LONDON, Aug. 10.—A conference between Rumanian and Bulgarian delegates concerning Southern Dobruja (Rumanian territory, which Bulgaria claims) opened ...
Article : 169 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 147 wordsAction has been taken by the military authorities in this State to raise additional garrison units. The General Officer Commanding the Western Command ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 328 wordsCANBERRA, Aug. 11.—September 14 is almost certain to be chosen as the date of the Federal general election, which is likely to be the most extraordinary in ...
Article : 847 wordsWASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—The Under Secretary of State (Mr. Sumner Welles) announced today that Mr. John Cudahy (United States Ambassador to Belgium) ...
Article : 164 wordsLONDON, Aug. 9.—The British Note to Japan regarding the withdrawal for service elsewhere of British troops at present stationed in Shanghai and North ...
Article : 381 wordsWASHINGTON, Aug. 10.—The Secretary of War (Mr. H. L. Stimson) told the Congressional Tax Committee yesterday that the War Department had been able ...
Article : 508 wordsLONDON Aug 9.—The United States Ambassador to Belgium (Mr. Cudahy) left by air for Lisbon today on his return to America. The United States Embassy. ...
Article : 44 wordsISTANBUL, Aug. 10.—The newspaper "Yeni Sabah" states:—"Soviet Russia is the deciding factor governing the 'New Order' for south-eastern Europe which ...
Article : 80 wordsNEW YORK, Aug. 11.—It is reported from Yellowstone (Montana) that Mr. H. C. Hoover (the former President) has disclosed that the European Food ...
Article : 108 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 11.—No motor cars or car chassis will be imported into Australia between September 1 next and June 1, 1941, as the industry has agreed ...
Article : 163 wordsLONDON, Aug. 10.—An American who spent the first eight months of the war in Berlin, engaged in broadcasting commentaries for a radio chain, described ...
Article : 599 wordsPHILADELPHIA, Aug. 9.—The American Friends Service Committee (a co-operative committee of the Society of Friends in America) reports that millions ...
Article : 80 wordsWASHINGTON. Aug. 9.—When President Roosevelt was asked today whether the British withdrawal in China would affect United States policy in the Far ...
Article : 135 wordsDouglas Percy Birch (15), of Sydenham-street, South Belmont, received fatal injuries when a bicycle he was riding in Archer-street, Carlisle, was involved ...
Article : 134 wordsQUEBEC, Aug. 10.—A number of prominent citizens, including Messrs. P. H. Hamen, J. E. Gregoire, Louis Even, Paul Bouchard and Rene Chalout, have signed ...
Article : 91 wordsThe Returned Soldiers' League has been informed by the Army Department that for men who have been on active service the age limits of enlistment for ...
Article : 154 wordsNEW YORK, Aug. 11.—The New York "Herald-Tribune's" military expert (Major Eliot) is urging the adoption of recent proposals for a pact with ...
Article : 232 wordsLONDON, Aug. 11.—The City editor of "The Times" says that Australia's decision to refrain from importing private cars and chassis will deprive the British ...
Article : 128 wordsSHANGHAI, Aug. 10.—Unidentified persons shot dead in the International) Settlement yesterday Mao Yu-feng, described as a lieutenant of Mr. Wang ...
Article : 62 wordsRIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 9.—Marines today occupied the Lithuanian freighter Cultvaira, which is under United States charter, after the freighter, which was ...
Article : 41 wordsAlbert Langley Manley (16), of Ferguson-street, Maylands, died in the Perth Hospital at 2 p.m. on Saturday, about two hours after a collision between a ...
Article : 118 wordsLONDON, Aug. 10.—The Moscow radio states that 100 Japanese warships are manoeuvring along almost the whole coast of Indo-China, and nearly 200 Japanese ...
Article : 91 wordsHONOLULU, Aug. 9.—The navy has disclosed that it is planning the largest naval aviation base in the Hawaiian area in the form of a 2,700-acre airport on ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Viennese Ballet delighted a capacity audience at His Majesty's Theatre on Saturday evening. In striking contrast to the classical ballet, this form of ...
Article : 476 wordsParades of units of the Returned Soldiers' League Volunteer Defence Corps were well attended yesterday morning. Most of the men wore the brassards ...
Article : 345 wordsZURICH, Aug. 10.—Casualties in the disastrous munitions works explosion at Piacenza, in northern Italy, were 600 workers and soldiers killed and severely ...
Article : 63 wordsHarry James Ivey (24), of Albert street, North Perth, and Leonard Farrell (21), of Second-avenue, Mt. Lawley, were taken to the Perth Hospital by the St. ...
Article : 157 wordsTOKIO, Aug. 10.—Admiral Nomura, a former Foreign Minister, has returned from a month's trip to the South Seas. He stressed the necessity for the ...
Article : 40 wordsWASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—A British commission, aided by an advisory defence group, is arranging to spend £200,000,000 dollars (£50,000,000 sterling) ...
Article : 97 wordsLONDON, Aug. 10.—The story was told today of the gallantry of the captain and four of the crew of an unnamed tanker which resulted in the ...
Article : 134 wordsLONDON, Aug. 10.—The Berlin radio complained today that the British contraband control at Alexandria had seized 25,000 tons of petrol belonging to the ...
