High officers of the Air Force propose to impose a rigid ban on any form of initiation ceremony in every pilots' training camp in Australia. ...
Article : 283 wordsA senes of spectacular displays stirred the enthusiasm of the 25,000 spectators at the New South Wales police carnival at the Show ground on Saturday ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 780 wordsThe Royal Air Force on Thursday and Tnday made reconnaissance flights over Austria and Bohemia, penetrating as far as Vienna and Prague. They ...
Article : 392 wordsReports are current in London that four more U-boats have been sunk. Two were destroyed in the North Sea, one was sunk off the coast of ...
Article : 394 wordsThe Australian troops had their happiest day since reaching Palestine yesterday, when the first sea-borne mail arrived from Australia. ...
Article : 363 wordsTwo stages in the recovery of a lost train during the recent cold snap in England. A snowplough and 2,000 soldiers were employed. (Pictures by air mail.) ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 32 wordsPolice in a wireless patrol car pursued a thief in a stolen car for miles, in a furious chase through the streets of the city early yesterday morning. ...
Article : 185 wordsThe British steamer Royal Archer (2,266 tons) struck a mine off the Scottish coast and, it is believed, sank while efforts were being made to tow her ...
Article : 268 wordsFor the first time in history women are entering the British aimy and are subject to military law in the same way as the Tommies. The women's ...
Article : 218 wordsJewish members of the Second A.I.F. used their first week-end leave to make a pilgrimage to the historic Wailing Wall. ...
Article : 172 wordsMembers of the executive committee of the Hospitals Association, at a meeting in Sydney on Saturday, strongly criticised the Government and the ...
Article : 140 wordsThe House of Representatives carried by 216 votes to 168 a measure to extend for three years the Reciprocal Trade Treaties Act. ...
Article : 162 wordsThe U.S. State Department issued yesterday a statement which indicated that the dispute with Britain regarding the stoppage of ships and ...
Article : 533 wordsThe Australian Minister in Washington, Mr. Casey, will make his first important official contact on Tuesday, when he will confer with the U.S. ...
Article : 360 wordsA list of prohibited areas in Sydney has been issued by the General Staff, Eastern Command, Victoria Barracks. It includes areas round the Pyrmont Power-house, the ...
Article : 67 wordsThe Prime Minister, Mr. Chamberlain, evoked loud and prolonged cheers, when, in the course of his speech at Birmingham (reported on previous ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 16 wordsMilitary experts here estimate that the Allies' land, sea, and air forces on January 1 totalled 8,500,000, compared with Germany's 7,260,000. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 212 wordsWith the return to port of the Lowestoft trawler Saxmundham, another fishing-boat victim of Tuesday's German plane attack was revealed. The ship's engine-room casing and ...
Article : 74 wordsThe legislative programme for the sitting of the State Paihament to be resumed on Wednesday will be discussed by Ministerial parties to-morrow. ...
Article : 219 wordsSummer-time is now in operation in Britain and France.—A.A.P. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe second volume of the secret papers of the late Mr. Robert Lansing, who was United States Secretary of State during the war of 1914-18, ...
Article : 279 wordsAt cat. which attacked a snake, probably saved the life of an officer in one of Darwin's coastal defence batteries. ...
Article : 117 wordsSweden is abandoning the gold standard. The Parliament will meet to-day to pass the necessary measure before the Stock Exchange opens to-morrow. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 210 wordsAir Marshal Sir William Mitchell, the Commander-in-Chief of the R.A.F. in the Middle East, in a broadcast, said that Britain and Egypt were building ...
Article : 115 wordsHarry Bridges, the Australian-born leader of the Pacific Coast longshoremen, has appealed to the United States Supreme Court against his conviction in the Californian Courts ...
Article : 135 wordsThe Swiss Federal Council has decided to issue a national defence loan of £11,000,000. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe death of Dr. James Addington Caldwell occurred yesterday at his home in Macauley Road, Stanmore. He was aged 83 years. ...
Article : 147 wordsCommander Phillips (left), of the British submarine Ursula, and Commander Bickford, of the submarine Salmon, photographed as they left Buckingham Palace this month before being invested by the King with the D.S.O. for their work in torpedoing German cruisers. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 41 wordsWith a view to preventing possible [?]oreign domination of international communications, the Federal Communications Commission has decided to ...
Article : 80 wordsTheatre Royal: Russian Ballet, 8. Minerva Theatre: "Tony Draws a Horse," 8.15. Tivoli Theatre: "The Hat Trick," 2.15 8. Century Theatre: "Four Wves," "City of Chance," ...
Article : 285 wordsThe Rev. F. E. Watts, the Australian chaplain of the Seamen's Institute, Kobe, who had been detained by the Japanese police since January 17. was charged at Kobe yesterday ...
Article : 72 wordsKevin Maxwell, 7, of Warner's Bay, who was spending a holiday with his grandmother at Lambton, climbed on an electric sub-station at Lambton yesterday, and touched a main ...
Article : 72 wordsThe House of Representatives Banking Committee approved the bill to increase the lending power of the Export-Import Bank of Washington to enable loans to be made to ...
Article : 135 wordsWhen a trainer plane was flying upside down over Kurnell on Saturda[?] an air-lock developed in the fuel system, and the pilot was forced to land in a swa[?]p at Pelican ...
Article : 76 wordsJohn Patrick Quilty, aged 30, was found dead at the bottom of a well on Saturday afternoon. Mr. A. Cowling looked down the well, and was horrified to see a dead man ...
Article : 98 wordsMrs. Mabel Wood, of Alfred Street, Ramsgate, was struck on a leg by a.22 calibre bullet as she was sitting on a chair in the yard of her home on Saturday morning. ...
Article : 99 wordsThe Princess of Piedmont, wife of the Crown Prince Humbert, of Italy, has given birth to a daughter. [?]The Princess of Piedmont, formerly the ...
Article : 71 wordsJohn Robertson, 2½, who lives with his parents at Fullagar Road, Wentworthville, drank a quantity of kerosene from a bottle early yesterday afternoon. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 26 Feb 1940, Page 10
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