LONDON, July 21.—The First Lord or the Admiralty (Mr. A. V. Alexander) personally announced the Sydney's victory on Friday. He said that he took a ...
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Advertising : 109 wordsLONDON, July 21.—The first Budget to be presented by Sir Kingsley Wood as Chancellor of the Exchequer, which will also be the war's first supplementary ...
Article : 610 wordsLONDON. July 21.—Latest communiques on the war with Italy deal solely with aerial activities. A Royal Air Force communique issued ...
Article : 358 wordsWASHINGTON, July 20.—President Roosevelt today signed a Bill to provide a two-ocean navy and the Secretary of the Navy (Colonel Knox) immediately ...
Article : 203 wordsWASHINGTON, July 19.—The Chinese Embassy here released today the following statement by General Chiang Kai-shek:—"I believe that Britain, whose respect for ...
Article : 304 wordsLONDON, July 21.—The anxiety of newspaper editors which is undiminished—regarding the threatened compulsory censorship, coupled with Empire ...
Article : 1,027 wordsLONDON, July 21.—An official commuique issued in Rome yesterday stated:—In the surroundings of the island of Crete a battle was fought for three ...
Article : 204 wordsNEW YORK, July 20.—A poll of 697 delegates who attended the Democratic National Convention at Chicago taken by the Committee to Aid the Allies, ...
Article : 144 wordsSYDNEY. July 21.—"Sydney should be a beflagged city today," said the Minister for the Navy (Mr. Cameron), commenting yesterday on the success of the cruiser ...
Article : 641 wordsMELBOURNE, July 21.—The following statement in connection with the Federal Government's Press regulations was issued tonight by Mr. Theodore Fink, ...
Article : 487 wordsTOKIO, July 19.—"Japan at present does not contemplate inviting third- Power mediation in regard to the Sino-Japanese hostilities," the Foreign Office ...
Article : 60 wordsAUCKLAND, July 21.—The American clipper, which is on its return flight from Auckland to San Francisco, flew from Noumea to Canton Island today, going ...
Article : 65 wordsOTTAWA, July 20.—Mr. G. B. Ferguson, a former Premier of Ontario, forecasts that if President Roosevelt is reelected in November the United States ...
Article : 41 wordsLONDON, July 19.—The circulation of the "Osservatore Romano," the official organ of the Vatican, has decreased from 120,000 to 28,000 during two months. This ...
Article : 91 wordsLONDON, July 21.—A hundred lorry loads of arms and petrol crossed the Burma frontier into China a few minutes before the ban on this traffic, under the ...
Article : 34 wordsAUCKLAND, July 21.—On its return flight to San Francisco, the American Clipper flew from Auckland to Noumea, 1,100 miles yesterday in 7 hours 12 ...
Article : 68 wordsCHICAGO, July 19.— The Postmaster General (Mr. J. A. Farley) today accepted a third term to last for four weeks as chairman of the Democratic National ...
Article : 69 wordsLONDON, July 20.—The French Cabinet, it is reported from Vichy, has decided to inaugurate reconstruction in France by rebuilding thousands of destroyed bridges, ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 176 wordsLONDON, July 21.—The Admiralty on Friday made the following announcement:—"With reference to the Press report that two British merchant ships, the ...
Article : 328 wordsSYDNEY, July 21.—Victor Moulos or Mallos (39). a wealthy Greek, whose body was found on the side of a road near Roseville on Friday night, is ...
Article : 175 wordsWASHINGTON, July 29.—The Under Secretary of the British Treasury . (Sir Frederick Phillips) admitted today that Britain was seeking an agreement with ...
Article : 47 wordsWASHINGTON, July 21.—The State Department is endeavouring to facilitate an amicable settlement between Britain and France regarding the American ...
Article : 97 wordsLONDON, July 20.—Strikes and lock outs are virtually prohibited under an order Issued by the Minister for Labour (Mr. Bevin) which will come into ...
Article : 190 words"Neutrality with a difference" is how Mr. Horsfall Carter describes the position of Eire, in respect of the war, in a recent article for the "New States ...
Article : 394 wordsLONDON, July 19.—The Minister With out Portfolio (Mr. Arthur Greenwood) today explained the purpose of the circular letter sent to all firms working for ...
