That the thinnest of technical lines now separates USA from formally being in a state of war with the Axis Powers is the opinion of Manchester Guardian. ...
Article : 1,183 wordsWhen President Roosevelt in his broadcast on Tuesday night cited America's contribution towards freeing peaceful commerce from the depredations of the ...
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Article : 109 wordsRed Fleet, the Moscow naval journal, comments on the Atlantic naval battle in a fair and objective, but never in an unfriendly way. It says:- ...
Article : 373 wordsDespite constantly increasing odds against them, said The Times Cairo correspondent yesterday, British units comprising highly trained guerilla ...
Article : 476 wordsU-S Consulate will be closed today, Memorial Day. This is an American holiday originated after the Civil War in honour of American war dead. ...
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Advertising : 398 wordsIt is understood that 250,000 foreign civilians in Britain-filendly and enemy aliens who are not interned-will register for war work in June and July. ...
Article : 151 wordsNearly 3,000,000 tons of enemy merchant shipping had been disposed of up to the middle of May. Figures are:—German ships, captured ...
Article : 191 wordsMax Schmeling, the German boxer, who has been shot in Crete (see page 1) was 35. He held the world heavyweight boxing championship for less than ...
Article : 138 wordsDetails of the German attack on Canac and Melanic airport were given today by 3 New Zealanders, of a field ambulance, who returned here late last night with a ...
Article : 763 wordsAccording to Vichy, RAF planes bombed Sfax (Tunisia) twice yesterday after a running attack on an Italian convoy which tried to take refuge in the ...
Article : 62 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.—A requisition for on expenditure of £85,000 on provision of 33 additional reserve fuel tanks at strategic points throughout Australia ...
Article : 97 wordsThe Maritime Commission has announced that it has diverted the liner America (27,000 tons), the largest passenger ship ever built in USA, to ...
Article : 45 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.—Strong criticism of some of the methods employed by the camp commandant of the Holdsworthy detention camp (NSW) is ...
Article : 450 wordsBrusseler Zeitung, produced in Brussels by German journalists resident there before the war, protests indignantly against Belgians scrawling on the walls ...
Article : 53 wordsMarie Catherine Merlo, 3, of Chirnside st., Kingsville, was killed instantly last night when a small home-made truck in which her father was giving her a ride, ...
Article : 42 wordsMr. Ok Yui, former Mayor of Shanghai, has been appointed Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs, and Y. C. Koo, governor of the Farmers' Bank, Acting ...
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Article : 146 wordsCitizens are urged by the Lord Mayor to attend the reception to Mr. Menzies at the Town Hall at noon tomorrow. Mr. Menzies is expected to reach Melbourne ...
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Article : 88 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday. — Sqd.-Ldr. C. H. Simpson will command a new elementary flying training school opened in NSW today. It was formerly a civil ...
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Advertising : 70 wordsSales of war savings certificates in Australia amount to more than £21,000,000. Victorian sales yesterday were £21,558, making the total for this State ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 30 May 1941, Page 3
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