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Independence Day: Helsinki's Brave Show of Flags

... Independence Day: Helsinki's Brave Show of Flags. Thousands of blue-and-white flags— Finland's national colours—fluttered over Helsinki yesterday when the twenty-first anniversary of the proclamation of the country's independence was celebrated. Overcast ...

Published: Thursday 07 December 1939
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 93 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

GESTAPO BUSY AFTER CZECH PARADE THE Nazi Gestapo are searching Prague for organisers of demonstrations there on ..

... CZECH PARADE THE Nazi Gestapo are searching Prague for organisers of demonstrations there on Saturday—Czecho-Slovakla Independence Day. A number of arrests have been made. Hundreds of hostages were seized recently by the Nazi authorities, and presumably ...

Published: Monday 30 October 1939
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 191 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

MORE EXECUTIONS IN CZECHO-SLOV AMA. 50,000 Arrests : Berlin Press Silent. REPORTS reaching neutral countries ..

... repressive measures in Bohemia and Moravia which the Nazis have used to deal with constant demonstrations since the Czech Independence Day, NAZIS' 1 BANE. 1;-BOAT COMMANDERS FEAR HlM.—Air-Marshal Sir Frederick William Bowhill, Air Officer Commander-in- Chief ...

Published: Monday 20 November 1939
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1559 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Queensbury Cannon

... Queensbury Cannon YOUNG MARRIED WOMAN KILLED Two Territorial Officers Injured American Independence Day Celebration Tragedy An American Independence Day celebration party at Queensbury, on Tuesday night, was brought to a tragic end when a cannon used ...

Published: Saturday 08 July 1939
Newspaper: Halifax Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: | Words: 109 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Month of Anniversaries

... fete Belgium's Independence Day comes a week later. on July 21. It was on this 'date in 1831 that Leopold. first King of th? Belgians, entered Brussels 1 after the country became independent of Holland. Argentine keeps her Independence Day on the 9th. Colombia ...

Published: Thursday 29 June 1939
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 349 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

EXILES' ACCLAMATION

... Edouard Benes, exiled President of the former Republic, when on Saturday he was enthusiastically acclaimed leader at an Independence Day celebration in London. ...

Published: Monday 30 October 1939
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 30 | Page: 1 | Tags: none