Article : 53 wordsLISBON, Aug. 11.—A fleet of 40 lorries left today for Germany with iron salvaged from the Dutch liner Orania, which went aground at Leixoes, in Portugal. ...
Article : 34 wordsCANBERRA, Aug. 11.—Commenting on the speech made by the Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) at Young on Friday night. the leader of the Opposition (Mr. ...
Article : 312 wordsDavid Cyril Thomas (17). of Hamilton-road, Spearwood, died at the Fremantle Hospital about 3.15 a.m. on Saturday from injuries received about ...
Article : 65 wordsWASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—Senator Rufus Holman, speaking in the Senate to- day, said: "I have learnt from authoritative military sources of the immient peril ...
Article : 68 wordsLONDON, Aug. 9.—General de Gaulle, the leader of free Frenchmen in Britain, announces that the French administration of the New Hebrides (in the ...
Article : 332 wordsCHUNGKING, Aug. 9.—A hundred Japanese planes bombed Chungking to-day. The casualties are estimated at 1,000, mostly civilians. Six areas within ...
Article : 73 wordsLONDON, Aug. 10.—Information which has been received from Berlin reveals that freight rates for all shipping plying along the German coast have ...
Article : 34 wordsPeter Logan (6), of Shepparton-road, Victoria Park, was taken to the Children's Hospital by the St. John ambulance on Saturday afternoon, suffering from a ...
Article : 77 wordsWASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—The State Department announced today that consulates would be reopened soon at Dakar (French West Africa) and in St. Pierre ...
Article : 75 wordsLONDON, Aug. 10.—The Oversea League has given a hostage to fortune by inviting members of His Majesty's forces from overseas to attend a tea party to ...
Article : 73 wordsAt an enthusiastic rally of men of the Greater Perth area at the Perth Oval yesterday morning many new recruits for rifle clubs were attested and enrolled. The ...
Article : 292 wordsMADRID, Aug. 10.—The Greek steamer Vassilios Destownis (3299 tons), laden with grain, has been found abandoned 40 miles of Aviles (on the northern coast ...
Article : 49 wordsEdith Harrison (18). of Gallipoli-street, Victoria Park, was admitted to the Perth Hospital about 5 p.m. on Saturday, suffering from shock and concussion. Her ...
Article : 71 wordsLONDON, Aug. 10.—The King this afternoon inspected some 4,000 members of the Home Guard-the biggest parade of this citizen military force yet held. ...
Article : 136 wordsWASHINGTON, Aug. 9—The Secretary of the Treasury (Mr. Morgenthau) forecast today a record peacetime deficit of approximately 5.700,000,000 ...
Article : 58 wordsDARWIN, Aug. 11—One of the most cold-blooded aboriginal murderers in Australian history, Nemarluk, whose death sentence for murders in 1931 was ...
Article : 180 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 11.—More Sydney detectives arrived at Wollongong tonight to augment the already large force searching for the burglar who shot dead ...
Article : 76 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 11.—The Premier (Mr. Mair) will make representations to the Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) In Canberra tomorrow for the removal of troops ...
Article : 108 wordsLONDON, Aug. 9.—A correspondent of "The Times" with the Northern Command, describing activity at a remount depot and the revival of horsed units ...
Article : 103 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 11.—The Leader of the Federal Country Party (Mr. Cameron) said in Sydney tonight that the Country Party and the United Australia Party ...
Article : 81 wordsLAUNCESTON, Aug. 11.—Claiming that he could not continue to associate with the "Communistic tendencies" of the Australian council, Mr. Paul Tracey, ...
Article : 140 wordsLONDON, Aug. 11.—Ronald Nesbitt, aged 19, is the first member of the Home Guard to be killed by enemy action while on duty. He was patrolling a ...
Article : 65 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 11.—The largest military march in the history of Australia will begin at 8.30 am. tomorrow, when 1,000 men of the 2nd/13 Battalion will ...
Article : 112 wordsDARWIN.—Aug. 11.—Constable Turner arrived at Darwin yesterday in charge of two aborigines, who are alleged to have murdered a lubra in the Daly River ...
Article : 107 wordsLONDON, Aug. 9.—A Berlin message states that French ships And planes flying the colours of General de Gaulle "ill be combated by every means. They ...
Article : 50 wordsLONDON, Aug. 10.—The Madrid radio says that the British control of shipping is tantamount to a blockade of Spain and is causing many hardships. Spaniards ...
Article : 81 wordsLONDON, Aug. 10.—According to a Berlin report the Lithuanians (whose country, with Estonia and Latvia, has recently been included in the U.S.S.R.) ...
Article : 76 wordsSYDNEY. Aug. 11.—Mr. B. S. S. Stevens, a former Premier and a member for Croydon in the Legislative Assembly, announced tonight that he had resigned ...
Article : 193 wordsLONDON, Aug. 9.—An industrial registration order requires the registration of men between the ages of 21 and 65 who have worked for 12 months during ...
Article : 66 wordsSTOCKHOLM, Aug. 9.—The Norwegian freighter Toran (3,318 tons) has been sunk by an explosion. Three members of the crew were killed, but the remaining ...
Article : 31 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 12 Aug 1940, Page 8
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: