In launching an appeal to be known as the "French Patriotic and Relief Fund" at a public meeting at the Melbourne Town Hall ...
Article : 433 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—In the early hours of this morning after a prolonged and acrimonious debate, the House of Representate es passed the bill to ratify ...
Article : 197 wordsMr. Clarence Gauss, first United States Minister to Australia, leaves Washington on Monday for San Francisco, from where he will sail for Australia ...
Article : 353 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—Final arrangements for reorganising munitions supply under the direction of Mr. Essington Lewis will be made between Mr. Lewis ...
Article : 121 wordsExamining the military situation, Major-General Sir Charles Gwynn, said to-day that while Germany had gained the Channel ports ...
Article : 442 wordsBritain is steeling herself for the greatest test in her history—the descent of the Hun upon her own land. ...
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Advertising : 474 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—A Lockheed Hudson bomber made a forced landing near Illabo this morning. The machine was damaged and one member of the crew ...
Article : 62 wordsADELAIDE, Friday.—Mr. Playford, Premier, said to-night that the bill still contained many objectionable features, which would make it impossible for any ...
Article : 35 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—An amendment of the repatriation legislation designed to remove onus of proof of incapacity from an appellant to the Repatriation ...
Article : 96 wordsCan you think of a suitable name for a racehorse? You can help the Lord Mayors Red Cross War Appeal Fund by entering for the yearling name competition. It ...
Article : 284 wordswang Ching Wei's "Central China Daily News" says editorially, "The hour has arrived for us to act" on occupation, concessions, and abolition of ...
Article : 66 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—Some university lecturers were "undermining the student mind" by spreading doctrines opposed to the British Empire, Mr. Blain (Ind., ...
Article : 79 wordsThe New York "Herald Tribune" Tokio correspondent states that Japan and the Dutch East Indies Government are secretly conducting in Batavia a new ...
Article : 59 wordsFive thousand Norwegian whaling men who were in the Southern Antarctic Ocean when the Germans invaded Norway, are now in England With their ...
Article : 88 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—The Federal Government intends to proceed immediately to recover outstanding amounts of flour tax aggregating about £250,000. ...
Article : 72 wordsCasting aside his own ambitions for the Presidency, Mr. Paul McNutt, in a formal statement, called on the nation to forget tradition and draft President ...
Article : 57 wordsBritish export trade figures were very encouraging in view of the extent to Which heavy industries were engaged on war work, Mr. Andrew Duncan, President ...
Article : 209 wordsIsador Goodman, pianist, will give a Chopin recital for the Red Cross in Melbourne Town Hall to-morrow night. Admittance by silver coin. 3UZ will ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 209 wordsPresident Roosevelt's decision to ask Congress to double the rearmament appropriations, carrying these to 4,000,000,000 dollars (£A1,300,000,000), is ...
Article : 125 wordsSporting bodies can play their part in raising money for the Australian Comforts Fund. Yesterday the Victorian Golf Association forwarded £300. ...
Article : 129 wordsA movement is being launched to enlist the support of all sportsmen for the Australian Comforts Fund (R.S.L. branch). Capt. T. H. Brunn, president, ...
Article : 131 wordsVivien Leigh, heroine of the film "Gone With the Wind," and Laurence Olivier, who starred in "Wuthering Heights," are closing down their stage production of ...
Article : 133 wordsThe Britisn Embassy and Consulates are advising Britishers of military age who are inquiring not to return to England. ...
Article : 30 wordsIn the "Week's Good Cause" session tonight at 6.20, 3LO will broadcast a talk by Lieut.—Commissioner William R. Dalziel, on the "Salvation Army at Home and ...
Article : 359 wordsSeven officers and 105 ratings are presumed dead from the H.M.S. Glowworm, destroyer, sunk by the German battle ship Scharnhorst, on the day after ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 407 wordsShaw won the 500 miles car race for the second successive year, the time being 4 hours 22 min. 31.16 sec., and the average 114.27 miles an hour. Rain over ...
Article : 48 wordsGracie Fields, actress and singer, and her husband, Monty Banks, film director, have gone to the United States, where it is reported Banks will become an ...
Article : 35 wordsGerman Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop, acting through the Swedish Government, has formally notified the French Government, alleging ...
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Advertising : 140 wordsSaying that the Opposition was the weakest in Canadian history, Mr. Gordon Ross, a supporter of the Liberal Government, declared in the House of Commons ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Treasury's Aeronautical Advisory Section announced that two nations, who were the largest engine manufacturers, had agreed voluntarily to assign their ...
Article : 108 wordsHOBART, Friday.—Dr. R. F. Lomax, a State medical officer, was found dead at his residence at Cygnet this morning. An artery had been severed. Before ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 1 Jun 1940, Page 2
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