Damage in the bush and forest fires which swept Victoria yesterday probably exceeds £300,000. No further loss of life has been ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 547 wordsThe disagreement between the Prime Minister, Mr. Menzies, and Mr. W. M. Hughes about Mr. Hughes's place in the new U.A.P.-U.C.P. ...
Article : 1,143 wordsSir Michael O'Dwyer, aged 75 years, a former Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab, was shot dead at a meeting in London yesterday. ...
Article : 970 words"With the passing of the monsoonal season, prospects for the immediate relief of the drought in New South Wales are waning," said the assistant State ...
Article : 386 wordsIt is expected that a debate will follow a review of the war situation which will be given in the House of Commons next Tuesday by the Prime ...
Article : 217 wordsA new defensive alliance between Finland, Norway, and Sweden is a likely outcome of the peace treaty signed by Russia and Finland. ...
Article : 772 wordsThe first wave of horror and indignation at the harshness of the peace terms imposed on Finland by Soviet Russia is now giving way to an attempt to assess the new situation. This assessment is being made in the light of what appears ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 1,840 wordsThe Foreign Secretary, Lord Halifax, made a statement in the House of Lords yesterday similar to that made by Mr. Chamberlain in the House of Commons. ...
Article : 512 wordsMr. John Garlick, formerly Chief Civic Commissioner for Sydney, has been appointed deputy chief communications censor for New South Wales. ...
Article : 299 wordsFire brigades were called to 15 bush and grass fires in the suburbs of Sydney yesterday. The largest fire was at Padstow Park, in the Bankstown area, where 20 firemen and ...
Article : 82 wordsAfter a loud explosion, Are broke out to-night in the Ivanhoe Hotel, Blackheath, and destroyed the greater part of the hotel. ...
Article : 91 wordsEileen Artery, 19, and Keith J. Kessey, 24, were found shot and mortally wounded in the bedroom of a house at The Lagoon, about nine ...
Article : 191 wordsPresident Roosevelt yesterday issued a statement, in which he repeated his statement of December 1, at the opening of the Russo-Finnish war. ...
Article : 249 wordsThe "extraordinary wave of appeasement talk in Europe and America, which has spread to London," is the subject of a leading article by the ...
Article : 372 wordsMore than 100 men assisted the Katoomba and Leura 'fire brigades and members of the Katoomba police in a successful fight against a fire which to-night threatened to destroy ...
Article : 90 wordsThe body of Mrs. Joan Margaret Nimmo, 42, of Ocean Street, Woollahra, wife of Lieut.—Colonel R. H. Nimmo, was found in the sea at the foot of the ...
Article : 324 wordsSir Michael O'Dwyer, as Lieut.—Governor of the Punjab, was concerned with the late Brigadier-General R. E. Dyer in the suppression of the Amritsar ...
Article : 346 wordsThe Acting Minister for Health, Mr. Primrose, announced in the Legislative Assembly yesterday that the Government had arranged for the payment of ...
Article : 119 wordsThe Home Secretary Sir John Andeison, declined in the House of Commons to-day to agree to the creation of power to override local opinion regarding the opening of cinemas ...
Article : 83 wordsNo facade of apparent one-ness could overcome the inherent differences among the members of the new Coalition Government," said the leader of the Federal Opposition, ...
Article : 222 wordsA notice posted in the London Stock Exchange this morning warned investors that there was reason to believe that an attempt would be made to sell German-owned ...
Article : 53 wordsWarning of increases in retail prices of some fancy meats was given in a statement issued by the Master Butchers' Association last night. ...
Article : 100 wordsThe French Senate is holding a secret session this afternoon. The Premier, M. Daladier, is said to be present. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Financial Committee of the French Chamber of Deputies has voted £330,000,000 for national defence in the second quarter of 1940. ...
Article : 54 wordsSuch 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 : 151 wordsLieut.—General Sir Archibald Wavell, Commander-in-Chief of the British Land Forces in the Middle East, is flying to Capetown in a high-speed bomber to confer with the Prime ...
Article : 59 wordsStreamers, confetti, and coloured paper floated from the windows and roofs of offices and stores in Rundle Street to-night as 1,400 South Australian members of the Second A.I.F. ...
Article : 68 wordsSir Micheal O'Dwyer was the eighth of a family of 15 children. He was a brother of the Rev. Thomas O'Dwyer, S.J., rector of St. Patrick's College, East Melbourne. ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Berlin radio states that passenger airmail services between Berlin and Amsterdam will be resumed on week days for the first time since the outbreak of hostilities. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 15 Mar 1940, Page 11
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