A general strike of workers engaged in the water, gas, electricity, and transport services began this morning, in Paris. The Government has taken steps to maintain essential supplies. ...
Article : 513 wordsThe new Constitution for the Irish Free State which was approved at a plebiscite in July, becomes effective to-day. ...
Article : 303 wordsThe explanation given by the Japanese Army in its statement yesterday about the shelling of H.M.S. Ladybird and other British vessels on the Yangtse-kiang early this month is not regarded as satisfactory. ...
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Article : 194 wordsAN advertisement in a New York newspaper offering a reward of 10,000 dollars (£2,500) for the return of 87,000 dollars (£21,750), has ...
Article : 142 wordsCommenting on a statement by the Australian Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons) that it was hoped to inaugurate the commercial airmail ...
Article : 139 wordsAn alarming drift has been repoited by the four Russian scientists who have been living on an ice-floe in the Aretic for the last seven months observing weather ...
Article : 162 wordsShipbuilding has experienced a good year on the Clydcside, and, moreover, it will begin 1938 with 500,000 tons of merchant shipping on order as well as naval ...
Article : 142 wordsDr. Donald Thomson, who spent two years among the abongines of Arnhem Land, believes that if the remnants of Australia's aboriginal ...
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Article : 460 wordsNewspapers in Paris express uneasiness at the political situation in Rumania where M. Octavian Goga leader of the National ...
Article : 284 wordsTwo aborigines who seriously wounded a tracker who was assisting Constable Graham were convicted in the Alice Springs Court to-day. Each was sentenced ...
Article : 165 wordsThe Government and the Fine Arts Commission are inquiring about the sale of four tiny Giorgione panels, which a dealer in Venice sold ...
Article : 361 wordsGnawing through its wooden cage, a 6ft. jaguar on the British steamer Lobos escaped in midocean and caused terror among the ...
Article : 150 wordsMr. John R. Rymill the young Australian explorer, who was leader of the Graham Land (Antarctic) expedition of 1934-37, will marry Miss Eleanor Mary ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 54 wordsTwo Hitler secret service men were among four Germans anested on the Bavarian frontier on charges of having attempted to smuggle propaganda into ...
Article : 87 wordsHopes for the development of a new industry in the north in the export of empty beer bottles from Darwin have faded. The offer by a Melbourne business ...
Article : 171 wordsIt is not known yet whether two live cobras which were rushed by air from Berlin to Brussels will result in saving the life of a patient. ...
Article : 142 wordsJohn J. Wood aged 32 years, of Epping road, Double Bay, a plumbing contractor, was repairing the guttering along the roof of a building In Edgecliff road ...
Article : 58 wordsFive members of the Maroubra Surf Club were rescued by the trawler Alfie Cam this afternoon after they had battled with their ...
Article : 179 wordsIt was officially announced by the Dutch Government to-day that it was never intended to grant de jure recognition to the Italian conquest of Abyssinia, but only de ...
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Article : 142 wordsIt was announced yesterday that Princess Kyra, a Russian, had become engaged to Prince Louis Ferdinand, a grandson of the former Kaiser, and a son of the former ...
Article : 62 wordsThe view that the proposed memorial to Dame Nellie Meiba should take the form of a carillon was expressed by the president of the Old Players and ...
Article : 153 wordsMario Stoppani is now over the Atlantic on his third attempt to fly to South America. He will make an attempt to break the ...
Article : 61 wordsMarlene Dietrich, it is understood, will return to Germany from Hollywood soon to make a picture and to appear on the stage for the benefit of the winter help ...
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Article : 86 wordsAn important Hungarian literary honour, carrying a grant of £120, has been awarded to the poet. Joseph Attila. Inquiries have revealed that he threw ...
Article : 55 wordsThe High Commissioner (Sir Arthur Wauchope) has ordered the release of 25 Arabs and nine Jews from the gaol at Acre. ...
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Article : 44 wordsThe body of the man who was killed by an electric train near East Malvern railway station on Tuesday night has been identified as that of Leslie Starkey, aged ...
Article : 40 wordsPolice yesterday found the body of Miss Ellen Douglas, aged 67 years, of Tivoli road. South Yarra. lying face downward on the beach at Elwood. It is thought ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 30 Dec 1937, Page 9
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