AUTHORITIES believe that the German army on the Western Front, now totalling a million men with modern tanks and artillery, backed by the air arm, is ready for its big offensive. Washed up on the coast of England, a large German submarine was found to have been wrecked by naval operations. ...
Article : 99 wordsLONDON, Oct. 26.--Quoting the forecast by the Australian Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) that the British Empire would assuredly rule the air as she has ruled the sea for generations, Mr. H. C. Bailey, the author, in an article in the ...
Article : 220 wordsHOW the American ship City of Flint was captured by Germans, who put a crew aboard and repainted the vessel before taking it to Northern Russia, is told by the radio operator. His story refutes both German and Russian ...
Article : 693 wordsWASHINGTON, Oct. 26.--The Secretary of State (Mr. Cordell Hull) has announced that the United States demanded from the ...
Article : 427 wordsLONDON, Oct. 26.--A British official wireless message states that the Soviet note regarding the British contraband list was only received in London ...
Article : 483 wordsSYDNEY, Oct. 27.--Private Daniel Stuart, aged 21, while on sentry duty near an air compressor at Qantas hangar at Mascot aerodrome to-night, ...
Article : 78 wordsMELBOURNE, Oct. 27.--Sir Colin Fraser, Chairman of the Broken Hill South Co. Ltd., told shareholders at the annual meeting to-day that six Wirraway planes would soon be produced every week at the Fishermen's Bend factory of ...
Article : 196 wordsLONDON, Oct. 26.--It is announced that Southern Rhodesia has offered to bring up the air unit already maintained to full squadron strength, and ...
Article : 54 wordsLONDON, Oct. 27.--The Air Ministry announces that it is now known that at least seven out of the 12 German aircraft failed to ...
Article : 215 wordsNEW YORK, Oct, 26. -- Three significant test votes established for the repealists a 2 to 1 majority. The only important amendments ...
Article : 335 wordsLONDON, Oct. 26.--Speaking in the House of Commons, the Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain) said:-- "No operations of importance have ...
Article : 1,350 wordsLONDON, Oct. 26.--The Finnish Foreign Office spokesman said to-day: "There are certain Soviet demands which Finland cannot yield but ...
Article : 149 wordsBRISBANE, Oct. 27.--Compared with per capita taxation, of £414 at the outbreak of the last war Australians now are paying to the ...
Article : 153 wordsMELBOURNE, Oct. 27. -- Marriage since October 21 will not exempt any man liable for compulsory military training. ...
Article : 160 wordsLONDON, Oct. 26.--King Leopold, broadcasting to America from Brussels, said, neutrality was vital to Belgium, to whom peace ...
Article : 112 wordsLONDON, Oct. 26.--The American Press correspondent in Paris says that French scouting parties raided the German lines through snow, sleet and heavy rain, seeking prisoners and information regarding the disposition of the ...
Article : 257 wordsROCKHAMPTON, Oct. 27.--Francis Greenhaulgh, 22, laborer, was fined £5 to-day on a charge of contravening the National Security regulations ...
Article : 94 wordsMELBOURNE, Oct. 27. -- Nearly one-third of the money authorised for defence works so far this year will be spent in N.S. Wales, about ...
Article : 106 wordsLONDON, Oct. 26.--The Foreign Secretary (Lord Halifax) described Herr von Ribbentrop's speech as the clumsiest attempt to divide Britain ...
Article : 260 wordsMONTREAL, Oct. 26.--The Senate defeated, by 55 votes to 27, Senator Downey's amendment confining armament soles to American nations, and ...
Article : 50 wordsLONDON, Oct. 26.--The Home Secretary (Sir Samuel Hoare); in the House of Commons, emphasised the sincerity of. the Government's Indian policy ...
Article : 269 wordsBRISBANE, Oct, 27.-- Queensland traffic police are testing a new headlight for use by motor cars in blackouts. ...
Article : 147 wordsLONDON, Oct. 20. -- A Berlin message says that Hitler conferred the Grand Cross of the Prussian Eagle on the Commander of the ...
Article : 33 wordsLONDON, Oct. 26--The 'Times' Copenhagen correspondent reports extraordinary activity in German military and civil circles. ...
Article : 217 wordsPARIS, Oct. 27.--Charles Morice in 'Le Petit Parisien' says that everything suggests this is the eve of Hitler's big ...
Article : 159 wordsA shopkeeper in Fleet-street, London, has taken this effective means of drawing Mr. Chamberlain's attention to public appreciation of the Central feature of Mr, Winston Churchill's fighting broadcast. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 28 wordsLONDON, Oct. 26.--His Majesty, who spent two hours touring factories, was astonished at the staggering output of munitions. Members of the ...
Article : 47 wordsLONDON, Oct. 26.--The correspondent of the American Press at Moscow says the Soviet has appointed M. Sharonov, ex-Ambassador to Poland, ...
Article : 31 wordsLONDON, Oct. 26.--The 'Times' Budapest political correspondent says arrests in Bohemia and Moravia total 70 daily, largely due to the Gestapo's ...
Article : 78 wordsPARIS, Oct. 26.--Dr. Philippe Roos, a notorious. pro-Nazi autonomist, and a municipal councillor Of Strasbourg, has been sentenced to death for ...
Article : 61 wordsLONDON, Oct. 26. -- The Pope's encyclical is expected to be mode public at noon on Otcober 27. ...
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Daily Mercury (Mackay, Qld. : 1906 - 1954), Sat 28 Oct 1939, Page 7
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