WHEN THEY MADE a raid on the Lofoten Islands, off the Norwegian coast, British forces destroyed the German fish oil factories, sank 14,000 tons of German shipping, and brought liberty to 215 Norwegians. These Norwegian patriots were brought to Britain, and are here seen in London as they go to meet King Haakon. —Department of Information. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 66 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.—The Treasurer (Mr. Fadden) said to-day that during the year ended June 30, Australia spent —169,857,000 on the war. In order to assess properly the war effort, however, said Mr. ...
Article : 258 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.—Mr. Churchill announced in the House of Commons that British troops would remain in Iceland in addition to the American troops, who, it was first reported, would replace them. The United States military occu ...
Article : 691 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday. — To encourage the reporting of enemy mines in Australian waters, the the Naval Financial Regulations ...
Article : 165 wordsBy a narrow majority, 6,000 engineers, at a stop-work meeting at the Leichhardt Stadium to-day, rejected a move for an ...
Article : 186 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday. — Because 150 men in the ferro-alloy department of the Broken Hill Pty. works at Newcastle stopped work ...
Article : 147 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday. — Doctors, nurses, university graduates and civilians have offered Dr. L. W. Knott, Superintendent of the ...
Article : 118 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday. — Plans for preparatory work by the new Department of War Organisation of Industry, which ...
Article : 152 wordsWASHINGTON, Wednesday. — The White House Secretary (Mr. Early) said to-day that Mr. Churchill, in an official despatch, expressed concern to ...
Article : 194 wordsSTOCKHOLM, Thursday. — M. Litvinov, the former Russian Foreign Minister, has been placed in charge of Soviet relations with ...
Article : 54 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday.—Exemptions granted on April 4 to United States and Greek nationals were withdrawn officially on ...
Article : 57 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday. — Max Thomas and Horace Ratcliff, detained by the Federal authorities, have refused to discontinue their hunger-strike ...
Article : 64 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—In the case in which six men were charged with having contravened the National Security Regulations by holding a meeting at ...
Article : 115 wordsLAUNCESTON, Thursday. — If smokers in Tasmania have not yet been seriously inconvenienced by tobacco rationing, this state of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 743 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday. — Tenders amounting to over £288,900 have been accepted by the Department of Interior for various kinds of hospital ...
Article : 76 wordsSINGAPORE, Thursday. — Major-General Gordon Bennett, commander of the A.I.F. in Malaya, said to-day that his force had all ...
Article : 345 wordsBRISBANE, Thursday. — Nurses in Darwin were living in tents, using beer pases for wardrobes, and hurricane lamps. They had no provisions for ...
Article : 76 wordsLAUNCESTON, Thursday. — At a meeting of the executive committee of the Northern Division of the Red Cross Society, the-chairman (Mr. L. H. Hart) ...
Article : 190 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday.—Because complex and highly contentious financial problems are facing the Federal Ministry, presentation of the budget may now be delayed till late in September. ...
Article : 77 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday. — Bruce Edward Plunkett (24) and Richard James Duckworth (40), laborers, were charged in the Central Court to-day with ...
Article : 85 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday. — Electrical, mechanical, mining and marine engineering students attending Melbourne and Sydney Universities, if not ...
Article : 70 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday. — Drastic revision of ago limits for enlistment as ground personnel in the R.A.A.F. was announced to-day ...
Article : 139 wordsHOBART, Thursday. — The Transport Commission is to furnish the Minister for Transport (Mr. Brookor) at the end of next ...
Article : 227 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday.—The announcement that General Dentz, Commander-in-Chief in Syria, has indicated his readiness to discuss ...
Article : 335 wordsWASHINGTON, Wednesday. — The American Red Cross announced to-day that a British vessel, in which ten Red Cross nurses were going to England, ...
Article : 38 wordsADELAIDE, Thursday. — The Executive Council to-day commuted to imprisonment for life with hard labor the sentence of death imposed on ...
Article : 40 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday. — The general rule was that every person who broadcast in Australia must submit the script of his proposed remarks, the ...
Article : 86 wordsSOMEWHERE IN MALAYA, Thursday. — The A.I.F. has been receiving instruction in Malayan jungle lore from the Sakai people ...
Article : 223 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.—George Armstrong (39), marine engineer, who was sentenced to death in the Old Bailey after trial in camera for an offence ...
Article : 60 wordsHOBART, Thursday. — Under Commonwealth National Security Regulations no producer gas equipment may be manufactured for sale or offered ...
Article : 175 wordsLAUNCESTON, Thursday. — Launceston produce merchants have differing views about the allegedly threatening circular sent to farmers and ...
Article : 174 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—Enemy activity last night was almost entirely confined to the coastal areas, very few 'planes flying inland. Bombs were ...
Article : 59 wordsHOBABT, Thursday.—The Victorian Minister for Labor and Post-War Reconstruction (Mr. E. J. Mackrell) arrived in Hobart to-night from ...
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