Sydney enjoyed slight relief yesterday from the heat wave, and, according to the State Meteorologist, Mr. Mares, the prospect for a rainstorm ...
Article : 397 wordsThe House of Commons agreed by 270 votes to nine yesterday to the Government's voluntary national service plan being tried until the end of March. ...
Article : 524 wordsThe regulations under the Wireless Telegraphy Act, under which the action against SKY was taken, give the Postmaster-General extremely wide powers ...
Article : 442 wordsThe scene in Martin Place yesterday during the lunch-hour recruiting rally conducted by the Minister for External Affairs, Mr. Hughes. Tank and anti-aircraft battery detachments surrounded the platform from which Mr. Hughes appealed for recruits. Right: Mr. Hughes in a characteristic attitude during his speech. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 52 wordsIt is learnt from a Chinese source that the Japanese, through General Doihara, the chief Japanese political officer in China, who is regarded as the ...
Article : 446 words"I accept full responsibility for this action," Mr. Cameron said before he left Melbourne for Adelaide to-night "I gave them a personal warning of ...
Article : 156 wordsThe council of the New South Wales Rugby Union, at a special meeting last night, resolved unanimously to approve in principle the plans being made by ...
Article : 455 wordsThe Assistant Minister for Commerce Mr. Thompson, said yestetday that, at the present time, there was no question of Australia restricting her exports of ...
Article : 237 wordsThe Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir John Simon, announced in the House ot Commons yesterday that the greater latitude allowed recently in respect of ...
Article : 154 words"I have no reason to suppose that they differ in any way," said the Secretary for the Dominions, Mr. MacDonald, when he was asked by Mr. ...
Article : 345 wordsA severe thunder and hall storm swept portion of South Canterbury this afternoon and caused extensive damage to crops at Temuke and Geraldine. Hail is lying to a depth of ...
Article : 59 wordsAll Commonwealth railway traffic employees, who are members of the Australian Workers' Union, ceased work at Port Augusta and Quorn at 3.15 p.m. ...
Article : 138 wordsSpeaking from Devonport (Tasmania) last night, the Prime Minister, Mr. Lyons, said that the matter was one which was within the province of the Postmaster-General. He ...
Article : 111 wordsBenjamin Simon, an important executive of McKesson and Robbins, the big drug firm of which the late Philip Musica, alias F. Donald Coster, was ...
Article : 152 wordsA French expedition which was in distress on the island of St. Paul, in the Indian Ocean, is being supplied with necessities from Madagascar. ...
Article : 279 words"Unless 2KY goes back on the air the Ironworkers' Union will do everything possible to obstruct the Government in the manufacture of munitions and will resist the ...
Article : 104 wordsA Federal Grand Jury has indicted the American Medical Association, three local medical societies, and 21 prominent physicians for alleged violation of the Sherman ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 201 wordsWhen the High Commissioner, Mr. Bruce, reaches Australia late in January he will discuss with the Federal and state Governments and with the Australian Meat Board, closer ...
Article : 152 wordsAddressing a large audience at the 2KY 1938 radio trials "presentation night" at the Assembly Hall last night, the manager of the station, Mr. H. E. Beaver, said: "As ...
Article : 114 wordsThe Dominions Secretary, Mr. MacDonald, in reply to a question by Mr. R. Sorenson (Lab.) in the House of Commons yesterday, said that he ...
Article : 256 wordsThe Minister for Defence, Mr. Street, announced to-day that the submarine Phoenix is being loaned to the Commonwealth Government by the Royal ...
Article : 192 wordsThe Speaker of the Polish Sejm, or Lower House of Parliament, has rejected the Ukrainian Autonomy Bill on the ground that it was insufficiently supported by members. ...
Article : 105 wordsA meeting of representatives of exservice members of metropolitan golf clubs discussed the question of supporting the Commonwealth ...
Article : 381 wordsMr. Beasley, M.P., formerly leader of the Land group in the House of Representatives, declined last night to comment on the action of the Postmaster-General in cancelling the ...
Article : 104 wordsShouting "Tve been after you for four years," James Hagan, 48, struck down the Mayor of New York, Mr. La Guardia, from behind on the steps of the City Hall. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 265 wordsThe Chinese Government has ordered the complete reorganisation of the Government of Kwangtung Province, which contains Canton. ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Premier, Mr. Stevens, announced last night that the Government would grant special assistance to fruit and vegetable growers and poultry farmers ...
Article : 131 wordsAn air mail picture of Mr. S. M. Bruce, High Commissioner for Australia in London, and Mrs. Bruce, photographed before their departure from Waterloo Station, London, to board the liner Queen Mary for New York. Mr. Bruce, who is now in Washington, spoke to ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 70 wordsAfter a lull of five days, terrorism has again broken out. An Arab woman was shot dead in a bazaar, and a Jewish constable was killed and ...
Article : 70 words"When Hollywood makes pictures about the West Point Military Academy, we cannot recognise ourselves," said General W. D. Connor, who arrived in ...
Article : 223 wordsThe Minister for Mines, Mr. Vincent, estimates that the output of the mining industry in the State for 1938 will be about £15,000,000. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 288 wordsHerbert Jenner, 22, labourer, and Selwyn Wallace, 23, traveller, will be imprisoned for the full term of their natural lives, with no remissions, and without the benefit of gaol ...
Article : 104 wordsEarly in 1939 Mr. Charles Chaplin will commence production of "The Dictator," a satire, in which he will talk. Mr. Chaplin has indicated that he will ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Minister of Justice, Mr. Martin, said yesterday that he thought the public might feel inclined, particularly at Christmas time, to give some assistance to the young woman, ...
Article : 201 wordsGold was quoted to-day at £7/9/3 an ounce fine, compared with £7/8/10 yesterday. BASE METALS. Base metals (all firmer) were quoted at ...
Article : 86 wordsSamuel Spencer, 73, pensioner, of Ramsay Road, Haberfield, was knocked down by a motor-car when he was crossing Parramatta Road, near Johnston Street, Camperdown, last ...
Article : 112 wordsPrince Alexander of Prussia, a grandson of the former Kaiser, was married at Dresden yesterday to Frau Irmgard Weygand, widow of a major in the German Air Force. ...
Article : 59 wordsThe American yawl-rigged yacht Mari[?] owned by the brothers Frank and Pete Dona, which recently made a voyage across the Pacific, returned yesterday from a cruise to ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Premier, Mr. Stevens, said last night that the Executive Council had approved of the promotion of Inspectors 1st Class Hubert William Thomas Thompson and James ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 22 Dec 1938, Page 12
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