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 wordsIt 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]
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Article : 713 wordsThe 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 wordsThe 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 wordsThe 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 wordsThe Canadian Active Service Force, commanded by Major-General A. G. L. McNaughton, landed at a British port and is already encamped ...
Article : 643 wordsSoutherly winds brought relief to Sydney at about 6 o'clock last night after one of the most oppressive days for years. ...
Article : 232 wordsA 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 wordsThe Secretary for Air, Sir Kingsley Wood, in a broadcast address to-day, spoke of the magnitude of the Empire air training scheme. ...
Article : 315 wordsAn Austialian, who is a member of the Canadian force, is a former pantomime actor who recently was mining at Trail (British Columbia). ...
Article : 276 wordsLarge 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 wordsHeavy 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 wordsThe 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 wordsGeneral von Schroeder, Commander in-Chief of Germany's anti-aircraft defences, writing in the military periodical. "Die Sirene," says that he ...
Article : 154 wordsThe 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"Plans have been completed for the manufacture of Bristol Beaufort bombers in Australia," said the Minister for Supply, Mr. Casey, who ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 453 wordsFrank 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 wordsThe 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 wordsThe 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 wordsThe Chinese claim to have recapture the mountain stronghold of Kunlungkwan, which dominates Nanning-fu, the capital of Kwangsi province. ...
Article : 72 wordsThe 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 wordsErnest 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 wordsThe 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 wordsDr. Matchek, the Croat peasant leader, who is at present Deputy Prime Minister of Yugoslavia, announced plans for a "Central European ...
Article : 71 wordsThe 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 wordsIn 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 wordsThe 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 wordsCopper, 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 wordsSuch 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 wordsThe 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 wordsBy 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 wordsThe Moscow Radio states that Russia is appointing M. Putkin as Soviet Minister to Slovakia. Russia is thus recognising the destruction ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 20 Dec 1939, Page 13
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