MELBOURNE. May 22.—The Minister for Air (Mr. Fairbairn) announced today that Squadron-Leader E. C. Bates, formerly Chief Flying Instructor at Point ...
Article : 434 wordsNEW YORK, May 22.—"From across the ocean it looks sometimes as if the outlines of our world were dissolving before our eyes. That the outer world ...
Article : 490 wordsMELBOURNE. May 22.—An appeal to Australians to show their loyalty and to play their part in this war—a part similar to that played by the men 25 years ...
Article : 258 wordsLONDON, May 22.—Military moves are reported by Russia on her German and Hungarian frontiers and by Italy on the Albanian-Yugoslav frontier. ...
Article : 528 wordsThe Government's decisions for an immediate extension of Australia's war effort were announced by the Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) in the House of Representatives yesterday. They include the raising of a new division of the A.I.F. for service abroad, the ...
Article : 2,394 wordsSYDNEY, May 22.—The wave of recruiting enthusiasm which began to weep over New South Wales this week grew in force today. In the 24 hours ...
Article : 160 wordsCANBERRA, May 22.—In securing over 15,000 men up to May 11 for service under the Empire Air Training Scheme, an important milestone has been passed ...
Article : 387 wordsMELBOURNE, May 22.—Two U.A.P. members of the Federal Parliament, Messrs. Holt and Hutchinson, were among hundreds of men who applied at ...
Article : 85 wordsWASHINGTON, May 21.—President Roosevelt gave a pledge at his Press conference today that neither capital nor labour would profit heavily from the new ...
Article : 266 wordsADELAIDE, May 22.—The drive for recruits for the 7th Division, A.I.F., which began on Monday, brought more than 200 men in all walks of life to the city ...
Article : 180 wordsROME, May 21.—The evening newspapers give prominence to reports from Berlin announcing the surrounding of 1,000,000 British and French troops and ...
Article : 239 wordsMOSCOW, May 21.—The radio announced today that the Foreign Minister (M. Molotov), in replying to the British trade memorandum, rejected the British ...
Article : 164 wordsGAZA, May 22.—As I drove through the military camps today I passed hundreds of Victorians of the second contingent of the A.l.F. marching in threes ...
Article : 431 wordsThe second metropolitan medical examination of volunteers for the West Australian contribution to the 7th Division, Australian Imperial Force, was ...
Article : 245 wordsApplications for enlistment on the ground staff of the Royal Australian Air Force have risen rapidly in the last week, it was stated at the Recruiting Centre ...
Article : 298 wordsWASHINGTON, May 21.—When the debate on the United States defence programme opened in the Senate today, Senator Pepper (Democrat, Florida) ...
Article : 115 wordsVATICAN CITY, May. 21.—The Pope has suspended all public audiences without explanation. ...
Article : 17 wordsISTANBUL, May 21.—The Government has approved of an extraordinary credit of £30,000,000 for national defence, making a total of £50,000,000. ...
Article : 27 wordsSYDNEY, May 22.—As a result of an explosion at the Kearsley shire council's quarry at Neath this afternoon, Arthur Farthing (53), of Main-road, Abermain, ...
Article : 67 wordsLONDON, May 21.—Sir Wilfrid Greene, Master of the Rolls, has left for Rome in order to renew his contacts with the Italian Government as chairman of the ...
Article : 82 wordsSYDNEY, May 22.—An attack on the war policy of the Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) and the Leader of the Federal Opposition (Mr. Curtin) was made by Mr. ...
Article : 296 wordsA machine-gun company of the 2/2nd Machine-Gun Battalion has been allotted to Western Australia as part of the 7th Division. It is now in the course of ...
Article : 90 wordsNEW YORK, May 21.—Ernest Kehler, alias Haas (23), an amateur boxer, was today sentenced to 10 to 20 years' imprisonment for the manslaughter of Dr. ...
Article : 92 wordsLONDON, May 21.—The Gibraltar correspondent of the "Daily Mail" says that women and children have been ordered to leave Gibraltar, the ...
Article : 53 wordsBUNBURY, May 22.—Although recruiting for the 7th Division, A.I.F., will not commence in the South-West until Monday, already over 150 applications ...
Article : 129 wordsRecruiting for the Royal Australian Air Force will begin in Geraldton on June 1, when the work of interviewing and examining applicants will be commenced ...
Article : 329 wordsLONDON, May 21.—It is authoritatively stated in London that there is absolutely no truth in the rumour that the United Kingdom commercial ...
Article : 42 wordsSYDNEY, May 22.—The Rev. Father Morrissey, of Kurri Kurri, and Mrs. Okame (30), of Buchan Farm, East Maitland, were fatally injured yesterday ...
Article : 76 wordsLONDON, May 21.—Members of all parties in the House of Commons heard a private address today on the attitude of Australia and New Zealand to the war ...
Article : 64 wordsTOKIO, May 22.—It is stated that the German Ambassador (Major-General Ott) has communicated to the Foreign Minister (Mr. Arita) a communication ...
Article : 83 wordsNo cases of diphtheria have been reported in the Midland Junction municipality for the past six months, which is believed to be a consequence of diphtheria ...
Article : 193 wordsOTTAWA, May 21.—The Minister for Defence (Mr. Rogers) announced today that another Canadian contingent has arrived in England. He did not reveal ...
Article : 55 wordsCANBERRA, May 22.—It was stated authoritatively tonight that at least two other Australian industrial experts of wide experience will join Mr. Essington ...
Article : 163 wordsLONDON, May 21.—Australia House has learnt that Miss Norma John (37). formerly of Manly (New South Wales), who was reported last month to be trapped ...
Article : 60 wordsSTOCKHOLM, May 22.—The Swedish Legation in Berlin 1s lodging a protest against an air attack on a Swedish railway station east of Narvik in which one ...
Article : 61 wordsOTTAWA, May 21.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Mackenzie King) called on the House of Commons today to remember, in this, probably one of the darkest ...
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Advertising : 630 wordsCANBERRA, May 22.—At a meeting tonight the Federal Parliamentary Country Party unanimously carried a motion approving of the expanded defence ...
Article : 41 wordsLONDON, May 21.—The Foreign Office states that the following must be regarded as in German occupation:— Norway (except for the northern ...
Article : 39 wordsLONDON, May 21.—Mrs. Climpson, wife of the Deputy-Director of Salvation Army War Services (Brigadier Climpson) has been killed in France. ...
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