LONDON, July 19.—After a meeting of the Inter-Governmental Committee for Refugees from Germany at the Foreign Office today, which was attended by the ...
Article : 636 wordsLONDON, July 19.—Lieut.-General A. P. Wavell has been appointed General Officer Commanding the British Forces in the Middle East. He will supervise ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 319 wordsNEW YORK, July 19.—Following the postponement of further consideration of amendments to the Neutrality Act (as a result of last night's White House ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 1,032 wordsLONDON, July 20.—Nazi military preparations are continuing apace in Danzig and there is increasing local apprehension of danger ahead. The police, according ...
Article : 448 wordsLONDON, July 20.—While it is not true to say that the unexpected delay in the signing of the Anglo-French-Polish military and economic agreement ...
Article : 452 wordsLONDON, July 20.—British Ministers are closely studying the reports of the British Ambassador in Tokio (Sir Robert Cralgie) on his conversations yesterday ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 726 wordsLONDON, July 20.—At the continuation today of the public inquiry into the loss of the submarine Thetis, with 99 lives, in Liverpool Bay on June 1. ...
Article : 808 wordsTOKIO. July 20.—Owing to increasing anti-British manifestations the police have allotted the British Ambassador (Sir Robert Craigie) a special guard. Japanese ...
Article : 46 wordsTOKIO, July 20.—The Prime Minister (Baron Hiranuma), addressing the new China Affairs Council today, said Japan was enthusiastic for strengthening the ...
Article : 47 wordsHONG KONG, July 20.—The Japanese are showing no mercy in stamping out Chinese guerillas in the Canton area. They paraded 180 captured guerillas ...
Article : 66 wordsHONG KONG, July 20.—The latest trade figures demonstrate the extent of the success of the Japanese in cutting off British trade with China. Hong Kong's ...
Article : 58 wordsSHANGHAI, July 19.—The American authorities at Hankow are pressing the Japanese to investigate the whereabouts of a missionary, Mr. L. Holland, who has ...
Article : 40 wordsSHANGHAI, July 20.—The Chinese dollar closed today at 4½d. ...
Article : 12 wordsBERLIN, July 20.—Germany is expected to have 2,000,000 men under arms by the end of August. Extensive troop movements are continuing night and day. ...
Article : 28 wordsMELBOURNE, July 20.—After a desperate struggle on the bank of the River Yarra at Studley Park this afternoon, two inmates of the Kew Mental Hospital fell ...
Article : 255 wordsPRAGUE, July 19.—In a broadcast to- day the Acting Prime Minister of Bohemia. (M. Havelka) appealed to Czechs not to nourish false hopes and listen to ...
Article : 163 wordsSIMLA, July 20.—Complete co-operation in defence was agreed on at a conference of the Indian and Burman military staffs today. Plans for the ...
Article : 58 wordsALEXANDRIA, July 20.—After a tow of 2,100 miles from Portsmouth, which was left on June 24, a giant naval floating dock arrived here today. Seventy ...
Article : 37 wordsLONDON, July 19.—In the House of Commons today Liberal and Labour members strongly criticised a motion by the Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain) ...
Article : 166 wordsLONDON, July 19.—The British bombing planes, numbering nearly 100, which participated today. in the second training flight over France, all returned at ...
Article : 139 wordsLONDON, July 20.—The diplomatic correspondent of "The Times" reports that fresh instructions are being sent to the British Ambassador in Moscow ...
Article : 76 wordsLONDON, July 19.—The Marquess of Clydesdale (Conservative) asked in the House of Commons today whether, in view of the fact that the South Tyrol ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 280 wordsLONDON, July 19.—The Financial Secretary of the Treasury (Mr. Geoffrey Shakespeare), stated in the House of Commons today: "It has been decided ...
Article : 184 wordsSYDNEY, July 20.—Allegations that the police in some country towns acted "brutally and scandalously" towards unemployed persons who applied for ...
Article : 297 wordsSAN FRANCISCO, July 19.—The hearing was continued today of the deportation charges against Mr. Harry Bridges. the Australian-born Pacific Coast ...
Article : 179 wordsLONDON, July 19.—That the board would not oppose the application of the "shareholders committee" for a Board of Trade inquiry was announced today in a ...
Article : 210 wordsCHUNGKING, July 19.—The Chinese Press is paying close attention to the Tokio talks. It is confident Britain will not compromise on fundamental issues ...
Article : 50 wordsAUCKLAND, July 20.—The cargo steamer Port Bowen is still ashore at Wanganui, all efforts to refloat her today having failed. Another powerful tug is ...
Article : 103 wordsAUCKLAND, July 20.—The partly' decomposed body of a woman, minus the legs, has been washed ashore at Paratuhi. The Canterbury police are ...
Article : 75 wordsBRISBANE, July 20.—The statement that the unions' claim for an increase in the basic wage from £4/1/ to £4/8/ for males and from £2/3/ to £2/15/ for ...
Article : 99 wordsSHANGHAI, July 19.—The main theatre of war at present is in south- western Shansi (in north-western China), in which intensive fighting is ...
Article : 79 wordsJERUSALEM. July 20.—Five Arabs were killed and eight injured in eight shootings in the neighbourhood of Telaviv and Rehobeth. The curfew has been ...
Article : 73 wordsSINGAPORE, July 20.—The Siamese Public Prosecutor has filed a suit in the Bangkok Civil Court, claiming 6,000,000 ticals (approximately £550,000 sterling) ...
Article : 114 wordsAUCKLAND, July 20.—A large launch, the Galileo, entering Wanganui today with a cargo taken from the stranded Port Bowen, was hurled against the mole ...
Article : 69 wordsBELGRADE, July 20.—Three thousand lead miners at the British-owned Trepca mines have gone on strike. The men are demanding tenpe[?]ce a day increase ...
Article : 53 wordsTIENTSIN, July 20.—The supreme anti-British committee is organising a boycott of British goods and agitating for the withdrawal of deposits in ...
Article : 225 wordsLONDON. July 19.—Sir John Anderson (Lord Privy Seal), as Minister for Civil Defence, today received the Turkish military mission which is visting Britain ...
Article : 141 wordsSYDNEY. July 20.—It was announced today that Judge Drake-Brockman, of the Commonwealth Arbitration Court, had convened a compulsory conference for ...
Article : 82 wordsBOMBAY, July 19.—The Nizam of Hyderabad issued today a decree granting religious and political rights to a single Chamber of Representatives. ...
Article : 57 wordsLONDON. July 19.—The Prevention of Violence Bill gives the Home Secretary the same powers to deal with Irish Republican Army suspects as he has now to ...
Article : 140 wordsAUCKLAND, July 20.—Police are searching for Gennero Valenzi (44). an Italian, who disappeared yesterday from the Wanganella, on which he had been ...
Article : 80 wordsTOKIO, July 20.—A naval spokesman declared today Russia was taking advantage of Japan's occupation in China in order to nullify her treaty right in the ...
Article : 125 wordsMELBOURNE, July 20.—Two tenders submitted by a German firm through the High Commissioner in London have been accepted by the Postmaster-General's ...
Article : 59 wordsMELBOURNE. July 20.—Tenders for a wind-tunnel motor which will form an important part of the technical equipment of the aeronautical research ...
Article : 71 wordsROME, July 20.—Pans have been completed for the rebuilding of Addis Ababa, the capital of Abyssinia, as a "centre of empire," at an estimated cost of ...
Article : 50 wordsLONDON. July 19.—The British Broadcasting Corporation's transmitter at Droitwich Worcestershire) was struck by lightning today and had to close down. ...
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