LONDON, Nov. 14.—The departure last night from Moscow for Helsinki of the Finnish delegates as a result of the deadlock in their talks with Soviet ...
Article : 557 wordsLONDON, Nov. 14.—According to reports received through neutral sources from Munich, Herr Himmler's Gestapo (secret police) are relentlessly searching ...
Article : 721 wordsAfter a period of calm at sea, Britain has suffered the loss of three more ships by enemy action—a destroyer, a freighter and a trawler—all with loss of life. The destroyer, the first lost since the outbreak of war, was destroyed by a mine and the trawler was sunk ...
Article : 712 wordsCANBERRA, Nov. 14.—The difficulty which has been experienced in obtaining recruits to fill some units in the second A.I.F. is due entirely to the uncertainty ...
Article : 158 wordsLONDON, Nov. 14.—Two attacks were made on the Shetlands yesterday by German aircraft, but both were repulsed by anti-aircraft fire after bombs had ...
Article : 501 wordsLONDON, Nov. 14.—Hitler is expected to reply formally today to the joint offer made by King Leopold of the Belgians and Queen Wilhelmina of the ...
Article : 627 wordsLONDON, Nov. 14.—The French High Command in its communique this morning reports a quiet night on the western front. ...
Article : 159 wordsSYDNEY, Nov. 14.—More than 20,000 members of the military forces are now in camp in New South Wales. They include about 14,000 militiamen as well ...
Article : 200 wordsAMSTERDAM, Nov. 14.—The newspaper "Handelsblad" says that the extension of the Siegfried Line opposite the Dutch frontier is proceeding feverishly ...
Article : 52 wordsA heavy, armoured steel machine-gun nest which is in use in the Dutch army. It can be transported by truck, so that in event of a not-too-rapid retreat it could be saved from enemy hands. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 35 wordsNORTHAM, Nov. 14.—With the arrival of the goldfields contingent on Saturday morning, the personnel of the second A.I.F. in the Northam camp now ...
Article : 106 wordsLONDON, Nov. 14.—A communique issued in Berlin by the German High Command states that the planes which raided the Shetlands destroyed two British ...
Article : 70 wordsLONDON, Nov. 14.—The broadcast speech by the First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. Winston Churchill) on Sunday night, in which he denounced the Nazi ...
Article : 294 wordsLONDON, Nov. 13.—The movements of German merchantmen in the Pacific lend colour to the belief that the German "pocket battleship" Admiral Scheer ...
Article : 230 wordsIt was learnt yesterday that no volunteers for the Sixth Division, second A.I.F., have been dismissed in this State. A second medical examination, however, ...
Article : 99 wordsLONDON, Nov. 14.—The Balkans at present are certainly the most peaceful part of Europe. Turkish and Italian relations in particular continue to ...
Article : 168 wordsPARIS, Nov. 14.—Gunfire was heard in the suburbs of Paris at noon today but no air raid sirens were sounded. Yesterday afternoon German scouting ...
Article : 89 wordsADELAIDE, Nov. 14.—More than 100 South Australian members of the second A.I.F., who are now in training at Woodside will be transferred to New South ...
Article : 113 wordsFrench soldiers examining the wreckage of a German Messerschmitt fighter plane which was forced down in French territory on October 28. The pilot landed by parachute and was taken prisoner. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 30 wordsPARIS, Nov. 14.—M. Jean Thouvenin, director of the foreign political service of "L'Intransigeant," writing in that journal today, says:—"It is rumoured that if the ...
Article : 111 wordsCANBERRA, Nov. 14.—Federal Ministers regard the views of private members of the United Australia Party as supporting strongly the decision made on ...
Article : 155 wordsMOSCOW, Nov. 13.—M. Litvinov, the Soviet statesman, who in May last resigned from the position of Commissar for Foreign Affairs, has been appointed ...
Article : 43 wordsLONDON, Nov. 13.—An Admiralty communique issued today stated that the German freighters Mecklenberg and Parana had been intercepted by British ...
Article : 89 wordsROME, Nov. 14.—Commenting in the "Giornale d'Italia" today on the reference by Mr. Winston Churchill in his Sunday speech to Italy's "historic ...
