THERE is no change in the war situation, but speculation is rife. If, as is stated to be the case, Hitler is almost hysterical over the delay in reaching large-scale hostilities, the reason for the delay must be a weakness in the German army. It is believed that there is disunity in the army over the Soviet understanding; also that Austrians are revolting. The Nazis are ...
Article : 104 wordsGERMANY is losing a big proportion of the planes she sends out. Some of the pilots are brave and resourceful men, but the British machines are too good for them. British pilots told of a flight under great difficulties in Southern ...
Article : 228 wordsWEATHER conditions have grown worse on the Western Front, where there is still little activity. France has demobilised 100,000 old soldiers, being quite confident of the position now that British troops are in place. The efficiency ...
Article : 197 wordsLONDON, Oct. 29.-- The 'Times' Paris correspondent says that M. de Korillis writes in Le Poque': "The immense reservoir of raw material ...
Article : 155 wordsSTOCKHOLM, Oct. 29.-- The correspondent of the 'Tidningen' in Berlin states that Germany hopes that the meeting of the ...
Article : 68 wordsLONDON, Oct. 29.-- The 'Times' Copenhagen correspondent of Politiken' learns that cloth-rationlng cards are being introduced into ...
Article : 121 wordsAUSTRALIA'S place as a vital agency for supplying Britain with food and other war materials is becoming more evident as further transactions are completed. The details of the meat purchases indicate that the arrangement is very ...
Article : 528 wordsLONDON, Oct. 29.-- The personnel of the South German reconnaissance on October 27 relate an epic story of a bitter ...
Article : 253 wordsPARIS, Oct. 29.-- One hundred thousand old soldiers marched from barracks and returned to civilian life while icy rain, snow, and rising rivers ...
Article : 147 wordsLONDON, Oct. 29.-- British fighter pilots speak admiringly of the German pilot who was shot down in Scotland on Saturday. ...
Article : 295 wordsBRUSSELS, Oct. 20.-- The Primate of Belgium declared, at a service attended by King Leopold and members of the Government, that Belgium ...
Article : 105 wordsLONDON, Oct. 29.-- The 'Times' Rotterdam correspondent says the second detachment of the Russian commercial delegation arrived in ...
Article : 114 wordsSYDNEY, Oct. 30.-- Addressing a meeting in the Domain on Sunday, Mr. T. Wrignt (vice-president of the Labor Council) said the opinion of ...
Article : 125 wordsLONDON, Oct. 14 (by Air Mail).-- As the Russian troops marched into Estonia, thousands of Germans left that country and Latvia for the ...
Article : 486 wordsGermans will have to pay 24,000 million marks in taxes in the coming year, compared with 18,000 million in 1938, and 7000 million ...
Article : 175 wordsLONDON, Oct. 29.-- The correspondent of the Times at Paris says the Polish Government moved this week to Angers in Anjou, where the ...
Article : 75 wordsLONDON, Oct.29.-- A 'Dally Mail' leader, referring to "the vicious system of universal control," says: "Muddlers, muddlers, and purveyors of red tape ...
Article : 329 wordsNEW YORK, Oct. 29.-- Mr. Phillips, the correspondent in Paris of the New York 'Times', says: In contrast to Herr Hitler's ...
Article : 237 wordsSYDNEY, Oct. 30.-- In a broadcast to 50,000 militiamen in camp to-night, the Prime Minister (Mr. R. . G. Menzies) said that the ...
Article : 215 wordsBRISBANE, Oct. 30.-- Acting in terms of the Commonwealth National Security Act, the control of shop rents is to be undertaken by the State. ...
Article : 89 wordsLONDON, Oct. 29.-- The 'Times' Riga correspondent says Herr Himmer, director of German colonisation of Polish territory from Estonia and Latvia, has ...
Article : 149 wordsSYDNEY, Oct. 30.-- The Minister for Customs (Mr. Lawson) announced to-night that authority had been given for an increase of one penny a gallon ...
Article : 85 wordsLONDON, Oct. 29.-- A British official wireless message states that it is reported in the South African Press that sponsors for the "union unity ...
Article : 126 wordsMELBOURNE, Oct. 30.-- Victoria's quota of 3000 men without previous military experience will be camped at the Show Grounds to-morrow for ...
Article : 123 wordsCOPENHAGEN, Oct. 30.-- Owing to the "impudent and arrogant attitude of Poles," new regulations oblige the Poles to get off the ...
Article : 57 wordsIT is suggested that there are five German raiders operating in the Atlantic. The fact that they have escaped the attention of the British Navy may be traced to their lack of activity. The French Navy takes its turn at destroying ...
Article : 212 wordsPARIS, Oct. 30.-- A radio message reports mutinies among troops at Vienna, Graz and Klagenfurt, which the German ...
Article : 39 wordsBRISBANE, Oct. 30,-- Following the announcement of the prices which the British Government will pay for Australia's export of surpluses of certain ...
Article : 361 wordsLONDON, Oct. 29.-- Newspapers face a sharp increase in costs as the result of the rise in the price of newsprint by 95-. to £17 sterling a ton. ...
Article : 128 wordsLONDON, Oct. 29.-- Eight hundred arrests are reported to have been made in Prague following clashes between Germans and Czechs during ...
Article : 143 wordsNEW YORK, Oct. 29.-- Administration leaders profess that there will be no obstacle to the final passage of the Neutrality Bill by the week-end. It is ...
Article : 165 wordsSYDNEY, Oct. 30.-- Readjustment caused by the outbreak of war has caused some increase of unemployment, the Assistant-Treasurer ...
Article : 91 wordsWASHINGTON, Oct. 29.-- The Justice Department is returning to Grover Bergdoll approximately 300.000 dollars of the 535,540 dollars seized ...
Article : 51 wordsLONDON, Oct 29.-- The Ministry of Economic Warfare announces that ships for Belgium carrying only cereals, and covered by Belgium's ...
Article : 74 wordsLONDON, Oct. 29.-- The American Press Paris correspondent reports that the Premier (M. Daladier) has banned three Alsace Lorraine autonomist ...
Article : 63 wordsLONDON, Oct. 29-- The Exchange Press Ankara correspondent reports that the founding of the Turkish Republic in 1923 was celebrated ...
Article : 49 wordsTaken from the Deck of the American Fa[?]met, this picture shows a life boat from the Kafirislan, torpedoed in the Atlantic, bringing some of the 35 members of the crew to safely. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 34 wordsHELSINSKI, Oct. 29-- Massed choirs led a crowd of 100,000 outside she American Legation, singing, ''The Star Spangled Banner'' and the ...
Article : 104 wordsMELBOURNE, Oct. 30-- "Before I left -London Mr. Winston Churchill asked me to tell Australia that Britain was doing all in its power to meet the ...
Article : 116 wordsNEW YORK. Oct. 29.-- New York 'Times' Washington correspondent says anxiety concerning the City of Flint's crow is growing in official ...
Article : 114 wordsLONDON, Oct. 29.-- The prospective peace and pensions candidate for Ashton-under-Lyne by-election (Mr. S. M. Holden). appealed to the Speaker ...
Article : 95 wordsLONDON. Oct. 29.-- The correspondent of the 'Times' at Milan states that 11,000 peasant men, women and children, mostly from Venetia, left Venice ...
Article : 91 wordsLONDON. Oct. 29.-- The 'Dally Telegraph's' Capetown correspondent says that thousands of volunteers are swelling the army. Many regiments ...
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Daily Mercury (Mackay, Qld. : 1906 - 1954), Tue 31 Oct 1939, Page 7
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