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 wordsOver 100 Germans have been expelled for "suspicious activities." ...
Article : 16 wordsOn 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 wordsSix Polish trawlers have arrived at Boulogne from Gdynia. It is learned that the German Governor (Dr. Frank) signed 300 death sentences on his last ...
Article : 63 wordsBritish front-line-troops suffered to-day their first casualties of actual warfare. Several were wounded and some were killed. Night patrols ...
Article : 89 wordsGerman Press commentaries on the speech by the Italian Foreign Minister (Count Ciano) to the Fascist Chamber emphasise the absurdity of the Allies' ...
Article : 52 wordsGerman troops again raided the Blies River sector last night. lighting continued till 4 a.m. The Germans fell back. Artillery fire continued all night. ...
Article : 68 wordsHenri, 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 wordsThe Reichsbank has announced the substitution of aluminium for certain nickel coins, and also that it will put into circulation notes of one, two and ...
Article : 34 wordsA 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 wordsSteadily but surely history is repeating itself. The success of the Allies' campaign against the German submarines has exceeded expectations. ...
Article : 587 wordsAt the British Expeditionary Force headquarters in France the British Prime Minister (Mr. Neville Chamberlain) heard of the first British ...
Article : 124 wordsThe 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 ...
Article : 529 wordsThe scuttling of the Admiral Graf Spee appears to have removed the immediate danger of the war encroaching on the American continent, ...
Article : 104 wordsThe radio told a remarkable story of the wanderings of the Erlangen, which quitted New Zealand for Australia late in August. The captain ...
Article : 84 wordsThe 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 wordsThe "Herald-Tribune," in an editorial, refers to the ignominious end of the Admiral Graf Spee, contrasting its unheroic scuttling with the original ...
Article : 72 wordsThe R. A. F. casualty list includes the Australians, Pilot Officer C. R. Coventry, of Brighton South Australia, missing, believed to have been killed ...
Article : 83 wordsMr. George Gordon Medlicott Vereker, the Acting Counsellor of the British Embassy in Moscow, was taken prisoner by Germany while en route ...
Article : 129 wordsA petition against John Woolcott Forbes presented to the Bankruptcy Court to-day stated that he wai indebted to the Producers and ...
Article : 142 wordsThe official news agency announced: "Hitler himself ordered the Admiral Graf Spee to be scuttled." The Press has dropped the talk of a ...
Article : 72 wordsAccording to agency reports from Rio de Janeiro, the Ark Royal and Renown called there this morning to refuel. ...
Article : 113 wordsThe Associated Press Montevideo correspondent states this morning that the wreckage of the Graf Spee has almost broken in two. The ebb ...
Article : 157 wordsThe 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. ...
Article : 31 wordsTwo German planes machine-gunned, bombed and sunk the Serenity eight miles off the east coast. Fishing boats picked up all the crew uninjured. ...
Article : 99 wordsA 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"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 wordsReports of disturbances among Russian soldiers engaged in the Finnish campaign come from Stockholm by way of Estonia, but ...
Article : 175 wordsThe "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 wordsFinland has broadcast another dramatic appeal for more active help from the civilised world than it has received so far. ...
Article : 27 wordsLieutenant-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 wordsWhile the Soviet Foreign Minister (M. Molotov) callously ignores the dramatic broadcast plea from Finland for a peaceful negotiation of the issues ...
Article : 76 wordsThe 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 wordsFollowing an assurance by Mr. Marshall, a Sydney zoologist, that there is a crocodile roaming in the Angourie district, William Hart, ...
Article : 109 wordsThe Prime Minister of Canada (Mr. MacKenzie King), broadcasting to the nation details of the air training agreement, revealed that 67 training ...
Article : 60 wordsIt 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 wordsEighty more Germans have been interned in the Union of South Africa, including Dr. Anton Obholzer, a professor at the University of ...
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The Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1954), Tue 19 Dec 1939, Page 7
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