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  2. SHANGHAI STRUGGLE

    After fighting desperately for two days under terrific bombardment the Chiness troops were forced to retire from Lotien north-west of Shanghai) on Saturday towards Kiating, which is the northern extremity of the main line of defences being prepared ...

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  3. THE SPANISH WAR.

    LONDON, Aug. 29.—The northern coast of Spain, which is now practically in the hands of the rebels because of their capture of the loyalist seaport of Santander ...

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  4. RUSSIAN PURGE.

    MOSCOW, Aug. 27.—Thirty-two railwaymen, described as Trotsky terrorists. have been executed at Irkutsk of charges of sabotage on the railways and of ...

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  5. STATE TENDER FORMS

    As a result of the Government's decision to refer back to the Tender Board the preference-to-unionist provisions on the Government tender forms, the ...

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  6. WOUNDED AMBASSADOR.

    LONDON, Aug. 29.—As a result of the wounding of the British Ambassador to China (Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen) by a machine-gun bullet fired at his ...

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  7. PILOT KILLED.

    MELBOURNE, Aug. 29.—Buffeted by a wind which almost reached gale force, a small home-made aeroplane crashed at noon today at Fishermen's Bend after ...

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  8. INFANTILE PARALYSIS.

    MELBOURNE, Aug. 29.—While New South Wales police are patrolling the border to prevent children who might be carriers of infantile paralysis from ...

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  9. HYSTERICAL WOMEN.

    LONDON, Aug. 28.—Crowds of hysterical women shrieking "We want you, we love you, Robert," rushed on to the platform at Waterloo station last night ...

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  10. SANTANDER'S FALL.

    LONDON, Aug. 28.—Reports from Santander, the loyalist seaport on the northern Spanish coast that was captured by the insurgents on Wednesday, state that ...

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  11. POLICING THE BORDER.

    SYDNEY, Aug. 29.—Policing of the border to prevent the spread of infantile paralysis from Victoria into New South Wales was begun at noon yesterday. All ...

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  12. THE AIR RAID ON NANTAO.

    SHANGHAI, Aug. 29.—Another dreadful Japanese air raid struck terror into the residents of Shanghai yesterday, when twelve army bombers attacked the ...

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  13. JAPANESE REGRETS.

    LONDON, Aug. 28.—The Japanese Ambassador (Mr. Yoshida) was received by the Foreign Secretary (Mr. Eden) yesterday afternoon when he called on ...

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  14. Italian Aid Proclaimed.

    ROME, Aug. 27.—The Press names 12 Italian generals in addition to subordinate commanders who assisted the rebels on the Santander front. ...

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  15. "ENGLAND LET DOWN."

    LONDON, Aug. 28.—Mr. Walter Newling, a former mayor of East Ham, refer-ring to the scenes at Waterloo last night, says: "Not only were the women ...

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  16. Air Raid on Gijon.

    MADRID, Aug. 27.—Loyalist fighting planes today drove off rebel bombers which attacked Gijon, the Government port west of Santander. The bombers. ...

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  17. KIDNAPPING THREAT.

    LOS ANGELES, Aug. 28.—G-men (Federal police officers) are investigating a letter composed of words clipped from magazines threatening Wallace Beery, ...

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  18. A NORTHERN BATTLE.

    NANKING, Aug. 28.—Fanshan, six miles south-west of Changhsientien (where the Japanese who are steadily rolling up the Chinese retreating from ...

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  19. A "WOODEN LUNG."

    TORONTO, Aug. 27.—Engineers and carpenters at a Toronto hospital, racing against time, built a "wooden lung" and saved a four-year-old boy who was fast ...

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  20. TRADE UNIONIST'S VIEW.

    LONDON, Aug. 28.—Speaking at a conference on youth employment today, Mr. Joseph Thomas, secretary of the clerks' Union, said that last night's ...

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  21. NEW OFFENSIVE.

    LONDON, Aug. 29.—The Government has launched a fresh offensive on the Aragon front (in the north-east) and, it is reported, has thrown some of its best ...

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  22. NOTED CARMELITE'S DEATH.

    DUBLIN, Aug. 27.—The Most Rev. Dr. P. E. Magennis, a former Prior General of the Carmelite Order, who was controller of the mission's schools in ...

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  23. JAPAN IMPLACABLE.

    TOKIO, Aug, 28.—The Prime Minister (Prince Konoe) declared today that the Sino-Japanese situation has made diplomatic negotiations with Nanking ...

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  24. AMERICAN LABOUR.

    MILWAUKEE (Michigan), Aug. 27.—A convention of the United Automobile Workers' Union today unanimously adopted a motion to impose a levy of a ...

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  25. AMERICAN FLOODS.

    NEW YORK, Aug. 27.—Extensive damage has been caused in the Elmira (State of New York) district as a result of heavy rains causing creeks to overflow and to ...

