LONDON, Feb. 29.—The Import Duties Bill, which imposes a general ten per cent. ad valorem duty on imports into Britain, with the exception of certain specified ...
Article : 1,153 wordsHONG KONG, March 1.—Yesterday 100 Chinese raiders stormed the Breaker Point lighthouse near Swatow and carried off all the inhabitants, numbering nine, ...
Article : 91 wordsCANBERRA, March 1.—The Leader of the Federal Opposition (Mr. Scullin) to-day suggested that the gold reserves held by the Commonwealth Bank should be ...
Article : 468 wordsCANBERRA, March 1.—Comparative returns for February, 1931, and February, 1932, show an increase of £68,865 in customs revenue and a decrease of £550 ...
Article : 136 wordsHELSIXGFORS (Finland), March 1.—The militant Lappists (the Finnish Fascists) continue to concentrate under General Wallehius, formerly Chief of Staff ...
Article : 167 wordsYesterday the State Arbitration Court granted to eleven trade unions leave to apply to the Court for the cancellation or variation of orders made by the Court ...
Article : 1,046 wordsThough the peace proposals which were discussed by the Chinese and Japanese military representatives aboard a British cruiser at Shanghai are now before the two Governments, and a more hopeful atmosphere lias been created at Geneva, fighting in the Shanghai ...
Article : 910 words"I have always held that this Court has full jurisdiction in industrial matters, without hindrance from other Courts. Apparently something else happens now. I ...
Article : 393 wordsBRISBANE, March l.—State revenue, for February amounted to £1,172,976—a decease of £6,923, compared with February of last year. For the first eight ...
Article : 110 wordsRIGA, March 1.—All communication with Helsingfors has been severed. The city is controlled by the military and is virtually in a state of siege, the whole ...
Article : 81 wordsHOBART, March 1.—The consolidated revenue returns for the eight months of the present financial year to the end of February, compared with those of the ...
Article : 80 wordsMELBOURNE, March. 1.—Before he left for Canberra this afternoon, the Minister for Customs (Mr. Gullett) said that it was very desirable that all parties to the ...
Article : 125 wordsLONDON, Feb. 29.—Hope continues to be entertained that a cessation of hostilities at Shanghai and a settlement of the Sino-Japanese dispute will be attained ...
Article : 596 wordsDUBLIN, March 1.—The Free State generally believes—or at least is anxious to believe—that the Fianna Fail's bite in office will not fulfil its bark when in Opposition. ...
Article : 236 wordsLONDON, Feb. 29.—Arrangements have been completed for the prompt payment of £450,000, being the Commonwealth interest due in March, and £100,000. ...
Article : 57 wordsLONDON, March 1.—The financial editor of the "Daily Telegraph" applauds the striking improvement in Australia's balance of trade and says that those who ...
Article : 191 wordsCANBERRA, March 1.—Although the alterations of the duties on tobacco embodied in the tariff schedule tabled in the House of Representatives last week ...
Article : 295 wordsCALCUTTA, March 1.—The growing lawlessness in the province of Bihar and Orissa, due to Congress propaganda, was exemplified yesterday when, for the third ...
Article : 239 wordsLONDON, March 1.—The serious position of the Imperial Communications Company was mentioned by Sir Robert Donald (vice-chairman) at the Empire Press ...
Article : 143 wordsWASHINGTON, Feb. 29.—As a result of orders issued by the Navy Department, almost the entire strength of the United States Navy will shortly be in the Pacific. ...
Article : 149 wordsBRISBANE, March 7.—Emphatic protests against the proposed reduction of the duties on cotton and tobacco have been sent to the Federal authorities by the ...
Article : 211 wordsLONDON, Feb. 29.—Sir Samuel Hoare (Secretary for India) in the House of Commons to-day, in the course of a general survey of conditions in India, said ...
Article : 168 wordsLONDON, Feb. 29.—Sir Arthur Balfour (who has taken a keen interest in Imperial affairs and was a member of the Imperial Economic Committee in 1930), ...
