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Advertising : 212 wordsMr. Justice H. R. Paine, of South Australia, arrived in Perth last night by airliner. During his visit to this State he will investigate claims made under the ...
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Article : 373 wordsSoldiers from the Melville camp paraded at Melville on Saturday morning to honour Empire Day with a Royal salute. The parade ground was a stretch of ...
Article : 646 wordsCANBERRA, May 23.—Gifts of land to enemy aliens, other than under a will, are absolutely prohibited under amendments to the National Security (Land ...
Article : 191 wordsThe loss of the largest warship in the world, the battle-cruiser H.M.S. Hood, with all or nearly all of her crew of 1,340 men, is a matter of poignant ...
Article : 982 wordsBATAVIA, May 24.—Measures for compulsory military service by the native population have been introduced in the Dutch East Indies Paliament following ...
Article : 393 wordsADELAIDE, May 25.—To inaugurate an Australia-wide effort to reduce the greatly increasing number of preventable accidents, particularly in industry, a ...
Article : 133 wordsLONDON, May 24.—From time to time I have heard suggestions that Britain is not making a 100 per cent war effort so far as production is concerned, so when ...
Article : 438 wordsWASHINGTON, May 24.—The Weather Bureau reported today that the entire eastern half of the United States, excepting Florida, was in the grip of a severe ...
Article : 62 words"The Battle of Britain," the official history of the momentous days from August 8 to October 31, 1940, will be published in full in ...
Article : 271 wordsLONDON, May 24.—If invasion comes to Britain Mr. Churchill's orders to the population are to stand firm and carry on. Fourteen million leaflets will be ...
Article : 321 wordsMany men who had served the Empire on the battlefield in the reign of the late Queen Victoria met on the anniversary of her birthday. Empire Day, on the ...
Article : 255 wordsCLOSING TIMES.—Closing times hereunder are for the Perth G.P.O.: Registered articles must be posted one hour before closing time for letters, but between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. ...
Article : 557 wordsEvery man who offers his services to the A.I.F. up to midday today at either the Perth or Fremantle recruiting bureaus will, if he so desires, be medically ...
Article : 245 wordsCANBERRA, May 24.—Average prices of food and groceries in thirty principal Australian cities and towns rose by only 0.4 per cent from April, 1940, to ...
Article : 319 wordsTo mark the fusion into the Home Guard of the Returned Soldiers' League Volunteer Defence Corps, the rifle clubs, and men who so far have not yet joined ...
Article : 428 wordsThe courage, bravery and devotion to duty of British merchant seamen were referred to by Captain J. M. Miller in an address on "Convoys in Wartime" at ...
Article : 278 wordsEastern States casualty lists issued by Army Headquarters, Melbourne, on Friday and received in Perth last night give the names of 120 members of the A.I.F. ...
Article : 185 wordsNOUMEA, May 24.—The Governor (M. Sautot), accompanied by the Dutch' Consul, visited the clipper base this afternoon to greet the Netherlands ...
Article : 89 wordsBATAVIA, May 24.—K.L.M (Royal Dutch Airlines) has contracted with the army and post office to fly at least six loads of troop-mail from the Middle East ...
Article : 285 wordsWASHINGTON, May 24.—A New Zealand mission of eight, headed by the Minister for Lands (Mr. Langstone) and Mr. J. G. Coates (an Opposition member ...
Article : 125 wordsFULL COURT.—At 1030 a.m., before the Chief Justice and Mr. Justice Dwyer: Frank Carter v. Cresco Fertilisers (W.A.). Ltd.; Davison Clyde Dowdell v. Florence Marguerite ...
Article : 45 wordsSYDNEY, May 25.—Strict quarantine precautions are to be observed with returning soldiers and enemy prisoners brought to Australia for internment with ...
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Article : 137 wordsSYDNEY, May 25.—Theories which he holds on sex education have been practically tested on his own family by the New Zealand Government Controller of ...
Article : 233 wordsLONDON. May 24.—Rudolf Hess, Hitler's deputy, who landed in Scotland by parachute on May 10, is now reported to be adopting a truculent attitude and ...
Article : 90 wordsAUCKLAND, May 25.—The need to end political party strife was emphasised by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr. Holland), speaking at the Dominion ...
Article : 76 wordsCANBERRA, May 25.—The Governor- General (Lord Gowrie) has dispatched the following message to the private secretary to Queen Mary:— ...
Article : 68 wordsIt would have been grimly ironical if the homecoming of the Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) had synchronised with the virtual dismissal of the ...
Article : 655 wordsSYDNEY, May 25.—A gale which blew at 50 miles an hour through Sydney for 10 minutes before a thunderstorm on Saturday damaged property in many ...
Article : 119 wordsSYDNEY, May 25.—Lieut.-General C. W. Miles, the General Officer Commanding the Eastern Command, said at a Royal Empire Society gathering on ...
Article : 94 wordsLONDON, May 24.—The Ankara radio states that there were heavy earthquake shocks last night in 11 towns in western Turkey, including Smyrna. Two people ...
Article : 83 wordsAUCKLAND, May 25.—The outstanding impression of New Zealand gained by Mr. W. Holmes, the British trade union leader, is the country's great need for a ...
Article : 47 words(Every request for information must be accompanied by the name and address of the writer, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith.) ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 26 May 1941, Page 6
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