MELBOURNE, Feb. 17.—Amazing evidence was given in the Criminal Court to-day, when the trial of Arnold Sodeman (35) ...
Article : 1,235 wordsBRISBANE, Feb. 17.—The Minister for Agriculture and Stock (Mr. F. W. Bulcock) was struck on the head by a bough which fell from a ...
Article : 119 wordsBRISBANE, Feb. 17.—A five-day week for certain employees, time and a quarter for nightshift work, limitation of overtime, increased ...
Article : 544 wordsLONDON, Feb. 16.—The Admiralty admits that sabotage occurred on the cruiser Cumberland at Chatham, believedly affecting the electrical ...
Article : 33 wordsLONDON, Feb. 17.—For Rumania the first essential is union with Franco-Britain, also participating in making the League still effective for ...
Article : 225 wordsSIGNIFICANCE is attached to the issue of a war bulletin to-day, because it is rare to make such announcements on Sunday. It says, Our troops on the Eritrean front who began an offensive on the eleventh, ...
Article : 1,147 wordsLONDON, Feb. 16.—For the first time in history, New British stamps, which will be issued at the end of 1939 will show a half-length portrait of the ...
Article : 67 wordsLISBON, Feb. 10.—The worst storm within living memory flooded the stalls of the Apollo Theatre to a depth of 4½ft. Firemen rescued the occupants. ...
Article : 47 wordsSYDNEY, Feb. 15.—Fishing five miles southeast of Montague Island early on Saturday afternoon, Zane Grey caught a swordfish which proved a ...
Article : 85 wordsPARTS, Feb. 16.—'Le Matin' confirms the pending British short-term credit for France, arid says that the sum of £40,000,000 is involved. The ...
Article : 44 wordsBERNE, Feb. 16.—At Davos, the Executive Council has formally intimated its desire of the removal of the headquarters of the Nazi party in ...
Article : 43 wordsLONDON, Feb. 16.—The 'Daily Telegraph's' Berlin correspondent disclosed that Count von Galen, Catholic Archbishop of Muenster, last Sunday ...
Article : 113 wordsBRISBANE, Feb 17.—The Deputy-Director of Posts and Telegraphs (Mr. A. Corbett) was advised from Singapore to-day that the south-bound ...
Article : 52 wordsMUNICH, Feb. 16.—The population ovationed Cardinal Faulhaber on the celebration of the silver jubilee of his consecration as Bishop. Bells rang ...
Article : 43 wordsDetails of the battle have not yet been received from Addis Ababa, but reports from there are to the effect that the Italians are digging themselves in ...
Article : 72 wordsTOKIO, Feb. 16.—Japan has declined to agree to a Border Commission as long as the Soviet insists on a third country being represented on ...
Article : 32 wordsBRISBANE, Feb. 17.—The Home Secretary has asked the acting-Under-Secretary for Health (Mr. Chuter) to report on the prospects of ...
Article : 63 wordsOnlookers from the heights say the battle resembled a game of chess. An unexpected gambit was when the Sila division of Italian regulars crossed ...
Article : 96 wordsCaptain N. C. Roshruge, who has been appointed Deputy-Director of Navigation and Lighthouses for New South Wales. For 15 years he has ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 35 wordsMr R. W. Gropler, the South Australian airman, who arrived in Adelaide recently, after a fix weeks flight from London. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 21 wordsMany Australian friends and officers of the Australian Imperial Forces, who enjoyed the hospitality of the Dowager Countess of Darnley at her lovely home ...
Article : 412 wordsLONDON, Feb. 17.—The 'Daily Mail's' Asmara correspondent says: With the fall of Aradam, the Abyssinians must abandon their previous plan of defence ...
Article : 209 wordsWASHINGTON, Feb. 15.—Sinclair Lewis, the Noble prize-winner, declared to-day that the production of the motion picture of ...
Article : 136 wordsJOHANNESBURG, Feb. 16.—T. A. Ward, the South African wicketkeeper, who played in the triangular tournament in 1912 was electrocuted at West ...
Article : 32 wordsGENEVA, Feb. 16.—After 15 years in temporary premises, the League on February 17 will move to the New Palace where an additional ...
Article : 66 wordsDETROIT, Feb. 16.—Roy Chapin (56) resident of Hudson Motor Co., and for a time ex-President Hoover's Secretary of Commerce, died to-day from ...
Article : 32 wordsDIEPPE, Feb. 16.—Royalists and Reds came into collision in the market place over the Royalists selling the newspaper 'Action Francisco.' Stands ...
Article : 40 wordsThe 'Daily Mail's' Addis Ababa correspondent states that headquarters declare that in consequence of the Emperor's secret aerial visit to Sidamo the ...
Article : 107 wordsBRISBANE, Feb. 17.—Rev. Harry Thomas, the new principal of St. Francis's theological college, Nundah, Brisbane, arrived from England ...
Article : 69 wordsHOBART, Feb. 17.—Jack Anderson, also known as Patrick Brady, was sentenced to imprisonment for three years by Mr. Justice Clark in the ...
Article : 222 wordsBRISBANE, Feb. 17.—The Minister for Education (Mr F. A. Cooper) sees little hope of following Britain's example by raising the school age. The ...
Article : 61 wordsROME, Feb. 16.- Marshal Badoglio is reported to have achieved a big victory south of Makale, where the Abysinians ...
Article : 110 wordsOn the stealing charged at Atherton in April, 1935, to which he pleaded guilty, the Crown Prosecutor (Mr. Quinn) said the prisoner was a single ...
Article : 99 wordsAs the result of an operation by doctors at Sydney Hospital, an 8-year-old Gundagai boy walked for the first time a few days ago. Up till then the ...
Article : 88 wordsLONDON, Feb. 17.—The 'Times' Tokio correspondent describes kite flying which may herald a change in Russo-Japanese relations. A proposal is being revived for a pact of non-aggression which Russia mooted in 1931 but ...
Article : 177 wordsPARIS, Feb. 16.—Fifty thousand police maintained order during the passage of an hour-long procession of 100,000 members of the Front Populaire including thousands of women and children as a protest against the Royalist ...
Article : 168 wordsLONDON, Feb. 16.—The two missionaries, the Canadian John Trewin, and Harold Street, an American, who were arrested in Abyssinia, having ...
Article : 46 wordsBRISBANE, Feb. 17.—Mr. E. M. Hanlon announced to-day that he had submitted the report of Mr. G. Cameron, who recently sat on the Royal ...
Article : 72 wordsLONDON, Feb. 16.—The Catholic Bishop of Southwark (Rt. Rev. Dr. Amigo) addressing the conjugation in St. George's Cathedral said: "I believe ...
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Daily Mercury (Mackay, Qld. : 1906 - 1954), Tue 18 Feb 1936, Page 7
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