Germany is continuing her war on merchant shipping with unabated savagery. Reports received at the week-end ...
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Article : 68 wordsThe United States has replied tersely but courteously to the British announcement of the decision to seize German exports in neutral ships. ...
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Article : 228 wordsAn outstanding figure in an air battle, over the East Coast of Scotland on Thursday, in which nine enemy aircraft were attacked and driven off by the ...
Article : 404 wordsBritain's third big group of men— those between 19 and 23 years of age— were registered to-day for military service. ...
Article : 117 wordsThe body of Mrs. Ethel Montgomery, 49, of Roslyn Street, Darlinghurst, was recovered from the rocks at the foot of The Gap, Watson's Bay, on Saturday by Constables Ashmere and ...
Article : 236 wordsWhen reports that a launch was in distress off Coogee were received by the police last night, the pilot steamer, Captain Cook, was sent down the coast, ...
Article : 122 words"I believe that the account that the Government will be able to give will fully satisfy those who, through lack of information, may now be doubting," ...
Article : 144 wordsThe Secretary to the Admiralty announces that the destroyer Jersey (1,690 tons) was damaged by a torpedo fired from a U-b[?] on Thursday. She is now ...
Article : 201 wordsThe demand for new savings certificates and defence bonds which, from the moment of their issue, was prompt, continues to be substantial, and satisfaction with progress of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 175 wordsPriests from every Greek Church in Australia participated yesterday in a service at the Greek Orthodox Church, Bourke Street, to mark the reopening of the church after a ...
Article : 231 wordsAn armed insurrection against the Soviet troops has broken out in the oil region of Dobogrytch, in Western Ukraine. The insurgents attacked the troops and ...
Article : 99 wordsThe German steamer Henning Oldendor[?] (3,648 tons), which is unregistered, was captured by the British Navy and brought to an unnamed port. ...
Article : 157 wordsThirteen thousand Germans from Estonia have been settled on farms in Poland. The [?]vacuation of Germans from the Russiancontrolled portion of Poland is being ...
Article : 41 wordsAn aircraft factory recently opened to inspection by British and foreign journalists is described as "one of the best equipped and largest in the world." ...
Article : 241 wordsClaiming to have discovered a Communist plot to undermine the armed forces in Brazil, police arrested 100 persons, including a former deputy, and minor Army and Navy officers. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 251 wordsBecause of the case of cerebro-spinal meningitis in the camp at Redbank of the Queensland Second A.I.F. contingent, the Director-General of Health ...
Article : 267 wordsScottish police and the military authorities are investigating a supposed attempt to damage the Firth of Forth Bridge by a bomb thrown from a train window. ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Premier of Finland, Dr. Ryti, declares that the Russians will be unable to enforce a complete blockade of Finland, which they have declared ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 34 wordsSeven seamen, the survivors of a ship whose name has [?]ot been ascertained, were saved in the North Sea as the result of efforts by the crew of a ...
Article : 260 wordsAbout 20 detectives in New South Wales are investigating complaints about the operations in this State of a company registered in Canberra. The detectives are interviewing ...
Article : 118 wordsBruno Mussolini, son of the Duce, took off for Lisbon on Thursday night on the first stage of a flight to the island of Fernando de Noronha, off Brazil. He is plotting a course ...
Article : 52 wordsIt is officially stated that General Smuchkevitch, formerly commander of the Soviet Air Force in Outer Mongolia, has been appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet ...
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Article : 672 wordsOne of the four German prisoners of war who escaped from an internment camp in the East of England on Friday was recaptured yesterday. ...
Article : 112 wordsMinerva Theatre: "Yes, My Darling Daughter," 8.15. Theatre Royal: "Under Your Hat," 8. Tivoli Theatre: The Mills Brothers, 2.30, 8. ...
Article : 301 wordsEarly this morning, a fire broke out in the forward hold of an oversea steamer, which is berthed at Hamilton. Columns of smoke were pouring from the ...
Article : 111 wordsA by-election necessitated, in spite of the wartime truce between the three leading political parties, by the intervention of Independent Labour Party and Communist ...
Article : 164 wordsThe London Machine Branch of the National Society of Operative Printers has adopted a resolution protesting against the Air Ministry's preferential treatment of the British ...
Article : 120 wordsThe Golden Gate Exposition, which was described as an artistic success and a financial failure when closed on October 23 will be reopened on May l8 in accordance with a plan ...
Article : 99 wordsThe pilot of a British reconnaissance plane made a forced landing 200 yards from the frontier of France and Belgium, near Tournai. After ascertaining his whereabouts from ...
Article : 54 wordsFay Cook, of Catherine Street, Leichhardt, who celebrated her 13th birthday yesterday, suffered probably a fracture of her right thigh when she slipped from a ladder at the ...
Article : 60 wordsLord Nuffield has bought 1,500,000 cigarettes for distribution among the men of the Navy, Army, and Air Force. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Moscow radio has announced that the Russo-Japanese Commission has begun the work of defining the frontiers of Outer Mongolia and Manchukuo. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 11 Dec 1939, Page 10
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