The derailment of four carriages and the brake-van of the Sydney-Brisbane express at Duri, between Werris Creek and Tamworth, at 2.43 ...
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Article : 520 wordsThere is still mystery about the dismissal, detention, and release of M. Laval, formerly Vice-Premier and Foreign Minister in the Vichy ...
Article : 805 wordsThe Japanese Military Mission to Indo-China is reported to have informed the French authorities that Japan needs a base in South ...
Article : 245 wordsTaxpayers will not necessarily have 25 weeks in which to pay their taxes under the weekly instalment plan provided for in the Federal Budget. ...
Article : 925 wordsItalian troops advancing in face of a British bombardment from sea, air, and land when Marshal Graziani's forces invaded north-western Egypt. These troops are now travelling fast in the reverse direction, pursued by British and Dominion forces. (Other pictures of Italians in Egypt appear on page 10.) ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 51 wordsThe Justice Department has ordered the expulsion from the United States of Karl Scheuring, an 18-year-old German, and Princess Maris Hohenlohe, a ...
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Article : 751 wordsA deputation from the Labour Council of New South Wales yesterday asked the Attorney-General, Mr. Hughes, to release Mrs. Phyllis ...
Article : 346 wordsThe first English Christmas for most of the Australian troops here, and the first Christmas away from home for many of the men, will be somewhat ...
Article : 390 wordsThe Water Board is unable to have 40,000,000 gallons of water pumped from Warragamba weir daily to replenish the Prospect service reservoir, because of the difficulty ...
Article : 211 wordsThe New Order of the Tripartite Axis Pact does not appeal to Sweden, declared Professor Osten Unden, the Swedish jurist and politician, who is ...
Article : 209 wordsEnemy planes are believed to be in the vicinity of the South Coast this morning. Small formations of R.A.F. bombers, ...
Article : 518 wordsWilliam Crotty. 22, of Ellis Parade, Fair-field, was killed by electricity while working under a motor car in a garage at his home early yesterday morning. ...
Article : 96 wordsThe names of famous surgeons who had operated in the main theatre of Sydney Hospital were recalled by the president, Sir Norman Paul, at the ...
Article : 183 wordsThe French aircraft-carrier Bearn has loaded 600 tons of fuel oil at Martinique, in the West Indies. [The Bearn, which had American-built war ...
Article : 16 wordsAll persons in Britain over 15 years of age are to be insured free against injury or death by enemy action, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Kingsley Wood, announced in ...
Article : 116 wordsAllegations that two arrested men were found to have Communist literature inciting workers to strikes and revolution were made at Central Police ...
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Advertising : 62 wordsBritain has put into service a new fighter plane—the Whirlwind—which is one of the fastest planes in the world. This was revealed by the Minister for ...
Article : 132 wordsA check of the rolls used at the recent election of the new Glebe Council revealed that the names of 52 voters had been crossed off the rolls more than once and that 67 ...
Article : 202 wordsShareholders at the annual meeting of Highgates, Ltd., yesterday carried a resolution that the directors be asked to take counsel's opinion on the past affairs of the company. ...
Article : 263 wordsDorothy Pamela O'Grady, 42, has been sentenced to death for treachery. O'Grady is the first British woman to be so sentenced. She heard the sentence unmoved. ...
Article : 233 wordsRussia's vast granary has been organised by German efficiency to feed Europe throughout the winter, declared Mr. Joseph E. Davies, a former U.S. Ambassador to the U.S.S.R. and ...
Article : 44 wordsThoughts of next year's taxes have not deterred great Christmas crowds from spending as, if not more, freely than last year. ...
Article : 191 wordsAny Government employee who accepts a professorship at the University of Sydney automatically forfeits his State superannuation, even if he continues to work for the ...
Article : 195 wordsThe Spanish Foreign Minister. Senor Suner, has given the British Ambassador. Sir Samuel Hoare, an assurance that the international zone of Tangier will not be fortified. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe motorship Orari (10,350 tons), reported to have been torpedoed in the Atlantic, has reached a British port safely, the Prime Minister, Mr. Fraser, announced to-night. ...
Article : 79 wordsTin was quoted to-day at £257/10/ a ton, compared with £257/5/ yesterday. Rubber was quoted at 12 l-32d a lb. Mining quotations: Wiluna, 5/. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 19 Dec 1940, Page 8
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