LONDON. Oct. 17.—The "'Financial News" says that the sharp rises in giltedged securities yesterday has stimulated discussion as to the prospects of ...
Article : 304 wordsExplanatory notes contained in a circular relating to the new cost averaging system of the Commonwealth Prices Commissioner (Professor D. B. Copland) ...
Article : 804 wordsLONDON, Oct. 17.—The important part in the war of Britain's vast industrial system is vividly described by Mr. Trevor Ross, a special correspondent of the ...
Article : 797 wordsUp to 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon the central recruiting office at the Drill Hall, Nicholson-road, Subiaco, had received 570 completed application forms from ...
Article : 174 wordsWASHINGTON. Oct. 17.-The Administration has agreed to prohibit all credits to belligerents. Senator Pittman (chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee ...
Article : 358 wordsLONDON, Oct. 16.—While the Polish army and people were heroically resisting the German invasion, the British people had little time and little heart carefully ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 277 wordsA barricade of trams erected by the defenders of Warsaw to hinder the German ons[?]ght. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 16 wordsSYDNEY, Oct. 17.—Today's recruiting figures in N.S.W. for the second A.I.F. were the lowest yet recorded. Only 222 men were pasesd as fit and 43 failed to ...
Article : 53 wordsThe advance party of the 10th Garrison Battalion will move to Melville today to prepare the camp for the arrival of the main body of the battalion next week. ...
Article : 159 wordsCHUNGKING. Oct. 16.—It is officially stated that the Chinese army has attacked Hangchow, killing numerous Japanese soldiers, destroying the power plant ...
Article : 70 wordsTOKIO, Oct. 16.—A typhoon which swept the island of Okinawa Shima (about midway between Formosa and Kiushiu, the southernmost island of ...
Article : 63 wordsADELAIDE, Oct. 17.—Strong criticism of the Commonwealth Government's military preparations as far as Australia's defence forces were concerned was ...
Article : 153 wordsNORTHAM. Oct. 17.—Farmers in the Northam district take a grave view of the position that will arise next month, when the compulsory Light Horse ...
Article : 392 wordsLONDON, Oct. 17.—Britain's second black-out train crash in four days occurred last night at Winwick Junction, in Lancashire. The night boat train from ...
Article : 90 wordsTOKIO, Oct. 16.—Mr. Tatsuo Kawai, a former Foreign Office spokesman, has been appointed Minister-at-large in America and Europe. It is assumed that ...
Article : 42 wordsLONDON. Oct. 16.—The London Chamber of Commerce, acting on behalf of United Kingdom, Australian and other Empire chambers, is arranging to release ...
Article : 48 wordsFears for the safety of Mr. W. A. Farmer, a member of the staff of "The West Australian" who has been on long leave in China, aroused by a cable ...
Article : 472 wordsDUBLIN, Oct. 16.—A special Criminal Court composed of military officers today sentenced Miles Heffernan to three months imprisonment for possessing 109 ...
Article : 54 wordsCANBERRA, Oct. 17.—The Minister for the Interior (Senator Foil) announced today that, since the war, there has been an immense increase in the work of the ...
Article : 156 wordsLONDON, Oct. 16.—Sir Walter Monckton, who became Director-General of the Press and Censorship Bureau when it ceased to form part of the Ministry of ...
Article : 60 wordsLONDON, Oct. 17.—The Secretary for War (Air. Hore-Belisha) said in the House of Commons today that an unmarried woman who was wholly or ...
Article : 119 wordsThe Leader of the Opposition (Mr. Latham) gave notice in the Legislative Assembly yesterday of the following motion:— ...
Article : 149 wordsPARIS, Oct. 16.—The Polish Embassy states that the Polish armed bands which German communiques refer to as having attacked Germans are regular ...
Article : 54 wordsSYDNEY, Oct. 17.—The State Management Committee of the Timber Workers' Union will meet tomorrow to discuss plans for giving effect to their threat to ...
Article : 191 wordsWhen the 11th Battalion (Militia Forces) goes into camp at Melville in November for one month's training, it it anticipated that summer will have set ...
Article : 218 wordsLONDON, Oct. 17.—The Calcutta correspondent of "The Times" reports that the Bihar Assembly has carried a resolution that in order to secure the ...
Article : 103 wordsMELBOURNE, Oct. 17.—Steps are likely to be taken shortly by the Federal Government to introduce a training scheme which will ensure that there ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 237 wordsLONDON, Oct. 16.—The Belgrade correspondent of "The Times" says that the Germans are reported to be executing Polish prisoners at Ruzomberok, ...
Article : 51 wordsBUDAPEST, Oct. 16.—The police have arrested 140 members of the banned Hungarian Death Legion, which, though pro-Nazi, split from the original Nazi Party. ...
Article : 82 wordsPARIS. Oct. 17.—Prince Starhemberg (a former Austrian Vice-Chancellor and the leader of the Heimwehr for a period prior to the German annexation) ...
Article : 73 wordsDiscussing share-hawking yesterday, Mr. Sampson, M.L.A., said that apparently some people did not realise the effect of the amendment to the ...
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Advertising : 96 wordsSYDNEY, Oct. 17.—Though only two of the new small sloops to be ordered for the Royal Australian Navy will be built in New South Wales, the work of ...
Article : 196 wordsSAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 16.—Warren Billings (who in 1916 was sentenced to death with Thomas Mooney—who was released last January—on a charge of ...
Article : 270 wordsLONDON, Oct. 16.—In broadcasts directed to South America the Germans have been attempting to create the impression that there is dissatisfaction in ...
Article : 155 wordsSYDNEY, Oct. 17.—It is stated that rumours that Robert Hunter (21), the Brisbane militiaman of the 18th Battalion. who was fatally stabbed with a ...
Article : 115 wordsSYDNEY, Oct. 17.—Shorthand notes of letters, minutes and reports alleged to have been dictated to her by Albert Levitus were identified by Joan ...
Article : 206 wordsLONDON, Oct. 16.—Many well-known French sportsmen are now serving their country. The Paris correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph says that Jean ...
Article : 160 wordsBUNBURY, Oct 17.—Plans to aid financially the dependants of militiamen who have suffered hardship as a result of the difference between civilian and ...
Article : 176 wordsSYDNEY. Oct. 17.—The Commanding Officer of the 30th Battalion (Scottish Regiment), Lieut.-Col. W. J. Russell, and another officer of the same unit (Capt. ...
Article : 115 wordsCANBERRA, Oct. 17.—The threat by the industrial movement in Canberra that, unless liquor prices were reduced in Canberra hotels to those ruling before ...
Article : 118 wordsLONDON. Oct. 16.—A Berlin message states that the first "Winter Help" collection in Germany has exceeded last year'a figures, the total received being ...
Article : 33 wordsLONDON. Oct. 17.—The Rome radio states that the Dutch Minister for Economics has arrived in Berlin for trade discussions. ...
Article : 23 wordsBUENOS AIRES. Oct. 16.—An Anglo-French military mission is surveying the possibilities of purchasing war supplies in Argentina. ...
Article : 23 wordsPARIS, Oct. 16.—Eighty thousand pounds of khaki paint are being put on the Eiffel Tower to camouflage it. ...
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