Captain Hans Langsdorff, commander of the Admiral Graf Spee, was buried with full naval honours yesterday near a memorial to ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 267 wordsSpecial war measures will cost Australia £27,194,100 for the year 1939-40 alone, according to estimates released yesterday by the ...
Article : 490 wordsBalloons like silver pigs far above the rooftops... sandbags artistically painted to tone with the facades of buildings they protect... ...
Article : 542 wordsDealing with the international situation from the end of September, 1933, up to the beginning of the war, a French Yellow Book, issued ...
Article : 480 wordsTerrorists of the Irish "Republican Army" are believed to have been responsible for four explosions in London post-offices yesterday ...
Article : 101 wordsSYDNEY, Friday. — One of the most severe earth tremors recorded in Sydney for many years was shown on the seismographs at both ...
Article : 152 wordsBetween September 1 and November 21 the Canadian Government placed orders for war material totalling nearly £stg.12,000,000. ...
Article : 158 wordsOfficers and men of the submarine Salmon, which destroyed a U-boat and daringly manœuvred through the minefields of the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 175 wordsFrom the Melbourne Observatory it is reported that an earthquake of great intensity was recorded by the seismograph there yesterday morning at the same time ...
Article : 49 wordsAbout 500 boys, between the ages of 11 and 18 years, will go into the Y.M.C.A. Boys' Holiday Camp at Shoreham between December 23 and February 1. The camps ...
Article : 96 wordsEight German subjects, all Jewish men, were taken on a French, submarine in mid-Atlantic from the Italian liner Saturnia, which ...
Article : 218 wordsSeven Victorians are included in 21 candidates who have been selected to enter the Royal Australian Naval College, Flinders Naval Depot, for ...
Article : 206 wordsThe Italian steamer Comitas (3,428 tons), on her way to Antwerp, was sunk by a mine. All the crew were rescued by Dutch warships. ...
Article : 65 wordsIn 51 engagements over British land and sea in October and November the British Hurricane and Spitfire fighters demonstrated their ...
Article : 202 wordsDo you hear lectures or ordinary conversation without straining your ears? Enjoy your holidays by using an Aid to Hearing. ...
Article : 73 wordsRestrictions on consumers of coal, gas, [?]nd electricity have been suspended. Since the "ration" was raised to 100 per cent. of last year's consumption the ...
Article : 52 wordsHerr Anthony Fokker, the noted Dutch aviation engineer and industrialist, is reported to be dangerously [?]l in New York. ...
Article : 27 wordsFinding that anxiety and haste had contributed to a railway guard's death the Workers' Compensation Board awarded his widow ...
Article : 252 wordsThanks for United States cruiser Tus[?]loosa's rescue of the crew of the scuttled German liner Columbus have been conveyed to the Administration by ...
Article : 95 wordsMrs. Grace Brown, aged 42 years, of Seven Oaks, the mother of a 10-year-old boy, yesterday flew a plane to France with a consignment of ...
Article : 174 wordsAfter long negotiations Rumania has agreed to devalue the lei to enable Germany to buy oil, grain, and timber on more advantageous ...
Article : 107 wordsColonol Lindbergh has announced his resignation from the National Advisory Committee on Aeronauties, and says that he will concentrate in future on scientific ...
Article : 54 wordsGerman broadcasts deny reports by a French news agency that the German [?]ner Gneisenau (18,160 tons), carrying hundreds of "repatriated" Germans from ...
Article : 49 wordsA big air battle was fought west of Karmo Island, outside Norwegian territorial waters, yesterday, according to a report from ...
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Advertising : 456 wordsItaly and Germany have reached an agreement by which Germans living in the South Tyrol have been given until December 31 to declare whether they wish ...
Article : 96 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—Further evidence of the effectiveness of the organisation to prevent excessive war-time prices was provided to-day, when the ...
Article : 103 wordsCANBERRA, Friday. — Since the outbreak of war there has been a large increase in savings bank deposits in Australia. At the end of November they ...
Article : 42 words"The Argus" on Monday (Christmas Day) will contain all the weekend news—overseas and local—as well as a complete record of to-day's ...
Article : 59 wordsThe engagement is announced of Miss Doris Stewart, eldest daughter of the Minister for the Navy (Sir Frederick Stewart) and Lady Stewart, of St. Cloud, ...
Article : 47 wordsConcluding a Press conference to-day, a Foreign Office spokesman said, "I may be able to give you big news on Wednesday." ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 23 Dec 1939, Page 3
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