Six more people—a man and five children—were burned to death in bushfires in Victoria to-day, bringing the known deathroll to 27. Many persons are being treated in hospitals for serious ...
Article : 150 wordsLast night was probably the most oppressive ever experienced in Sydney. At 10.15 p.m., the temperature was ...
Article : 1,163 wordsMr. H. G. Wells continued his gloomy prognostications at the Science Congress to day when he challenged a suggestion that more scientists should ...
Article : 1,034 wordsA warrant for the arrest and extradition of John Woolcott-Forbes, widely known in Sydney commercial and racing circles, was issued in ...
Article : 516 wordsPresident Roosevelt yesterday asked Congress to appropriate a total of 552,000,000 dollars (£Aust138,000,000) for emergency defence expansions, ...
Article : 969 wordsThe formal conversations in Rome between the British Prime Minister, Mr. Chamberlain, and Signor Mussolini ended after an hour and a quarter. Relations were cordial. The British Spokesman stated that neither side had asked for or had made ...
Article : 235 wordsSo many people are missing that several days must elapse before all are accounted for The dead are:— ...
Article : 516 wordsThe French Press unanimously expresses the opinion that the conversations ended in a deadlock, the parties continuing to agree to disagree. It ...
Article : 862 wordsTwo converging bushfires swept down on Warrandyte about 2 p.m., and within an hour razed 100 houses in the district. ...
Article : 510 wordsWhile waiting for his cabe to be heard by Mr. Scobie S.M., who is conducting an inquny into the unrest among prisoners at the Bathurst Gaol, one of the ...
Article : 219 wordsIn a remarkable inaugural speech after his re-election as President of the Chamber of Deputies, M. Herriot, who was at one time Premier, warned ...
Article : 197 wordsIn the mills in the distiict around Erica the situation to-day was desperate Women and children fled from most of the mills in an effort to ...
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Article : 320 wordsSerious bushfires are ravaging forests in the mountains south of Canbeua. Large areas of the Cotter River catchment, which supplies the city with water, are being burnt ...
Article : 75 wordsThe clockless clock tower of the Lands Department, in Loftus Street, at long last is to fulfil its rightful function it is to have not one clock face, but ...
Article : 183 wordsRaging over several hundred square miles of country, mostly in the hills districts more than 30 bushfires to-day destroyed more than a score of houses. ...
Article : 144 wordsThe huge rearmament drive of the United States is attracting much public and newspaper comment here. "The Times," in a leading article, says: "It is improbable that ...
Article : 214 wordsLouis Greenfield 42, a prosperous millinery store owner was arrested to-day on a charge of unlawfully killing his 17-years-old imbecile son, Jerry. ...
Article : 183 wordsAn official announcement was made in Berlin to-day that Hungary has joined the anti-Comintern Pact. Hungary's decision, although not surprising, ...
Article : 88 wordsMany guests at a garden party given by the Governor-General, Lord Gowrie, at Government House, in honour of the Science Congress delegates to-day, had ...
Article : 157 wordsFive boys have escaped from the Gosford Training School for delinquent boys in the last two days, and have not been found. Three of them left the ...
Article : 151 wordsMelbourne's heat record of 113.5 degrees established on Tuesday stood only until today, when an Intensely hot north-west wind, blowing at 40 miles an hour from the ...
Article : 97 wordsJames Norman Charles Robinson, 8, and Beryl Margaret Robinson, 11, were admitted to the Blayney District Hospital early on Thursday morning ...
Article : 133 wordsOne thousand guests attended the shilling "Anti-snob Ball" arranged by the Mayor of Wimbledon in the Town Hall. The men wore day clothes and the women afternoon dresses ...
Article : 90 wordsThe possibility of Russia constucting a high-seas fleet is suggested by the creation of a special Ministry for Shipbuilding. ...
Article : 79 wordsPolling booths will be open between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. to-day in the Balmain electorate for the election of a successor to the late Mr. John Quirk, who represented Balmain in ...
Article : 83 wordsThree members of the crew are believed to have been killed when a Royal Air Force plane crashed in the North Sea to-day. Such of the cable news in this issue as is so ...
Article : 99 wordsExcessive heat again to-day, with a maximum temperature of 114 degrees, was followed by a change, but the respite is expected to be brief. ...
Article : 38 wordsSabotage is blamed for the department of the Howrah express yesterday, when at least seven lives were lost, Several rails were found to have been ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 14 Jan 1939, Page 11
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