The New South Wales Hospitals Commission has assured the Federal Government that acute sickness or cases of accident among: soldiers in ...
Article : 317 wordsThe Federal committee of management of the Waterside Workers' Federation lias served a log; of claims upon employers for improved wages ...
Article : 669 wordsDetermined to make the last day of the Christmas vacation as long as possible, thousands of people were astir soon after dawn yesterday, and at an ...
Article : 720 wordsOne of the most moving Christmas scenes on the Western Front was the celebration of midnight Mass for French soldiers in the crypt of the ...
Article : 655 wordsThere was no respite on Christmas Day for the Finns in their defence against the Russian invasion. They were forced to repulse a Russian attack on the Karelian Isthmus, and many towns suffered bombing raids. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 794 wordsAustralia's first complete air unit for active service in Europe is now on British soil. Nearly 200 Australian airmen, under ...
Article : 913 wordsConsultations over proposals by Argentina for diplomatic sanctions are holding up the protest of the American Republics to Britain, France, and ...
Article : 396 wordsA South Australian competitor, Kevin Taylor, 19, was killed and three other riders were injured, one seriously, on the Lobethal motor-racing circuit ...
Article : 313 wordsShipping losses for the week ended December 23 were 10 British ships, aggregating 6,581 tons, and eight neutral ships, aggregating 10,839 tons. ...
Article : 336 wordsThe Minister for Customs, Mr. Lawson, explained yesterday that, as with other imported commodities, there had been a rise of ½d a gallon ...
Article : 260 wordsReports from the fighting forces show that the Christmas spirit prevailed generally, with the observance of the traditional ceremonies in many ...
Article : 111 wordsNo fatal road accidents were reported in the metropolitan area yesterday. Both last Boxing Day, and in 1937, there were many deaths and serious accidents. ...
Article : 102 wordsSerge Lifar, the ballet dancer, continued his dancing exercises even while travelling by flying-boat from England to Australia. ...
Article : 132 wordsThe Japanese claim the seizure of large stocks of military supplies in their attack on Lungchow and other places in Kwangsi Province last week. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 90 wordsApart from the war and the black-out three days and nights of dense fog made this Christmas memorable for Londoners. ...
Article : 238 wordsMutiny broke out in the County Gaol at Londonderry, where 60 Irish Republican suspects are interned for the duiation of the war. ...
Article : 157 wordsA brief message from the French front early last week, which stated that Germany s first prisoners had escaped soon after they had been captured, has ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 288 wordsGoulburn's youngest holiday trippers during Christmas, were John Croker, 3, and Peter Roberts, 4, who travelled unaccompanied to Moss Vale by train ...
Article : 198 wordsAwakening to find then bag hut at Beechworth in flames, a prospector and his wife and their children were seriously burned in making then escape. ...
Article : 142 wordsThe Department of Information has issued the following statement:- "Mr. Fairbairn inspected the airmen in the south of France. He said that the men were ...
Article : 124 words"Owing to the naval situation in the North Sea, and the possibility of a battle between Britain and Germany off Norwegian waters, Christmas ...
Article : 100 wordsTerrorists, at dawn yesterday, shot two of the Chinese supporters of Mr. Wang Ching-wei, the pro-Japanese leader of the peace movement. ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Prime Ministet Mr. Menzies, announced early last month that 17 officers and 166 airmen were to be despatiched to England to make up an Australian General ...
Article : 218 wordsThe Prime Minister of Eire, Mr. de Vaicra, in a broadcast to the United States said that the belligerents should seek a settlement instead of waiting until exhaustion forced ...
Article : 65 wordsA Gemran High Command to-day stated that machine-guns had repulsed an attack by British warplanes on German patrol boats in Heligoland ...
Article : 90 wordsEdward Moorcroft, 45, of Darwin, was fatally wounded in the head when a shotgun exploded during a duck-shooting expedition at a lagoon 10 miles from the town yesterday. ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Chief Secretary, Mr. Tonking, said at Orange last night that when he returned to Sydney he would examine the police report on the clash ...
Article : 126 wordsCommenting editorially on the reported appointment of the Australian Miister for Supply, Mr. Casey, as Australia's first Minister to Washington, the New York ...
Article : 139 wordsMembers of the St. George Ambulance saved the life of Stanley Lake, 6, of Endeavour Street, Sans Souci. in National Park, yesterday. ...
Article : 91 wordsThe first election returns for the local Soviets show that 99.81 per cent. of the electors voted in Moscow, and that 90.99 per cent. voted foi the official candidates. ...
Article : 69 wordsSuch of the oversea news in this issue as in headed "From Our Own Courrespondent" or "Herald Exclusive Serviec" is from a service owned and controlled entirely by "The Sydney Morning ...
Article : 162 wordsThe American Pioneer Line has placed a recently-built freighter on its Australian service. The vessel is expected to leave New York in January, and will call at the principal ...
Article : 83 wordsHerr Hitler has accepted an offer from Frau Martha Selve of the Villa Zhio at San Remo (Italian Riviera), and has placed it at the disposal of German war invalids. ...
Article : 39 wordsM. Mosciekl, the former President of Poland, who has bren seriously ill in Bucnaiest (Rumania), has gone to Switzerland. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 27 Dec 1939, Page 7
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