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  2. MORE WAR PLANES.

    Special war measures will cost Australia £27,194,000 for the year 1939-40. The expenditure on all defence services will be £256,555,420. ...

    Article : 725 words
  3. NEW MOTOR INDUSTRY.

    A company, with a nominal capital of £1,000,000, will be formed soon by Australian Consolidated Industries, Ltd., to manufacture motor ...

    Article : 1,148 words
  4. SHOPPING RUSH.

    Crowds of shoppers, estimated at more than 400,000, thronged the streets of the city last night, the last late shopping night before Christmas. ...

    Article : 850 words
  5. AIR FIGHTING.

    Instancing British supremacy in air fighting, it can be stated that not a single British fighter has been shot down in the United Kingdom since ...

    Article : 379 words
  6. URUGUAYAN RETORT.

    The Montevideo correspondent of the "New York Times" says that Uruguay has energetically rejected Germany's protest against Uruguay's ...

    Article : 375 words
  7. NAZIS' HINT TO DUCE.

    An article in the "Schwarze Corps," the organ of the Nazi Black Guard, supports the belief that the visit to Rome of the leader of the organisation, Herr ...

    Article : 331 words
  8. RUSSIAN TROOPS RETREATING.

    The Red Army was retreating on two fronts to-day as a result of fierce Finnish counter-attacks. The Russian attempt to split the country north of Finland's "wasp waist" has been foiled. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,034 words
  9. NAZI TRADE WITH RUMANIA.

    Rumania and Germany have signed a trade agreement by which Rumania will supply the German Government with 1,560,000 tons of oil a year. ...

    Article : 272 words
  10. R.A.F. CASUALTY LIST.

    The 15th R.A.F. casualty list includes Pilot-Officer J. T. F. Sadler, of East Devonport (Tasmania), who was previously reported missing, and is now reported killed in action. ...

    Article : 96 words
  11. CAPTAIN OF COLUMBUS.

    To prevent a repetition of the Captain Langsdorff tragedy, United States officials have assigned two of his officers to share the sleeping quarters of the ...

    Article : 129 words
  12. "GERMANS POISED FOR ATTACK."

    A spokesman at the French War Office said yesterday that the Germans were poised for attack on the Belgian, Dutch and Luxembourg frontiers. ...

    Article : 252 words
  13. GERMAN TRAIN DISASTER.

    It was officially announced in Berlin to-day that 70 people were killed and 100 injured in a railway accident at Genthin, near Berlin. ...

    Article : 215 words
  14. ANGLO-YUGOSLAV PACT.

    The Belgrade press reports the signing of an Anglo-Yugoslav agreement for the exchange of ores, concentrates, and timber for w[?]l, leather, rubber, cotton, tin, and petrol. ...

    Article : 36 words
  15. DRIFT BACK TO LONDON.

    The "Back-to-London" movement is gathering force among many business houses whose staffs were evacuated at the outbreak of war. Official figures ...

    Article : 185 words
  16. FIGHT AGAINST BUSHFIRE.

    An army of volunteers late to-night were fighting a fierce bushfire, which has already devastated several properties, and which is threatening ...

    Article : 267 words
  17. HOLIDAY TRAM SERVICES.

    A special tram service will be run to the Randwick racecourse to-day. On Christmas Day the ordinary Sunday time-table will operate, and on Boxing Day the usual ...

    Article : 41 words
  18. STALIN'S BIRTHDAY.

    The Netherlands Government stopped a birthday telegram to M. Stalin from the Amsterdam Communist organ, "Volksdagblad" on the ground that ...

    Article : 201 words
  19. THIEVES IN SHOPS.

    Thieves were busy in the Christmas crowds which thronged the shops yesterday. Very few of them were detected, because employees were kept busy, and the crowds milling round ...

    Article : 53 words
  20. SUPER WARSHIPS FOR U.S.A.

    A sub-committee of the United States Congress is exploring the advisableness of constructing battleships of 65,000 tons displacement, at a probable cost of ...

    Article : 264 words
  21. MORE SHIPS MINED.

    The Italian steamer Comitas (3,482 tons) was mined in the North Sea and has been towed to Flushing by a tug. Of the crew of 30, some were wounded and were put ashore ...

    Article : 184 words
  22. MORE PERSONS IN WORK.

    A substantial improvement in employment figures in November, compared with October, including a record for factory employment, was described ...

    Article : 221 words
  23. SAVINGS INCREASE.

    Since the outbreak of war, there has been a large increase in savings bank deposits In Australia. At the end of November they aggregated ...

    Article : 107 words
  24. SUBMARINE'S CREW HONOURED.

    The King has honoured several officers and men of the submarine Salmon, which, in the course of a remarkable patrol, destroyed one of the larger German U-boats, hit a 6,000-ton ...

    Article : 112 words
  25. FINE CHRISTMAS WEATHER.

    A forecast of mainly fine, warm, and sultry weather for Christmas Day was made by the State Meteorologist, Mr. Mares, last night. ...

    Article : 102 words
  26. SOUP KITCHENS FOR OHIO.

    The controversy on the relief problem assumed melodramatic proportions yesterday when President Roosevelt announced that he would send an "army" ...

    Article : 159 words
  27. CANADIAN TROOPS.

    The Secretary for War, Mr. Hore-Behsha, after he reviewed the Canadian division at Aldershot, said that it had been a moving and inspiring sight. ...

    Article : 148 words
  28. NEW CONTROL FOR DOMINICA.

    An Order-In-Council made yesterday under the provisions of the Dominica Act. 1D38, fixes January 1, 1940, as the appointed date for the transfer of Dominica from the colony of ...

    Article : 131 words
  29. RESIGNATION OF AIR CHIEF.

    No decision has yet been reached by the Federal Government on the resignation of Air Vice-marshal S. J. Goble as Chief of the Air Staff. The question was again considered ...

    Article : 89 words
  30. PLANE CRASHES INTO CHURCH.

    A Royal Air Force machine, which is believed to have been trying to make a forced landing, crashed into a church in the colliery village of North Broomhill (Northumberland), ...

    Article : 63 words
  31. OVERSEA NEWS.

    Such of the oversea news in the issue as is headed "From Our Own Correspondent" or "Heraid Exclusive Service" is from a service owned and controlled entirely by "The Sydney Morning Herald" ...

    Article : 146 words
  32. YOUTH CHARGED WITH MURDER.

    Morris Anse[?], 19, labourer, of Carlton, was charged in the City Court to-day, before Mr. McLean, P.M., with having murdered Alfred Thomas Atherton, near Fern Tree Gully, on ...

    Article : 52 words
  33. YOUTH KILLED IN CITY.

    Harold Hyde, 18, of Dowling Street. Redfern was killed late last night, when a milk waggon he was driving and a motor car came into collision at the intersection of Park and ...

    Article : 52 words
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