INITIATING a debate on defence in the House of Commons today the recently-appointed Minister for Co-ordination of Defence (Sir Thomas Inskip) gave a review of his department's efforts to accelerate the programme of rearmament. ...
Article : 164 wordsAfter a Cabinet meeting today Federal Ministers were more hopeful that the difficulties created by the Privy Council decision in the James case could ...
Article : 710 wordsCALLED upon to substitute for Quist, whose injury, did not permit him to take any further part in the Davis Cup tie with Germany, McGrath today defeated Henkel in the first of the two remaining singles matches. His victory made Australia ...
Article : 157 wordsThe King, with the object of ensuring co-operation in the drawing up of plans for his Coronation on May 12 next year, has appointed, a special Coronation ...
Article : 373 wordsBEHIND the obscurity induced by censorship, contradictory reports and the difficulty of transmitting news, the fact emerges that Spain is by no means free of the grip of civil war. Despite the activities of the civil population, which is ...
Article : 217 wordsSCORES McGrath (Australia) d. Henkel (Germany), 6—3, 5—7, 6—4. 6—4. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 19 wordsSir Thomas Inskip said that the former gun factory in Nottingham was being refitted for the manufacture of anti-aircraft equipment. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 606 wordsThe Government assertion that the navy is entirely loyal is discounted by the rebels having crossed to Spain from Morocco aboard a destroyer given to ...
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Article : 1,221 wordsAn indication of the intentions of the Government regarding the contemplated amendments of the Debt Adjustment Act was given by the ...
Article : 742 wordsMr. H. B. Lees-Smith (Labour) and Sir Archibald Sinclair (Liberal) complained that Sir Thomas Inslcip's speech showed lack of co-ordination between ...
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Article : 165 wordsMr. Churchill concluded by referring to the wartime secret session of Parliament, and suggested that one should be held now. If that were impossible, ...
Article : 500 wordsOutspoken criticism of the Federal Government for its treatment of aborigines was contained in the report of the Association for the protection of Native ...
Article : 123 wordsGaumont-British Films Corporation agreed to-day, on representations from Mr. Alfred Kersteln, McMahon's solicitor, to withdraw the words: "Attempt ...
Article : 84 wordsProspects of an early settlement of the trouble that has arisen in Palestine between the Arabs and Jews appear to be no brighter. ...
Article : 135 wordsThe winner of the 1936 competition for the annual S. H. Prior Memorial Prize Award for Australian literature is the novel "All That Swagger," by ...
Article : 63 wordsThe export of fruit this year has exceeded one million cases for the first time on record in West Australia. For the year ended June 30 the total was ...
Article : 68 wordsJack Keen (35), miner, received shocking injuries to-day as the result of an explosion in a mine at Grasstree, 25 miles from Mackay, and he died in ...
Article : 141 wordsThe Foreign Secretary (Mr. Eden), in the House of Commons today answered a question relating to criticism of the Conduct of the recent ...
Article : 87 wordsAs the P. and O. liner Barrabool is to be withdrawn from service and sold for breaking up, Major Long, who is spending his retirement in travelling between ...
Article : 71 wordsA clever forger, relying upon general ignorance of the New Zealand currency system, has succeeded in passing three fotged New Zealand Reserve Bank ...
Article : 59 wordsProbate granted in Victoria of the will of the late Sidney Baevski Myer, of Toorak, was revealed in South Australia today. The South Australian ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 22 Jul 1936, Page 7
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