WASHINGTON, Aug. 27.—The Australian Press Association learns that, due to the failure of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith to obtain a Department of Commerce ...
Article : 229 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 28.—The death occurred today in the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital of Sir Tannatt William Edgeworth David, K.B.E., C.M.G., D.S.O., ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 1,027 wordsCALCUTTA, Aug. 28.—Although the Ganges floods generally are slightly subsiding, many towns and hundreds of villages on and near the river banks are still ...
Article : 218 wordsCommenting yesterday on the statement (published in "The West Australian" yesterday) by the secretary of the Teachers' Union (Mr. W. E. Thomas), in reply to ...
Article : 755 wordsWASHINGTON, Aug. 27.—Faced with the biggest industrial strike, either actual of threatened, under the recovery programme of the Roosevelt Administration. ...
Article : 283 wordsPARIS, Aug. 28.—The Minister for Marine (M. Pietri) in outlining the Government's naval policy in the Chamber of Deputies today, said that the foremost ...
Article : 183 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug. 28.—Concessions in import duties for cotton goods entering Australia before November 15 were announced today by the Minister for ...
Article : 446 wordsBERLIN, Aug. 28.—In accordance with the Cabinet decree on the eve of President von Hindenburg's death and approved by the plebiscite of August 19, ...
Article : 143 wordsBERLIN, Aug. 27.—The Council of the Evangelical Church, representing 7,000 of the 16,000 pastors in Germany, has called upon the dissidents and the Bishops of ...
Article : 148 wordsGIBRALTAR, Aug. 28.—"Good-bye Sussex and good luck!" has been flagged, semaphored and morsed dozens of times since the cruiser Sussex left Sheerness in ...
Article : 354 wordsLONDON, Aug. 28.—The city editor of the "Daily Telegraph" writes: "Continental speculators who have been selling sterling, suddenly changed their tactics ...
Article : 169 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug. 28.—When Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, who is now in Melbourne, was informed of the cable message which had been received, he said, ...
Article : 159 wordsWASHINGTON, Aug. 27.—As a first step in the long-contemplated reorganisation of the National Recovery Administration, it was announced tonight that all ...
Article : 176 wordsLONDON, Aug. 27.—"The Times," in a leading article, acknowledges Herr Hitler's speech appealing to Germans in the Saar to vote in the next year's ...
Article : 166 wordsLONDON, Aug. 28.—The "Daily Telegraph" states that with a view to popularising Jodhpur as an air port, competing with Allahabad, the Maharaja of Jodhpur offers ...
Article : 42 wordsLONDON, Aug. 28.—The secretary of the Bolton Grocers' Association said to-day that a committee was considering a boycott of Australian goods in retaliation ...
Article : 315 wordsROME, Aug. 28.—Two Italian Air Force officers, Major Attilio Biseo and Captain Osvaldo Baldi, will replace Signora Passaleva and Bacula in piloting the Savoia ...
Article : 71 wordsLONDON, Aug. 28.—The order by the Ministry of Transport forbidding the blowing of motor horns at night within a radius of five miles of Charing Cross came into ...
Article : 197 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 28.—The strike at Lysaght's Newcastle galvanised iron works arising but of the dismissal of an employee extended today, and now ...
Article : 171 wordsBERLIN, Aug. 28.—Under the Treaty of Versailles, German universities are forbidden to give instruction in the use of arms or instruction in connexion with any ...
Article : 241 wordsCAPE TOWN, Aug. 28.—Dr. J. J. Vanderleeuw, field secretary of the New Education Fellowship, is reported to have been killed when his plane crashed while ...
Article : 71 wordsCANBERRA, Aug. 28.—His Excellency the Governor-General (Sir Isaac Isaacs) has dispatched the following message to His Majesty the King:— ...
Article : 104 wordsADELAIDE, Aug. 28.—Important scientific work was done among the Dieri and Wonkanguru, and other fast diminishing aboriginal tribes of the North by the ...
Article : 100 wordsGIBRALTAR, Aug. 28.—The first thrill of the trip of H.M.S. Sussex, which will convey the Duke of Gloucester to Australia, occurred at 11 o'clock last night ...
