There is a keen race among the various States to be first to reach the minimum quota allotted to them for militia recruiting. ...
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Article : 204 wordsDuring the conversations between the British and Jewish delegations to the Palestine Conference, the Jewish representatives emphasised that Jewish ...
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Article : 294 wordsThe lack of flying-boat base facilities in the Netherlands East Indies, described by Mr. Hudson Fysh, managing director of Qantas Empire Airways, ...
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Article : 128 words"Crime does not pay, and I found that out years ago," said Michael Joseph Maher from the dock at Pairamatta Quarter Sessions yesterday in an appeal to Acting Judge Herron ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 292 wordsMethods of bushfire prevention and control are to be discussed at a conference to be held between representatives of the Federal Cabinet and State Governments. ...
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Article : 77 wordsIt is officially announced that the economic negotiations between Germany and France have been concluded satisfactorily. [Under the new pact Germany will sell coal ...
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Article : 91 wordsPaintings from the Prado Gallery and the Escorial Palace in Madrid, which have been brought here after being kept for a while at the Peralada Castle, near Figueras (Spain), are ...
Article : 116 wordsThree novelties are displayed at the inventions exhibition in London. One is a motor car door, which rolls like a camera shutter, enabling the occupants to alight in ...
Article : 104 wordsThe Foreign Office has protested to the French Foreign Minister, M. Bonnet, against the arrest of German correspondents in Paris. [The French police a few days ago arrested ...
Article : 82 wordsThe 50 camps which the Government will establish in the country, at a cost of £1,000,000, to house children evacuated from the cities in wartime, will be used in ...
Article : 68 wordsThomas Edward Warris, 27, of Canterbury Road, Belmore, who on Monday fell about 130 feet down an air duct in the new building of Amalgamated Wireless (A'sia), Ltd., York ...
Article : 41 wordsProgrammes of Suburban and Country Picture Theatres will be found in the Amusement Advertisement columns. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 16 Feb 1939, Page 10
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