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  2. A REVOLT ENDS.

    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 ...

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  3. CHINA AND THE POWERS.

    SHANGHAI, May 3.—Negotiations between China and Great Britain and other interested Powers regarding the abolition of extraterritorial rights enjoyed in China ...

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  4. FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA.

    CONSTANTINOPLE, 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, ...

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  5. MAY DAY.

    WARSAW, May 1.—Two policemen and three Communists were killed at Lubartov, when 500 Communists fought police, whose action in interfering with a ...

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  6. AUSTRALIA'S POSITION.

    LONDON, May 1.—A very useful service has been rendered to Australia by the publication by the "Financial Times" of a special illustrated Australian ...

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  7. COMMONWEALTH BANK.

    SYDNEY, May 3.—The chairman of the Commonwealth Bank Board (Sir Robert Gibson) in a broadcast address to-night, said that the Commonwealth Bank would ...

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  8. MISSING EXPLORER.

    COPENHAGEN, May 3.—Latest news of the search for Mr. Augustine Courtauld, the young member of the British Arctic Air Route Expedition in Greenland, who ...

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  9. DECORUM IN SPAIN.

    MADRID, 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 ...

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  10. DELAY FROM ENGINE TROUBLE.

    CONSTANTINOPLE, May 3.—Captain Neville Staple and Mr. J. R. Chaplin, who are flying from England to Australia, were delayed to-day by engine trouble. ...

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  11. ACCIDENTS.

    ADELAIDE, 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 ...

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  12. 500-MILE LEAD ON MR. SCOTT.

    By 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 ...

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  13. THE SEARCH BY AIR.

    REYKJAVIK (Iceland), May 2.—Captain Ahrenberg, the Swedish airman who is flying to Greenland to join in the search for Mr. Augustine Conrtauld, the missing ...

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  14. MENACE TO SCHOOL CHILDREN.

    LONDON, May 1.—The special correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" at Funchal says that despite the fact that no casualties resulted the bombardment ...

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  15. Patrol Boat Reaches Ice-Pack.

    REYKJAVIK (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 ...

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  16. AVIATION.

    LONDON, 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 ...

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  17. EXPLOSION AT FACTORY.

    MELBOURNE, May 3.—Mr. Karl Staach, briquette master at the State briquetting factory, received fatal injuries in an explosion at the factory today. Mr. ...

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  18. £10,000 ROBBERY.

    SYDNEY, 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 ...

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  19. British Airman to Take Part.

    LONDON, 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. ...

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  20. SOVIET'S MARTIAL DISPLAY.

    MOSCOW, 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, ...

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  21. CAR STRUCK BY TRAIN.

    SYDNEY, May 3.—Leaping from a motor car immediately before it was struck by a freight train at a level crossing at Muswellbrook yesterday morning, ...

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  22. MOTHER STILL CONFIDENT.

    LONDON, 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 ...

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  23. ATLANTIC AIRSHIP SERVICE.

    PARIS, 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 ...

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  24. "HAIL, MOSCOW."

    BERLIN, May 1.—May Day opened badly here. Before dawn a Communist gang seriously wounded a policeman with revolvers. The only other disturbance ...

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  25. MINER KILLED.

    KALGOORLIE, May 3.—While working on a tributer's shaft on the Ivanhoc mine yesterday, Edwin Barrett Stephens (55), married, of Kalgoorlie, slipped and fell ...

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  26. POLICING THE THAMES.

    LONDON, 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 ...

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  27. FLIGHT OF THE Do.X.

    LAS 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 ...

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  28. THE WAY TO RECOVERY.

    KALGOORLIE, 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 ...

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  29. BOY SWALLOWS PEN-NIB.

    While 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 ...

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  30. WHEAT MARKETING.

    NEW 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 ...

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  31. RED FLAGS ON CHURCHES.

    PARIS, 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 ...

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  32. MARAUDERS INTERRUPTED.

    ADELAIDE, 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 ...

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  33. CHILD INJURED.

    While driving a motor car eastward in Albany-road, Victoria Park, near Basinghall-street, on Saturday morning, Victor Hammer, of George-street, Queen's Park, ...

