The West Midlands, mainly Birmingham and Coventry, received the main fury of the Luftwaffe raids during the last two days ...
Article : 441 wordsThe United States embraced Greenland within its hemisphere defence system to-day under an agreement permitting the establishment of air bases there. ...
Article : 426 wordsTurkey has made no move, and the Anglo-Turk Treaty has at last received its definitive interpretation, says the "Economist." ...
Article : 570 wordsPresident Roosevelt has asked Congress for authority to requisition and purchase foreign ships immobilised in U.S. ports. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 500 wordsGreece's western army is at present standing to its defence positions. Radio Athens says the Greek troops ...
Article : 947 wordsTwenty-seven Japanese planes heavily bombed Kunming, ravaging whole streets and starting three great fires, states "The Times" Hong Kong correspondent There ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 259 wordsThere is not likely to be any more impressive Anzac service than the Shrine commemoration arranged by the Legacy Club for metropolitan school children on ...
Article : 305 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—An extension of the gas strike was decided upon by the combined unions' strike committee tills afternoon, when it declared "black all coke ...
Article : 265 wordsRelatives in Melbourne have been advised of the death on active service of Commander Francis Douglas-Watson, D.S.O., of the Royal Navy, who twice ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 346 wordsTo press claims for higher wages and improved working conditions meetings of gas workers will be held at short notice This policy was decided on by the ...
Article : 111 wordsVichy's representatives in the Far East are trying to kill the Free French Movement by subtle means, declared Mr. Charles Baron, General de Gaulle's ...
Article : 147 wordsThe troublesome and costly strike at Henry Ford's River Rouge plant, which previously had defied all mediation efforts, to-day received an impetus toward ...
Article : 193 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—Opposition to the association of the Federal Labour members of Parliament with the Advisory War Council was expressed at the Easter ...
Article : 261 wordsBlaming the Italian Embassy for sabotage, Captain Romano Tomicich, master of the Italian freighter Belvedere (6,889 tons), ...
Article : 138 wordsThe New York "Herald-Tribune" yesterday celebrated its 100th anniversary— the "Tribune" having been founded in 1841. During the 100 years the "Tribune" ...
Article : 128 wordsMr. Matsuoka's prolonged stay in Russia, together with the whole atmosphere surrounding it, have further Increased Japanese hopes of a fundamental ...
Article : 305 wordsLord Moyne, Dominions Secretary, said in the House of Lords on Thursday, "We hope that one result of the complete liquidation of Italian bases in the ...
Article : 98 wordsNorth American Newspaper Alliance reports the progress of research workers on a great sugar plantation at Paramonga, Peru, where important experiments are ...
Article : 146 wordsIts great when you go on your way With a thought for the others each day Be thankful you live And you're able to give: ...
Article : 314 words"Japan is watching developments at the Manila conference, in which Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham and Mr. van ...
Article : 127 wordsArmy supply ships have been carrying rubber, hemp, and other defence materials from the Netherlands East Indies and other Oriental ports to free more ...
Article : 43 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday. — Jim Gerald, comedian, whose most famous burlesque act for the last 20 years has been to impersonate an untidy half-witted ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 187 wordsThe American Chemical Society reports a new principle in medical treatment, in which large amounts of artificially made body fluids are used to ...
Article : 98 wordsMr. Ohashi, Vice-Foreign Minister, in a speech in the Diet said:—"The United States' discussion whether to convoy materials to Britain warrants Japan's ...
Article : 140 wordsThe Straits authorities have banned the importation of new Japanese elementary-school text books, which had been adopted for use in schools. ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Canadian Seamens Union called a strike against five companies operating 48 ships on the ground that the companies were alleged to have refused to ...
Article : 95 wordsNoel Coward, interviewed on his return, ridiculed any mystery about his tour, and said, "It was official or semiofficial all the time. ...
Article : 120 wordsJames Roosevelt, the President's eldest son, and Nurse Romelle Schneider, who nursed the President at Rochester Hospital when he was suffering from a ...
Article : 102 wordsAn Admiralty announcement last night states: — "One of our submarines in the central Mediterranean, has carried out a ...
Article : 69 wordsMrs. Edith Curwen-Walker, who died" on April 4, was bom at Gawsworth, Brighton, 81 years ago. She was the eldest of a family of 10, of Mr. R. K. ...
Article : 158 wordsThe American Iron and Steel Institute reports that the steel industry in March operated at 100 per cent capacity for the first time since May, 1929, and ...
Article : 70 wordsBritish and American refugees reaching Athens from Jugoslavia tell graphic stories of their escapes. ...
Article : 82 wordsThe forestry division of the C.S.I.R. is endeavouring to dispel exaggerat[?]d fears aroused by the presence of [?]orers in building timbers. Householders have ...
Article : 97 wordsAnswering a question in the House of Commons yesterday regarding the exchange of incapacitated British and German prisoners of war, Mr. Butler, Foreign ...
Article : 177 wordsCaptain Margesson, War Minister, announced that the Auxiliary Territorial Services had proved so valuable that the Government had decided greatly to ...
Article : 66 wordsPresident Roosevelt, in a move designed to bolster the expanding air programme, has revived the office of Assistant Secretary of War for Air, which has been ...
Article : 81 wordsA Vichy Government spokesman, commenting on Mr. Churchill's speech, said that Marshal Petain's pledge that no units of the French ...
Article : 48 wordsCompleted five months ahead of schedule, the United States mighty battleship North Carolina, was commissioned to-day at New York Navy Yard, ...
Article : 90 wordsMr. Fadden, Acting Prime Minister and leader of the Australian Country party, will officially open the Liberal Country party annual conference in a broadcast ...
Article : 74 wordsSir Arch[?]aid simclair, Minister for Air, answering various questions about a slighting reference to the United States in "Jane's All-the-Worlds Aircraft," ...
Article : 136 wordsMr. Ernest Hunter, president of the National Union of Journalists at the annual conference criticised the Service Department's censorship as a ...
Article : 77 wordsMr. Robert Ross McLean, former power superintendent of the City Council electric supply station at Spencer st., died at the home of his brother in Sydney ...
Article : 135 wordsThe Government will introduce a bill appointing an official guardian for British children evacuated under the Government scheme to U.S.A. and Canada. ...
Article : 80 wordsTwo German airmen were buried in a west country cemetery yesterday near the graves of more than 30 victims of a recent air raid on the town. ...
Article : 97 wordsMr. Menzies had a busy day on Thursday. He talked with Lord Beaverbrook, Minister for Aircraft Production, and attended meetings of the Committee for ...
Article : 129 wordsOfficial Italian losses auring Mar[?]n, plus those not included in previous lists, aie 3,400 killed, 6,690 wounded, and 23,155 missing. ...
Article : 81 wordsDouglas Fairbanks, jun., has accepted a mission to tour South America to foster better relations with nations in the Western Hemisphere. ...
Article : 88 wordsRIO DE JANEIRO Friday (A. A. P.). The second German blockade-runner succeeded in reaching a South American port when the freighter Sermes with a ...
Article : 78 wordsA Heinkel III. was almost certainly destroyed by H.M. mine-sweeper Princess Elizabeth in the early hours of yesterday morning, says an Admiralty ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 12 Apr 1941, Page 3
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