The "Daily Mail" Belgrade correspondent says it is reported. but not confirmed, that British warships operating in the ...
Article : 217 wordsThe reported decision of the Allies to blockade the Black Sea so as to prevent supplies of Russian oil reaching Germany suggests that oil is a major factor in war. The oil resources of the world appear to be very unequally distributed. The Americas and Asia contain the richest oil fields, and upon them Europe must draw. The world output of crude oil in 1938 was about 270,000,000 metric tons. Of this total the United States produced 60% Russia 11%, Venezuela 11% Persia 4% Netherland Indies 2½, Roumania 2½%, Mexico 1½%, and Iraq 1½%. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Advertising : 455 wordsArgument was concluded in the Supreme Court to-day, before Mr. Justice Brennan, on the application made by Joseph Charles McKeown ...
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Article : 202 wordsA Paris night communique says that fairly numerous artillery actions occurred westward of the Vosges. "Our fighters came to grips with ...
Article : 124 wordsMore Crown evidence was heard in the Criminal Court to-day at the trial of Alan Douglas Abercrombie (43), former broker, on a charge arising ...
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Article : 179 wordsThe Singapore "Herald" Batavia correspondent reports that German vessels sheltering in the Dutch Indies are most likely to make a dash for the ...
Article : 46 wordsSwitzerland is calling up on April 15, units varying from brigades to companies, and 21 more on April 22, to match belligerent forces across her ...
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Article : 56 wordsThe Dutch Minister in Berlin has been ordered to protest very strongly against the bombing of Dutch trawlers, particularly the Protinus, on ...
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Queensland Times (Ipswich, Qld. : 1909 - 1954), Thu 4 Apr 1940, Page 7
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