The Admiralty announces that naval forces, co-operating with the R.A.F., successfully attacked on Friday an enemy concentration near the coast, ...
Article : 471 wordsA hot westerly wind, which sprang up yesterday morning;, fanned bush and grass fires in the country and suburbs, played havoc with sailing ...
Article : 501 wordsLeft (top): A scene in the Aldwych tube railway tunnel, where traffic has been stopped so that the tunnel may be used specially as underground shelter for Londoners. Left (lower): Children sleep in hammocks slung across the railway lines. Right: A scene in the shelter at the Salvation Army Mothers' Hospital at Clapton. Newly-born babies are placed on the shelf above their mothers' heads. (Pictures by yesterday's air mail. Others appear on Page 12.) ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 81 wordsRoyal Air Force bombers on Saturday night continued their systematic and relentless hammering of the German war machine. ...
Article : 762 wordsMr. Holt, the new Minister for Labour and National Service, was elected to the House of Representatives for Fawkner (Victoria) at a by-election in August, ...
Article : 496 wordsStrong opposition to any attempt to include the Labour Party in a National Government National War Cabinet, or a War Advisory Council, was expressed by the annual ...
Article : 67 wordsAlthough it was officially announced in Melbourne yesterday that Australian canteen orders may now be used to buy goods at all official British canteens, ...
Article : 71 wordsCovering the passage of a convoy through the Straits of Dover late on Friday, an attack by the R.A.F. swept like a tornado for an hour along the ...
Article : 514 wordsFaith in a profitable outcome was expressed and a promise of unqualified Australian support given by Sir Walter Massy-Greene, leader of the Australian ...
Article : 177 wordsThe United States War Department is unaware of a proposal to make available to Australia 10 American war planes which the Government refused ...
Article : 314 wordsExperts on the dairying industry in New South Wales warmly welcomed the exposition by the agricultural correspondent of the "Herald" of the need for increasing Australian ...
Article : 483 wordsThe submarine Swordfish has torp[?]d[?]ed and sunk a German torpedo boat off the French coast. In the Mediterranean Sea, the submarine ...
Article : 57 wordsA protest against the arrest of German missionary pri[?]sts and brothers at Beagle Bay and Lombadina Missions in Kimberley (W.A.) was made by ...
Article : 158 wordsThe General commanding the Australian troops in Egypt has just completed a two-day tour of inspection of the main British defence line in the Western Desert. ...
Article : 121 wordsThe Chief Paymaster, Colonel Moore[?] is at present conducting negotiations through the Agent-General for South Australia. Sir Charles McCann, to have the orders made redeemable ...
Article : 294 wordsThe Press attache of the Japanese Consulate at Singpore, Mr. Shinozaki, who was arrested on September 24, was charged in court yestetday under the ...
Article : 136 wordsCable trams, which were the pride of the city when they were introduced 53 years ago, ran for the last time in Melbourne last night, and double-deck buses made their first ...
Article : 111 wordsAt 5 p.m. to-day. Mrs. Eliza Cox, 58, of Mirboo North, left the Royal Melbourne Hospital to go home, after five months in bed with a fractured leg. Members of her family ...
Article : 99 wordsThe courage and devotion to duty of telephonists during air raids was emphasised by the Postmaster-General, Mr. W. S. Morrison, when he replied to ...
Article : 193 wordsPrince Bernhard, of the Netherlands, yesterday forwarded to the Minister for Aircraft Production, Lord Beaverbrook, a cheque for £323,377, ...
Article : 66 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 72 wordsThe results of months of dangerous preparations for the raising of the Kakariki were [?]uined in a few hours to-day by high seas lashed up by a furious gale, and all hopes ...
Article : 118 wordsThe first casualty list issued by the Ministry of Shipping gives the names of [?]25 members of the crews of the marchant navy and fishing fleets who lost then lives in the first six ...
Article : 68 wordsCaptain Alec Cunningham-R[?]id, Conservative member for St. Marylebon[?] since 1932, has refused to accept a motion of the St. Marylebone Conservative Union calling upon ...
Article : 255 wordsPolice investigating the murder of Harry Slater, 55, at Yarra Bay Junction on Friday afternoon, believe that he was the victim of the most cold-blooded ...
Article : 265 wordsLieutenant V. A. Smith, of the Royal Australian Navy, has been mentioned in despatches for bravery in an attack on the German battle cruiser Scharnhorst. ...
Article : 74 wordsA review of Army canteen policy, involving both reconsideration of the ban on wet canteens and examination of the basis of charging for ordinary ...
Article : 292 wordsPlaying his first innings of the season. Don Bradman immediately struck typical batting form for Kensington in district cricket on Saturday. Going in with the score at one ...
Article : 65 wordsThe British Admiralty announces the loss of H.M.S. Venetia, a destroyer of 1,090 tons. through striking a mine. ...
Article : 28 wordsFrom left: Mr. Holt (Vic.), Minister for Labour and National Service; Sir Earle Page (N.S.W.), Minister for Commerce; and Mr. Harrison (N.S.W.), Minister for Customs. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 35 wordsMr. Gandhi, the Indian Nationalist leader, has suspended publication of his paper, "Harijan," a [?] protest against the Government censorship of reports and speeches ...
Article : 76 wordsA woman believed to be Mrs. Elizabeth Richards. 66, of Wyndham Street. Alexandria, was knocked down by a motor car in Botany Road. Waterloo, last night and killed. Police ...
Article : 61 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 28 Oct 1940, Page 10
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: