NEW YORK, March 8.—A grim battle yesterday between a steel armoured rumrunning boat and a coastguard cutter on Lake Erie ended with the capture of the ...
Article : 398 wordsPINGELLY, March 9.—A terrific storm on Friday evening did thousands of pounds' worth of damage to buildings and property in Pingelly and to a strip of ...
Article : 326 wordsWASHINGTON, March 7.—In the House of Representatives to-day Dr. W. I. Sirovitch (Democrat, New York) appealed to the House to co-operate in ...
Article : 225 wordsLONDON, March 8.—The trustees of the United Empire Party, which was formed by Lord Beaverbrook, supported by Lord Rothermere, to carry out the ...
Article : 625 wordsLONDON, March 8.—When the work of the Five-Power Naval Conference was formally resumed at St. James's Palace yesterday the heads of the delegations ...
Article : 1,159 wordsLAUNCESTON, March 9.—The Australian Eleven commenced its first match of the tour against Tasmania at the Launceston Cricket Ground yesterday, under ...
Article : 791 wordsLONDON, March 8.—The British Air Estimates for 1930, issued to-day as a White Paper, show a net total of £17,850,000, which is an increase of ...
Article : 493 wordsPARIS, March 8.—Eye-witnesses report that the big area in Southern France devastated by the floods—the worst in French history—is even more horrible to ...
Article : 313 wordsCALCUTTA, March 8.—In his reply to the ultimatum of M. K. Gandhi, the leader of the extreme Nationalists who are bent on Indian independence, threatening a ...
Article : 404 wordsCAPE TOWN, March 8.—Following recent heavy rains in the Drakensberg ranges the Great and Little Bushman rivers became raging torrents, and, ...
Article : 164 wordsMERREDIN, March 9.—An electrical storm passed over the town on Friday afternoon, but only 11 points of rain were registered. Heavier falls were recorded ...
Article : 236 wordsWASHINGTON, March 7.—In a statement issued to-night, president Hoover assorted that unemployment was only half as serious now as it had been following ...
Article : 160 wordsBERLIN, March 8.—Dr. Schacht, President of the Reichsbank, resigned from his position yesterday on the grounds that he disagrees with the agreements reached ...
Article : 379 wordsLONDON, March 7.—The migration staff will give a farewell luncheon to the former Deputy Director in London (Mr. J. Barnes) at Australia House on ...
Article : 180 wordsBEVERLEY, March 9.—Fierce winds, raising huge clouds of dust, accompanied a severe electric storm that struck the town late on Friday afternoon. For a ...
Article : 171 wordsSYDNEY, March 9.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Scullin), in a statement at Canberra on Friday, expressed disappointment at the delay by the States in ...
Article : 456 wordsLONDON, March 7.—The 10 persons who had been held in custody by the Waterford (Ireland) police in connection swith the death of Laurence Griffin, a ...
Article : 254 wordsLONDON, March 8.—The trial of William Podmore, at the Winchester Assizes, of the murder of Vivian Messiter, an American, in a garage at Southampton, in ...
Article : 279 wordsLAUNCESTON, March 9.—Soon after their arrival at Launceston yesterday morning the Australian team was officially welcomed by the Northern Tasmanian ...
Article : 207 wordsLONDON, March 7.—A White Paper has been issued, reproducing the Soviet decree controlling religions associations, as promised by the Foreign Secretary (Mr. ...
Article : 223 wordsKWOLYIN, March 9.—A thunderstorm passed over Kwolyin on Friday and 370 points of rain fell in one hour. MUNTADGIN, March 9.—There was ...
Article : 76 wordsDARWIN, March 9.—Last week's floods in North Australia destroyed 20 chains of the Katherine railway line and there were also washaways in five other places. ...
Article : 71 wordsNEW YORK, March 7.—The Blair Corporation announced that the subscription books to the City of Sydney loan closed considerably oversubscribed. The loan ...
Article : 115 wordsVANCOUVER, March 7.—The sinking of the vessel Chief Maquilla off the Aleutian Islands, when en route to the Far East six months ago, culminated to-day ...
Article : 107 wordsSYDNEY, March 9.—There are hopes that the conference to be held to-morrow between owners' and miners' representatives will pave the way to a settlement ...
Article : 223 wordsLONDON, March 8.—The representative of the Australian Press Association who is on board H.M.S. Renown, following the British naval manoeuvres, ...
Article : 152 wordsLONDON, March 8.—A famous scientist confesses that he is mystified by the phenomena that accurred at the series of seances at the National Laboratory for ...
Article : 197 wordsTOKIO, March 7.—The cabled advices from Sydney of the proposed 10 per cent. increase in duty on silk textiles has caused great alarm in Japan. It will be ...
Article : 49 wordsCAPE TOWN, March 7.—The failure of the Union Government loan of £6,000,000 in London and the saddling of the underwriters with 75 per cent. of the ...
Article : 56 wordsHOBART, March 9.—The Premier (Mr. J. C. McPhee), commenting to-day on the disappointment expressed by the Prime Minister (Mr. Scullin) at the delay by the ...
Article : 77 wordsLONDON, March 8.—A report from the master of the Federal Steam Navigation Company's line Cornwall (10,616 tons), which went ashore at Curacao (West ...
Article : 137 wordsNEW YORK, March 7.—Dr. Frederick A. Cook, who was sentenced on November 21, 1923, to 14 years' imprisonment on a charge of fraud in connection with company ...
Article : 283 wordsSYDNEY, March 9.—Maisie Thompson (15) was shot in the breast by a youth outside her home in Waratnh-street, Bexley, late to-night. She is in St. George ...
Article : 224 wordsCommenting on the statement by the Prime Minister (Mr. Scullin), published in "The West Australian" on Saturday, expressing disappointment at the delay ...
Article : 148 wordsCANBERRA, March 9.—The members of the Nationalist Party will return to Canberra on Tuesday for the pre-sessional meeting of the party to be held at ...
Article : 203 wordsSYDNEY, March 9.—The police believe that an organised gan[?] of thieves is represented by five arrests made during the past week. It is stated that more than ...
Article : 107 wordsSYDNEY, March 9.—A number of financial authorities estimate that the trade balance against Australia overseas is about £85,000,000. The opinion of the ...
Article : 125 wordsCOLON (Panama), March 8.—The isthmus of Panama was shaken last night by an earthquake, which lasted for 45 seconds. It was the worst tremor since ...
Article : 43 wordsLONDON, March 8.—A scheme has been drawn up by the Home Secretary (Mr. J. R. Clynes) and adopted in principle by the Police Council providing for the ...
Article : 137 wordsSYDNEY, March 9.—Speaking at the third of a series of orchestral concerts at the Town Hall to assist musicians thrown out of employment by the talkies. ...
Article : 105 wordsBERLIN, March 8.—The ex-Kaiser has telegraphed a message of sympathy to the widow of Admiral von Tirpitz, adding: "I think with everlasting gratitude ...
Article : 82 wordsLONDON, March 7.—Why Admiral of the Fleet Earl Beatty always wears his naval cap at a rakish tilt is explained by Lieutenant-Commander Geoffrey Rawson, ...
Article : 80 wordsLONDON, March 8.—The newspapers give prominence to cables from Australia with reference to the ban on Australian bank notes. They point out that it will ...
Article : 51 wordsBy special arrangement, Reuter's world service, in addition to other special sources of information, is used in the compilation of the oversea intelligence published in ...
Article : 39 wordsSuch of the cable news on this page as is so headed has appeared in "The Times" and is cabled to Australia by special, permission. It should be understood that the ...
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