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1940 GREETED SOLEMNLY AT PLYMOUTH

... the New Year was ushered in. and then Mr. Martin pronounced the blessing. DAYS OF FOREBODING God's Control Is Our Safety Speaking at the watch-night service King-street Methodist Church, Plymouth, Rev. W. E. Woodall (minister) said these were not days ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 839 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

HUDDERSFIELD DAILY EXAMINER MONDAY JANUARY T TURKEY’S SECOND GREAT DISASTER dODS SWELL EARTHQUAKE DEATII-ROLL ..

... had tor many received quietly Valley Services of appro-irtats held at most of yesterday in some places were special shortly speaking how-ver welcomed Valley folk the comfort fireside black-out -while social time prevent numbers were in the returning a parties ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Huddersfield Daily Examiner
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2771 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

A VAST CHANGE

... compare our position at the beginning of 1940 with out position at the beginning of 1915. On each of these dates had, roughly speaking, been at war about four months. In August, 1914, the Germans were a united, highly efficient, and wellnourished race, with ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 339 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

__ . .. 1 TURNING POINT IN GERMANY TO-DAY HONOURS FOR R.A.F. SHELL-SHOCK 11 , BY EASTER '-A NEUTRAL VIEW

... - through the Rhineland was the extent continued subsequently, to advise the Men in all branches of the Navy The prophet speaking is Viscount to which people keep their own counsel, tu honoured, of the Home Fleet Chief of Government as to the general ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 3246 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

YOUTH in the SPOTLIGHT: Hollywood's Teen-Age Gang

... and on to the Weidler car with Mama at the wheel there is very little car left in sight. Virginia speaks French, German and Italian as well as she speaks English; and thinks Mickey Rooney is the grandest person in the studios. When she gives up acting ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3657 | Page: 82 | Tags: Photographs 

The Island Trader

... bulkhead, holding the revolver to cover the square of sky in the open hatch. He held up one finger for silence before Webb could speak and motioned the boy to a seat on one of the chests. Mandell's legs and white shoes appeared at the top of the companion ladder ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 5629 | Page: 76 | Tags: Illustrations 

New Books for the New Year

... subtle a murderer as ever murdered and who leads her first of all to an exhibition of modern art and then, true to form (so to speak 1) to a nudist camp in the Chilterns. Needless to add, Mrs. Bradley proves that not only intuition, but also that infinite ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2928 | Page: 72 | Tags: Review 

Passion and the Pilot: Romance and Tragedy interwoven in a plot to sink a ship on the Barrier Reef

... gored her sides Like the horns of an angry bull. Naughty7. I heard vou, Marya yvas saying. He didn't knoyy7 he had been speak ing aloud. That yvas the fault of the champagne. And of the royv they yvere beginning to make; y7ou couldn't hear y7ourself ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 7061 | Page: 87 | Tags: Illustrations 

WANT SUBSIDY SHARED

... to pay more for all they had to buy, and less milk was going into the liquid market than to manufacture. WAGES PROPOSAL. Speaking as a distributor, Mr. P. Cundy pointed out how costs had increased. Discs for the milk bottles had gone up from 10d- to 2s ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 453 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Allies Will Win Says Japanese Banker ‘TIIHE European war will have reached a turning-point in favour of the ..

... favour of the Allies by Easter. The conflict between Japan and China will end in month in a magnanimous peace.” The prophet speaking is Viscount Hisaakira Kano, London manager of the Yokohama Specie Bank and vice-chairman of the council of the Bank for ...

FIRST SOLDIER KILLED

... favour of the Allies by Easter. The conflict between Japan and China will end in a month in a magnanimous peace.” The prophet speaking is Viscount Hisaakira Kano, London manager of the Yokohama Specie Bank and vice-chairman of the Council of the Bank for ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 464 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Onlooker’s Diary New Year With No Comfort For Moral Decay Of Nazidom

... well as our own, boasts of the German air mastery (sic!) and says The ship-sinking and damage through minelaying-aeroplanes speak a clear unquestionable language before the world.” They do. And what language. Neutral liners and cargo ships are sent to the ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 1882 | Page: 4 | Tags: none