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  3. Smashing Victory by Finns

    The Finns have won a smashing victory on the 150-mile front from Suomussalmi to Kemittrask, in Finland's bottle-neck, where a fierce battle raged for a week. Russian forces, 18,000 to 20,000 strong, were hurled back across ...

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  6. In Australia

    The Empire air training scheme was probably the biggest undertaking Australia had ever attempted declared the Minister for Air (Mr Fairbairn) ...

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  7. CANADIAN FORCES

    The second contingent of Canadian forces has arrived in England, escorted by British and French warships. They were welcomed by the Dominions ...

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  8. GRAF SPEE ECHO

    The 8000-ton German liner Tacoma which came into prominence during the scuttling of the pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee. lifted anchor in ...

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  9. AUSTRALIAN AIRMEN

    Members of the Australian Air Squadron which arrived in England last week have been quick to make themselves at home, but so far there is a ...

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  10. Western Front

    B.E.F. Headquarters in France, Sunday.—The password, "Happy New Year," was flung back and forth on the Western Front in French and English ...

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  11. NEW YEAR MESSAGES

    The Archbishop of Canterbury in a New Year's Eve broadcast recalled that Abraham Lincoln when asked "Do you think God is on our side?" replied ...

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  12. EARTHQUAKE TERROR

    New terrors are sweeping western Turkey as flood water from rivers in the Smyrna, Brusa and Adrionople districts devastate the countryside and ...

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  13. SOVIET AGGRESSION

    The Italian press declares that Russia has biassed 800,000 men on the Afghan frontier and that England and France are organising an ...

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  14. SWEDEN'S CHOICE

    A German Foreign Office spokesman has issued a warning to Norway and Sweden "not to let themselves be used in the plan of the Western ...

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  15. Soviet Scores

    The Moscow correspondent of the "News-Chronicle" reports that the Krem in has scored a major diplomatic achievement in reaching an ...

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  16. "1939—GERMAN'S PROUDEST YEAR"

    "This war is a struggle for national existence," declared Dr. Goebbels in a Mew Year broadcast. "The coming year will be hard. Victory won't be ...

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  17. DOMINION SOLDIERS

    News of the wax work of the Royal Empire Society in London has been received by the New South Wales branch of the society ...

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  18. NEW YEAR HONORS

    His Majesty in the new rear recognises "the valor, untiring energy, zeal and devotion of the fighting men." The gazette ...

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  19. WARTIME EXPENDITURE

    Endeavors will be made this year to secure a large proportion of the cost of Australia's wartime preparations from current income, leading to ...

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  20. POPE AND PEACE

    Signor Mussolini's coming visit to Pope Pius XII. will raise a number of delicate problems, among them the Pope's views on a peace settlement. ...

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  21. CONFIDENCE IN INDUSTRY

    "British industry can face 1940 with confidence," ?says the Director of the Federation of British industries in a special New Year message. ...

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  22. STRICT CENSORSHIP URGED

    A request that strict censorship be exercised over all matter printed in a foreign language entering Australia has been made to the Prime Minister ...

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  23. I.R.A. RAID ON ARSENAL

    Eire troops in County Cavan found on a farm at Bearmore nearly six tons of the 28 tons of ammunition stolen from the Phoenix Park arsenal by I.R.A. ...

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  24. CHINA'S OUTLOOK

    The Chungking correspondent of the "New York Times" says that Jaoan's capture of Nanning, in the Kwangtung sector, has made China's outlook ...

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  25. H.M.S. AJAX MAT VISIT MONTEVIDEO

    It has been announced that the British cruiser AJax will shortly pay a courtesy visit to Montevideo. If the Uruguayan Government is agreeable ...

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  26. DESTITUTE SOLDIERS ON LEAVE

    Driving around Sydney in motor trucks last night, military police sought out destitute soldiers on leave and took them to the showground where ...

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  27. BRAVE CONSTABLE

    Early this morning Senior Constable W. C. Plummer saved the life of Sergt John D. Honey, of ingleburn camp by jumbing in the oath of a moving ...

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  28. COMPULSORY TRAINING

    Under the compulsory military training scheme which comes into operation on Wednesday it is expected that 5000 to 8000 youths will be ...

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  29. UNITY IN WAR TIME

    Unity was essential in war time and all influences that tended to disrupt it must be set aside said the Federal attornev-General (Mr Hughes) in a ...

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  30. AIR FORCE PROMOTIONS

    Temporary promotions announced by the Air Ministry for the new year include:— Group-Captain to Air-Commodore: ...

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  31. FIRST SOLDIER KILLED

    The first British soldier killed in action was Corporal Thomas Friday, of Ledbury. He was leading a patrol on December 9. ...

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  32. NEW YEAR REVELRY

    Despite the revelry with which Sydney ushered in the New Year the night was free of accidents and was one of the lightest from the viewpoint of ...

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  33. FORMER GERMAN MAGNATE

    Fritz Thyssen, former German steel magnate, for whom the Nazis are reported to have issued an international warrant on charges of embezzlement ...

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  34. OUR CABLE SERVICE

    By special arrangement, Reuter's worm service, in addition to other special sources of information, is used in the compilation of the overseas ...

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