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  2. TWO HISTORIC AIR MAIL FLIGHTS.

    Yesterday Sydney became the terminus of two great air mail services. The Qantas-Imperial Airways' flying-boat Cooee left Rose Bay for London loaded with mail and passengers, and the Royal Dutch airliner arrived at Mascot with mail posted in ...

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  3. AUSTRALIA'S SURPLUS.

    The Federal Consolidated Revenue Account for 1937-38 closed with the almost retold surplus of at £3,498,361, although certain expenditure ...

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  4. BREAD PRICE.

    The executive of the Master Bakers' Association of New South Wales decided yesleidav to recommend to metropolitan bakers generally that the ...

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  5. FLOODS IN JAPAN.

    The floods continue to cause death and damage in Japan. In Kobe 100,000 houses—almost the entire city—are submerged. ...

    Article : 109 words
  6. THREATS TO HEIRESS.

    Count Haugwitz-Reventlow was alleged in the Bow Street Police Coint to-day to have demanded £1,000,000 for his consent to a divorce from the ...

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  7. JAPAN CLAIMS CAPTURE OF HUKOW.

    The Japanese announce the capture of Hukow, on the Yangtse Kiang, about 150 miles from Hankow. A decisive battle has now been joined for the defence of Hankow, says a Hankow report. The Chinese spokesman, Mr. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  8. PROBLEM OF SPAIN.

    The Foreign Secretary, Lord Halifax, will preside to-day at a full meeting of the Non-intervention Committee, at which the British plan for restoring ...

    Article : 419 words
  9. QANTAS VIEW.

    An official of Qantas Empire Airways said last night that the preparation and establishment of flying-boat bases was purely a matter for the Federal Government and that the ...

    Article : 177 words
  10. DINGHY TRAGEDY

    The bodies of the two men who were drowned when a dinghy capsized off Ball's Head early yesterday morning were identified later as those of Alex ...

    Article : 437 words
  11. LACK OF EQUIPMENT.

    Lack of essential equipment and trained personnel at five of the seven flying-boat bases in Austialia is regaided with apprehension in aviation cheles. ...

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  12. ARMY SECRETS.

    The first meeting of the Select Committee appointed to consider the position of members of Parliament under the Official Seciets Act took place yes ...

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  13. TWO SHIPS ON REEF.

    The for met Melbourne Harbour Trust tug, J. A. Boyd and the old coastal steamet Ready which it had in tow for Shanghai ran aground on the Beor ...

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  14. PRIME MINISTER CRITICISED.

    References to agricultural policy in the speech of the Ptime Minister, Mr. Chamberlain, at Kettering at the weekend, have pleased the Dominions and ...

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  15. JEWS LEAVING AUSTRIA.

    The Vienna correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" states that he is reliably informed that 12,000 Jews have succeeded in leaving Austria for ...

    Article : 112 words
  16. CIVIL STRIFE IN PALESTINE.

    Six Jews were shot dead and five wounded this morning. It is feared that terrorism will lead to a form of civil war, and that Great ...

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  17. MISSING GERMAN BARQUE.

    Lloyd's have bioadcast a message to all ships seeking news of the missing German baique Admiral Karpfanger, according to the "Dally Telegraph." ...

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  18. CANDELABRUM THAT DISAPPEARED.

    Loid Bledisloe, the foimei Governor-General of New Zeiland, sends a letter to "The Times" from Nyasaland concerning the candelabrum that once belonged to John Robert Godley ...

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  19. BOGUS ORDER FORMS.

    Police last night issued a warning to 2,000 shopkeepeis in Sydney and suburbs not to trade in older forms on Australian Cash Orders, Ltd., with ...

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  20. SERIES OF MISHAPS.

    This double grounding makes an addition to the remarkable series of shipping accidents off the Queenslind coast in recent months. These include the strandings of the big ...

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  21. NEW RIFLE FOR U.S. ARMY.

    The United States Army will soon he equipped with a new and secret type of semiautomatic rifle, which will enable an infantryman to fire 60 shots a minute. It will ...

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  22. CANADA AND BRITAIN.

    The leader of the Opposition, Mr. R. B. Bennett, in his farewell speech in that capacity in the House of Commons yesterday declared that Canada was "letting the Old Country ...

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  23. "LOWEST TAXATION IN WORLD."

    The Premier, Mr. Dunstan, to-day told a deputation that taxation in Victoiia was the lowest in the world Mr Dunstan had been asked for a promise ...

    Article : 164 words
  24. COST OF THREE DAYS OF GAIETY.

    Altogether 454 persons have died violent deaths during the three days' festivities for independence Day. Last year there were 498 deaths. ...

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  25. "DIFFICULTIES SHOULD HAVE BEEN FORESEEN."

    Mr. Colston Shepherd, representative of the London "Times," who is on the Challenger, interviewed at Townsville, said: "I have had slower clearances from private aircraft in ...

    Article : 479 words
  26. FASCIST ANTAGONISM TO BRITAIN.

    There is no sign of friendly Anglo-Italian relations in Signor Gayda's outburst in the "Giomale d'Italia" in reference, to Signor Mussolini's speech yesterday, in which he ...

    Article : 89 words
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