Two Englishmen (including the British Consul) and several Americans were killed during the capture of Nanking by the Cantonese, and numbers of others were wounded. British and American warships opened shell fire on portion of the ...
Article : 1,947 wordsSensational developments in the Labour split occurred last night when the A.L.P. executive decided to expel Mr. W. H. Scale from the Labour party for "his long ...
Article : 517 wordsAbout 1200 employees of the Clyde Engineering Co. went on strike yesterday as a protest against the alleged unfair treatment by the management of a certain employee. ...
Article : 206 wordsThe Australian Industrial Mission has completed inspection of several large manufacturing plants. At the plant of the General Motors Corporation, which controls 1,550,000 ...
Article : 378 wordsHow the graves of 1,075,038 men and women who died for the Empire in the Great War form a chain around the world is graphically described in the seventh report of the ...
Article : 249 wordsH.M.S. Renown, with their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of York on board, will arrive at Sydney Heads at 8.45 o'clock this morning. Sydney has been lavishly decorated in honour of the Royal visit, ...
Article : 109 wordsThe event of the day aboard the Renown was the drawing of the wardroom sweep on the Grand National, at which the Duke of York himself officiated. He came to the ...
Article : 232 wordsWith the extension of the building trouble to work being carried out by contractors for the Federal Capital Commission, the strike position has become serious. The Hotel ...
Article : 210 wordsThe weather forecast for to-day, issued last night by the State Meteorologist, was as follows:— A shower or two likely in the early ...
Article : 46 wordsAustralian wine importers received a shock when they read in the newspapers a cable that the export bounty on sweet wine had been reduced from 4/ to 1/9 per gallon Some ...
Article : 257 wordsUp to a late hour last night workmen were putting the finishing touches on the decorations. It is generally admitted that the scheme of decoration and illumination has been well ...
Article : 71 wordsAfter long debate the Dutch First Chamber has by 33 votes to 17 rejected the BelgoDutch Treaty, which passed both Chambers at Brussels and the Dutch Second Chambor. ...
Article : 173 wordsThe police and tramway officials, upon whom the bulk of the transport arrangements have fallen, have provided for all eventualities in the handling of the crowds to-day. ...
Article : 447 wordsThe Renown will be met well out at sea by three destroyers of the Australian fleet— the Swordsman, Anzac, and Success. She will proceed up the harbour through ...
Article : 860 wordsOwing to the cessation of work on the northern coal fields a number of interstate steamers are now idle. Yesterday two more steamers were laid up at Sydney, and the ...
Article : 171 wordsState elections will be hold to-day in Western Australia and South Australian In the lastmentioned State a local option poll will also take place. ...
Article : 272 wordsThe by-election at Leith, rendered necessary by the resignation of Mr. Wedgwood Benn upon his leaving the Liberal party and Joining the Labour party, resulted:—Brown (Liberal). ...
Article : 154 wordsDiscussing Empire settlement the "Dally Telegraph" again expresses the opinion that passage rates to Australia and New Zealand operate as a grave barrier to migration. ...
Article : 71 wordsFurther reference was made by Sir Arthur Rickard yesterday to Mr. Lang's criticism of his utterances regarding the Government's refusal to avail itself of the British ...
Article : 620 wordsThe question of the 6X-Kalser's return to Germany has been again raised, this time in a startling form—by a letter from the Prussian Premier. Herr Braun, to Dr. Marx, ...
Article : 157 wordsThe financial position of New Zealand was frankly discussed by Mr. R. K. Hayes, Secretary to the Treasury in the Dominion, during an interview with the "Financial ...
Article : 113 wordsThe Rev. Charles Lack, of Sydney, who has arrived on furlough from Yencheng, where he was a missionary for 27 years, tells a terrible story of ravages by bandits in the province of ...
Article : 83 wordsA special token of respect will be paid their Royal Highnesses by Archbishop Kelly and the staff of St. Mary's Cathedral. During the route march and before the Royal progress ...
Article : 92 wordsThe case for employers in the engineering plant before Judge Beeby was opened in the Arbitration Court to-day. Judge Beeby, referring to a strike at ...
Article : 215 wordsThe British naval expedition against the Chinese pirates' lair at Bias Bay was a brief adventure. The expedition, commanded by Rear-Admiral Boyle, comprised the cruisers ...
Article : 178 wordsThe Premier of France (M. Pointcare) issued a statement to-day regarding the Match Monopoly Bill. The company and its board, he said, must be exclusively French. It must ...
Article : 70 wordsA detachment of 500 members of the Junior Red Cross will form a guard of honour for the Duke and Duchess of York at Government House to-day. They will assemble in ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Baldwin) announced to-day that the House of Commons would adjourn on April 14 and resume on April 26, For the eight years ended March 31, 1926, ...
Article : 301 wordsSpecial arrangements have been made for the entertainment of the officers and men of H.M.S. Renown They will be given the freedom of the theatres, picture shows, trams, ...
Article : 137 wordsMr. L. S. Amery (Dominions Secretary) has grawa up a provisional programme for an Empire tour, hy which as will proceed to South Africa, in August, and thence to ...
Article : 46 wordsAccording to a statement issued by the Commonwealth Statistician, there was a decrease in the cost of living during February of 2.7 per cent, when compared with the ...
Article : 154 wordsResuming the discussion on the BritishFrench drafts of disarmament conventions at Geneva, the Swedish representative on the preparatory commission advocated a reduction ...
Article : 240 wordsBoth Houses of Parliament have passed Japan's biggest budget, amounting to nearly 1,800,000,000 yen, before celebrating the closing day of the Diet, with the usual "inkhottle ...
Article : 221 wordsThe result of the Grand National Steeplechase was as follows: Spring (T. Leader), 1; Bovril (G. Pennington), 2; Bright's Boy (J. Anthony), 3. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe following message has been forwarded to his Royal Highness the Duke of York by the International Orde. of Good Templars:— "We, the members of the international Order ...
Article : 173 wordsThere was an echo of a Queensland Act of Parliament at Dublin to-day, when William Shimmons was ordered to pay £500, being arrears of an order made against him for ...
Article : 169 wordsThe Lord Mayor and aldermen of the City Council will receive the Duke nnd Duchess of York to-day in full robes of office. The Town Clerk (Mr. Layton) will wear wig and gown. ...
Article : 95 wordsLeaving Brisbane at 6.30 a.m. yesterday, a Courlor aeroplane accomplished the Journey to Sydney in 10 hours 50 seconds, the actual flying time being 6 hours 50 seconds. ...
Article : 96 wordsThe following message was sent yesterday to their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchese of York by his Excellency the Governor: ...
Article : 79 wordsOperations were resumed at the State Electricky Commission's works at midnight last night, and the restrictions on the use of electric current were abandoned to-day. ...
Article : 66 wordsThe concert broadcasted by 2FC, Sydney, as a welcome to the Duke of York, was beard in Wellington with unusual clearness. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 26 Mar 1927, Page 15
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