SYDNEY, Wednesday.--A triple tragedy was revealed to-day at Hilldale, near West Maitland, when Mrs. Edith Eyb, 29 years, and her eleven-months-old daughter, Heather Eyb, were found drowned in a dam, and Robert Mannell, 24 ...
Article : 500 wordsThe discovery in Copenhagen of a North Sea spy plot is causing a public stir. The Copenhagen correspondent of the ...
Article : 301 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain) and the Foreign Secretary (Lord Halifax) have left London for Paris for the conversations with the French Government. With a general strike imminent, and the Opposition to ...
Article : 893 wordsThe Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, who bears much of the responsibility for Palestine's troubles, photographed in exile. Right: A burnt-out synagogue, where a watchman lost his life after an Arab attack on the Jews at Tiberias, a predominantly Jewish town. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 48 wordsReports from the Chinese head quarters at Chungking state that the Chinese Foreign Ministry claims that the Chinese have made successful ...
Article : 156 wordsA 20 per cent. capital levy on Jewish property, payable in four instalments, has been announced in Berlin. By this means the line, of £83,000,000 will be ...
Article : 872 wordsAsserting there is no legal obstacle to an immediate declaration of a Republic, Mr. de Valera, Premier of Eire, in a speech, opposed rushing matters until the ...
Article : 82 wordsNegotiations for a new trade agreement with India have reached an advanced stage. The whole matter is at the moment under consideration of the ...
Article : 242 wordsWhile reports received by the Defence authorities continue to foreshadow an effective response to the Ministry's voluntary enlistment campaign for the militia, ...
Article : 377 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.--Steps are likely to be taken by the Federal Government to commence the preparation of a National Register of the man power ...
Article : 211 wordsA report from St. Lucia, British West Indies, states that a series of avalanches, which caused whole mountains to spilt up and pour a blanket of wet clay ...
Article : 80 wordsWASHINGTON, November 23. Mr. Keith Officer, Australian counsellor to the British Ambassador at Washington, who has completed an extensive ...
Article : 171 wordsFor taxation purposes the estate of the late John D. Rockefeller has been valued at 26,905,000 dol. (approximately (£A6,726,000). Nearly all is in stocks ...
Article : 95 wordsWAGGA, Wednesday.--Men working on the harvest in a paddock at Yerong Creek had an extraordinary experience when a whirlwind struck them when ...
Article : 179 wordsMr. Arthur O'Connor, representative of the Australian Travel Association, furnished details of the Australian exhibits at the Golden Gate Exposition, opening ...
Article : 137 wordsLONDON.--Price of gold reached.7 92, a new high record. ...
Article : 19 wordsM. Daladier sent an ultimatum to the Chamber of Deputies Finance Committee stating that if his financial programme was not approved without major ...
Article : 182 wordsReuters correspondent at Prague announces that the Czech political parties have agreed to nominate Dr. Hacha, a lawyer, for the Presidency of ...
Article : 116 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.--Recruits for the militia who pass the medical and other tests will be accepted almost immediately. The Minister of Defence (Mr. ...
Article : 240 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.--The tragic plight of wheat farmers was referred to in the Legislative Council to-day. Unless the Government came to their aid, one ...
Article : 122 wordsThe steamer la Martiniere has sailed for Devil's Island with 700 convicts, who embarked without incident. Recently it was reported that a fight ...
Article : 56 wordsAccording to the Budapest correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph," a political crisis has developed owing to 68 Deputies withdrawing support from the ...
Article : 109 wordsHerr Hitler, with his staff, inspecting the former Czech "Maginot Line'' which has fallen into the hands of the German army under the Munich agreement. The Czechs were permitted to remove guns and war materials, after which they set fire to the many pillbox fortifications, leaving the bare shells for the new army of occupation ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 63 wordsAs a sequel to the action of the billiard[?]st Brown in using a fountain pen with a billiard tip as a cue when he was "snookered" in a match against ...
Article : 70 wordsHOBART, Wednesday.--The Transport Bill providing for the co-ordination of all forms of transport under a commissioner found little support in the ...
Article : 94 wordsCANBERRA, Wednesday.--Advice has been rectived by the Prime Minister that Hoyts Theatres Ltd. has informed its staff that any members joining the ...
Article : 46 wordsThe 1940 Olympic Games will comprise 132 events, of which 33 will be athletics, 9 gymnastics, 16 swimming, 7 rowing, 4 sailing, 9 canoe racing, 14 ...
Article : 137 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph" understands that large-scale army manoeuvres will be held in 1940, amounting to a mobilisation test. ...
Article : 23 wordsOne of the two persons killed when a British Airways passenger plane crashed and caught fire on a rocky beach in Redcliffe Bay on Tuesday was Captain E. ...
Article : 66 wordsTwo members of the Zoological Board, Mr. Olney, m.L.[?]. (chairman), and Mr. Ambrose Pratt, and the chairman of the Forests Commission (Mr. Galbraith) will ...
Article : 157 wordsA 350-year-old "Saint," a descendant of the ancient Royal family of Egypt, has been discovered in the Himalayas with Christian savants, including ...
Article : 38 wordsFound by a party of armed police and warders in thick scrub about one mile from Beechworth yesterday Roy James. 35 years, who escaped on Monday night ...
Article : 67 wordsItaly and Germany have signed a cultural agreement. ...
Article : 14 wordsAt least three passengers were killed and 15 injured when a train plunged into the River Torre after a bridge had collapsed in the heavy floods. ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Thu 24 Nov 1938, Page 11
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