According to the diplomatic correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph," General Franco is reported to have made it known in London that he desires to come to terms with the island of Minorca at the ...
Article : 230 wordsCitizens of Barcelona, through the terrifying experience of constant air raids, bring their belongings into the streets, preferring the open air to the doubtful safety of their houses, when the sound of Anti-Government bombers drones in the sky overhead. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 46 wordsA communique from Salamanca states that the Franco forces, in a final effort to overwhelm Catalonia, have captured 40 villages and advanced eighteen miles. ...
Article : 506 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.--The permanent way, two miles north of Ourimbah, near Gosford, was torn up for 75 yards when an engine, tender and four ...
Article : 144 wordsA denial that an increase of 0½d. a quart in the price of milk was to be forced on the public, in spite of the maiprity decision of retail dairymen, was ...
Article : 204 wordsAlthough nothing has yet been settled it is understood that a more modern ship-will be substituted for the Narkunda for the Duke of Kent's voyage to ...
Article : 91 wordsHOBART, Wednesday.--Commander Lincoln Ellsworth, in a broadcast address this evening, explained the difficulties he encountered in his exploratory ...
Article : 214 wordsObviously referring to the Italian press, M. Bonnet, French Foreign Secretary, in an address in the French Senate. declared that attempts had been ...
Article : 338 wordsOrnate language was a feature of the responses made on behalf of Arab delegates to the London conference on Palestine after they had been welcomed by ...
Article : 318 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.--The body of Eric Carlson, 50 years, a Swedish fire man on the inter-State freighter Caledon, was found at the rear of the ...
Article : 373 wordsWhen he attempted to go to the aid of a companion who had been washed off a sandbank, between Brighton Beach pier and the breakwater, by a choppy ...
Article : 222 wordsAll attempts to draw the Minister of Defence (Mr. Pirow) in Parliament regarding his visits to Berlin and Rome were ineffective, but he undertook to ...
Article : 137 wordsMembers of the Road Transport Union are concerned at a suggestion made by the president of the Southern and Eastern Dairymen's Association (Mr. T. ...
Article : 178 wordsDespite Mr. M. MacDonald's two long conferences with representatives of the Arab delegation and the National Palestine Defence party, the second of which ...
Article : 270 wordsThe London "Star" reports that Scotland Yard men who are investigating the bombing outrages in various parts of England, made a raid before dawn on ...
Article : 70 wordsAnswering a question at the Press conference as to whether the manufacture of American anti-aircraft equipment had been speeded up by the sale ...
Article : 121 wordsTen miners were killed and ten were seriously injured when an avalanche buried the village of Sugino. Eighty miners were rescued from the ...
Article : 40 wordsPERTH, Wednesday.--Captain S. J. Hill, who fought with the R.A.L. artillery during the war, and who is travelling to New Zealand, arrived in the ...
Article : 101 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday.--Dr. James O'Neill Mayne, who died on January 31. left his entire estate to the medical school of Queensland University. The ...
Article : 253 wordsThirteen trunk telephone lines in the north-east of Victoria were put out of order yesterday when underground cables at Wangaratta were affected by lightning ...
Article : 80 wordsThe President of the Board of Trade stated in the House of Commons that informal conversations had been taking place between officials of the ...
Article : 180 wordsThe National Assembly, by 88 votes to 22, rejected the Nationalist proposal that Die Stem van Suid Afrika (The Voice of Africa) should forthwith be ...
Article : 93 wordsAn announcement by the President of the Eire Executive Council (Mr. de Valera) in the Senate to-night of the introduction of measures "to provide the ...
Article : 454 wordsAccording to the "Times" correspondent in Tokio, Japan is not likely to welcome proposals for expanding the anti-Comintern Pact with Germany and ...
Article : 170 wordsIt is understood that the Soviet has suggested a security pact with Roumanla, Turkey, Bulgaria and Greece, to preserve the status of the Black Sea ...
Article : 36 wordsDetectives investigating the murder of Leslie. McAllister, 38 years, of Monbulk, butcher, at Wantirna, early on the morning of January 13, are anxious to get ...
Article : 193 wordsBELFAST.--Four arrested after discovery of I.R.A. posters, "We, Citizens of irish Republic, demand release of Republicans from Uister ...
Article : 34 wordsAn Australian-born journalist, Mr. H. J. Timperley, and several British and American writers and journalists are included in a "death list" circulated by ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Royal Dutch Air Line has ordered six 40-seater air liners from the Douglas Aircraft Company, for use on the Croydon-Australia route. The first ...
Article : 96 wordsThe English aviator, Mr. A. Henshaw, has left on his return flight to England. He must reach home by 8,36 p.m. on Friday if he is to break the ...
Article : 68 wordsPERTH, Wednesday.--Mr. W. A. Bartlett, the general, manager, of Dunlop Perdriau Rubber Co. in Australia, is returning to Melbourne on the Goonawarra. ...
Article : 100 wordsItaly and Russia have signed a treaty renewing their commercial relations, which have been at a standstill since 1936. It Is hoped that Italy's trade ...
Article : 40 wordsA policeman standing on guard outside Battersea power stationi, one of the many places where guards were placed following the series of explosions which took place throughout England recently. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 35 wordsPerturbed at the turn of events in Europe, Dutch authorities have strengthened their defences in the East Indies. Lined up here at the aerodome at Bandoeng, Java, are thirty-nine recently arrived Glen Martin planes. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 40 wordsThe match between M.C.C. and Rhodesia ended in a draw. M.C.C. declared its first innings closed with five wickets down for 307, and Rhodesia in its first ...
Article : 39 wordsFifteen persons have been drowned and thousands rendered homeless in Natal and the Transvaal by heavy floods. ...
Article : 49 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.--Leaving Darwin at 4.48 a.m. to-day, the Dutch K.N.I.L.M. Lockheed air liner, piloted by Captain van Bremen, reached Sydney ...
Article : 121 wordsLatest reports are that the health of the Pope, who is suffering from cardiac asthma, has improved. He has been permitted to leave his bed, and he ...
Article : 79 wordsTwo sea planes and three land planes will maintain France's Bordeaux to New York trans-Atlantic service, which will start in May. The machines will carry ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Thu 9 Feb 1939, Page 11
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