A heat wave yesterday, which reached a maximum of 103 degrees at 2.40 p.m., in Sydney, was followed late in the afternoon by a southerly ...
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Article : 585 wordsAir Chief-Marshal Sir Charles- Burnett, of the Royal Air Force, arrived from England by air to-night to succeed Air Vice-Marshal S. J. Goble as Chief ...
Article : 276 wordsAlthough comparatively few foreign volunteers are actually serving in the front line in Finland, apart from Swedes, the numbers of volunteers are ...
Article : 342 wordsAn announcement by President Roosevelt on Friday that he proposed to send the Assistant Secretary of State, Mr. Sumner Welles, to Europe to make a personal survey of the conditions in Italy, Germany, Britain, and France provided the major matter ...
Article : 1,707 wordsThe British naval trawlers Robert Bowen (290 tons) and Fort Royal (351 tons) were sunk with the loss of four officers and 18 ratings during ...
Article : 616 wordsThe British Government nas given a further order for planes to Canadian manufacturers, amounting in value to 30,000,000 dollars (£A.8,571,000). ...
Article : 200 wordsFrank comments on the war in the air during the past few months are offered by an anonymous contributor to a monthly publication entitled "The ...
Article : 211 wordsThe leading apprentice jockey, W. Lappin, died on Saturday afternoon from injuries received when his mount, Passport, fell near the three furlongs ...
Article : 256 wordsThe Russians have continued their pounding of the Mannerheim Line from the Gulf of Finland to Lake Ladoga, beginning the day with a ...
Article : 845 wordsThree thousand police, in a series of raids on Swedish communists in Stockholm, Boden, Goteborg, Malmo, and other cities and towns at dawn ...
Article : 235 wordsCommunists were given a bad time in Melbourne to-day by soldiers, naval men and Air Force trainees. Only continual police intervention prevented a ...
Article : 309 wordsFiremen in Sydney worked from early yesterday morning until late last night, fighting bushfires. Station Officer T. Jacobs, of the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 372 wordsDanish frontier guards saw a foreign plane drop four bombs on the German fortified island of Sylt and disappear to the west with six German planes ...
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Article : 231 wordsSupporters of President Roosevelt and of the Vice-President of the United States, Mr. J. N. Garner, have entered their names for the Wisconsin ...
Article : 187 wordsThe Secretary for Air, Sir Kingsley Wood, in a speech at Bristol on Saturday, deplored German machirie-gunning and bombing of helpless ...
Article : 122 wordsThe Premier, Mr. Mair, referring to correspondence in the "Herald" on methods of fighting bushfires, said that the voluntary fire brigades in the country provided the most ...
Article : 96 wordsA French war communique issued on Friday night states that a "serious encounter" took place, during which French detachments suffered some ...
Article : 227 wordsThere were wild scenes in an Auckland city street this afternoon, when a large party of soldiers on week-end leave from camps and sailors from ...
Article : 225 wordsThe disposal by the United States of surplus guns and other war supplies is believed to have been authorised as part of the United States' policy of closer ...
Article : 204 wordsJumping into their dinghy, the six occupants of the 30ft launch Erna, which caught fire and was destroyed near Shark Island yesterday afternoon, ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 365 wordsMr. John L. Lewis, chairman of the Congress of Industrial Organisations, advocated yesterday that the older and more conservative rival of the C.I.O., ...
Article : 142 wordsMost of the Federal unions in New South Wales will ask for a standard basic wage of £5 a week, when the Commonwealth Arbitration Court fixes the new basic wage early ...
Article : 113 wordsA tornado swept the town of Albany, in Georgia, before dawn yesterday, killing 50 persons and injuring 500, of whom 250 are m a critical condition. ...
Article : 95 wordsPrompt action by firemen from all city stations averted a serious fire in the Town Hall early this morning. Firemen, who were called by a watchmen, ...
Article : 83 wordsMaxine Anderson, 5, of Eleventh Street, Mildura, was fatally injured by the propeller of a plane at the Essendon aerodrome yesterday afternoon. ...
Article : 81 wordsThe Government has decided to introduce a bill for the construction of three battle- cruisers. To meet the cost of mobilisation, the ...
Article : 74 wordsSuch of the oversea news in this issue as is head[?] "From Our Own Correspondent" or "Herald Exclusive Service" is from a service owned and controlled entirely by "The Sydney Morning Herald" ...
Article : 130 wordsIt is understood that New Zealand is considering the question of purchasing a considerable quantity of ammunition in Canada. Two Canadian [?]ants are under consideration ...
Article : 46 wordsLeading British and French industrialists, with the approval of their respective Governments, will meet in London shortly to discuss co-operation during and after the war. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 12 Feb 1940, Page 11
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