The First Lord of the Admiralty (Earl Stanhope), speaking on the aircraft carrier Ark Royal at Portsmouth at the inauguration of the cinema programmes for ratings, satd: "Unfortunately, others are not here to-night, because shortly ...
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Article : 150 wordsDespite officially inspired statements in London and Paris that there is no information to support the reports of an Italian ...
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Article : 218 wordsDiplomaic advices from Albania state that the Italians will land troops in Albania on April. 5 and 6. ...
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Article : 43 wordsContracts will be let for 550 combat planes after the passing of the War Department Bil1. The planes wilL include tho fastest. ...
Article : 66 wordsAlthough reports that Turkey is contemplating an invasion of the Sanjak of Alexandretta have been denied,a French cruiser has ...
Article : 69 wordsUsing planes and artillery, the Japanese recaptured Kongmoon. The Chinese retreated in the direction of Sunwei. ...
Article : 23 wordsTwenty-thousand fishermen and 144 boats shortly will sail for Soviet waters from Hakodate as a result of the recent fisheries pact with Russia ...
Article : 32 wordsMolly Gallacher (18) was sentenced to three years in a Borstal institution for concealing in her rooms explosive material belonging to members of the ...
Article : 148 wordsAt Quincy (Mass.) the 50th warship of the national defence programme was launched amid the tooting of tuga and cheers of thousands of spectator. ...
Article : 186 wordsMr. R. H. Hudson, Secretary of the Department of Overseas Trade, reached Croydon this af ternoon, having flown from Stockholm, the last of the four ...
Article : 146 wordsConversations which took place today between the Air Minister (Sir Kingsley Wood) and Monsieur Guy Lachambre, the French Air Minister, ...
Article : 213 wordsIt is now considered certain that the Victorian Railway Commissioner, Mr. Clapp, will be appointed manager of the vast aircraft manufacturing ...
Article : 164 wordsAstonishing results in the treatment of cerebro-spinal meningitis are being obtained in the equatorial province with the sulphanilamide drug M. and B. 693. ...
Article : 79 wordsFuel for the Commonwealth charcoalburning five-ton truck costs less than [?]d. a mile when running fully loaded. The truck consumes 1.581b. of charcoal ...
Article : 124 wordsThe President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Oliver Stanley) announced in the House of Commions that Sir Frederick Leith-Ross, chief economic adviser to ...
Article : 164 wordsJimmy Hines, the Tammany leader, who was sentenced to eight years imprisonment on a charge of having been concerned in an illegal lottery, from ...
Article : 83 wordsAfter a special meeting tp-night. the Queensland Friendly Society tion decided not to accept the new proposals put forward by the Federal ...
Article : 119 wordsThe Havas Agency correspondent at Beirnt states that Mr. G. Monck Mason, the British Consul at Mosul,is reported to have been assassinated ...
Article : 139 wordsThe Secretary for War (Mr. HoreBelisha),asked in the House of Commons if he would consider the offer from a group of Czechoslovak reserve ...
Article : 95 wordsThree bomb explosions in the centre of Birmingham early this morning extensively shattered windows, but no one was injured. The first occurred ...
Article : 96 wordsEleven native women were sen tenced to six months and 447 to three months for stoning to death a native main involved in a money dispute with ...
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Article : 116 wordsThe Executive Council to-day decided that George Green (38), chimney sweep, who was convicted of the murder of Misses Annie and Phyllis ...
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Article : 35 wordsAld. Deveney, the first Labour member of the Melbourne City Council, collapsed and died while playing cards at the Melbourne Town Hall to-day. He ...
Article : 107 wordsAt Liverpool a second explosion at the foot of tramway pole in the centre of the city blew a hole feet deep in the road but did not damage the track. ...
Article : 66 wordsGhaji's four-year-old son has been proclaimed King Feisal the Second, and his uncle the Emir Abdul, has been appointed regent. ...
Article : 35 wordsAn official bulletin concerning the condition of the Prime Minister (Mr. J. A. Lyons) stated that he had contracted a severe chill He left for ...
Article : 73 wordsIn the House of Commons the War Secretary (Mr. Hore-Belisha) stated that about 16,000 army reservists would be called up for training in the ...
Article : 45 wordsThe first flight on the regular passenger service to the South Pacific mandated islands began on April 4. ...
Article : 35 wordsThirty five Arabs were detained after the wounding of Mr. J. H. Iliffc, a Briton attached to the Palestine Archae[?] ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Duke of Devonshire is to visit South Africa, and South Rhodesia. He will leave England in May and return [?] [?] in July. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Secretary of State for War (Mr. Hore-Belisha) has postponed his proposed visit to Gibraltar ...
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The Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1965), Thu 6 Apr 1939, Page 9
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