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  2. A FIERY TRIAL.

    LONDON, Sept. 17.—Walking along a 12-foot trench filled with white-hot charcoal, the result of 10 tons of logs having been burnt with the aid of 10 gallons of ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  3. BRITISH REARMAMENT.

    LONDON, Sept 17.—Plans for an increased armaments programme are reported to be in course of preparation by the Government and will be announced ...

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  4. DEFIANT PEASANTS.

    PARIS, Sept 17.—The Government is encountering serious trouble in the country districts. Peasants throughout the country complain that cattle. pigs and cereals ...

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  5. WHEAT DEARER.

    LONDON, Sept. 17.—Wheat at Liverpool made today the biggest rise in a single day for many years, the price jumping by 3¼d. a cental. October futures ...

    Article : 194 words
  6. CHINESE FINANCE

    LONDON, Sept. 17.—Sir Frederick Leith-Ross, Chief Economic Adviser to the British Government, who is visiting the Far East to study Chinese finance, ...

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  7. ABYSSINIA'S FATE.

    The efforts of the League Council to prevent aa Italian invasion of Abyssinia have reached a critical stare. The Council conciliation committee has completed its report containing draft proposals for a settlement of the dispute, and the ...

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  8. DEFINING INTERESTS.

    LONDON, Sept. 17.—Some surprise has been caused in London by statements emanating from Rome to the effect that the invitation addressed early this year to ...

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  9. EXCITEMENT IN SYDNEY.

    SYDNEY, Sept. 18.—Wheat values reached the highest levels for the year today, on receipt of oversea market advises, and considerable excitement ...

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  10. MILLIONS OFF DOLE.

    LONDON, Sept. 7.—How has the Nazi Government been able to reduce Germany's colossal unemployment figures, estimated at over 6,000,000 when Herr ...

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  11. AMBULANCE UNITS.

    CAFE TOWN, Sept 17.—Sheik Behardien, a representative of Abyssinia, is appealing for Red Cross funds, now that the prospects of a peaceful settlement ...

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  12. RED HAL RAILWAY.

    CANBERRA, Sept. 18.—The Commonwealth Government has decided to proceed with the extension of the standard gauge east-west trans-Australian railway ...

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  13. TRUCKS FOR TROOPS.

    Before coming to Fremantle to load wheat for the United Kingdom, the Danish motorship Christian Sass, now at No in North Wharf, called at ...

    Article : 146 words
  14. TROOPS IN LIBYA.

    LONDON, Sept. 18.—The Rome newspaper "Gazetta del Popolo" announces that 30,000 troops, comprising the Conslera and Assletta Divisions, left Naples ...

    Article : 72 words
  15. PERTH QUOTES UP.

    Local prices for export wheat rose a further Id. to l½d. a bushel yesterday, when merchants were offering from 3/1 5-8 to 3/l¾ for bagged wheat at ...

    Article : 105 words
  16. A CRITIC OF RUSSIA

    LONDON, Sept. 7.—"I have never before seen a nation so propaganda-crazed as Russia," said Mr J. M. Dunningham the New South Wales Minister for ...

    Article : 392 words
  17. SUPPORT OF LEAGUE.

    LONDON, Sept. 17.—While France is endeavouring to find a way out of her dilemma regarding the application and extent of possible sanctions in the event ...

    Article : 430 words
  18. CHANNEL GALES.

    LONDON, Sept. 17.—Four lives have been lost, two by drowning at sea and two by injury from falling objects during gales which have been raging over the ...

    Article : 258 words
  19. WORLD CURRENCIES.

    GENEVA, Sept. 17.—The French Commerce Minister (M. Bonnet), addressing the League of Nations Assembly economics committee today urged the ...

    Article : 85 words
  20. LEAGUE EXPENDITURE

    GENEVA, Sept. 17.—Following the lead of the Australian delegate (Mr. S. M. Bruce), the French Prime Minister (M. Laval), addressing the budget ...

    Article : 174 words
  21. BRITAIN AND U.S. APPROACHED

    PARIS, Sept. 17.—The Minister for Commerce and Industry (M. Bonnet) told the "Midi" today that France was working on a fresh stabilisation effort ...

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  22. SAMSONITE EXPLODES

    MELBOURNE, Sept. 18.—Two men were killed in a terrific explosion which occurred at the factory of Nobel (Australasia) Pty. Ltd. at. Deer Park, this ...

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  23. A MEDICAL INSTITUTE

    ADELAIDE, Sept. 18.—At a dinner held tonight at the Adelaide University to mark the close of the jubilee celebrations of the Adelaide Medical School, the ...

