The third test match of the 1928-29 series between England and Australia began on the Melbourne cricket ground on Saturday before a record crowd. Australia won the toss, but the first hour's play was disastrous, ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 1,819 wordsGENEVA, Dec. 28.—The meeting of the Preparatory Disarmament Commission of the League of Nations has been convened for April 15. This will be the first sitting ...
Article : 188 wordsFollowing the King's setback on Thursday, four bulletins have been issued by the doctors announcing slight improvement in his condition. This continued improvement has given rise to a feeling of renewed hope, though the general satisfaction and optimism is tempered by anxiety ...
Article : 390 wordsCALCUTTA, Dec. 30.—Further reports are being received from Afghanistan indicating that King Amanullah's Government is making definite progress in ...
Article : 491 wordsBUDAPEST, Dec. 28.—Herren Scheyer and Dan, leaders of the workers' organisation known as the Facist Association, who were arrested before Christmas on a ...
Article : 116 wordsCAPETOWN, Dec. 28.—British residents are perturbed at the prospect of German interests received preference, not only with the preliminary contracts, but ...
Article : 148 wordsNEW YORK, Dec. 28.—What is regarded in some quarters as tantamount to a shipping war between Britain and the United States for the South American ...
Article : 345 wordsPARIS, Dec. 29.—The Ministry is regarded to be again in peril as the Prime Minister (M. Poincare) is opposed to raising the salaries of the members of the ...
Article : 149 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 28.—Although the United States Government has not yet received official notification of the meeting of the Preparatory Disarmament ...
Article : 251 wordsSYDNEY, Dec. 30.—Careful investigation of the events preceding the death of Hilda Johnson (15), of Maryville, in the Newcastle Hospital at 5 o'clock yesterday ...
Article : 695 wordsLONDON, Dec. 28.—The nature of the new treatment which the doctors have decided upon in order to overcome the backwardness of the King's general condition ...
Article : 278 wordsLONDON, Dec. 28.—The Afghan Legation has announced that official cables from Kabul last night declared that the situation there is now normal. The ...
Article : 127 wordsLONDON, Dec. 29.—The announcement to-night of the fourth favourable bulletin in succession is responsible for a general feeling of satisfaction which is heightened ...
Article : 231 wordsLONDON, Dec. 28.—Commander Kenworthy, M.P. (Lab.) in reply to the letter of Mr. F. A. Britten (Chairman of the Naval Affairs Committee of the United ...
Article : 209 wordsLONDON, Dec. 29.—Marion Alexander, applied in the Stratford Police Court to-day for maintenance against her husband. Arthur Russell Alexander. ...
Article : 207 wordsWoodfull took strike to Larwood and opened the scoring by patting the last ball to the on. It was an extraordinary field with no mid-on. Tate was the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 2,599 wordsSHANGHAI, Dec. 30.—The unification of China under on e Government was advanced a further step yesterday when reports from Manchuria, announced the ...
Article : 87 wordsLONDON, Dec. 29.—In the course of the customary New year message of the Navy League, Lord Sydenham said that while welcoming any Anglo-American ...
Article : 117 wordsIt was learned during the week-end that the series of forged cash orders, by which business people were defrauded during the Christmas bank holidays, had been much ...
Article : 139 wordsNANKING, Dec. 28.—The Ministry for Foreign Affairs announces that twelve Sino-foreign treaties have been signed since July with America, Belgium, Germany ...
Article : 40 wordsLONDON, Dec. 29.—Captain Sir Hubert Wilkins, in a wireless message from Deception Island yesterday, says:—"The Polar regions are places where the weather ...
Article : 439 wordsLONDON, Dec. 29.—The year is drawing to a close with far more satisfactory conditions on the Stock Exchange than appeared likely a fortnight ago. The ...
Article : 462 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 28.—It is now clear that the section of the United States Senate opposed to the passage of the Navy Bill for the construction of 15 ...
Article : 198 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 28.—The Secretary of State (Mr. F. B. Kellogg) announced to-day that he had initiated negotiations with the Chinese Government ...
Article : 68 wordsLONDON, Dec. 29.—The Aberdeen and Commonwealth Line has decided to embark passengers in future at Southampton, commencing on January 23 with the Largs ...
Article : 61 wordsLONDON, Dec. 28.—What is believed to be the largest aeroplane shed in the world will opened at Croydon on Tuesday for the housing of the air liners used ...
Article : 90 wordsBRISBANE, Dec. 30.—With gashes on his hands, arms and forehead, apparently inflicted with a razor, William Browne, a hurdle jockey from New South Wales, ...
Article : 330 wordsMILAN, Dec. 30.—According to the Stefani Press Agency, the Italian Vice-Consul at Innisfail has entered a strong protest concerning the removal of the ...
Article : 103 wordsSYDNEY, Dec. 30.—A thief last night raided a camp for children from the far west of the State, which has been established at the Manly Public School, and ...
Article : 87 wordsLONDON, Dec. 29.—Commander Evangeline Booth, a sister of General Booth, arrived from America yesterday to attend the meeting of the High Council which ...
Article : 119 wordsNEW YORK, Dec. 29.—Mrs. Theodore Alvarez, an Australian, who said that she was the wife of an Argentine millionaire, was arrested to-day in an ...
Article : 71 wordsBRISBANE, Dec. 30.—The Italian coat-of-arms, which was removed from the Vice-Consul's office at Innisfail on Sunday last, is now in the possession of the police. ...
Article : 129 wordsSHANGHAI, Dec. 30.—The trend towards modernism in China was never more clearly illustrated than by an announcement in this morning's native ...
Article : 71 wordsVIENNA, Dec. 29.—Owing to an understanding between the Democrat Party and the Croat Peasant Party the Yugo-Slav Cabinet has resigned. ...
Article : 170 wordsPARIS, Dec. 28.—"Le Journal" states that the other half share in the Spanish national Christmas lottery in which the Marquis de Sanmiguel, a well-known ...
Article : 106 wordsCALCUTTA, Dec. 30.—Pandit Motilal Nehru, the Indian Nationalist leader, in opening the National Congress at Calcutta, said that amenities introduced by the ...
Article : 52 wordsLONDON, Dec. 28.—The British Broadcasting Company will attempt on Monday to re-broadcast New Year greetings from Station 2FC Sydney between 1.55 and ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 31 Dec 1928, Page 7
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