HUNDREDS of tons of high explosive and incendiary bombs fell in London and suburbs during German air raids through the night. Bombs were dropped indiscriminately in the City and suburbs, but the damage was not as great as in the early September raids. It was ...
Article : 589 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.—The duty of Britain to begin now to think how the political, social, economic, and material structure of ...
Article : 406 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.—With only two absentees, both of whom are away from Canberra, all members of the new Federal Parliament ...
Article : 167 wordsWith a majority of 13,629 over Brown (Lab.), J. B. Hayes was elected to the second Tasmanian seat for the Senate when counting was resumed yesterday. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Advertising : 281 wordsTHE Minister for Labour (Mr. Bevin) had a narrow escape when he was sleeping and a bomb dropped outside his ...
Article : 45 wordsIN a warning to aliens today, the Minister for Army (Senator McBride) said that an increasing number of prosecutions ...
Article : 101 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.—British naval units, working in co-operation with the Royal Air Force, successfully bombed enemy troop ...
Article : 297 wordsWASHINGTON, Wednesday.—In a message today to men who registered for compulsory military training, ...
Article : 260 wordsPosted on the cliffs of France 21 miles away, German longrange guns recently shelled the Dover area in England. The picture shows the interior of a damaged church in Dover after the bombardment. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 39 wordsBANGKOK, Wednesday.—The vernacular Press advocates armed action against French Indo-China, describing the Vichy Government's refusal to consider ...
Article : 105 wordsWARDHA, Wednesday.—Mahatma Gandhi in a statement on his plan for civil disobedience said: "Who knows I will not be an instrument for attaining ...
Article : 130 wordsThe view was expressed by the Treasurer (Mr. Dwyer-Gray) yesterday, commenting on an editorial in "The Mercury," that it would not be possible for ...
Article : 361 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.—Though the Australian forces in Great Britain are still eagerly awaiting complete lists of the members returned at the Federal ...
Article : 291 wordsA FINAL decision in regard to apple and pear acquisition is expected to be made at a conference of Federal and State ...
Article : 58 wordsDESPITE exaggerated claims and weird predictions by the Berlin News Agency, London is still London. Referring to the ...
Article : 97 wordsA motion to refer the Marriage Bill to a select committee was agreed to in the House of Assembly last night after the bill had been read a second time. ...
Article : 170 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.—The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir Kingsley Wood) in tho House of Commons replying to Mr. G. le M. Mander (Lab.), who asked what ...
Article : 88 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.—The first formal meeting of the Federal Parliament is likely to be held considerably later than was expected immediately after the ...
Article : 141 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.—During the raids last night bombs which fell in a famous London square reduced to a heap of twisted frames and dusty debris at ...
Article : 134 wordsKnocked down by a train at the Derwent Park railway station when returning home from the Royal Hobart Show yesterday. Dorothy Lewis (16), of ...
Article : 75 wordsMELBOURNE, Wednesday.—The time when airmen trained in Australia would be at grips with the enemy could be measured not in months, but in weeks, the ...
Article : 139 wordsCabinet yesterday gave consideration to the Estimates for the current financial year to be submitted shortly to Parliament. ...
Article : 65 wordsSTOCKHOLM, Wednesday.—The German Propaganda Minister in Norway (M. Lunde) claimed the whole of the Antarctic, including the South Pole, for ...
Article : 63 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.—A new cruiser, which was launched today, was christened by the wife of Rear-Admiral J. W. C. Dorling in a whisper, because the name ...
Article : 41 wordsA number of small bills were considered yesterday by the House of Assembly, which sat from 7.30 p.m. to 11.15 p.m., and adjourned until 7.30 p.m. ...
Article : 41 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.—A supplementary credit vote of £100,000,000 was issued as a one-page White Paper today. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 17 Oct 1940, Page 2
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