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Advertising : 131 wordsThe head of the "Q" type engine which was derailed near Powranna, and some of the seven trucks which were smashed. Another truck and the engine were damaged, and the train crew escaped with bruises and abrasions. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 198 wordsA SMALL piece of metal jammed in the frog where a loop line branches from the main line about a quarter of a mile south of the Powranna railway station derailed the 108-ton engine and smashed seven ...
Article : 107 wordsTHE First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. Winston Churchill), replying in the House of Commons, said that ...
Article : 119 wordsBUGLE calls, words of command, and the sound of marching feet from an early hour today announced the beginning in earnest of the training of the Second A.I.F. "The men have come to fight—the tougher the fight the ...
Article : 87 wordsTHE engine, which, was of the latest type put into use, left Hobart about 6 p.m. on Wednesday, drawing 26 trucks and two vans, or about 410 ...
Article : 753 wordsA BERLIN message says that official circles describe the reports of the presence of German troops in Eastern Galicia and the Caucasus as "obvious ...
Article : 774 wordsEurope still shivers in icy fetters. With the cessation of ordinary travel among the Danish islands, aeroplanes are booked up five days ...
Article : 328 wordsIT is disclosed that many of the older men did not reveal their ages until the convoy was well out, when they produced their war ribbons. ...
Article : 489 wordsReports expressing conflicting opinions on the possibilities of the Lakes Entrance oilfield were released today by the Minister for the Interior ...
Article : 153 wordsDISSATISFACTION with certain phases of the Commonwealth apple and pear acquisition scheme was expressed by the Minister for ...
Article : 681 wordsThe Rotterdam correspondent of "The Times" says that the presence in Holland in the past fortnight of many ...
Article : 229 wordsThe Acting Minister for Navy (Brigadier Street) said today that it was possible that Australian naval shipyards may soon ...
Article : 242 words"DIPLOMATISCHE Korrespondenz" comments gloomily on the arrival of the Anzacs in the Near East. ...
Article : 130 words"Nichi Nichi Shimbun" says in an editorial: "Undeniably the South Seas countries, due to their geographic and economic position, must seek Japan's ...
Article : 99 wordsThese boys found the cooling water off Long Beach yesterday, [?] pleasant antidote for the effects of the heat. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 24 wordsMr. R. B. Bennett, former Prime Minister of Canada, in a speech said: "Sometimes I am somewhat amazed at what Lord Snell in the House of Lords ...
Article : 149 wordsThe Berlin newspaper "Boersen Zeitung," attacking the First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. Churchill), asserts that he invented armed merchantmen in the ...
Article : 85 wordsThe Board of Trade index of wholesale prices for January reveals that food is 36.8 per cent dearer than at the outbreak of war, 3 per cent dearer ...
Article : 97 wordsA MESSAGE from Eupon states that influenza is sweeping the Siegfried Line, and several German wataring ...
Article : 55 wordsAlberta, which has a Social Credit Government, will default today on bond maturities aggregating 2,460,000 dollars (nom. £492,000), making the ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Fri 16 Feb 1940, Page 1
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