Voting will take place today in the by-election to fill the vacancy for the Swan electorate in the House of Representatives., caused by the death of Mr. H. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 678 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 19.—British officials have completed a "master list" of war orders totalling 3,000,000,000 dollars (£750,000,000 sterling) to be placed in the ...
Article : 525 wordsLONDON, Dec. 20.—The urgent necessity to appreciate the vital difference between complacency and confidence—and to give confidence no greater place than ...
Article : 696 wordsTOKIO, Dec. 20.—An impassioned appeal for "patience towards Japan." whom, he said, was not waging an imperialistic war of greed and aggression against ...
Article : 444 wordsLONDON, Dec. 20.—Senor Del Pozo, who has been in England for three months, at the suggestion of the British Ambassador to Spain (Sir Samuel Hoare), ...
Article : 416 wordsLONDON, Dec. 19.—Speaking in the House of Commons today, the Minister of Labour (Mr. Ernest Bevin) said that there had been stoppages in munitions ...
Article : 385 wordsLONDON, Dec. 19.—The Foreign Under-Secretary (Mr. Butler), speaking in the House of Commons tonight, reiterated the hope that Spain would realise ...
Article : 279 wordsLONDON, Dec. 20.—Japan's probable actions in the Pacific region are being closely calculated in authoritative quarters here. The general reaction to the ...
Article : 476 wordsLONDON, Dec. 19.—n a speech in the House of Commons this afternoon, Mr. Lloyd George discussed at length the battles in Greece and Libya, saying ...
Article : 448 wordsLONDON, Dec. 19.—The Admiralty announces that papers captured from an Italian submarine include instructions to attack without warning Spanish ships ...
Article : 58 wordsLONDON, Dec. 20.—Lord Snell has issued his report on the inquiry in connection with the loss of the Blue Star liner Arandora Star (15,501 tons), which ...
Article : 317 wordsLONDON, Dec. 19.—he B.B.C. is planning a special Christmas Day programme, entitled "Christmas Under Fire," which will be broadcast to ...
Article : 215 wordsTOKIO, Dec. 20.—The "Kokumin Shimbun" declares that America is committing a fatal blunder by overlooking the fact that a southward advance is ...
Article : 41 wordsMELBOURNE, Dec. 20.—Japan is showing increasing concern at the deterioration in her relations with America that his followed Japan's signature of tile ...
Article : 291 wordsLONDON, Dec. 19.—Christmas shopping is proceeding busily. Indeed considering the talk of invasion in the air— a subject again mentioned today by the ...
Article : 380 wordsBRISBANE, Dec. 20.—Nearly three years of penmanship, sandwiched between the milking of cows, the mending of roads and other arduous 14-hours-a-day toil, ...
Article : 178 wordsTOKIO, Dec. 20.—Lieut-General Hiroshi Oshima, a former Japanese Ambassador in Berlin, will return to Germany as Ambassador, replacing Mr. ...
Article : 65 wordsLONDON, Dec. 20.—It is reported that Thai planes have heavily bombed towns in Cambodia Province (French Indo-China) in retaliation for French attacks ...
Article : 68 wordsNEW YORK, Dec. 20.—A Gallup poll discloses that 55 per cent of those questioned approved of changing the Johnson Act (which prevents loans to ...
Article : 58 wordsCAPE TOWN, Dec. 19.—The split in the ranks of the Opposition is widening daily. General Hertzog's followers in the Winburg constituency (where a ...
Article : 200 wordsTOKIO, Dec. 19.—In a move to extend its authority over the currency field, the Nanking regime today announced the organisation of a Federal Reserve Bank, ...
Article : 69 wordsLONDON, Dec. 20.—The German news- papers state that internal political difficulties in Denmark are increasing daily. They complain of attacks on Danish ...
Article : 58 wordsBOSTON, Dec. 19.—Eighty thousand hales of wool, including supplies from Australia and New Zealand, are being unloaded at the docks for defence orders. ...
Article : 38 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—The State Department announced that 1,000 political refugees whom the Gestapo attempted to seize in France have been ...
Article : 99 wordsCHICAGO, Dec. 19.—The Illinois State Attorney has seized a black ledger listing 2,000 members of the German-American Bund (a Nazi organisation) allegedly ...
Article : 53 wordsSYDNEY, Dec. 20.—A pair of fine fowls, sent with the compliments of the Prime Minister of England (Mr. Churchill) will grace the Christmas board ...
Article : 144 wordsHONG KONG, Dec. 19.—The Colonial Secretary (Lord Lloyd) has telegraphically rejected the petitition by Hong Kong residents that their wives, who were ...
Article : 64 wordsLONDON, Dec. 19.—The Swansea Chamber of Commerce states that 6,000 waggons of anthracite are waiting for clearance from Welsh collieries. Orders ...
Article : 75 wordsTOKIO, Dec. 20.—The army has announced that it is sending a mission headed by Lieut-General Tomoyuki Yamashita (Inspector-General of Army ...
Article : 39 wordsWASHINGTON. Dec. 19.—The War Department announced today that an undisclosed number of soldiers would sail for Newfoundland in January to garrison ...
Article : 47 wordsBUENOS AIRES, Dec. 19.—The Ministry of Agriculture has announced that it will expropriate foreign ships anchored [?] Argentine ports if necessary to cope with ...
Article : 48 wordsTOKIO, Dec. 20.—The Australian Minister to Japan (Sir John Latham) arrived in Tokio today. ...
Article : 20 wordsLONDON, Dec. 19.—A London magistrate today fined Mrs. Lilian Vanryn £3 on the first prosecution in London for wasting food. Failure of the defendant ...
Article : 48 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 19.—The new American Ambassador to France (Admiral Leahy) Will leave for France on a United States cruiser on December 23. ...
Article : 27 wordsSHANGHAI, Dec. 20.—It is confirmed that the United States cruiser Cincinnati (7,050 tons) will arrive at Manila within a day, giving the American ...
Article : 49 wordsLONDON, Dec. 19.—There are over 700 British wounded still in Belgian hospitals. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Sat 21 Dec 1940, Page 10
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