The British manufacturers' section of the Society of Motor Manufacturers' and Traders' Limited, in a manifesto over the signatures of Sir Herbert Austin, ...
Article : 377 wordsOne of the most important of the forthcoming engagements of the Prince of Wales will be a reception at St. James's Palace on Monday evening to ...
Article : 165 wordsThe full tragic details of the forced landing of the Kookaburra in Central Australia, and the deaths from thirst of Flight-Lieut. Keith Anderson and his mechanic, Mr. R. S. Hitchcock, are contained in a message received early this ...
Article : 1,636 wordsThe work of naval shipbuilding is to proceed in Britain. It is not proposed, however, to lay down the ships of the 1929 programme until towards the end ...
Article : 242 words"If I cannot win the fight cleanly, I do not care to win it at all" declaied General Smuts (Leader of the South African party) to-day, when opening his ...
Article : 352 wordsBerlin was the most excited capital of Europe to-day. Fifteen thousand police, some carrying rifles and revolvers, paraded the city, and broke up numerous demonstrations in the big squares. This mostly was effected by means of baton ...
Article : 530 wordsEscorted by a Japanese Flotilla of destroyers, H.M.S. Suffolk, bearing Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, on his mission of the investiture of H.I.M. ...
Article : 435 wordsArmed cars, tanks, airplanes, and youths and girls with bajonets over their shoulders gave May Day in Moscow a greater military flavour than ever ...
Article : 103 wordsReports from Geneva that informal exchanges relative to naval disarmament were in progress in Washington between the Secretary of State (Mr. ...
Article : 118 wordsThe Australian delegates to the League of Nations Assembly which will meet at Geneva in the first week in September were announced by the ...
Article : 336 wordsMay Day celebrations in Warsaw were the quietest since the war. The police found no occasion to interfere with the demonstrations, except with one ...
Article : 44 wordsReferring to the report of the visit of the land party to the place where the airplane Kookaburra is lying, the Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce) announced to-day ...
Article : 419 words"In the opinion of this House the time has arrived when the British Government should sign the optional clause of the League of Nations Covenant, ...
Article : 354 wordsMr. Justice Davidson, who was appointed a Royal Commission to inquire into the alleged attempt to bribe the late Chief Secretary (Mr. Bruntnell) in ...
Article : 214 wordsRumania was not disturbed to-day. May Day passed off without any demonstration, and outdoor festivities were calm. ...
Article : 26 wordsCommunists attempted to demonstrate at Kovno to-day, despite the Government's prohibition. The police fired, and several were killed and wounded. ...
Article : 30 wordsReports from European capitals reveal that the alarm felt over the threats that there would be riots and bloodshed on May Day was without basis. ...
Article : 135 wordsMay Day in Paris was celebrated by a certain number of the factories being closed, but generally tho workers refused to respond to the Communist appeal ...
Article : 160 wordsCharged with fraud, the sums involved being £41,888 and £3,788 16s.; also with having made use of or having concurred in the making of a false entry ...
Article : 116 wordsThe Japanese Society in London, which for over 30 years has been the social meeting ground for British and Japanese, has offered to the Imperial ...
Article : 91 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce) has received from the Governor-General (Lord Stonehaven) a petition which was sent to His Excellency by Dr. Watson. ...
Article : 165 wordsThe Labour Council celebrated May Day with a procession through the streets of the city, and a demonstration in Hyde Park. About 2,000 people ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 125 wordsReports have been received at Hendaye, on the Spanish frontier, from Barcelona, that two bombs which exploded there to-day partly destroyed the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 197 wordsThe Radium Fund now amounts to £91,130, including donations of 100 guineas from the Duke and Duchess of York and 100 guineas from ...
Article : 139 wordsThe exhibition at the Royal Academy contains nothing sensational, but is well above the average. Sir W. Orpen, the president, with two portraits, is ...
Article : 177 wordsMay Day in Vienna was very quiet. There were the customary demonstrations, and one clash between rival factious, in which 19 persons were injured. ...
Article : 56 wordsAfter six years, Mr. Martin Conrad, of St. Kilda, Melbourne, has been brought into touch with his mother at Southampton, as the result of the ...
Article : 156 wordsThe new electoral list in operation shows a total electorate of 28,000,000, compared with 21,750,000 at the last election. The addition of 5,500,000 ...
Article : 208 wordsThe Home Secretary (Sir W. Joynson-Hicks), addressing a meeting at Stepney to-day, said that he had spent the greater part of the day at Craigweil ...
Article : 67 wordsA radio telephonic conversation between an airplane flying at the rate of 95 miles an hour, 25,000 feet above Patterson, New Jersey, and some 20 miles ...
Article : 119 wordsMrs. Minnie Drewett, whose body was recovered from the Thames at Richmond yesterday, and who claimed that she fought as a private with the ...
Article : 98 wordsTwo French chemists, MM. Aubert and Duval, have invented a new kind of steel. The main feature of the invention consists of treating steel alloys with ...
Article : 97 wordsA search of Adelaide for the whereabouts of the children of her dead brother, to whom she has bequeathed £6,505, is requested in her will of the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 36 wordsExtensive inquiries have been made for the purpose of tracing the missing sentry of the Scots Guards whose box at Buckingham Palace was found empty, ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Fri 3 May 1929, Page 9
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