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To Britain And China SYDNEY, Sept. 7 (Reuter): Sir Earle Page, who is shortly going to London to represent the Australian Government, issued a statement to-day regarding hia missloh.
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Sir F. Eggleston SINGAPORE, Sept. 7 (Reuler). Sir Frederick Eggleston, first Aus- trailan Minister to. Chungking, has arrived in Singapore.
IIe stated: "The policy of my appointment la gradually to extend the diplomatic representation
of Australia to all countries in the Pacifle with which we have diploma- tic contact. This does not involve any breach if we are in unity with the British Commonwealth of Nations.
"Those appointed will regard their tuck us one of co-operation with British Ministers. It is, of course, frite that 'Atzstralia may have differ- ent Interests on certain points but there will be constant consultations so as to bent out a common polley."
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WASHINGTON, July 16.-To-day was pay day for 202′ dollar-a-year men in the defence programme, but only 13 of them had worked a full year and were entitled to whole dollar. The rest got paid, on a pro TO-MORROW: JAMES STEWART "SEVENTH HEAVEN"
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WASHINGTON, July 24.-The Navy Department was disclosed to-day to have plans for immediate or- cents a month for the time coch ganisation of two barrage balloon squadrons, totalling 150 barrage balloons, for the protection of fleet bases against aircraft attack.
Rear Admiral John H.
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Towers, Chief of the Bureau of Nazis On Defensive but John
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Aeronautics, told a House Ap- propriations Sub-committee, in testimony made public to-day, that "barrage balloons are con- sidered to be an essential and that the Russians in Odessa do not valuable part of the defence of Inck alr support, "for although a fleet base, air station, or naval Odessa's Geven berodromes only serve for supplies and cannot be used base."
as air torce bases, military planes come and go from the Crimea with mans command of the air." out pause and challenge the Ger-
The barrage badloons were estl- mated to cost about. $9,500 each.
First squadrons would be located at Quantico, Va., and Parris Island, S.
Admiral Towers also told of plans to construct two training towers for parachute troops at New River, -N.
for training in the First Marine Division, and added that a request for $100,000 for initial Installations "does not include all of the projected future requirements in parachute- troop equipment."
Many Office of Production Manage- ment, executives received their an nual
compensation without ceremony. D. Biggers, Production Director, and E. R. Stettinius, Priorities Director, arranged for public distribution of checks to all recipients in their sections.
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No Pay For Chiefs Neither William S. Knudsen, OPM Director, nor Sidney Hillman, AssO- cinte Director, received a check. They hold office under a 1017 law which Provides that they serve without compensation. That exempts Utem from an old law forbidding the Gov- ernment to accept the free services U-Boat Captured
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The smallest cheque-for 2 cents MOSCOW, Sept. 7 (Reuter).The went to Randolph Paul of the following is the text of a com-
unique issued by the Saviet in-office of Price Administration. Goy- crument offcials quessed that most "During September 7, stubborn of the checks would be framed and fighting continued ugalast the enemy never eashed. · along the entire front.
formation Bureau:
"Our air force denit inassive blows against the enemy troops and attack-
No Underground Hangars ed his air force on his aerodromes.
He also testified that it was plan- Twenty-three German planes were ned, if Congress appropriated funds destroyed-on-September-S-in-nir for 21 additional patrol-type airships combats and on enemy aerodromes, at a cost of $325,000 each, to station We lost 11 planes. nine at Lakehurst, N. C., six at Bos- "A German submarine No. 73, was
Six captured in the Sea of Burentz,"
THE OLD MAID Botte Davis, Geo. Brent ton, and six at San Francisco.
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coastal aeroplane hangars were being con- structed below ground due to the danger of flood, but that all gasoline would be stored underground.
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safest protection for the plants is have only begun for the boundaries dispersion rather than to attempt to are a network of rivers and canals. build tremendous structures under-The southern sector alone is thread- ground. They would be tremended by five canals while the 400-yard ously costly. A seaplane hangar wide River Neva protects this quarter which now costs us about $600.000 from the cast. above, ground would cost something With the Russians determined to like $3,000,000 underground.”
Pres. Roosevelt's Aged Mother Passes
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tight from waterway to waterway and house to house and with the winter coming soon, it is casy to Imagine the formidable task and huge toll of human lives awaiting the Nazla before their communiques will be able to claim that they have taken Leningrad, "according, to plan."
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Nazi Nonsense MOSCOW, Sept. 7. (Reuter).—It was stated, here to-day that tion where she was entertained at Germans arc nowhere near an offein luncheonf. She entered southeastern approaches to Lenin- the luncheon room on the orm of grad, if less the easterns approches. M. Paul Bonnet, who was then Without the capture of these, it is French Minister of Finance. and pointed out, it is nonsense to talk of previously Ambassador in Washing- the elty being isolated even though ton.
some railways may be put
of It is presumed that Mrs Roosevelt action for a short time. will be buried at St James' Episcopal Church, Hyde Park village, where the
Air Attacks Fail President's father is interred. Mrs MOSCOW, Sept. 7 (UF)-Despite Roosevelt was very active, attending their air attacks, the Germans have many charitable functions and state not succeeded in wrecking the rail- occasions but it is known that the way bridges on the approaches to President, when he went to Hyde Leningrad according to a special. Park for the week-end, wanted his correspondent at the front. He sald mother to have a "check up" by her that crows are standing by on the doctor.
| river bank repairing the siight dam- Broadcast Postponed age and enabling the maintenance of
NEW YORK, Sept, 7 (Reuter)communications.
According to the Columbia Broad-
casting System the broadcast is post-day when 10 German dive-bombero He described the attack of yester- potied to Thursday.
attacked an unidentified bridge, cous- ing small damage which was im- mediately' repaired, while the village
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He said that in the same sector, Colonel Donskoy la retaining the Initiative by counter-attacks; which are forcing back the Germans, Fifty German-parachutista Jarded In tho rear of his unit. All were"tounded up and killed, y
destroyed over the approaches to Leningrad as well as hundreds of tanks and thousands of men. This the front. Armed people merge with was announced by M. Kuznetsov, a the Red "army and the Ballle teet member of the War Council at a mass Thousands of workers in the im- moeting yesterday... and broadcast mediate vicinity of the front are from Leningraų,
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