GENEVA, Aug. 3.—The British Secretary for the Colonies (Mr. Ormsby-Gore) was questioned for 31 hours yesterday by the Permanent Mandates Commission of ...
Article : 256 wordsLONDON, Aug. 3.—According to information from Teruel (about 75 miles north-west of Valencia), where the Spanish loyalists' siege was reported yesterday to ...
Article : 236 wordsLONDON. Aug. 2.—The Italian Ambassador (Count Grandi) today called at No. 10 Downing-street and handed to the Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain) a ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 315 wordsNEWPORT, Aug. 2.—In the second of the series of races for the America's Cup. sailed today, Mr. Harold S. Vanderbilt's yacht Ranger again beat Mr. T. O. M. ...
Article : 613 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug. 3.—The trial was begun in the Ballarat Supreme Court today of Reginald James Kilpatrick (22), horse driver, who was charged with ...
Article : 312 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 3.—It is expected that as a result of a decision of the coal owners to discuss proposals for settlement most of the miners who have been idle will ...
Article : 703 wordsCANBERRA, Aug. 3.—Corrected estimates made available today by the Commonwealth Statistician (Dr. Roland Wilson) reveal a favourable trade balance ...
Article : 425 wordsSHANGHAI, Aug. 3.—While the only Military operations reported from North China yesterday were the annihilation of two small Chinese forces between Peiping ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 625 wordsZURICH, Aug. 3.—The Zionist Congress, attended by 450 delegates from 50 countries, will be opened here today, the chief issue being the British Government's plan ...
Article : 120 wordsDamage running into many hundreds of pounds was caused by a spectacular fire which gutted a motor workshop in Victoria Park shortly before midnight last ...
Article : 495 wordsLONDON, Aug. 3.—It is reported that General Franco, the Spanish insurgent leader, will soon announce the composition of a properly constituted Ministry. ...
Article : 71 wordsBRISBANE, Aug. 3.—The Acting-Chief Justice (Mr. Justice Macrossan) today criticised strongly the conduct of a criminal trial by Mr. Justice Brennan in the ...
Article : 466 wordsLONDON, Aug. 3.—The Italian Embassy states that the Governor of Addis Ababa requires the title deeds of real property in Abyssinia. Unless the deeds ...
Article : 39 wordsOTTAWA, Aug. 2.—An Order-in- council banning enlistment. recruiting and the raising of funds for the war in Spain has been declared effective. No ...
Article : 35 wordsLONDON, Aug. 3.—The "Motion Picture Daily" states that America estimates that her foreign trade in films and equipment represents £25,000,000 sterling per ...
Article : 241 wordsADELAIDE, Aug. 3.—The first "stay-in" strike in this State which began at the South Australian Gas Company's works at Brompton at 8 am. Yesterday. ...
Article : 357 wordsCANBERRA, Aug. 3.—For the first time since Federation, Australia has achieved a favourable trade balance with the United States over a full year. The ...
Article : 226 wordsLONDON, Aug. 2.—Nugent Davidson, son of Harold Francis Davidson, former rector of Stiffkey. who was fatally mauled by a lion at a Skegness amusement park ...
Article : 118 wordsIf the coal dispute in New South Wales results in a curtailment of production little inconvenience will be felt in this State for a considerable while. ...
Article : 279 wordsAMSTERDAM, Aug. 2.—Visitors entered the Australian boy scouts' camp at Bloemendal at the rate of 600 an hour during the week-end, a check showed. ...
Article : 71 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 3.—A remarkable story of a woman's business deals was related in the Federal Bankruptcy Court today when evidence was given in the ...
Article : 311 wordsLONDON, Aug. 3.—Significant figures concerning movements of the world's central monetary gold reserves have been published by the economic intelligence ...
Article : 178 wordsLONDON , Aug. 2.—According to the "Daily Mail," foreign manufacturers are planning to raid the British car market, which is hampered by rising prices and ...
Article : 99 wordsCHRISTCHURCH (New Zealand), Aug. 3.—Strange tales of a Launted billy-can and eerie noises every night are told by five men who arrived today by the steamer ...
Article : 287 wordsPEIPING, Aug. 2.—Red roses being unavailable in Peiping owing to the recent lighting, it seemed likely that the First Battalion of the Lancashire Fusiliers, ...
