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 wordsA company, with a nominal capital of £1,000,000, will be formed soon by Australian Consolidated Industries, Ltd., to manufacture motor ...
Article : 1,148 wordsCrowds 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 wordsInstancing 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 wordsThe Montevideo correspondent of the "New York Times" says that Uruguay has energetically rejected Germany's protest against Uruguay's ...
Article : 375 wordsAn 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 wordsThe 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 wordsRumania 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 wordsThe 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 wordsTo 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 wordsA spokesman at the French War Office said yesterday that the Germans were poised for attack on the Belgian, Dutch and Luxembourg frontiers. ...
Article : 252 wordsIt 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 wordsThe 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 wordsThe "Back-to-London" movement is gathering force among many business houses whose staffs were evacuated at the outbreak of war. Official figures ...
Article : 185 wordsAn army of volunteers late to-night were fighting a fierce bushfire, which has already devastated several properties, and which is threatening ...
Article : 267 wordsA 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 wordsThe Netherlands Government stopped a birthday telegram to M. Stalin from the Amsterdam Communist organ, "Volksdagblad" on the ground that ...
Article : 201 wordsThieves 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 wordsA 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 wordsThe 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 wordsA substantial improvement in employment figures in November, compared with October, including a record for factory employment, was described ...
Article : 221 wordsSince 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 wordsThe 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 wordsA forecast of mainly fine, warm, and sultry weather for Christmas Day was made by the State Meteorologist, Mr. Mares, last night. ...
Article : 102 wordsThe controversy on the relief problem assumed melodramatic proportions yesterday when President Roosevelt announced that he would send an "army" ...
Article : 159 wordsThe 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 wordsAn 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 wordsNo 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 wordsA 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 wordsSuch 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 wordsMorris 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 wordsHarold 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 ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 23 Dec 1939, Page 11
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