Cheers and coo-ees rang across the Harbour yesterday when Sydney welcomed home again the famous fighting ship that bears her name. A few minutes later, most of her 610 officers and men were ...
Article : 147 wordsThe appointment by the United States Navy Department of a naval observer at Darwin was announced last night by the Minister for External ...
Article : 258 wordsThat the Italians have learnt well the lesson of "frightfulness" is instanced in the merciless bombing of undefended Corfu and Greek towns ...
Article : 676 wordsThe British Government is withdrawing its Minister in Rumania, Sir Reginaid Hoare, and his staff of 50 Consular officers. ...
Article : 516 wordsIt is officially announced at Vichy that M. Flandin, the French Foreign Minister, has resigned. Admiral Darlan, Minister for the ...
Article : 416 wordsAlthough Italy is considered to be reeling from Allied blows, there is no suggestion in reliable quarters in London that she is likely to seek a separate peace. The German grip on Italy is regarded as being too secure for that. ...
Article : 282 wordsA band was playing sea chanties when H.M.A.S. Sydney glided slowly to her berth at Circular Quay. But the ship, which has survived ...
Article : 575 wordsSydney yesterday became a tropical city. Weather Bureau officials said that the weather—the sultriest this summer—was characteristic of the ...
Article : 333 words"You return to your homeland full of honour and with the gratitude of the Australian people," said the Governor-General, Lord Gowrie, when, having been piped aboard ...
Article : 392 wordsThe importance that the British Government attaches to the developments at Vichy is indicated clearly in the explanation by the Prime Minister, ...
Article : 417 wordsThe Germans would do their utmost to prevent it if the Italian people tried to set about getting a separate peace. It is to the German advantage to keep ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 397 wordsReports from Ankara state that the conclusion of London authorities that Turkey would give immediate help to Bulgaria in the event of a German ...
Article : 136 wordsA Greek communique issued last night reports restricted patrol and artillery activity. Some prisoners were captured. Greek aviators shot down eight enemy ...
Article : 438 wordsThe Acting Prime Minister, Mr. Fadden, to-night telegraphed the following message to Captain Collins:— "I desire to convey, on behalf of the ...
Article : 72 wordsWhen a pinnace from the sloop Lismore foundered a quarter of a mile from the jetty in an Australian port at 12.20 a.m. yesterday, ten ratings were ...
Article : 200 wordsThe Italian excuse for the success of the Geno[?] bombardment is that it was carried out in dense fog. A communique issued from Rome to-day ...
Article : 552 wordsThe German Official News Agency says that in Bucharest strict black-out precautions have been ordered by the A. R.P. authorities. All electric street signs, shop windows, and ...
Article : 80 wordsFour hundred members of the crew will take part in the march from Circular Quay through the city's streets to the Town Hall, where they will be ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 466 wordsApart from conveying the unquestioned feeling regarding the certainty of an ultimate British victory, the most important aspect of Mr. Churchill's ...
Article : 418 wordsAt an Air Force station "somewhere in England " the Secretary for the Dominions, Lord Cranborne, welcomed a number of pilot-officers and ...
Article : 306 wordsMost departments at the steel tube works of Stewarts and Lloyds (Aust.) Pty., Ltd., which were on strike during last week, resumed work to-day. ...
Article : 173 wordsA communique issued from General Headquarters, Cairo, to-day says. "The clearance of areas up to El Abgelia (Libya) is proceeding satisfactorily. ...
Article : 574 wordsThe Premier, Mr. Mair, announced yesterday that pupils of all State schools would be given a holiday to-day in honour of the exploits of H.M.A.S. Sydney, and to enable ...
Article : 127 wordsBishop Charles Reifsnider, chief of the American Episcopal missionaries in Japan, yesterday afternoon called a special meeting of all missionaries ...
Article : 120 wordsSupplies or fruit which reached the municipal markets for trading yesterday were believed by a number of leading agents to be the heaviest on ...
Article : 81 wordsBlack trackers and search parties are still seeking three German internees, who overpowered their guards and escaped into the bush near Rushworth, on Friday. ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Premier, Mr. Mair, said yesterday that there were 28,583 unemployed in New South Wales last month. This figure was the lowest for 10 years ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Acting Prime Minister, Mr Fadden, to-day sent the following message to General Sir Archibald Wavell. Commander-in-Chief in the Middle East:— ...
Article : 91 wordsSuch of the oversea news in this issue as is headed "From Our Own Correspondent" or "Heran[?]d++ Exciusive Service" is from a service owned and conducted entirely by "The Sydney Morning ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 11 Feb 1941, Page 9
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