Arab gangsters beat to death Mrs. Hannah Lewis, 70 years, wife of Mr. Samuel Lewis, a wealthy New Zealander. The couple were attacked at their home ...
Article : 145 wordsEuropean passengers on a Macao-bound steamer from Hong Kong report that they sighted twenty Japanese vessels, comprising war ships, transports and aircraft carriers, "hoveto" fifteen miles from Macao. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 625 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.--There were treacherous seas and a swift undertow at most of the Sydney beaches to-day, and more than one hundred rescues were effected. ...
Article : 152 wordsGlorious sunshine called many thousands to the Bayside and ocean beaches yesterday afternoon. The dullness of the morning daunted a few less hardy souls, ...
Article : 356 wordsPleasant summer conditions provided an ideal setting for the Boxing day holiday yesterday. In the circumstances it was not surprising to find that, in addition to the volume of motor car traffic, 25,455 persons travelled by train to ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 298 wordsRising sluggishly on the light swell running yesterday, the wrecked steamer Saros, which went ashore near Cape Everard lighthouse shortly before ...
Article : 664 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.--Although the new speed limit of 30 miles an hour in built-up areas and 50 miles an hour in other parts of New South Wales came into ...
Article : 184 wordsIn connection with the purge of the diplomatic service. M. V. A. Mikanoy has been appointed Soviet Minister at Oslo in succession to M. I. S. Yakubovitch. ...
Article : 309 wordsRemarkable activity was witnessed at Essendon aerodrome during the Christmas holidays, and record passenger and mail figures have been reported by the ...
Article : 246 wordsARARAT, Monday.--Four persons were injured, two seriously, in a motoring accident on the Stawell-Ararat road about three miles from Ararat, in the ...
Article : 195 wordsADELAIDE, Monday.--Harold Arthur Schubert, 26 years, farm hand, of Walker's Flat, near Mannum, was drowned when attempting to cross the ...
Article : 138 wordsNearly 52,000 persons travelled by train yesterday to seaside and hill resorts and to the major sporting attractions. The principal figures were:--Shield cricket ...
Article : 42 wordsHOBART, Monday.--Dragged along by a bolting horse, Walter James Briggs, 52 years, farmer, of Raminea, Southern Tasmania, received fatal injuries when ...
Article : 78 wordsThe United States ambassador to Japan (Mr. Grew) has handed to the Foreign Minister (Mr. Hirota) America's acceptance of the Japanese assurances ...
Article : 148 wordsRemarkable escapes from serious injury were experienced yesterday by Mr. Alfred Davey, his wife and three young children, of Auburn-grove, Auburn, when ...
Article : 93 wordsMadame Violette Morris, the 44-year- old racing motorist and a former discus and weight-lifting champion, who used to wear men's clothing, was shot dead ...
Article : 71 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.--The Burwah, with the crew of 40 from the Saros, which went aground 200 yards from Cape Everard lighthouse on Saturday night, left ...
Article : 196 wordsCALCUTTA.--Mr. Edward Esmond's Fastnet. ridden by the English jockey. W. Rickaby, won the Viceroy's Cup by a length and a half. The winners price ...
Article : 105 wordsWAGGA, Monday.--John A. Fountain, chemist, of Gundagai, was fatally injured in one of the worst motor smashes in the southern districts during the ...
Article : 124 wordsSHEPFARTON Monday.--Knocked down by a motor truck in Skene-street to-night, Maxwell Trevor Lowe, 8 years, son of a railway employe, was killed ...
Article : 39 wordsVincent Franco, 26. years, killed his sweetheart, Antoinette Imperiale, 22 years, on a vacant allotment in full view of dozens of spectators. He struck her ...
Article : 93 wordsThe Groat Park at Windsor has been closed until further notice owing to an outbreak of foot and mouth disease near Staines. ...
Article : 30 wordsCASTLEMAINE, Monday.--Five people are in hospital here as the result of a car, driven by Mr. Reginald Bogie, leaving the Daylesford-Castlemaine road and ...
Article : 77 wordsCaught in a blinding snow storm, the aeroplane on the Bucharcst-Paris service crashed at Bergrelchstein in southern Czecho-Slovakia on Christmas eve, ...
Article : 40 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.--The statement that manufacturers in the United States had been upset by the falling, off in trade with Australia was made to-day by ...
Article : 91 wordsAt least eight lives were lost in a fire following Christmas celebrations at the Montredon lunatic asylum, near Lepuy, which accommodates 3000 patients. ...
Article : 96 wordsLate yesterday afternoon Joseph French, Parcroa-avenuc, East Brunswick, and Douglas Dods, Newberry-avenue, Bonbeach, left Bonbeach on a motor cycle ...
Article : 104 wordsWELLINGTON, Monday.--Completing the Tasman crossing In approximately nine hours, the Centaurus reached Auckland at 3.10 p.m., and ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 186 wordsBALLARAT, Monday.--Driving to Melbourne in a single-seater car about 6 o'clock to-night, Arthur Morris, 38, of Young-street, Frankston, and his wife, ...
Article : 101 wordsHOBART, Monday.--With a dry gum stick lying across his body indicating that it had been used to discharge a gun alongside, the remains of Sydney Neil ...
Article : 62 wordsBRISBANE, Monday.--All aeroplane and many residents of Townsville to-day joined in the search for the seven-year- old Doris Goldstiver, who has been ...
Article : 113 wordsShortly before midday yesterday the Collingwood police were summoned to a spot, near Collins-brldge, Abbotsford, where a youth named John Reynolds ...
Article : 89 wordsKYNETON, Monday.--A sensational experience befel a party returning from Melbourne to Bendigo late on Sunday night when the car in which they were ...
Article : 206 wordsSerious injuries were sustained by Miss Vivienne Worledge, 21 years, of Susan- street, Sandringham, when she fell from a horse she was riding at Cheltenham ...
Article : 59 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.--Alfred Spicer, 85 years, was remanded at Parramatta police court to-day until January 10 on a charge of having murdered Marcla ...
Article : 48 wordsAs he alighted from a motor bus on Hawthorn-bridge, Bridge-road, late yesterday afternoon, John Davis, 35 years, Harold-street, Hawthorn, fell, and was ...
Article : 39 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.--Mr. J. S. Hummell, an executive of Warner Bros. Films, arrived by the Mariposa to-day to commence a tour of Inspection of branch ...
Article : 70 wordsA collision between a motor bicycle and a horse and buggy in, Dandenong- road, Spring Vale, yesterday afternoon resulted in four people being taken to ...
Article : 77 wordsYesterday afternoon Margaret Thorn, 41 years, house maid, living in Flemington-road, climbed on a window ledge to hang some curtains, overbalanced and ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Tue 28 Dec 1937, Page 9
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