A GENERAL cargo of 400 tons from the German ships, Strass-furt and Franken, Has arrived in Brisbane from Sourabaya, where it ...
Article : 307 wordsLONDON, August 11.—Gallantly defying an attacking U-Boat, five sailors remained with their damaged ship, an unnamed British tanker, which has been brought to port. The U-boat torpedoed the tanker, which listed heavily ...
Article : 702 wordsHandling heavy tractors is just part of the day's work for members of the Land Army, organised by the Women's Auxiliary ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 74 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—In addition to the Government factories, more than 100 commercial firms plant situated in all States ...
Article : 210 wordsSent on a special tour of British workshops to study the manufacture of Beaufort bombing planes, Mr. J. H. Hirst has ...
Article : 481 wordsSAN FRANCISCO, August 10.—When the California Clipper left San Pedro to-day, on the first stage of her trip to New Zealand, she carried an unexpected passenger. It was intended that the only ...
Article : 285 wordsLONDON, August 10.—Both cotton and tin prices have been strengthened by the prevailing uncertainly of the war situation. ...
Article : 201 wordsThe Government was planning to build ships in Brisbane either for the Australian or the British Navy, said the Minister for the Interior (Senator ...
Article : 261 wordsLONDON, August 11.—The German newsagency's latest story of "British panie" is: "The British are frightened that ...
Article : 69 wordsNEW YORK, August 11.—The mysterious activities of Dr. Gerhardt Alois Westrick, Hitler's trade emissary to America and now described as ...
Article : 114 wordsLONDON, August 11.—The French islands in the New Hebrides group in the Pacific Ocean have recognised General de Gaulle ...
Article : 179 wordsNEW YORK, August 11.—In an interview at Hamilton (Bermuda) the Duke of Windsor said that he hoped, in his post as Governor-General of the ...
Article : 134 wordsLONDON, August 11.—The Italian headquarters, lorries, and staff cars were damaged when a Walrus plane of the Fleet Air Arm, operating from ...
Article : 72 wordsLONDON, August ll.—The Sunday Chronicle says that French circles in London believe, that sensational changes will occur in France in the ...
Article : 129 wordsLONDON, August 11.—To-day's German communique says: "A German U-boat sank the armed merchantman Upwey Grange. Our air arm ...
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Advertising : 569 wordsZURICH (Switzerland), August 11.—Six hundred workers and civilians were killed or severely wounded in a munition works explosion in Piacenza ...
Article : 31 wordsLONDON, August 11.—Several thousand Americans have joined the Canadian Air Force, according to unofficial sources in Ottawa. They are ...
Article : 133 wordsScores of people have offered to adopt the three-weeks' old baby girl, Mary, who was left by her young Brisbane motlier on the doorstep of the ...
Article : 277 wordsGAZA, August 11.—More than 1000 bags of mail matter received up to yesterday are still being distributed to tile delight of the troops. This ...
Article : 125 wordsLONDON, August.—Hitler's plan to invade Norway was made in 1936, when he sent the then War Minister (General Blomberg) on a spying mission to Narvik, says a Swedish writer, Per Nystrom, in an article in the Swedish newspaper Gotesborgs ...
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The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), Mon 12 Aug 1940, Page 5
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