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Article : 152 wordsThe Soviet Ambassador to Italy (M. Gorelkin) says the Rome correspondent of the Associated Press of America, has returned to Moscow because Italy ...
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Article : 50 wordsA message from Brussels says that the Chamber of Deputies has approved of additional taxation of £12,500,000 to meet the increased expenditure caused ...
Article : 36 wordsA decree issued in Rome orders housewives to declare copper possessions, with a view to requisitioning them. ...
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954), Mon 18 Dec 1939, Page 8
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