LONDON, Aug. 4.—Twenty thousand Scouts and 10,000 visitors participated at Arrowe Park, in a memorable service of thanksgiving for the success of the Scout ...
Article : 324 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 5.—Amazing audacity was displayed by two masked bandits, who seized and bound a butcher in his shop in Redfern, to-night. After secreting ...
Article : 616 wordsCAIRO, Aug. 4.—The Prime Minister of Egypt (Mahmoud Pasha) has telegraphed from London an appeal to the Egyptian people announcing that after long and ...
Article : 250 wordsOSTEND (Belgium), Aug. 4.—The pleasure boat Knocke, when entering the harbour to-day collided close to the pier and cut in halves the motor boat Joseph ...
Article : 212 wordsNEW YORK, Aug. 4.—The Graf Zeppelin landed at Lakehurst at 8.52 o'clock to-night after a trans-Atlantic flight of approximately 5,330 miles in 95 hours 23 ...
Article : 399 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 5.—Secret investigations by leading detectives of the Criminal Investigation Branch culminated in a sensational arrest to-night. A body has been ...
Article : 341 wordsRIGA, Aug. 4.—The Bolshevik authorities are staging demonstrations of protest throughout Russia against the hitch in the negotiations in London, which were ...
Article : 180 wordsSYDNEY, Aug 5.—The collapse of the timber workers' strike is believed to be imminent. Many union officials are of the opinion that a continuance of the dispute ...
Article : 54 wordsThe quinquennial conference of the Empire Press Union will be held in London next year. At this gathering representatives of the leading newspapers in all parts ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 242 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug. 5.—Owing to the stoppage of supplies of New South Wales coal and restrictions placed upon the supply of Wonthaggi coal by the Victorian ...
Article : 140 wordsBRIDGETOWN, Aug. 5.—Interesting evidence was given when the State Licences Reduction Board sat at Bridgetown on August 1 to hear evidence ...
Article : 442 wordsLONDON, Aug. 5.—The departure of the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. P. Snowden), the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Henderson), and the ...
Article : 141 wordsLONDON, Aug .—"I can think of nobody benefiting by the Labour Government except two reprieved murderers," said Mr. J. Maxton, extremist member of ...
Article : 143 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug. 5.—A warning has been issued to the Seamen's Union of Australasia by the Federal Attorney-General (Mr. Latham) that, in the event of ...
Article : 542 wordsARRAS (France), August 4.—The Whole British Empire was represented at Arras to-day when the British Secretary of State for War (Mr T. Shaw), speaking in ...
Article : 198 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 5.—During the inquiry by the Royal Commission on the coal industry into the accounts of the Newcastle Wallsend Co., Ltd.. discussion arose upon ...
Article : 235 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 5.—The Acting-Premier (Mr. Buttenshaw) said last night that he was absolutely opposed to unification, which was advocated by the Minister for ...
Article : 353 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 5.—Nothing was heard to-day by the Navigation Department that could be connected with the report received yesterday from the Danish motor ...
Article : 146 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug. 5.—Almost the full strength of the Criminal Investigation Department and the plainclothes police is being used in the search for the armed ...
Article : 265 wordsLONDON, July 5.—Eleven hundred ex-service men and their wives left Victoria Station last night to visit the battlefields. The fifteenth war anniversary was a ...
Article : 64 wordsCANBERRA, Aug. 5.—"The areas granted to soldier settlers in the various States are too small to enable the settlers to make a living upon them." This ...
Article : 690 wordsBRISBANE, Aug. 5.—Some startling statements made by Inspector O'Hara, of Rockhampton, in the Mount Morgan Police Court on Friday last, during the ...
Article : 197 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 5.—The engineers employed by Hadfields (Australia) Ltd., at Alexandria have decided to continue their strike for a 40-hour week for men engaged ...
Article : 91 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 5.—Tasmanian potatoes slumped £4 a ton in Sussex-street to-day. Browells are now selling at £18 and Whiteskins at £17. Recent famine prices ...
