The first really sharp Italian reference to Britain's seizure of German exports in neutral ships appears in Signor Mussolini's newspaper, the ...
Article : 190 wordsMilitia members of the 2nd Anti-Aircraft Battery carried out practice yesterday at a coastal location. This picture shows an Australian-made gun in action against a target towed by an aeroplane. Gunners are throwing shells to the loader. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 42 wordsMrs. T. Tunnecliffe, wife of the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, may be asked to give evidence before the Royal Commission ...
Article : 293 wordsThe possibilities of developing land, which would be served by a railway from Inverell to Guyra will be examined by the Minister for Mines and ...
Article : 198 wordsNo cases of cerebro-spinal meningitis have occurred in military camps in New South Wales but special precautions are being taken to guard against ...
Article : 302 wordsGipsy Major engines for Tiger Moth training aircraft to be used under the Empire Air Scheme will be made in Australia. ...
Article : 448 wordsThe greatest flood in living memory has swept down the Hutt Valley, Wellington. Many houses have been isolated and bridges destroyed. Losses ...
Article : 85 wordsParliament will be fully engaged until the adjournment for the Christmas recess on Thursday. In the House of Commons to-morrow, the ...
Article : 171 wordsCaptain L. G. True, service representative in Australia for the Pratt and Whitney aircraft engine factory, says that the Australian Lockheed Hudson bombers will have a top ...
Article : 165 wordsThe Premier, Mr. Mair, said yesterday that the Treasurer. Mr. Richardson, had not yet received any definite recommendation from the Films Commission on the question of granting ...
Article : 74 wordsThe new Federal Economic Cabinet will hold its first meeting in Sydney this week. It is proposed that most of the subsequent meetings should be in Canberra. ...
Article : 176 wordsWhen firemen had apparently subdued a fire which broke out in the No. 1 hold of an oversea vessel at the Hamilton wharf, alter fighting ...
Article : 154 words"Why are Australian troops being sent abroad?" asked Mr. Lang, in an address to a public meeting at Newtown last night. "The British authorities do not ...
Article : 275 wordsThe vigilance of warders at Bogga Road Gaol prevented a daring attempt, by two prisoners to escape from their cells last night. The warders heard the noise of men ...
Article : 145 wordsA sucgestion that all war trophies in Australia should be collected and used as scrap for the manufacture of munitions was made to-day by Mr. T. G. Lovett, a councillor of the ...
Article : 124 wordsTwo German planes flew over Suffolk yesterday, at a great height. They came from the north, and traveliea to the south-east, emitting clouds of white ...
Article : 83 wordsThe Lockheed Aircraft Company announces that sales during the nine months ended September 30 totalled £A 5,093,850. This is an increase of 201 per cent, over ...
Article : 69 wordsApproved civil air training establishments will begin training pilots for the Royal Australian Air Force in all capital cities on December 27. ...
Article : 123 wordsA Darwin coastal fort fired a six-inch shell across the bows of a pearling lugger to-day when the lugger failed to-day a signal to heave to. ...
Article : 138 wordsThe new Labour leader, Mr. McKell, M.L.A., has agreed lo visit the Trades Hall each month to consult trade union and political Labour officials on current Labour questions. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 18 wordsThe Duke of Kent will probably be the principal beneficiary in the will of his greataunt, the Princess Louise, who died on December 3. The Duke sat for hours at her ...
Article : 98 wordsAlderman J. D. L. Gaden, a city solicitor, was last night elected Mayor of Woollahra, defeating the retiring Mayor, Alderman G. S. Grimley. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 159 wordsThe Legacy Club yesterday said farewell to Lieutenant-Colonel E. O. Milne, formerly in charge of the 34th Battalion at Dapto, who will soon leave Sydney for overseas as ...
Article : 184 wordsDespite growing defence expenditure, the Federal accounts are still buoyant. On November 30 there was a surplus of £671,000 in the Federal Consolidated Revenue Account. ...
Article : 81 wordsThe Polish Premier and Minister for War, General Sikorskl, arrived by train at a French town yesterday morning. He was welcomed by senior English and French staff officers, ...
Article : 127 wordsThe State Cabinet decided yesterday not to adopt the report of the Parliamentary select committee on the working conditions and hours of the employees of the Fire Brigade ...
