The Finnish night communique says that numerous Russian attacks on the Karelian Isthmus, supported by tanks, guns and planes, were repulsed with heavy Russian losses, including 700 dead, who were left on the frozen surface of a small lake. The Finns throughout the day captured, besides a number of rifles, 60 machine guns, five quickfirers and 50 prisoners, ...
Article : 474 wordsThe activity on the Western Front, never very great since theFrench advanced into the Saar in September, appears to ...
Article : 796 wordsThe B.B.C. midnight news bulletin revealed the author of the quotation used by the King in his broadcast. Miss M. L. Haskins wrote it as an ...
Article : 423 wordsAustralia's first complete air unit on active service in Europe is now on English soil. Nearly 200 Australian airmen, under the command of Flight-Lieutenant D. A. Cameron, of Melbourne, have disembarked at a southern port. They ...
Article : 264 words"I am glad to welcome you to Britain as Australia's first unit on active service in Europe," said Mr. Bruce. "Your safe arrival has given great ...
Article : 1,033 words"The Times" correspondent at Rome says that the repatriation of Germans from the Tyrol under the agreement of October 21 will mean that Italy will ...
Article : 105 wordsSouth Africa so far has made the most positive reply to the League of Nations' inquiry regarding the proposed assistance to Finland, declaring ...
Article : 184 wordsH. Moscicki, the former President of Poland, who is ill, has gone to Switzerland with his wife. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe United States Line has asked the Maritime Commission for permission to sell eight ships to a Norwegian corporation for service between New York ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Finnish Minister (Mr. Gripenberg), broadcasting, said: "Justice has given us strength and courage. With God's help we might yet survive. Yet, ...
Article : 149 wordsIt is revealed that the Carl Henckel, which picked up survivors of the Mars, was sunk by a mine shortly afterwards. The 36 members of the crews of both ...
Article : 38 wordsA U-boat sank the steamet Stanholme (2473 tons) without warning on Christmas morning, three hours after leaving a west coast port. A deck hand ...
Article : 118 wordsPresident Roosevelt has appointed Joseph E.. Davies, the Ambassador to Belgium, to assist the Secretary of State (Mr. Cordell Hull) to deal with ...
Article : 43 wordsCommenting on the welcome to Australian airmen in England, the Acting Minister for Civil Aviation (Mr. H. E. Holt) said the presence of ...
Article : 135 wordsThe Air Ministry announces: "Throughout yesterday, although being Christmas Day, the R.A.F. continued, without relaxing its vigilance, the ...
Article : 142 wordsThe London "Daily Worker," a Communist paper, carried a story that the United States planned to break off diplomatic relations with ...
Article : 183 wordsIn Moscow the Supreme War Council held an emergency meeting this morning. The Rome radio assumes that the ...
Article : 38 wordsIt is officially stated that the Pope sent financial help to the needy Finnish Catholics. ...
Article : 22 wordsHitler has accepted Frau Martha Selve's offer of the villa Zirio at San Remo, and placed it at the disposal of German war invalids. ...
Article : 31 wordsAn earthquake recorded in London to-day was also recorded in Switzerland and Italy. Probably the earthquake occurred in Asia Minor, but as ...
Article : 64 wordsFour Russian planes are reported to have been shot down at Imatra. Six bombers flew over the capital but did not drop any bombs. ...
Article : 38 wordsThc "New York Times" correspondent in Moscow (Mr. G. E. R. Gedye) telegraphs: The effect the Russian troops' situation in Finland ...
Article : 303 wordsThe Minister for Commerce (Senator McLeay) announced to-day that he had been advised that Sir Thomas Gordo, a Sydney shipowner, had been appointed as representative of the British Ministry ...
Article : 115 wordsIt was officially stated in Berlin that for the first time since 1918 Hitler crossed the frontier on December 24 near Saarbrucken and toured Spichern ...
Article : 102 wordsRev. D. J. L. Richardson, former Minister of the Brotherhood of St. Barnabas in the Anglican diocese of North Queensland, has arrived in ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Asiatic Petroleum Corporation, a, British firm, has instituted a 114,000 dollars action against the German ship Areucs (which sought refuge from a ...
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The Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1965), Thu 28 Dec 1939, Page 7
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