The volunteer fire brigades demonstration was concluded at Perth Oval yesterday. The brigade championship was won by Guildford (last year's champions) with ...
Article : 731 wordsNo further news was received up to a late hour last night of the late of the crew of the Southern Cross, which was forced down west of Wyndham on Sunday morning through lack of petrol after becoming hopelessly lost on the first stage (Sydney-Wyndham) of a flight to England. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 750 wordsExpectations that the Centenary fireworks display would be a magnificent spectacle were unfortuntaely not realised last night, owing to the conduct of a gang of ...
Article : 529 wordsSHANGHAI, April 2.—Well-informed circles believe that the Government forces will enter Wuhan by the end of the week. The vanguard has already reached ...
Article : 149 wordsMELBOURNE, April 2.—Resting on tie slipways in dry dock, her torn bows mute evidence of the force of the collision with the Norwegian wheat freighter Selie. ...
Article : 527 wordsThe Applecross wireless station reported yesterday afternoon that it had received no further news of the missing 'plane. A wireless message had been broadcast from ...
Article : 94 wordsIn the following special interview published in "The West Australian" last August, when the Southern Gross had completed its record non-stop flight across ...
Article : 936 wordsSHANGHAI, April 2.—Nanking Nationalists claim that their gunboats on the river Yangkse-Kiang are bombarding posts held by the Hankow insurgents. 10 miles ...
Article : 65 wordsLONDON, April 2.—The Riga correspondent of the "Morning Post" states that the British trade delegation has had a surprising reception in Moscow, where ...
Article : 117 wordsPort George IV. is on George Water, an inlet above Collier Bay, which is considerably further west than Drysdale. The country in the vicinity of Port George inlet ...
Article : 336 wordsLONDON, April 1.—The Riga correspondent of "The Times" states that owing to the scarcity of essential products and the recent Soviet measures designed to ...
Article : 69 wordsAfter a twelve months' world tour, Mr. H. G. Hawkins, chairman of the South Australian Fanners' Co-operative Union, reached Fremantle yesterday from London ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 175 wordsPARIS, April 1.—Henri Bellon, a former Marseilles hairdresser, has arrived at Havre, after eleven years on Devil's Island, where he had been sent for a life ...
Article : 121 wordsMore than an hour before the fireworks display was due to start crowds [?] to fill the city from suburbs in all a actions, intent upon securing vantage points. ...
Article : 241 wordsThe president of tho West Australian Fire Brigades' Board (Mr. J. R. Campbell) presided at a luncheon given by the board to the visiting firemen and ...
Article : 285 wordsCALCUTTA, April 1.—Serious trouble is threatened on the north-west frontier of India owing to an outbreak of fighting between the tribes of Sunnis and Shiahs. ...
Article : 158 wordsSYDNEY, April 2.—Mystery is attached to certain messages received in Sydney shortly before the departure of the airmen on Saturday. A message was received by ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 373 wordsSince be first visited Australia as a midshipman on a sailing ship in 1801, Captain C. G. Matheson. D.S.O., R.D., R.N.R. who is in command of the mailboat Orama ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 274 wordsLONDON, April 1.—The Secretary of State for Air (Sir Samuel Hoarc), accompanied by Air Vice-Marshal Sir Vyell Vyyyan and his private secretary, who are ...
Article : 179 wordsLONDON, April 2.—Following the recent controversy regarding the decision of a meeting of shareholders of the British General Electric Co. to confine a new issue ...
Article : 136 wordsLONDON, April 1.—The medical editor of the "Actinic Practitioner" strongly criticises the Medical Research Council for its report on March 14 upon artificial light ...
Article : 176 wordsMELBOURNE, April 2.—From his experience as a former administrator of the Northern Territory, Dr. J. A. Gilruth said to-night that there would be little chance ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 335 wordsSYDNEY, April 2.—"Accidental drowning" was the verdiet of the City Coroner (Mr. May), who to-day held an inquiry concerning the death of the master and ...
Article : 268 wordsMELBOURNE, April 2.—The Commonwealth Air Board has made arrangements to despatch Wing Commander L. J. Wackett in his Widgeon with the least possible ...
Article : 192 wordsLONDON, April 1.—As a sequel to the Royal Oak case (in which Captain Dewar and Commander Daniel were dismissed their shin last year, following on the ...
Article : 136 wordsWASHINGTON, March 31. Dr. Fridtjof-Narisen, the famous Arctic explorer, will arrive in Washington shortly to consult the Government with regard to plans for ...
Article : 85 wordsLONDON, April 1.—Great Britain's speed kings who are training for the Schneider Cup contest, have completed training at Felixstowe, with high-speed ...
Article : 145 wordsWYNDHAM, April 2.—The De Havilland 50 aeroplane sent from "Port Hedland by the managing director of W.A. Airways, Ltd. (Major N. Brearley) to search ...
Article : 359 wordsPARIS, April 1.—The campaign of Mr. C. B. Cochran, the noted British theatrical producer, for plumper choras girls, has spread to Paris and already the pinch has ...
Article : 89 wordsThe French Senate has unanimously ratified the Kellogg anti-war pact. Staggering revelations of the growth of London are made in the London Country ...
Article : 67 wordsMELBOURNE, April 2.—Captain J. K. Davis, who will command the Discovery on the scientific expedition to the Antarctic under Sir Douglas Mawson, will leave ...
Article : 103 wordsBERLIN, April 2.—A local Russian newspaper, the "Roul." says that the Soviet has expelled from Russia M. Rakovsky former first envoy to Great Britain, and M ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Wed 3 Apr 1929, Page 15
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