The annual convention of the Australian Workers' Union decided yesterday to defer any decision on conscription and defence until after the ...
Article : 180 wordsIt is almost certain that the recommendation of the Inspector-General of the Australian Military Forces, Lieutenant-General E. K. ...
Article : 796 wordsAction to perfect the organisation for the conservation of food in the event of an emergency was taken to-day at a conference which was called ...
Article : 232 wordsOnly 12,241 recruits are now needed to raise the strength of the Militia Forces to the required total of 70,000 men, and they may be obtained within a month. ...
Article : 487 wordsDistinguished leaders of industry, writing in the "Daily Telegraph's" Annual Financial Review, express a hopeful view about a revival of home ...
Article : 805 wordsNewspaper correspondent, visiting refugee camps on the Franco-Spanish border report that the conditions have been improved, and that ...
Article : 891 wordsThe Japanese Foreign Office has issued a statement that the Foreign Minister, Mr. Arita, has assured the French Ambassador, M. Henry, that ...
Article : 458 wordsIncreasing discontent, longer hours of work, a shortage of food, but a watchful secret police were noted in Germany by Major-General A. C. Temperley, the ...
Article : 353 wordsThe Prime Minister, Mr. Lyons, said in a statement to-day that the Labour Party was interested in defence only as a vehicle of propaganda. ...
Article : 401 wordsAustralia's Davis Cup team comprises H. C. Hopman (captain-manager), J. Bromwich, A. K. Quist, and J. H. Crawford. ...
Article : 43 wordsThe New Zealand Government will not divulge the basis of the allocation on which import licences are being granted under the new trade ...
Article : 250 wordsAnother drive is likely to be conducted to arouse interest in the voluntary national service scheme in Britain, because there have been only 100,000 ...
Article : 197 wordsSo encouraging has been the response to the appeal for recruits under the new establishment scheme for the 4th Militaty District in the past two months, that Defence ...
Article : 87 wordsThe Japanese Army and Navy account for one-third of the Budget expenditure of £215,000,000 was apyroved by the Diet. There is also a special War Budget of £75,000,000. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Minister for Works and Local Government Mr. Spooner, will recommend to the State Cabinet that the Local Government Act should be amended to provide that employees ...
Article : 202 wordsStrong criticism of the attitude of Federal Labour leaders toward defence will be expressed by Tasmanian members at the next meeting of the Federal executive of the ...
Article : 214 wordsUnited Artists' Corporation appeals to anybody in Australia who knows of an unfailing method for making kookaburras laugh to communicate with the ...
Article : 250 wordsDespite the fact that the Minister for Civil Aviation, Mr. Thorby was present at the series of Federal Cabinet meetings that began here to-day. ...
Article : 262 wordsThough it is not believed that a crisis is imminent, the reinforcement of French forces in French Somaliland continues. ...
Article : 74 wordsThe council of the National Defence League has appointed, Mr. Brereton McKey as organising secretary. Mr. McKey, who is a returned soldier, is the author of several radio ...
Article : 67 wordsThree suggested sites for a dock large enough to accommodate a capital ship will be considered by the Federal Government. It was revealed to-day that the Prime ...
Article : 116 wordsRidiculing Nazi racial theories, as "pure scientific faking," the Secretary for Agriculture, Mr. H. A. Wallace, in a speech on the anniversary of Lincoln's ...
Article : 141 wordsClaiming that there would be an annual saving in insurance premiums of about £40,000 a year the Local Government Association is seeking ...
Article : 335 wordsA new German scheme for facilitating Jewish emigration, subject to the approval of the Evian Inter-Governmental Committee, allows for ...
Article : 226 wordsIt is generally believed that, should it be the intention of the Premier of New South Wales, Mr. Stevens, to enter Federal politics, he will not make any ...
Article : 123 wordsThe newspapers express misgivings regarding the possibility of Britain and France participating in the economic reconstruction of Spain. ...
Article : 119 wordsThe monthly total of Italian workmen going to Abyssinia has declined to a few hundred, while about 4,000 workmen a month are being repatriated. ...
Article : 117 wordsA sharp fall in the prices of staple vegetables occurred in Sydney yesterday and further substantial reductions are expected in the next few days, as ...
Article : 317 words"We should make it plain to Sir Earle Page that any sacrifice of Mr. Thorby will mean a serious crisis in the ranks of the Country Party in this State," declared Mr. B. Cole ...
Article : 85 wordsThe arrest of between 30 and 40 Germans in Western Poland has caused a political sensation. The action was a sequel to secret subversive ...
Article : 120 wordsSir Frederick Stewart said last night that any suggestion that he would resign the Panamatta seat to enable Mr. Stevens to enter the Federal Parliament was entirely ...
Article : 82 wordsProposals for closer co-operation between the Federal and the State Governments in framing works programmes to give preference to works ...
Article : 167 wordsA mob of armed Chinese fired a fusillade in the air and raided Tatao police station, in Western Shanghai, to-day. They scattered pamphlets on behalf of the ...
Article : 70 wordsA bomb exploded outside the Law Courts, where the House of Representatives was discussing the riots at Mandalay (in which 24 persons were killed and 69 wounded when the ...
Article : 109 wordsIt is believed that representations have again been made to the Premier of Queensland, Mr. Forgan Smith, with the object of inducing him to enter Federal politics. ...
Article : 141 wordsThe Ministry, headed by Father Volosin, won the elections for the Parliament of Carpatho-Ukraine, the new name for the district of Ruthenia in the old Czechoslovak state. ...
Article : 60 wordsLord Strabolgi arrived here by air to-day after his trip to Australia. He expressed the opinion that Australia and New Zealand were full of optimism, and were launching ahead. ...
Article : 59 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 Heral." ...
Article : 125 wordsForty people were drowned in floods, which have isolated the town of Barberton, near the eastern border of the Transvaal. The floods threaten a food shortage among ...
Article : 46 wordsThe flying-boat Coo-ee arrived at Rose Bay yesterday afternoon on schedule, bringing two passengers, 1,554lb of mail for New South Wales, and 1,159lb of mail for New Zealand. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 14 Feb 1939, Page 11
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