One man was killed and 13 other people were hurt today, when two electric trains and a goods train collided near Newtown station. ...
Article : 393 wordsThousands of British children will be brought to Australia for the war under plans adopted to-day by a conference of Commonwealth ...
Article : 975 wordsGeneral Nogues, French Resident-General in Morocco, is already taking steps to organise resistance in the colonies, ...
Article : 655 wordsWar expenditure of £37,500,000 of which nearly £20,000,000 is for oversea expenditure, was announced in the New Zealand ...
Article : 420 wordsA Russian ultimatum to Rumania demanding the cession of Bessarabia, North Bukorina, and areas elsewhere is reported in ...
Article : 233 wordsIt is authoritatively stated that the R.A.F. last night carried out its heaviest attacks of the war against military objectives in the Ruhr. One British pilot in a daylight raid penetrated to the ...
Article : 1,037 wordsA report that Japan will establish a blockade on July 3 to prevent goods from going to China has been confirmed by Hongkong ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 639 wordsADVISING Americans to leave Britain, the United States Ambassador (Mr. Joseph Kennedy) states that the liner Washington is ...
Article : 43 words"R.A.F. seized the initiative early in the war, and has never ceased to exploit it as almost daily and nightly bombings of key industry towns in ...
Article : 673 wordsA small producer-gas unit to fit snugly into the back of a car body is visualised by Australian motor engineers and may soon be available to the public. ...
Article : 160 wordsThe first members of the A.I.F. to get official leave since their contingent reached England—several hundred Australians—arrived at a London station this ...
Article : 117 words"Our ground patrols proceeded 20 miles into Italian Somaliland without encountering opposition," says a British Army communique. ...
Article : 177 wordsEngland at war! Every road-sign has disappeared. Even the village signs have gone, so that to a parachutist, England would be the ...
Article : 153 wordsLate last night Tighe's Hill and Waratah fire brigades attended a fire in a garage at the near of Amos's Mayfield Hotel, Maitland-road, Mayfield, and by ...
Article : 47 wordsIrish Roman Catholic Bishops have issued a message to the people, commending the unity of the political parties and calling on the people actively to ...
Article : 142 wordsTwo women who displayed conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty during the great bush fires in January, 1939, have been honoured by the King. ...
Article : 83 wordsIt is understood that Brigadier Nicholson was taken prisoner yesterday. The 13th War Office casualty list states that three officers and six members of ...
Article : 79 wordsThe Republican Convention adopted today the party's foreign plank. It is— The party is firmly opposed to involving this nation in a foreign war. The ...
Article : 212 wordsIn fancy dress, with grease paint running down their faces, gun crews on the armed merchant cruiser Andama (13,950 tons) fought a duel with a U-boat ...
Article : 203 wordsA special Criminal Court in Dublin sentenced Stephen Carroll Held, described an a company director, to five years' imprisonment on each of two charges under ...
Article : 207 wordsTwo dwellings were damaged by fire in Sydney suburbs to-night. When a gas copper became overheated a fire was started in a four-roomed flat in ...
Article : 74 wordsFred Henneberry was fouled so badly in his fight with Archie Moore at Rush-cutter Bay Stadium, last night, that he could not continue, but Moore was ...
Article : 114 wordsAn official statement from Ankara says Turkey has decided to remain non-belligerent. She has invoked the protocol in her treaties with Britain and France, ...
Article : 138 wordsA bus taken from near the post-office in High-street, West Maitland, about 10.40 o'clock last night, was found near the entrance to Rutherford military camp. ...
Article : 67 wordsDesigned to save material and economise in the use of skilled labour, regulations gazetted to-night under the National Security Act prohibit extensive ...
Article : 113 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 92 wordsFive hundred soldiers from Greta and Rutherford are expected in Newcastle for the week-end. Another 2500 will go to Sydney. ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Cairo correspondent of "The Times" says the new Cabinet has not yet been formed. King Farouk has not summoned anyone to form a Cabinet, although Ahmed ...
Article : 80 wordsSpeakers for the Ministry of Information, which now has soap-box orators in Hyde Park, include Mr. A. D. Kay, former New South Wales Parliamentarian and ...
Article : 72 wordsRear-Admiral Claude Congreve Dobson, V.C., D.S.O., has died. He was 65. Rear-Admiral Dobson won the V.C. on August 18, 1919, when he led a flotilla of coastal ...
Article : 61 wordsThe coxswain and motor-mechanic of the Hythe (Kent) lifeboat have been dismissed from the lifeboat service, following their refusal to take a boat across ...
Article : 49 wordsIt is announced in London that warplane production in Canada has reached the point when 1028 machine can be promised this year and 1583 next year. ...
Article : 35 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954), Fri 28 Jun 1940, Page 11
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: