LONDON, Aug. 17.—Amplifying the draft of the report published in June, the report of the Mandates Commission concerning the administration of the Samoan ...
Article : 264 wordsAlthough it became known on Saturday that the landing ground at the Maylands aerodrome was too boggy to allow the Southern Cross to take off, several ...
Article : 190 wordsLONDON, Aug. 18.—Discussing the wheat position the "Corn Trade News" says:— "The weakness of the international ...
Article : 259 wordsLONDON, Aug. 18.—The British Government has placed upon the agenda for the forthcoming Council meeting of the League of Nations a proposal for the ...
Article : 309 wordsSHANGHAI, Aug. 18.—An economic war against Japan is advocated and is likely to eventuate in Manchuria, for the purpose of weakening Japan's position there. ...
Article : 179 wordsLONDON, Aug. 17.—An official communique relating to the air "war" over London states:—"The manoeuvres comprised 57 daylight raids, nine of which ...
Article : 196 wordsPORT AU PRINCE (Haiti), Aug. 18.—It is estimated that 200 persons are dead and 10,000 homeless and that many villages have been wined out as the result of a ...
Article : 101 wordsPARIS, Aug. 17.—It has been announced from Berlin that the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Dr. Stresemann) has definitely accepted an invitation to sign the ...
Article : 255 wordsNEW YORK, Aug. 18.—The Memphis (Tennessee) police have discovered a bootlegging headquarters on an greater scale than anything hitherto known in America. ...
Article : 96 words"We have been received everywhere in a remarkable manner, and what I told Charlie Ulm about the hospitality of West Australians has been more than justified. ...
Article : 448 wordsLONDON, Aug. 17.—A Fairey "Fox" aeroplane caught fire when landing at Andover after the manoeuvres last night. The machine was destroyed, but the ...
Article : 32 wordsAt the National communications conference held at Nanking yesterday, it was resolved that the contracts with the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company, ...
Article : 79 wordsMOSCOW, Aug. 18.—It is announced that 43 bodies have been recovered from the British submarine L55, which was sunk in Capor Bay on June 4, 1919, during ...
Article : 131 wordsLONDON, Aug. 18.—Dean Inge, replying to Australian protests in the "Evening Standard" concerning his article dealing with migration to Australia which was ...
Article : 146 wordsLONDON, Aug. 17.—Capt. Hubert Broad has beaten the world's endurance record for light aeroplanes. He went up last evening and landed at Stag Lane ...
Article : 158 wordsDUBLIN, Aug. 18.—The Tailteann games were continued to-day. Watson's display in the final of the 100 metres hurdles, despite the fact that he had not ...
Article : 882 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 10.—Enthusiastic scenes were witnessed at Darling Harbour on Saturday morning, when delegates to the Eucharistic Congress arrived in Sydney by ...
Article : 283 wordsHONOLULU, Aug. 18.—The ceremonies in commemoration of Captain Cook's first landing on the Hawaiian Islands were shifted to-day to Kealakekua Bay, where ...
Article : 171 wordsSHANGHAI, Aug. 18.—Nationalist China plans to build a modern navy aggregating 600,000 tons within ten years, as part of the programme of national ...
Article : 107 wordsLONDON, Aug. 18.—The Admiralty, through the Norwegian Government, has asked the Soviet Government to grant permission for a British warship to convey ...
Article : 61 wordsSHANGHAI, Aug. 18.—Further startling evidence of the desecration of the tombs of the Manchu royal families outside PeKing has been furnished by the ...
Article : 124 wordsLONDON, Aug. 17.—In the course of a letter to the "Evening standard" Senator McLachlan says:—"On the strength of a letter from on itinerant French journalist ...
Article : 100 wordsOTTAWA, Aug. 18.—A message from Cochrane (Ontario) states, that Messrs. Bert Hassell (pilot) and Parker (navigator), who are attempting a three-stop ...
Article : 78 wordsLONDON, Aug: 18.—The "Observer" reveals that a leather-covered sea chest studded with brass nails, which Captatin Cook used on his voyages to the Antipodes ...
Article : 72 wordsLONDON, Aug. 19.—A sister of Petty Officer Herbert Crook, who served in the L55, said that the Admiralty in 1919 merely notified that the submarine was overdue ...
Article : 76 wordsHONOLULU, Aug. 17.—The Government Section of the Women's Pacific Conference, in which the Australian and New Zealand delegates participated prominently, ...
Article : 248 wordsLONDON, Aug. 17.—Mr. L. H. Pike (secretary of the Queensland Agent-General's office), in representing the Agent-General. (Mr. John Huxham) at a ...
Article : 88 wordsLONDON, Aug. 18.—The Government publishes an intercepted letter from M. N. Roy, an Indian Communist, living in Berlin, to his agents in India. He states:— ...
Article : 97 wordsPerhaps there are no prouder boys now in this State than Eric and Ralph Peters, and no more ardent admirers of Squadron Leader Kingsford Smith. These two ...
Article : 158 wordsLONDON, Aug. 18.—When two Royal Air Force machines collided in the air near Gigby (Lincolnshire) yesterday the pilot of the first plane and the observer of ...
Article : 59 wordsSOUTHERN CROSS, Aug. 18.—According to those in authority at Forrestania in connection with the development of the 3,500 farms scheme, the organisation is ...
Article : 270 wordsADELAIDE, Aug. 19.—Vigorous opposition to the proposal to hold a Eucharistic procession through the streets of Sydney was voiced at a Protestant rally in the ...
Article : 175 wordsBRISBANE, Aug. 19.—The four British Supermarine Napier flying boats under command of Captain Cave-Brown-Cave left Brisbane River early yesterday morning in ...
Article : 71 words"It is easy to criticise migration schemes, but it is difficult to suggest better. I do not Know of anyone who has got bey the fringe of the subject," stated Mr. L. W. ...
Article : 210 wordsSHANGHAI, Aug. 18.—Wonderful discoveries are reported by Roy Chapman Andrews, leader of the Fourth American Mongolian expedition which returned to ...
Article : 171 wordsAbout four inches of water covered the landing ground at the Maylands aerodrome yesterday and on Saturday, conditions were little better. On Saturday one ...
Article : 541 wordsBRISBANE, Aug. 18.—Piloted by Flight Lieutenant Briggs, a Napier supermarine flying boat, carrying Air Marshal Sir John Salmond reached Brisbane this afternoon ...
Article : 117 wordsCANBERRA, Aug. 19.—The fact that the present restricted grant of the Federal Government would have to be applied to purely utilitarian research by the Radio ...
Article : 267 wordsHONOLULU, Aug. 18.—The sessions of the Women's Pacific Conference were concluded to-day after adopting a number of resolutions of a general nature in ...
Article : 128 wordsThe following new settlers are expected to arrive at Fremantle by the Orama to-morrow:—Nominated: Bevan, Mrs. Margt. G. and family; Court. Sydney: Cowton, Arthur F.: Creasey. ...
Article : 306 wordsLONDON, Aug. 18.—The North Western express between Cambridge and Kingscross collided to-day with a motor lorry loaded with cement at a level crossing at ...
Article : 60 wordsLONDON, Aug. 18.—In connection with the scheme under which 10,000 unemployed were to be assisted to go to Canada for harvest work, many of the men who had ...
Article : 148 wordsKELLERBERRIN, Aug. 17.—At a well attended public meeting here to-night, the Federal Treasurer (Dr. Page) outlined recent developments in aviation. ...
Article : 468 wordsTOKIO, Aug. 18.—Judicial investigations which were made during the week into a municipal bribery scandal have culminated in startling developments, evidence having ...
Article : 64 wordsLONDON, Aug. 17.—William Allen, secretary of the Lanarkshire Miners' Union, who was ejected from an executive meeting on July 18. Sought entrance to-day to ...
Article : 84 wordsCANBERRA, Aug. 18.—According to Mr. E. Schmitt, of the New Zealand Department of Industry and Commerce, who is making a week-end visit to Canberra, ...
Article : 113 wordsLONDON, Aug. 17.—Experiments will shortly be made by engineers of the British Broadcasting Corporation, in association with the engineers of the National ...
Article : 81 wordsLONDON, Aug. 18.—The "Sunday Dispatch" says:—"A steel octopus capable of catching a motor car in its web of wire chains and flexible tentacles is the lastest ...
Article : 103 wordsLONDON, Aug. 18.—The Washington correspondent of "The Times" says: "The silence of the Secretary of State (Mr. F. B. Kellogg) concerning the proposed ...
Article : 154 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 16.—More than 60 women formed a deputation to-day to the Chief Secretary (Mr. Bruntnell), and urged a vigorous campaign to keep a certain ...
Article : 152 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 18.—Although five shots were fired after him by a pursuing constable, a burglar, who was surprised in the clubhouse of the Randwick Bowling Club ...
Article : 182 wordsCANBERRA, Aug. 18.—The Commonwealth War Conversion Loan is to be definitely closed on Wednesday next. After the close of business on that day, the ...
Article : 127 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 19.—Within the past few dais a number of hares, the property of the Liverpool Coursing Club, have been Poisoned. The animals were being trained ...
Article : 107 wordsWINNIPEG, Aug. 18.—Once a Labour Government returned to power, it would do everything possible to place the control of the Empire cable services back in ...
Article : 56 wordsCONSTANTLNIOPLE, Aug. 17.—A memorial to the Turkish soldiers will be erected at Gallipoli on the sit of the bitterest fighting. A mission has been sent to ...
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