TOWNSVILLE, Feb. 20.--Railway traffic to the west still is interrupted. Two waggons at the rear of a train which left Townsville on Saturday ...
Article : 107 wordsLONDON, Feb. 19.--A despatch from General Sir Robert Cassels, commander-in-chief in India, published in the London 'Gazette,' describes ...
Article : 335 wordsTRAGEDY overtook the township of Kopuawhara, 35 miles north of Wairoa, early on Saturday when flood waters raging down a gorge swept away a public works camp. At least 21 persons are believed to have been drowned. ...
Article : 1,045 wordsA meeting of the Proserpine branch of the Northern Country party was held at Proserpine on Friday night, and, despite the adverse weather ...
Article : 258 wordsLONDON, Feb. 19.--To-day's special meeting of the Cabinet--the first Saturday meeting for over a year--has aroused a good deal of interest in the ...
Article : 308 wordsLONDON, Feb. 20.--To-day Herr Hitler delivered the speech which had kept Europe on edge over the week-end. So much interest was attached to the utterance that the eyes and ears of the world were centred on Berlin. Throughout ...
Article : 540 wordsBRISBANE, Feb. 20.--More rain fell in the west, and Mt. Isa is wondering when it is going to have its next train-load of provisions, for although ...
Article : 228 wordsLONDON, Feb. 18.--Replying to questions in the House of Commons to-day the Foreign Secretary (Mr. R. A. Eden) stated that the Government ...
Article : 71 wordsMrs. G. B. Snowdon, organiser of the Northern Country party, arrived in Mackay on Saturday and has undertaken the organising of the Mirani ...
Article : 153 wordsVIENNA, Feb. 19.--Huge Nazi demonstrations in Graz, the capital of Styria. a Nazi stronghold, began with 1000 youths in a torchlight procession ...
Article : 368 wordsMOSCOW, Feb. 19.--The Soviet scientists were rescued and taken aboard icebreakers. Thousands of overjoyed people thronged the ...
Article : 208 wordsDowning-street had not known such an air of tension since Edward's abdication but at the moment only the fewest facts are known. It can be ...
Article : 252 wordsADELAIDE, Feb. 19.--Rain which may change the history of the north pastoral country has fallen over thousands of square miles in the far north ...
Article : 254 wordsAt a meeting of railwaymen in Mackay yesterday afternoon the following resolution was carried:-- "That this Mackay sub-branch, ...
Article : 249 wordsLONDON, Feb. 19.--Dr. Schuschnigg is expected to resign shortly after his speech in Parliament on Thursday. It is reported that Hitler plans, in ...
Article : 81 wordsLONDON, Feb. 19.--The 'Times,' this morning, devoted its principal loader to what it called a great feat in Arctic exploration, and after recounting the ...
Article : 106 wordsSYDNEY, Feb. 29.--Sisters of the order of St. Joseph who were at prayers in their chapel on Saturday night had to leave hurriedly ...
Article : 267 wordsMELBOURNE, Feb. 20.--A series of domestic quarrels culminated in a double tragedy at the premises of the State Savings Bank, ...
Article : 219 wordsLONDON, Feb. 19.--Mr. de tween Ministers of the United for a resumption of conversations between Minister of the United ...
Article : 314 wordsPERTH, Feb. 19.--For over two hours the trans-continental train reaching Perth to-day was subjected to a terrific battering by a storm on the ...
Article : 303 wordsHANKOW, Feb. 20.--Attempting to check the Japanese advance, the Chinese blew up the three-mile long bridge on the ...
Article : 112 wordsADELAIDE, Feb. 29.--An appeal to the people of South Australia to receive the Italian warship in a spirit of friendship was made by ...
Article : 111 wordsBRISBANE, Feb. 20.--"The railways of Queensland still have a big function to perform in the development of this State," said the retiring Commissioner ...
Article : 232 wordsTOWNSVILLE, Feb. 29.--The sodden nature of Townsville aerodrome resulted in the bogging, on Sunday, of the big Douglas air ...
Article : 134 wordsSYDNEY, Feb. 19.--Mr. W. M. Hughes said to-night that he would interview the acting Consul-General for Italy (Dr. Arringht) in Melbourne ...
Article : 86 wordsSHANGHAI, Feb. 20.--Japan, apparently convinced that Russia does not intend to intervene, has begun secretly transferring 60,000 of 300,000 ...
Article : 83 wordsLONDON, Feb. 19.--The 'Sunday Times' naval correspondent describes Japan's smaller battleships as "pocket battle cruisers" of 15,000 ...
Article : 198 wordsSYDNEY, Feb. 19.--The mysterious malady known as "pink disease," which has baffled doctors in all parts of the world since it was discovered in 1915 ...
Article : 207 wordsCHRISTCHURCH, Feb. 20.--A mountaineering tragedy occurred at Rudolph Glacier on February 10, the victim being patrick ...
Article : 119 wordsLONDON, Feb. 19.--There is still an undertone of optimism in the butter market, but spot movements are puzzling. New Zealand advanced to ...
Article : 109 wordsTOKIO, Feb. 20.--"Japan will not tolerate Fascists," declared Mr. Suetsugo in the Diet, referring to anti-Comintern defence ...
Article : 63 wordsBRISBANE, Feb. 20.--Golden Casket 520 was drawn on Saturday. First prize went to ticket No. 52687, E. H. Jenner, s. Paterson, A. Goleby, J. ...
Article : 141 wordsNEW 'YORK, Feb. 18.--Fumes from a gas well in the oilfields village of Rodessa (Louisiana), which was wrecked by a tornado, ...
Article : 96 wordsNEW YORK, Feb. 18.--A group of Latin-American countries is proposing to the United States an inter-American military and naval alliance in the ...
Article : 83 wordsBRISBANE, Feb. 20.--The executive committee of the Protestant Labor party has announced the following candidates to contest seats in the ...
Article : 70 wordsMELBOURNE, Feb. 20.--Three firemen were treated for burns to the face and hands received when barrels of tar exploded during a fire in a ...
Article : 59 wordsSYDNEY, Feb. 19.--Within the next few weeks Sydney will have installed at key points in, the city and suburbs the long-awaited stamp machines, ...
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Daily Mercury (Mackay, Qld. : 1906 - 1954), Mon 21 Feb 1938, Page 7
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