Article : 91 wordsBERLIN, Nov. 13.—A Belgian economic delegation arrived in Berlin yesterday and today had discussions on special problems arising from the war. ...
Article : 55 wordsLONDON, Nov. 13.—The Secretary for the Dominions (Mr. Anthony Eden) and the visiting Dominion Ministers today lunched at the Royal Air Force ...
Article : 99 wordsROME, Nov. 14.—The Italian Press has published the replies by King George and President Lebrun to the Belgo-Dutch mediation offer but, in commenting on ...
Article : 83 wordsLONDON, Nov. 14.—Berlin newspapers this morning published a list of 29 British and five French passenger ships and freighters which, it was stated, had been ...
Article : 331 wordsCOPENHAGEN, Nov. 14.—The Berlin correspondent of the "Nationaltidende" reports that German engineers have completed the details of a plan for an ...
Article : 63 wordsLONDON, Nov. 14.—The Polish Prime Minister (General Sikorski) and Foreign Minister (M. Zaleski) accompanied by the Polish Chief of Staff and secretary to ...
Article : 127 wordsThree commanding officers of units included in the 6th Division, second Australian Imperial Force, arrived by the airliner Bungana from Adelaide last ...
Article : 293 wordsOTTAWA, Nov. 13.—Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham, who was Inspector-General of the Royal Air Force when placed on the retired list two years ...
Article : 241 wordsThe wreckage of a bridge near Arlon, Belgium, which was blown up by a mine laid in connection with Belgium's defence measures last month. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 24 wordsLONDON, Nov. 13.—One of the worst but necessary inconveniences of wartime conditions in London has been the the closing of certain tube stations to ...
Article : 81 wordsWASHINGTON, Nov. 13.—According to the Department of State Germany has ordered her warships not to molest the American freighter City of Flint during ...
Article : 158 wordsWASHINGTON, Nov. 13.—The Coast Guard Department has ordered its training schools to enrol only seamen who have been rendered idle by the ...
Article : 103 wordsLONDON, Nov. 13.—The Lord Mayor's Red Cross fund reached £652,000 last night. ...
Article : 21 wordsSINGAPORE, Nov. 14.—It is officially announced that the British India Steam Navigation Co.'s passenger ship Sirdhana (7,745 tons), which foundered in ...
Article : 79 wordsLONDON, Nov. 13.—The price of petrol in Britain will be increased to 1/9½ a gallon from tomorrow. This is the highest it has been for 15 years. ...
Article : 34 wordsBELGRADE, Nov. 13.—Yugoslav timber exports to Germany have been stopped because prices are unsatisfactory. ...
Article : 22 wordsNEW YORK, Nov. 14.—The Black Diamond Line, the first United States Line to charter a vessel under a foreign flag with a foreign crew to trade in a ...
Article : 52 wordsLONDON, Nov. 13.—According to the Cape Town correspondent of "The Times" a South African sea-going defence force is being formed for ...
Article : 33 wordsLONDON, Nov. 14.—The Paris radio states that 6,000 persons have been thrown out of work owing to textile and rubber factories in Bohemia and rubber factories in Bohemia and ...
Article : 42 wordsThe 10th Garrison Battalion is in need of about 130 men to bring it to the authorised establishment. When recruiting closed some weeks ago the full ...
Article : 150 wordsAMSTERDAM, Nov. 14.—Dutch police from Oldenzaal arrested yesterday two Dutchmen, employed in the German border town of Hordhorn and living one ...
Article : 50 wordsLONDON, Nov. 14.—The appeal for scrap iron by the Iron and Steel Control Committee has brought in 45,000 tons in the first three weeks. This would ...
Article : 69 wordsBUDAPEST, Nov. 14.—The Germans executed a young girl student in Warsaw who was accused of defacing anti-British posters on which Mr. Chamberlain was ...
Article : 59 wordsLONDON, Nov. 13.—It was stated in London today that delay to ships at British contraband control bases is steadily decreasing. Naturally, there are ...
Article : 235 wordsWASHINGTON, Nov. 13.—The Minister for Eire at Washington (Mr. Robert Brennan) today expressed his Governmen's concern at the inclusion of Eire ...
Article : 43 wordsCAPE TOWN, Nov. 14.—With a view to encouraging recruiting, the Government has announced that civil servants will receive full salaries while training or ...
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