LISBON, May 2.—The revolt which broke out on the island of Madeira against the Portuguese Government nearly a month ago, when a military junta headed ...
Article : 269 wordsSHANGHAI, May 3.—Negotiations between China and Great Britain and other interested Powers regarding the abolition of extraterritorial rights enjoyed in China ...
Article : 168 wordsCONSTANTINOPLE, May 2.—Captain Neville Stack and Mr. J. R. Chaplin, who left Lympne aerodrome (England) at 4.22 a.m. to-day to fly to Australia and back, ...
Article : 154 wordsWARSAW, May 1.—Two policemen and three Communists were killed at Lubartov, when 500 Communists fought police, whose action in interfering with a ...
Article : 61 wordsLONDON, May 1.—A very useful service has been rendered to Australia by the publication by the "Financial Times" of a special illustrated Australian ...
Article : 589 wordsSYDNEY, May 3.—The chairman of the Commonwealth Bank Board (Sir Robert Gibson) in a broadcast address to-night, said that the Commonwealth Bank would ...
Article : 870 wordsCOPENHAGEN, May 3.—Latest news of the search for Mr. Augustine Courtauld, the young member of the British Arctic Air Route Expedition in Greenland, who ...
Article : 235 wordsMADRID, May 1.—Not a single policeman was needed to maintain order at today's May Day parade of 150,000 people in honour of Senor Zamora, the mainspring ...
Article : 332 wordsCONSTANTINOPLE, May 3.—Captain Neville Staple and Mr. J. R. Chaplin, who are flying from England to Australia, were delayed to-day by engine trouble. ...
Article : 28 wordsADELAIDE, May 3.—A collision between a motor car and a train at a level crossing in Park-terrace, Bowden, yesterday morning resulted in George Joseph ...
Article : 157 wordsBy reaching Constantinople on the first day of his flight from England to Australia, Captain Neville Stack gained a substantial lead on the times of others who ...
Article : 151 wordsREYKJAVIK (Iceland), May 2.—Captain Ahrenberg, the Swedish airman who is flying to Greenland to join in the search for Mr. Augustine Conrtauld, the missing ...
Article : 68 wordsLONDON, May 1.—The special correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" at Funchal says that despite the fact that no casualties resulted the bombardment ...
Article : 85 wordsREYKJAVIK (Iceland), May 2.—The patrol boat Odin, which is carrying a seaplane to assist in the search for Mr. Conrtauld, has reached the edge of the ...
Article : 61 wordsLONDON, May 2.—Flight-Lieutenant Rose, who, in a British light aeroplane, is attempting to fly from Cape Town to London in 4½ days, arrived at Bulawayo ...
Article : 89 wordsMELBOURNE, May 3.—Mr. Karl Staach, briquette master at the State briquetting factory, received fatal injuries in an explosion at the factory today. Mr. ...
Article : 61 wordsSYDNEY, May 3.—Although intensive investigations have been made by detectives into the loss of £10,000 in bank notes from the Sydney-Canberra mail train on ...
Article : 176 wordsLONDON, May 2.—Major Sidney Cotton, a British airman, is to sail on Monday for Reykjavik (Iceland) to take part in the efforts to rescue Mr. Augustine Courtauld. ...
Article : 36 wordsMOSCOW, May 1.—May Day was celebrated by a procession of 1,000,000 people, which preceded a march past of 50,000 troops, tanks and anti-aircraft guns, ...
Article : 71 wordsSYDNEY, May 3.—Leaping from a motor car immediately before it was struck by a freight train at a level crossing at Muswellbrook yesterday morning, ...
Article : 85 wordsLONDON, May 3.—The Conrtauld family has so far spent £8,000 on rescue expeditions, according to an interview with Mrs. Courtauld, the explorer's mother ...
Article : 141 wordsPARIS, May 1.—Following a conference with the French Air Minister, Dr. Eckener, commander of the Graf Zeppelin, states that he is hopeful that the Orly ...
Article : 70 wordsBERLIN, May 1.—May Day opened badly here. Before dawn a Communist gang seriously wounded a policeman with revolvers. The only other disturbance ...
Article : 103 wordsKALGOORLIE, May 3.—While working on a tributer's shaft on the Ivanhoc mine yesterday, Edwin Barrett Stephens (55), married, of Kalgoorlie, slipped and fell ...
Article : 67 wordsLONDON, May 1.—Following the recent establishment of police motor patrols, equipped with fast cars and motor cycles, to deal with road offenders, it is announced ...
Article : 78 wordsLAS PALMAS (Canaries), May 1.—The giant German flying boat Do.X, which is essaying an Atlantic crossing, left Las Palmas to-day on its way to South ...
Article : 48 wordsKALGOORLIE, May 3.—"What strikes me as being a great weakness in the work of past meetings of the Loan Council has been the tendency to concentrate upon ...
Article : 2,049 wordsWhile patrolling in Roe-street last night. Constable Fickling found George Hall (12), of Douro-place, West Perth, doubled up in pain, due to having accidentally swallowed ...
Article : 64 wordsNEW YORK, May 2.—The Farmers' National Grain Corporation, as the agency of the Federal Farm Board in a transaction involving £3,600,000, has accepted delivery ...
Article : 82 wordsPARIS, May 1.—This morning a red flag was seen flying from the tower of the church of Notre Dame. It was quickly removed and three workmen were ...
Article : 103 wordsADELAIDE, May 3.—When on patrol duty at Glenelg early yesterday morning, Constable Bang noticed that the front door of the newly-opened branch, of the ...
Article : 190 wordsWhile driving a motor car eastward in Albany-road, Victoria Park, near Basinghall-street, on Saturday morning, Victor Hammer, of George-street, Queen's Park, ...