Article : 141 wordsYORK, Aug. 28.—The following proposed programme is to be submitted for approval in connexion with the visit of the Duke of Gloucester to York. On ...
Article : 190 wordsWELLINGTON, Aug. 28.—The Governor-General (Lord Bledisloe) and Lady Bledisloe will shortly visit Australia. They will leave Wellington on October 5 for ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 77 wordsLONDON, Aug. 27.—The British Association for the Advancement of Science, which is holding its annual meetings at Aberystwyth next month, and at which ...
Article : 116 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug. 28.—The Leader of the Federal Parliamentary Country Party (Dr. Page), supporting Mr. H. McClelland's candidature for the Wimmera seat in the ...
Article : 234 wordsADELAIDE, Aug. 28.—The Dairy Produce Bill, which provides for the establishment of a State scheme relating to the marketing of dairy produce, passed ...
Article : 284 wordsLONDON, Aug. 28.—The celebrated octogenarian archaeologist, Sir Flinders Petrie, with his wife and two students, is starting this week for Northern Syria, ...
Article : 50 wordsLONDON, Aug. 27.—The Government of Northern Ireland has prohibited General O'Duffy, the Blue Shirt leader, from entering any part of Northern Ireland until ...
Article : 129 wordsAn unusual entertainment at the Perth Legacy Club ball, in honour of the Duke of Gloucester, in Government. House ballroom on October 4, will be ...
Article : 100 wordsNEWPORT (Rhode Island), Aug. 27.— The yacht Rainbow, Mr. Harold Vanderbilt's new candidate for the defence of the America's Cup, today defeated Yankee, the ...
Article : 113 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug. 28.—A message from Orbost states that two men from Sydney were lost in the snow on Sunday night in mountainous country near Bendoc. ...
Article : 298 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug. 28.—The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research has co-opted the services of Messrs E. C. Clark, H. St. J. Somerset, and W. E. ...
Article : 220 wordsLONDON, Aug. 28.—General Higgins, who will retire from the leadership of the Salvation Army on November l, presided today at the Central Hall, ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 155 wordsADELAIDE, Aug. 28.—Hori G. Morse was released from Yatala Labour Prison yesterday after having served 10 years of a sentence of life imprisonment on a ...
Article : 142 wordsSAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 27.—Fourteen blocks of West Australian flowers in ice have arrived for exhibition at a flower show in Oakland in September. In a ceremony at ...
Article : 91 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 28.—Medical evidence was tendered to Mr. Arnold, S.M., in a suburban Children's Court this week, to show that a child was not the child of ...
Article : 269 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug. 28.—Unusual incidents marked the proceedings at three of the statutory council meetings which were held in the suburbs last night for the ...
Article : 236 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 28.—A disclosure was made in the Equity Court today that the Commissioner of Taxation had informed the executors of the will of the late ...
Article : 223 wordsLONDON, Aug. 27.—The Duke of Gloucester, while attending a returned soldiers' concert at Brisbane, will launch by wireless at 11 a.m. (Greenwich time) on ...
Article : 77 wordsADELAIDE, Aug. 28.—A high tribute to the capability, personality, and enthusiasm of Sir Edgeworth David was paid by Sir Douglas Mawson. Professor ...
Article : 374 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug. 28.—The Transport Regulation Board plainly, indicated today that it was not willing to consider objections by the Railways Commissioners to ...
Article : 198 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 28.—The City Coroner (Mr. H. H. Farrington) returned an open verdict today at the conclusion of the inquest on Mrs. Stella Ann Harrison. ...
Article : 145 wordsLONDON, Aug. 27.—Collins, Ltd., are publishing an interesting travel book entitled "Strolling Through Scotland," by the Australian actor. Mr. W. S. ...
Article : 73 wordsAUCKLAND, Aug. 28.—John Leslie Florance (25), who was convicted today of violent assault on the occasion of a burglary, was sentenced by Mr. Justice ...
Article : 65 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 28.—Officials of the Returned Soldiers' League stated today that a Turkish bullet which had been in the thigh of Mr. George Guthrie for the last ...
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