TWO magnificent liners which at the time were used by the British Navy were sunk with heavy losses, as a result of enemy action in the English Channel. British airmen flew over vital German naval bases taking photographs, and escaped without injury. ...
Article : 91 wordsLONDON, Nov. 26.--A Moscow communique accused the Finns of firing seven shells across the frontier, near Mainil, killing four and wounding nine Soviet troops, including officers. "This act of provocation has caused ...
Article : 398 wordsNOTWITHSTANDING the loss of two valuable liners during the week-end, the British Prime Minister (Mr. Neville Chamberlain) is confident that enemy tactics will be defeated shortly. ...
Article : 299 wordsLONDON, Nov. 28.--Sweden has protested to Germany against the extension of German minefields to within two miles of her south-western ...
Article : 198 wordsLONDON, Nov. 26.--In the Bank of England return on November 22 gold coin and bullion in the issue department, was valued at 168- per fine oz. ...
Article : 167 wordsCANBERRA, Nov. 27.--Under the Government's universal service scheme it is expected that between 10,000 and 12,000 men will be in camp before the end of January. The Minister for the Army (Mr. Street) said to-day that ...
Article : 255 wordsCANBERRA, November 27.--Sydney reports that the Commonwealth Government is contemplating a restriction scheme which would cut ...
Article : 255 wordsMOSCOW, Nov. 26.--'Pravda,' the official organ of the Central Committee and Moscow Committee of the Communist party, states in an editorial ...
Article : 90 wordsCANBERRA, Nov. 27.--Details of separation allowances to dependents of married members of the Second A.I.F., and the militia forces during ...
Article : 748 wordsLONDON, Nov. 27.--A Moscow radio message states that mass meetings of protest against the "Finnish provocations" have been ...
Article : 34 wordsPARIS, Nov. 27.--The Polish liner Pilsudski, of 14,294 tons, has been torpedoed. LONDON, Nov. 26.--A British ...
Article : 395 wordsLONDON, Nov. 26.--The 'Times' diplomatic correspondent says that an Order-in-Council for export control would probably be published on ...
Article : 135 wordsNEW YORK, Nov. 26.--Domel Agency at Tokio says that the Premier of Japan (General Nobuyoki Abe), addressing Osaka businessmen, said: ...
Article : 151 wordsLONDON, Nov. 26.--The Ministry, describing the R.A.F. flight over north-west Germany on November 25, said: "Snow, ice, heavy rain, and ...
Article : 325 wordsLONDON, NOV. 26.--A British official wireless message states that in the circumstances of the war it has been decided to reduce the size of the ...
Article : 100 wordsLONDON, Nov. 26.--Lord Barnby will open the debate in the House of Lords on Thursday, dealing with the Government's acquisition of the ...
Article : 59 wordsCANBERRA, Nov. 27.--Following Britain's lead, Australia will shortly place part of the Air Force under the army command. The Minister for the ...
Article : 101 wordsLONDON, Nov. 26.--A British Official wireless message says that a new turn given to Germany's war on shipping in the last week is the ...
Article : 400 wordsLONDON, Nov. 26.--Vice-Admiral Guy Royle has been appointed Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty's chief naval air services, succeeding ...
Article : 46 wordsNEW YORK, Nov. 26.--The New York 'Times' Ottawa correspondent says Canada has fixed the price of wool at 45 cents and overcome the shortage ...
Article : 67 wordsNEW YORK, Nov. 26.--A Washington message states that the Foreign Policy Association in a report questioning whether Japan is content to ...
Article : 182 wordsLONDON, Nov. 26.--The Lord Mayor's Red Cross Fund now totals £706,000. ...
Article : 19 wordsMELBOURNE, Nov. 27.--Sly grog sellers in the vicinity of Seymour military camps have so far evaded detection. For several days special ...
Article : 83 wordsLONDON, Nov. 26.--A Paris message states that for the first time since the outbreak of war public dancing was allowed in honor of St. Catherine's ...
Article : 36 wordsLONDON, Nov. 26.--The Yorkshire 'Post' and the Leeds 'Mercury' has amalgamated owing to war conditions, publishing for a penny. ...
Article : 23 wordsCANBERRA, Nov. 27.--The Minister for the Army (Mr. Street) said to-day that allegations of sly grog trading at military camps were solely a matter ...
Article : 123 wordsLONDON, Nov. 26.--Mr. Chamberlain and M. Daladier have jointly appointed M. Jean Monnet allied chairman of the Anglo-French coordinating ...
Article : 31 wordsSTOCKHOLM, Nov. 26.--It is not certain whether a mine or engine trouble damaged the Swedish oil tanker, Gustaf E. Reuter off the north ...
Article : 173 wordsOTTAWA, Nov. 26.--The British, Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand Governments have received copies of the draft air agreement in ...
Article : 152 wordsLONDON, Nov. 27.--The Admiralty announces that the captured German merchantman, Borkum, with a prize crew ...
Article : 75 wordsBRISBANE, November 27. -- Four representatives of the Queensland Wheat Board went to Sydney by 'plane to-day to discuss with the ...
Article : 174 wordsLONDON, Oct. 30 (by Air Mail).--J. Stubbs Walker, 'Daily Herald' Air Correspondent, in a special article, says: German pilots operating on the Western Front are utterly dissatisfied with their new Messer-schmitt fighting planes. ...
Article : 428 wordsLONDON, Nov. 26.--The Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain), declaring himself fully fit, told listeners that 12 weeks of the war ...
Article : 538 wordsLONDON, Nov. 26.--Anxiety is felt regarding the thirteen members of the crew of the Fleetwood trawler, William Humphries, who took to a boat last ...
Article : 197 wordsOSLO, Nov. 26.--One person was killed and two injured when a spectator, striking a match, exploded a balloon which drifted over South ...
Article : 62 wordsCANBERRA, Nov. 27.--The Acting Minister of Supply (Sir F. Stewart) said to-day that the Government was discussing with the Queensland ...
Article : 49 wordsBRISBANE, Nov. 27.--The first consignment of meat direct to the Ministry of Food, London, from Brisbane abattoirs, will be shipped ...
Article : 37 wordsLONDON, Nov. 27.--A Berlin official wireless says: "Mr. Chamberlain's war aims are the destruction of the present German Government, and ...
Article : 105 wordsLONDON, Nov. 26.--A Paris message says the French Trades Union Council finally broke with the Communists at a meeting of representatives of the ...
Article : 65 wordsLONDON, Nov. 26.--The 'Times' Bratislava correspondent says German troops are accumulating on the Slovakian eastern frontier bordering ...
Article : 49 wordsIPSWICH, Nov. 27.--For the first time since the Great War three shifts, working the round of the clock, will be employed on sections of the ...
Article : 48 wordsROME, Nov. 25.--The German steamer Fritzen ran aground on Schlermonnikoog Island. ...
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Daily Mercury (Mackay, Qld. : 1906 - 1954), Tue 28 Nov 1939, Page 7
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