Article : 170 wordsMELBOURNE. Aug. 3.—The Attorney- General (Mr. Bussau) in reply to a question in the Legislative Assembly to-day revealed that in the last three ...
Article : 176 wordsADELAIDE, Aug. 3.—The Broken Hill express which arrived at Burra at 6.40 a.m. today was rounding a curve into the station when a back axle on ...
Article : 118 wordsLONDON, Aug. 2.—Before the adjournment of the House of Commons on Friday the Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain) announced that control of the fleet ...
Article : 85 wordsCANBERRA, Aug. 3.—Despite the strong protests from owners of adjacent private property, the Federal Cabinet to-day confirmed the proposal that the ...
Article : 173 wordsWELLINGTON, Aug. 3.—"I am satisfied that New Zealand's credit in London stands as high as that of any of the Dominions," declared the Prime Minister ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 174 wordsBUKAREST, Aug. 3.—Rumania's 12,000 gipsies, who have hitherto taken life in a happy-go-lucky fashion, have become politically-minded and have joined ...
Article : 105 wordsLONDON, Aug. 2.—Taking advantage of the bank holiday today. 83,000 people attended an international athletic meeting at White City. Nine first-class cricket ...
Article : 81 wordsADELAIDE, Aug. 3.—Leonard Bruce Sutherland (25), married, of Beachport, in the South-East, and Mr. Stephens, of Adelaide, were fishing off Beachport ...
Article : 61 wordsVIENNA, Aug. 2.—Mika Jovanovitch has won fame and adulation for tracking and shooting, near Sence, in south Serbia, a huge bear, believed to be the ...
Article : 84 wordsADELAIDE, Aug. 3.—The Mayor of Port Augusta (Mr. Riches. M.P.) reported at a meeting of the town council today that he had interviewed the Chief ...
Article : 141 wordsLONDON. Aug. 3.—The New Zealand Minister for Labour (Mr. Armstrong) has concluded a tour of the principal industrial centres of the United Kingdom and ...
Article : 94 wordsLOS ANGELES, Aug. 2.—For having attempted to extort 500 dollars (approximately 100 sterling) from John Boles, the film actor, Mrs. June Bates (38), a ...
Article : 56 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug. 3.—One death from infantile paralysis and one more case were reported today. A boy aged four years from North Brighton died a ...
Article : 124 wordsLONDON, Aug. 3.—A claimant to the millions left by the late Sir Basil Zaharoff, the armament; manufacturers' agent, who was known as the "mystery ...
Article : 92 wordsLONDON, Aug. 3.—Alan Hill (29), film actor, was today sentenced to six months' imprisonment with hard labour, and Wilhelmina Grove (23), sentenced ...
Article : 195 wordsSYDNEY. Aug. 3.—Scrip valued at £7,500, and £17/10/ in cash, were stolen from the strongroom at the premises of O. H. O'Brien (Sydney), electrical ...
Article : 114 wordsBERLIN, Aug. 3.—The latest German chemical triumph is the making of "chocolates" from wood. Examples are being shown at a Dusseldorf exhibition ...
Article : 45 wordsBRISBANE, Aug. 3.—Queensland finished the first month of the financial year with a deficit of £27,994. For the corresponding period last year there was ...
Article : 58 wordsAUCKLAND, Aug. 3.—When he was stranded in Sydney with very little money a letter reached a New Zealander from an Auckland firm of solicitors advising ...
Article : 79 wordsBERLIN, Aug. 3.—To encourage early marriages a law will operate next spring by which the most junior officials upon marriage will receive an allowance up ...
Article : 51 wordsCALLENDER (United States), Aug. 3. —Emilie. one of the Dionne quintuplets, is mildly ill due to the heat and will not be allowed to appear with her sisters for ...
Article : 38 wordsHOLLYWOOD, Aug. 2.—The actress Betty Grable has announced that she will marry Jackie Coogan, the well- known elm actor, on December 18 next, ...
Article : 33 wordsLONDON, Aug. 2.—One of the original 200-year-old front pipes of the organ at St. Lawrence's Church, Little Stanmore, north of London, has been stolen. ...
Article : 39 wordsWARSAW, Aug. 3.—The Duke and Duchess of Kent have arrived at the Lancut estate of Count Potocki, where Colonel Beck, the Polish Foreign ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Wed 4 Aug 1937, Page 19
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