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Advertising : 392 wordsFood rationing, which so far has applied only to butter and bacon, schemes for which come into operation on Janunry 8, in the fifth ...
Article : 285 wordsCold has slackened activities on most of the fronts in Finland. Resumption of the Russian offensive is expected with better weather. A Finnish communique, dealing with the eastern frontier, ...
Article : 593 wordsAn official estimate from Ankara provides an instance of the terrible havoc wrought in Turkey by Wednesday's earthquake. In Erzindyan alone 42,000 were killed or injured. An Istanbul report states that the earthquake partly or ...
Article : 327 wordsThe U.S. Secretary for Agriculture (Mr. Wallace), in an address, said: "We must recognise that our destiny lies increasingly ...
Article : 131 wordsCOLUMBUS (Ohio), Thursday.— The Mayo Clinic has announced the discovery of a complete preventive for the aeroplane "bends'' disease ...
Article : 123 wordsThe Paris wireless reports that the newly-published twelfth volume of Signor Mussolini's speeches and writings contains the text of a letter from Signor Mussolini to Lord Runciman when the latter was mediating in ...
Article : 137 wordsA grim game of "touch last" in a series of gigantic cloud valleys was described by a 20-yearold British pilot, who shot down ...
Article : 370 wordsThe French Minister for War (M. Reynaud), outlining extraordinary sacrifices demanded of Frenchmen, said: "The State has ...
Article : 137 wordsIt is officially stated in Berlin that enemy and neutral merchantmen losses since the war began total 279 vessels, of 1,030,000 tons. ...
Article : 210 wordsCALLANDER (Ontario), Thursday. —Dr. Dafoe is resigning the guardianship of the Dionne quintuplets, but will remain their personal physician. ...
Article : 54 wordsTOKIO, Friday.—Imperial headquarters have announced that 1,208,462 Chinese soldiers were killed between July, 1937, and November, 1939. Japanese ...
Article : 63 wordsA special correspondent of the "Times" says the Polish town of Kalisex, which the German army destroyed in 1914 because the ...
Article : 111 wordsThe New York "Times'" Rome correspondent reports: "His Holiness the Pope's visit to King Victor Emmanuel is taken as the ...
Article : 204 wordsLONDON, Thursday. — The New York "Times" correspondent in Washington states that, despite enormous comment in the Far East concerning ...
Article : 131 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—In recognition of their services in the action against the Graf Spee, the Admiralty announced this evening the following ...
Article : 125 wordsA famous German pilot and two others with distinguished German war records have joined the Citizen Air Force. ...
Article : 57 wordsPARIS, Thursday.—It is reported from Luxembourg that a German mine exploded near the ruins of the Schooner bridge, which was one of two blown up. ...
Article : 42 wordsThousands of pounds worth of cargo carried in German ships which sheltered in neutral ports after the declaration of war has ...
Article : 175 wordsLONDON, Thursday. — The official German newsagency says further British and German exchanges will be made shortly. Germany is not ...
Article : 72 wordsLONDON, Thursday. — An Air Ministry statement says: "It was announced by a German broadcasting station to-day that an officer of the ...
Article : 83 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—The London Printing Trades Federation has passed a resolution strongly protesting against "preferential treatment of the B.B.C. ...
Article : 108 wordsBERNE, Thursday.—The Swiss Commander-in-Chief (General Guisan) has ordered the creation of a fourth army corps between 80,000 and 100,000 strong ...
Article : 62 wordsWASHINGTON, Thursday. — The Dies committee has announced that Dr. Colin Ross, a German propagandist of Scottish descent, who recently toured ...
Article : 57 wordsBRAFORD, Thursday.—There is very little new business in yarns, but machinery is fully employed. The trade is awaiting some announcement whether ...
Article : 50 wordsSINGAPORE, Friday. — Hau Say Hoan, a well-known business man and a member of the committee of the Chinese relief fund, which transmits to ...
Article : 56 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—The British Empire Service League of South Africa has sent the War Secretary (Mr. Hore-Belisha) a cheque signed by ...
Article : 66 wordsEvidence of the deliberate use of neutral territorial waters for preying upon shipping in defiance of all principles of international law is contained ...
Article : 428 wordsWASHINGTON, Thursday. — The War Department has ordered the creation of 52 new army air corps squadrons, each of 616 planes, to be ...
Article : 74 wordsLONDON, Thursday.—The owners of the vessel Moortoft announce that she is several days overdue, and must be presumed lost with all 13 members of ...
Article : 87 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—The Canadian High Commissioner in Australia (Mr. C. J. Burchell) will nor lease the £7000 home built for the Minister for Supply ...
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Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 - 1954), Sat 30 Dec 1939, Page 1
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