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  2. FINANCE FOR HOMES.

    The Premier, Mr. Mair, announced last night that the Commissioners of the Rural Bank had agreed to finance the construction of 200 ...

    Article : 710 words
  3. Coal strike THREAT.

    Doubts about the wisdom of the threat to cause a general coal strike in Australia were expressed yesterday by rank-and-file unionists on the ...

    Article : 229 words
  4. TRAINING AIRMEN.

    Two hundred thousand applicants will have to be interviewed and tested before the 55,000 picked men needed to implement Australia's part in the ...

    Article : 222 words
  5. FINNS HOLD OUT.

    The Finns declare that the Mannerheim Line still holds out, even at Summa, which is regarded as the most vulnerable spot, but the Soviet ...

    Article : 800 words
  6. MORE NAZI RAIDS.

    German planes attacked shipping on the English and Scottish coasts to-day. They were engaged by British fighters. ...

    Article : 308 words
  7. MLDING OF SHIPS.

    The opinion is widely held that, because of Britain's war-time losses of merchant shipping, a big expansion of Dominion shipbuilding, such as is now ...

    Article : 371 words
  8. TURKS' BIG PURGE OF GERMANS.

    The Turkish Government to-day dismissed 100 German technicians employed by the War and Naval Ministries and gave them 48 hours' notice to quit the country. Turkish officials state that no German in future will be ...

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  9. R.A.A.F. REQUIREMENTS.

    The qualifications required of recruits under the Empire Air Scheme were explained yesterday by the Minister for Air, Mr. Fairbairn. ...

    Article : 312 words
  10. TACTICS OF LEADERS CRITICISED.

    Northern rank-and-file unionists, who have analysed the new policy of the combined mining unions and committee, believe that the important ...

    Article : 325 words
  11. AIR LINES.

    The dangers attendant upon allowing British commercial aviation to languish because of the war and the benefits to be derived from stimulating it, ...

    Article : 727 words
  12. FRENCH SHIP MINED.

    The French steamer Marie Dawn (2,156 tons) struck a mine in the North Sea and sank. All 29 members of the crew were landed on ...

    Article : 413 words
  13. FIRE MENACES TOWNSHIP.

    Hundreds of volunteers, including many women, are to-night fighting a fierce bushfire, which is advancing toward the township of Tarana. ...

    Article : 191 words
  14. CHALLENGE TO LABOUR.

    The United Australia Party candidate for Corio, Mr. J. T. Vinton Smith, to-night challenged the Labour Party to show that it was sincere in its desire to help Australia in the ...

    Article : 118 words
  15. WARRANT TO BE ISSUED.

    Issue of a warrant for the arrest of Major Walter Tasman Conder, a former Inspector-General of Prisons and a former general manager of the ...

    Article : 186 words
  16. WONTHAGGI DISPUTE SETTLED.

    The trouble at the State coalmine, Wonthaggi, has been settled, and the men will return to work at midnight on Sunday. On Tuesday, a conference with the ...

    Article : 57 words
  17. BELLIGERENT SUBMARINES

    The Inter-American Neutrality Committee has recommended that the American Republics should ban belligerent submarines from their ...

    Article : 109 words
  18. FIERCE FIRE NEAR WAGGA.

    The worst bushfire in the district for 20 years is burning fiercely to-night south-east from Wagga, menacing a large area of pastoral and agricultural country. Several ...

    Article : 83 words
  19. TAX ON FLOUR INCREASED.

    The first upward movement in the rate of flour tax since August 11 last year will be made to-day, when the tax will be advanced by 4/4 a ton to ...

    Article : 200 words
  20. "NO CONSCRIPTION FOR ABROAD."

    The Prime Minister, Mr. Menzies, emphatically denied again yesterday that the Government had any intention of introducing conscription for ...

    Article : 123 words
  21. STATIC WAR.

    Again discussing the strangeness of a static war, Major-General Sir Charles Gwynn says that the Allied Armies cannot morally or politically be justified ...

    Article : 382 words
  22. COUNTER-ATTACK AT NANNING.

    The Chinese Army spokesman announced to-day that the Chinese troops in the Nanning area had evaded the Japanese attempt to encircle them. ...

    Article : 144 words
  23. RUSSIA AND ITALY.

    In an effort [?]o ease relations between Russia and Italy the Russian Charge d'Affaires, M. Helfand, and the Italian Foreign Minister, Count Ciano, are ...

    Article : 104 words
  24. ASKED PAYMENT FOR RESCUE.

    The master, Captain Crespulo on Rubia, of the Philippines steamer President Quezon, which sank in a storm near Japan, told a court of marine ...

    Article : 188 words
  25. HUGE BLACK MARLIN CAUGHT.

    A black marlin weighing 680lb was caught yesterday about a mile off Bermagui Headland by Mr. C. A. E. Starling, a visitor from Ceylon. ...

    Article : 147 words
  26. ILLNESS OF LORD TWEEDSMUIR.

    The Governor-General of Canada, Lord Tweedsmuir (widely known as John Buchan, the novelist), is gravely ill. ...

    Article : 133 words
  27. MACQUARIE STREET TRAFFIC.

    A suggestion that a roundabout to overcome traffic difficulties be constructed in Macquarie Street, opposite the Mitchell Library, will be considered by the City Planning ...

    Article : 114 words
  28. HUNDRED POWER POLES BURN.

    About 100 electric light poles were burnt or damaged by fire in Sydney suburbs last night. Thick dust on the poles, when wet by light ...

    Article : 203 words
  29. CASUALTIES ON H.M.S. SPHINX.

    The Secretary of the Admiralty, Mr. G. H. Shakespeare, announces the following casualties from H.M.S. Sphinx, which was damaged by enemy air attacks on February 3, and ...

    Article : 79 words
  30. FRENCH DEPUTIES' SECRET SESSION.

    The Chamber of Deputies decided by 262 votes to 227 to hold a secret session. The motion was moved by the Socialist leader. M. Blum. ...

    Article : 64 words
  31. REINFORCEMENTS FO[?] A.I.F.

    The Minister for the Army, Mr. Street, announced to-night that the second reinforcements for the A.I.F., to be raised in March, would number 2.397, and the third and fourth, ...

    Article : 77 words
  32. 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 : 142 words
  33. POOR SWIMMER SAVES GIRL

    George Mayne, of North Balwyn, who is a poor swimmer, dived off the Mentone pier last night, risking his life to save a young girl. ...

    Article : 62 words
  34. NORWAY'S ARMS BILL.

    The Norwegian Parliament has appropriated for defence expenditure in the second half of 1939-40 the sum of £11,000,000. (Other Oversea Mews on Next Page.) ...

    Article : 32 words
  35. PRIMATE OF IRELAND'S DEATH.

    The death has occurred of Dr. Edward J. Byrne, Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland. ...

    Article : 27 words
  36. GERMANS GO HOME.

    The steamer Durham Castle brought 162 germans from Kenya Colony and Tanganyika, who went hence to Germany by train. ...

    Article : 32 words
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