How the captain of a British merchant ship decided to bring a convoy of 37 ships across the North Sea without naval escort when he heard of the ...
Article : 345 wordsThe Home Secretary, Sir John Anderson, said in the House of Commons yesterday that the Government was considering declaring the Communist ...
Article : 324 wordsThe second battle of Narvik on April 13, in which seven enemy destroyers were destroyed, and shore batteries were silenced, at a cost of three ...
Article : 942 wordsA British minesweeper at work off the Norwegian coast, Left. Dropping the sweep overboard to be towed between two vessels. Top right: A minesweeper destroying a mine with shells from a 12-pounder gun. Lower right: Members of the crew putting out the sinker and floats of a magnetic mine sweeper. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 59 words"Under war conditions, we could not expect to get from existing taxation what we got before," declared the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir John ...
Article : 472 wordsJ. E. Lovelock, the New Zealand athlete, has been admitted as a member of the Royal College of Surgeons. The Fellows elected include P. H. Wood, of Melbourne; G. A. ...
Article : 96 wordsThe Allied Purchasing Mission in the United States announces that it has signed contracts for 200,000,000 dollars (£A62,500,000) worth of aircraft and ...
Article : 245 wordsIt is thought in London that the Dutch East Indies are unlikely to cause immediate concern. Reasons given in support of this view are ...
Article : 98 words"On Anzac Day, I was in town between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m., and never have I seen such an exhibition of drunkenness. It was a disgusting sight—soldiers ...
Article : 196 wordsA committee of the House of Representatives has favourably reported on the Administration's bill to authorise the Maritime Commission to sell to ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 19 wordsThe Commonwealth Government is trying to make further savings in foreign exchange amounting it is believed, to more than £7,000,000 a year. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 160 wordsAgainst the advice of Mr. Clark M.P., a meeting of 14 members of the Dubbo branch of the A.L.P. decided to join the Australian Labour Party (Non-Communist). ...
Article : 154 wordsThe High Court delivered judgment for the defendants in a case brought by the owners of a cargo of meat that was laden on the freighter Australia Sta[?] ...
Article : 179 wordsThe Rev. Wallace Deane, who is president, of the New South Wales Temperance Alliance, said last, night that he deplored the amount of drunkenness apparent on Anzac ...
Article : 149 wordsYukon and Southern Airways are negotiating with Russia for the establishment of an airline from Canada to Vladivostok. The new service would bring eastern Canada ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 289 wordsIn a leading article, the "Daily Telegraph" criticises Sir Herbert Williams, M.P. (Con.), who, during the Budget debate in the House of Commons on ...
Article : 180 wordsMr. R. B. King, senior vice-president of the Cronulla returned soldiers' sub-branch, in a statement yesterday, denied that the subbranch had "officially disregarded a dawn ...
Article : 143 wordsThe French night communique yesterday stated: "A party of sharpshooters in the Vosges routed an enemy detachment which had laid an ambush near an outpost." ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Service Station Association of New South Wales has asked the Federal Government to issue a warning against the hoarding of petrol in anticipation of a price increase ...
Article : 80 wordsAt the Manchester Assizes Henry Ballantine Best, 24. a clerk, was sentenced to five years' imprisonment on a charge of have attempted to murder Judge Burgis, the chairman of the ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Ministry of Economic Warfare announces that war trade agreements have, been concluded between Britain and Switzerland and France and Switzerland. ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Foteign Office has announced that the King has approved of the following appointments:—"Mr. Robert Howe, Counsellor in the Foreign Office, to be Minister at Riga; Mr. ...
Article : 66 wordsThe form which German propaganda is taking in Latin America, which Americans find unpleasantly provocative, is reported in a despatch to the ...
Article : 211 wordsTin was quoted to-day at £255/15/ a ton. compared with £255/5/ yesterday. Rubber was quoted at 11 1-16d a lb. Mining quotations:—Broken Hill, 21/6; ...
Article : 78 wordsThe Premier, General Smuts, has recommended that a young man in Natal should be awarded the King's Medal for his bravery in going to the assistance of a man who was ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Duke of Kent has relinquished his appointment in the Intelligence Division of the Admiralty and has been appointed staff officer to the Training Command of the R.A.F., ...
Article : 46 wordsUnited States exports in March were valued at 352,000,000 dollars (£A110,000,000), 16,000,000 dollars (£A5,000,000) below the figures for December and January. ...
Article : 46 wordsActing Flight-Lieutenant R. P. A. Harrison. who was a participant in the R.A.F. flying-boat squadron's flight to Australia in 1037. is reported missing. ...
Article : 74 wordsThe "Vierjahresplan," the official magazine of the Reich Economic Four-year Plan, says that Germany already has spent £250,000,000 more in the present war than she did ...
Article : 58 wordsLeaders of the mining unions discussing with the Leader of the Federal Opposition, Mr. Curtin, and officials of the Australasian Council of Trades Unions yesterday the Prime Minister's ultimatum that miners must return to work next week. From Left: Mr. T. Hoare (president of the Northern Miners' Federation), Mr. Curtin, Mr. A. Monk (president of the A.C.T.U.), Mr. C. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 96 wordsTown Hall: Orchestral concert and Maria Mar[?]an, 8.15. Conservatorium: "High Tor." 8. Theatre Royal: "The Yeomen of the Guard." 2. ...
Article : 375 wordsThe Commonwealth Government's war effort is rapidly reducing unemployment. Returns submitted by trade unions show that, during the March ...
Article : 270 wordsArchdeacon W. J. Simkin has been elected new Bishop of Auckland. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe Admiralty has announced the list of casualties suffered recently in H.M. ships Eclipse, Hotspur, Rodney, and Hunter. The Eclipse, which was damaged in ...
Article : 172 wordsTimber prices for the metropolitan area of Sydney were fixed to-day by the Commonwealth Prices Commission[?]r, Professor D. B. Copland, on the basis of the April price list ...
Article : 97 wordsThe first rich oil deposits in Turkey have been found in the district of Besiri. Indications [?]tify the hopes that eventually Turkey will be able to meet all her own ...
Article : 63 wordsJealousy is thought to be the motive for the murder of a woman at Morningside and the suicide of her husband this afternoon or early to-night. ...
Article : 81 wordsGiving evidence before the Dies Committee on un-American activities, a former Communist organiser, Ezra Chase, testified that the Comm[?]nist Party had planted members ...
Article : 61 wordsPresident Roosevelt has proclaimed that a state of war exists between Norway and Germany, and has applied the U.S. Neutrality Act to Norway. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 27 Apr 1940, Page 16
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