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  2. POCKET BATTLESHIP GRAF SPEE SCUTTLED BY GERMAN COMMANDER HUGE CROWDS SEE LAST ACT OF SEA DRAMA

    Germany has now lost two of her most valuable warships. Yesterday the pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee was scuttled rather than run the gauntlet of waiting British fighting ships, and to-day the Admiralty announced that the British submarine Ursula sank a German cruiser of the Koenigsberg class at the mouth of the River Elbe on Thursday last. She carried a ...

    Article : 424 words
  3. TURKEY EXPELS NAZIS.

    Over 100 Germans have been expelled for "suspicious activities." ...

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  4. WAR'S TREND FAVOURS ALLIES Awaiting Enemy's Attack

    On the whole it may be asserted that the trend of the war is favourable to the Allies. It is true that the rival armies and air forces have not yet been engaged in strength. In both services the offensive rests with Germany and will until the allied ...

    Article : 223 words
  5. POLES DEFY GERMANS.

    Six Polish trawlers have arrived at Boulogne from Gdynia. It is learned that the German Governor (Dr. Frank) signed 300 death sentences on his last ...

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  6. FIRST CASUALTIES.

    British front-line-troops suffered to-day their first casualties of actual warfare. Several were wounded and some were killed. Night patrols ...

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  7. ITALY'S ATTITUDE.

    German Press commentaries on the speech by the Italian Foreign Minister (Count Ciano) to the Fascist Chamber emphasise the absurdity of the Allies' ...

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  8. GERMAN RAIDS ON FRONT.

    German troops again raided the Blies River sector last night. lighting continued till 4 a.m. The Germans fell back. Artillery fire continued all night. ...

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  9. ALLIES REFUSE PRETENDER'S SON.

    Henri, Comte de Paris, son of the Pretender to the French throne, has been refused permission to join the Allied forces. The Premier (M. ...

    Article : 59 words
  10. GERMAN ALUMINIUM COINS.

    The Reichsbank has announced the substitution of aluminium for certain nickel coins, and also that it will put into circulation notes of one, two and ...

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  11. NAZIS CLAIM REPULSING PLANES.

    A German communique states that attempts by British bombers to attack Norderney and Sylt on the night of December 16-17 failed. A number of ...

    Article : 352 words
  12. HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF.

    Steadily but surely history is repeating itself. The success of the Allies' campaign against the German submarines has exceeded expectations. ...

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  13. BRITISH CASUALTIES.

    At the British Expeditionary Force headquarters in France the British Prime Minister (Mr. Neville Chamberlain) heard of the first British ...

    Article : 124 words
  14. BURNED FOR 80 MINUTES.

    The Admiral Graf Spee burned for [?]0 minutes, the explosions continuing [?]ill 9.15 p.m., when a heavier explosion [?]ent coloured rockets and flame balls ...

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  15. DIPLOMATIC PROBLEM.

    The scuttling of the Admiral Graf Spee appears to have removed the immediate danger of the war encroaching on the American continent, ...

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  16. WANDERINGS OF ERLANGEN.

    The radio told a remarkable story of the wanderings of the Erlangen, which quitted New Zealand for Australia late in August. The captain ...

    Article : 84 words
  17. GERMAN BLUNDER.

    The United States reaction to the German shortwave wireless account of the Admiral Graf Spee battle is one of contemptuous hilarity in the face of ...

    Article : 106 words
  18. IGNOMINIOUS END.

    The "Herald-Tribune," in an editorial, refers to the ignominious end of the Admiral Graf Spee, contrasting its unheroic scuttling with the original ...

    Article : 72 words
  19. R.A.F. CASUALTIES.

    The R. A. F. casualty list includes the Australians, Pilot Officer C. R. Coventry, of Brighton South Australia, missing, believed to have been killed ...

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  20. BRITISH OFFICIAL.

    Mr. George Gordon Medlicott Vereker, the Acting Counsellor of the British Embassy in Moscow, was taken prisoner by Germany while en route ...

    Article : 129 words
  21. WOOLCOTT FORBES.

    A petition against John Woolcott Forbes presented to the Bankruptcy Court to-day stated that he wai indebted to the Producers and ...

    Article : 142 words
  22. BY HITLER'S ORDER.

    The official news agency announced: "Hitler himself ordered the Admiral Graf Spee to be scuttled." The Press has dropped the talk of a ...

    Article : 72 words
  23. BIG SHIPS AT BRAZIL.

    According to agency reports from Rio de Janeiro, the Ark Royal and Renown called there this morning to refuel. ...

    Article : 113 words
  24. WRECKAGE CRUMBLING.

    The Associated Press Montevideo correspondent states this morning that the wreckage of the Graf Spee has almost broken in two. The ebb ...

    Article : 157 words
  25. STRINDHEIM SUNK.

    The Strindheim sank off the Scottish coast, believedly as a result of striking a mine. The captain was killed and eight of the crew are missing. ...

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  26. ALL OF CREW RESCUED.

    Two German planes machine-gunned, bombed and sunk the Serenity eight miles off the east coast. Fishing boats picked up all the crew uninjured. ...

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  27. HUMILIATING END.

    A high naval authority, in a statement in "The Times," says that the scuttling of the Admiral Graf Spee, which would never have happened in ...

    Article : 144 words
  28. AUSTRALIAN STOCK.

    "The Times" city editor says that the latest Australian conversion is not as good as expected. The city calculates that the underwriters will have ...

    Article : 88 words
  29. STOP PRESS!

    Reports of disturbances among Russian soldiers engaged in the Finnish campaign come from Stockholm by way of Estonia, but ...

    Article : 175 words
  30. EMPIRE AIR FORCE.

    The "Daily Mail," in a leader, says: The broadcast by the Australian Minister for Air (Mr. J. V. Fairbairn) on December 16 lifted the curtain a trifle ...

    Article : 114 words
  31. FINNISH APPEAL TO WORLD.

    Finland has broadcast another dramatic appeal for more active help from the civilised world than it has received so far. ...

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  32. LIEUT. COLONEL CORY.

    Lieutenant-Colonel A. H. Cory, who retired from the position of Chief Inspector of Stock at the end of November, died at his home at Wynnum ...

    Article : 139 words
  33. RUSSIANS RELENTLESS.

    While the Soviet Foreign Minister (M. Molotov) callously ignores the dramatic broadcast plea from Finland for a peaceful negotiation of the issues ...

    Article : 76 words
  34. Lying Nazi Propaganda About Our Entry Into War Refuted

    The Prime Minister (Mr. R. G. Menzies) in a statement to-day nailed the lie that had been broadcast by the German propaganda station that Australia decided to enter the war only by five votes. ...

    Article : 161 words
  35. CROCODILE AT LARGE.

    Following an assurance by Mr. Marshall, a Sydney zoologist, that there is a crocodile roaming in the Angourie district, William Hart, ...

    Article : 109 words
  36. COST TO CANADA.

    The Prime Minister of Canada (Mr. MacKenzie King), broadcasting to the nation details of the air training agreement, revealed that 67 training ...

    Article : 60 words
  37. ENEMY CRUISER.

    It is officially stated that the British submarine Ursula sank a German cruiser of the Koenigsberg class at the mouth of the Elbe River on ...

    Article : 88 words
  38. AFRICAN GERMANS INTERNED.

    Eighty more Germans have been interned in the Union of South Africa, including Dr. Anton Obholzer, a professor at the University of ...

    Article : 31 words
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