Article : 183 wordsBELGRADE, Feb. 29.—A 30-years-old peasant invited his neighbours to call and have wine and cakes on his birthday to-day. The first arrival, an octogenarian. ...
Article : 104 wordsMELBOURNE, March 1.—A conference of the emergency committee of the Australasian Council of Trade. Unions, the arbitration committee appointed by the ...
Article : 192 wordsLONDON, Feb. 29.—"The Times" gives prominence to a statement from an authoritative Japanese source re-affirming that the Sole Object of the Japanese operations ...
Article : 163 wordsHONOLULU, Feb. 29.—The trial of Mrs. Granville Fortescue, Thomas Massey and a naval rating, on a charge of lynching a native, is likely to be ...
Article : 97 wordsBERLIN, Feb. 29.—At first regarded as a joke, a "strike" against the increased price of beer had become a national crisis. Cafes and bier-gartens ars afraid to flout ...
Article : 137 wordsTOKIO, March 1.—In the Moji Straits in Southern Japan at 4.30 o'clock this morning the Kinryo Maru (4,300 tons), collided with and sank the Yakumo Maru ...
Article : 46 wordsSHANGHAI, March 1.—The Shanghai waterfront was twice rocked to-day when attempts were made to destroy Japanese warships in the harbour. Depth mines ...
Article : 248 wordsLONDON, March 1.—During the last moments of free trade the London Customs House was full of drama. A score of anxious importers stood at a table at ...
Article : 213 wordsCOLOGNE, Feb. 29.—Almost on the completion of the burial service of one of his parishioners here, the Pastor of Hilburg fell forward into the open grave. The ...
Article : 47 wordsOTTAWA, Feb. 29.—In the House of Commons to-night, the Prime Minister (Mr. R. B. Bennett) said that an investigation of the entire credit and ...
Article : 92 wordsBERLIN, Feb. 20.—The Chancellor (Dr. Bruening) has expressed to the official secretary to the Australian High Commissioner (Mr. Trumble) his Government's ...
Article : 155 wordsLONDON, Feb. 29.—Experts are showing keen interest in the crude oil engine designed by Mr. Edlin Stewart, of New Zealand. An engine is being built for a ...
Article : 40 wordsCALCUTTA, March 1.—A memorial is to be erected at Darjeeling, facing the peak of Mt. Kanchenjunga to commeomorate a dozen English and other ...
Article : 51 wordsLONDON, March 1.—In a leading article. "The Times" states that the fulfilment of M. Boncour's condition that hostilities must cease before a peace conference ...
Article : 106 wordsSYDNEY, March 1.—It was announced at a rally of the New Guard at Epping to-night that more than 100,000 men were standing solidly behind that organisation ...
Article : 166 wordsBRISBANE, March 1.—A crowd of spectators packed the rear of the Police Court to-day when, after a hearing which extended over five days. Frederick Emanuel ...
Article : 94 wordsADELAIDE, March 1.—The extent to which publicans were hit last year by the economic depression is shown by the annual report of the Superintendent of ...
Article : 142 wordsNICE, Feb. 29.—Either smitten by conscience or suddenly remembering a scriptural injunction, a well-to-do New England woman who for the first time was ...
Article : 66 wordsLONDON, Feb. 29.—Mr. Henry Wickham Steed, proprietor and editor of the "Review of Reviews," and a former editor of "The Times." in an address to the ...
Article : 212 wordsLONDON, March 1.—Four hundred frozen pigs, the first shipment from the Government freezing works at Brisbane, were displayed to-day at the "Empire Pork ...
Article : 65 wordsWASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—It ia now definitely established that the United States Government is completely opposed to any plan of economic boycott against ...
Article : 99 wordsKALGOORLIE, March 1.—William Robinson (22), while working underground in the Croesus Proprietary Mine yesterday, received head injuries. He was ...
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