OTTAWA, Aug. 21.—The Minister for Defence (Colonel Ralston) announced to- day that in addition to approximately 40,000 troops overseas on active service ...
Article : 275 wordsSHANGHAI, Aug. 22.—Reliable Japanese sources report that the army has completed the draft of a peace treaty with Mr. Wang Ching-wei's "puppet" ...
Article : 191 wordsA Civil Defence Council empowered to take steps for the protection and safety of the civilian population of the State is proposed in the Civil Defence (Emergency ...
Article : 1,256 wordsLONDON, Aug. 22.—Taken out of its context, the pledge of the Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill) in his speech in the House of Commons on Tuesday, to ...
Article : 772 wordsCANBERRA, Aug. 22.—When the Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) launches his election campaign on Wednesday night week in Melbourne he will make ...
Article : 780 wordsNEW YORK, Aug. 22.—M. Leo Trotsky, the Bolshevik exile, who was attacked at his home in Mexico City on Tuesday by a man wielding a pickaxe ...
Article : 388 wordsSHANGHAI, Aug. 22.—The American Consulate has made representations of the Japanese Consulate concerning dam- aged American property in Chungking ...
Article : 42 wordsTOKIO, Aug. 22.—Sixteen South Seas associations, comprising business men, industrialists and others, have organised the "Japan Federation of South Seas ...
Article : 109 wordsOTTAWA, Aug. 22.—Werner Koche, the, German naval lieutenant who escaped from an internment camp "somewhere in Ontario" earlier in the week, has been ...
Article : 67 wordsWARDHA, Aug. 21.—After a sitting lasting five days the Congress Working Committee has passed a 750-word resolution rejecting Britain's offer of August 8 ...
Article : 248 wordsA revolutionary all his life; exile and prisoner more than half his days; the organiser of the coup which led to the foundation of the Soviet Republics; at ...
Article : 675 wordsTOKIO, Aug. 22.—The Domel News agency states that the Japanese Ambassador to the United States (Mr. Horinouchi), four other Ambassadors and 19 ...
Article : 115 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 22.—Three men were killed and four others seriously injured when they were struck by a goods train in the mile-long tunnel between Woy Woy ...
Article : 348 wordsLONDON, Aug. 22.—It was stated semi-officially in Berlin yesterday that Germany could not guarantee safe passage for American ships evacuating ...
Article : 312 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug. 22—The Premier of Victoria (Mr. Dunstan) is expected to return his commission and resign from the State Parliament tomorrow to ...
Article : 150 wordsLONDON, Aug. 21.—As a well-earned reward after two months of intensive training and hard work, the men of the A.I.F in Britain have been granted six ...
Article : 585 wordsThe High Commissioner for Australia (Mr. S. M. Bruce), on the left, drinking tea with Asutralian soldiers at a new mobile conteen which he afficially accepted from the Young Men's Christian Association for the Australian troops now in England at a recent function at the Strand Theatre, ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 54 wordsCANBERRA. Aug. 27.—The fifteenth Federal Parliament has virtually ended. although legal formalities have to be completed before the actual dissolution. ...
Article : 283 wordsCANBERRA, Aug. 22.—Revised postal communication orders issued tonight aim at preventing the leakage of information to the enemy. They provide for methods ...
Article : 325 wordsBRISBANE, Aug. 22.—The Rev. Father Colman O'Connor (36), Superior of the Franciscan House at Kedron and parish priest of the Church of the Little Flower, ...
Article : 73 wordsSAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 21.—Mr. Martin Dies (chairman of the committee appointed by the House of Representatives to investigate un-American ...
Article : 82 wordsCANBERRA, Aug. 22.—Difficulties may arise to interfere with proposals for Dutch air lines to establish direct air communication between Australia and ...
Article : 81 wordsWASHINGTON, Aug. 21.—The House of Representatives has completed Congressional action and sent to the White House the Bill authorising United States ...
Article : 107 wordsThe Executive Council yesterday approved of August 30 as the date for the issue of the writ for the Senate election in this State. In addition, a proclamation, ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Fri 23 Aug 1940, Page 14
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