Article : 246 wordsADELAIDE, Aug. 5—Mr. W. L. Brennan, of Eton-street, Colonel Light Gardens, was going home last night at 8 o'clock when a man called' out: "Stop, or I will ...
Article : 76 wordsCALCUTTA, Aug. 5.—A complete stoppage of the Bengal jute mills is threatened, due to Communist agitators, whose influence has thrown idle 120,000 men. Nine ...
Article : 117 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug. 5.—Senator Guthrie, at a meeting of the Geelong Chamber of Commerce to-day, said that he regretted to have to state that the decline ...
Article : 232 wordsLONDON, Aug. 4.—Referring to the necessity for disarmament in a speech at the Independent Labour Party's conference to-day. Mr. J. Maxton, an extremist ...
Article : 72 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug. 5.—Financial statements submitted at the fourth annual meeting of the Dairy Produce Export Control Board held in Melbourne ...
Article : 192 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 5.—Having read of armed robberies, and tired of their uneventful life, three Enfield boys invented a story in which they figured as the victims of ...
Article : 121 wordsWELLINGTON, Aug. 5.—Severe losses have been inflicted on sheepowners in the Styx, district of Canterbury lately, it is stated through depredations of Alsatian ...
Article : 77 wordsBERLIN, Aug. 4.—On the basis of the first six months' figures, it is believed, that Germany's production of motor cycles for 1929 will be 190,000. eclipsing ...
Article : 58 wordsCALCUTTA, Aug. 5.—Three men and a woman were drowned when bathing at Juhu, a Bombay seaside resort, to-day. The victims were prominent Parsecs, ...
Article : 117 wordsLONDON, Aug. 4.—A modern clothes version of "The Merry Wives of Windsor," with Mr. Oscar Asche as Falstaff, in a morning coat, and smoking a cigar. ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Perth City Council was expected to discuss yesterday, a motion by Cr. Simper for the rescission of the motion it carried recently to transfer the sanitary depot ...
Article : 326 wordsTOKIO, Aug. 5.—Chang Sung-chang, a former war lord of Shantung, together with his private secretory, have been charged with wilful killing in ...
Article : 125 wordsBRISBANE, Aug. 5.—The question of fruit barrows in city streets formed the subject of a deputation from the City Council to the Home Secretary to-day. ...
Article : 267 wordsTOKIO, Aug. 5.—As a result of an explosion 83 miners were trapped in the Hokkaido coal mine to-day. Four were subsequently, rescued. ...
Article : 45 wordsCANBERRA, Aug. 5.—On the summit of Mount Stromboli, 2,568 feet above sea level, the remains of the late Dr. W. G. Duffield were buried this afternoon within ...
Article : 266 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 5.—There were many unoccupied seats in the Town Hall to-night when a mass meeting was held to protest against the arrest of the seven union ...
Article : 213 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug. 5.—The Navy Office, the Postal Department, and Amalgamated Wireless (Aust.), Ltd., will cooperate with Sir "Douglas Mawson's ...
Article : 147 wordsLONDON, Aug. 4.—A blazing bomber aeroplane attached to the Territorial Flying Squadron crashed on the roof of St. Mary's Mission Church at Castle ...
Article : 68 wordsLONDON, August 4.—Mystery surrounds the death of Lord Loughborough this morning. He fell from a window in a west-end house at 2 a.m., and died at ...
Article : 211 wordsBERLIN, August 4.—A sensation, has been, caused by Dr. Edward Simon, a millionaire textile magnate committing suicide in his palatial home in the Victoria ...
Article : 65 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 5.—When the motor ship Manunda is transferred to the Western trade, which will take place in the near future, the weekly sailings from Melbourne ...
Article : 98 wordsWELLINGTON, Aug. 5.—Owing to the leaf that the meendiarists who have caused so much damage in Christchurch in the last few weeks may pay the aerodrome ...
Article : 61 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 5.—William Gladstone Hawkbridge (51), of Dulwich Hill, committed suicide to-night by throwing himself under a train at the Dulwich Hill ...
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