CANBERRA, Thursday.— Although he gave no details of progress, Sir Frederick Stewart, Supply Minister, assured the House of ...
Article : 288 wordsA review of the situation in Belgium before the evacuation of a considerable portion of the B.E.F. had been announced was contained ...
Article : 454 wordsBritain's intense drive to produce arms for the fighting forces is changing the face of London. Park railings, old cannon, and disused ...
Article : 445 wordsby German bombers os they paved the way for the German advance across Belgium. A building demolished and ablaze after the German attack from the air. (By airmail.) ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 33 wordsWOUNDED German prisoners of war leaving a train on arrival at a London terminus. Some of these men were parachute troops captured in Holland ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 98 wordsTHE withdrawal of a considerable portion of the B.E.F. from Belgium and northern France is announced. As the British Government would hardly ...
Article : 1,259 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.—Forty-nine Lockheed planes ordered by Australia for delivery late this year will be made available to Britain. Mr. Fairbairn. Air ...
Article : 61 wordsOnly one man came back, but the bridge was destroyed. And General Georges, chief of staff to General Weygand, sent a ...
Article : 241 wordsAll yesterday and last night the R.A.P. gave its utmost support to the Allied forces in the north-east of France and Belgium. ...
Article : 220 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.—From to-day No. 1 flying training school at Point Cook, first defence air establishment in Australia, will assume the status of No. 1 ...
Article : 125 wordsIf the Soviet Government agrees, the "Daily Herald" diplomatic correspondent says, Sir Stafford Cripps, K.C., Left Wing Labour member of ...
Article : 184 wordsCancellation of banks' permits to acquire foreign exchange is regarded as the most serious sign so far that Italy will declare war. ...
Article : 96 wordsThe "Scenska Dagblad" sayb that Russian oil supplies to Germany have been greatly reduced, partly owing to the Germans' inability to supply goods in return ...
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Advertising : 290 wordsAn unofficial evacuation of families from Dover was begun yesterday. Trains filled with women and children were leaving all day for safety areas. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe King has sent the following message to Viscount Gort, C.-in-C. of the B.E.F.:—"All your countrymen have been following with pride and admiration the ...
Article : 172 words"Considerable increases" in taxation were forecast in the House of Commons yesterday by Sir Kingsley Wood, Chancellor of the Exchequer. ...
Article : 158 wordsIn a leader entitled "The Decisive Hour," the quarterly "Round Table" says: —"Hitler may leach the Channel ports and begin a ruthless attack on England ...
Article : 119 wordsJapanese planes bombed Chungking, temporary seat of the Chinese Central Government, for the fifth consecutive day to-day. More than 2,000 casualties were ...
Article : 52 wordsHow a German spy in Belgian uniform was captured by an old farmer and his wife was told to-day by two women Y.M.C.A. workers who were among the ...
Article : 79 wordsUnrest in Austria is increasing, says "The Times" Belgrade correspondent, who reports mutiny in a Vienna military centre. ...
Article : 142 wordsA reward of 5,000 pesos (£500) has been offered for information regarding the whereabouts of persons who tried to assassinate Leon Trotsky, former ...
Article : 77 wordsFrom Monday all aliens over 16 in Great Britain, except in London, will be subject to curfew between 10.30 p.m. and 6 a.m. In London curfew will extend ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Turkish Government is submitting a bill authorising the Finance Minister to obtain a national defence loan of £50,000,000 from the State Bank. ...
Article : 29 wordsDiscovery of an explosive 100 times more powerful than TNT is reported by the Senate Naval Committee. It was not the Barlow bomb, recently ...
Article : 60 wordsNow that the Allies have captured Narvik their artillery dominate the last seven miles of the railway between there and the Swedish frontier. ...
Article : 70 wordsA U-boat sank the Argentine steamer Uruguay (3.425 tons), 130 miles west of Cape Finisterre (Spain). Fourteen members of the crew have ...
Article : 64 wordsIn the last six years investigations of archæologists have disclosed the great agricultural development and high clvi[?]isation of the Nabattæn Empire, which ...
Article : 187 wordsUruguay is alarmed at German "fifth column" activities, says the "New York Times" Montevideo correspondent. President Baldomir will send to Congress a ...
Article : 87 wordsMiss Vida Harford, Australian soprano, gave a recital in Wigmore Hall. "The Times" musical critic says that she has a good voice of pleasing quality and ...
Article : 56 wordsA German woman described as Baroness von Einem, and a man named Jean Amourelle, have been sentenced to death for espionage. The woman is reported to ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 31 May 1940, Page 3
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