Soldiers in uniform yesterday again made determined efforts to break up the meeting held in the Sydney Domain by the Communist Party. ...
Article : 1,351 wordsThe Minister for Air, Mr. Fairbairn, arrived from England this evening by the Empire flying-boat, Coolangatta. ...
Article : 686 wordsSydney welcomed the New Year with traditional gaiety, but the khaki uniforms of the men of the Second A.I.F. on final leave before their departure ...
Article : 1,518 wordsThe death—roll in the earthquake disaster in Anatolia, Turkey's mountainous hinterland in Asia, is mounting hourly as news from doomed ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 846 wordsThe Russians who are invading Finland have been forced back across the frontier at a third point— this time on the Kutno sector. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 792 words"We enter the most decisive year in German history, declared Herr Hitler in a New Year message to the Nazi Party. "Eighty millions of people cannot be kept from participation in the world's wealth," he declared. "All the measures we have ...
Article : 199 wordsSenator Key Pittman, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, announced that at the proper time he would ask the Committee to ...
Article : 269 words"Japan may get out of China in 1940," said the Chinese Foreign Minister, Mr. Wang Chung-hui, in an interview. "The Japanese are now at the end of their ...
Article : 162 words"May the year 1940 bring a decision. That decision will be our victory, come what may," declared Herr Hitler in his Kew Year message to the Nazi Party. ...
Article : 1,169 wordsSignor Mussolini's coming visit to Pope Plus XII will raise a number of delicate problems, among them the Pope's views on a peace settlement. ...
Article : 180 wordsAbout 9. o'clock to-night a fire destroyed the large premises of the Leeton Fruit Distributors in Acacia Avenue, Leeton. ...
Article : 88 wordsThe men of the R.A.A.F. No. 10 Squadron will be observed closely by the authorities to decide whether the Australian conception of military ...
Article : 256 wordsMr. Frank Neil, managing director of the Tivoli Theatre, Melbourne and Sydney, was seriously injured in a motor accident early to-day. ...
Article : 76 words"The problems causing the war are not worth a war, and could be settled by negotiation, plebiscite, or arbitration," said the Danish Premier, M. Stauning. ...
Article : 584 wordsThe German police have issued an international warrant for the arrest of Herr Fritz Thyssen; the noted German industrialist, who is supposed to have ...
Article : 104 wordsThe ancient Scottish dish, haggis, called by Burns "great chieftain o' the puddin' race," but generally regarded by the Sassenach with grave suspicion, ...
Article : 193 wordsThe Assistant Republican Leader in the Senate, Senator Warren Austin, is urging an amendment of the new Neutrality Act. ...
Article : 130 wordsFire broke out in the Spanish passenger liner Cabo San Antonio (12,275 tons) on Friday, when the vessel was 500 miles south of Teneriffe (Canary ...
Article : 71 wordsA formal claim to 12,000 square miles of Antarctica may be made by the Japanese Government. The Foreign Office, in making this ...
Article : 68 wordsAfter the gale on Saturday, the sea was calm on all metropolitan beaches during the week-end, and, although there were great holiday crowds, the surf life-saving club ...
Article : 127 wordsThe responsibility of rousing a number of New Year revellers this morning fell on the G.P.O., where more than 150 "wake-up" calls were booked last night. ...
Article : 93 wordsDr. W. H. Riddell, Charge d' Affairs at the Canadian legation at Washington, has been appointed Canadian High Commissioner to New Zealand. ...
Article : 65 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" ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 1 Jan 1940, Page 7
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