With a quiet efficiency which has surprised British troops the Australians have made their camp shipshape, dug trenches, erected anti-aircraft defences, and got down to solid training. ...
Article : 369 wordswere save d when the liner Niagara, bound from Australia to Vancouver, struck a mine ond sank in the Pacific off Auckland (N.Z.) on June 19. The liner sank in one hour and 50 minutes. Passengers and crew took to the ship's boats, and were picked up by rescue ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 357 wordsBesides demanding permission from Great Britain to station inspectors in Burma to prevent arms traffic to China, Japan is reported ...
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Advertising : 640 wordsAllowing for the difference in population Australia's troops oversea were equivalent to 4,000,000 from America, and her home defence force to 2,000,000, said ...
Article : 228 wordsPresident Roosevelt has ordered Mr. Edison, Secretary for the Navy, to cancel the transaction providing for the transfer of 20 torpedo-boats to Britain as a ...
Article : 73 words"The Times" Chungking correspondent says that the Foreign Office spokesman has announced that China was making urgent representations to the French ...
Article : 179 wordsGeneral de Gaulle, leader of the French National Committee in London, said to-day that he had reason to believe the French Fleet ...
Article : 297 wordsMinister for Supply and Commerce, Mr. D. G. Sullivan, arrived in Melbourne yesterday with his wife. Mr. Sullivan is making ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 36 wordsAnother Italian submarine has been destroyed by British naval forces east of Suez. Italy has now lost seven submarines since she entered the war. ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Australian Comforts Fund has arranged for the issue of one stamped airmail envelope a fortnight to men unable to meet the cost of airmail ...
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Advertising : 198 wordsAccording to the "New York Times" correspondent in Shanghai, eight Chinese bombers raided Ichang on June 23. The bombs damaged the Standard Oil ...
Article : 69 wordsObservers in the Baltic States, the "Daily Telegraph's" Stockholm correspondent says, consider that the Baltic countries are swinging toward ...
Article : 139 wordsBritish and American authorities in Shanghai have been shocked by the action of the French in giving up the so-called "Siccawei Sector," adjoining the French ...
Article : 94 wordsNot only have recent R.A.F. bombing raids over Germany caused widespread havoc and disorganisation, but reports show that Germans who have had ...
Article : 275 wordsThe great body of Polish armies in France was now landing in England, said General Sikorski, Prime Minister of Poland, to-day. ...
Article : 142 wordsAbout 50,000 Allied soldiers have been interned in Switzerland. Another 1,200 French troops, under General Huetr, entered Switzerland on Sunday. They ...
Article : 42 wordsFrench women in Great Britain and French wives of Englishmen have written a joint letter to Mr. Churchill and General De Gaulle, expressing their ...
Article : 84 wordsNine members of the Christian Front organisation were acquitted by the Federal Court yesterday on a charge of having conspired to overthrow the U.S. ...
Article : 66 wordsIn a proclamation Hitler said: "German people, your soldiers ended, in barely six weeks of heroic struggle a war in the west against a brave enemy. Their deeds ...
Article : 182 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday Mr. Ralston, the Treasurer, announced a wartime Budget of 1,148,000,000 dollars (£A328,000,000). New taxes will yield ...
Article : 228 wordsAt a farewell Press conference, Mr. Edison, Secretary for the Navy, announced that the department was ready to let contracts for 750,000,000 dollars ...
Article : 110 wordsMarshal Petain's statement that Britain had not helped France sufficiently was "erroneous," said Colonel R.E. M. Russell, British Military Attache. ...
Article : 60 wordsOne of the most important practical functions of the United States Soil Conservation Service is to develop for individual farms on the basis of a ...
Article : 192 wordsEmil Alexander, 26 shoemaker, of Neva, Columbia, went mad with joy when he heard of Hitler's conquest of France. He burnt his machinery and leather and ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Court of Appeals has upheld the conviction of Earl Browder, American Communist leader, who was sentenced to four years' imprisonment on two charges ...
Article : 39 wordsAmong 14 airmen who were awarded the D.F.C. yesterday was Pilot-Officer A. G. Lewis, a South African, who shot down five enemy planes single-handed in one ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wed 26 Jun 1940, Page 3
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