EUROPEAN Powers are wondering what Russia will do now that Finland has failed to agree to Soviet demands. Further German air raids over the British Isles did little damage. Britain is proceeding with the air training scheme in Canada. ...
Article : 90 wordsTHERE has been a recurrence of activity at sea. When a British liner hit a mine in Singapore Roads and sank, some persons were drowned. The British Navy sank two German vessels near Iceland. ...
Article : 201 wordsBERLIN, Nov. 13.—An official German newsagency message states that Germany intends to respect the neutrality of Belgium and Holland as long as England and France respect it and Belgium and Holland "show themselves capable of ...
Article : 377 wordsBritain has suffered further losses at sea. A destroyer struck a German mine not far from the the coast of England, and has ...
Article : 235 wordsCANBERRA, Nov. 14.—The Acting-Commonwealth Treasurer (Mr. Spender) aims at absorbing all unskilled labor in Australia within the next few months. He said to-day that he had this objective in mind in framing the defence ...
Article : 194 wordsSYDNEY, Nov. 14.—Sydney had its first experience of a bombardment this afternoon when several houses in Double Bay and ...
Article : 427 wordsBRISBANE, Nov. 14.—Both the Canadian and Australian Governments have accepted bank loans to cover initial defence ...
Article : 286 wordsNEW YORK, NOV. 13.—The New York 'Times' Paris correspondent says the situation created by Belgo-Dutch initiative and the Anglo-French ...
Article : 262 wordsLONDON, Nov. 13.—The Admiralty announces that the Mecklenburg and Parana were sunk by the gun fire of British warships. The Germans ...
Article : 82 wordsWASHINGTON, Nov. 13.—Germany has ordered its warships not to molest the City of Flint during its return to the United States. ...
Article : 82 wordsLONDON, Nov. 14.—Berlin morning papers, listing 34 British and French passenger ships and freighters armed against submarines, declare that these ...
Article : 41 wordsMELBOURNE, Nov. 14.—Recruiting for the A.I.F. re-opens to-morrow. Enlistments will be sought from single and married men without millitary ...
Article : 45 wordsTHE HAGUE, Nov. 13.—The Dutch Premier (Dr. de Geer) said in a broadcast that there was not the least ground for wild rumors which were ...
Article : 226 wordsLONDON, Oct. 27 (By Air Mail).—The 'Daily Express' correspondent at Bergen (Norway) says:"Hitler's pocket battleship Deutschland,of ...
Article : 249 wordsCANBERRA, Nov. 14.—The construction of sections of an inland strategic road in Queensland at a cost of £100,000 is the outstanding ...
Article : 317 wordsLONDON, Nov. 13.—It was stated in London today that the delay to ships at the British contraband control bases is steadily decreasing. ...
Article : 239 wordsCANBERRA, Nov. 14.—The coordination and direction of Australia's economic participation in the war would be carried on by ...
Article : 226 wordsBRISBANE, Nov. 14.—Australian owned tin companies in the East are well equipped to cope with increased production. ...
Article : 151 wordsLONDON, Oct. 25 (by Air Mail).—A 'Daily Express' correspondent at Budapest writes:—The hasty return of the Baltic Germans, uprooted from ...
Article : 162 wordsThe report that German secret police had assassinated Prince Frederick William, youngest son of the ex-Crown Prince, has caused a ...
Article : 366 wordsLONDON, Nov. 13.—The Associated Press special correspondent reports that Mr. Anthony Eden, accompanied by Mr. R. G. Casey ...
Article : 180 wordsSYDNEY, Nov. 13.—The protracted ban on the export of hides and the Federal Government's delay in indicating its intentions have brought the ...
Article : 217 wordsLONDON, Nov. 13.—The Dutch police arrested two Dutchmen employed in the German border town of Hordhorn, living respectively at ...
Article : 73 wordsPARIS, Nov. 13.—Low clouds to-day reduced fighting activities on the Western Front to a minimum, but shortly before dawn French ...
Article : 141 wordsROME, Nov. 13.—Italian comment on yesterday's war speech by Mr. Churchill is not favorable. A warning to Britain not to ...
Article : 179 wordsMELBOURNE, Nov. 14.—Officers of the Sixth Division said they believed that the Government would lift the ban on wet canteens at A.I.F. camps ...
Article : 140 wordsBRISBANE, NOV. 14.—Only 800 Queensland militia and A.I.F. trainees have taken advantage of the hardship and man-power provisions to be ...
Article : 141 wordsLONDON, Nov. 13.—The King and Queen, who were accompanied by the Duchess of Kent, visited a West End cinema this afternoon, and saw the ...
Article : 74 wordsLONDON, Nov. 13.—A Standing Committee, containing representatives of boat-owners, employees and Government Departments, has been set ...
Article : 55 wordsA 'Times Weekly' military correspondent, in a strategic survey of the German position in the West, writes:—One may confidently assume that, ...
Article : 519 wordsLONDON, Oct. 24 (by Air Mail).—There are many reasons why the Nazis' arrest of General von Hammerstein as a monarchist is of special ...
Article : 326 wordsThe places named in this map are reported to be those on which ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 21 wordsMELBOURNE, Nov. 14.—After considering motions from every State branch, all of which expressed uneasiness at the small amount of military ...
Article : 79 wordsLONDON, Nov. 13.—A British official wireless message states that South African exports of beef and mutton to Great Britain will be substantially ...
Article : 75 wordsLONDON, Nov. 13.—Sir Arthur Salter has been appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Shipping. ...
Article : 86 wordsBUCHAREST, Nov. 13.—The German and Hungarian minorities' loyalty to Roumania was emphasised at a political rally at which ...
Article : 63 wordsLONDON, NOV. 13.—One of the worst, but necessary, inconveniences of war-time conditions in London has been the closing of certain tube ...
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Daily Mercury (Mackay, Qld. : 1906 - 1954), Wed 15 Nov 1939, Page 7
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