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Advertising : 48 wordsIn the first New Year under the shadow of the blackout even Scotland was subdued. Revellers remained in their homes or in the local public houses and there were no sirens or rattles as midnight struck for fear of alarming ...
Article : 825 wordsA happy holiday crowd at the First Basin yesterday. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 18 wordsItalian newspapers declare that Russia has massed 800,000 men on the Afghan frontier and that as a precautionary measure Britain and France are organising an ...
Article : 142 wordsThe Kremlin has scored a major diplomatic achievement, says the Moscow correspondent of the "News-Chronicle," by reaching an agreement with Japan for the demarcation of the entire Soviet-Manchukuo ...
Article : 116 wordsThe Finns claim to have won a smashing victory over the Russians: on a 50-mile front between Suomussalmi and Kemitrask, in Finland's "waistline," where a fierce battle has raged for a week. ...
Article : 501 wordsThe newspaper, "Le Journal," revives the report that Hitler is suffering from cancer. It says ...
Article : 63 wordsThe second contingent of Canadian troops arrived in Britain today escorted by British and French warships. ...
Article : 293 wordsMelbourne's holiday crowd to-day saw the world's greatest batsman, Don Bradman, make a double century for ...
Article : 256 wordsThe password "A Happy New Year" was flung back and forth-along the Western Front to-day in French and English, as the Allied troops fraternised behind the lines in estaminets and billets. ...
Article : 342 wordsThe German High Command admits the stranding of a 604—ton patrol boat on Friday Thirty-five out of 37 of the crew were rescued ...
Article : 114 wordsThe police have found five more tons of the ammunition stolen from Phoenix park on Christmas Day in an outhouse at Deamore, Drogheda. A total of 225 ...
Article : 45 wordsA French destroyer rescued the crew and 200 passengers on the s. Cabo Santonio, including General Suero Diaz, Chief of the Spanish ...
Article : 39 wordsThe German steamer Tacoma (8268 tons) which was ordered by the Uruguayan Government to leave ...
Article : 290 wordsThe "Daily Herald" declares that Britain and France will recognise an Austrian exile ...
Article : 62 wordsAn analysis of the war at sea to the end of 1939 discloses that Germany lost 5 per cent. of her total mercantile tonnage, while Britain lost only 2 per ...
Article : 141 wordsA new terror is sweeping Western Turkey as flood waters from rivers in the Smyrna, Brusa, and ...
Article : 169 wordsJapan's capture of Nanning and the Japanese offensive in North Kwangtung have made China's outlook for 1940 more unfavourable than if was two months ago, says the Chungking correspondent of the "New York Times." yet the nation confronts the New year with ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 367 wordsThe Air Ministry announces that an aircraft coastal command patrolling the North Sea shot down a German aeroplane to-day. ...
Article : 26 wordsA U-boat shelled and sank the trawler Barbara Robertson off the north of Scotland. One deck hand was killed. The remainder of the ...
Article : 53 wordsThe German authorities have shot Professor Czeslaw Bialobrzesci, a physicist who succeeded Madame Curie on the League of Nations Committee ...
Article : 69 wordsThe latest R.A.F. casualty list includes Pilot-Officer S. M. Wickham, of Avalon Beach, New South Wales; and Acting Flight-Lieutenant E. J. ...
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Examiner (Launceston, Tas. : 1900 - 1954), Tue 2 Jan 1940, Page 1
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