The sixth meeting of the Supreme War Council was held in London to-day. The council assembled in the morning, and a further meeting took place in the afternoon. Britain was represented by Mr. Chamberlain, Viscount ...
Article : 250 wordsThe efficiency of the "black-out" of North East Britain has recently been put to practical test by a coastal command air pilot making a ...
Article : 144 wordsAlthough it is obvious that details of the new aircraft, whether fighters or bombers, are closely guarded in war-time, it can be revealed that ...
Article : 134 wordsIt is officially announced that the R.A.F. Shot down aa enemy plans off the north-east coast of Scotland. The R.A.F. last night ...
Article : 693 wordsThe Federal president of the Australian Labour Party (Mr. C. G. Fallon) said to-night that he had no objection to a meeting of ...
Article : 253 wordsThree collieries have been working in the Rosewood district almost since the coal strike began. The disclosure, made-: to-day, has caused consternation among the miners. "When the Rosewood miners were asked why picketing, ...
Article : 287 wordsDelegates nave arrived from all over Russia, also from Russian Poland, for to-day's opening meeting of the Supreme Soviet, at ...
Article : 255 wordsThe "New York Times" correspondent in Shanghai says that on the eve of the inauguration of the Wang Ching-wei regime there are ...
Article : 283 wordsThe "Hands off Russia" policy adopted by the New South Wales Labour conference was repudiated by the Federal Parliamentary Labour ...
Article : 207 wordsThe following is the text of the solemn declaration: The Government of the French Republic and His Majesty's Government in the United ...
Article : 549 words"The Times" diplomatie writer gays that the sixth meeting of the S[?]preme War Council will probably prove the most important so far. The ...
Article : 588 wordsAnother sensational developmen was a demonstration by 100 Blackstone miners, who assembled near the Ladysmith Mine protesting against a ...
Article : 467 wordsAn American broadcaster, Miss Breckenridge, visited a German prison camp, where 120 British and 55 Frenchmen, including New ...
Article : 175 wordsUnless the British Government strongly urges the construction in Australia of a graving dock large enough to accommodate a capital ship, ...
Article : 126 wordsIncreasing numbers of young British yeomanry are arriving in Palestine. The troops are settling down in earnest to training, which, under quieter ...
Article : 180 wordsRailwaymen will receive an average of 10 per cent. less in their pay envelopes next Thursday as a direct result of the coal strike, which caused ...
Article : 52 wordsIt is officially stated that the U-boat which grounded on March 26 was refloated by a German trawler, and then taken to port under Norwegian escort. ...
Article : 79 wordsCaptain Dawson, bringing in the coaster David M. to port, described a duel with three planes dropping air torpedoes. "We and another coaster ...
Article : 116 wordsMr. Sumner Welles, after his return from Europe, was closeted for an hour and a half at Washington to-day with the President. He then made a brief ...
Article : 97 wordsMany foreign planea whose nationality was not established flew over Belgium last night and anti-aircraft guns went into action. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Foreign Office announces that all the British envoys in South-east Europe, also the Ambassador to Turkey, have been called to London to ...
Article : 138 wordsCapital issue regulations under the National Security Act were drastically tightened up by amendments gazetted tonight. Any individual partnership or ...
Article : 141 wordsAfter stating that there was nothing special to report from the Western Front, a Berlin communique repeats that British aircraft again violated ...
Article : 125 wordsThe sensation caused by the shooting down of a British plane in Holland following upon the Scandinavian alarms that the Allies intend policing ...
Article : 95 wordsAs the outcome of the disastrous Sie at the Grand Hotel. Goomeri, on December 23, when eight people perished, the Licensing Commission ...
Article : 98 wordsAt the annual meeting of the Lamport Holt Line, the chairman said the problem of how shipowners were to renew their fleets at ever-mounting ...
Article : 69 wordsPolitical circles describe it as the most far-reaching declaration yet of unflinching Allies' solidarity, and considers such a categorical announcement ...
Article : 138 wordsThe Senate Military Affairs Committee, by 5 to- 4, vetoed the proposed investigation of foreign armaments purchases. This, by the implication, ...
Article : 39 wordsThirteen neutrality Deacons are being installed on the west coast of Donmark to prevent the violating of Danish territory by foreign aircraft. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe four survivors from the bomber thought they vere in France, and greeted the Dutchmen with "Parlez vous Francais!" They were white ...
Article : 136 wordsSir Edward Ellington is vacating the office of Inspector-General of the R.A.F. at his own request. His successor is Sir Edgar Ludlow Hewitt, ...
Article : 58 wordsThe chairman of the British Overseas Airways (Mr. Clive Pearson) said they proposed to operate a North Atlantic air mail service, also one to ...
Article : 63 wordsFarmers are suffering under the fall of the sterling rate, which was 21.40 before the war, and is now 18.15. The Government has agreed to grants ...
Article : 58 wordsThe economy forces lost control of the House of Representatives, which passed the £204,328,000 dollar Labour Social Security Appropriation Bill ...
Article : 42 wordsIt is reported that 14 were injured and considerable damage done in a railway accident when a shunting engine collided with a passenger train. ...
Article : 36 wordsNew registrations of road vehicles for February totalled 9090 compared with 33,907 for February, last year. There were 3849 motor cars, as ...
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Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1954), Sat 30 Mar 1940, Page 7
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