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 ...
Article : 508 wordsLONDON, 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 ...
Article : 305 wordsMOSCOW, Aug. 27.—Thirty-two railwaymen, described as Trotsky terrorists. have been executed at Irkutsk of charges of sabotage on the railways and of ...
Article : 134 wordsAs 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 ...
Article : 1,095 wordsLONDON, 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 ...
Article : 564 wordsMELBOURNE, 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 ...
Article : 660 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug. 29.—While New South Wales police are patrolling the border to prevent children who might be carriers of infantile paralysis from ...
Article : 327 wordsLONDON, Aug. 28.—Crowds of hysterical women shrieking "We want you, we love you, Robert," rushed on to the platform at Waterloo station last night ...
Article : 468 wordsLONDON, Aug. 28.—Reports from Santander, the loyalist seaport on the northern Spanish coast that was captured by the insurgents on Wednesday, state that ...
Article : 202 wordsSYDNEY, 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 ...
Article : 312 wordsSHANGHAI, Aug. 29.—Another dreadful Japanese air raid struck terror into the residents of Shanghai yesterday, when twelve army bombers attacked the ...
Article : 486 wordsLONDON, Aug. 28.—The Japanese Ambassador (Mr. Yoshida) was received by the Foreign Secretary (Mr. Eden) yesterday afternoon when he called on ...
Article : 313 wordsROME, Aug. 27.—The Press names 12 Italian generals in addition to subordinate commanders who assisted the rebels on the Santander front. ...
Article : 25 wordsLONDON, 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 ...
Article : 42 wordsMADRID, Aug. 27.—Loyalist fighting planes today drove off rebel bombers which attacked Gijon, the Government port west of Santander. The bombers. ...
Article : 41 wordsLOS ANGELES, Aug. 28.—G-men (Federal police officers) are investigating a letter composed of words clipped from magazines threatening Wallace Beery, ...
Article : 74 wordsNANKING, Aug. 28.—Fanshan, six miles south-west of Changhsientien (where the Japanese who are steadily rolling up the Chinese retreating from ...
Article : 69 wordsTORONTO, 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 ...
Article : 78 wordsLONDON, Aug. 28.—Speaking at a conference on youth employment today, Mr. Joseph Thomas, secretary of the clerks' Union, said that last night's ...
Article : 54 wordsLONDON, 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 ...
Article : 197 wordsDUBLIN, 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 ...
Article : 71 wordsTOKIO, Aug, 28.—The Prime Minister (Prince Konoe) declared today that the Sino-Japanese situation has made diplomatic negotiations with Nanking ...
Article : 87 wordsMILWAUKEE (Michigan), Aug. 27.—A convention of the United Automobile Workers' Union today unanimously adopted a motion to impose a levy of a ...
Article : 86 wordsNEW 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 ...
Article : 85 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 29.—"The Labour Party, while proclaiming that it stands for the adequate defence of Australia, has a policy which does nothing of the ...
Article : 240 wordsLONDON, Aug. 28.—The Nanking correspondent of the "Manchester Guardian" states the neutral observers are dismayed at the relentless march of ...
Article : 145 wordsNEW YORK, Aug. 27.—At Schenectady (in the State of New York), the clothes were stripped today from two women strikebreakers, who attempted to pass ...
Article : 48 wordsLOS ANGELES (California). Aug. 28.—It is expected that a verdict in the proceedings for the annulment of the marriage of Jocelyn Howarth with George ...
Article : 122 wordsLONDON, 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 ...
Article : 88 wordsLONDON, Aug. 27.—The governments that are parties to the international agreement for non-intervention in Spain are being asked to furnish ...
Article : 84 wordsLONDON, Aug. 28.—Holding a sheaf of telegrams from Laurence Housman, author of "Victoria Regina," Noel Coward, Ivor Novello, and many other eminent ...
Article : 63 wordsNANKING, Aug. 28.—Japanese planes again bombed the city today. The killed and wounded, who number 500, are mostly civilians. ...
Article : 26 wordsNANKING, Aug. 29.—It is officially announced that a Russo-Chinese pact of non-aggression has been concluded. The parties condemn recourse to war and ...
Article : 63 wordsLONDON, 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 ...
Article : 273 wordsWASHINGTON, Aug. 28.—The Secretary of State (Mr. Hull) announced today that he had notified China and Japan that they would be held ...
Article : 182 wordsCAPE TOWN, Aug. 27.—Two French scientists, Captain De Bisschop and M. Tatibouet, sailed a catamaran into Table Bay today after a trip from Surabaya, ...
Article : 138 wordsVANCOUVER, Aug. 28.—Huge Union Jacks have been painted on the Canadian-Pacific liner Empress of Japan, which is loading at Vancouver for the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 26 wordsLUCERNE, 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 ...
Article : 88 wordsLONDON. 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 ...
Article : 56 wordsPORT 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 ...
Article : 146 wordsLONDON, 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 ...
Article : 62 wordsROME, 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 ...
Article : 64 wordsNEW 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 ...
Article : 112 wordsLONDON, Aug. 28.—"Individual atrocities are literally numberless," writes Harrison Brown in an article entitled "Japan Rides for a Fall" in the "Contemporary ...
Article : 212 wordsLONDON, 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, ...
Article : 78 wordsLONDON, Aug. 28.—During the weekend the British national soaring contest will be opened at the headquarters of the Derbyshire and Lancashire gliding clubs ...
Article : 60 wordsTOKIO, Aug. 28.—Mr. Walter Hoops, formerly German Vice-Consul at Kobe, has been transferred to Sydney and sailed today for Australia by the Tanda. ...
Article : 72 wordsLONDON, Aug. 28.—Two granite memorials, a gift from Uruguay and Argentina, have been unveiled by the Duke of Montrose to the memory of Don ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 30 Aug 1937, Page 15
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