British and German fighter patrols yesterday fought an indecisive action in the neighbourhood of Verdun, states a communique issued by Royal Air ...
Article : 257 wordsGroup-Captain W. D. Bostock, formerly Director of Operations and Intelligence, has been appointed Deputy Chief of the Air Staff of the Royal ...
Article : 408 wordsThe appointment of laymen instead of legal men as Judges on the Bench of the State Industrial Court was suggested by the leader of the Labour Party ...
Article : 324 wordsSappers of the Royal Engineers training in England for the special work required by the military operations in Norway. Top: A four-piece box girder bridge erected across a ravine to take mechanical transport on a grooved track. Lower: A loaded lorry being ferried across a river on a pontoon constructed of collapsible boats. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 56 wordsThe hoarding of petrol should he declared illegal, and, if necessary, the Government should take steps to recover stocks already hoarded. ...
Article : 544 wordsThe Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Mr. R. A. Butler, in the House of Commons to-day, said that the Government had invited the Soviet to ...
Article : 86 wordsReports from Helsinki, the capital of Finland, state that a new brceze at present is blowing over Russian polities. The Helsinki newspaper. "Uusi Suomi," says ...
Article : 165 wordsLarge scale German military preparations, which are reported to be progressing at Memel (East Prussia) and along the Luxembourg frontier, have ...
Article : 189 wordsThe slogans in German, printed in large letters on the wall of Parbury's Bond and Free Stores at the foot of Windmill Steps, have been attracting ...
Article : 149 wordsSister Kenny, the Australian, had her first opportunity yesterday to present data of her treatment of infantile paralysis to a group of New York ...
Article : 277 wordsThe Chief Judge of the Arbitration Court, Sir George Beeby, to-day described regulation strike tacties by New South Wales railway employees as ...
Article : 299 wordsNew decisions, designed to guarantec effective co-operation in all circumstances by Britain, France, Norway, and Poland, were made at a meeting of the ...
Article : 279 wordsThe Empire air training scheme will enter a new-stage on April 29 with the arrival of the first group of oversea fliers to start their course at ...
Article : 97 wordsMr. H. J. P. Bate, United Australia Party member for Wollondilly, has enlisted in the A.I.F., and will join the mechanised cavalry. ...
Article : 133 wordsThe committee of the Chamber of Fascios and Corporations, which reported on the Italian Foreign Ministry's budget, distributed a communique ...
Article : 269 wordsIncreasing interest is being taken in the methods of awarding decorations. At the beginning of the war many members of the Royal Air Force ...
Article : 233 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 17 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 163 wordsIn the course of a month, the Empire would see something from the Royal Air Force which would wholly justify the expense of its creation, said Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles ...
Article : 147 wordsA leading Sydney authority on infanti[?] paralysis said last night that Sister Kenny's statements in New York were rather sweeping. Though Sister Kenny might claim that ...
Article : 64 wordsGROUP-CAPTAIN W. D. BOSTOCK. who has been appointed Deputy Chief of the Air Staff. (See column 1.) ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 20 wordsE. I. du Pont de Nemours, Inc., announces that it has taken out a patent covering the production and processing of a crimped, wool-like fibre ...
Article : 87 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 290 wordsReplying to Mr. J. J. Tinker (Lab.), who said that a letter from his sister in Australia had been opened and censored, the Minister for Information, Sir ...
Article : 85 wordsThe Civil Aviation Department, has notified all pilots that they will contravene the regulations if they use other than a licensed aerodrome for passenger flights, and that the ...
Article : 138 wordsThe Berlin Radio announced that Dr. Ernst Heinkel, 52, the designer of the Heinkel planes, had been killed in an air crash. Dr. Heinkel was designer of a number of ...
Article : 169 wordsThe arrest of Dr. Milan Achimevic, the former chief of the Yugoslavian police and former Minister for the Interior under the Premiership of Dr. ...
Article : 213 wordsPatrick King, a United States seaman, arrived at Stockholm with hundreds of other seamen from 41 ships of all nations which were sunk at ...
Article : 243 wordsSpeaking last night at the Anzac Day reunion of the Coogee-Randwick returned soldiers at the Memorial Hall, Mr. J. T. Jennings, M.P., a member of the sub-branch, said ...
Article : 91 wordsThe Minister for Air. Mr. Fairbairn. said to-day that he hoped that the trans-Tasman air service would begin with a flight from New Zealand next Tuesday. However he had ...
Article : 114 wordsA White Paper has been issued showing that credits for Government departments (other than service departments) for the year ending March 31, 1941. total £147,545,000. Details: ...
Article : 137 wordsTwo women were struck by a car and killed on the Geelong Road, near Kingsville, tonight. They were Mrs. Hazel Hester Leay, 23. of Coronation Street, Kingsville; and Eva ...
Article : 59 wordsThe first session at city picture theatres to-day will be at 12 noon. Theatre Royal: "The Yeomen of the Guard," 2. 8. ...
Article : 302 wordsThe new training plane built to its own design by the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation, at its factory at Fishermen's Bend, photographed for the first time at Point Cook this week. It is proposed to use this type of machine to train pilots under the Empire Air Scheme. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 57 wordsEvidence of the high regard in which boxing is held by the military authorities as a recreation for the military forces is given by the letting to-day of a tender for £513 worth of ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Grange, an old home of 16 rooms at May's Hill. Parramatta, was threatened by fire yesterday when a painter's blowlamp ignited portion of the woodwork. The home is owned ...
Article : 75 wordsSixty boys, sons of A.l.F. soldlers past and present, who are in camp at Furlough House, Narrabeen, were the 'guests of the Manly Council yesterday. ...
Article : 68 wordsA new form of Nazi propaganda in South Africa is revealed in a pamphlet sent to a Capetown citizen from The Hague and professing to emanate from the "Union for the ...
Article : 126 wordsVery soon war photographs of Allied activities will be available for publication. It was announced in London to-day that arrangements had been made for newsreel ...
Article : 104 wordsTwenty officers of the Third Brigade of the original A.I.F. entertained at dinner last night a party of officers of the 13th Brigade, A.I.F., now in training. Four of the guests were the ...
Article : 110 wordsGerman planes machine-gun[?]ed a steamer, believed to be the Italian vessel Italo Balbo (5,114 tons), off the south-east coast of England on Saturday. Some members of the ...
Article : 81 wordsTin was quoted to-day at £254/7/6 a ton, compared with £353/12/6 a ton yesterday. Rubber was quoted to-day at 11 1-16d a lb. Mining quotations: North Broken Hill, 36/3; ...
Article : 49 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 25 Apr 1940, Page 8
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: