SHANGHAI, Dec. 27.—Mamoi, a naval base on the Fukien coast with the same strategic relation to Foochow (capital of the rebel province of Fukien) as Woosung ...
Article : 167 wordsPARIS, Dec. 27.—The driver and fireman of the Strasbourg express, who were arrested after their train crashed into the rear of a Nancy express in a fog at ...
Article : 271 wordsMELBOURNE, Dec. 27.—The new Victorian Transport Regulation Act sets up a transport regulation board of three members, the chairman to be appointed by the ...
Article : 372 wordsNEW YORK, Dec. 26.—Following a clear, temperate Christmas, half the country was buried in snow drifts today. The eastern section was struck by a ...
Article : 136 wordsMELBOURNE, Dec. 27.—Owing to magnificent bowling by W. J. O'Reilly, a remarkable change came over the Sheffield Shield match between New South Wales ...
Article : 1,126 wordsADELAIDE, Dec. 27.—Further reports of yesterday's storm in the mid-north show that to the north-east of Caltowie, where rain was registered from three to six ...
Article : 227 wordsOne man was killed and three others were injured when a motor car in which they were travelling collided with a light motor van and then crashed side-on into an ...
Article : 1,002 wordsMONTEVIDEO, Dec. 26.—The seventh Pan-American Conference closed today. At the final session, the important action was taken of formally turning over to ...
Article : 151 wordsThe Government's failure last week to get legislation through Parliament either amending the Financial Emergency Act or providing for its continuance has led to a ...
Article : 1,238 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 26.—The Senate committee which inquired into the technical default of the Central Republic Bank Trust Company of Chicago on the ...
Article : 223 wordsLONDON, Dec. 26.—The Berlin correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" states that the German Press is in a quandary in commenting upon the verdict in the ...
Article : 339 wordsMELBOURNE, Dec. 27.—It is estimated that the flood waters from the Moonee Ponds Creek caused damage amounting to £30,000 this week. The creek overflowed ...
Article : 107 wordsLONDON, Dec. 26.—Now that the Christmas vacation for the newspapers is ending, special correspondents' accounts are vividly amplifying the reports of the ...
Article : 1,109 wordsAfter striking another car at the intersection of Charles-street and North Beach-road last night the motor car shown in the photograph collided with a telegraph pole (in background) and was badly damaged. One man was killed and three men were injured. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 86 wordsBERLIN, Dec. 27.—The Dutch Government has appealed for commutation of the death sentence passed on van der Lubbe. The result of the appeal is problematical, ...
Article : 52 wordsFurther inquiries made yesterday concerning the stabbing affray at Fremantle on Tuesday night disclosed that the point of the weapon with which William Sporl ...
Article : 245 wordsLONDON, Dec. 26.—Exchequer returns from April 1 to December 23 of this year show that revenue increased by £11,722,000 compared with the corresponding period ...
Article : 93 wordsFurther inquiries were made by the police yesterday into the circumstances surrounding the death of Charles Oscar Marsh (35), who received a fatal bullet ...
Article : 293 wordsROME, Dec. 26.—While celebrating mass at a small town near Perugia, during the Christmas season, a parish priest, Don Stanislao Boni, drank a mouthful of wine ...
Article : 82 wordsMELBOURNE, Dec. 27.—A report was received by the police today that Miss Mollie Munt (21), who has been missing from her home in Hellier-street, ...
Article : 206 wordsLONDON, Dec. 26.—While the staffs of half the aerodromes in Europe were keeping a sharp watch yesterday for the Indian airman. Mr. Mohan Singh, who was ...
Article : 94 wordsTALLINN (Esthonia), Dec. 26.—A rumrunner carrying 150,000 gallons of liquor ignored an order by an Esthonian Customs guardship to stop, whereupon the latter ...
Article : 77 wordsA young motor cyclist was killed and his pillion passenger was seriously injured in a spill on the Mandurah-road, about 18 miles from Fremantle, on Tuesday ...
Article : 165 wordsNEW YORK, Dec. 26.—In the interests of humaneness the State penitentiary at Canon City. Colorado, has instituted a lethal gas chamber to supplant hanging as ...
Article : 97 wordsLONDON, Dec. 26.—The plane Faithful City, which reached Wyndham, Western Australia, on October 27, and left Derby on the return journey to England on ...
Article : 138 wordsCALCUTTA, Dec. 27.—At Pyawbwe (Burma) on Christmas day a gang of robbers broke into the house of Mr. Bentinick, a European railway official, aged 50. Mrs. ...
Article : 86 wordsSYDNEY, Dec. 27.—Leonard Wells (18), son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Wells, of Warialda, was drowned in the Gwydir River near Gravesend yesterday afternoon. He ...
Article : 96 wordsBERLIN, Dec. 26.—The German Church agreed to a Christmas truce and no reference was made in the pulpits to the recent disputes with the Nazi ecclesiastical ...
Article : 106 wordsMELBOURNE, Dec. 27.—The Victorian team to meet South Australia on Friday at Melbourne will be the same as that which played against New South Wales, ...
Article : 42 wordsSYDNEY, Dec. 27.—It was announced today that the State selectors had chosen the following team to play Queensland in the Sheffield Shield match commencing at ...
Article : 106 wordsSYDNEY, Dec. 27.—In their investigation into the finding of the body of an unknown man in the Murrumbidgee River near Wagga, the police are faced with a ...
Article : 219 wordsLONDON, Dec. 26.—The Commonwealth and Dominion Line has placed an order with Browns, of the Clydebank, for an 8,800-ton twin-screw motorship for the ...
Article : 79 wordsSYDNEY, Dec. 27.—Two youths, each aged 18 years, had remarkable escapes from drowning shortly after 8 a.m. today, when their canoe capsized in a rough sea ...
Article : 108 wordsStepping from the right-hand side of a Perth-bound taxi car, on the Perth-Fremantle-road, in front of the Cottesloe State school, at 11 o'clock last night, Miss ...
Article : 229 wordsMELBOURNE, Dec. 27.—Harold Green (11), of Collingwood, slipped from a path at the edge of the river Yarra at Studley Park, fell into deep water, and was ...
Article : 96 wordsADELAIDE, Dec. 27.—While target shooting near Hindmarsh Island yesterday Alan Potter, of Norwood, was accidentally shot in the back of the head by a ...
Article : 89 wordsTHE HAGUE, Dec. 26.—The police have arrested a telephonist, believed to be a syndicalist, on suspicion of having set fire to the Amsterdam telephone exchange. ...
Article : 59 wordsMELBOURNE, Dec. 27.—Many tobacco crops have been ruined by mould and root rot in north-eastern Victoria. Despite the recent heavy rains it was hoped that at ...
Article : 103 wordsSYDNEY, Dec. 27.—Ten persons suffered from ptomaine poisoning at the Yarra Bay unemployed camp today after eating a meal consisting of ham and ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Thu 28 Dec 1933, Page 7
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