CANBERRA, Thursday. — Labour's decision not to launch a no-confidence motion against the Government today was agreed to by Caucus by 28 votes to 15. It followed what most members of the party ...
Article : 761 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday. — Official opposition to deep shelters as part of Australia's ARP was defended to-day by Mr. Abbott, Minister for ...
Article : 280 wordsIt is expected that Admiral Nomura, Japanese Ambassador, will see President Roosevelt to-day for a personal talk, which ...
Article : 300 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday. —Members were completely surprised when Mr. Menzies announced in the House of Representatives today Uiat Cabinet ...
Article : 318 wordsSanguinary battles for Leningrad and the bridges over the Dnieper loop continued yesterday, and there does not appear to have been any decisive result in spite of Axis propaganda claims of progress. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 468 wordsAustralia's hopes of gaining more ships for the transport of war materials from USA have decreased following the decision to open the ...
Article : 474 wordsCharles XII., with his brilliant but limited Swedish army, then perhaps the finest in Europe, tried at first to cut his way clean through ...
Article : 530 wordsConcern at the apparent public apathy to preparations for the wide-spread black-out test on September 23 was expressed yesterday by Mr. ...
Article : 131 wordsThe "man in the street" in England is puzzled by the crises in the Australian Federal Parliament, according to yesterday's BBC radio ...
Article : 181 wordsPresident Roosevelt, in order to prevent leaks of U-S supplies to the Axis by way of the Philippines, has now laid it down that all ...
Article : 118 wordsMoscow Radio, after enumerating a new series of German atrocities, broadcast to Germany last night:— "For every Soviet citizen taken into ...
Article : 97 wordsAppointment, announced yesterday, of Gen. Huntziger, Vichy War Minister, as C-in-C in French North Africa, to override Weygand, is ...
Article : 266 wordsMr. Fadden's spectacular rise to the Prime Ministership at the age of 46, only 4 years after his election to the ...
Article : 571 wordsMr. Menzies assumed the Prime Ministership on April 26, 1939, when he succeeded Sir Earle Page, who had taken the Prime Ministership ...
Article : 570 wordsA statement that he would not advise building backyard shelters in the suburbs was made yesterday by Mr. H. A. Bland. NSW ...
Article : 207 wordsJapan's representations against shipments of petroleum to Russia via Vladivostok marks the opening of a diplomatic offensive to prevent ...
Article : 224 wordsTest gas alarm in the City of London last night, when tear gas and a mild form of lung irritant gas were discharged, ...
Article : 128 wordsTrades Hall Council decided last night to close the Trades Hall from 8.30pm to 10pm on September 23 to comply with the blackout ...
Article : 100 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.— A report published this morning in Sydney that the Country party was out to wreck the Menzies Government ...
Article : 137 wordsJapanese troops are reported by Dome[?] agency to have repulsed an attempt by Gen. Chiang Kai-shek's 40th Division to attack Kaoshun, 25 ...
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Advertising : 206 wordsAmong the latest RAF awards is that of a Bar to DSO gained by Group-Capt. Francis Beamish, who between October, 1940, and March, ...
Article : 92 wordsBRISBANE, Thursday.—"Personal liberty and security are being [?]ched from us: we are not living under a pure democracy," Rev. Joshua ...
Article : 155 wordsA broadcast from Djibuti has revealed that a number of Frenchmen in the colony have declared for General de Gaulle, and have crossed ...
Article : 227 wordsSenator Wheeler, giving the Isolationists' reply to Mr. Churchill's speech on Sunday night, said a U-S war against Japan would be an ...
Article : 70 wordsAn Australian fighter squadron was prominent in one of 2 daylight offensives involving many squadrons of Spitfires and Hurricanes, states ...
Article : 131 wordsSmall number of enemy planes flew over the east coast of England last night and dropped bombs on a few points. Neither damage nor ...
Article : 42 wordsFrench Parliament, through M. Herrlot, as President of the Chamber of Deputies, and M. Jean Ney, President of the Senate, has sent ...
Article : 66 wordsDARWIN, Thursday. — More than 3 years after he escaped while being held in connection with the spearing of another aborigine, an Alligator ...
Article : 157 wordsSeventy-six countries, including Russia, will shortly see a new film of the domestic and public life of the King and Queen and the two ...
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Article : 146 wordsMore Ulan 1,500 mothers and children from all parts of London left aboard special evacuation trains to-day for the west and north of ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 74 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday. — General opinion in NEI was that Japan could not halt in her present drive, Mr. G.A.R. Mergard, general manager ...
Article : 112 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday. — Mr. Spender, Army Minister, early this morning described Mr. Menzies' action as consistent with the high ...
Article : 282 wordsMessages from Lisbon state that 2 British bombers made landings on beaches in Portugal this afternoon. The crews of both planes, it was ...
Article : 40 wordsAUCKLAND, Thursday.—Because the district doctor has left to take up private practice elsewhere and the Government is unable to replace ...
Article : 45 wordsA GHQ communique states that enemy artillery activity is heavier than usual in the Tobruk area. ...
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Article : 13 wordsDuke of Kent arrived here this morning from Washington. He was greeted by cheering crowds. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 29 Aug 1941, Page 5
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