CANBERRA, Dec. 10.—Discussions to-day at a meeting of the Federal Labour caucus were almost entirely confined to a motion by Mr. Blackburn (Vic.) on the ...
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Advertising : 291 wordsTOKIO, Dec. 10.—It would be "awfully foolish" for the United States and Japan to fight each other, the Foreign Minister (Mr. Matsuoka) said in his first ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 582 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—The Under-Secretary of the British Treasury (Sir Frederick Phillips) visited the Secretary of the Treasury (Mr. Morgenthau) at ...
Article : 301 wordsLONDON, Dec. 10.—It was stated officially this morning that "Royal Air Force bomber operations last night included an attack on Lorient." This attack ...
Article : 830 wordsTOKIO, Dec. 10.—Japanese dispatches from Hanoi report the Governor-General of French Indo-China (Vice-Admiral de Coux) as having stated in a Press ...
Article : 437 wordsLONDON, Dec. 10.—A 24-hour respite from enemy bombing throughout Britain followed the fierce and prolonged onslaught on London by wave after wave of ...
Article : 809 wordsNEW YORK, Dec. 9.—Mr. Emmett F. Connely (president of the Investment Bankers' Association) told the association at Hollywood Beach (Florida) today that ...
Article : 55 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—The Secretary of the Treasury (Mr. Morgenthau) said today that he was asking Congress to authorise the issue of wholly taxable ...
Article : 60 wordsHANOI, Dec. 9.-Authoritative neutrals, and also Chinese circles have reported that five crack divisions of Chinese troops, equipped with heavy artillery, are ...
Article : 111 wordsWASHINGTON. Dec. 9.—The departure of at least portion of the United States fleet, possibly submarines and destroyers, to Manila (in the Philippines) ...
Article : 128 wordsLONDON, Dec. 10.—A British loan of £10,000,000 to China was announced in the House of Commons this afternoon by the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs ...
Article : 148 wordsLONDON, Dec. 10.—The Home Office announced today that two enemy agents, acting on behalf of Germany, had been executed for espionage at Pentonville ...
Article : 262 wordsCANBERRA, Dec. 10.—A statement was issued today by Senator Keane (Labour). formerly Deputy-Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, repudiating ...
Article : 244 wordsLONDON, Dec. 10.—Commenting on Mr. Matsuoka's Press conference at which he discussed the Tripartite Pact, the Tokio correspondent of "The Times" ...
Article : 444 wordsLONDON, Dec. 9.—The King has approved the appointment of Lieut.-General H. R. L. G. Alexander to be General Officer Commanding-in-Chief the ...
Article : 297 wordsSHANGHAI,. Dec. 10.—Mr. Wang Ching-wei's Nanking regime is issuing its, own currency on January 15, according to a Trans-Ocean news-agency report ...
Article : 64 wordsLONDON, Dec. 10.—The German official newsagency Issued the following report yesterday:—"Within two hours after the attack on London began last night, 40 ...
Article : 172 wordsSHANGHAI, Dec. 9.—It is authoritatively stated that Chinese guerillas in one week blew up five Japanese trains, mostly in North China, and that there ...
Article : 41 wordsCANBERRA, Dec. 10.—Mr. H. V. Johnson, who succeeded the late Mr. A. E. Green as Labour member for Kalgoorlie, took his seat today in the House of ...
Article : 78 wordsLONDON, Dec. 9.—Well-informed circles in Belgrade state that a pact of friendship and non-aggression between Hungary and Yugoslavia will be signed ...
Article : 234 wordsNEW YORK, Dec. 9.—A Domei news-agency broadcast states that police belonging to the Nanking regime boarded the British steamer Hsin Peking (2,104 ...
Article : 52 wordsCANBERRA, Dec. 10.—Although the Budget compromise dissipated most of the importance attached early last week to the attitude of Mr. Wilson (U.C.P., ...
Article : 247 wordsSHANGHAI, Dec. 10.—Missionary sources report on appeal for serum from Kinhwa (in Chekiang Province, Central China), where bubonic plague is raging ...
Article : 65 wordsLONDON, Dec. 9.—Pilot-Officer Lock, of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, who had already gained the Distinguished Flying Cross and Bar since September last, ...
Article : 161 wordsFrequent inquiries are received from correspondents concerning the liabilities of citizens for service on common and special juries. Following is a ...
Article : 260 wordsLONDON, Dec. 9.—An Air Ministry communique issued today gives the names of two South Australians who have been killed in action. They are Pilot-Officer ...
Article : 105 wordsCANBERRA, Dec. 10.—The increase of 1/ a week in old-age and invalid pensions provided in the Budget compromise will apply also to ex-soldiers' pensions. ...
Article : 50 wordsBUKAREST, Dec. 9.—The town of Ploesti (30 miles north of Bukarest) was shaken today by a heavy explosion at a giant oil tank filled with high-powered ...
Article : 99 wordsTOKIO, Dec. 10.—Japan's total Budget under the general accounts, including expenditure for the China war, for the fiscal year 1941-42 is expected to exceed ...
Article : 57 wordsLONDON, Dec. 9.—One of the new all-women fire brigades in Britain, attached to a factory in the south of England, turned out in nightdresses and tin ...
Article : 95 wordsHOBART, Dec. 10.—Officers of the Criminal Investigation Branch were engaged throughout today investigating the murder of Marie Verrier (7), daughter ...
Article : 78 wordsCANBERRA, Dec. 10.—When the Budget debate was resumed in the Senate today, Senator Courtice (Lab., Q'ld.) said that he was prepared to accept the ...
Article : 285 wordsCANBERRA, Dec. 10.—Parliament is to sit morning, afternoon and night, and possibly into the early hours of the mornings, to complete the session this week. ...
Article : 347 wordsMONTREAL, Dec. 9.—Mr. Adhemar Raynault has been elected Mayor of Montreal after an election in which Mr. Camillien Houde (the former Mayor) was ...
Article : 71 wordsLONDON, Dec. 9.—Northern Ireland's "War Weapons Week" yielded £6,475,000 sterling. The money is to be devoted to the construction of 12 ...
Article : 31 wordsLONDON, Dec. 9.—Jan Lasoski, a Pole who fought at Narvik where he was wounded in both eyes and totally blinded, has been decorated by General ...
Article : 70 wordsLONDON, Dec. 9.—The public has been warned of a new type of small bomb. The fuse is brought into action by revolving vanes during the flight of the bomb, ...
Article : 67 wordsLONDON, Dec. 9.—A Vichy message states that British naval units captured a large French fishing boat returning from Newfoundland laden with cod and ...
Article : 42 wordsBOMBAY, Dec. 10.—The Belgian Consul-General here has received instructions from London to inform Belgian subjects throughout India that they have ...
Article : 34 wordsOTTAWA, Dec. 10.—Air raid precautions committees have been organised in five provinces. They are designed for the protection of the populace rather ...
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