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  2. RUSSIAN TIMBER CAMPS.

    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 words
  3. PAYMASTER BAILED UP.

    Bailed 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 words
  4. SPANISH TURMOIL.

    LONDON, Dec. 15.—Unofficial telegrams reporting the progress of the revolt in Spain, chiefly from border towns, naturally exaggerate the seriousness of the crisis. ...

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  5. A CRISIS AVERTED.

    MELBOURNE, 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 words
  6. RED HILL RAILWAY.

    CANBERRA, 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 words
  7. CONVERSION LOAN.

    CANBERRA, 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 words
  8. WHEAT ADVANCES BILL.

    CANBERRA, 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 ...

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  9. INDIAN CONFERENCE.

    LONDON, 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 words
  10. £23,398,130 BY MONDAY.

    CANBERRA, 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 words
  11. FIRES IN HOBART.

    HOBART, 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 words
  12. UPPER HOUSE ABOLITION.

    SYDNEY, 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 words
  13. AVIATION.

    BRISBANE, 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 words
  14. SENATE ATTACKED.

    CANBERRA, 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 words
  15. WATERMAN BURSTS.

    LONDON, 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 words
  16. FARMER-AVIATOR MISSING.

    BRISBANE, 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 words
  17. MOSCOW TRIAL.

    LONDON, 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 words
  18. GRATIFICATION IN LONDON.

    LONDON, 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 words
  19. HILL AWAITING SPARE PARTS.

    DARWIN, 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 ...

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  20. A REASON FOR FAILURE.

    LISBON, 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 words
  21. EMPIRE TRADE.

    OTTAWA, 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 words
  22. MR. ANSTEY'S COMMENT.

    CANBERRA, 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 words
  23. RAILWAY FINANCE.

    The financial statement for November, covering the operations of the Various branches of the Railway Department, were made available yesterday by the Minister ...

    Article : 276 words
  24. WOMAN'S ENDURANCE RECORDS.

    Mlle, 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 words
  25. BRITISH DYE INDUSTRY

    LONDON, 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 words
  26. UNITED STATES WHEAT

    WASHINGTON, 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
  27. THE AIR MIND.

    "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 words
  28. BROKEN HILL MINES.

    CANBERRA, 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 words
  29. RECIPROCAL PREFERENCE.

    LONDON, Dec. 15—The Parliamentary Committee of the Empire Industries' Association, representing, it is claimed, nine-tenths of the Conservative members of ...

    Article : 75 words
  30. AUSTRALIAN STOCKS.

    "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 words
  31. POLICE ADMINISTRATION.

    MELBOURNE, Dec. 10.—Referring to criticism of himself in the Legislative Assembly yesterday, the Chief Commissioner of Police (Brigadier-General T. A. ...

    Article : 212 words
  32. VICTORIAN NATIVE FLORA.

    MELBOURNE, 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 words
  33. ARTS AND THE CHURCH.

    ROME, 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 words
  34. A CONTROVERSY ENDED.

    KALGOORLIE, Dec. 16.—A controversy between the Kalgoorlie Municipal Council and various interested parties on the consumption of State-manufactured butter ...

    Article : 120 words
  35. EXPLOSION AND FIRE.

    LOS 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 words
  36. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.

    LONDON. Dec. 15.—The Select Committee of the House of Commons on capital punishment recommends that legislation be introduced to abolish it ...

    Article : 70 words
  37. MIAMI DISASTER.

    MIAMI (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 words
  38. THE BROADCAST APPEAL.

    The 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 words
  39. WAR DEBT PAYMENTS.

    LONDON, 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 words
  40. BARBED WIRE.

    CANBERRA, 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 words
  41. HEIRS OF DEPOSED SULTAN.

    CONSTANTINOPLE, 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 words
  42. WOMAN SWIMMER'S PROJECT.

    WELLINGTON, Dec. 16.—Miss Mercedes Gleitze, the English swimmer, arrived at Wellington to-day from London to attempt to swim Cook Strait, between North ...

    Article : 31 words
  43. COMPANY'S ASSISTANCE.

    Under the special terms made available by the company, the employees of J. Kitchen and Sons, Pty., Ltd., throughout Australia, subscribed £5,680 to the ...

    Article : 58 words
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