It seems that only an eleventh hour compromise on the question of control of India's defence during the war, can prevent a deadlock in discussions on the self-government proposals. ...
Article : 579 wordsThe Chinese Government spokesman at a Press conference to-day, accused Japan of waging a germ warfare. ...
Article : 86 wordsA strong Allied air activity against Japanese-occupied aerodromes was carried out and direct hits were scored on runways at Salamau. The planes flew through a heavy tropical storm, but ...
Article : 194 wordsAlthough no important territorial changes have occurred on the Russian front in the past few days, there is no diminution of the intensity of the fighting in many regions, notably at Leningrad, Lake [?]men, Smolensk, ...
Article : 313 wordsA Japanese attempt to create a secret Axis submarine base in the South Atlantic, is believed to have been smashed with the ...
Article : 224 wordsOn arrival at an Australian port, a ship reported an outbreak of smallpox aboard, resulting in one death. Immediate contacts ...
Article : 45 wordsA spokesman in Berlin, according to a "Da[?]ly Ma[?]l" correspondent on the German frontier, said that the luftwaffe may have to ...
Article : 149 wordsIn a heartening war communique issued to-day, the Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) revealed that, at least 18 Japanese aircraft were destroyed ...
Article : 322 wordsA report from Chungking stated that Toungoo had been evacuated after a Japanese attack which lasted five days. ...
Article : 249 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) issued the following communique to-night:[?] The R.A.A.F. attacked enemy ...
Article : 140 wordsBritish and Russian naval forces beat off enemy warships and U-boats attacking a convoy en route to Russia, setting fire to a large enemy destroyer as Well as damaging and probably sinking three U-boats. Two of our ships were damaged but returned ...
Article : 316 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.— The Prime, Minister (Mr. Curtin) announced that the War Cabinet would ask the State Governments to exempt ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Justice Department announced that Robert Noble and Ellis Jones, of Los Angeles, had been arrested on a charge of sedition. The ...
Article : 169 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday. — A we[?] known Sydney commercial photographer, Samuel John Hood, was fin[?] £25 on each of two charges of having ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Japanese made their first Right raid on Darwin last night, which did not cause any surprise as it had been considered for ...
Article : 146 wordsSeven Japanese bombers, accompanied by fighters, figured in Darwin's ninth raid yesterday. The enemy came over early in the ...
Article : 260 wordsOfficials at White House revealed that President Roosevelt had cent a letter to all American Expeditionary Forces abroad, promising them that ...
Article : 50 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday. — T[?] registrations will be accepted after next Saturday, April 6, which was announced originally as the closing dat[?]. ...
Article : 45 wordsA party of 23 evacuees from an island to the north of Australia arrived to-day with a story of privations and adventure so remarkable that it is ...
Article : 95 wordsThe State Parliamentary Labour Party decided to-day that the hotel trading hours should be altered between 11 a.m. and 8 p.m.; that no ...
Article : 92 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.—It i[?] new disclosed that Lieut[?]Commander [?] H. Beattie had not returned from the raid on St. Nazaire; the Berlin radio ...
Article : 33 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.—The Swiss radio stated that the Italo-Swiss trade agreement has been severed because Italy was unable to fulfil i[?] ...
Article : 24 wordsAccording to the Norwegian Telegraph Agency Major Quisling in a speech declared it was no use appealing to the common[?]en[?] of the ...
Article : 83 wordsThe Tokyo radio alleged to-day that a clearly marked Japanese hospital ship, the [?]ah Maru, sa[?]ling unprotected into Koepang Bay, was ...
Article : 77 wordsWASHINGTON, Wednesday. — Mr. Arthur Newhall, Vice-presiden of the Goodrich Tyre Co., has been appointed Co-ordinator for Rubber; he will ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Tokyo radio states that the Welfare Ministry decreed that sports should carry on despite the war and ordered that 90,000 rubber balls be ...
Article : 128 wordsThe Premier (Mr. McKell) to-day quoted figures to disprove the statements that New South Wales was the highest taxed State in the ...
Article : 74 wordsAt a meeting held in camera to-day the Sydney Water Board decided to lift the restrictions to the extent of permitting the use of hot water ...
Article : 97 wordsLONDON, Tuesday.—It was officially announced by the Berlin radio [?] Lieut.[?]Commander Endrass had n[?] turncd from his last expedition [?] ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Arbitration Court to-day made a general order granting an increase of five per cent., to meet the increased cost of living, on wages of all ...
Article : 83 wordsIt is announced that a Red Cross it nurse in Germany has been sentenced to death for selling hospital food. For slaughtering an animal for the ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Department of the Interior has accepted a contract tender of £1118/9/6 by J. Carmichael Ltd., Peel Street, Tamworth, for the erection of ...
Article : 58 wordsCAIRO, Tuesday.—Nine persons dies of suffocation when 2000 crowded into a public shelter intended to accommodate 100 during a brief dayl[?] ...
Article : 30 wordsAn official correspondent with the [?] New Zealand forces in the Middle East a reports that all New Zealand[?] troops, t[?] which had been in Libya since early in [?] ...
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The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), Thu 2 Apr 1942, Page 1
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