LONDON, Dec. 22.—The American Mackay radio network reported on Friday that the Norwegian steamer Varangberg (2,842 tons) had been attacked ...
Article : 194 wordsWhen the counting of votes cast in the by-election for the Swan seat in the House of Representaives ceased last night the probable return of Mr. T. W. ...
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Advertising : 153 wordsLONDON, Dec. 22.—Diplomatic circles in Berlin confirm the report that Dr. Killinger has been appointed German Ambassador to Rumania. Dr. illinger has ...
Article : 193 wordsLONDON, Dec. 22.—The crowning touches to the present astonishing drama in which the Chief of the French rate ...
Article : 1,022 wordsLONDON, Dec. 22.—The Chief of the French State (Marshal Petain) has sent a long dispatch to Hitler explaining his reasons for removing M. Laval from the ...
Article : 991 wordsDUBLIN, Dec. 21. —It Is officially stated that at about 7.30 p.m. on Thursday an aeroplane flew over the Dunlaighaire area of County Dublin and ...
Article : 117 wordsOTTAWA, Dec. 21.—An Air Force bulletin states that 168,050 flying hours have been chalked up since the inception of the Empire air training scheme. ...
Article : 219 wordsLONDON, Dec. 22.—Thousands of tanks are forming the Royal Armoured Corps—Britain's reply to Germany's Panzer divisions. Many of these tanks are ...
Article : 215 wordsNEW YORK, Dec. 20.—It is reported that many arrests have followed anti Nazi demonstrations that took place in the third district market hall in Vlenna ...
Article : 74 wordsLONDON, Dec. 20.—Many documents and books have been rescued in salvage work after the bombing of Eton College. The ancient flogging block still ...
Article : 44 wordsNEW YORK, Dec. 21.—M. J. E. F. Rens, a. former Belgian Cabinet Minister, left for London today to join the free Belgian Government. He said that ...
Article : 110 wordsLONDON, Dec. 20—Coastal Command planes during the first year of the war flew 14,000,000 miles in 106,000 hours. They escorted 50,000 ships, attacked 160 ...
Article : 49 wordsLONDON, Dec. 22.—The Sunday newspapers unite in warning the public not to slacken vigilance as the second war Christmas approaches. The aeronautical ...
Article : 232 wordsLONDON, Dec. 21.—The Berne radio states that Germany has agreed to a request by the Vatican to place a number of Belgian, Dutch and Polish churches ...
Article : 65 wordsLONDON, Dec. 22.—German communiques and radio and news agency reports on Friday, Saturday and Sunday had the usual story to tell of bombing ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 140 wordsLONDON, Dec: 20.—Thousands of miles from Britain in the Indian States of Hyderabad and Secunderabad news of the latest successes of the R.A.P. Fighter ...
Article : 289 wordsDamage estimated at £2,000 was caused by a fire which broke out in Connell's drapery store, Fitzgerald-street. Northam., late on Saturday night. The store, a ...
Article : 134 wordsLONDON, Dec. 21.—The Home Secretary (Mr. Herbert Morrison) has sent a Christmas message to the police of England and Wales in which he praises 'the ...
Article : 150 wordsWhen a small car caught fire after turning over at the junction of Adelaide-terrace and Plane-street, East Perth, about 10.45 p.m. on Saturday, the ...
Article : 224 wordsADELAIDE, Dec. 22.—No further stop work meetings have been arranged by members of the Tramways Employees' Federation and, tomorrow, at least, ...
Article : 249 wordsSYDNEY, Dec. 22.—Hotel employees on the South Coast will meet tomorrow to discuss the district ban on beer and to consider whether they should take any ...
Article : 165 wordsLONDON, Dec. 22.—Australian naval ratings spending Christmas leave in London were met by Miss Margaret Baxter (formerly of Sydney) during the ...
Article : 232 wordsLONDON, Dec. 22.—Leighton Morris, who was fined last month for having removed a bomb from a building contrary to police instructions, has joined the ...
Article : 111 wordsLONDON, Dec. 22.—It is now generally accepted that Lord Halifax is the most likely person to be appointed as Ambassador to Washington in succession ...
Article : 233 wordsYORK, Dec. 22—Joseph Walter Marwick (67), a well-known resident of York, died, apparently instantly, when he was struck by a motor cycle on Monger's ...
