Apart from a marked strengthening of the British positions there is little outward change in the military situation in the Western ...
Article : 633 wordsmakes a close inspection of maps during one of his visits to districts damaged by air raids. He is seen with Admiral Ramsay. (By airmail.) ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 30 wordsFive German machines were destroyed during day and night raids on Britain on Tuesday, three in daylight and two in the early ...
Article : 385 wordsColonel Knox, U.S. secretary for the Navy, made an emphatic plea for more Pacific bases for his country's fleet in the forum ...
Article : 242 wordsItaly has lost another destroyed the 1,058 tons Franscesco Nullo sunk by H.M.S. Kimberley in a naval action in the Red Sea on ...
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Advertising : 380 wordsFour members of the Bombs Disposal Services, for whom Captain Davies, hero of St. Paul's, stood ball last week, were sentenced to nine months' hard labour ...
Article : 112 wordsA denial that an agreement on oil had been reached between Japan and the Dutch East Indies was given to-day by Mr. Suma, spokesman for the Japanese ...
Article : 201 wordsInformation reaching here from many continetal centres, including Italy and Germany, indicates that the entry of the U.S.A. into the war as soon as the ...
Article : 147 wordsThe Italian Government has replied to protests by the Texas Oil Co. and the Standard Oil Co. against the bombing of American oil properties on Bahrein ...
Article : 109 wordsBombed buildings in London are yielding large quantities of salvage for the war effort. All bricks, timber, and slates that can be used are being sent to the ...
Article : 80 wordsThe gread naval shipbuilding yards at Hamburg had an hour's terrible hammering from the R.A.F. last night, when tons of high explosives and more than ...
Article : 220 wordsOne oF the principal objects of the conference of Empire Governments that will open at New Delhi on Friday is to arrange for the equipment and supply ...
Article : 210 wordsOne lying German statement tnat Hitler in "one of his periodical flights over England had observed the King and Mr. Churchill dashing to a shelter in abjcet ...
Article : 154 wordsLord Snell, deputy leader, said in the House of Lords, yesterday, that the Government had no evidence that enemy submarines were receiving supplies from ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Sultan of Johore has sent a cheque for £100,000 as a personal tenyear loan from himself to the British Government, free of interest. Queen ...
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Advertising : 470 wordsA mine recovered from the sea was being used to raise money for a Spitfire fund in a coastal town. It was believed that the fuse had been ...
Article : 91 wordsThe latest War Office casualty list includes the names of six chaplains who have been taken prisoner. ...
Article : 28 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday. — Manufacture of machine-gun belts, for which Auctralia has previously depended on supplies from Britain, is now being undertaken ...
Article : 173 wordsThe death has occurred or Athole Stewart actor-producer He was aged 61 years He appeared in scores of stage productions in England and New York, ...
Article : 39 wordsRumania was shaken yesterday by the severest earthquake within living memory. People were greatly alarmed, but there does not appear to have been ...
Article : 35 wordsTwo British patrol vessels, formerly French, have (says an Admiralty report), been sunk by German light craft. There is reason to believe that some of the ...
Article : 41 wordsContinuous and heavy gunfire, which lasted 90 minutes, drove off Italian planes in Alexandria's 55th raid, and the fourth within 30 hours. Bombs fell on ...
Article : 48 wordsMercantile shipping losses for the week ended October 13-14 were 63,265 tons, compared with the German claim to have sunk 122 041 tons Losses comprise seven ...
Article : 110 wordsA magistrate at the Tower Bridge Police Court ruled that tenants evacuated from property because of the presence of an unexploded time-bomb should be ...
Article : 44 wordsA new Dutch air service between Sydney and Lydda (Palestine) will not be used by the Postmaster-General's Department to carry mails to Palestine, Mr. McVey, ...
Article : 102 wordsIn view of the possibility of the original documente being destroyed by enemy action, the Society of Genealogist has undertaken to compile a complete ...
Article : 57 wordsFasting in the month of Ramadan is considered one of the five absolute requirements of Islam, and hostile Italian action during this sacred Moslem month ...
Article : 220 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.—The export of wireless transmitting apparatus and parts, chronometers, and chronometer watches, except with consent of the ...
Article : 98 wordsPolice in Norway are helpless in face of the growing revolt against the Quisling adherents, says the "Daily Telegraph" correspondent at Helsinki (Finland). ...
Article : 61 wordsGerman raiders were using bombs with concrete casing for attacks on Britain, according to Moscow Radio. Vast expenditure of metal had caused ...
Article : 85 wordsTo prevent the erection of ugly buildings, the Government should appoint a special committee to control aesthetic design of buildings, Mr. H. J. S. Reed, ...
Article : 135 wordsWhen it rains in West Spotswood it is claimed that the streets are converted into swamps, and women living in the locality recently turned out and worked ...
Article : 129 wordsThe committee of French Socialists in Britain has received a manifesto from the party headquarters, "somewhere in France." ...
Article : 59 wordsPERTH, Wednesday. — A silver coin admittance for his opening campaign will be charged by Mr. C. Ferguson, who has announced himself as the fifth ...
Article : 63 wordsMr. J. P. Kennedy, who has been the U.S. Ambassador in London since 1938, will shortly return to Washington. He is not expected to return as Ambassador. ...
Article : 48 wordsNoel Coward will not come to New Zealand, but will go direct to Australia. He will probably leave the Pan-American clipper at Noumea on Friday and so on ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 24 Oct 1940, Page 3
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