A FEATURE of to-day's session of the League of Nations was the plain speaking of the French Prime Minister (M. Blum), who declared that France had not mobilised, because she remained loyal to the Locarno Treaty and the ...
Article : 202 wordsThe South African Minister for Railways, Harbours, and Defence (Mr. O. Pirow, K.C.), before leaving for home, made a statement for the press. He ...
Article : 243 wordsMr. W. M. Hughes, the Federal Minister for Health, said in an address to the Constitutional Club to-day, that the talk about peace in ...
Article : 424 wordsTHE report of the Royal Commission which inquired into the shooting of Superintendent Brophy, Chief of the Criminal Investigation Branch, at Royal Park on May 22, was presented to the Houses of Parliament to-day. The Royal ...
Article : 219 wordsThe Council of the League of Nations has decided to discuss the Danzig question owing to the gravity of the situation, and Mr. Eden has asked the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 324 wordsWith the object of preventing inconvenience to the wool trade and reducing administrative costs, the Federal Ministry, during the next session of the ...
Article : 648 wordsWhen the sittings of the League Assembly were resumed to-day the President, Dr. van Zeeland of Belgium, deplored the profoundly regrettable ...
Article : 497 wordsThirteen persons, including nine members of two families, are known to be dead, and it is believed that 20 others have ...
Article : 93 wordsIn his report, Judge Macindoe found that Superintendent Brophy, was shot in circumstances identical with those recounted by Brophy in his evidence ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 498 wordsA cyclist was almost decapitated and his injuries proved fatal within a few minutes when he was thrown through the window of a motor-car at Hurstville ...
Article : 110 wordsThe total value of the sales in the retail trade in Britain in May was 7.2 per cent. higher than in May, 1936, the rise being marked in ...
Article : 76 wordsTHE British Ambassador at Addis Ababa (Sir Sidney Barton) returned to London to-day. Interviewed by the "News-Chranicle," he declared that nobody knew the reat state of affairs in Abyssinia. ...
Article : 180 wordsThe Under-secretary for the Dominions (Lord Hartington), addressing the Retford Conservatives to-day, expressed ...
Article : 148 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day, replying to a question, the President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Runciman) said that, pending the results of ...
Article : 85 wordsThe Australian Minister for Commerce (Dr. Earle Page) visited Cambridge to-day. He inspected the lowtemperature research station and ...
Article : 91 wordsAt the Central Police Court, to-day, before Mr. Stephenson (Stipendiary Magistrate), Leonard Bell (48), a clerk, was charged with having, between ...
Article : 207 wordsTwo leading barristers in Melbourne, Mr. Wilbur Ham, K.C., and Mr. L. E. B. Stretton received threats of bombing outrages and personal violence while the recent police inquiry was in progress. Mr. Ham and Mr. Stretton ...
Article : 332 wordsThe accounts of the State Consolidated Revenue Fund for the year ended June 30 discloso a deficit of £1,680,000. The estimated deficit for the year was ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Commercial Bank of Australia Limited announced that at the general meeting of shareholders to be held on August 6, the directors will recommend, ...
Article : 144 wordsMr. te Water (South Africa) said his Government desired him to say that the League's renunciation of the collective decision could be interpreted only as a ...
Article : 345 wordsThe War Department announced to-day pians for the costruction of eight strategic air bases, including one near Fairbanks, Alaska, capable of handling ...
Article : 106 wordsPrince Michael, Heir-Apparent to the Throne of Rumania, is ill, having suffered a severe chill. The Prince was born on October 25, ...
Article : 94 wordsThe Australian Minister for Commerce (Dr. Barle Page) had afternoon tea at Cambridge to-day with Sir Charles Martin, under whom he studied ...
Article : 103 wordsLondon, July 1.—Captain J. W. Hartley, Commander of the P. and O. liner Strathaird, died to-day. ...
Article : 21 wordsSnow-covered top of Mount Wellington as it appeared this week when visited by members of the committee organising the opening of the Pinnacle Road. The area in the immediate foreground is that which it is proposed shall be made into a motor-car park. On the left may be seen the old Southern track. In the middle distance is a section of the City Council's watershed. The large area of comparatively flat country behind the Pinnacle would make an ideal Winter sports ground. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Fri 3 Jul 1936, Page 9
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