale, the leader of the British Mission to Canada in connection with the air force expansion scheme under which men from ...
Article : 155 wordsMELBOURNE, Oct. 16.—Plans for direct action to enforce their claims were made at a meeting at Footscray tonight of several hundred ammunition workers, ...
Article : 235 wordsLONDON, Oct. 15.—The brunt of the German U-boat campaign on merchant shipping so far has been borne by Scandinavian countries. In all, 23 neutral ...
Article : 189 wordsAn explanation of the purpose of the Western Command Units' Welfare Fund was made yesterday by Major-General J. M. A. Durrant, General Officer ...
Article : 247 wordsLONDON, Oct. 15.—The Rome wireless reports that M. Starzynski (who was Mayor of Warsaw), has arrived at Kaunas (Lithuania). His whereabouts has ...
Article : 86 wordsLONDON, Oct. 15.—The Paris correspondent of the "Exchange Telegraph" says the Air Ministry claims that when France completes her wartime mobilisation ...
Article : 82 wordsLONDON, Oct. 15.—Sandhurst and Woolwich are to be closed for the duration of the war, and officer-producing units like the Artists Rifles are also to be ...
Article : 78 wordsThe Minister for Railways (Mr. E. Nulsen) said yesterday that a tender submitted to the Defence Department by the West Australian Government ...
Article : 147 wordsLONDON, Oct. 15.—A Paris message states that it is now revealed that a hundred French warships, including submarine chasers, destroyers and torpedo ...
Article : 209 wordsLONDON, Oct. 16.—Further barter pacts between Britain and Russia are expected to be negotiated if the arrangement announced last week for the ...
Article : 70 wordsBUKAREST, Oct. 16.—Marshal Smigly- Rydz (the former Inspector-General of the Polish Army) has complained of the insulting behaviour of the populace of ...
Article : 52 wordsLONDON, Oct. 15.—The "'Daily Mail," in a leading article, urges that all possible factories should be kept going to enable the payment of taxes. It says ...
Article : 115 wordsLONDON, Oct. 16.—Several large merchant vessels which are approaching completion are being transformed into auxiliary cruisers. Shell-racks replace ...
Article : 117 wordsSINGAPORE, Oct. 16.—The Executive Council at its meeting this morning approved a draft of the colony's Budget. There will be no increases in taxation ...
Article : 95 wordsBOSTON, Oct. 15.—Professor Anton de Haas, the Dutch-born Professor of International Relations at Harvard, said today that Germany had lost the war ...
Article : 147 wordsHorses for army use will be purchased locally when the Remount Purchase Board begins selection next week in the metropolitan area. The members of the ...
Article : 149 wordsPARIS, Oct. 16.—The Agence Radio reports that several Germans were taken from the Italian liner Conte di Savoia on the vessel's arrival at Algiers and ...
Article : 35 wordsBy midday yesterday a few more than 400 applications on the proper form had been received from volunteers for enlistment in the West Australian contingent ...
Article : 340 wordsLONDON, Oct. 16.—It is reported from Rome that the scheme for settling Italian peasants in Libya is being carried on. It is suggested that this means that the ...
Article : 76 wordsLONDON, Oct. 16.—It is reported from Berlin that Frau von Ribbentrop was to have given a series of lectures to women advocating household economy. The text ...
Article : 70 wordsLONDON, Oct. 15.—The Johannesburg correspondent of "The Times" says that well-known people throughout South Africa have launched an appeal for ...
Article : 33 wordsSTOCKHOLM, Oct. 15.—Swedish newspaper correspondents in Berlin stress the importance which German officials attach to the fight for seapower and refer ...
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