The cyclonic rainstorm, which began on the north coast on Saturday, moved rapidly southward yesterday, and caused heavy rain from the ...
Article : 936 wordsThe motor ship Manoora with 252 passengers on board, passed through the centre of a cyclone on her voyage from Sydney to Brisbane. ...
Article : 314 wordsA survey by military authorities has shown that, of the prospective recruits who enrol at public recruiting depots and are given cards ...
Article : 527 wordsThe Australian High Commissioner, Mr. S. M. Bruce, warned leaders of the dairying industry yesterday that Australia would not be able to keep ...
Article : 218 wordsAn announcement of special legislation to enable the granting of a British loan to support the Chinese currency is expected to be made ...
Article : 518 wordsA "broadcasting battle" is being waged in Spain as the outcome of the suppression of the Nationalist revolt at Cartagena, and the bloodless overthrow of Dr. Negrin's two-year-old Government, whose Ministers are accused of temporising and wandering ...
Article : 195 wordsWhen British and Jewish delegates to the Palestine Conference meet tonight the Jews are expected to propose an alternative plan. ...
Article : 393 wordsThe High Commissioner, Mr. Bruce, tomorrow will begin discussions on Austialian exporting industries with Federal Ministers and officers of the Departments of Customs ...
Article : 176 wordsRemarkable development in the carriage of air mails over internal routes, from Australia to oversea countries, and from abroad to the Commonwealth ...
Article : 285 wordsCartagena is a heavily fortified naval base, and is also highly important to the military authorities, as it possesses large arsenals and valuable iron, lead, ...
Article : 408 wordsAccording to the influential Egyptian newspaper, "Al Ahram," Osman Pasha Moharrem, one of the Wa[?]d leaders, is returning from Beirut (Syria) with ...
Article : 70 wordsWhen within a mile of Bunnerong Power House yesterday, a new transformer, weighing 61½ tons, fell from the rail truck on which it was being ...
Article : 196 wordsA decision by the Slovak Government to establish direct trade relations with Germany is causing extreme tension between Bratislava, the capital of ...
Article : 206 wordsThe calling of a public meeting in the Sydney Town Hall to urge the reintroduction of universal training for home defence, and the compilation by ...
Article : 290 wordsIt is understood that the new Defence Council covers all Republican Spain. Colonel Casado, who rejected Dr. Negrin's earlier offer of a generalship, ...
Article : 456 wordsIt was not until the liner Changte reached Townsville last week that a Jewish refugee on board knew that his wife had also succeeded in crossing the Austrian border. and ...
Article : 191 wordsThe decree ordering Jews to hand over their valuables for compulsory sale has been modified to allow them to keep their wedding rings, silver watches, two sets of table silver, ...
Article : 168 wordsWith a loud report and a terrific flash of blue flame that was visible, for many miles around, the cable end box of a transformer failed at the Bunnerong power-house shortly ...
Article : 93 wordsSeveral sources are quoted by Reuter and the British United Press for a report that the Spanish Republican fleet, of a dozen vessels, is steaming eastward ...
Article : 487 wordsPassengers on the air liner, Bungana, bound to-day from Perth to Adelaide, said that the pilots were given faulty directions from Perth, and, in ...
Article : 175 wordsResentment is felt here at the inadequacy of accommodation provided by the Railways Department for 150 militiamen, who left Griffith for Liverpool camp early this ...
Article : 106 wordsTwo Labour members of the House of Commons, Messrs. Aneurin Bevan (Ebbw Vale, Monmouth), and G. R. Strauss (Lambeth North), have made speeches defying the ...
Article : 181 wordsMany seagulls were killed when they flew into the propeller blades of a Douglas air liner which landed at Kingsford Smith airport, Mascot, late yesterday afternoon. ...
Article : 175 wordsThe construction of a £116,000 military road between Egypt and Palestine has been authorised. ("Herald" Exclusive service.) ...
Article : 84 wordsThe W. R. Carpenter airliner, from Rabaul, and the Dutch Lockheed, from Batavia, which were "grounded" at Archerfield Aerodrome, Brisbane, on ...
Article : 283 wordsCriticism of the food in militia camps was offered last night by Mr. H. J. P. Bate, M.L.A., in a speech at Carlton. Mr. Bate, who recently joined the Light ...
Article : 151 wordsThe German Consul at Nice, after an inspection of the wreckage of the German aeroplane Dalus, which was found yesterday near Rubion, in the lower Alps, identified the bodies ...
Article : 177 wordsSuggestions have been made that the North American Harvard monoplane, which is similar to the Wiiraway machine being made in Austialia, falls suddenly sideways and ...
Article : 175 wordsThe Prime Minister, Mr. Chamberlain, announced in the House of Commons to-day that the Polish Foreign Minister, Colonel Beck, would shortly visit ...
Article : 74 wordsVaucluse Council last night received a report from the building surveyor that portion of the Gap fence had been removed during the week-end. ...
Article : 84 wordsDetails of the proposed scheme for the establishment of a women's voluntary national register were outlined to-day by the Minister for Defence, Mr. Street. ...
Article : 208 wordsA parcel at the Cricklewood sorting office addressed to Scotland Yard was found to contain a heavy unloaded revolver, to which was attached the following note: "Use this on ...
Article : 63 wordsBecause of the wet weather, a camp of 2,200 members of the 5th infantry Brigade, which was to have begun at Woonona yesterday, was transferred to Liverpool. ...
Article : 80 wordsThe annual military tattoo, which has been presented on Anzac night for a number of years, will not be held this year, because officers of the defence forces are fully ...
Article : 48 wordsA woman stowaway was discovered aboard the Awatea one day out from Sydney. A subsciption list was circulated among the passengers, but was withdrawn when Lord Nuffield ...
Article : 60 wordsHenry Maher, 48, of Military Road, Cremorne, was drowned to-day when attempting to cross the Minnamurra River. Maher, who was engaged on relief work, ...
Article : 92 wordsThe Secretary for Air, Sir Kingsley wood, his appealed for a further 75,000 officers and men to complete the Royal Air Force programme for 1939. ...
Article : 75 wordsSuch of the oversea news in this issue as is headed "From Our Own Correspondent" or "Herald Exclusive Service" is from a service owned and controlled entirely by the "Sydney Morning Herald," ...
Article : 171 wordsTo eliminate multiplicity of design, it has been decreed that the motor lorry industry shall be under the control of Field-Marshal Goering. ...
Article : 44 wordsA survey of possible sites for an Empire flying-boat base is reported to have resulted in a decision favouring Pagham Harbour, west of Bognor Regis (Sussex). ...
Article : 25 wordsDespite the wet wea[?]er last night, about 200 persons attended a recruting meeting at the Ryde Town Hall. Several recruits were enrolled. Among the speakers was Sir ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 7 Mar 1939, Page 11
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