MELBOURNE, May 2.--Shortly after losing formation because of a dense fog, an Avro Anson bomber from Laverton crashed into Port ...
Article : 546 wordsCANBERRA, May 2.--Before the debate on unity, the Labor Conference to-day had reports on disputes in N.S. Wales by three Federal officials--the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 990 wordsDOLAND is showing a stiffened attitude to Germany and has demanded a Polish protectorate for Danzig. An isolated case of bomb-throwing also is reported from the free city. Otherwise, the general political situation in ...
Article : 217 wordsJOHANNESBURG, May 1.--The special correspondent of the 'Star' says: The reinforcement by the Union of the South-West African police ...
Article : 131 wordsLONDON, May 1.--In the House of Commons this afternoon the Prime Minister (Mr. Neville Chamberlain), introduced the Military Training Bill for conscription, and the Minister for War (Mr. L. Hore-Belisha) introduced the ...
Article : 364 wordsTOKIO, May 1.--The Chinese in attempting to recapture Nanchang retreated in the face of a fierce Japanese counter-attack, leaving 1500 ...
Article : 76 wordsLONDON, May 1.--The correspondent of the 'Telegraph' at Hongkong says: China's April offensive is dying down on all fronts, and there is a ...
Article : 202 wordsBERLIN, May 1.--Over 6000 workers on the western fortifications have offered two hours' pay towards the building of a machine-gun nest. ...
Article : 62 wordsLONDON, May 1.--Sir Kingsley Wood, the Air Minister, in a written House of Commons reply, said an agreement had been reached with his ...
Article : 147 wordsLONDON, May 1.--Cardinal MacRory, Archbishop of Armagh, and the Irish bishops, in a statement to the Nationalist Press, states[?]: "We are ...
Article : 115 wordsLONDON, May 1.--Regarding the progress or the negotiations with Soviet Russia, the Prime Minister said in the House of Commons to-day ...
Article : 159 wordsROME, May 1.--Talks with Signor Mussolini and the Roumanian Foreign Minister (M. Gafencu) opened at the Palazza Venezia. ...
Article : 115 wordsLONDON, May 1.--In Palestine for the last few days, the West Yorkshire Regiment has been conducting a careful search of B[?]t ...
Article : 139 wordsLONDON, May 1.--A total of 1051 Air Force recruits enlisted for the week ended April 29, compared with 329 last year. ...
Article : 28 wordsBRISBANE, May 2.--The Minister for Health (Mr. E. M. Han[?]on), speaking from Canberra to-night, denied there was any ill-treatment of natives ...
Article : 135 wordsLONDON, May 1.--The Minister for Health (Mr. Walter Elliot) has sent to all local authorities concerned a communication asking them to work ...
Article : 185 wordsCANBERRA, May 2.--On May 9 tho House of Representatives will be given an opportunity of a full-dress debate on international affairs. The debate, ...
Article : 170 wordsBERLIN, May 1.--The Prime Minister (Count Te[?]), speaking at a banquet, said that Hungary was determined to continue in the closest ...
Article : 60 wordsMen called up under the Military Training Bill will be enlisted as m[?]a men, according to the text issued tonight, which confirms the details ...
Article : 240 wordsLONDON, May 1.--The correspondent of the 'Daily Telegraph' at Bordeaux says: It is reported that thousands of criminal and political ...
Article : 77 wordsLONDON, May 1.--The question of the recognition of the new status of Albania was raised in the House of Commons to-day, and the Prime ...
Article : 142 wordsBRISBANE, May 2.--The home consumption price of sugar has been declared at £24 a ton 94 net titre, making an average price of £16191 based on proportions delivered for home consumption and the amount exported. The average ...
Article : 154 wordsMOSCOW, May 1.--After a most Impressive military parade followed by the march of a million civilian workers, the Minister for Defence (M. Voroshilov), who was greeted with ...
Article : 143 wordsCANBERRA, May 2,--Measures for urgent discussion by Parliament would be bills for the establishment of the National Register and for defining the ...
Article : 225 wordsSYDNEY, May 2.--Carrying a small newspaper parcel in which he said were all his worldly goods, a young refugee from Spain was givened ...
Article : 146 wordsCANBERRA, May 2.--Two proposals to achieve unity in the Labor movement, one emanating from the Federal officers of the A.L.P. and the ...
Article : 287 wordsLONDON, May 1.--Asked whether he would consider what steps could be taken to assist in settling outstanding questions between Roumania, ...
Article : 101 wordsAUCKLAND, May 2.--Addressing the grand jury in the Supreme Court to-day, Mr. Justice Fair dealt at more than usual length ...
Article : 218 wordsCANBERRA, May 2.--Savings bank deposits throughout Australia declined by £1,695.000 between December and March 31, dropping ...
Article : 113 wordsMr. John Joseph Keogh, who has died in Rockhampton after along and painful illness extending over four years, was formerly associated with ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 108 wordsBRISBANE, May 2.--The German Consul (Mr. [?]. H. White) to-day expressed surprise that the Nazi flag was hauled down from his consulate ...
Article : 122 wordsBRISBANE, May 2.--At the Coroner's inquiry into the death of Henry E, Beeching (23), ground engineer, who was killed when his plane crashed ...
Article : 94 wordsCANBERRA, May 2.--Queensland ranked second on the list of Australian States regarding expenditure on social services from consolidated and ...
Article : 94 wordsCANBERRA, May 2,--The new Assistant-Treasurer (Mr. Spender) favors re-establishment of the Federal Parliament Public Accounts ...
Article : 78 wordsSYDNEY, May 1.--A plan to organise Sydney taxi-drivers into a trained mobile unit which could play a vital part in a national, emergency ...
Article : 95 wordsMELBOURNE, May 2.--An oil fire in the engine-room of the Zealandic, an 8280-ton freighter, at Victoria dock this morning, resulted ...
Article : 124 wordsBRISBANE, May 2.--Among the passengers for Singapore by flyingboat to-day was Air Marshal Sir Arthur Longmore, R.A.F., who was a ...
Article : 109 wordsDURBAN, May 1.--When the Imperial Airways flying boat Challenger crashed at Mozambique with the loss of two lives, other occupants, ...
Article : 73 wordsLONDON, May 1.--Lord Elton succeeds Lord Lothian as secretary of the Rhodes Trust. (Lord Elton is 47 years of age. He ...
Article : 56 wordsHOBART, May 2.--Messrs. D. K. Cameron, J. A. Guy, and C. F. Parsons were officially endorsed to-night to contest the Wilmot by-election in ...
Article : 38 wordsLAUNCESTON, May 1.-- Marjorie Kidd (26), a Launceston school teacher, was killed and three other passengers were slightly injured when a sedan ...
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Daily Mercury (Mackay, Qld. : 1906 - 1954), Wed 3 May 1939, Page 7
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