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  2. ROTHBURY MINES.

    Mr. H. Wells, secretary of the Cessnock strike committee, claimed tonight that at least l8 of the 21 engine drivers and firemen employed at ...

    Article : 330 words
  3. A.I.F. CHANGES.

    Soldiers or former soldiers of the Australian forces living abroad, who have the necessary qualifications, may in future be called up by the Military ...

    Article : 316 words
  4. MORE RAIN SOON.

    The State Meteorologist, Mr. Mares, said last night that prospects were bright for more good rain In New South Wales soon. ...

    Article : 211 words
  5. PHYSIQUE OF A.I.F.

    The High Commissioner and Commander-in-Chief of Palestine, Sir Harold MacMichael, to-day inspected the Second A.I.F. ...

    Article : 382 words
  6. NAZI ATTACK INVITED.

    "Frankly, we would welcome an attack. We are sure of ourselves and have no fears," said the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, General Sir ...

    Article : 979 words
  7. CARGO SHPS.

    Mr. William Westwood, of the mer[?]hant ship construction section of the Admiralty, reveals a plan for early mass production of merchantmen at an ...

    Article : 420 words
  8. COMPANY TO DEVELOP BALKAN TRADE.

    Developments in the economic war yesterday were: The formation of a company financed by the British Government to develop trade with South-eastern Europe. Authoritative confirmation in London that Germany was ...

    Article : 1,033 words
  9. HOLDING UP A.I.F. SUPPLIES.

    "Strikes such as the refusal of the Sydney stevedores to load flour for Australian troops in the Middle East Indicate complete failure to realise that ...

    Article : 206 words
  10. N.S.W. ENLISTMENTS.

    Only two battalions of infantry for the 7th Division, Second A I.F., will be raised in New South Wales, the remainder of the Eastern Command's quota- of 10,200 men being ...

    Article : 126 words
  11. A.I.F. RUGBY TEAM.

    A Rugby Union match between the Second A.I.F. and the French Army will be played at Beirut on April 28. An exhibition game "Possibles" v " ...

    Article : 209 words
  12. CLASH WITH PICKETS POSSIBLE.

    Trouble may occur between pickets and miners who intend to resume work at Rosewood on Monday. Most of the Rosewood men will present themselves ...

    Article : 147 words
  13. RAID LEAFLETS CRITICISED.

    British propaganda in leaflets dropped over Germany by the Royal Air Force in recent weeks is being criticised. ...

    Article : 461 words
  14. ACTIVE SERVICE NURSES.

    Fifteen Australian nurses are in London waiting to go to Palestine with the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service to join 13 Australian ...

    Article : 463 words
  15. NO LOADING DONE.

    Supplies for the A.I.F. are still held up on the wharf at Woolloomooloo and yesterday there was no work at the ship's side. A call for men to load the ship was made ...

    Article : 60 words
  16. THREAT OF BIG STRIKE IN DARWIN.

    Darwin is threatened with a general strike to-morrow because defence forces to-day unloaded coal from freighters which had been declared ...

    Article : 170 words
  17. DISLOCATION OF TRANSPORT.

    Because the Railway Department will not haul any fertilisers during the strike, the works of Australian Fertilizers at Port Kembla are held up during the busiest season of the ...

    Article : 67 words
  18. MOZART MANUSCRIPTS FOUND.

    The German Official News Agency says that six signed manuscripts by Mozart have been discovered in the library of a monastery in Bohemia-Moravia. ...

    Article : 49 words
  19. ATTITUDE OF NEUTRALS.

    The Turkish iewspapers, "Cumhuriyet" and "Yen[?]bah," publish articles by representative, journalists, criticising the attitude o neutrals towards the ...

    Article : 121 words
  20. GRAND NATIONAL TO BOGSKAR.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 191 words
  21. RAIL CONCESSION PASSES.

    The Commissioner foi Railways, Mr. Hartigan, said yesterday that the issue of annual leave passes to railwaymen had not been stopped. ...

