Two men who tried to swim ashore from a capsized yacht about four miles off Woodman's Point yesterday afternoon are missing and it is feared they have ...
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Advertising : 261 wordsLONDON, Dec. 8.—The latest official reports from Cairo show little or no activity in the western desert, but British air and land operations continue ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 335 wordsLONDON, Dec. 7.—For the revolutionised army which has emerged in Britain since the withdrawal from France British factories have produced tanks ...
Article : 488 wordsCAIRO, Dec. 6.—The news that the Egyptian Parliamentary Committee, which is drafting a reply to the Speech from the Throne, has nearly finished its ...
Article : 503 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—An announcement by the Tass (Russian) newsagency that the Soviet's position with regard to General Chiang Kai-shek's Government ...
Article : 381 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—The Under Secretary of the British Treasury (Sir Frederick Phillips), who is on a financial mission to the United States, saw the ...
Article : 252 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 8.—While President Roosevelt is on a cruise in the Caribbean recuperating from the strenuous days of the election campaign and ...
Article : 444 wordsTOKIO, Dec. 7.—"Such a loan is nothing but a challenge to war with Japan," declares the newspaper "Hochi Shimbun" today, commenting editorially ...
Article : 104 wordsTOKIO, Dec. 7.—It was officially announced today that Vice-Admiral Boshiro Hosogaka has been appointed Supreme Commander of the Japanese fleet in ...
Article : 110 wordsLONDON, Dec. 6.—The raising of the age of reservation from war service to 30 in more than 150 occupations in the coalmining industry, by which ...
Article : 106 wordsCAIRO, Dec. 7.—As the winter draws an with the Italians still "consolidating" their positions at Sidi Barrani (the enemy advanced base on the Egyptian coast), ...
Article : 490 wordsTOKIO, Dec. 6.—All the directors of the largest ironworks in Japan have resigned as a result of the Australian and United States embargos on the export of ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 96 wordsLONDON, Dec. 7.—It has recently been officially made clear that no change is contemplated in the training and duties of the Home Guard, but with the shorter ...
Article : 91 wordsLONDON, Dec. 7.—The 2nd Canadian Divisional Signals are adapting commercial facsimile transmission to military purposes. After many months of ...
Article : 139 wordsJERUSALEM, Dec. 6.—Winter has hit Palestine with a vengeance. General rains have set in and have been particularly heavy in the southern districts. ...
Article : 411 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—The Secretary of State (Mr. Cordell Hull) confirmed today that, he was negotiating with Spain for a 100,000,000 dollar ...
Article : 78 wordsLONDON, Dec. 6.—In a speech at Portsmouth today the Minister of Security (Mr. Herbert Morrison) gave six reasons for cheerfulness. ...
Article : 117 wordsLONDON, Dec. 6.—The Paris representative of the Madrid newspaper "Ya," says that the Premier of France (Marshal Petain) is expected to be installed at ...
Article : 152 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—A Navy Department spokesman declined to comment today on a report that Colonel William Donovan is going to Europe by air ...
Article : 87 wordsLONDON, Dec. 7.—The aeronautical correspondent of the "Sunday Times" says that Germany has apparently abandoned the short-term policy of knocking ...
Article : 357 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—The National Defence Commission has revealed that new fighting ships are being commissioned for the United States Navy at the ...
Article : 153 wordsHANKOW, Dec. 6.—Two hours before the arrival here of General Abe (special Japanese envoy to the Nanking Government) on an inspection tour, three ...
Article : 43 wordsAll fair-minded citizens admitted the claims of the blackfellow upon them, the Rev. J. R. B. Love said at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church last night. Most ...
Article : 421 wordsCAIRO, Dec. 6.—The Government has confiscated Italian resources in Egypt, valued at £14,600 sterling, to compensate the victims of Italian air raids. ...
Article : 28 wordsHANOI, Dec. 7.—That troops and planes on Friday repeatedly raided towns in the Mekong district of French Indo-China, but there were no casualties. They ...
Article : 70 wordsLONDON, Dec. 8.—The diplomatic correspondent of the "Sunday Times" (London), referring to reports that Germany and Turkey are trying to persuade ...
Article : 261 wordsGAZA, Dec. 7.—The Christmas rush of inward and outward mail has members of the Australian Postal Corps working "fiat out," nor will there be any let-up ...
Article : 121 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 6.—M. Jacques Desieyes, who is General de Gaulle's representative in the United States, said today that if the Free French elements ...
Article : 69 wordsLONDON, Dec. 7.—A report from Paris says that Dr. Joseph Hartmann. counsellor to the German Military Administration, has announced that it is hoped ...
Article : 177 wordsNEW YORK, Dec. 7.—Mr. Halderman Julius, a book publisher of Girard (Kansas) has written to the British Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill) and offered "to ...
Article : 65 wordsLONDON, Dec. 7.—Twenty thousand Belgian troops and civilians on British soil, in the Belgian Congo and in the United States and elsewhere where there ...
Article : 121 wordsLONDON, Dec. 7.—"Business as usual" and "the family spirit" will go literally hand in hand in Britain during Christmas when postmen and their wives will work ...
Article : 111 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 6.—The State Department announced today that appropriate steps had been taken by members of the American Embassy staff in ...
Article : 75 wordsLONDON, Dec. 7.—The Bremen wireless announces a new Messerschmitt 110, which, it says, has a much greater range than the Messerschmitt 109, is equipped ...
Article : 56 wordsLONDON, Dec. 8.—The Ministry of Supply has increased the maximum prices of scrap iron and steel. The increase is partly due to additional merchants' costs. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 9 Dec 1940, Page 10
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