Protracted negotiations between the parties to bring about a settlement of the "stay-in" strike of gasworkers at the works of the Metropolitan Gas Company, which has now lasted for a week, failed ...
Article : 587 wordsIt is understood that the British Government is determined to prevent further attacks on merchant shipping in the Mediterranean if possible, and that certain ...
Article : 464 wordsA further terrific bombardment of Shanghai was carried out by Japanese warships lying off Cape Yangtse-kiang at the mouth of the River Yangtse to-day. The bombardment lasted three hours. ...
Article : 1,574 wordsTwo adulta, a man and a woman, and seven children from widely scattered areas were reported as new cases of ...
Article : 799 wordsSHANGHAI CLUB, on the Bund, where British residents who desire to leave Shanghai are being registered and women and children are being cared for pending disembarkation. The club has become famous through possessing the longest bar in the world. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 44 wordsNotwithstanding official denials by the Japanese, the Chinese claim that they have gained victories in the north-eastern district is believed to be well founded. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 437 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—The State Government will request the Commonwealth authorities to-morrow Immediately to take the necessary steps to declare Victoria ...
Article : 286 wordsThose who attended the conference convened by the Premier included the Chief Secretary (Mr. Bailey), the deputy chairman of the Metropolitan Gas ...
Article : 573 wordsThe Melbourne joint Spanish Aid Council directs attention to a plan devised in England for setting up childrens colonies in Spain by contributions from ...
Article : 95 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday.—Speaking at the official luncheon at the show to-day, the Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons) said: — "We are no ...
Article : 146 wordsSir,—£3/18/1 a week seems to us a very small amount on which to support a wife and family, and we fall to see why the gas workers should not have their ...
Article : 218 wordsADELAIDE, Wednesday.—The disappearance of Miss Evelyn Beryl Thomas, aged 21 years, and Mr. Maurice William Keen, aged 20 years, who were engaged to ...
Article : 104 wordsPERTH, Wednesday. — An aborigine named Charlie, employed by Mr. E. Caudwell, at King River, 20 miles from Wyndham, fought a 6ft. crocodile in the ...
Article : 151 wordsSir,—Almost every householder possesses a one-fire wood stove, and those who have not can procure one secondhand from a dealer at a cost of 15/ or ...
Article : 75 wordsKERANG, Wednesday.— During the hearing of a case in the Court or General Sessions at Kerang yesterday Judge Stretton interrupted counsel who had ...
Article : 162 wordsSir,—Why should we have a compulsory Arbitration Court when it cannot compel one of the parties? Is there any reason for the expense of the Court when it ...
Article : 52 words—(By Airma[?].) ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 55 wordsSir,—Infantile paralysis is steadily collecting a toll of young lives. The community should co-operate for a common objective—the checking of the epidemic ...
Article : 84 wordsCALLANDER (Ontario), Aug 17. Because 65 cases of infantile paralysis, 11 of them fatal, have occurred in Southern Ontario, Dr. Dafo[?] has strictly ...
Article : 70 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—Evidence of a mysterious telephone call was given by the chief fire officer (Mr. Richardson) to-day, at an inquiry into a fire on July ...
Article : 425 wordsSir,—Mr. Justice Higgins must turn in his grave at the great upset his "new province of law and order" has suffered by the recent flouting of the ...
Article : 103 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday.—Allan George Thomson, aged 32 years, of Auchenflower, fell 120 feet from the roof garden of the Canberra Hotel this afternoon, and crashed ...
Article : 63 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday. — Donald Bunyan, aged nine years, was found fatally shot in the garage of his home In Bent street, Lithgow, this afternoon. He died ...
Article : 140 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday. — An expedition led by Mr. Jack Hides has been held up in wild mountainous and unmapped country in Papua, near the border of the ...
Article : 204 wordsSr,—Probably the Metropolitan Gas Company is wealthy and can afford to meet the men's demands, but I hope it will not. Surely there is a principle at ...
Article : 130 wordsThe stock markets were slightly firmer to-day, because of "bear" covering. Far Easter issues are still quoted nominally. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 19 Aug 1937, Page 9
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