It was revealed to-day by Mr. Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, that the German Embassy had delivered another Note of protest to ...
Article : 269 wordsThe political situation in Vichy, coupled with the German drive in Libya and evidence of steady German infiltration in French North Africa is causing much ...
Article : 813 wordsEQUIPPED with its seven-league boots —motorised units—the German army in the Balkans has made giant forward strides at almost all its selected points. ...
Article : 514 wordsStriking with the full power of their long- assembled divisions across the extreme south-east corner of Jugoslavia, the Germans ...
Article : 296 wordsRobin Duff, a B.B.C. observer, broadcasting an eye-witness account of the results of a fire "blitz" on London from amidst the ruins of wrecked buildings and while fires were still burning. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 40 wordsFive trucks and a car were destroyed and about £3,000 worth of damage done by fire in a large galvanised-iron garage, at the rear of the home of Mr. W. ...
Article : 209 wordsCANBERRA. Wednesday. — Important extensions of the war service moratorium ' regulations are made by amendments gazetted to-day. ...
Article : 310 wordsNo. 7190, winning ticket in the timber house raffle, which was drawn at Red Cross House yesterday afternoon by Sir William Angliss, was held by Colonel F. ...
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Article : 95 wordsLiquor in wartime will be discussed at the annual conference of the Local Option Alliance on April 23 in the Baptist Church, Collins st. Mrs. Weber, M.L.A., ...
Article : 49 wordsA police station received a direct hit during Coventry's raid by waves of enemy planes last night. Nine policemen were injured and two ...
Article : 475 wordsThe tremendous increase in the country's disbursements for war equipment surely indicated an increase of rearmament and aid for the democracies, ...
Article : 357 wordsA message frm Budapest says that the Soviet Minister, M. Karanov, has gone to Moscow to report on the situation. The Budapest correspondent of the ...
Article : 83 wordsThe Home Office to-day pointed out that a "tense international situation" was confronting Japan, and instructed provincial governors to take vigorous ...
Article : 103 wordsAn additional 34,500 acres of watershed for the new Upper Yarra dam at McVeigh's, which will cost more than £2,000,000, and will supply Melbourne ...
Article : 300 wordsBritain's continuous offensive against the U-boat menace is emphasised in an Admiralty communique, which points out that although the number operating of ...
Article : 289 words"Hong Kong threatens no one, nor did Jugoslavia. The only way we can ensure against attack in Hong Kong is to convince any would be attacker that such ...
Article : 142 wordsAir Chief Marshal Sir Robert BrookePopham arrived here to-day and conferred with Mr. van Kleifens, Dutch Foreign Minister, in what was described ...
Article : 38 wordsConsumers would have to pay more for milk or be prepared to go to dairies or shops on Sundays for supplies, Mr. W. H. Turner (secretary of the Transport ...
Article : 273 wordsWhen asked in the House of Commons whether, in view of the fact that traffic between Africa and France was "nearly normal," that weekly crossings averaged ...
Article : 144 wordsMembers stared when they entered the House of Commons yesterday and saw Mr. W. A. Robinson, a Labour M.P., wearing his gas mask. ...
Article : 159 wordsTrade talks between Netherlands East Indies and Japanese representatives, which were to have been resumed in early April, have not yet begun. ...
Article : 67 wordsIn an All-India broadcast Vice-Admiral Fitzherbert said:— "Our forces for the protection of shipping are increasing daily. The Battle of ...
Article : 129 wordsIn spite of the damage to Coventry and other Midland towns, there has been no difficulty in obtaining bicycle parts from England, says the Australian ...
Article : 70 wordsBerlin Radio has broadcast what it claimed to be a description of the recapture of Benghazi. This says the British withdrawal was well prepared and ...
Article : 172 wordsA plot to kill many Japanese public leaders last August 8 has been revealed by the lifting yesterday of the ban on publication of details of the "vast assassination and ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Japanese Army is to establish a mechanised and armoured force headquarters in the War Ministry as part of a vast army modernisation programme. ...
Article : 87 wordsAs the armies clash in the wild Albanian mountains ex-King Zog of Albania sits in a luxurious suite at the Ritz Hotel, London, listening to the radio and waiting ...
Article : 179 wordsThe "Daily Express" says that a writ has been issued by a shareholder against three of the de Bernalcs companies— Murchison Gold Development Ltd., ...
Article : 78 wordsThe wreckage of a huge Navy patrol flying-boat, which was reported missing from Norfolk (Va.) on Monday, was located yesterday afternoon in the sea ...
Article : 51 wordsWASHINGTON, Wednesday. — When "Buddy" Baer technically knocked out "Tony" Galento at Washington to-night he earned the right to meet Joe Louis, ...
Article : 143 wordsIn an undefended suit for damages for breach of promise to marry Judge Foster in the Second County Court yesterday awarded Janet Elizabeth Attwater, ...
Article : 155 wordsAs a measure to "reduce sales because of newsprint restrictions," the price of the "Daily Telegraph" will from April 14 be raised to three-halfpence. ...
Article : 32 wordsFour Royal Australian Naval men receive honours in the latest Admiralty list. For good services in operations off the British Somaliland coast Lieut. Thomas ...
Article : 107 wordsKing Leopold of the Belgians is called "our prisoner king" in an older of the day issued to the Belgian forces in Britain by Lieut.-General van Strydonck de Burkel, ...
Article : 83 wordsOn the anniversary of the German attack on Norway President Roosevelt sent to Crown Prince Olav a message, in which he said:— ...
Article : 95 wordsAustralia is well to the fore in the picture theatres this week. Mr. Menzies is the star in Fox Movietone and Universal newsreels of Libya ...
Article : 62 wordsThe question of a universal Saturday half-holiday in Victoria is being investigated by the board of inquiry now considering amendments to the Factories ...
Article : 62 wordsReports that the Pope would broadcast on Easter Sunday a plan for world peace which he had discussed with Mr. Matsuoka, Japanese Foreign Minister, last week, ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Ministry of Food has established a national vegetable marketing company in order to ensure fairer distribution. ...
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Advertising : 64 wordsThe Canadian Red Cross Society sent 3,000,000 dollars' worth of supplies overseas in 1940, according to a report by Colonel W. Leggat, president of the ...
Article : 37 wordsKingston, Jamaica, reports that heavy earthquake occurred there on Monday night and caused minor damage. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 10 Apr 1941, Page 3
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