The Cabinet Disarmament Committee which met yesterday, following an interview between Sir John Simon, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and ...
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Article : 132 wordsSeveral more Labour conferences will be held in the next few weeks with the object of making further attempts to bring about unity with the New South ...
Article : 166 wordsA. C. MacLaren, writing in the "Observer," refers to the prediction of a dry summer in Britain, in which event he regards England's chances in the ...
Article : 227 wordsCharles Alfred Broomliend, aged 23 years, a native of Tasmania, was shot in the back by a monkey at Wirth's circus on ...
Article : 100 wordsWhen he ran from behind a motor bus after he had alighted fiom it, Geoffrey Leonard Taylor (7), of Box Hill, was struck by a motor truck at the ...
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Article : 126 wordsThe Prince of Wales distributed medals to-day to lifeboat men for outstanding exhibitions of courage and endurance in rescue work. The ...
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Article : 229 wordsMr. Nelson. M.H.R., who arrived on the train at Darwin with Mr. Holloway, M.H.R., on Saturday, said that after leaving Daly Waters in avoiding ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Mon 23 Apr 1934, Page 7
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