The King has given his wholehearted approval of the request of the Archbishop of Canterbury (Dr. Lang) that Sunday be observed as ...
Article : 192 wordsCANBERRA, Friday.—A staff of 100 inspectors will be built up by the National Insurance Commission, and men are being trained ...
Article : 301 wordsADELAIDE, Friday.—Sir John Melrose, one of the leading pastoralists in Australia, died to day, aged 76 years. He was born at Rosebank, and educated at ...
Article : 210 wordsThe car in which Mr. John Cobb (right) established a new world land speed record on the salt flats at Bonneville (Utah). His two runs averaged 350.20 miles an hour. The lower picture shows Mr. Cobb seated in the car, stripped of its streamlined body. When this streamlined body is placed in position Mr. Cobb is lowered into his scat from a springboard so as not to damage the metal work. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 76 wordsThreatening as the situation in Czechoslovakia is, at the time of writing, nobody still seriously fears that there is any immediate danger of its leading to another European war. All parties concerned were brought face to face with grim ...
Article : 1,984 wordsMr. Raymond F. Cormack, a wellknown city jute broker, who resided at Tcorak road, South Camberwell[?] died at a private hospital on Thursday, after a ...
Article : 107 wordsPresident Roosevelt has called a meeting of the Cabinet for to-day to discuss the policy of the United States on the European crisis. ...
Article : 120 wordsIntimate character sketches of three of the men closely associated with the Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain) on his historic ...
Article : 577 wordsAfter all[?] we are not to know what happened between Mr. Chamberlain and Herr Hitler at the momentous Berchtesgaden meeting on Thursday night as soon as ...
Article : 542 wordsWith a speed of 350.20 miles an hour, Mr. John Cobb, the British motorist, set up a new world land speed record yesterday at ...
Article : 167 wordsThe death occurred yesterday at an East Melbourne private hospital of Mr. C. A. Lempriere of Greenmeadows, Yea. The sixth sen of the late William G. ...
Article : 262 wordsGerman residents are making plans to leave for the Dutch East Indies in the event of war. Many have sought passage to Batavia, to which three German ...
Article : 47 wordsBRISBANE, Friday.—The National Insurance Commission will be asked to state whether sons and daughters offarmers working on their fathers' farms ...
Article : 128 wordsAt the council meeting of the Honorary Justices' Associaton of Victoria, on Thursday night, it was decided to send a cable message to the British Prime Minister (Mr. ...
Article : 50 wordsUnder the auspices of the Victorian branch of the League of Nations Union, Captain V. A. Cazalet, Conservative member of the House of Commons for ...
Article : 81 wordsThe flying-boat airmails, due in Melbourne to-day and on Monday have been delayed. It is expected that the airmail due on Tuesday will be delayed also. ...
Article : 99 wordsMr. Thomas Mitchell Shakespeare, who was known as "the father of the New South Wales country Press," died at his hame at Canberra last night. He was aged ...
Article : 131 wordsJohn Cobb is an Australian, but has been regularly engaged in speed motor racing in England since 1926. He belongs to a group of wealthy young Britishers who are ...
Article : 137 wordsSir,—Representing, I trust, the majority of fair-minded people opposed to our Commonwealth being involved in a world war, I should like to express my ...
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Advertising : 256 wordsThe Mercury, the upper plane of the Mayo composite aircraft, is expected to be launched from the Maia at Dundee (Scotland) on Wednesday, on an attempt ...
Article : 107 wordsThousands of people lined the streets of Windsor to-day for the funeral of Prince Arthur of Connaught, a second cousin of the King. ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Victorian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children investigated 271 cases of neglect of children and 50 cases of actual physical [?]ruelty during the ...
Article : 150 wordsDr. Fritz Loewe, director of the course in meteorology at the University of Melbourne, will deliver the first of a series of lectures, entitled "In the Air," at the ...
Article : 152 wordsSix Royal Air Force planes machinegunned armed Arabs who were concentrated near Ramallah, inflicting 100 casualties. ...
Article : 63 wordsPrice of gold. £7/4/8½ (rise of 5½d.). Exchanges.—Dollars, 4.80 [?] francs, 178 5-16; guilders (Batavia), 8.90½. Mining shares were quiet and [?]. ...
Article : 97 wordsBRISBANE, Friday.—Brisbane will have the first "soul clinic" in Australia. Such clinics[?] where men and women faced with personal problems may find ...
Article : 77 wordsLieutenant-Colonel Sit Donald Cameron has left Gosvernment House, Canberra. Dame Enid Lyons was a passenger to Melbourne in the Douglas airliner Kurana ...
Article : 565 wordsAn unprecedented influx of foreign capital into the United States, as a result of the European crists, was announced yesterday by the Secretary of ...
Article : 124 wordsTHE "Sentinel" will present his weekly talk on foreign affairs from 3UZ and 3UL at 9.45 p.m. tomorrow. ...
Article : 23 wordsWhen a car crashed through the railings of The Spit budge, Sydn[?]s, and plunged into about 15ft. of water, the driver James Simos, of Cootamundia, was either killed by the crash or drowned. The whole of the top of the car was ripped off by the impact. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 50 wordsIt is understood that at a meeting of Lloyd's underwriters yesterday it was decided to give 48 hours' notice of termination of all contracts covering war risks. ...
Article : 87 wordsThe Stock Exchange opened quietly today. There was an inclination to await furtehr developments. British funds and gold shares were lower, and industrials ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 17 Sep 1938, Page 9
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