War-time military exercises on a scale not seen in Victoria since the last war will be carried out this week it Seymour, when almost 7,000 ...
Article : 354 wordsH.M.A.S. KOALA, latest addition to the Australian Navy and the first warship to be launched in Australia since the outbreak of the war, ready tor the launching ceremony at Cockatoo Dockyard, Sydney, on Saturday. The Koala is a seaward defence vessel. The ceremony was performed by Mrs. R. N. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 66 wordsFlooding tests carried out by the Netherlands military authorities to check any German invasion of Holland have been satisfactory. ...
Article : 181 wordsLast Tuesday it was reported that the Commander-in-Chief of the German land forces, General Brauchitsch, had resigned. On Tuesday the report was denied, as ...
Article : 667 wordsTaken behind the scenes with the R.A.F. yesterday, some of the Dominion representatives to the Ministerial conferences in London ...
Article : 415 wordsImmediately the American steamer City of Flint dropped anchor in Bergen, after having been freed from German control, the ...
Article : 452 wordsSpecific cases of Japanese interference with the rights of Americans in China are understood to have been cited by the United ...
Article : 267 wordsThe visit of the First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. Churchill) to Paris a few days ago and his conversations with the French Minister for Marine (M. ...
Article : 149 wordsCOBDEN, Sunday.— Statements that returned soldiers had to buy goods from the Red Cross in the last war have been denied by the Red Cross Society in a ...
Article : 104 wordsTo support the new neutrality policy adopted by the United States as a result of the passing of the Amending Neutrality Bill[?] President Roosevelt has issued ...
Article : 167 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday. — The second of the boom defence vessels built for the Royal Australian Navy at Cockatoo Island was launched yesterday. She took ...
Article : 71 wordsSeveral attempts were made to destroy letters in pillar-boxes in a number of districts in the West of London yesterday. They have ...
Article : 188 words—yet, more than likely, you ask yourself to continue working day in, day out; too busy for an occasional overhaul, too rundown to put in for repairs. Give ...
Article : 96 wordsA declaration that the "stupid leaflets" that British airmen had dropped could not harm the German people was made by the Nazi ...
Article : 116 wordsThe wife of Lieut.-Commander Frederick Cook, one of the survivors of the battle-ship Royal Oak, gave birth to a daughter yesterday. Both are well. ...
Article : 60 wordsDisaffected Austrian troops are said to have been transferred to Germany after disturbances that followed a demand by Austrian ...
Article : 73 wordsHeavy artillery fire was heard on the Western Front last night between Petange and Rodange, southwest of Luxemburg. ...
Article : 122 wordsThe Air Ministry has issued, with regret, its eighth casualty list, which contains 30 names. It is:— Killed in action, 2; killed on active ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Norwegian steamer Mim (4,996 tons), which ran ashore off the Orkneys while on her way to the British contraband control station at Kirkwall, was ...
Article : 120 wordsIf war contingencies do not interfere with supplies, the new Waterloo Bridge will be opened next June. The work has been proceeding for two years, and ...
Article : 97 wordsThe half-yearly returns of Canada's mineral output emphasise how valuable, a source of supply this Dominion will be for the Allies' mineral requirements. ...
Article : 145 wordsThe Viceroy (the Marquis of Linlithgow) and Gandhi discussed yesterday the reply of the all-India Congress to the Viceroy's statement about India's future. ...
Article : 103 wordsTwo Canadian destroyers have arrived in eastern Canadian waters from their base at Esquimalt (British Columbia). ...
Article : 81 wordsPushing a mine in front of him after he had plunged into icy waters and swum out to it, Leo Romyn, the young skipper of a ...
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Advertising : 543 wordsMELBOURNE WILL SEE A CHINESE WEDDING with all its traditional pageantry and colour at "China's Night" at Olympic Park on Saturday night. Bride and groom and their attendants will wear national costume. Yesterday at Olympic Park Miss Foong Hee (centre), who will wed Mr. Loong Tong, ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 64 wordsItaly and Bulgaria signed a commercial agreement in Sofia yesterday. The signing of the agreement has created much satisfaction in ...
Article : 47 wordsExcursions at specially reduced rates have been arranged on T.S.S. Taroona and Nairana to Launceston, Burnie, and Devonport. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 6 Nov 1939, Page 3
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