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  34. BULLET HITS TRAIN WINDOW.

    SYDNEY, 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 ...

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  35. WHOLESALE DIVORCE.

    NEW YORK, May 2.—Remarkable scenes were enacted to-day at Reno (Nevada), when under the new law granting divorces after only six weeks' residence, ...

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  36. Canadian Proposal.

    WINNIPEG, 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 ...

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  37. LONDON DISTURBANCE.

    LONDON, 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 ...

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  38. BROADSIDE COLLISION.

    Two motor cars, being driven respectively southward in William-street by George Marr, of Canning-road, Palmyra, and eastward in Newcastle-street by Cyril Henry ...

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  39. CRIMINAL OR PROFESSOR?

    FLORENCE, Mar 1.—An amazing case, which has drawn out for four years, has solved the problem, which baffled criminologist and psychologists, of whether a ...

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  40. MUSSOLINI'S DECREE OBEYED.

    ROME, 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 ...

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  41. Exports to Germany.

    VANCOUVER, May 1.—The German reduction of the duty on imported wheat is expected to improve shipments from Canada, which dropped from 7,000,000 ...

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  42. BOY DROWNED.

    SYDNEY, 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 ...

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  43. MOTOR BOAT RACING.

    LONDON, 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 ...

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  44. CHLORATE OF POTASH BOMBS.

    LISBON, 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 ...

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  45. FIRE AT HOTEL.

    MELBOURNE, 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. ...

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  46. REHABILITATION OF FINANCES.

    ADELAIDE, 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 ...

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  47. QUIET IN U.S.A.

    NEW YORK, May 1.—May Day celebrations were observed throughout the United States with parades and oratory, but there were virtually no disorders. A ...

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  48. RUNAWAY RAILWAY CARRIAGE

    BRISBANE, 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 ...

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  49. INDIAN UNREST.

    CALCUTTA, May 2.—The Bengal Government in a proclamation states that owing to the dangerous and disturbed state of certain areas round Chittagong, and the ...

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  50. REVOLVER PLAY IN STREET.

    MELBOURNE, 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 ...

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  51. MILLIONAIRE'S DEATH.

    NEW 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 ...

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  52. IRISH SWEEPSTAKE.

    DUBLIN, 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 ...

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  53. ORATORY AND MUSIC.

    VIENNA, May 1.—Socialists here held torchlight processions to-night and delivered speeches and organised concerts. ...

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  54. PARACHUTIST KILLED.

    WELLINGTON, May 3.—The Norwegian parachutist, Haakon Qviller (35), was killed instantly at Oamara yesterday. He fell more than 5,000 feet, his parachute ...

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  55. BANDIT'S MANY CRIMES.

    ROME, 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 ...

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  56. THEFT FROM UNIVERSITY.

    SYDNEY, May 3.—Three guinea pigs and one rabbit were stolen from the inoculation room in the Veterinary Science College of the University yesterday. The ...

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  57. GREAT YARRA BANK CROWD.

    MELBOURNE, May 3.—Attracted by the announcement that the Federal Treasurer (Mr. Theodore) would speak a very large crowd assembled at the Yarra ...

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  58. SALESMAN'S THEFT.

    "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 ...

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  59. ATTACKED BY INDIAN SOLDIER

    CALCUTTA, 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 ...

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  60. DAIRYING RESEARCH.

    VANCOUVER, May 2.—The University of British Columbia has notified the Empire Marketing Board that the dairying research which it has carried on ...

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  61. INSURANCE POLICIES.

    LONDON, May 1.—Two leading Australian insurance companies, in answer to inquiries by policy-holders, have stated that claims against policies registered in ...

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  62. GERMAN MURDERER EXECUTED

    BERLIN, 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, ...

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  63. THE LATE MR. G. LAMBERT.

    LONDON, 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 ...

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  64. HOLD-UP AT STATION.

    MELBOURNE, 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 ...

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  65. UNDERGROUND EXPLOSIONS.

    WELLINGTON, 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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