Article : 249 wordsSYDNEY, July 21.—The Postmaster General (Mr. Thorby) spent 20 minutes with the Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) at the Commonwealth Offices on ...
Article : 215 wordsLONDON, July 20.—An attack against "brass hats" the first since Mr. Hore Belisha left the War Office—is contained in a leading article in the "New States ...
Article : 232 wordsDUBLIN, July 20.—In a broadcast address yesterday, the Minister for Defence (Mr. Sean Lemass) said: We must prepare for the worst and prepare quickly. ...
Article : 85 wordsGAZA, July 21.—Major-General Sir Thomas Blarney, General Officer Commanding the A.I.F., has sent the following message to the commander of the Sydney ...
Article : 97 wordsMIAMI, July 19.—The Secretary of State (Mr. Cordell Hull) has notified European and other Governments that the consultation between Pan-American ...
Article : 57 wordsLONDON, July 20.—The police intercepted and seized a lorry near Dublin early this morning containing about four tons of ammunition. Six occupants of ...
Article : 32 wordsISTANBUL, July 21.—The news of H.M.A.S. Sydney's sinking of an Italian cruiser has created a deep impression in Turkey, which is always ready to ...
Article : 35 wordsGAZA, July 20.—A divisional order that all troops must wear a colour patch on their hat bands is a new departure and alters the A.I.F. uniform. This is ...
Article : 287 wordsLONDON, July 20.—A German spokes-man in Amsterdam has declared that the Germans will take reprisals in Holland against Dutchmen from the Dutch East ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 126 wordsLONDON, July 19.—Fleet-street news-agents displayed the following hand-made poster: "Australian warship sinks cruiser Another one in the (here followed a ...
Article : 30 wordsLONDON, July 20.—"A certain amount of misunderstanding in the public mind" has caused the Ministry of Information to explain at length the Government's ...
Article : 95 wordsAUCKLAND, July 21.—The early production of munitions and other war materials in New Zealand railway workshops is expected by the Minister for Supply ...
Article : 55 wordsAUCKLAND, July 21.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Fraser) has cabled the Australian Prime Minister (Mr. Men- des) New Zealand's warmest ...
Article : 28 wordsSYDNEY, July 21.—More than 2,000 persons at a meeting in the Domain today unanimously supported resolutions demanding the immediate internment of ...
Article : 236 wordsLONDON, July 20.—In a mock battle near a villiage "somewhere in England" yesterday. Canadian troops, supported by every device of modern warfare, defeated ...
Article : 50 wordsLONDON, July 20.—The Secretary for the Colonies has accepted as a "practical demonstration of the deep loyalty of the people of the British Guiana," an offer ...
Article : 192 wordsLONDON, July 19.—Naval awards include the D.S.C. to Lieut.-Commander O. H. Becher, R.A.N., of H.M.S. Devonshire. Lieut. W. G. Wheeler. R.A.N., of H.M.S. ...
Article : 60 wordsTwo brothers in Victoria, who wished to join the Australian Imperial Force, could not decide which of them would be best suited to army life and which ...
Article : 164 wordsAUCKLAND, July 21.—Two Tongans have arrived to enlist in the New Zealand forces. They had to get Queen Salote's permission to join the army. ...
Article : 28 wordsLONDON, July 21.—Belgian and French exiles thronged Whitehall today when, on Belgium's national fete day, 350 wounded Belgian soldiers and ...
Article : 163 wordsLONDON, July 19.—The Moscow cor- respondent of "The Times" states:-"It can be assumed that the new Latvian Parliament will take notice of the popular ...
Article : 106 wordsBUKAREST, July 21.—Russian troops who by mistake occupied small districts along the Bessarabian frontier have been withdrawn. The situation became ...
Article : 41 wordsLONDON, July 20.—The Berlin News- agency states that seven members of the Reichstag have been killed in action since the beginning of the war. Their ...
Article : 81 wordsAUCKLAND, July 21.—It is estimated that about 100,000 single men will be available in the first division of reservists from whom the first conscription call will ...
Article : 49 wordsLONDON, July 19.—Mr. Oliver Stanley (former Secretary for War) has been appointed honorary Colonel of the Manchester Regiment. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 22 Jul 1940, Page 8
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