Article : 63 wordsLONDON. Dep. 20.—There is a glut of home-grown vegetables, for which Covent Garden salesmen consider the "Dig for Victory" campaign is responsible. The ...
Article : 187 wordsThere was revelry at the Y.A.L. Hall on Saturday night when about 450 people, including 200 children, attended the annual Christmas tree of "The West ...
Article : 211 wordsNEW YORK, Dec. 21.—President Roosevelt, in a message delivered today for the commemoration of the anniversary of the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers. ...
Article : 131 wordsFifteen contributions ranging from 5/ to £50, and amounting to £80/14/3, increased the Lord Mayor's fund for the relief of distress among bombed British ...
Article : 144 wordsLONDON, Dec. 22.—The Rome radio today announced heavy sentences on 24 persons accused of spying in Italy. The sentences included two death sentences. ...
Article : 204 wordsFour persons were injured in a collision at the corner of South-street and Hampton-road, Beaconsfield, yesterday afternoon. After the collision the car in ...
Article : 172 wordsSINGAPORE, Dec. 22.—The Governor of the Straits Settlements (Sir Shenton Thomas), In a broadcast tonight, said: "I have returned from a holiday in ...
Article : 123 wordsNEW YORK, Dec. 22.—Mr. Herbert Hoover, a former President of the United States, in a speech yesterday said that the survival of American democracy and ...
Article : 65 wordsHONG KONG, Dec. 21.—A report from Chungking states that about 300 Indo Chinese rebel troops have been disarmed by Chinese troops on the border. The ...
Article : 54 wordsLIMA, Dec. 21.—The Peruvian Government has expropriated the Italian-owned Caproni aeroplane factory and cancelled the contract given to an Italian mission ...
Article : 34 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 21.—President Roosevelt issued a proclamation today placing 15 additional materials under the export licensing system, Including plans ...
Article : 31 wordsLONDON, Dec. 20.—The Leader of the London County Council (Mr. Latham). in a Christmas message, says that in 1940 the people of London have written ...
Article : 66 wordsA further remand until today was granted by Messrs. W. M. Manners and A. F. Bishop, J's.P., in the Perth Police Court on Saturday when Margaret ...
Article : 138 wordsAt Rivervale yesterday afternoon the Archbishop of Perth (Dr. Le Fanu) set apart a church which had been used as such at Leederville by the Catholic ...
Article : 101 wordsBANGKOK, Dec. 21.—The High Command says that Thailand planes bombed military towns on the border of Indo China, including Nong Saphang. where ...
Article : 57 wordsBert Basto (16), of Shepperton-road, Victoria Park, was taken by a St. John ambulance to Perth Hospital on Saturday afternoon. He was treated for ...
Article : 165 wordsLONDON; Dec. 22.—According to the City editor of the "Sunday Express," the night shift of a department in one of Britain's largest engineering works has ...
Article : 159 wordsBUDAPEST, Dec. 22.—M. Wirth, a leader of the Arrow Cross Party (the biggest National Socialist party in Hungary) and a member of Parliament, was ...
Article : 81 wordsSHAINGHAI, De 22.—An unconfirmed report from, Tokio states that the first Japanese Minister to Australia will be a former Foreign Office ...
Article : 50 wordsISTANBUL, Dec. 21.—The Government has prolonged for three months the state of martial law proclaimed late last month in almost the whole of ...
Article : 46 wordsLONDON, Dec. 20.—The United States Red Cross, at the request of the British Ministry of Health, is sending by air supplies of serum to inoculate 200,000 ...
Article : 82 wordsBRISBANE, Dec. 22.—Patrick Sheridan (24) was fatally injured during the weekend. A motor car in which he was a passenger ran off the ...
Article : 81 wordsLOS ANGELES, Dec. 20.—Four London attorneys have filed a suit to collect 6,255 dollars (about £1,560 sterling), claimed as fees due, against Princess ...
Article : 67 wordsLONDON, Dec. 20.—It was stated officially in Berlin today that Germany, Italy and Japan had agreed on methods of carrying out the clause in the tripartite ...
Article : 58 wordsCAIRO. Dec 21.—The Prime Minister(Hussein Sirry Pasha) and Egyptian defence chiefs have visited the Western Desert by air, inspected the British ...
Article : 51 wordsNEW YORK, Dec 22.—A wireless message from the United States steamer Excambion states that the British authorities at Bermuda removed from the ...
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