    Article : 208 words
  22. MOVE AGAINST MR. LANG.

    The central executive of the New South Wales branch of the Australian Labour Party last night decided to demand from Mr. Lang, M.L.A., and Mr. ...

    Article : 238 words
  23. NEW FEDERAL TAXES.

    The Federal Government's taxation proposals for 1940-41 will be introduced in the second week of the Parliamentary session, according to the present plans ...

    Article : 179 words
  24. TRAIN AND TRAM SERVICES.

    Steam-train passenger services will be reduced from to-moriow and tram services fiom Monday on some lines, and from Tuesday on others, because of the ...

    Article : 421 words
  25. MUSEUM IN NEW YORK.

    Plans to build an Australasian wing of the New York Museum of Natural History, at a cost of 1,000,000 dollars (£A312,500), were outlined at a ...

    Article : 155 words
  26. MOTOR TRUCKS FOR GOODS.

    The Department of Roid Transport has issued many peimits to rotor trucks to cany goods for 50 miles or more, and Emergency rransport, the voluntary organisation formed ...

    Article : 144 words
  27. BIG AIR XTTACK PREDICTED.

    The Rome newspapr, "Popolo di Roma" suggests that t[?] intensive air activity of the p[?]st weel is the prelude to mass attacks' which are about to ...

    Article : 142 words
  28. FRANCE'S WAR POLICY.

    The Premier of Prance, M. Reynaud, agreed yesterday to a Radical-Socialist request for a general debate in the Chamber of Deputies on the ...

    Article : 91 words
  29. DANUBE FLOODS.

    Twenty thousand Yugoslavs are homeless because of floods in the Danube. The flood waters are threatening to submerge Novigrad. ...

    Article : 131 words
  30. "A LIGHT LOAD."

    "I think you will be agreeably surprised when you see how light a load of taxation we are going to impose on you," said the Postmaster-General, Mr. ...

    Article : 127 words
  31. LABOUR'S WAR POLICY.

    The leader of the Federal Opposition, Mr Curtin, said to-day that Australians should not pet as though they were at war with countries with which, in fact they were not. ...

    Article : 123 words
  32. SECRET NEGOTIATIONS DENIED.

    On behalf of thb combined mining unions' committee, the secretary, Mr, Orr, last night denied that secret negotiations were being conducted for a settlement of the coal strike. ...

    Article : 33 words
  33. RUSSO-FINNISH FRONTIER.

    The Russians are using the RussoFinnish Frontier Commission to extract further concessions from Finland. They are demanding more territory, despite ...

    Article : 125 words
  34. RED SORTIE INTO MANCHUKUO.

    The Domei (semi-official) News Agency reports that Soviet regular troops crossed the Siberian-Manchukuo border near the Suifen River, and set ...

    Article : 78 words
  35. S.A. GOVERNMENT'S COAL STOCKS.

    To enable South Australian industries to maintain production, the State Government has decided to release about 15,000 tons of its own coal. ...

    Article : 119 words
  36. KAIN'S 21 BITS OF SHRAPNEL.

    An airman, seatel unobtrsively in the corner of a resta[?]rant, to-day proved to be Flying-Officer Edgar ("Cobber") Kain, D.F.C., [?]rne on his first ...

    Article : 93 words
  37. LIGHT METAL ORES.

    Because of the growing shortage of aluminium, preliminary steps are being taken to survey Australia's resources of ores of light metals. ...

    Article : 75 words
  38. SHOTS FIRED AT INTRUDER.

    Police who were called by a householder to Barker Road, Strathfield, late last night found a trail of blood along the road. They were told that the householder had ...

    Article : 78 words
  39. OVERSEA NEWS.

    Such of the oversea news in this issue as is headed "from Our Own Correspondent or "Herald Exclusive Service" is from a service owned and controlled entirely by "The Sydney Morning Herald" ...

    Article : 147 words
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