    Article : 552 words
  24. BELGIUM'S TRADE.

    SYDNEY, Sept. 18.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons) said tonight that the Belgian Government had given the Federal Government two months' notice of ...

    Article : 73 words
  25. SAFER FLYING.

    LONDON, Sept. 18.—Simultaneously today Mr. W. S. Watt, the Commonwealth Meteorologist, returned from the Warsaw conference of meteorologists and said ...

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  26. WORLD CAR RECORDS.

    NEW YORK, Sept. 18.—On the Bonneville salt flats course—Utah—today, the world motor car speed record for a 24-hour run upturned to England. ...

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  27. MURCHISON MYSTERY.

    There was little development yesterday in the investigations following the report to the Mt Magnet police station on Sunday by Mr. C. H. Bogle, of ...

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  28. FLIGHT FROM ENGLAND.

    NEW YORK, Sept. 17.—Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, who arrived here today in the Lady Southern Cross from Chicago. Announced that he would shortly ...

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  29. AN APPEAL TO INDIA.

    SIMLA, Sept. 17.—Addressing the Council of State today on the dispatch of troops to Abyssinia, Field-Marshal Sir Philip Chetwode. Commander-in-chief ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  30. PORTRAIT OF KING.

    LONDON, Sept. 17.—The Agent-General for South Australia (Mr. C. F. O. McCann) is shipping shortly to Adelaide Mr. Will Longstaff's portrait of the King ...

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  31. PACIFIC AIR ROUTE.

    HONOLULU, Sept. 17.—After having concluded a tour of the islands between Hawaii and Samoa, embracing 4,000 miles, in connexion. It is believed, with ...

    Article : 159 words
  32. Mr. Melrose's Plans.

    LONDON, Sept. 18.—Mr. C. J. Melrose, the young Adelaide airman, who competed in the recent King's Cup air race, will fly hack tn Australia in October. ...

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  33. THE STATES' RIGHTS.

    ADELAIDE, Sept. 18.—What he described as "the whittling away of State financial rights by the Commonwealth Government" was criticised by the ...

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  34. BURNT PLANE.

    SYDNEY, Sept. 18.—Police who are investigating the destruction by fire of a Moth biplane, the property of Kingsford Smith Air Services, in a paddock at. Kelso. ...

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  35. BRITISH EXCHEQUER RETURNS

    LONDON, Sept. 17.—The Exchequer returns issued this week show that the total ordinary revenue, excluding selfbalancing items. amounted to ...

    Article : 77 words
  36. NEW ZEALAND BUDGET.

    LONDON, Sept. 18.—In complimenting the New Zealand Minister for Finance (Mr. Coates) on the Budget which he introduced into the House of ...

    Article : 69 words
  37. ABYSSINIAN DEFENCE.

    LONDON, Sept. 17.—The Addis Ababa correspondent of "The Times" confirms the Impression that Abyssinian. military measures will be applied without ...

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  38. WELFARE OF YOUTH.

    LONDON, Sept. 17.—In an interview with a representative of the Australian Associated Press at Geneva, Mrs. B. M. Rischbieth. of Perth (Western Australia). ...

    Article : 121 words
  39. BOOTS FOR CATTLE.

    LONDON, Sept. 17.—The correspondent of the "News-Chronicle" in the Irish Free State reports that a novel form of "bootlegging" has been ...

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  40. CAMBRIDGE DON DEAD.

    LONDON, Sept. 17.—Dr. Peter Giles, a well-known philologist and classical scholar, Master of Emanuel College, Cambridge since 1911 and Doven of the ...

    Article : 42 words
  41. POLITICIAN'S DEATH.

    LONDON, Sept. 17.—A by-election In the Farnworth division of Lancashire will be necessitated by the death today of the Conservative member. Mr. James ...

    Article : 56 words
  42. AUSTRIAN ANXIETY.

    LONDON, Sept. 18.—A statement by Signor Mussolini in the course of an interview in the Paris newspaper "Le Matin" that for the Powers to take ...

    Article : 109 words
  43. LEADING TENNIS PLAYER.

    LONDON, Sept. 18.—The "Daily Telegraph" announces that Mr. Edmund Fearnley-Whittingstall is petitioning for a divorce from his wife, the well-knnwn ...

    Article : 39 words
  44. CHILD KILLED BY CAR.

    SYDNEY. Sept. 18.—William Arthur Percy Pardey (7), ran in front of a motor car near his home in Blaxcell-street, Granville. tonight, and his skull was ...

    Article : 37 words
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