BAGDAD, May 6.—A little war which has escaped general attention is in progress on the borders of Iraq and Persia and the Royal Air Force is directly ...
Article : 156 wordsBefore a large and intent audience at Nedlands last night, the Chief Secretary (Mr. Norbert Keenan, K.C.) made an important speech in which he analysed the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 6,727 wordsTOKIO, May 7.—The town of Yamanaka, a hot springs resort about 150 miles due west of Tokio, was wiped out in a conflagration this morning. The loss is ...
Article : 76 wordsCANBERRA, May 7.—Frequent and acrimonious exchanges between Senators followed references in the Senate to-day to the evidence given yesterday by the ...
Article : 641 wordsCANBERRA, May 7.—The movement for the creation of a United Opposition in the Federal Parliament, with the object of dislodging the Labour Ministry, ...
Article : 261 wordsMOSCOW, May 6.—The Soviet Commissiariat of Agriculture admits that the spring sowings of all crops at May 1, throughout Russia, only totalled 33.720.000 ...
Article : 83 wordsCANBERRA, May 7.—An unprecedented exhibition of spleen by Ministerial members followed the announcement in the House of Representatives to-day that ...
Article : 2,470 wordsLONDON, May 6.—The position regarding the extraterritoriality negotiations in China was the subject of a statement in the House of Commons to-day by the ...
Article : 442 wordsBERLIN, May 6.—A Government decree has been issued reducing the import duty on wheat from £12/10/ to £10 a ton. The new duty will remain in force until June ...
Article : 57 wordsWINNIPEG, May, 6.—The Manitoba Wheat Pool members have been given the right to suspend pool contracts and sell grain in the open market after June 1. ...
Article : 56 wordsCALCUTTA, May 7.—The tense, religious feeling between Hindus and Moslems was illustrated in Calcutta this morning when Bholanath Sen the ...
Article : 85 wordsMADRID, May 7.—Obviously in reply to the Republican Government's decree establishing freedom in religion, Cardinal Sergura, Primate of Spain, has dramatic ...
Article : 127 wordsCANBERRA, May 7.—At a meeting this morning attended by members of the Lyons Group and the Nationalist Party, Mr. J. A. Lyons was elected Leader of the ...
Article : 892 wordsCALCUTTA, May 7.—The picketing of shops selling Lancashire cloth was resumed to-day in the city by Indian Congress volunteers, many of whom were women. ...
Article : 55 wordsANGMAGSALIK (Greenland), May 7.—Captain Ahrenberg, the Swedish who has flown from Stockholm to search for Mr. Augustine Courtauld, the young ...
Article : 71 wordsWELLINGTON, May 7.—A severe earthquake was felt at Gisborne and Wairoa at 2.30 o'clock this morning. The observatory at Wellington reports that the ...
Article : 129 wordsKALGOORLIE, May 7.—Before the Acting Coroner (Mr. G. H. Rainsford) in the Kalgoorlie Courthouse to-day an inquest was held into the death of Hilda Lilian ...
Article : 166 wordsLONDON, May 7.—Flight-Lieutenant H. R. D. Waghorn, the famous Schneider Trophy pilot, died this morning from the injuries he received yesterday when the ...
Article : 255 wordsCANBERRA, May 7.—Senator Dunn stated to-night that he had given notice that at the next sitting of the Senate lie would ask:—"In the event of the Federal ...
Article : 80 wordsSYDNEY, May 7.—Having defied the authority of the Federal Labour Party, the State Labour Party now threatens to boycott the unity conference convened by the ...
Article : 146 wordsLONDON, May 6.—In the House of Lords to-day. Lord Newton (Cons.) moved that, in accordance with the recommendation of the Home Office Committee in 1919. ...
Article : 154 wordsLONDON, May 7.—Commenting on the statements made by the chairman of the Commonwealth Bank Board (Sir Robert Gibson) in the Senate the newspapers ...
Article : 431 wordsSYDNEY, May 7—The Commissioner of Police (Mr. Childs) announced this morning that £1,000 reward had been offered for the arrest of the men responsible for ...
Article : 69 wordsCANBERRA, May 7.—A novel means of impressing upon the world the advantages of peace is to be adopted in connection with a congress for the prevention of war ...
Article : 256 wordsLONDON, May 7.-Squadron-Leader Marsden, who is at present at Farnbourough aerodrome inspecting new bombrelease equipment on behalf of the Royal ...
Article : 119 wordsCAPE TOWN, May 6.—The bodies of Commander Glen Kidston. the British aviator and sportsman and Captain T. A. Gladstone, who was killed when their ...
Article : 96 wordsSYDNEY, May 7.—An important clue to the theft of the registered mail bag from the Sydney-Canberra mail train, when £10,000 in notes was stolen on May ...
Article : 95 wordsLONDON, May 6.—The running of grocery shop, a cheese factory and a pedigreed herd, the manufacturing of refrigerators and participation in the purchase ...
Article : 237 wordsNEW YORK, May 6.—An exceptional number of murders and other sensational cases of homicide were included in to-day's list of crimes of violence reported from all ...
Article : 203 wordsLONDON, May 7.—The late Commander Kidston's widow doubts whether he was anything like the millionaire he was reputed to be. He spent a fortune on ...
Article : 37 wordsLONDON, May 7.—The by-election at Scarborough, caused by the resignation of the Conservative member, Captain Sidney Herbert, resulted in the return of Mr. H. ...
Article : 63 wordsADELAIDE, May 7.—The Rev. A. S. K,. Baker, who moved the resolution at the recent meeting at the Anglican Parish Hall, Port Lincoln, that the ceremony of ...
Article : 77 wordsADELAIDE, May 7.—"The Commonwealth Bank is carrying a great burden. In fact it had proved itself the bulwark of Australia in an unprecedented crisis as it ...
Article : 222 wordsPARIS, May 6.—The Academy of Medicine recently appointed a committee to investigate the perils of modern hairdressing. A report issued by the committee ...
Article : 87 wordsCANBERRA, May 7.—Following a meeting of the Country Party this morning, the following letter was presented to Mr. Latham, Leader of the Nationalist Party: ...
Article : 185 wordsLONDON, May 6.—Mr. Kaye Don, the British racing motorist, who will endeavour to beat his own water speed record of 103 miles an hour, at a motor boat ...
Article : 75 wordsBUCHAREST, May 6.—Following on the conference between King Carol and King Alexander, of Yugoslavia it has been learned that Queen Helen of Rumania ...
Article : 106 wordsLONDON, May 7.—Charles Ernest Robinson and an Australian named Edward Michael Cavendish, alias Norton, alias Norton, were sentenced at Glasgow to ...
Article : 70 wordsPARIS, May 7.—Passengers in an aeroplane journeying to Marseilles had an unenviable experience in mid-air when a beehive overturned in the cargo compartment. ...
Article : 74 wordsWELLINGTON, May 7.—Municipal elections were held throughout the Dominion yesterday. There were no vital, issues, and there were few surprises. Labour ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Fri 8 May 1931, Page 19
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