Though unconfirmed, official telephone messages from the Continent quote well-informed shipping circles as the authority for the report that the German pocket battleship Deutschland was sunk in the South Atlantic by an Allied squadron. It is reported that after severe shelling by a British warship, the Deutschland was making off with superior speed when a second British ...
Article : 406 wordsBritish observers expect the war between China and Japan will shortly reach a stage which will give Britain a better perspective of her future in the Far East and the Pacific. ...
Article : 258 wordsThe "New York Times" San Salvador correspondent says that despite the German claim of knowledge of the perpetrators of the Munich explosion, ...
Article : 38 wordsReuter's correspondent on the Rumanian-German frontier states that he has learned from a high Nazi source that Georg Elser, who the Gestapo ...
Article : 281 wordsContinuing, Mr. Bartlett said the present Japanese Government must destroy Chiang by intrigue, or force him to abdicate, because the whole ...
Article : 73 wordsThe "New York Times'" correspondent in Shanghai (Mr. Hallet Abend) says it is officially announced that the Japanese entered south-east ...
Article : 115 wordsA shot was fired across the bows of the Norwegian vessel Solvikea this morning when the vessel was entering the harbour. It ignored warnings and ...
Article : 47 wordsIt is reported that 120 professors at Cracow University have been deported to concentration camps in Germany. Three Polish counts were executed by ...
Article : 32 wordsFor the first time in 3000 years' history of China, alien troops obtained a footing in the richest South China province of Kwangsi, when Japanese ...
Article : 78 wordsThe steamer Mangalore (8886 tons) was sunk by a mine while anchored on the east coast. All 27 of the crew were rescued. The explosion occurred ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Government has appointed Doctor H. J. Vanderbijl, Chairman of the Electricity Supply Commission, as director of the new War ...
Article : 60 wordsWhen the British croiser Belfast was damaged by a German torpedo or mine, 20 of its crew of 900 were injured. The Belfast is one of the ...
Article : 749 wordsIn addition to informing Italy that it was German mines which sank the Italian ship recently, Britain has informed Japan that the Admiralty has ...
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Article : 175 wordsThe new Rumanian Cabinet was sworn in to-day. The declaration of policy by the new Premier (M. Tatarescu), who is pro-British, embraced the ...
Article : 435 wordsArriving shortly after dawn, [?] Australian Minister for Supply (Mr. R. G. Casey), accompanied by two Australian Air Force attaches, spent ...
Article : 225 wordsThe American Associated Press Mexico City correspondent is reliably informed that the Government-controlled oil administration has ...
Article : 51 words"Without betraying any secrets it is possible to state that the British Admiralty has taken steps which will soon be effective to check the German ...
Article : 209 wordsThe American Associated Press Brussels correspondent says that news-papers are unanimously protesting against the reprisals on German ...
Article : 84 wordsThe protocol concerning Hungarian and Italian trade relations has been signed in Some. ...
Article : 21 wordsIt is officially announced that flights against Britain admittedly resulted in the loss of 20 German machines, but it is claimed that 52 British aircraft have ...
Article : 36 wordsWhile official circles are naturally reticent in the face of the intensification of the Germans' sea wai against the allied and neutral shipping and ...
Article : 645 wordsHighly placed officers point out that intensive efforts are being made by naval authorities to combat the latest menace — magnetic mines. ...
Article : 150 wordsThe Minister for Health (Mr. Walter Elliot), at Glasgow, pointed out that (Continued on Page Eight.) EUROPEAN WAR. ...
Article : 165 wordsThe American Associated Press correspondent at the air headquarters said that General Frere, commander of the French Eighth Army Corps, pinned the ...
Article : 262 wordsNewspapers announce that Spain is planning to build 50 warships, including four 35,000 tonners and 14 submarines. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe latest victim of the indiscriminate mine laying by the Germans is the London steamer Hookwood of 900 tons which, it ...
Article : 133 wordsI.R.A bombs wrecked numerous telephone boxes in London and Birmingham in the early hours of the morning. Five explosions over a wide area of ...
Article : 132 wordsDon Bradman scored 303 in a hurricane innings for Kensington in the district games to-day. He trounced the Glenelg bowling, after having been ...
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The Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1954), Mon 27 Nov 1939, Page 7
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