Article : 83 wordsSYDNEY, May 3.—A bullet struck a train in which the Leader of the Nationalist Party (Mr. Bavin) was travelling from Bowral to Sydney to-night. The window ...
Article : 95 wordsNEW YORK, May 2.—Remarkable scenes were enacted to-day at Reno (Nevada), when under the new law granting divorces after only six weeks' residence, ...
Article : 199 wordsWINNIPEG, May 1.—The Premier of Manitoba (Mr. John Bracken) will urge the creation of a Canadian Wheat Board, to "ensure orderly marketing of the 1931 ...
Article : 104 wordsLONDON, May 1.—Today's May Day Communist demonstration in Hyde Park was the smallest in recent years. A disturbance followed the arrest by the police ...
Article : 44 wordsTwo motor cars, being driven respectively southward in William-street by George Marr, of Canning-road, Palmyra, and eastward in Newcastle-street by Cyril Henry ...
Article : 95 wordsFLORENCE, Mar 1.—An amazing case, which has drawn out for four years, has solved the problem, which baffled criminologist and psychologists, of whether a ...
Article : 164 wordsROME, May 1.—Signor Mussolini having abolished Labour Day, Italy did not recognise it. Though this May Day was the quietest since the war there were 1,950 ...
Article : 44 wordsVANCOUVER, May 1.—The German reduction of the duty on imported wheat is expected to improve shipments from Canada, which dropped from 7,000,000 ...
Article : 39 wordsSYDNEY, May 3.—When searching for the body of a boy who had been drowned in Botany Bay yesterday, the pilot of an aeroplane descended too low and his ...
Article : 252 wordsLONDON, May 1.—Britain will be represented in two coming international motor boat racing events. At the Lake Garda regatta, opening on May 9, there will be ...
Article : 101 wordsLISBON, May 1.—May Day was quiet until 6 p.m. when a crowd in Rosic Square grew slightly panicky as the result of Communists throwing chlorate of potash ...
Article : 63 wordsMELBOURNE, May 3.—A determined attempt to burn down the Castlemaine Hotel, near Queen's Bridge, was frustrated to-night by the prompt arrival of firemen. ...
Article : 89 wordsADELAIDE, May 3.—The following telegram has been sent by the president of the Council of the Associated Chambers of Commerce (Mr. G. J. Cowie) to the ...
Article : 109 wordsNEW YORK, May 1.—May Day celebrations were observed throughout the United States with parades and oratory, but there were virtually no disorders. A ...
Article : 104 wordsBRISBANE, May 3.—While a carriage in which the Premier (Mr. Moore) was travelling was being shunted into the middle of a train on the Gayndah railway ...
Article : 133 wordsCALCUTTA, May 2.—The Bengal Government in a proclamation states that owing to the dangerous and disturbed state of certain areas round Chittagong, and the ...
Article : 80 wordsMELBOURNE, May 3.—With a large automatic revolver in one hand and a parcel containing a pea rifle beneath his other arm, a man alarmed pedestrians in ...
Article : 94 wordsNEW YORK, May 2.—Mr. George F. Baker died of pneumonia today, at the age of 91 years. He was the doyen of American bankers, and the third richest ...
Article : 123 wordsDUBLIN, May 1.—It is officially stated that the prize fund for the Irish sweepstake on the Derby, which will close on May 23, already exceeds £400,000. At this ...
Article : 57 wordsVIENNA, May 1.—Socialists here held torchlight processions to-night and delivered speeches and organised concerts. ...
Article : 19 wordsWELLINGTON, May 3.—The Norwegian parachutist, Haakon Qviller (35), was killed instantly at Oamara yesterday. He fell more than 5,000 feet, his parachute ...
Article : 97 wordsROME, May 1.—Santa Pollastro, one of the most notorious bandits in Italian criminal history, and the bead of a famous gang of burglars, was to-day sentenced to ...
Article : 154 wordsSYDNEY, May 3.—Three guinea pigs and one rabbit were stolen from the inoculation room in the Veterinary Science College of the University yesterday. The ...
Article : 117 wordsMELBOURNE, May 3.—Attracted by the announcement that the Federal Treasurer (Mr. Theodore) would speak a very large crowd assembled at the Yarra ...
Article : 224 words"I have no sympathy for a man who abuses his trust," said Mr. T. Y. A. Lang, P.M., in the Perth Police Court on Saturday, when sentencing Clive Robert Napier ...
Article : 192 wordsCALCUTTA, May 1.—Lieutenant M. R. Reinhold, of the 13th Lancers, stationed at Loralai, on the North-West Frontier, was attacked by a Parsee soldier to-day ...
Article : 71 wordsVANCOUVER, May 2.—The University of British Columbia has notified the Empire Marketing Board that the dairying research which it has carried on ...
Article : 66 wordsLONDON, May 1.—Two leading Australian insurance companies, in answer to inquiries by policy-holders, have stated that claims against policies registered in ...
Article : 51 wordsBERLIN, May 2.—Eric Tetzner, who was sentenced to death in March for having murdered an unknown man, whose remains were found in a burned motorcar, ...
Article : 92 wordsLONDON, May 2.—At a Royal Academy banquet to-day, the president (Sir William Llewellyn) referred to the loss occasioned by the early death of Mr. George ...
Article : 47 wordsMELBOURNE, May 3.—Armed with revolvers, two men, one of whom was wearing a mask, held up the railway station master at Middle Footscray last night and ...
Article : 78 wordsWELLINGTON, May 3.—What are believed to be terrific, underground explosions are occurring at intervals, giving Westport and the surrounding districts a severe ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 4 May 1931, Page 7
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