As expected, group voting dominated the election of nine non-permanent members of the League of Nations. The presence of Uruguay as a fourth Latin-American candidate ...
Article : 430 wordsA special correspondent seut to Spain by the "Daily Express," telegraphing from Hendaye in order to avoid the Spanish censorship, says that he is able for the first time to tell the ...
Article : 503 wordsA bad storm continues to rage in the Bay of Bengal, and the meteorological observers at Simla have warned us that it would be dangerous at present to proceed northwards ...
Article : 141 wordsThe Attorney-General (Mr. McTlernan), who proceeded to England some months ago on a special mission, arising out of the constitutional crisis which followed the efforts to ...
Article : 1,043 wordsFollowing a Cabinet meeting, the Prime Minister (Mr. Baldwin) has summoned officials of the Miners' Federation to a conference at No. 10 Downing-street to-morrow. He will ...
Article : 120 wordsThe Chief Railway Commissioner (Mr. Fraser) issued a statement yesterday in connection with reports published to the effect that another serious railway disaster was only ...
Article : 742 wordsThe vanguard of the delegations from the various branches of the Empire Parliamentary Association, comprising representatives of the Parliaments of the United Kingdom, the Irish Free State, Canada, Newfoundland, New Zealand, and Malta, arrived at Sydney yesterday ...
Article : 121 wordsThe captain of the Australian team (Mr. H. L. Collins), in a broadcast talk to-night, said that England had a wonderful chance of sending to Australia seven or eight batasmen of ...
Article : 491 wordsThe Canton army has resumed its eastward advance from Hankow on two fronts, above and below the Yangtse River, and is leaving Hankow denuded of troops. The force below ...
Article : 402 wordsPerfect spring weather greotod the delegates of the Empire Parliamentary Association upon their arrival at Sydney yesterday. There was an early morning mist as the Aorangl, ...
Article : 831 wordsOne of the most representative assemblages at any civic reception held in Sydney was present at the Town Hall yesterday morning to welcome the delegates of the Empire ...
Article : 2,035 wordsThe Senior British Trade Commissioner in Australia (Mr. R. W. Dalton), who is returning to Australia on Saturday, states that the representation of imperial trade in ...
Article : 273 wordsMr. Martin Donohoe, who is acting as special correspondent at Madrid for the "Daily Chronicle," telegraphs to that paper, saying:—The Tangier question is not dead. It is only ...
Article : 163 wordsA prisoner named Strathmore escaped from the Tuncurry prison encampment in sensational circumstances yesterday afternoon. He had been brought to Tuncurry in May to ...
Article : 202 wordsThe majority of the patients in the local hospital are improving, but the condition of Mrs. Williams and Messrs. Cochrane, Hunter, and Akhurst is still serious. Dr. Vance, of ...
Article : 54 wordsThe agenda for the Labour party conference at Margate on October 17, shows that the Communist issued, which was supposed to have been killed last year, will again arise. ...
Article : 145 wordsIn the semi-finals for the national singles championship at Forest Hills to-day, H. Cochet (France) defented W. T. Tilden (U.S.A.), 6-8, 6-1, 6-3, 1-6, 3-6; V. Richards ...
Article : 218 wordsYesterday the Premier received the following wireless message from the Prime Minister:—"I desire to express deepest sympathy with your State and with the boreaved ...
Article : 61 wordsA report from Port Said states that a small quantity of the Orvieto's cargo was discharged and re-shipped, and the vessel proceeded on her voyage to Australia. ...
Article : 55 wordsRegarding a report that the notion of the Westinghouse brake averted a disaster to a train between Dora Creek and Awaba stations, the Westinghouse Brake Company of ...
Article : 78 wordsThe A.L.P. executive last night decided to hold an inquiry into allegations of bribery made against certain members of the party. This was the outcome of an invitation ...
Article : 148 wordsThe "Daily Express" announces that negotiations are practically complete for the sale of Sir John Ellerman's weeklies—"The Sphere," "Illustrated London News," "Tatler," ...
Article : 87 wordsFurther attempts were made to-day to secure a crew for the Howard Smith's steamer Saros, which was unable to obtain a complement yesterday on account of a disagreement ...
Article : 350 wordsThe "Lancet," in an article advocating greater attention to the dying hour and making death easier and less painful, points out that there has never been systematic ...
Article : 176 wordsThe distinguished French philosopher, Colostin Bougie, addressing the iuternational Philosophic Congress at Cambridge (Mass.) to-day, made an eloquent plea for greater unity ...
Article : 169 wordsA message from Chicago states that drenching rains, bringing floods in many sections of the middle-west, causing damage to the extent of over 12,000,000 dollars have resulted ...
Article : 82 words"The Canadian elections, as i predicted some time ago, have gone entirely in favour of the party which resented the assumption of autocratic power by Lord Byng, the ...
Article : 411 wordsSenator F. L. Schaffner, the lone Canadian delegate, comes with a message of friendship and sympathy to Australia. "At home in Canada," he said, "we regard Australia and ...
Article : 257 wordsSafebreakers entered the office of Hollander and Govett, Grosvenor-street, city, before daylight yesterday, and blowing open the door of an iron safe decaped with £20 in notes ...
Article : 79 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says:—Sir Rabindranath Tagore has met with an ovation at his lectures delivered in English before crowded audiences ...
Article : 153 wordsPlacide Joseph Ducrest, wanted by the San Francisco police for the theft of 125,000 dollars in Australian bullion from the steamer Sonoma in 1921, has been found guilty by the Federal ...
Article : 87 wordsPassages for 40 teachers for Victoria have been booked by the Runic, sailing in December. At Dijon (France) to-day the Maori Rugby ...
Article : 239 wordsThe promises situated at the corner of Liverpool and Pitt streets and occupied by Sydney Snow, Ltd., have been purchased by that company for £187,500. The land has a ...
Article : 94 wordsThe United States Embassy at Mexico City was officially Informed on Thursday that Jacob Rosenthal, a wealthy resident of New York, had been murdered on the previous ...
Article : 65 wordsThe automatic sprinkler alarm installed in Amico House, Parker-street, city, prevented the spread of fire last night. The damage [?] fire was only slight, but water caused ...
Article : 102 wordsA distinct scientific advance has been achieved by the Columbia Company in the production of a phonograph which renders posslble two ranges of vibration to emanate ...
Article : 115 wordsThe Holyman steamer Lanena, due to leave Hobart at five o'clock this afternoon, was held up because the crow refused to work the vessel until one of their number, who ...
Article : 128 wordsThe State Convention of the Democratic party in Connecticut adopted [?] and declared for absolute repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. ...
Article : 77 wordsThis afternoon delegates will visit the Zoological Gardens at Taronga Park at the invitation of the chairman and trustees. The invitation, which does not iucluda ladies, is also ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 18 Sep 1926, Page 17
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