LITTLE AMERICA, Aug. 16.—Further news has been received from Mr. Poulter concerning Rear-Admiral Byrd's experiences while alone at his expedition's ...
Article : 233 wordsCALCUTTA, Aug. 17.—It is feared that over 170 persons, including many women and children, have been drowned in a ferry boat disaster near Daribbai Ghat, ...
Article : 100 wordsLONDON, Aug. 17.—It is difficult to forecast the teams which will represent Australia and England in the fifth Test of the 1934 series at the Kennington ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 1,895 wordsCALCUTTA, Aug. 16.—That the sandy shores of a vast lake at the foot of the mighty Karakoram Ranges in the Himalayan Mountains contain rich quantities of ...
Article : 383 wordsST. JOHN (New Brunswick), Aug. 16—In an address at a banquet here tonight, the Prime Minister of Canada (Mr. Bennett) said that in spite of the improving ...
Article : 173 wordsThe activity displayed by Governments in recent years in pushing on with the sewering of the metropolitan area has led to public wonder whether it is intended ...
Article : 1,073 wordsLONDON, Aug. 16.—The United States Ambassador (Mr. Robert Bingham) presided at yesterday's meeting, at the Board of Trade of the International Wheat ...
Article : 317 wordsLONDON, Aug. 16.—In reply to a resolution recently passed by the grocers and provision dealers' associations of the Bolton district not to stock Australian ...
Article : 530 wordsBRISBANE, Aug. 17.—For the first time in Australia, the parasite responsible for Weil's Disease (a specific form of epidemic jaundice), which is at present ...
Article : 140 wordsADELAIDE, Aug. 17—When the Governor (Sir Winston Dugan) visited Port Pirie this afternoon and made a tour of the flooded areas, he was driven through ...
Article : 594 wordsNEW YORK, Aug. 16.—A wireless message received today from Little America stated: "There is absolutely no truth in the reports of dysentery here or, so far ...
Article : 178 wordsTOKIO, Aug. 17.—The Foreign Office spokesman admitted today that the Foreign Office and the army were consulting with a view to issuing a general ...
Article : 129 wordsLONDON, Aug. 17.—The financial correspondent of the "Daily Express" states that 400 tons of silver left Southampton for New York yesterday, and that many ...
Article : 254 wordsThe causative organism of Weil's Disease has been known since 1914-15, when it was located and described by two Japanese research workers, Ido and Inada. ...
Article : 539 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug. 17.—Mrs. Elizabeth Jarvis (41), of Smythesdale, was drowned today when she was hurled down an abandoned mining shaft. 15 yards away from ...
Article : 180 wordsBy amendments to the tariff schedule tabled in the Federal Parliament on August 1, both the British preferential and general tariff rates on three cotton ...
Article : 188 wordsAlbert Stack (34), of East-street, Fremantle, had a remarkable escape from serious injury when a car which he was driving was concerned in a head-on collision with ...
Article : 353 wordsCANBERRA, Aug. 17.—Price levels of food and groceries increased 0.3 per cent in the month of July, compared with those in the previous month, according to ...
Article : 480 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 17.—Following swiftly on the recent smash-and-grab robbery of thousands of pounds worth of diamond rings from the window of the city store of ...
Article : 531 wordsBERLIN, Aug. 16.—The council of the Free Synod, representing 7,000 pastors who are opposed to Dr. Mueller, the Nazi Reichsbishop, has decided not to take the ...
Article : 64 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug. 17.—In an amended list of entries in the centenary air race issued by the air race committee, the names of several pilots are mentioned for ...
Article : 123 wordsQUEBEC, Aur. 16.—Steps should be taken immediately to replace worn-out ships of the British Navy, Admiral-of-the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes stated today, ...
Article : 74 wordsTORONTO, Aug. 17.—John Labatt, the millionaire brewer, who was kidnapped while motoring in the country on Tuesday and for whom a gigantic search ...
Article : 130 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 17.—With lower rates of interest, adjustments in the exchange buying rates for Australia on London, and for London on Australia, were announced ...
Article : 86 wordsLONDON, Aug. 16.—The radio exhibition which opened at Olympia today is said to be the largest of its kind ever held. More than 150 firms are exhibiting ...
Article : 175 wordsPEMBERTON, Aug. 17.—Mr. O. Kelly, who was traffic manager at the State timber mills, Pemberton, was killed today whilst he was acting as guard on the log ...
Article : 83 wordsLONDON, Aug. 16.—Britain has approached the German Government with a request for early discussion of the question of outstanding German commercial ...
Article : 90 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 17.—Edward Bourke (51) was killed when a bicycle he was riding collided with a motor lorry a few miles out of town. Bourke suffered a fracture ...
Article : 59 wordsNEW YORK, Aug. 16.—While the case of the kidnapped millionaire brewer, John Labatt, became more and more confused, with clues and cross-clues, another ...
Article : 95 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 17.—"The offence was of a wicked and ghoulish kind," said Judge White in Quarter Sessions today when dealing with Welter Bruce Thompson ...
Article : 142 wordsLONDON, Aug. 17.—A slight earth tremor was felt in Scotland over an area extending from Dornooh to Pitlochry, a distance of about 100 miles, early this ...
Article : 91 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 17.—Ambulance officers had to cut away portion of the woodwork of an elevator in the factory of Moran and Cato, Ltd., in Cleveland-street. ...
Article : 76 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 17.—Mr. Gus Bluett, the actor, collapsed at a performance of the musical comedy "Gay Divorce" at the Theatre Royal tonight. Mr. Bluett, ...
Article : 82 wordsPARIS, Aug. 16.—The crowd at an aviation display at Le Mans was horrified to see a girl dangling at the end of a rope. 45 feet below an aeroplane. She was Joan ...
Article : 103 wordsBRISBANE, Aug. 17.—"The mortality in child birth is extremely high in Australia and we have reasons to be ashamed of the figures when we compare them with ...
Article : 113 wordsADELAIDE, Aug. 17.—The inquiry ordered by the Government into the affairs of a group of 17 companies operating in South Australia will being in Adelaide on ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Sat 18 Aug 1934, Page 19
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