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  2. COCHET.

    In this article, the first of a series, Cochet looks back upon his early days on the tennis courts. His keenness and enthusiasm for the game are apparent. ...

    Article : 1,374 words
  3. NO TRACE.

    Hopes that Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and Mr. Pethybridge were safe were aroused by a report that the captain of a vessel steaming off the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 517 words
  4. TRAPPED IN SHAFT.

    A message from Mount Isa recounts the dreadful ordeal of a prospector, Andrew Bernard Windsor, who was buried in a disused shaft 15 feet deep ...

    Article : 272 words
  5. MASS HYSTERIA.

    An extraordinary outbreak of mass hysteria occurred in a city factory yesterday morning, when 80 girls became panic-stricken. The girls were working quietly when one ...

    Article : 534 words
  6. LINDENBANK.

    Distress signals were sent out from the Bank Line tramp steamer Llndenbank (5057 tons) early this morning, when the vessel lost her propeller off the South Australian ...

    Article : 485 words
  7. EARL JELLICOE.

    The Admiralty has announced that the funeral and burial of the late Admiral of the Fleet Earl Jellicoe, whose death was announced yesterday, will take place on ...

    Article : 221 words
  8. EXTENDING SANCTIONS.

    It is stated that Britain is willing to ban the export of all key products to Italy if other nations will do the same, though it is recognised that a ban on oil would provoke retaliatory measures by Italy, which would have serious consequences. ...

    Article : 188 words
  9. AUSTRALIA'S MESSAGE.

    The Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons) to-day forwarded the following message to Lady Jellicoe:—"On behalf of the Government and the people of the Commonwealth of Australia, ...

    Article : 88 words
  10. "INCALCULABLE CONSEQUENCES."

    The "Daily Telegraph" says: "The British Government's policy on the extension of sanctions is that if others are prepared to withhold deliveries of key products, Britain ...

    Article : 1,094 words
  11. NEW FLYING BOATS

    The 29 giant flying boats on order for Imperial Airways for service on the Empire air routes will be larger and more luxurious than any yet built for commercial purposes. They ...

    Article : 330 words
  12. NEW MOVE

    The Berlin correspondent of the "News-Chronicle" says: "The first move towards a new Franco-German understanding was made today, when Herr Hitler had a conference for ...

    Article : 188 words
  13. SUSPENDED Ms.P.

    Proposals for the amendment of the standing orders of the House of Representatives to provide that members who are suspended for unruly conduct should have their salaries ...

    Article : 177 words
  14. MANOEUVRES.

    The Prime Minister of Egypt (Nessim Pasha), Cabinet Ministers, Prince Mohamed Ali, the British High Commissioner (Sir Miles Lampson), and 80 Egyptian and European ...

    Article : 163 words
  15. PROBABLE CAUSES.

    Dr. A. H. Martin, honorary director of the Institute of Psychology, said last night that brain-storms of this nature occurred at intervals amongst people working together in ...

    Article : 280 words
  16. HARVESTERS

    Seven wheat harvesters were found lying helpless and in agony in a field on the property of Lander Bros., Melrose Plains, 25 miles from Tullamore, yesterday morning. ...

    Article : 327 words
  17. ADVENTUROUS LIFE.

    A bronzed young man arrived in Sydney on Thursday after more than seven years in outback Australia, during which he had come in contact with every phase of out-door life, had ...

    Article : 611 words
  18. LINCOLN ELLSWORTH.

    Mr. H. Kenyon and I landed here at 6.30 p.m. (Greenwich mean time), after another unsuccessful attempt to span the Antarctic continent. We were in the air for 10½ hours, ...

    Article : 266 words
  19. RECORD HEIGHT.

    The National Aeronautic Association announced to-day that the calibration of the sealed meteorograph used on the stratosphere flight of Captain Alberta Stevens and Captain ...

    Article : 137 words
  20. FLIGHT FROM FRANC.

    The raising of the French bank rate for the second time within eight days is regarded as symptomatic of the critical conditions now prevailing in France. The Premier (M. Laval) ...

    Article : 368 words
  21. UNINHABITED ISLAND.

    Hopes of finding Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and Mr. T. Pethybridge were revived today, when the harbour master at Penang received a wireless message from the captain ...

    Article : 316 words
  22. BUSHFIRES

    More than 100 men fought desperately yesterday to save the township of Woodford, on the Blue Mountains, which was menaced by bushfires. ...

    Article : 310 words
  23. HOMING 'PLANES.

    The construction of wireless direction-finding equipment to assist mail 'planes crossing the Timor Sea to Australia has been commenced at Darwin Aerodrome by the Royal ...

    Article : 245 words
  24. ONE-DAY STRIKE.

    The day of mourning organised by the Nationalists as a protest against the policy of the Egyptian and British Governments, resulted in closed shops, deserted bazaars, and ...

    Article : 168 words
  25. TARRANT'S TEAM.

    Tarrant's Australian team commenced a three days' match against Sind to-day. The attendance was 5000. The match is being played on a matting wicket, in sunny weather. ...

    Article : 261 words
  26. "TRAGEDY COULD HAVE BEEN AVERTED."

    The periodical "Flight," presuming the death of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, pays a tribute to the "greatest long-distance pilot," and says: "His early successes and his tragic end alike ...

    Article : 183 words
  27. FOOD RELIEF FRAUDS.

    At the Quarter Sessions yesterday, William Arnold Dutton, 45, clerk, and William Joseph Hartmann, 37, grocer, pleaded guilty to a charge of having conspired in July last to ...

    Article : 197 words
  28. STEAMER MISSING

    Following an S.O.S. message from the North Sea last night, the British steamer Sheaf Brook (2170 tons), with 20 persons on board, has vanished. ...

    Article : 168 words
  29. WATER BOARD.

    At a special meeting of the Water Board yesterday it was decided that the Government's proposed construction programme of £3,000,000 a year for five years should be ...

    Article : 144 words
  30. UNDERGRADUATES' SPEECH

    "The proverbial bargee speaks pulpit prose by comparison with the casual conversation of modern undergraduates," declares the Cambridge University Magazine, in an article ...

    Article : 119 words
  31. DURRANT INSANE.

    The trial of Arthur Nelson Durrant, 22, farm hand, ended to-day when the Jury, after a retirement of an hour and 40 minutes, brought in a verdict of not guilty on the ground ...

    Article : 76 words
  32. ALLEGED SHOOTING.

    Edward James Wilson, of Richmond, yesterday told the police that a shot had been fired at him from the side of the road, as he was sitting in a lorry travelling towards Richmond ...

    Article : 65 words
  33. THEFT CHARGE

    In the Carnarvon Police Court to-day, Mr. J. F. McMillan, S.M., committed Hurtle Melville Hamilton Fisher, resident magistrate, for trial on a charge of stealing £532, the property of ...

    Article : 53 words
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