LONDON, Wednesday.--Since first threat of invasion was made early last month, pilots of the Royal Air Force have kept a ...
Article : 1,223 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.--A heavy mist blotting out the Straits of Dover is believed partly responsible for the marked slackening in night raids on ...
Article : 472 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday. -- To-morrow's conference between the State Premiers and Ministers for Agriculture and the Minister ...
Article : 733 wordsCANBERRA, Thursday.--In a series of conferences between the Prime Minister (Mr. R. G. Menzies) and the Acting Leader of the Country Party ...
Article : 783 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.--A message from Chungking states that, despite Japanese bombings, traffic on the Burma Road remains unaffected. Only ...
Article : 429 wordsLONDON, Thursday. -- A communique issued in Madrid states: "Hitler and General Franco met on the French and Spanish frontier. The Spanish Foreign Minister (Senor Suner) and Ribbentrop also ...
Article : 944 wordsWASHINGTON, Wednesday.--In his first major campaign address at Philadelphia, President Roosevelt reiterated his promise to keep America. out of ...
Article : 561 wordsLONDON, Wednesday. -- Questions were asked in the House of Commons regarding the position of Prince von Starhemberg, former Austrian ...
Article : 136 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.--It was officially announced in Berne that, under a trade agreement, Switzerland would resume trade with unoccupied France. ...
Article : 660 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.--Mr. Ralph Ingersoll, owner of the New York newspaper "P.M.," who completed a three- day tour of London, said: "Londoners ...
Article : 181 wordsWASHINGTON, Thursday.--The export of war 'planes to Britain in the first year of the war totalled 743, valued at 53,000,000 dollars, and parts ...
Article : 53 wordsBRISBANE, Thursday. -- Fifty Queensland men and women are to be trained as leaders for the National Fitness Campaign at a camp at Southport ...
Article : 144 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.--Replying to a question in the House of Commons, the Under-Secretary for State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. R. A. Butler) said ...
Article : 255 wordsA boisterous wind blew in Toowoomba yesterday afternoon and in the evening storm clouds appeared, but only light showers were experienced in the early ...
Article : 189 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday.--Although! Tragopan was sent to Melbourne, especially with a view to tackling the Melbourne Cup, the horse has little ...
Article : 396 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.--The naval correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says that although surprise is being expressed that the Italian forces were ...
Article : 272 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.--An application for the discharge of the jury was refused by Mr. Justice K. W. Street in the Supreme Court to-day in the ...
Article : 145 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday.--The first father and son to have their wings in the Royal Australian Air Force at the same time are Flight-Lieutenant R. U. ...
Article : 100 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday.--Additional troops front Australia will join the new Ninth Division in the Middle East for training. ...
Article : 88 wordsINNISFAIL, Thursday.--The Country Party to-night selected Mr. A. A. Moule as the party's candidate for the Herbert bye-election. He is a sugar ...
Article : 74 wordsBRISBANE, Thursday. -- Lightning struck the chimney of a house in Sinclair Street, Kangaroo Point, in a storm to-night. The chimney crashed. ...
Article : 88 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday. -- Detectives spent much time searching the bush off River Road. Lane Cove, for £6300 in notes which were wrapped in brown ...
Article : 186 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.--The Berlin radio says that all members of the Polish Embassy in Bucharest, except the Ambassador, have been arrested. ...
Article : 115 wordsBRISBANE, Thursday.--The Commissioner of Taxation, in a report tabled in Parliament to-day, stated that Queenslanders paid £3,538,915 in ...
Article : 70 wordsLONDON, Wednesday.--Replying to criticism of the grant of an exit permit to Mr. H. G. Wells to go on a lecture tour in the United States, the Under ...
Article : 131 wordsBRISBANE, Thursday.--Though rain fell in many centres of the south-east coast to-night, it was not heavy enough in most areas to afford relief. Districts ...
Article : 50 wordsVICHY, Wednesday.--The "Journal des Debats" states that three ships, bringing over 10,000 tons of foodstuffs from Buenos Aires, have arrived in ...
Article : 132 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday.--The Minister for the Army (Senator P. A. McBride) said to-night that to enable more than 3000 officers to be trained, ...
Article : 42 wordsBEUNAVENTURA (Colombia), Wednesday.--Two unidentified submarines are reported at the entrance to Beuna-ventura Bay, on the Pacific coast. ...
Article : 37 wordsBRISBANE, Thursday.--Mr. Alexander Corran, proprietor of the world's smallest newspaper. "The Torres Strait Pilot." died recently, aged 79 years. ...
Article : 82 wordsLONDON, Wednesday. -- Overseas trade returns for September disclose exports valued at £31,000.000 compared with £23,000,000 for September, 1939. ...
Article : 38 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday.--There was further evidence of the increasing confidence of buyers on the Stock Exchange to-day and of the appreciable ...
Article : 57 wordsBRISBANE, Thursday.--H.M.S. Coringa. 294 tons, a Brisbane river lug which left Brisbane in January and was handed over to the British ...
Article : 54 wordsWARWICK, Thursday.--A tender by the Albion Quarrying Co. for £18.428- 121 for the construction of sewerage treatment works was recommended to ...
Article : 45 wordsPERTH, Thursday.--Six priests and eight brothers of the German Missionary Brotherhood of Beagle Bay and the Lombardina Mission, about 200 ...
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The Toowoomba Chronicle and Darling Downs Gazette (Qld. : 1922 - 1965), Fri 25 Oct 1940, Page 5
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