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  2. AIRMEN FOR CANADA.

    Conditions that will apply to the training of the comparatively small number of Australian airmen who will go to Canada untter the Empire ...

    Article : 562 words
  3. R.A.A.F. CHIEF.

    It is reported on reliable authority that Air Vice-Marshal S. J. Goble, Chief of the Air Staff of the Royal Australian Air Force, will ask the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 452 words
  4. AIR BATTLE.

    Royal Air Force bomber formations, while searching Heligoland Bight for enemy warships, encountered strong German fighter forces, and in the fierce ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 713 words
  5. BIG RED GAIN IN NORTH.

    The Red Army has made a big advance in the far north of Finland, and a slight advance in the drive through the centre, but the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 652 words
  6. GERMANS MASSING IN THE WEST.

    The rearrangement of the German armies on the Wester Front, to the east of Luxembourg, is causing the keenest specula[?] tion among British and French Intelligence Officers. It is a gigantic movement on an even greater scale than whe[?] ...

    Article : 557 words
  7. SEA WAR.

    The First Lord of the Admiralty, Mr. Winston Churchill, in a broadcast address last night, confidently surveyed the war at sea, revealing that a ...

    Article : 1,020 words
  8. CANADIANS ARRIVE.

    The Canadian Active Service Force, commanded by Major-General A. G. L. McNaughton, landed at a British port and is already encamped ...

    Article : 643 words
  9. COOL CHANGE.

    Southerly winds brought relief to Sydney at about 6 o'clock last night after one of the most oppressive days for years. ...

    Article : 232 words
  10. SUPREME WAR COUNCIL MEETS.

    A meeting of the Supreme War Council was held in Paris to-day. The British Prime Minister, Mr. Chamberlain, who returned yesterday from a visit to ...

    Article : 555 words
  11. ENSURING AIR SUPREMACY.

    The Secretary for Air, Sir Kingsley Wood, in a broadcast address to-day, spoke of the magnitude of the Empire air training scheme. ...

    Article : 315 words
  12. AUSTRALIAN MEMBER.

    An Austialian, who is a member of the Canadian force, is a former pantomime actor who recently was mining at Trail (British Columbia). ...

    Article : 276 words
  13. MANY HOMES THREATENED.

    Large areas of bush in the suburbs were burning yesterday, and firemen had a hard task to save property. The bushfires were fiercest on the North ...

    Article : 117 words
  14. REPORTED RAID ON SYLT.

    Heavy detonations were heard on the Danish border, near the German island of Sylt, at 6 a.m. to-day. It is believed that a British raid was in progress. ...

    Article : 44 words
  15. BUSHFIRE WARNINGS.

    The Bushfires Advisory Committee appealed yesterday to people on holidays during Christmas and New Year to exercise every care in lighting and extinguishing fires in the bush. ...

    Article : 30 words
  16. BOMBINGS OF CITIES.

    General von Schroeder, Commander in-Chief of Germany's anti-aircraft defences, writing in the military periodical. "Die Sirene," says that he ...

    Article : 154 words
  17. UNEASINESS IN BALKANS.

    The Athens correspondent of "The Times" says that, under the veneer of approval with which the recent speech by the Italian Foreign Minister, Count ...

    Article : 168 words
  18. MANUFACTURE OF BOMBERS.

    "Plans have been completed for the manufacture of Bristol Beaufort bombers in Australia," said the Minister for Supply, Mr. Casey, who ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 453 words
  19. MAN'S DEATH IN HEAT.

    Frank Walton, 68, of Railway Street, Banksia, collapsed and died at a dairy produce store in Harris Street, Ultimo, yesterday. The Central District Ambulance took his body to ...

    Article : 52 words
  20. COST ESTIMATED AT £171,000,000.

    The Empire air training scheme, which will be centred in Canada, provides for an estimated expenditure of 600,000,000 dollars (£A171,428,571) for ...

    Article : 271 words
  21. LEAGUE AID FOR FINNS.

    The Secretary-General of the League of Nations, M. Avenol, has left Geneva for Paris with League experts to formulate centralised plans to aid ...

    Article : 274 words
  22. CHINESE CLAIM SUCCESSES.

    The Chinese claim to have recapture the mountain stronghold of Kunlungkwan, which dominates Nanning-fu, the capital of Kwangsi province. ...

    Article : 72 words
  23. BROADCASTS TO THE WORLD.

    The Prime Minister, Mr. Menzies, will officially open the Australian shortwave radio service at 6.15 p.m. to-morrow from the Melbourne studios of the ...

    Article : 208 words
  24. MURDER OF GERMAN OFFICIAL.

    Ernest Kehler, alias Haas, an amateur boxer, of Winnipeg, who was arrested in Toronto to-day, is alleged to have confessed to the murder of Dr. Walter Engelberg secretary to the ...

    Article : 142 words
  25. KIDNAPPED CHAUFFEUR

    The Netherlands Government, it is reported from Amsterdam, has requested the German Government to release the Dutch chauffeur who was arrested by Nazis at Venloo ...

    Article : 131 words
  26. CROATIAN PROPOSAL.

    Dr. Matchek, the Croat peasant leader, who is at present Deputy Prime Minister of Yugoslavia, announced plans for a "Central European ...

    Article : 71 words
  27. DEATH OF MRS. RUDYARD KIPLING.

    The death is announced of Mrs. Rudyard Kipling, widow of the famous master poet who died in 1936. Rudyard Kipling lived for some years in the ...

    Article : 123 words
  28. SCOUTS IN WARTIME.

    In a broadcast to the nation, the Deputy Chief Scout of the British Empire, Lord Somer[?], a formel Governor of Victoria, spoke ot the war-time services being performed by ...

    Article : 124 words
  29. N.Z.'S CONTRIBUTION.

    The Minister for Defence, Mr. Jones, said to-day that New Zealand's share in the Empire air training scheme during the three years of the agreement would be £7,000,000 sterling, in ...

    Article : 117 words
  30. COPPER, LEAD, AND ZINC.

    Copper, lead, and zinc prices were further regulated by the Commonwealth Prices Commissioner, Professor D. B. Copland, in a special price order to-night. ...

    Article : 75 words
  31. OVERSEA NEWS.

    Such of the oversea news in this issue as is headed "From Our Own Correspondent" or "Herald Exclusive Service" is from a service owned and controlled entirely by "The Sydney Morning Herald" ...

    Article : 152 words
  32. MANY VOLUNTEER IN NORTHERN IRELAND.

    The King's speech, read at the opening of the new session of the Northern Ireland Parliament, expressed satisfaction with the fact that the young men of the province were ...

    Article : 54 words
  33. FUTURE OF INDIA.

    By 142 votes to [?]2, the Bengal Assembly passed a Government resolution assuring Britain of full co-operation in the war. It was also decided to urge Britain to grant ...

    Article : 66 words
  34. SOVIET AND THE CZECHS.

    The Moscow Radio states that Russia is appointing M. Putkin as Soviet Minister to Slovakia. Russia is thus recognising the destruction ...

    Article : 37 words
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