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Advertising : 39 wordsBy a majority decision, the Bakers and Pastrycooks' Wages Board decided to-day to introduce a five-day working week of 44 hours from Monday till Friday. The award will apply to breadmakers, biscuitmakers, and ...
Article : 670 wordsNew light tanks, which can be rapidly transported by motor-waggon to any point at which they might be needed, are being used by the French Army in their successful operation on the Western Front. The photograph shows the loading of one of the tanks into a waggon. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 1,370 words"I believe that the Commonwealth Government will acquire the whole of the Australian fruit crop, but the ...
Article : 207 wordsA "stale bread week-end" was forecast by Launceston bakers yesterday; when commenting on the decision of the Bakers' Wages Board to grant a ...
Article : 317 wordsGermany's Push, inspired by Hitler's desire to eject the French from German soil is now at a complete standstill. It is unofficially estimated that the German losses since ...
Article : 438 wordsSpeaking in the House of Commons this afternoon, the Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain) said: "There is nothing I can at present ...
Article : 539 wordsIt was officially announced to-day that the Royal Oak carried 81 officers and 1153 men, of which 24 officers and 786 men were lost when she was ...
Article : 35 wordsIn case of war emergency a steel suspension bridge can be built in a week to bridge a gulf or to be thrown across a river in the event of a regular bridge being destroyed by bombs or other means. The picture shows one of the bridges almost completed near Slough. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 80 wordsThe "New York Times" Washington representative says Germany's shortage of petrol and oil, particularly for the vital air force, makes a quick victory imperative. According to army and naval experts here, ...
Article : 110 wordsPresident Roosevelt to-day urged an inter-government committee on political refugees, which would represent six countries, to speed the present task of helping 300,000 homeless persons because "when this ghastly war ends, maybe not one but twen[?]'y million will enter the ...
Article : 459 wordsWell informed circles in Berlin forecast a programme of ten days' lightning strokes by air and ...
Article : 39 wordsSir Nevile Henderson, former British Ambassador in Berlin, declares that the marriage of Field-Marshal von Blomberg, former German commander-in-chief, to a typist caused a crisis in the army and Hitler "sacked" 14 generals. ...
Article : 395 wordsM. Kalinin, President of the Soviet Executive, has replied to President Roosevelt's message that the present negotiations between Russia and ...
Article : 44 wordsTwo air raid Wardens at Wallsend both aged about 60, collapsed and died when hurrying to duty in yesterday's raid. ...
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Examiner (Launceston, Tas. : 1900 - 1954), Thu 19 Oct 1939, Page 1
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