NEW YORK, December 31.—The American people have already indicated their overwhelming support for President Roosevelt's stirring speech to the nation on Sunday, and it is believed that it marks a new step forward ...
Article : 1,575 wordsNEW YORK, December 31.—Reports of German military activity in Rumania have been brought to (Yugoslavia) by ...
Article : 126 wordsSHELL-TORN bridge and super-structure of the British auxiliary cruiser Carnarvon Castle after its engagement with a Nazi raider in the South Atlantic. The Nazi ship was hit, but escaped. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 66 wordsLONDON, December 31.—Women played a heroic part in assisting to extinguish the flames in Sunday night's raid on London. Woman ambulance drivers also played their part bravely in taking the injured to first aid posts and later to ...
Article : 1,392 wordsNEW YORK, December 30.—Twenty-five thousand spectators at a bull fight in Mexico City cheered as Emil Ludwig, the famous another ...
Article : 58 wordsLONDON, December 31.—The Admiralty statement revealing that the cruiser Berwick drove, off a raider on Christmas Dav shows ...
Article : 169 wordsLONDON, December 31.—It is stated authoritatively that there is no reason to think that the lack of food and water will force the ...
Article : 144 wordsLONDON'S Guildhall, which was seriously damaged in the Nazi air blitzkrieg on Sunday night, is the best known local government hall in the world, and one of the sights of mighty London. ...
Article : 760 wordsLONDON, December 31.—"Bad weather over Europe seriously restricted operations last night," said yesterday's Air Ministry's report. ...
Article : 94 wordsNEW YORK, December 31.—The Defence Commission's semi-annual report states that the monthly production is now 2400 aero engines 700 ...
Article : 145 wordsNEW YORK, December 31.—Film critics chose "Grapes of Wrath" as the best picture of 1940. Charlie Chaplin and Katharine Hepburn were selected ...
Article : 99 wordsLONDON, December 31.—Hitler, in a New Year Eve Order of the Day, said: "1941 will bring to Germany its greatest victory on the western front." ...
Article : 49 wordsLONDON, December 31.—The Admiralty has announced that 18 ships totalling 43,000 torus were lost during the week ended December 22. The ...
Article : 52 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Lord Mayor (Alderman Crick) has remitted £260,000, on behalf of the New South Wales relief fund for Great Britain's ...
Article : 50 wordsTOKIO, December 30.—Mr. W. M. Hughes is enjoying temporarily an Axis "boom." The Domel Japanese news agency ...
Article : 103 wordsThe Queensland president of the U.A.P. (Mr. L. Lawrence) announced last night that he would call his party executive and council together within ...
Article : 87 wordsLONDON, December 31.—The Minister for Food (Lord Woolton) has asked householders to use more potatoes which farmers are growing freely ...
Article : 76 wordsNEW YORK, December 30.—New and effective classes of weapons are to be manufactured in the United States and Canada soon. ...
Article : 157 wordsNEW YORK, December 30.—A message from Bogota (Colombia) says that the La Liberals Buenaventura correspondent reports that the Colombian ...
Article : 58 wordsLONDON, December 31.—A fire which occurred in a baggage room at the Anhalter railway station, Berlin, spread to number of offices on the western side ...
Article : 49 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—An unidentified man fell over a 3000ft. cliff at Echo Point this afternoon. Mr. George Brett, of Leichhardt, who is staying at ...
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Advertising : 245 wordsBURNEE-OUT shell of the once beautiful 14th Century St. Michale's Cathedral at Coventry. This picture, taken from the spire, typifies the wanton and ruthless destruction of non-military objectives carried out by Nazi bombers. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 66 wordsThe Minister for commerce (Sir Earle Page) is visiting Queensland. He spent last night at Broad Beach. This morning he will call at the Federal ...
Article : 49 wordsLONDON, December 31.—While incendiary bombs spattered on its roof, and fires in the surrounding streets blazed, St. Thomas's Hospital, situated in the centre of Sunday night's raid area, courageously carried on at speed, the staff treating raid casualties ...
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The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), Wed 1 Jan 1941, Page 2
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