MELBOURNE, To-day, 1.30 a.m.—After a warning yesterday morning by the Minister for Air (Mr. Drakeford) that a Japanese landing in New Guinea might be expected later in the day, radio communication between Australia and Rabaul ceased at 4 p.m. Since then there has been a complete absence of official information from the territory ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 1,120 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.—Commonwealth war expenditure for 1941-42 may reach £250,000,000, compared with the budget estimate of £221,000,000. This will involve the recasting of the Government's financial programme for the remainder of ...
Article : 366 wordsLONDON, Thursday. — The "Daily Mail" war correspondent, Mr. Graham Stanford, cabling from Horta (Azores) tells the story of a British ship in ...
Article : 152 wordsLONDON, Wednesday. — Europe is in the grip of the worst winter for years. The British press is permitted to refer only to the weather over the ...
Article : 124 wordsDARWIN, Thursday. — Two soldiers who had been lost 30 miles from Darwin since Sunday were found to-day after extensive searches of 50 square miles by a ...
Article : 71 wordsWASHINGTON, Thursday. — President Roosevelt has sent a letter to the Speaker of the House of Representatives (Mr. Rayburn), ...
Article : 203 wordsLONDON, Thursday. — The "Daily Mail" says the forthcoming war debate in the House of Commons, with attention centring ...
Article : 273 wordsLONDON, Thursday. — Ordinary Seaman [?]an Dennis Rhodes is the first Australian since the outbreak of war to win the Conspicuous ...
Article : 166 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday. — All, New South coal mines are expected to be working again to-morrow. To-day only three mines, involving 800 men, ...
Article : 89 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—To-day's Cairo communique states that in the face of bad visibility yesterday the enemy, in three strong columns, disposing ...
Article : 97 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—The Rangoon Radio says the Japanese occupation of Tavoy, which, it is believed, was effected with 1000 ...
Article : 246 wordsRANGOON, Thursday.—General Liu Kwan-loong, lender of the Chinese forces in Burma, conferred with the British High Command ...
Article : 172 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday. — The Federal Labor Minister (Mr. Ward) to-night appealed to all employers and employes doing war jobs not to stop work on Monday ...
Article : 122 wordsLONDON, Thursday. — The German battle-cruiser Scharnhorst was probably torpedoed during a dawn raid in which a single ...
Article : 130 wordsADELAIDE, Thursday. — During his 40 minutes' stay in Adelaide on his way to Perth to-day, the Prime Minister (Mr. ...
Article : 88 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—The "Daily Telegraph's" special correspondent at Hollywood says the fact that Britons in California are ...
Article : 203 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.—Wing Commander G. G. Barrett, addressing the Royal United Services Institution, revealed that in the early days of the ...
Article : 102 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday. — "It appears to be a question of who is going to have the last say — the Sydney branch of your union or the Government of Australia," ...
Article : 87 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday. — For security reasons, no official announcement will be made in advance by the Army authorities of the exact date on ...
Article : 89 wordsCAPE TOWN, Wednesday. — Mass arrests followed the discovery of plots to sabotage gold mines and war industries. ...
Article : 308 wordsTOKIO, Wednesday.—Speaking in the Diet, the Minister for the Navy (Admiral Shimada) asserted that the Japanese Navy now virtually ...
Article : 147 wordsBERNE (Switzerland), Wednesday. —Inhabitants of Sete, in the south of France, demonstrated yesterday against the food shortage. The demonstrators, ...
Article : 98 wordsWASHINGTON, Wednesday.—Lieut. John Scofield, writing in the semi-official "Infantry Journal," described Japanese weapons as "almost poll ...
Article : 93 wordsLONDON, Thursday. — The "Times" correspondent on the French frontier says a scarcity of electricity has ...
Article : 86 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.—Flying-Officer Gordon Wilson Keig, of St. Kilda road, Melbourne, and Leading-Aircraftman James Baker Monfries, of South ...
Article : 118 wordsLONDON, Thursday. — R.A.F. bombers were over North-Webt Germany again last night, strong attacks being made on Emden and ...
Article : 87 wordsMBLBOUBNE, Thursday. — Requests that wives of members of the A.I.F. serving at Darwin should be allowed to wear the A.I.F. women ...
Article : 86 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.—The Kuibyshev Radio broadcast a message from Geneva that the Germans last Thursday executed two prominent French ...
Article : 90 wordsWASHINGTON, Wednesday. — Naval Committee's report on defence contracts asserted that a considerable number of firms had ...
Article : 169 wordsWASHINGTON, Wednesday. — Dr. Martin Dies, chairman of the committee investigating un-American activities, disclosed that there was evidence that ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 126 wordsNEW YORK, Wednesday. — The New York "Times" says President Roosevelt conferred with the secretary and president of the Congress of Industrial ...
Article : 133 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday.—Examination of the scientific resources of Australia with a view to making greater use of science in the war effort would ...
Article : 91 wordsBATAVIA, Thursday. — The former Netherlands War Minister, the Chief of Staff of the Netherlands Navy and several other officers have arrived in ...
Article : 82 wordsALGECIRAS (Spain), Wednesday.— A British four-enguied passenger 'plane crashed near Algeciras shortly after taking off from Gibraltar. Spanish ...
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