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Advertising : 59 wordsThe 32,000-ton German liner, Columbus, third largest ship in the Nazi mercantile marine, was scuttled yesterday 400 miles north of Bermuda in order to escape capture by a British warship. The United States cruiser, Tuscaloosa, discovered the Columbus on fire and ...
Article : 1,273 wordsDay after day the British troops in France continue to dig in, and here, after heavy rain, a detachment of troops are seen pumping out the water from the trenches they are building. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 38 wordsCaptive submarine crew being landed by a British warship at a northern port. The photograph shows the U-boat captain with the officer of the armed guard as he landed from the destroyer. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 37 wordsA new storm of criticism against the censorship has resulted from Mr. Churchill's premature ...
Article : 84 wordsIt is now revealed that the Germans made 40 attacks on British bombers in the Heligoland battle yesterday, and one R.A.F. machine shot down five Messerschmitts. It is believed that the German ...
Article : 574 wordsReuters' Helsinki representative says Finnish coastal batteries are reported to have sunk the 22,000-ton Russian battleship October Revolution. The story is that the Russians knew that the batteries had an ...
Article : 495 wordsSome British front-line units have been relieved for the first time and are resting in billets behind the Maginot Line. The Scots are among ...
Article : 227 wordsThe British United Press correspondent at Buenos Aires reports that Commander Langsdorf of the ...
Article : 30 wordsClearly as a bell, the "Voice of Australia" went round the world to-day to tell of the nation's war effort and its ...
Article : 285 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of the Swiss newspaper, "Neue Zurcher Zeitung" says those in well-informed circles confirm that the heavy cruiser, ...
Article : 44 wordsA lieutenant who was killed on active service on Sunday and a lieutenant who died of wounds on Saturday are the first casualties in the ...
Article : 74 wordsThe "New York Times" Rome representative says the French Ambassador (M. Poncet) has returned from Paris with, it is reported, an offer from the French Government to lease Djibouti for 90 years, to grant further ...
Article : 97 wordsFor the first time during the war German planes are using aerial torpedoes against shipping. The trawler, ...
Article : 217 wordsThe Under-Secretary of State (Mr. Sumner Welles), replying to M. Molotov's recent statement chiding the United States on her relations with ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Cunard liner Samaria (19,000 tons) left for America last Saturday, but returned after a collision which damaged the bridge and some of the ...
Article : 37 wordsIn a message to the working class youth of the world the Finnish Workers' Athletic League declares that Fin. land is determined to try to retain ...
Article : 70 wordsA German warplane sank with bombs the British trawler Trinity which was fishing close to Norwegian territorial waters. Survivors, who ...
Article : 76 wordsThe October Revolution, 23,000 tons, one of Russia's more modern battleships is reported to have been sunk by Finnish shore batteries. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 28 wordsHerr Clodius, leader of the German trade mission, announced that German manufacturers were unwilling to fulfil contracts unless granted 25 per ...
Article : 43 wordsA German economic delegation including representatives of the Ministries of National Economy, Agriculture, and Foreign Affairs, has ...
Article : 30 wordsHitler left Berlin to-day. presumably for a holiday at Munich or Berchstegarden. ...
Article : 19 wordsHerr Himmler, chief of the Gestapo, has arrived. ...
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Examiner (Launceston, Tas. : 1900 - 1954), Thu 21 Dec 1939, Page 1
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