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  26. AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE

    SYDNEY, Aug. 29.—"The Labour Party, while proclaiming that it stands for the adequate defence of Australia, has a policy which does nothing of the ...

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  27. THE WIDENING CONFLICT.

    LONDON, Aug. 28.—The Nanking correspondent of the "Manchester Guardian" states the neutral observers are dismayed at the relentless march of ...

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  28. Women Strikebreakers Stripped.

    NEW YORK, Aug. 27.—At Schenectady (in the State of New York), the clothes were stripped today from two women strikebreakers, who attempted to pass ...

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  29. HOLLYWOOD DIVORCE SUIT.

    LOS ANGELES (California). Aug. 28.—It is expected that a verdict in the proceedings for the annulment of the marriage of Jocelyn Howarth with George ...

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  30. THE ACTING-AMBASSADOR.

    LONDON, Aug. 28.—Mr. R. Howe, who has for the last three years been Counsellor at the British Embassy in China, but who travelled a little while ago to ...

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  31. NON-INTERVENTION.

    LONDON, Aug. 27.—The governments that are parties to the international agreement for non-intervention in Spain are being asked to furnish ...

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  32. ENGLISH ACTRESS'S VISIT.

    LONDON, Aug. 28.—Holding a sheaf of telegrams from Laurence Housman, author of "Victoria Regina," Noel Coward, Ivor Novello, and many other eminent ...

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  33. ANOTHER ATTACK ON NANKING.

    NANKING, Aug. 28.—Japanese planes again bombed the city today. The killed and wounded, who number 500, are mostly civilians. ...

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  34. RUSSIA AND CHINA.

    NANKING, Aug. 29.—It is officially announced that a Russo-Chinese pact of non-aggression has been concluded. The parties condemn recourse to war and ...

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  35. GARRISONS IN THE FAR EAST.

    LONDON, Aug. 28.—Whether Australian and New Zealand soldiers may not eventually be called on to help man the defences in the Far East is a question ...

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  36. AMERICAN INTERESTS.

    WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.—The Secretary of State (Mr. Hull) announced today that he had notified China and Japan that they would be held ...

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  37. A PERILOUS JOURNEY.

    CAPE TOWN, Aug. 27.—Two French scientists, Captain De Bisschop and M. Tatibouet, sailed a catamaran into Table Bay today after a trip from Surabaya, ...

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  38. IDENTITY PRECAUTIONS.

    VANCOUVER, Aug. 28.—Huge Union Jacks have been painted on the Canadian-Pacific liner Empress of Japan, which is loading at Vancouver for the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  39. ALPINE TRAGEDY.

    LUCERNE, Aug. 27.—A Mrs. Corcos, of London, fell over a precipitous slope in the alps at Brunnen today and was killed. Accompanied by her younger son, she ...

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  40. AUSTRALIAN AIRMEN.

    LONDON. Aug. 28.—When 25 Australian airmen arriving by the Orama were sight-seeing in Gibraltar, agents of General Franco, the Spanish rebel leader, offered them flying jobs with ...

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  41. MAURITIUS STRIKERS.

    PORT LOUIS (Mauritius), Aug. 27.—There was a recrudescence today in the mills of the sugar workers' strike which, it was thought, had been settled two days ...

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  42. BACK TO THE ARMY.

    LONDON, Aug. 28.—The number of army reservists who have availed themselves of the Government's offer to rejoin the colours is now over 3,100. After ...

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  43. FORTUNE REFUSED.

    ROME, Aug. 28.—An elderly hawker in the village of Orta has declined to receive a fortune of 2,000,000 Swiss francs (about £95,000) which comes to him from his ...

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  44. MARATHON SWIM.

    NEW YORK, Aug. 27.—Charles Zimmy (also known as Ziebelmann), who is making an attempt to swim non-stop from Albany to New York, a distance of ...

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  45. JAPANESE OPPRESSION.

    LONDON, Aug. 28.—"Individual atrocities are literally numberless," writes Harrison Brown in an article entitled "Japan Rides for a Fall" in the "Contemporary ...

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  46. THE EARL OF PERTH.

    LONDON, Aug. 28.—It was learnt today that the British Ambassador in Rome, who recently succeeded on his brother's death to the title of Lord Perth, ...

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  47. CONTESTS FOR GLIDERS.

    LONDON, Aug. 28.—During the weekend the British national soaring contest will be opened at the headquarters of the Derbyshire and Lancashire gliding clubs ...

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  48. GERMAN CONSULATE IN SYDNEY.

    TOKIO, Aug. 28.—Mr. Walter Hoops, formerly German Vice-Consul at Kobe, has been transferred to Sydney and sailed today for Australia by the Tanda. ...

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  49. A SCOTTISH "CABALLERO."

    LONDON, Aug. 28.—Two granite memorials, a gift from Uruguay and Argentina, have been unveiled by the Duke of Montrose to the memory of Don ...

    Article : 41 words
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