CAIRO, Aug. 16.—Towards sunset each night in Tobruk an uncanny atmospheric stillness sets in. Now and then the quietness is ...
Article : 1,047 wordsThe Premier (Mr. J. C. Willcock), who attended a meeting of the Loan Council in Canberra recently, returned to Perth on Saturday by the ...
Article : 374 wordsLONDON, Aug. 15.—A special correspondent in the Western Desert says that the German adventure in Russia has not entirely cut off Axis ...
Article : 389 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 17.—The largest A.I.F. contingent to leave Australia has arrived safely in the Middle East, it was announced today. Two ...
Article : 198 wordsLONDON, Aug. 16.—Speaking at Newcastle this evening, the Secretary for War (Captain Margesson) said there was a general feeling of ...
Article : 805 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 17.—The strike of 35 crane-drivers in metropolitan steel foundries, it was stated tonight, is having a serious effect upon the ...
Article : 196 wordsThe terms of the Churchill-Roosevelt Note to Stalin, dispatched from last week's Atlantic conference, provide a considerable measure ...
Article : 896 wordsCloudy weather, with some showers and moderate westerly winds, is forecast for the metropolitan area today. The maximum shade ...
Article : 606 wordsWASHINGTON, Aug. 16.—The International Wheat Conference, which was scheduled to resume on Monday, has been postponed indefinitely ...
Article : 116 wordsTOKIO, Aug. 16.—Dr. Matao Nagayo, the noted cancer authority and former president of the Tokio Imperial University, has died from ...
Article : 49 wordsCANBERRA, Aug. 17.—The Canberra branch of the Australian Labour Party today decided to request the Federal Parliamentary ...
Article : 273 wordsLONDON, Aug. 16.—The Ankara correspondent of "The Times" states that the Turkish reaction to the Anglo-Russian declarations is one of ...
Article : 283 wordsCLOSING TIMES.—Closing times here-under are for the Perth G.P.O. Registered articles must be posted one hour before closing time for letters, but ...
Article : 198 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug. 17.—Two officers and two airmen were killed when a Royal Australian Air Force aircraft crashed at Darwin on ...
Article : 133 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 17.—The War Cabinet has authorised the establishment of an Australian Women's Home Army. Anouncing this today ...
Article : 298 words(Every request for information must be accompanied by the name and address of the writer, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith.) ...
Article : 567 wordsLONDON, Aug. 16.—The "Observer," in a leading article today, states:—"The wish is very strong here that the Australian Prime ...
Article : 97 wordsROEBOURNE, Aug. 16.—A young woman was killed and four persons were injured when a motor truck overturned within two miles of ...
Article : 109 wordsThe report of the West Australian war Industries committee, which met in Perth some months ago and took evidence in camera on the ...
Article : 280 wordsLONDON, Aug. 16.—Six out of seven children in one family were killed when a Royal Air Force plane crashed "In flames on a house at ...
Article : 81 wordsLONDON, Aug. 16.—A Belgrade communique announces that the Germans have burnt the Serbian town of Gola as a reprisal for an ...
Article : 86 wordsAudrey Joyce Sims (16), of Church-street, Perth, had her right leg fractured, and Noel Wintle (16), of Brisbane-terrace, Perth, had his ...
Article : 241 wordsBRISBANE, Aug. 17.—Bread strikers who are protesting against the 5 a.m. start awarded by the Industrial Court, began picketing of ...
Article : 103 wordsThe name of Captain J. Fitzhardinge, of Western Australia, is included in the list of 101 members of the A.I.F. who are prisoners of ...
Article : 467 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 17.—On Saturday, for the first time in the shipbuilding history of Sydney, two ships for the Royal Australian Navy were ...
Article : 123 wordsLONDON, Aug. 17.—he diplomatic correspondent of the "Sunday Express" states that Britain and Russia have sent strongly worded ...
Article : 157 wordsLONDON, Aug. 16.—The Cairo correspondent of the "Daily Express" says that a neutral, upon arrival from the Balkans, revealed ...
Article : 153 wordsLONDON, Aug. 16.—The Madrid correspondent of the Vichy news-agency says it is officially denied that German divisions have crossed ...
Article : 34 wordsThe following statement has been issued by the chairman of the Central Wool Committee:—"The Central Wool Committee announces that ...
Article : 68 wordsAUCKLAND, Aug. 17.—Captain H. Whitebread, side-de-camp to General Sir Guy Williams, Military Adviser to the New Zealand ...
Article : 56 wordsNISI PRIUS.—At 10.30 a.m., before the Chief Justice: Petitions in divorce: Ruby Clarice Walker v. Harry Reginald Clarke Walker; Clifford George Yann v. ...
Article : 47 wordsUp to the week-end new recruits for the A.I.F. during the present month totalled approximately 300, it was stated at Western Command ...
Article : 181 wordsEastern States casualty lists received in Perth last night contained a total of 44 names, divided as follows:— ...
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Advertising : 141 wordsLONDON, Aug. 16.—A communique issued by British General Headquarters in Cairo yesterday afternoon described how a ...
Article : 132 wordsLONDON, Aug. 17.—The Exchange Telegraph states that the secret German transmitter yesterday revealed particulars of secret funds ...
Article : 100 wordsLONDON, Aug. 16.—The Netherlands Admiralty announced today that one of their submarines operating with the Royal Navy sank ...
Article : 61 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 17.—A large number of Italian prisoners of war who will be interned in Australia until the war ends arrived in Sydney ...
Article : 220 wordsLONDON, Aug. 17.—The German freighter Norderney (3,667 tons), carrying a valuable cargo for Germany, left Pam harbour (Brazil) on ...
Article : 103 wordsLONDON, Aug. 16.—A decree issued in Vichy provides that in future all French Cabinet Ministers from the Vice-Premier and Foreign ...
Article : 107 wordsThe main features of today's programmes from the national stations 6WF and 6WN are given below:— Station 6WF.—6.45, 8 am., 2.15, ...
Article : 150 wordsLONDON, Aug. 16.—A special correspondent of the Milan "Corriere della Sera" in the Western Desert complains about the methods of the ...
Article : 69 wordsANKARA, Aug. 16.—Greek refugees report the arrival of 30,000 German children in Greece for a "change of air." They add that ...
Article : 53 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug. 17.—Government factories to make marine engines for ships being built in Victoria and New South Wales will be ...
Article : 90 wordsLONDON, Aug. 16.—German long-range guns at Cap Gris Nez and Calais this evening shelled ships in the Channel for nearly an hour. The ...
Article : 57 wordsLONDON, Aug. 17.—Captain Sir James Herbert Croft, 11th Baronet, was found fatally wounded in a room at an hotel In Ayrshire today. The ...
Article : 44 wordsLONDON, Aug. 17.—It vas anounced in Pretoria last night that the Prime Minister (Field Marshal Smuts) had left for Cairo by air to ...
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