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  2. TRAGIC AIR CRASH.

    When a Royal Australian Air Force Hawker-Demon machine struck a tree and crashed in flames at Liandillo, near Londonderry, yesterday ...

    Article : 700 words
  3. FIRST TEST DRAWN.

    By determined Australian efforts, the first Test at Trent Bridge yesterday resulted in a draw. When stumps were drawn, Australia ...

    Article : 339 words
  4. S.P. BETTING.

    The Government's proposals for dealing with s.p. betting will be explained to Ministerial supporters to-morrow by the Premier, Mr. Stevens. ...

    Article : 333 words
  5. INSURANCE BILL.

    The Federal Ministry faces a critical situation on the National Insurance Bill. It is even possible that it will be forced to withdraw it. ...

    Article : 878 words
  6. WAR DEBTS.

    Although the Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, says that the Ambassador in London, Mr. Joseph P. Kennedy, is making a visit to the United States ...

    Article : 361 words
  7. BOMBING OF SHIPS.

    The Prime Minister, Mr. Chamberlain, referring in the House of Commons to-day to the bombing of British ships in Spanish waters, said ...

    Article : 439 words
  8. FLOODS HAMPER JAPAN'S ADVANCE.

    The Hankow correspondent of the British United Press says that the Chinese report that the flood water is 30 feet deep in the Paishan section of the Lunghai railway. It has drowned 5,000 Japanese and trapped 7,000 near Kaifeng, and has submerged ...

    Article : 847 words
  9. PUNTERS' TAX.

    A meeting of the Sports Protection League last night agreed to a plan for the legalisation of off-the-course betting, and decided to place it before the ...

    Article : 108 words
  10. PROTECTION AT SPEEDWAY.

    Under the direction of Superintendent Saunders and Detective-Inspector Bowie, police yesterday made special obseivations of the track and the ...

    Article : 504 words
  11. COCKFIGHTING IN ENGLAND.

    Cockfighting matches, which were watched by 50 people in a lonely part of Westmorland, were described in court at Hackthorpe, near Penrith. ...

    Article : 239 words
  12. FLYING-BOAT SERVICE.

    Qantas Empire Airways, Ltd., said, in an official statement last night, that arrangements have been made by the company for the carriage of passengers ...

    Article : 372 words
  13. NEW CHAIRMAN.

    Sir John Reith, Director-General of the British Broadcasting Corporation, has accepted an invitation by the Government to become the whole-time ...

    Article : 177 words
  14. PREVIOUS R.A.A.F. ACCIDENTS.

    R.A.A.F. machines were involved in five accidents in 1936, and 11 in 1937. Including yesterday's crash, there have been five accidents this year. ...

    Article : 298 words
  15. TURKS ATTACKED

    Turks were attacked in the Arab quarter at Antioch, and two were killed. An Arab leader was arrested. Troops fired on a mob of ...

    Article : 48 words
  16. TRADE TALKS.

    The third meeting of British and Australian delegates to discuss revision of the Ottawa Agreements will be held at the Dominions Office to-day. ...

    Article : 342 words
  17. FRENCH AIR FORCE.

    The Minister for Air M. Guy la Chambre, expressed confidence that the French plans for aircraft construction were making satisfactory progress. ...

    Article : 120 words
  18. PILOT'S ERROR.

    The Greek Government in its report to the British Air Ministry, on the crash of the Empire flying-boat Courtier, says that the accident must be attributed to a pilot's error. ...

    Article : 208 words
  19. SUDETEN VICTORY AT POLL.

    The newspapers here emphasise that, although the Sudeten Germans emerged victorious from Sunday's municipal elections in Czechoslovakia, this has not solved a single ...

    Article : 305 words
  20. MANY PROBLEMS.

    The air mail position in still confused. A reply given on behalf of the PostmasterGeneral, Senator McLachian, in the House of Representatives this afternoon, definitely ...

    Article : 187 words
  21. "LACK OF COURTESY."

    The Treasurer, Mr. Casey, during question time in the House of Representatives to-day, accused the Federal Council of the British Medical ...

    Article : 221 words
  22. LEGISLATION LIKELY.

    There is no provision in the existing law for the control of motor races at speedways. That was officially stated yesterday after ...

    Article : 127 words
  23. WOOLSACK STUFFED WITH WOOL.

    Led by Sir Dalziel Kelly, chairman of the Australian Wool Board, and Mr. J. P. Abbott, president of the Graziers' Federal Council of Australia, the executive committee and ...

    Article : 194 words
  24. INQUIRIES ARRANGED.

    An Air Force Court of Inquiry has been convened, and members of the Air Accidents Investigation Committee will go to Sydney by air to-morrow morning. ...

    Article : 117 words
  25. OFFICER PARDONED BY KING.

    Pilot-Officer F. R. Maguire, formerly of Sydney, who was dismissed from the Royal Air Force in February for striking superior officers, has been ...

    Article : 249 words
  26. AUSTRIANS TOO SLOW.

    Addressing 6,000 Nazi officials, their leader, Herr Globoenik, announced that they must join him early in the morning at "physical jerks" and at sports twice weekly. ...

    Article : 74 words
  27. RIVALS OF THE TASMAN.

    Although the captains of the liners Awatea and Mariposa deny that the exciting dash for the Heads in which the vessels took part late on Monday ...

    Article : 262 words
  28. ADVISER TO THE TREASURY.

    The Premier, Mr. Stevens, announced last night that the State Cabinet, on the recommendation of the Public Service Board, had approved the ...

    Article : 180 words
  29. NAURU ISLAND.

    The Prime Minister, Mr. Lyons, said to-day that plans were being formulated to protect the inhabitants of the island of Nauru in the event of an ...

    Article : 182 words
  30. FALL IN GILT-EDGED SECURITIES.

    Gilt-edged securities fell sharply to-day as a result of the terms of the now defence loan The financial correspondent of the ...

    Article : 211 words
  31. NAZIS PULL DOWN CHURCHES.

    The people of Munich were alarmed to witness the erection of scaffolding around the city's largest Protestant Church, St. Matthew's. in preparation for demolishing it. This is ...

    Article : 105 words
  32. AMITY THROUGH LETTER WRITING.

    General Baron Araki, the new Minister for Education, told the representative of the Australian Associated Press that he would organise an exchange of letters between Australian ...

    Article : 120 words
  33. MARGARET BANNERMAN DIVORCED.

    Anthony Leyland Prinsep, the theatrical manager, was granted a decree nisi against his wife, Margaret Bannerman, the actress, on the ground that she had deserted him in 1932. ...

    Article : 47 words
  34. DEFENCE OF SINGAPORE.

    A Sbort-Sunderland Air Force flying-boat is due to arrive here on June 22, and two more of the same type will be delivered at Singapore next month. ...

    Article : 34 words
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