The Acting Prime Minister, Mr. Fadden, in a statement to-night, said that there was very definite evidence that the fire of war had moved closer ...
Article : 1,060 wordsThe Acting Prime Minister, Mr. Fadden, announced in Melbourne yesterday:— "A strong force of Australian troops ...
Article : 240 wordsIn pursuance of his new policy for censoring plays, the Chief Secretary, Mr. Tonking, or one of his officers will see Noel Coward's popular play, "Private ...
Article : 548 wordsThree Japanese destroyers are now taking on supplies at Paknam, at the mouth of the Bangkok River, according to an announcement by the Thai Government. They will remain until Tuesday next. ...
Article : 192 wordsEconomists in both political and non-political circles continue to direct attention to what they call the "battle of the gap"—namely the gap between ...
Article : 1,010 wordsAuthoritative circles in London believe that the opening blows in the coming intensification of the war already are being struck in the ...
Article : 404 wordsRepresentatives of various bodies concerned with air-raid precautions said yesterday that a lead was necessary from either the Commonwealth ...
Article : 472 wordsThe ordered calm of the naval base was shattered as the Australians, jammed along the ships' rails, sang "Roll Out the Barrel." ...
Article : 945 wordsFurther Japanese reinforcements arrived at Saigon yesterday in the cruiser Nagaru, according to the Associated Press of America. They include ...
Article : 316 words"Bulgaria already has mobilised two of three armies and mobilisation is continuing," says the Belgrade correspondent of the British United Press. ...
Article : 496 wordsNew South Wales suggestions that the report on air raid precautions which he produced at Press conferences yesterday was simply the War Book ...
Article : 225 wordsA prominent authority on fruit said in Sydney yesterday that 500,000,000 apples would rot on the trees or be dug into the ground in Australia this year. ...
Article : 251 wordsJapan is reported to be working hard to achieve an agreement with Russia, probably something similar to the Nazi-Russian pact of August, 1939, because this would free her for ...
Article : 207 wordsThe recent warnings of the Australian Acting Prime Minister, Mr. Fadden, caused concern in the East Indies, Malaya, and India. ...
Article : 449 wordsState Ministers say that Mr. Fadden's statement that all the State Governments were fully aware of the steps that the Commonwealth Government had taken to deal with ...
Article : 156 wordsMany Kentucky orchardists have ceased to forward fruit under the Apple and Pear Acquisition Scheme because of non-payment for fruit already delivered. ...
Article : 146 wordsJapan's offer to mediate in the war, as expressed yesterday by Mr. Ishii, the spokesman of the Japanese Cabinet's Information Bureau, is regarded as ...
Article : 671 wordsAir raid protection plans for the Sydney city area provide for sheltering about 200,000 people. It has been estimated that about 90,000 ...
Article : 396 wordsA R.A.A.F. plane, which was co-operating with a searchlight unit, crashed into the sea off Fremantle shortly after 8 o'clock to-night. ...
Article : 46 wordsBritain now is training parachute troops on an extensive scale. It is revealed that the British parachutists who recently landed in Italy belonged to a ...
Article : 281 wordsCyril Hardy, State school entertainment organiser, told the Military Appeal Board to-day that he could not do military service because the stars ordained that he should ...
Article : 105 wordsThe flamboyant Nazi claims that the joint declaration by Turkey and Bulgaria constitutes a victory for Axis diplomacy which will destroy the ...
Article : 137 wordsIt was stated in Ministerial circles yesterday that the police were taking legal action against the licensees of several large residential hotels in Sydney for alleged breaches ...
Article : 169 wordsPresident Roosevelt has issued executive orders declaring naval defence areas in the neighbourhood of the new defence bases to be established in the ...
Article : 87 wordsThe "A.I.F. News," published in Palestine, states that Lady Blamey, wife of Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Blamey, G.O.C., A.I.F., has joined the oversea unit of the Australian ...
Article : 137 wordsGeneral Oshima, newly appointed Japanese Ambassador to Germany, has arrived in Berlin, states the German Radio. (Other Oversea News on Next Page.) ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Governor of Malaya, Sir Shenton Thomas, in a broadcast from Singapore last night, said: "Yesterday I was privileged to see the arrival of the ...
Article : 517 wordsThe Australian Prime Minister, Mr. Menzies, who is en route to London, reached Lisbon (Portugal) by air from North Africa to-day. ...
Article : 45 wordsSuch of the oversea news in this issue as is headed "From Our Own Correspondent" or "Herald Exclusive Service" is fro[?] a service owned and conducted entirely by "The Sydney Morning Herald" ...
Article : 150 wordsThe Governor and Lady Wakehurst and the Minister for National Emergency Services, Mr. Primrose, yesterday watched the staff of Government House do A.R.P. exercises under ...
Article : 81 wordsThe body of Samuel Joseph Gay, 75, was found in the Richmond River, three-quarters of a mile from his home, to-day. Gay disappeared on Sunday night, and his family, ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 20 Feb 1941, Page 7
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