LONDON, Dec. 19.—While the lull on the Madrid front continues evidence is accumulating of the increasing influx of foreign volunteers to reinforce both sides ...
Article : 379 wordsAbout 100 passengers who remained on the steamer Zephyr after she left Point Walter on Saturday night to make a trip around Rocky Bay had an exciting ...
Article : 746 wordsInterrupted by rain, through which nearly two hours' play was lost, and characterised by slow, patient batting, the second Test cricket match between England and Australia was continued at Sydney on Saturday and when play ceased England had scored 426 for the loss ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 2,873 wordsLONDON, Dec. 19.—Speaking in the House of Commons yesterday afternoon the Foreign Secretary (Mr. Eden) said it had been a very difficult year but he ...
Article : 242 wordsNANKING, Dec. 20.—The Central Government is continuing its move to crush the military rebels in Sianfu (capital of the north-west province of Shensi) by ...
Article : 208 wordsLONDON, Dec. 19.—Christmas is likely to be the Germans' last opportunity for unrestricted feasting for some time. Herr Hitler's New-year greeting takes the form ...
Article : 276 wordsLONDON, Dec. 19.—Poland is the first country to ban the departure of volunteers to fight in Spain. The Polish Ambassador to Britain has notified the Earl ...
Article : 64 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 19.—The United States gunboat Erie, which came under fire from a Spanish insurgent warship in the port of Gijon, has been ordered ...
Article : 114 wordsTOKIO, Dec. 20.—The Foreign Minister (Mr. Arita) informed the Chinese Ambassador yesterday that Japan would disapprove of a compromise between the ...
Article : 30 wordsLONDON, Dec. 19.—Charged in the Cardiff Police Court with having landed in Britain without permission, two officers of the 1,600-ton Spanish cargo boat ...
Article : 189 wordsLONDON. Dec. 19.—Referring to the speech made by Signor Mussolini at Littoria yesterday, in which he declared that the past year had proved that ...
Article : 139 wordsLONDON, Dec. 18.—The situation arising in China from the detention of General Chiang Kat-shek by Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang was mentioned at ...
Article : 80 wordsADELAIDE, Dec. 20.—The winner of the handicap section of the South Australian centenary air race from Brisbane to Adelaide has not yet been officially announced. ...
Article : 670 wordsLONDON, Dec. 19.—The Paris correspondent of "The Times," commenting on the acceptance by the French Chamber of Deputies of a Budget providing for a ...
Article : 379 wordsWARSAW. Dec. 19.—The Foreign Minister (Colonel Beck) speaking in the Senate today declared the Government's intention of remaining on friendly terms ...
Article : 111 wordsLONOON, Dec. 19.—During the debate on the motion for the adjournment of the House of Commons for the Christmas recess yesterday evening, the Foreign ...
Article : 883 wordsExcitement ran high at Subiaco late on Saturday night, when two young motorists travelling along Thomas-street, believing that they had seen a man ...
Article : 641 wordsLONDON, Dec. 19.—The Premier of the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg (M. Bech) is at present in Brussels conferring with the Belgian Government on ...
Article : 252 wordsNEW YORK, Dec. 18.—Warring elements in the maritime strike, which has now lasted for over two months and has gravely affected American shipping ...
Article : 233 wordsBERLIN. Dec. 19.—The Naval Year Book, just published. shows that early in 1937 Germany will possess a submarine fleet about twice as large as that ...
Article : 176 wordsADELAIDE, Dec. 20.—The largest number of planes ever seen together in South Australia took part in the centenary air pageant at Parafield ...
Article : 280 wordsMARSEILLES, Dec. 19.—Her plane having been caught in a violent wind and nose-dived, Mlle. Maryse Hilsz, the French airwoman, made a parachute jump today ...
Article : 313 wordsLONDON, Dec. 19.—A madman's attempt to set fire to the Swedish liner Gripsholm (17,944 tons) during a storm in mid-Atlantic was revealed on the ...
Article : 159 wordsLONDON, Dec. 19.—The Tokio correspondent of "The Times" reports that the Japanese naval authorities approve of the British decision to retain five over-age ...
Article : 99 wordsLONDON, Dec. 18:—Gef, the reported talking mongoose, of Casher's Gap, Isle of Man, continues to appear in the news. Sir Cecil Levita, a former chairman of ...
Article : 180 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 19.—Plans for the construction of two giant battleships were discussed by the Cabinet yesterday following the announcement in London ...
Article : 67 wordsSINGAPORE, Dec. 19.—A postbox from the German wartime raider Emden, which is supposed to have been salved by an Australian sailor after the Cocos Island ...
Article : 143 wordsLONDON, Dec. 18.—An article in to- day's issue of the "British Medical Journal" suggests a new reason for Milton's scurrilous writing while he was losing his ...
Article : 93 wordsNEW YORK, Dec. 18.—Mr. Robert Nicholson, the Newcastle baritone who was highly praised by Mr. Richard Crooks, the American tenor, arrived ...
Article : 50 wordsBERLIN, Dec. 19.—Mr. Eden's speech in the House of Commons on the Spanish conflict has angered Germany. The official news agency declares that it has ...
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