LONDON, Jan. 3.—The idea of a European federation after the war is being given increasing prominence, following the speech by the French Prime Minister ...
Article : 196 wordsLONDON, Jan. 3.—There was considerable air activity on the western front yesterday, in spite of bitterly cold weather and fresh falls of snow. Normal ...
Article : 116 wordsLONDON, Jan. 3.—There is now conviction in Britain and France that if Finland suffers defeat a great blow will have been struck at the Allied cause. ...
Article : 914 wordsLONDON, Jan. 3.—The Australian High Commissioner (Mr. S. M. Bruce). in a broadcast address today, said that he could summarise Australia's ...
Article : 1,464 wordsA fierce blizzard sweeping over the Karelian Isthmus has immobilised the new Russian offensive against the Finnish Mannerheim Line. Before this respite the Finns, according to Helsinki reports, had withstood heavy and simultaneous Russian onslaughts ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 969 wordsLONDON, Jan. 3.—A fierce aerial battle was fought over the North Sea yesterday afternoon between three British bombers and a squadron of 12 ...
Article : 338 wordsLONDON, Jan. 3.—The lull which has developed in the war at sea continues. The only sinking which has been reported is that of the small Swedish ...
Article : 124 wordsLONDON, Jan. 2.—Large numbers of the 2,000,000 men between the ages of 20 and 27 who will be due to be called up for military service in the next few ...
Article : 74 wordsSTOCKHOLM, Jan. 3.—The Ministry of Marine announces that Sweden lost 11 ships aggregating 17,254 tons, during December by mine and torpedo. ...
Article : 26 wordsNEW YORK, Jan. 3.—It is understood that the British cruisers Ajax and Achilles will arrive at noon today at Montevideo (Uruguay) and Buenos ...
Article : 310 wordsLONDON, Jan. 3.—Persistent reports that the Pope is again contemplating a peace effort can be regarded with the greatest scepticism. Undoubtedly some ...
Article : 482 wordsLONDON, Jan. 2.—The Ministry of Labour has relaxed the reserved occupations schedule embracing 60 trades and professions, thus enabling those engaged ...
Article : 78 wordsBERLIN, Jan. 2.—It is claimed that three of the most modern British Wellington planes were brought down in the Heligoland Bight today after a brief ...
Article : 37 wordsLONDON, Jan. 2.—The King paid a visit today to troops in the Southern Command where he was met by a parade of 4,000 men who greeted him with a ...
Article : 133 wordsPARIS, Jan. 3.—German planes flew over Paris and eastern France last night. Anti-aircraft fire was heard in the capital, and radio stations closed down for ...
Article : 34 wordsLONDON, Jan. 2.—There is an increasing tendency on the part of the Russians, owing to the failure of their attacks on the Mannerheim Line, to attempt to ...
Article : 243 wordsBRUSSELS, Jan. 2.—Foreign planes, believed to be German, flew over Belgium at a great height today. Belgian fighters went up and anti-aircraft ...
Article : 30 wordsBRUSSELS, Jan. 2.—Belgium and Holland have adopted a new international symbol—a blue circle enclosing a blue triangle—notifying airmen that buildings ...
Article : 82 wordsLONDON, Jan. 2.—In an article appearing in the weekly journal, the "Shipping World," the Minister of Shipping (Sir John Gilmour) reveals that the ...
Article : 51 wordsLONDON, Jan. 2.—In recognition of their gallant conduct when the British liner Athenia (13,465 tons) was torpedoed without warning by a German submarine ...
Article : 206 wordsDELHI, Jan. 2.—The Government has authorised the formation of five new battalions of territorials under the expansion plan for the Indian Army ...
Article : 38 wordsLONDON, Jan. 3.—The Germans repatriated from the Baltic States, including 48,000 from Latvia and 12,000 from Estonia, and now settled ...
Article : 223 wordsLONDON, Jan. 2.—The Paris newspaper "Le Temps," in a eulogy of Britain's efforts since the war began, writes this afternoon:—"Traditionally a great ...
Article : 114 wordsLONDON, Jan. 3.—The Associated Press (American) correspondent in Berlin says that Germany has issued a warning that she might enter the Russo-Finnish ...
Article : 237 wordsLONDON, Jan. 2.—A survey of military preparations in South Africa made officially in the Union states that the Union's new citizen army is making ...
Article : 335 wordsWASHINGTON, Jan. 2.—The United States has formally protested to Britain against the seizure of American mail bound for Germany. ...
Article : 209 wordsLONDON, Jan 2.—Shopkeepers throughout Britain have been supplied with over 130,000,000 counterfolls for bacon, ham, butter, and sugar in ...
Article : 79 wordsBUKAREST, Jan. 2.—The Government's suspension for the duration of the winter of permits for navigation of the ice-strewn Danube has handicapped ...
Article : 146 wordsBERLIN, Jan. 2.—Over 20,000 Germans who formerly lived in the portion of Poland now occupied by Russia have arrived at camps near Lodz (in the ...
Article : 32 wordsLONDON, Jan. 2.—The Belgrade correspondent of "The Times" reports that a new wave of arrests has swept over Czechoslovakia the victims being army ...
Article : 169 wordsZURICH (Switzerland), Jan. 2.—A Moravian baron has been sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment on charges of having been employed by both the British ...
Article : 100 wordsLONDON, Jan. 2.—Prince Axel, of Denmark, and M. Mohr, leader of the Danish delegation, returned to London today to resume the Anglo-Danish trade ...
Article : 59 wordsLONDON, Jan. 2.—The latest authoritative advices from London show that security conditions in Palestine continued to improve during December. There was ...
Article : 109 wordsLONDON, Jan. 2.—The Berlin radio announced today an exchange of New Year messages in which Hitler wished Mussolini success in the guidance of ...
Article : 56 wordsMELBOURNE, Jan. 3.—Formation of a Federal council to co-ordinate and direct the efforts of funds in all States for providing comforts for Australian ...
Article : 183 wordsAUCKLAND, Jan. 3.—Officers and men of the first echelon of the New Zealand expeditionary force paraded through the streets of the main cities today and were ...
Article : 189 wordsLONDON, Jan. 2.—Five houses were damaged and several people narrowly escaped death today during an accidental naval bombardment from the sea of ...
Article : 153 wordsROME, Jan. 2.—It is reported today that a Turkish mission will arrive in Rome shortly to negotiate a trade agreement between Italy and Turkey. ...
Article : 31 wordsLONDON, Jan. 2.—Madame Clara Novello Davies, the veteran choral conductor and mother of Ivor Novello, the actor and composer, whose organisation sent ...
Article : 97 wordsSTOCKHOLM, Jan. 2.—The Swedish Parliament has empowered a special board to requisition men for necessary essential tasks connected with the war. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Thu 4 Jan 1940, Page 7
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