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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Dec 15, 1939
Page
4
Paris correspondent notes Atherton December meeting chaired by Mr T P Madigan with reports from the medical staff. Included are finances, staffing discussions, nurse training measures, ward plans, and a push for hospital equipment and facility repairs amid wartime volatility.
Britons dispute German use of magnetic mines on the Trekan Maru mission after a near sinking. Survivors recount a dramatic episode with warnings ignored, crew calm, and a lifeboat escape as the liner foundered. The article notes testimony about magnetic fuzes and mine profiles, casting doubt on the magnetic mine theory while detailing the disaster’s human toll.
Herbertton miner Edward Waldman to register a lodello claim west of Arvinebank under the name The Dally. Myrtle Milly files for ground south west of Mareeba as Gold Reel Haim under name Bway Gill. Kee and Howkee propose a claim 1p east from Tevinebank, 900 feet north of Gordon Irave, embracing Old Mount abandoned chimney. Agnes Extended appears as holder in the lode tin claim proposal.
A French cultural display at the Palais de Chaillot features reproductions of church porches across France and a new library opening. The library houses up to every volume on French folklore, customs, legends, songs, music, and costumes, highlighting France as a unified civilization. The article also cites Allied confidence in the French army under General Gamelin and contrasts him with Adolf Hitler, noting the strategic leadership valued by France and Britain.
A message reported by the Daily Herald from the Independent Socialists of Germany describes Gestapo control over fortifications workers in Germany. It claims workers were forced from homes and followed by the secret police as they undermine the Navi regime.
A wartime propaganda pamphlet smuggled by German workers defies Gestapo terror. The flyer denounces Nazi aggression, calls for shorter hours and more food, and asserts that despite fears and arrests the illegal resistance will prevail.
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