LONDON, Friday.—There was no enemy air activity over Britain last night—the third successive night of freedom from raids. ...
Article : 281 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday.—Six interstate passenger vessels and several cargo ships may be held up if demands formulated at a meeting of ...
Article : 239 wordsView of the famous centre tennis court at Wimbledon after bombs had been dropped by a German raider. The stand was damaged, and debris and corrugated iron roofing is on the court. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 37 wordsLONDON, Friday.—The German Official News Agency reports that Hitler made a tour of Germany's western defences from Monday to Thursday. He was ...
Article : 186 wordsTHREE divisions of German troops entered Italy on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday by rail through the Brenner and Tarvisio Passes, ...
Article : 435 wordsANKARA Radio, appealing for the formation of a united league of Balkan peoples, declared that Turkey was willing ...
Article : 51 wordsSuggestions were submitted at a meeting of the Zinc Workers' Union this week that stop-work meetings should be called at the Risdon works of the Electrolytic ...
Article : 311 wordsWITH a slight abatement in the piercing cold, the battle for Elbasan (central Albania), which was resumed on Wednesday, continued yesterday with ...
Article : 401 wordsLONDON, Friday. — A thrilling story of a parachute escape from a Spitfire is told by a sgt-pilot, a member of one of the first R.A.F. fighter squadrons that ...
Article : 278 wordsTHE "Daily Express" says that the eye operation which the Premier of Eire (Mr. de Valera) underwent recently was ...
Article : 67 wordsBecause of the closing of three of its oversea offices, greater attention is being paid to Eastern countries and the North American continent by the former ...
Article : 138 wordsCANBERRA, Friday. — Repercussions in the dispute between the Leader of the Opposition (Mr. Curtin) and the defeated Labour candidate in the Swan by-election ...
Article : 253 wordsA BUSH fire, fanned by strong northerly winds on an eight-mile front, swept 10,000 acres of bush and grass country ...
Article : 82 wordsMervyn Leslie Hill, a youth, who on December 20 was charged in the Court at Hobart with having on December 5 murdered Marie Winifred Verrier (8), and ...
Article : 76 wordsNEW YORK, Friday.—The Mackay Radio reports that the Shaw, Savill, and Albion freighter Waiotira (12,823 tons) has been torpedoed about 600 miles west ...
Article : 68 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—A special meeting of the Australian Agricultural Council is being called for the end of January to discuss with State Governments a national ...
Article : 77 wordsLONDON, Friday.—The Archbishop of Canterbury (Dr. Lang), the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster (Cardinal Hinsley), and the Moderator of the Free ...
Article : 86 wordsUNDER a four-column headline, the influential "Nicht Night" publishes a report that rumours that the United States ...
Article : 81 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—Censorship of Hansard may again be discussed when the Federal Parliament meets in March. The issue of Hansard for the closing ...
Article : 69 wordsNEW YORK, Friday.—The master of a Portuguese freighter reports having sighted an empty lifeboat marked "Hamburg," 800 miles off the coast of Portugal, ...
Article : 39 wordsCatching fire on Christmas morning, a sawmill at Oakwood, Tasman Peninsula, formerly operated by Gathercole Bros. and now stated to be owned by Risby ...
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Advertising : 1,069 wordsLONDON, Friday,—Moscow Radio says that Japanese troops in China are no longer willing to fight against the Chinese. It is reported that there have been ...
Article : 100 wordsIN regard to the soils of Tasmania being totally deficient in phosphates, it is said that any soil that has no phosphoric acid will ...
Article : 152 wordsLONDON, Friday.—The Church Press Bureau states that more than 1,000 Anglican churches, schools, halls, and vicarages have been destroyed or damaged by ...
Article : 89 wordsMELBOURNE, Friday. — No settlement was reached today in the State coal mine dispute, and the stopwork. meeting of members of the Miners' Union called ...
Article : 101 wordsNEW YORK, Friday.—The formation of an "American Labour Committee to aid British Labour" was announced by Mr. Matthew Woll, vice-president of the ...
Article : 116 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—Within a quarter of an hour today, three training aircraft from the No. 4 Elementary Flying Training School at Kingsford-smith ...
Article : 62 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—The Christmas crib in Christ Church, St, Laurence, George St., Sydney, was maliciously set alight today. It was the third crib set on fire ...
Article : 104 wordsLONDON, Friday.—The Cannes police detained the German industrialist. Herr Fritz Thyssen on charges which have not been revealed. It is believed he will be ...
Article : 50 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—A struggle at the central railway station tonight between policemen and a man who was later charged with being a person deemed to ...
Article : 114 wordsWreckage of a Heinkel bomber brought down in a back garden in East Anglia during a night raid. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 23 wordsLONDON, Friday.—The Admiralty announces the loss of the 1,350-ton destroyer Acheron. She had a normal complement of 145. Completed in 1931, the ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Sat 28 Dec 1940, Page 2
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