It is reported from Tientsin that from to-morrow nobody will be permitted to enter or leave the British and French concessions, where the food situation will be serious. ...
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Article : 147 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—Sir Victor Wilson, whose retirement from the position of president of the Motion Picture Distributors' Association was announced yesterday, ...
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Article : 481 wordsThe underwriters have been left with 93,75 per cent. of the £7,500,000 (sterling) loan of the London County Council. The loan bears interest of 3½ per cent., ...
Article : 49 wordsLord Halifax's speech is described[?] by official Nazis as proof of Britain's desire to encircle Germany. They said that its tone was more aggressive than usual, ...
Article : 131 wordsTHE "Sentinel" will present his weekly talk on foreign affairs from 3UZ and 3UL at 9.45 p.m. to-morrow. ...
Article : 29 wordsFour men were Sentenced to 20 years' penal servitude at the Old Bailey to-day on charges in connection with the series of bomb explosions in London on the night ...
Article : 110 wordsThe Dome[?] Agency alleges that Outer Mongolian planes dropped poison gas in recent raids in Manchoukuo. The War Office claims that the Japanese, with the ...
Article : 52 wordsItalian radio stations attempted to jam the broadcast of Lord Halifax's speech from London, but were only partly successful in the case of short wave ...
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Article : 225 wordsBritish and French officials in Moscow are not disturbed by the allegation of M. Zhadanov, chairman of the Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee, that ...
Article : 119 words"Le Jour" says that Lord Halifax last night achieved the greatest success of his career as a public speaker. "L'Ordre" criticises Lord Halifax's ...
Article : 133 wordsThe Duke and Duchess of Kent left for Florence at 10 a.m. to-day. They flew from Hendon in a plane piloted by the Captain of the King's Flight ...
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Article : 125 wordsThe retiring Army Chief of Staff (General Malin Craig), in his final annual report to the Secretary for War (Mr. Woodring), urged the addition of ...
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Article : 39 wordsThe "rent strike" of tenants of a Stepney tenement house ended last evening. The terms of agreement provide for a reduction in rent for the 320 families, ...
Article : 57 wordsEvidence that he had started to paddle a canoe to Australia was given to-day at the inquest into the death of Reginald Victor Jennings, aged 17 years, of Bristol. ...
Article : 84 wordsThe Pan-American Airways' Dixie Clipper arrived at Lisbon at 8.10 p.m. yesterday on the first regular passenger flight from New York. She carried 21 ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Dutch Cabinet has resigned. The Queen has asked the Prime Ministed (Dr. Coljn) to form a new Ministry. He asked for time to consider the matter. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Senate ratified the United States British cotton and rubber barter agreement, which now becomes effective. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 1 Jul 1939, Page 7
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