LONDON, Dec. 15.—How three Russian prisoners, after enduring fearful hardships in the Soviet timber camps, escaped by saving up meagre rations, leaving a small space ...
Article : 276 wordsBailed up by an armed man, a railway paymaster was robbed of £273/4/7 on the Bunbury railway bridge, at East Perth, yesterday afternoon. Chased by workmen, ...
Article : 530 wordsLONDON, Dec. 15.—Unofficial telegrams reporting the progress of the revolt in Spain, chiefly from border towns, naturally exaggerate the seriousness of the crisis. ...
Article : 745 wordsMELBOURNE, Dec. 16—Expectations that the State Ministry would suffer immediate defeat when the debate on the motion for the third rending of the ...
Article : 449 wordsCANBERRA, Dec. 16—Though there was much criticism in the Senate to-day of the Bill to authorise the construction of the Port Augusta to Red Hill railway, ...
Article : 564 wordsCANBERRA, Dec. 16.—An outburst of enthusiasm greeted an announcement by the Acting-Prime Minister (Mr., Fenton) in the House of Representatives to-day ...
Article : 156 wordsCANBERRA, Dec. 16.—In a trenchant and constructive criticism of the Wheat Advances Bill in the House of Representatives to-day, the Leader of the Opposition ...
Article : 1,712 wordsLONDON, Dec. 15.—The Indian Round-Table Conference will sit in full committee to-morrow and will consider the Burma Committee's report, the Federal Structure ...
Article : 207 wordsCANBERRA, Dec. 16.—Returns issued by the Treasury to-day show that according to the latest advices the conversion loan total at the close of business ...
Article : 404 wordsHOBART, Dec. 16.—Damage estimated at £40,000 was done by disastrous fires, believed to be the work of incendiaries, which broke out at five different points ...
Article : 574 wordsSYDNEY, Dec. 16.—When argument was resumed to-day in the application before the Full Court for an injunction to restrain the President of the Legislative Council ...
Article : 214 wordsBRISBANE, Dec. 16.—An aeroplane smash occurred yesterday at Cairns, when Mr. McDonald's 'plane crashed in scrub near the Barron River, At Stratford. The ...
Article : 103 wordsCANBERRA, Dec. 16.—A motion of disagreement with amendments made by the Senate to the Northern Territory Administration Bill was agreed to on the voices ...
Article : 408 wordsLONDON, Dec. 15.—Severe dislocation of traffic in the streets and on the underground railways, and serious damage to business property, besides interruption of ...
Article : 217 wordsBRISBANE, Dec. 16.—Anxiety is felt for the safety of Arthur Johnson, farmer-aviator of Bonnie Doon, Yeppoon, who arrived at Maryborough by a moth 'plane at 7 ...
Article : 158 wordsLONDON, Dec 15.—Replying in the House of Commons to-day to a question regarding the Moscow conspiracy trial, when the accused Were alleged to have ...
Article : 189 wordsLONDON, Dec. 16—Newspapers welcome the success of the Commonwealth conversion loan, and express the opinion that it will have a reassuring effect in ...
Article : 195 wordsDARWIN, Dec. 16—Flight-Lieutenant O. W. Hill, who landed at Darwin on December 10, completing an interrupted flight from England, and on the same day ...
Article : 90 wordsLISBON, Dec. 16.—When interviewed to-day, one of the interned Spanish airmen, General de Llano, said the the failure of the revolution was due to Captain. ...
Article : 84 wordsOTTAWA, Dec.15.—With a mass of detail to sift through before the actual work of drafting the trade agreement between Canada and Australia can be approached, ...
Article : 101 wordsCANBERRA, Dec. 16.—The Minister for Health (Mr. Anstey), one of the leaders of the Left Wing of the Labour Party on financial matters said tonight that the ...
Article : 141 wordsThe financial statement for November, covering the operations of the Various branches of the Railway Department, were made available yesterday by the Minister ...
Article : 276 wordsMlle, Marise Bastie, the French aviatrix, who is 23 years of age, according td advice received by the Vacuum Oil Co., established a new world's record for duration for ...
Article : 100 wordsLONDON, Dec. 15.—The House of Lords this evening, on the motion of Lord Hailsham, passed by 87 Votes to 14 a resolution co include the Dyestuffs Act (a ...
Article : 200 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—The Chairman of the Federal Farm Board (Mr. Legge) said to-day that the board's programme was to place wheat production on ...
Article : 164 words"It is our job to make the man in the street air-minded," said Captain F. S. Briggs in the course of a well-attended illustrated lecture arranged by the West ...
Article : 265 wordsCANBERRA, Dec. 16.—In the House of Representatives to-day, Mr. Hawker (Nat., S.A.) asked the Assistant Minister for Industry (Mr. Beasley) whether it was ...
Article : 148 wordsLONDON, Dec. 15—The Parliamentary Committee of the Empire Industries' Association, representing, it is claimed, nine-tenths of the Conservative members of ...
Article : 75 words"The success of the Commonwealth Loan should have a stimulating effect on Australian stocks in England. The big financial people of England have never lost ...
Article : 270 wordsMELBOURNE, Dec. 10.—Referring to criticism of himself in the Legislative Assembly yesterday, the Chief Commissioner of Police (Brigadier-General T. A. ...
Article : 212 wordsMELBOURNE, Dec. 16.—A Bill to protect certain kinds of wild flowers and plants, chiefly over an area of about 30 or 40 miles of Melbourne, was passed ...
Article : 93 wordsROME, Dec. 15.—The "Osservatore Romano" features to-day a lengthy report of an interview with the Prime Minister of Australia (Mr. Scullin), who left for ...
Article : 188 wordsKALGOORLIE, Dec. 16.—A controversy between the Kalgoorlie Municipal Council and various interested parties on the consumption of State-manufactured butter ...
Article : 120 wordsLOS ANGELES, Dec. 15.—The fashionable Malibu Beach, the Arcadia of film stars and wealthy business and professional folk, Was shaken by a mysterious ...
Article : 121 wordsLONDON. Dec. 15.—The Select Committee of the House of Commons on capital punishment recommends that legislation be introduced to abolish it ...
Article : 70 wordsMIAMI (Florida), Dec. 15—Latest reports from Miami Beach state that of the 135 persons on the glass-bottomed excursion boat Eureka II., which foundered near the ...
Article : 138 wordsThe chairman of directors of the Australian Broadcasting Company (Mr. Stuart P. Doyle) reported yesterday that the amount raised in each State for the ...
Article : 63 wordsLONDON, Dec. 15.—In the House of Commons to-day Mr. F. W. Pethick- Lawrence, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, said that the sum paid to the United ...
Article : 55 wordsCANBERRA, Dec. 16.—In the Senate to-day, in reply to Senator Lynch (W.A.) the Acting Minister for Works (Senator Barnes) said that the price of barbed wire ...
Article : 76 wordsCONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 16.—A Turko-British tribunal has finally rejected a claim for £16,000,000 by the heirs of Abdul Hamid(the last of the Sultans of ...
Article : 79 wordsWELLINGTON, Dec. 16.—Miss Mercedes Gleitze, the English swimmer, arrived at Wellington to-day from London to attempt to swim Cook Strait, between North ...
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