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  3. HEAVIEST R.A.F. RAID YET BATTERS HAMBURG

    LONDON, Friday.—The greatest air battle in history was waged last night and this morning with a brilliant moon lighting up Strait of Dover under a cloudless sky. The R.A.F. was far afield over Germany and caused extensive ...

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  4. Land Defences in Action

    As the Nazi Air Force intensifies its raids on Britain, the British land defences are ably seconding the R.A.F. in driving off the attackers. Anti-aircraft guns like those shown above, many of them manned by men who before the war had never dreamt that one ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 87 words
  5. YOGOSLAV OPPOSITION TO AXIS DEMANDS

    BELGRADE, Thursday.—Opposition in Yugoslavia is growing against the sweeping demands reported to have been made by the Axis. Yugoslav military circles are reported to be discussing the ...

    Article : 200 words
  6. INCIDENCE OF SALES TAX TO BE REVIEWED

    CANBERRA, Friday.—The personnel and terms of reference of a select committee to review the whole principle and ...

    Article : 100 words
  7. NAZI MOVE IN BALKANS

    Balkan experts anticipate a crisis within the next few days. German and Italian reports mention March 15 as ...

    Article : 417 words
  8. LENDING MONEY TO ARMY CONTRACTORS

    CANBERRA, Friday—Immediate investigation of the activities of "money skinners" to ascertain if interest rates charged on loans to army contractors ...

    Article : 146 words
  9. Child Endowment Assured: No Further Delay

    CANBERRA, Friday.—Despite opposition within the Ministerial parties to some features of the child ...

    Article : 521 words
  10. BIG ALLOWANCES FOR DELHI REPRESENTATIVE

    CANBERRA, Friday.—Sir Bertram Stevens, former Premier of appointed Australian representative on the Delhi Commission, is one of ...

    Article : 202 words
  11. ITALIANS BOMB HOSPITAL SHIP

    ATHENS, Thursday.—The Ministry of Marine says an Italian plane attacked the clearly-marked hospital ship Socrates a mile south of Sessoulo ...

    Article : 71 words
  12. Italians Lose Heavily

    ATHENS, Friday—Last night's communique says the enemy's offensive continued all day-with repeated violent attacks, on a wide front. They used ...

    Article : 82 words
  13. ITALIANS PANIC AS BRITISH ADVANCE IN AFRICA

    CAIRO, Thursday.—The panic among the Italians in Abyssinia is now the real thing. The immediate cause is the fantastic advance from the south-west by the ...

    Article : 263 words
  14. REGULATION 42A

    CANBERRA, Friday.—Notice was given by Dr. Evatt (Lab., N.S.W.) in the House of Representatives to-day of a motion to disallow Regulation 42A ...

    Article : 119 words
  15. PRISONERS HELP

    SYDNEY, Friday—To till a Defence Department order, prisoners in a New South Wales' gaol recently worked without extra pay on two holidays. ...

    Article : 176 words
  16. NAZIS FIRE-PROOF SMALL BOATS FOR INVASION BID

    GENEVA, Thursday.—Extensive invasion preparations are going on all along the Dutch coast, says a well-informed writer in the "Neuchatel Express." All private seaworthy yachts, barges ...

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  17. Roosevelt Plans Mediation Board to Settle Defence Labour Disputes

    WASHINGTON, Thursday.—A joint recommendation for the establishment of a "super" mediation board to handle defence labour disputes, was submitted to President Roosevelt to-day by the Secretary for Labour (Miss Frances ...

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  18. U.S. EXPANSION UNDER WAY

    WASHINGTON, Thursday—A total of 784 defence plants in the United States have already been expanded under an arrangement between the ...

    Article : 188 words
  19. ATE PIGEONS RAW

    BRISBANE, Friday —After having been lost for 21 days in wild country. John Francis Brown (48) arrived at Mount Isa to-day. ...

    Article : 139 words
  20. Progress of Air Training Scheme

    MELBOURNE, Friday.—An important mile post in the progress in Australia of the Empire Air Training Scheme was reached this week, when ...

    Article : 142 words
  21. Japan Quits Area Held For Two Years

    NEW YORK, Thursday.—Japanese forces, of their own initiative, have evacuated the Tungcheng area, ...

    Article : 222 words
  22. PITH OF THE LEADERS

    AN ATTEMPT is to be made to fix the responsibility for dealing with erosion along the banks of the Tamar. The ...

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  23. A.I.F.'s FIRST CONTACT WITH GERMANS

    CAIRO, Thursday.—The A.I.F.'s first contact of this war with German armoured vehicles was made during the past fortnight by Australians scrapping on the frontier of Tripolitania. They were Victorian troops, who ...

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  24. HASTE URGED IN BUILDING OF U.S. TWO-OCEAN NAVY

    WASHINGTON, Thursday.—The U.S. Navy High Command warned Congress to-day that the international situation might continue to grow worse. It urged all possible haste in the completion of a two-ocean Navy, because of ...

    Article : 341 words
  25. WAR COUNCIL

    CANBERRA, Friday.—Acceptance by the Government of the Labour Party's proposal that membership of the Advisory War Council should be ...

    Article : 126 words
  26. Plans to Transfer 99 U.S. Warships in Year

    WASHINGTON, Thursday.—The United States plans to transfer 99 warships to Britain in 1941, Including 17 over-age destroyers, 18 ...

    Article : 88 words
  27. BOMBER PILOT'S HEROISM

    Sergeant Pilot Peter Clarkson Wise, whose home was in Chesham, Buckinghamshire, took his bomber over Germany and made a successful raid. ...

    Article : 103 words
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