Ministry communique says: The Bomber Command, operating in difficult weather last night, attacked ship. building yards at Kiel, factories and ...
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Family Notices : 198 wordsLYONS. December 14. -- M. Petain announced by radio:--M. Laval is no longer a member of the French Government. M. Flandin has ...
Article : 185 wordsA fisherman reported to the Sarina police yesterday that he saw a volume of smoke rising about eight miles cut to sea. In the vicinity of Irvine Island. ...
Article : 53 wordsMr. Thomas Davitt has arrived by car from Tully for the Luscombe [?] Scraggs Wedding, which takes place on Saturday. ...
Article : 561 wordsSPENDING power of the community for several weeks preceding Christmas Day is generally about double the average for a similar period of the remainder at the year. The spending Is productive and fructifying to ordinary trade channels, with benefit to employment as ...
Article : 799 wordsThe City Council workmen have completed' the installation of an 18-inch diameter culvert to assist in the prevention of Hooding in the ...
Article : 48 wordsAlthough the carpet snake at J. Mlchelmore and Company's warehouse has deserted her nest, the eggs have been carefully put away in a straw ...
Article : 56 wordsSaturday was the 45th anniversary of the birthday of King George VI. Officially .this is observed In June, but on Saturday the Union Jack was flown ...
Article : 42 wordsSTOCKHOLM, December 15. --The 'Dagens Nheter's' Oslo correspondent declares:--The German and Italians intend, if they capture Norwegian ...
Article : 58 wordsMajor and Mrs. Flockton, who arrived by Saturday morning's train from Townsville, spent the weekend in Mackay. They have been on a tour ...
Article : 59 wordsWarm weather at the weekend was tempered by a cool southeasterly breeze. The nights were particularly pleasant. Two points of rain was ...
Article : 79 wordsLONDON, December 14. -- Plane losses since the war began are:--Britain 1740. Germany 5176, and Italy 474. ...
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Advertising : 86 wordsLONDON, December 14. -- Pilot- Officer H. M. Stephen, D.F.C. and bar, becomes the first officer in Britain's home defence forces to win ...
Article : 46 wordsMr. E. J. Walsh, Minister for Works, has been advised by the Works Department as follows:--I have to inform you that the Queensland ...
Article : 54 wordsBERLIN, .December 14.--The Minister for Food and Agriculture (Darre), in a speech to peasants, said: I Germany lost the last war mainly ...
Article : 131 wordsBRISBANE, Sunday. -- Temperatures exceeded 100deg. in many Inland centres yesterday, according to Weather Bureau reports. The hottest ...
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Advertising : 456 wordsThree passenger trains. for the south passed through Mackay on Saturday morning, leaving the station with an aggregate of 709 passengers. The first ...
Article : 90 wordsBRISBANE, Sunday.--Farm produce supplies at the Roma-street markets yesterday were the lightest for some time. Only three trucks were in the shed. No potatoes. ...
Article : 84 wordsA quest for mangoes by boys at the Intermediate State School grounds on Saturday resulted in two residences in Nelson-street being deprived of light ...
Article : 102 wordsLONDON, December 14. -- The annual report of the Empire Rheumatism Council, of which the Duke of Gloucester is president, and Baron ...
Article : 174 wordsTOOWOOMBA, Sunday. -- Recent beneficial rains will be of inestimable value to primary industries on the Darling Downs. ...
Article : 560 wordsLONDON, December 14.--That the wars against Britain and Greece are politicians' wars for neither of which sufficient military preparation was made. is stressed in the 'Economist ...
Article : 191 wordsINVERELL, Sunday.--Broken Hill Pty. Ltd. have satisfactorily tested for deposits of bauxite (aluminium are, largely used in plane manufacture), ...
Article : 148 wordsThe District Superintendent of Railways (Mr. A. W. Skyring) advises that the train arrangements for the present week will be: Monday, two mall trains ...
Article : 127 wordsA tragic discovery was made by Mrs. Hill, of Flaggy Rock yesterday morning when she found her husband, Alexander Horace Hill (37), a cane ...
Article : 104 wordsLONDON, December 13.--Science had advanced more In a year of war than it had in a year of peace, said the President of the Royal Society ...
Article : 158 wordsIn the Police Court on . Saturday morning before the PM. (Mr. C. B. Buxton), four defendants pleaded guilty to charges of having been found ...
Article : 91 wordsThe accidents over the weekend were of a minor nature, nevertheless the Ambulance officers were kept busy with transport work and office cases. ...
Article : 120 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday. -- Overcrowding by refugees in key residential areas of Sydney and their general attitude of evasiveness was criticised today by ...
Article : 176 wordsTOKIO, December 14.--"As long as the United States keeps up her present attitude we may be forced to utilise the three-power pact to' the fullest extent," states 'Chugai Chogyo,' ...
Article : 175 wordsOne of the most successful social gatherings yet held was the Diggers' reunion, in the Memorial Hall, on Saturday night. The program of musical and other items submitted was pro- ...
Article : 181 wordsLONDON, December 14.--Major General Richard O'Connor, who is in command of the British troops which are mopping up the battlefields in ...
Article : 146 wordsSHANGHAI, December 14. ---The Australian Minister to Japan (Sir John Latham), who sailed for Yokohama, at II a.m. today, in a broadcast ...
Article : 149 wordsBRISBANE, Sunday. -- The new brick and wood canteen In Redbank comp, the largest and most up-to-date canteen In Australia, was opened for ...
Article : 66 wordsCASINO, Sunday. -- "I move that the whole of the aldermen resign to give the ratepayers the right to exercise their vote," said Aid. Elsmer Jones at the Casino Municipal Coun- ...
Article : 128 wordsAirlines of Australia's Stinson Grafton arrived at Mackay from the North at 11.30 a.m. on,Saturday with Captain C. Jones in charge and ...
Article : 196 wordsLONDON, December . 12. --The original design for the badge of R.A.F. No. 224 Squadron, which is a general reconnaissance unit, bears Mussolini's ...
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Advertising : 139 wordsHANOI, December 14.--A French warning to Thailand that further air raids on Indo-China would result drastic French retaliation. Including ...
Article : 76 wordsPERTH, Sunday. --Johnny, aged 4, was charged at the Perth Children's Court this week with being liable to a lapse into a life of vice and crime. ...
Article : 134 wordsJOHANNESBURG, December 14.-- General Smuts In a speech said Mussolini was beaten and his army of 300,000 is in wild flight. Italy still has ...
Article : 94 wordsLONDON, December 14. -- well-known Test cricketer, pilot Officer C. G. Macaulay, died on active service. ...
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Advertising : 112 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday--Thousand crowded Barwon Heads today to watch the fire blazing on the Orungal. By the time the fire is out nothing ...
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Daily Mercury (Mackay, Qld. : 1906 - 1954), Mon 16 Dec 1940, Page 4
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