The provision of a 1,200-bed military base hospital in or near Sydney would cost the Federal Government about £300,000. ...
Article : 343 wordsPlans for opening the Anzac Buffet in Hyde Park before the week-end, so that it can be in use during the New Year holidays, will be made at a ...
Article : 138 wordsA U-boat sank the British steamer Stanholme (2,473 tons), without warning, on the morning of Christmas Day, three hours after the vessel had left a ...
Article : 225 words"The arrival of the Australian airmen is the best Christmas present that Britain has received," states the "Daily Mail" in a leading article, ...
Article : 518 wordsTop: One of the huge Short Sunderland flying-boats, a squadron of which will be flown by, the Royal Australian Air Force detachment which arrived in England this week. Lower Left: The final parade by members of the unit on board the transport before leaving Australia. (Photograph by the Department of Information.) Lower Right: The tail of one of the flying-boats, showing the revolving gun turret which guards it. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 408 wordsA considerable reduction next year of ordinary State works programmes, because of defence needs, will be discussed by the Loan Council before the end ...
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Article : 299 wordsThe Minister for the Army, Mr. Street, said to-day that the arrival in England of the Australian airmen, who would be taking their place alongside their comrades of the Royal ...
Article : 133 wordsThe repatriation of Germans from the Italian Tirol under the agreement of October 21 will mean that Italy will incur an indebtedness of more than £65,000,000, and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 163 wordsIn the Northern Europe transmission of the Australian overseas broadcast this evening a greeting was sent to No. 10 Squadion, R.A.A.F., which is now in England. ...
Article : 88 wordsAbout £700 in notes and silver was stolen from the Liverpool Street shop of G. J. Coles, Ltd, during the Christmas holidays. ...
Article : 139 wordsThe death has occurred of Rear-Admiral Charles P. R. Coode, who was Senior Destroyer Officer at the landing at Gallipoli in the war of 1914-18, and who supervised the ...
Article : 68 wordsHerr Rudolph Hess, the Fuhrer's Deputy, has announced that he is willing to become the godfather of illegitimate German children whose fathers ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 235 wordsA wartime surcharge of five per cent. has been added to freight rates for cargo carried in the vessels of James Patrick and Co. Pty., Ltd., on the Australian coast. ...
Article : 108 wordsRuby Keeler, who has been granted a divorce from the cinema actor Al Jolson, gave evidence during the hearing of the suit that he ridiculed her until she developed an ...
Article : 44 wordsA brawl in the Domain on Sunday, during which a military officer's uniform was slashed with a razor, was described in the Central Police Court yesterday, when George Coutts, ...
Article : 252 wordsA British freighter which arrived in Melbourne yesterday with a cargo of explosives was shelled by a submarine during the voyage from England, and escaped without being ...
Article : 159 wordsSwiss observatories recorded the most violent earthquake for 20 years at 1.2 a.m. to-day. Scientists at one observatory state that the ...
Article : 49 wordsEager children who enrolled at the Enmore National Fitness play centre yesterday. Three centres were opened in school playgrounds to give children between 5 and 16 the opportunity of participating in organised sport and physical culture exercises during their school ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 231 wordsTheatre Royal: "Under Your Hat," 8. Minerva Theatre: "Gaslight," 8.15. Tivoli Theatre: "Mother Goose," 2: "Carry On," 8. ...
Article : 296 wordsIt has been revealed that M. Astakholf, Counsellor to the Soviet Embassy in Berlin, has been dismissed. He was Charge D'Affaires in Berlin during negotiations for the ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Sutherland police have received complaints recently of thefts from week-end cottages. Detectives Pattinson and Hollingworth ...
Article : 48 wordsThe price of gold and foreign exchange rates were unchanged to-day. Tin was quoted at £250/5/ a ton, and rubber at 11¾d a lb. ...
Article : 96 wordsSerge Lifar, the dancer, of Colonel de Basil's Russian ballet, gave his first Australian performance to-day in Darwin, with one policeman as his audience. ...
Article : 132 wordsThe Turkish steamer Kizilirmak (2,794 tons), with a crew of 20, and the Dutch steamer Astron (1,406 tons), with a crow of 14, foundered in a violent storm in the Black ...
Article : 51 wordsTwo women were found hanged at their homes in Albury to-day. Mrs. Florentine Emily Feltz. 81. widow, of David Street, was found on the front verandah of her home with the ...
Article : 74 words"The fact that so few road accidents were reported on Christmas Day and Boxing Day is indeed gratifying," said Mr. H. I. Johnson, general secretary of the N.R.M.A., last night, ...
Article : 71 wordsIt has been revealed that the late RearAdmiral Wilfred N. Custance, whose death occurred recently, and who until last October was [?] command of the Royal Australian Naval ...
Article : 53 wordsIt has now been definitely established that only eight persons perished in the fire which destroyed the Grand Hotel at Goomeri on Saturday. The bones recovered from the ...
Article : 57 wordsHeavy floods have occurred in Wellington Province. Rongotal Aerodrome is unworkable. Slips have occurred on roads, blocking traffic. ...
Article : 25 wordsProgrammes of Suburban and Country Picture Theatres will be found in the Amusement Advertisement Section. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 28 Dec 1939, Page 8
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