With the rapid approach or summer and really hot weather the position of the German forces in the western desert becomes precarious. ...
Article : 311 words"This is the first campaign in history in which an offensive which aims at seizure and occupation of a complete territory rests entirely upon the air arm ...
Article : 665 wordsMany examples of the Vichy Government's "collaboration" with Germany are known to the British Government. It has long known French industry is ...
Article : 298 wordsat Broadmeadows yesterday. Mr. Spender, Army Minister, inspected heavy guns, which are being fitted with pneumatic tyres. With him are Lt.-Gen. E. K. Smart, G-O-C Southern Commond, and Maj.-Gen. V. P. H. Stantke, Adj.-Gen. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 44 wordsIntense fighting in the "strange and grim battle" for Crete would continue for some time, Mr. Churchill told the Commons yesterday. ...
Article : 1,331 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—While he is crossing the Tasman by flying-boat tomorrow morning Mr. Menzies will send a recruiting appeal to Sydney by radio telephone ...
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Article : 518 wordsMiss Perkins. Secretary of Labour, has sent to the National Mediation Board the threatened strike of the North American Aviation Company's Inglewood, ...
Article : 159 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—Federal Labour caucas, when it meets in Canberra next Tuesday, is now almost certain to defer consideration of any moves that may ...
Article : 189 wordsA British patrol, says a Cairo communique, 'scuppered' a small German force which on Tuesday established itself on the extreme north-western edge of the ...
Article : 144 wordsA Japanese Army spokesman denied to "The Times" Shanghai correspondent reports that Japan is negotiating peace terms with China through the United ...
Article : 121 wordsComplaint that the Australian Government had withheld permission to establish a direct radio-telegraph circuit between USA and Australia was a subject on ...
Article : 120 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—Gifts of land to enemy aliens other than under a will are prohibited under amendments to National Security(Land Transfer) ...
Article : 190 wordsWilliam Shutter, a life-term prisoner in Indiana State prison, received a temporary parole yesterday so that he could attempt to open a safe in Laporte, which ...
Article : 54 wordsSir Archibald Sinclair, Air Minister, asked in the House of Commons what was the position of Wing-Commander the Duke of Hamilton in relation to the ...
Article : 268 wordsNo immediate concern about Martinique was felt by the Administration, Mr. Hull, Secretary of State, asserted at a Press conference. ...
Article : 103 wordsMr. Clarence Gauss, new U-S Ambassador to China, arrived here today by plane from Australia. ...
Article : 22 wordsMr. Robert Semple, NZ Minister for Social Services, Railways, ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 92 wordsThe retail price of whisky from June 7 will be 17/6 a bottle. Gin will be 17/ al bottle. ...
Article : 27 wordsSYDNEY. Friday.—Mr. J. Leary, organiser of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, said tonight that 150 male and female employees in the munition ...
Article : 111 wordsLieut. S. J. Hodgson, MC, of Melbourne, who served throughout the list war, has received wold that his brother, Major Ainsworth Spence Hodgson, RGA, British ...
Article : 116 words"Vrie Nederland," the Free Dutch newspaper, reports that the Nazis have banned the Boy Scout movement in Holland on the ground that the boys become ...
Article : 88 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—The threat of employees in butchers' shops not to work on Saturdays will probably be abandoned as a result of a series of conferences ...
Article : 106 wordsSenator Burton K. Wheeler, a leading Isolationist, has been accused of allowing the distribution of letters bearing his Congressional frank by the ...
Article : 143 wordsSocial and economic equality would be the inevitable aim of post-war Britain, Sir Gerald Campbell, British Minister to Washington, told the American Steel ...
Article : 162 wordsAUCKLAND, Friday. — Speaking at the civic reception to Mr. Menzies, the Acting Prime Minister, Mr. Nash, said Mr. Menzies had interpreted the mind of ...
Article : 110 wordsThe fifth day ot London's war Weapons Week saw a total of £87,000,000 sterling banked. Promises and business done after the banks closed brought the ...
Article : 130 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—Although it is not 6 months since the Federal Government issued the order that all merchant ships of more than 800 tons should be fitted ...
Article : 146 wordsErection of an aeronautical school adjoining Melbourne Technical School to train aircraftmen and engineers for Victoria's expanding aircraft industry will ...
Article : 88 wordsSecond-Lieut. Somerset de Chair, MP, of the Royal Horse Guards, edits a 40pnge magazine for the Household Cavalry Brigade in the Middle East. It has a ...
Article : 148 wordsTwenty-four years old Sgt.-Obs. Ian Overheu, RNZAF, recently awarded the DFM, is actually an Australian who ran away from his home in Perth to study ...
Article : 114 wordsThe Egyptian Government has protested strongly to Berlin against the sinking of the Egyptian liner Zamzam, and has demanded full compensation. ...
Article : 30 wordsA message from Ottawa states that the Canadian tanker Canadolite (11,069 tons) has been sunk. Forty of her officers and crew have been interned by the enemy. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 97 wordsThe Council for Faith and Order and the Student Christian Movement are cooperating to welcome Dr. T. Z. Koo, famous Chinese travelling secretary of ...
Article : 71 wordsOnce again there were no raids on Britain last night Single enemy bombers appeared during the day, one damaging several cottages in a Sussex village, and ...
Article : 43 wordsCapt. Archibald Ramsay, M.P., who is in custody under the Defence of the Realm regulations, applied in the King's Bench Division today to fix a date for ...
Article : 113 wordsReplying to a question, Mr. Morrison, Home Secretary, said in the Commons yesterday that he would be glad of information concerning reported changes ...
Article : 62 wordsThe War Department has awarded contracts totalling 322,000,000 dollars (£A107,000,000) to Consolidated Aircraft and Douglas Aircraft, which will operate ...
Article : 69 wordsSuner, Spanish Foreign Minister and pro-Hitlerite, has been made "Dictator of the Falange party," under an order signed by Gen France. ...
Article : 40 wordsBulgarian troops are officially stated to have replaced German garrisons in the [?]lands of Samothrace and Thasos. Stefani News Agency says Italy won an ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 24 May 1941, Page 3
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