By an overwhelming majority, a mass meeting of more than 2,000 seamen in Sydney yesterday reaffirmed their previous decision to remain on strike until their demands are granted. The general secretary of the Seamen's Union (Mr. J. Johnson) was refused a ...
Article : 630 wordsThe main tasks before the British Cabinet meeting yesterday were to define the policy to be followed by Mr. Eden at Geneva when the League Council meets to consider the Franco-British peace plan today, and to prepare the case for the House of Commons ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 666 wordsNEW YORK, Dec. 16.—The Federal Government made an important move in its bitter fight against public utility holding companies today when it filed a tax ...
Article : 231 wordsPEIPING, Dec. 16.—The Hopei-Chahar provincial council, appointed last week as a result of the Sino-Japanese compromise on the North China autonomy movement, ...
Article : 215 wordsLONDON, Dec. 17.—The largest sales of Australian wheat in one day ever remembered occurred yesterday, when 16 cargoes, totalling about 130,000 tons, ...
Article : 308 wordsMELBOURNE, Dec. 17.—The Air Accidents Investigation Committee, in its report on the mishap to the airliner Lepena, which was wrecked in a forced ...
Article : 428 wordsNANKING, Dec. 16.—Addressing the new cabinet today, General Chiang Kai-shek, now President of the Administrative Council, declared that China would ...
Article : 35 wordsLONDON, Dec. 17.—Sir Alan Anderson, chairman of the Orient Line, speaking at the annual meeting today, followed Mr. A. Shaw, chairman of the P. and O. Co. ...
Article : 153 wordsThe record sales of Australian wheat in a single day reported from London caused local merchants to raise their prices for export wheat by from 3-8d. ...
Article : 87 wordsOne man was killed instantly and another was injured when a motor truck plunged down an embankment and overturned in Canning-road. Palmyra, about ...
Article : 325 wordsLONDON, Dec. 16.—With a view to expediting the work of the five-Power naval conference, a meeting of heads of delegations was held this afternoon, at the ...
Article : 121 wordsHOBART, Dec. 17.—The Premier (Mr. A. G. Ogilvie, K.C.), stated today that he had sent a telegram to the Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons) asking that the Federal ...
Article : 55 wordsLONDON, Dec. 16.—In view of the fact that the governments concerned are conferring with Pacific shipping interests, directors of the P. and O. company are ...
Article : 124 wordsThe Australian Associated Press has been informed that there is no basis for the suggestion that the League Council meeting may be postponed until ...
Article : 328 wordsLOS ANGELES, Dec. 16.—Mystery surrounds the death of Thelma Todd, the cinema actress, whose body was found this morning in her motor car near the ...
Article : 285 wordsLONDON, Dec. 17.—While it was reported that a Japanese objection to the presence of Dominion representatives had created ill-feeling at the Naval ...
Article : 225 wordsBRISBANE, Dec. 17.—With the sailing tonight of the steamer Canonbar for Bundaberg and Mackay, all the vessels owned by John Burke, Ltd.—Canonbar. ...
Article : 322 wordsNEW YORE, Dec. 16.—Richard Bruno Hauptmann continues his desperate efforts to avoid execution on January 14 for the kidnapping and murder of the ...
Article : 249 wordsWELLINGTON, Dec. 17.—The preparation of tentative plans for an air service between England and New Zealand, via Australia, occupying seven and a half ...
Article : 196 wordsSYDNEY, Dec. 17.—Following the meeting of the Seamen's Union today, numerous inquiries were received at shipping offices from members of the union ...
Article : 350 wordsPARIS, Dec. 17.—When the Prime Minister (M. Laval) made a statement in the Chamber of Deputies today on the peace proposals, interruptions and ...
Article : 414 wordsBRISBANE, Dec. 17.—For three years the police all over Australia have been vainly searching for Mrs. Ruby Walditch Gerahty (43), last heard of as a ...
Article : 384 wordsLONDON, Dec. 16.—Twelve members of the party which will make an attempt to reach the summit of Mt. Everest next year have been chosen. The leader is ...
Article : 99 wordsLOS ANGELES, Dec. 16.—Three men were killed instantly, one fatally wounded, two critically wounded and one wounded in the leg today when Charles Lyman ...
Article : 150 wordsThere was no development at Fremantle yesterday in respect to the shipping strike. At 2.15 p.m. tomorrow 18 members of the interstate freighter ...
Article : 161 wordsBELGRADE, Dec. 16.—Mr. R. W. Gropler, the Adelaide airman, who left England on December 10 to fly to South Australia by easy stages and who was ...
Article : 64 wordsLONDON, Dec. 16.—The reorganisation commission appointed to prepare schemes to regulate the marketing of eggs and poultry in the United Kingdom presented ...
Article : 100 wordsSYDNEY, Dec. 17.—Five volunteers, who had been engaged in Melbourne and who had arrived by the Huddart, Parker steamer Goulburn, were attacked by a ...
Article : 109 wordsThe political correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says: "Mr. Baldwin will indulge in plain speaking when he defends the Franco-British proposals in ...
Article : 459 wordsLONDON, Dec. 16.—Answering a question in the House of Commons today on Egypt, the Minister for League of Nations Affairs (Mr. Anthony Eden), said the ...
Article : 174 wordsLONDON, Dec. 16.—Charged with false pretences. Ernest Pease Freeman was sentenced in the Birmingham City Court today to imprisonment for four years. ...
Article : 124 wordsLONDON, Dec. 16.—There was a sudden ending today to the adjourned action in which Messrs. T. Neville Stack and S. L. E. Turner, who entered an Airspeed ...
Article : 148 wordsVANCOUVER, Dec. 16.—After yawning for 98 days, Mrs. P. A. Wakelin, of Victoria (British Columbia) has been cured. Complete isolation and absolute quiet ...
Article : 41 wordsLONDON, Dec. 16.—Replying in the House of Commons today to a question asked in connection with the trial in the House of Lords of Lord de Clifford on a ...
Article : 91 wordsLONDON, Dec. 17.—Three dangers are foreseen as a result of the storm over the peace terms. M. Laval may now urge the League Council itself to mediate ...
Article : 205 wordsADELAIDE, Dec. 17.—The strike position at Port Adelaide showed no further developments today apart from the manning of the motorship Mulcra with ...
Article : 461 wordsWELLINGTON, Dec. 17.—Mr. W. M. O'Hara, who flew the Tasman Sea from Australia to New Zealand in October after the airworthiness certificate of his ...
Article : 68 wordsATHENS, Dec. 17.—King George issued a decree today dissolving Parliament. Elections will be held on January 26. ...
Article : 23 wordsCAIRO, Dec. 17.—The Council of Ministers has approved of a new electoral law providing for universal suffrage. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Wed 18 Dec 1935, Page 19
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