A special representative of the Australian Associated Press at Batavia quoted Lt-General Christison's Chief of Staff (Brigadier N. D. Wingrove) as stating that the British forces had the situation in Java well in hand. It ...
Article : 723 wordsLONDON, Oct 16.—"I did not want to die by French bullets," said Pierre Laval after he had responded to medical treatment and revived from ...
Article : 492 wordsTOKIO, Oct 16.—The Japanese newspaper "Asahi" states: "Through the Central Reserve Bank of China the Japanese warlords deluged China ...
Article : 174 wordsBUENOS AIRES, Oct 16.—President Farrell yesterday appointed the civilian Crown Prosecutor, Senor Juan Alvarez, as Minister for the ...
Article : 202 wordsTOKIO, Oct 15.—General MacArthur broadcast today as follows: "Today the Japanese armed forces throughout Japan have completed demobilisation and are now abolished. I know of no demobilisation in history, either ...
Article : 795 wordsSYDNEY, Oct 16.—Continued rationing of electricity threw thousands more men and women out of work today. The total number now ...
Article : 541 wordsLONDON, Oct 16.—In the House of Commons last night the President of the Board of Trade (Sir Stafford Cripps) gave details of the ...
Article : 230 wordsTOKIO, Oct 16.—On his way to Chungking to confer with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek on the ways in which American industrial ...
Article : 219 wordsNEW YORK, Oct 16.—According to the Washington correspondent of the New York "Daily. News" it is learnt from Congressional sources ...
Article : 207 wordsTOKIO, Oct 15.—Stern action by the Allied authorities will follow the revelation today that under the "political freedom" directive, ...
Article : 308 wordsLONDON, Oct 16.—The dock strike took an unexpected turn this morning when spokesmen asserted that the dockers had reversed their ...
Article : 239 wordsNEW YORK, Oct 15.—The "Herald-Tribune's" Washington bureau learns that the United Staten has adopted a hands-off policy ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 223 wordsLONDON, Oct 16.—The Royal Navy is to scuttle or scrap all except 18 of Germany's U-boat fleet. Britain, ...
Article : 59 wordsTOKIO, Oct 15.—The new motto of the Tokio Police Department is "Cheerfulness and Kindness," according to the ...
Article : 65 wordsHONG KONG. Oct 16.—The restoration of the civilian airline between Hong Kong. Canton, Kunming and Chungking by a Chinese ...
Article : 82 wordsLONDON. Oct 16.—Laval paid a warm tribute to Britain and her statesmen in a detailed defence against the 27 charges brought ...
Article : 174 wordsLONDON. Oct 16.—Sir Ernest Fisk, managing director of Electric and Musical industries, Ltd. and formerly managing director of ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 229 wordsWASHINGTON, Oct 15.—The War Department's Bureau of Public Relations has asked General MacArthur's Press headquarters in Tokio ...
Article : 311 wordsSYDNEY, Oct 16.—The manufacture of oxygen had ceased, said Mr Allan Cooper, general manager of Commonwealth Oxygen and ...
Article : 80 wordsATHENS. Oct 1.—Greece is still without a Cabinet following the failure of M Tsouderos (a former Prime Minister) to form a Cabinet ...
Article : 193 wordsSYDNEY, Oct 16.—Heavy industries in Newcastle were brought to a standstill yesterday by a 24-hout strike of 15,000 members of 13 unions ...
Article : 235 wordsLONDON, Oct 16.—"More British troops are to be sent to Java," says the Batavia correspondent of the "Daily Express." Two or three R.A.F. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 268 wordsLONDON, Oct 16.—Sir Miles Thomas, vice-chairman of Morris Motors, Ltd, addressing the London conference of the British Empire ...
Article : 284 wordsLONDON, Oct 16.— I am not crying. One cries over little disappointments but this is too big. You would need tears of blood," said ...
Article : 203 wordsLONDON, Oct 16.—New Delhi radio states that Burma last night returned to civil administration when the Governor, Sir Reginald ...
Article : 48 wordsNEW YORK, Oct 15.—"Japan slipped quietly into military obscurity today as the General Staff was disbanded and for the first time ...
Article : 171 wordsWASHINGTON, Oct 16.—The State Department announced yesterday that the United States was willing to recognise the Provisional ...
Article : 70 wordsTOKIO, Oct 15.—A. discourse on the wartime psychology of the Japanese people was given to an assembly of representatives of schools ...
Article : 192 wordsNEW YORK, Oct 15.—The Tokio correspondent of the "New York Times" states that Col Kramer (head of the Economic Control Board) has ...
Article : 175 wordsLONDON. Oct 16.—The secretary of the Department of Overseas Trade (Mr H. A. Marquand) has informed the House of Commons that ...
Article : 153 wordsADELAIDE, Oct 16.—There will be a general restoration of electric current at midnight tonight and about 30,000 persons who have been ...
Article : 59 wordsSINGAPORE, Oct 16.—More than 5,000 tons of rubber valued, at £500,000 sterling (625,000 Australian) was shipped to Britain on a ...
Article : 35 wordsLONDON, Oct 16.—"A sensation has been created by the Government decree calling up all men between the ages of 18 and 55 and all ...
Article : 124 wordsTOKIO, Oct 15.—The Allied authorities are intensifying their efforts to hunt down the Japanese officer who has been identified as ...
Article : 368 wordsWASHINGTON. Oct 16.—Testifying before the Senate Joint Military and Commerce Committee, the Secretary for War (Mr Robert ...
Article : 104 wordsSYDNEY, Oct 16.—Strikes at 18 collieries in N.S.W. today resulted in a production loss of over 14,500 tons of coal. The loss in wages for ...
Article : 35 wordsSINGAPORE. Oct 16.—Sir Harold MacMichael, a former High Commissioner and C.-in-C. for Palestine, who is visiting Malaya in connection ...
Article : 75 wordsPARIS, Oct 16.—M. Alexander Parodi, the French Minister of Labour, after his election to the presidency of the International ...
Article : 72 wordsNEW YORK, Oct 16.—Although the United States Conciliation Commissioner (Mr John Burke) announced yesterday that the New ...
Article : 191 wordsWIESBADEN, Oct 16.—An American military tribunal has sentenced to death by hanging three men found guilty of having murdered ...
Article : 71 wordsSINGAPORE, Oct 16.—The services newspaper "S.E.A.C." says the liquor known as "Singapore Saki' which has killed servicemen is ...
Article : 78 wordsSINGAPORE, Oct 16.—Beginning today 1,000 Japanese of the former Singapore garrison of 83,000 will pass daily through Singapore to the ...
Article : 64 wordsBUDAPEST, Oct 16.—In an effort, to stave off complete starvation for many citizens the Hungarian Government has ordered rationing of all ...
Article : 64 wordsExcept where otherwise designated the overseas intelligence published in "The West Australian" is transmitted to Australia by the Australian ...
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