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Article : 4 wordsDetermined efforts to break up the Communist meeting on the Domain were again made by soldiers in uniform today. About 15,000 persons ...
Article : 307 wordsTHE Australian airmen, who arrived on Monday, are attached to a coastal command group operating the big Sunderland flying boats each costing £72,000, which have figured prominently in patrol work and attacks on U-boats. ...
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Article : 431 wordsInterviewed by the Chungking representative of the "New York Times," the Chinese Foreign Minister (Mr. Wang Ch'ung-hui) said ...
Article : 299 wordsIt is announced officially that the German liner, Tacoma, must leave Montevideo within 24 hours, or she will be interned by the Uruguayan ...
Article : 202 wordsTHE Coastal Command patrols an area of sea as large as Australia. It stretches from the Arctic Circle to the Bay of Biscay and the western coasts ...
Article : 825 wordsTHE Paris Municipal Council voted in favour of the transfer of the ashes of Andre Maginot to the Pantheon in ...
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Article : 46 wordsAustralia's first soldier to be awarded the Maginot Medal by the French Government has returned to Melbourne after active service on the Western ...
Article : 233 wordsThe sinking of a U-boat off the coast of Spain by a British aeroplane cooperating with the French sloop, Commandant Duboc, is described in the ...
Article : 227 wordsA ROYAL proclamation will be issued immediately, it is understood, permitting the calling up for ...
Article : 82 wordsTHE Acting Minister for Supply and Development (Sir Frederick Stewart) announced at the week-end that a ...
Article : 129 wordsTwo small figures tried to [?] hike early this morning on a country road, but they asked for a lift with a foreign accent, and the motorist was ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Minister for Supply (Dr. Burgin) said Australia was supplying not only guns and gun equipment, but a most modern anti-aircraft gun. ...
Article : 113 wordsThe Dutch Government has decreed that all citizens between the ages of 18 and 59 may he called up for non-military duties in case or necessity, and ...
Article : 87 wordsThe Chief of the French Air Staff (General Vuillemin) sent the following message to the Chief of the British Air Staff (Air Chief Marshal Sir Cyril ...
Article : 114 wordsAUSTRALIANS are not likely to be much disturbed by a Berlin statement that the Commonwealth and other British Dominions, in common with ...
Article : 642 wordsThe Spanish steamer Cabo San Antonio (12,275 tons), caught an fire on December 29. 500 miles, south of Teneriffe. British, French, and ...
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Advertising : 67 wordsThe Prime Minister (General Smuts), broadcasting a New Year message, emphasised the belligerents curious hanging back from the fatal ...
Article : 98 wordsA fast passenger train collided with a troop train at the Toree Annunziata station. Forty bodies have been recovered and 150 persons were injured. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Nazi Government has protested to Britain and France, presumably through Sweden, against the use of mandated territories for war purposes. ...
Article : 102 wordsThe Secretary for Labour (Miss F. Perkins) announced that the evidence concerning Mr. Harry Bridges, Pacific Coast longshoremen's leader, does not ...
Article : 160 wordsTo report personally lo Hitler on "an unrevealed subject," the German Ambassador at Rome (Herr von Mackensen) has left for Berlin. ...
Article : 136 wordsTHE German police have issued an international warrant for the arrest of Herr Fritz Thyssen, the famous German ...
Article : 94 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the "New York Times" says that the Congressional agitation that America should build warships up to 80,000 tons ...
Article : 80 wordsTHE Admiralty announced that the British battleship which was damaged on Friday by a German torpedo ...
Article : 104 wordsAs a protest against its report on the Londonderry Gaol mutiny on Christmas Day, Irish Republican Army members exploded a bomb at the Belfast ...
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Article : 98 wordsThe Czechoslovak Committee, in a manifesto which is to be circulated throughout the world, urges those now living in Czechoslovakia not to lose ...
Article : 84 wordsThe Prime Minister (M. Stauning) said that the problems which had caused the war were not worth war, and could be settled by negotiation, ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Japanese Foreign Office informed the Australian Associated Press that the Government may finally take up the matter of formally claiming 12,000 ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Mon 1 Jan 1940, Page 2
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