While the Senate Naval Committea has approved of the Bill authorising a 70 par cent. increase in the fighting fleet. President ...
Article : 221 wordsAt a meeting of the Rockhampton subbranch of the Returned Soldiers' League last night a motion that the State Council protest against the ...
Article : 135 words"The Timas" correspondent formerly in Rome says it is difficult to determine the Value of the Italian war machine. Italians ...
Article : 418 wordsMr. Joseph Luhan, American Ambulance officer, in a message from Paris describes the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps in France. Mr. ...
Article : 116 wordsSix German bombers were destroyed and four damaged by fighters during yesterday's daylight raids on England and Scotland. They made a series of hit and run attacks between dwan and dusk, dropping high explosives, incendiaries and ...
Article : 251 wordsThe liner Aramdora Star (15,501 tons) has been torpedoed by a U-boat in the Atlantic, while carrying 1500 German and Italian aliens and prisoners of war to Canada for internment. Also on board were British soldiers, guards, and ...
Article : 231 wordsThe Freneh Government proposes to call a national assembly to revise the constitution, according to the Havas Agency, ...
Article : 217 wordsThe Under-secretary for War (Sir Henry Page-C[?]ft) said to-day: "Our intention is to defeat the invasion at sea or even before ...
Article : 390 wordsThe Senate Naval Committee approved by nine votes to five Mr Knox's nomination as Secretary for the Navy, Mr. Knox testified that any ...
Article : 195 wordsThe Justice Department said that immigration inspectors had been sent to San Francisco to cheek reports that members of the ...
Article : 79 wordsUnder the leadership of Mrs. Venetia F[?]ster, wives of naval men are forming their own local defence service entitled "Amazons' ...
Article : 80 wordsSoldiers bitterly critised the conduct of the German prisoners who were "big hulking brutes who tried to sweep the Italians aside and had to be ...
Article : 1,696 wordsAbout lunch time raiders appeared over the north-east coast of Scotland. A little later two raiders were forced down in the sea off Scotland, and the ...
Article : 587 wordsThe spokesmen at the War, Navy and Foreign Offices to-day again told the Australian Associated Press that the action of the Governor of Hong ...
Article : 480 wordsThe Premier (Senator Hassan Sabry) in a statement in Parliament said: "Our foreign policy is based on friendship with all countries not affected by ...
Article : 93 wordsThe Associated Press special correspondent says: "A New Zealand squadron in association with an English squadron at the same bomber ...
Article : 221 wordsAuthorised circles in Berlin declare teat the German occupation of France has been completed according to schedule and the armistice terms. ...
Article : 32 wordsTo-day's Italian communique claims that strong British forces, attacking at Metemmawere, were put to flight by vigorous counter-attack and left ...
Article : 95 wordsThe evacuated wife of the British military leader stated that the evacuation of women and children from Hong Kong was to relieve the food problem ...
Article : 118 wordsMr. Havenna introdnced in the House of Representatives a Bill to permit 100,000 British children to enter the United States, over the ...
Article : 152 wordsA communique states that the Camel Corps inflicted casualties on Italian regulars on the Somaliland frontier on Sunday. The only British loss was ...
Article : 34 wordsOne of the four women seriously injured in last night's raid over south-east England has died. It is officially announced that a small ...
Article : 57 wordsA heavy enemy air raid occurred this morning. One raider was sho[?] down in flames. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe Associated Press correspondent at Tokio says it is reliably stated that Britain will refuse, the Japanese demand to close the arms route across Burma. ...
Article : 36 wordsR.A.F. planes had officially destroyed at least 60 Italian planes up to last Sunday. Another 29 are believed to have been lost. The R.A.F. losses have been ...
Article : 122 wordsThe Minister for Labour (Mr. Ernest Bevin) had the unusual experience of making his maiden Parliamentary speech in the House of ...
Article : 199 wordsCyril Stephens (18) was sentenced to three years' hard labour for damaging a machine in the war factory in which he was employed. The ...
Article : 176 wordsThe British United Press correspondent at Tokio says that the spokesman of the Foreign Office (Captain Okuma) said Japan still awaited a British reply to the ...
Article : 164 wordsOne thousand refugees from the United Kingdom have arrived. There are 300 children. Some come from the families of nobility and others from ...
Article : 32 wordsThe High Command communique No. 23 states: "A strong British force violently attacked the Italian garrison at Metemma, in Italian East Africa. The ...
Article : 61 wordsThe fact that there are now two Australian forces on service abroad in widely separated fields has led to some confusion and a rood deal of delay in ...
Article : 115 wordsMr. C E. Gauss, the American Minister to Australia, predicted that if the British resist the Japanese attack on Hong Kong they "will give the attackers ...
Article : 70 wordsThe navy vice-spokesman expressed the opinion that Japan was not particularly relieved by the admissions by Colonel Knox and Mr. Walsh at ...
Article : 160 wordsThe Lord Privy Seal (Mr. C. R. Attlee), in the House of Commons, said that the Government was not prepared to guarantee non-interference in ...
Article : 107 wordsThe Minister for the Interior (Senator H. S. Foll), who arrived to-day from Canberra, stated that the £3,000,000 graving dock in Sydney Harbour ...
Article : 85 wordsTen Italian planes dropped about 120 bombs on Alexandria to-day. Little damage was done. ...
Article : 28 wordsIt is authoritatively stated that the army is planning to insist that the Government adopt a stronger foreign policy, based on Germany's present ascendancy. ...
Article : 109 wordsThe Associated Press Istanbul correspondent says that Gsneral Weygand is reported to have arrived in Syria. ...
Article : 30 wordsMr. Churchill had an audience [?] the King at Buc[?] Palace [?] evening. ...
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Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1954), Fri 5 Jul 1940, Page 5
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