LONDON, Aug. 4.—Further details of Germany's military preparedness are given in a dispatch from the Berlin correspondent of "The Times." The army is ...
Article : 232 wordsWARSAW, Aug. 6.—"We did not begin the Danzig affair. We will not avoid our obligations but will adjust our actions in Danzig to those of the opposing ...
Article : 302 wordsLONDON, Aug. 5.—In the explosion yesterday that wrecked an empty five-storey building in Paul's Bakehouse-court (off Goldliman-street) 73 persons were ...
Article : 272 wordsThe New South Wales Treasurer (Mr. Mair) was elected leader of the Parliamentary United Australia Party on Saturday and subsequently sworn in as Premier. He formed a composite Ministry with the Country Party, the members being unchanged except for the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 1,804 wordsGreat interest has been aroused in Britain, and resentment in Japan and Germany, by Mr. Chamberlain's statement in the House of Commons on Friday, when dealing with British policy in the Far East, that in certain circumstances it might be necessary to send a ...
Article : 1,298 wordsLONDON, Aug. 6.—Reports from Tientsin state that the blockade of the British Concession is being rigorously tightened up by the Japanese, presumably in reply ...
Article : 270 wordsBERLIN, Aug. 6.—Field Marshal Goering (the Air Minister), in a speech last night, declared:—"We do not threaten Britain, but when Britain feels called on ...
Article : 137 wordsLONDON, Aug. 5.—An explosion today in the premises of the Miscellaneous Disposals Syndicate, a Government contracting firm in Holland Park, ...
Article : 98 wordsLONDON, Aug. 6.—Despite the announcements by the Japanese Ambassadors to Germany and Italy after a meeting near Lake Como on Thursday that ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 426 wordsMr. Chamberlain's statement caused something of a sensation in Japan and Germany. The Tokio correspondent of the ...
Article : 263 wordsLONDON, Aug. 6.—A grave crisis in the Danzig situation was averted yesterday when the Danzig Senate gave an assurance to the Polish Government that ...
Article : 440 wordsMOSCOW, Aug. 6.—It is officially announced that Russian forces repeatedly repulsed Japanese troops on the outer Mongolia-Manchukuo frontier in the ...
Article : 90 wordsPRAGUE, Aug. 6.—The arrest of a number of prominent Sudeten Germans, including Herr Brass, an associate of Herr Frank (formerly the Sudeten ...
Article : 238 wordsBERLIN, Aug. 5.—Colonel von Schele, the German air attache in Spain, the four other ,passenger and both members of the crew were killed when a ...
Article : 39 wordsLONDON, Aug. 6.—The British Ambassador in Tokio (Sir Robert Craigie) is still awaiting instructions from the British Government concerning Japan's ...
Article : 798 wordsBURGOS, August 5.—General Franco has issued a decree under which the Falange (the Spanish Fascist organisation) will become Spain's only political ...
Article : 93 wordsLONDON, Aug. 5.—The French and British military missions composed of high staff officers of the armies, navies and air forces of the two countries, left ...
Article : 110 wordsLONDON, Aug. 6.—The Isle of Arran express from Glasgow left the rails yesterday between Stevenston and Salt-coats and the engine and three carriages ...
Article : 227 wordsLONDON, Aug. 5.—Eleven more orders have been signed for the expulsion of Irish Republican Army suspects under the new Prevention of Violence Act. ...
Article : 43 wordsMADRID, Aug. 6.—It is officially announced 53 men have been executed by firing squads for participation in the conspiracy for the murder of Major ...
Article : 56 wordsROME, August 4.—A number of books have been condemned as contrary to the Fascist spirit. They include works by Casanova, Balzac, Rabelais, Voltaire, ...
Article : 58 wordsROME, Aug. 6.—A promise of Axis support for Spain's claims to Gibraltar is featured today in the "Resto del Carlino" (Bologna), which declares;—"The ...
Article : 86 wordsLONDON, Aug. 5.—The diplomatic correspondent of "The Times" says Mr. William Strang. the special envoy from the Foreign Office who has been ...
Article : 110 wordsLONDON, Aug. 6.—Japanese bombing planes have again been active in various parts of China. A message from Chungking (the seat ...
Article : 88 wordsJERUSALEM, Aug. 6.—Gunmen killed Sheik Abu Nil and his son and wounded three pedestrians in an alley in the centre of the city today. ...
Article : 57 wordsLONDON, Aug. 5.—Admiral Sir Barry Domvile, chairman of "The Link," a professedly non-party organisation formed for the purpose of making known ...
Article : 229 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 6.—Mr. James Ashton, a former member of the Legislative Assembly and the Legislative Council, died early this morning at his home at ...
Article : 220 wordsBRISBANE, Aug. 6.—Thursday Island reported tonight that the strange submarine believed to have been seen between Saibai and Denan Islands, near the, ...
Article : 83 wordsCHUNGKING, Aug. 6.—A million persons have been rendered homeless as a result of the flooding of 22 districts in the province of Hope. It is stated that ...
Article : 118 wordsLONDON, Aug. 5.—In view of official demands upon telephone and telegraph services during the large-scale air exercises over the southern half of ...
Article : 86 wordsBRISBANE, Aug. 6.—The police intend to seek a further remand of the 37 men charged following the raid on Parliament House on Friday when they ...
Article : 112 wordsANKARA, Aug. 4—The Turkish army will begin large-scale manoeuvres in the region of the Bulgarian frontier on August 15. ...
Article : 23 wordsWASHINGTON, Aug. 4.—The Soviet has agreed to buy a minimum of £8,000,000 worth of American goods in the next 12 months. The United States ...
Article : 74 wordsPRAGUE. Aug. 5.—The correspondent of the Havas (French) newsagency in Prague has been arrested and all French newspapers have been confiscated. It is ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 7 Aug 1939, Page 17
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