Five more ships have been sunk by enemy action at sea, bringing the total to 13 in three days. The majority have been destroyed by mines. The latest victims comprise a British freighter, a minesweeper ...
Article : 575 wordsDelivery of wheat has started at some of the main stations on the Midland Line in spite of the plans for a hold-up. The hold-up is being organised in protest against the payments fixed under the Commonwealth wheat-acquisition scheme and grower's meetings in ...
Article : 500 wordsLONDON, Nov. 21.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain) made a statement in the House of Commons this afternoon about the sinking of ships by ...
Article : 149 wordsLONDON, Nov. 21.—A French War Ministry communique reports reduced activity on the western front yesterday, with some encounters between patrols and ...
Article : 439 wordsLONDON, Nov. 21.—In a dispatch from Amsterdam last night Mr. Beech Conger, formerly Berlin correspondent of the New York "Herald-Tribune," said that ...
Article : 454 wordsLONDON, Nov. 21.—A German plane was brought down off the south-east coast this morning by a British fighter patrol. Yesterday two German machines flew ...
Article : 459 wordsLONDON, Nov. 21.—There is every confidence that the two latest developments in German methods-ruthlessness in illegal mine-laying and the increase of ...
Article : 313 wordsLONDON, Nov. 21.—According to a list issued early this morning by the London agents of the 7,900-ton Dutch passenger liner Simon Bolivar, which was ...
Article : 433 wordsBRUCE ROCK, Nov. 19.—A meeting convened by the Bruce Rock branch of the Wheat and Wool Growers' Union to afford producers the opportunity of ...
Article : 138 wordsCANBERRA, Nov. 21.—The Assistant -Minister for Repatriation (Senator Collett) told members of the Senate tonight that it was estimated that the total losses ...
Article : 104 wordsNEW YORK, Nov. 21—The 'Washington correspondent of the "New York Times" says that diplomats believe that growing German uneasiness as to Soviet ...
Article : 203 wordsMELBOURNE, Nov. 21.—Wheatgrowers are to be advised by the Victorian Wheat and Wool Growers' Association not to cart wheat unless the Federal ...
Article : 174 wordsBERLIN, Nov. 21—An official news agency announcement today states:— "Despite very unfavourable weather, the air force continued yesterday its ...
Article : 107 wordsAn account of the sinking of the Athenia, which was torpedoed in the North Atlantic on September 24, was given at Fremantle yesterday by Mrs. ...
Article : 501 wordsVIA LONDON, Nov. 20.—Standing in icy, drenching rain today I watched a battery of British field guns being hurried into action against an imaginary ...
Article : 544 wordsOTTAWA, Nov. 20.—The Australian and New Zealand delegates to the Empire conference on the large-scale air training scheme expect to leave for home ...
Article : 164 wordsCARNAMAH, Nov. 21.—Approximately 200 farmers in the Carnamah Road Board district attended a meeting held here last night under the auspices of ...
Article : 234 wordsLONDON, Nov. 21.—Bitter attacks continue to be made on Britain's policy at sea through the German Press and radio stations. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 260 wordsLONDON, Nov. 20.—The United Press correspondent in Berlin says that, in order to disprove reports that he had been shot. Prince August Wilhelm, the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 168 wordsThe president of the Wheat and Wool Growers' Union (Mr. T. H. Powell) will leave Perth by airliner this morning to attend the meeting in Melbourne ...
Article : 265 wordsTHE HAGUE. Nov. 21.—"Holland has lost as many lives in this war as have been lost on the whole of the western front," says the Amsterdam newspaper. ...
Article : 107 wordsLONDON. Nov. 20.—The Australian Associated Press learns that only a small proportion of Australian volunteer airmen are likely to serve in specifically ...
Article : 160 wordsLONDON, Nov. 20.—The Lisbon correspondent of the United Press (American) says that passengers on the Dutch liners Oranje (19,850 tons), Jan Pieterszoon ...
Article : 57 wordsBINNU, Nov. 21.—At Binnu today a meeting of about 30 farmers from Binnu and Ogilvy declared that until instructions were received from the head office ...
Article : 107 wordsLONDON, Nov. 21.—The Exchange Telegraph's correspondent at Zurich (Switzerland) states that over 200 priests have been arrested in Austria since the ...
Article : 39 wordsOn two occasions in the Legislative Assembly last night references were made to the wheat hold-up. One speaker was the Leader of the Parliamentary National ...
Article : 477 wordsLONDON. Nov. 20.—Fifty-eight prisoners from the German merchantman Uhenfels (7,603 tons), which was captured by a British warship and taken to ...
Article : 99 wordsPARIS, Nov. 20.—A Polish Government communique states that numerous affidavits from sanitary authorities reveal that the Germans used asphyxiating gas ...
Article : 65 wordsPINGELLY. Nov. 19.—Following a meeting convened by the Pingelly Agricultural Society to discuss a scheme for the organisation of the wheat and ...
Article : 141 wordsLONDON, Nov. 20.—The British United Press correspondent in Zurich (Switzerland) states that Herr Fritz Thyssen, the German "Steel King," said ...
Article : 65 wordsNEW YORK, Nov. 20.—The Lockheed Aircraft Corporation will complete by the week-end the last of the 250 bombers that Britain ordered in June of last year, the ...
Article : 65 wordsLONDON, Nov. 21.—A stir has been caused in Moscow by a reference to "forthcoming battles with imperialist birds of prey," contained in a message ...
Article : 145 wordsLONDON, Nov. 20.—The Cape Town correspondent of the British United Press says that the German passenger liner Windhuk (16,662 tons), which slipped ...
Article : 124 wordsLONDON, Nov. 21.—"Signs are multiplying," says "The Times" in a leading article, "that Italy favours the formation of a neutral Balkan bloc. She is ...
Article : 103 wordsMELBOURNE, Nov. 21.—It is increasingly evident, says a bulletin issued by the Department of Information, that lack of sensational news m land, sea or ...
Article : 158 wordsLONDON, Nov. 20.—The Ambassador of the United States in Britain (Mr. J. P. Kennedy) gave an informal luncheon today to the Australian Minister for ...
Article : 102 wordsLONDON, Nov. 20.—The Copenhagen correspondent of '"The Times" says that the news of the sinking of several ships by mines during the week-end was ...
Article : 152 wordsLAKE GRACE, Nov. 21.—A well- attended meeting of wheatgrowers was held at Lake Grace yesterday, and received the report of the delegates to the ...
Article : 194 wordsLONDON, Nov. 21.—Anglo-Danish commercial negotiations will begin in London next week. The Danish delegation will include Prince Axel, members ...
Article : 57 wordsLONDON. Nov. 21.—The Secretary for War (Mr. Hore-Belisha) returned to London by plane yesterday from his visit to France. He said he had conferred with ...
Article : 52 wordsLONDON, Nov. 20.—The Jewish Agency at Vilna [?]the former Polish city, which Russia has handed over to Lithuania) reports that the Gestapo at Lodz ...
Article : 46 wordsLONDON. Nov. 20.—The schedule of war risk rates has been altered as follows:—Australasia to Fiji, the New Hebrides, New Caledonia, New Guinea. ...
Article : 41 wordsBERLIN, Nov. 20.—Charged with murdering two Germans early in the war in Poland, a Pole has been sentenced to death at Posen and seven other Poles ...
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