Article : 49 wordsA warning against standardisation in education was given by the headmaster of Wolard College, Mr. S. G. Brown, at the annual speech day. ...
Article : 144 wordsAn Adelaide syndicate, which already owns the Hotel Darwin, has acquired leases of the licences of the Victoria Hotel and Don Hotel, the only other public-houses in the town ...
Article : 110 wordsIn the Wollongong Police Court. Alexander McIntyre, 50, civilian walter at the sergeants' mess at the Dapto camp, was fined £5, in default 10 days' imprisonment, for stealing ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 248 wordsThe Health Departmpnt has received about 12 inquiries from doctors regarding opportunities for appointment to country centres under the Government's scheme of ...
Article : 232 wordsA motion railing upon the Commonwealth Government to support an immediate armistice, and call a peace conference, with the object of ending hostilities in Europe, was ...
Article : 162 wordsThe Gallipoli Legion of Anzacs will hold a children's Christmas tree party on Saturday, December 23. Members should furnish the name and age of each of their children of ...
Article : 83 wordsThe death occurred on Sunday afternoon of Mr. Harold C. Thompson, who had been a member of the Sydney Stock Exchange for 55 years. He was 81. ...
Article : 122 wordsSix soldiers were killed and eight injured— all British subjects—when a goods train hit an army lorry at a lovel crossing in the war tone. ...
Article : 54 wordsDelegates from all States probably will attend a conference in Melbourne on January 24 to form a central council to co-ordinate war funds and to arrangr for comforts for ...
Article : 105 wordsIt is practically certain that Alderman S. S. Crick will be elected the new Lord Mayor of Sydney by the City Council at a special meeting to-day. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 426 wordsMr. Syd, Marshall of Marshall Airways, returned to the Kingsford Smith airport, Mascot, yesterday afternoon in a Short Scion aircraft, in which he flew a Macquarie Street ...
Article : 166 wordsMinerva Theatre: "Yes, My Darling, Daughter" 8.15. Theatre Royal: "Under Your Hat," 8. Tivoli Theatre: The Mills Brothers, 2.30, 8. ...
Article : 316 wordsIt was announced from the Berlin radio yesterday that the murderer of two German Custom officials in Austria had been surrounded and shot. He did not offer resistance ...
Article : 77 wordsThe stop-work meetings which had been arranged by the enginedrivers and firemen on the various coalfields this week have been cancelled at the request of the combined ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Minister for Mines and Forests, Mr. Vincent announced last night that the Government would soon appoint a Royal Commission lo inquire into the compulsory ...
Article : 73 wordsDetectives yesterday arrested a man at Darlinghurst on a charge of shooting with intent to murder Charles Benjamin Williams, 28, of Edgecliff Road. Edgecliff at the ...
Article : 76 wordsHarold Stevens, of Tuggerah, was cutting timber near Kulnura, about 23 miles from Gosford, yesterday, when the head flew from the axe and badly gashed one of his legs. ...
Article : 68 wordsThe four German prisoners who escaped from an internment camp in the cast of England on Friday last have been recaptured One was recaptured on Saturday and the other ...
Article : 62 wordsA fund which has been inaugurated among all classes in Cyprus to help the British Red Cross Society has already exceeded £5,000. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Minister for Customs, Mr Lawson, announced to-day that the following State Advisory Committee had been appointed in New South Wales to co-operate with the Prices ...
Article : 112 wordsAliens in Australia who disregard Federal awards are liable to have their permits to remain in Australia cancelled, and to be compelled to leave the country. ...
Article : 93 wordsThe death occuried recently in Hampshire, England, of Mr. Algernon Talmage R.A., the well-known artist. Born in 1809, Mr. Talmage in 1920 won the ...
Article : 115 wordsThe price of gold was unchanged Foreign exchange rates were also unaltered. Tin was unpegged. Four hundred tons were sold at £271 a ton. ...
Article : 82 wordsThe authorities at Bucharest deny reports that British saboteurs have been arrested at the Rumanian oilfields. ...
Article : 23 wordsTwelve hundred men have enlisted in the Auxiliary Corps for service in France. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 12 Dec 1939, Page 12
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