With the rebel offensives in the south and in the far north, the Spanish civil war is now being waged with pitiless ferocity on an increasing scale. To the appalling sacrifice of life in battle, and ion street fighting in towns half destroyed by bombardment and fire, there ...
Article : 813 wordsLONDON, Aug. 16.—As a result of German and Italian delays in replying definitely to the French Government's proposals, real progress cannot be ...
Article : 769 wordsLONDON, Aug. 16.—Heavily bombed by the rebels and captured after terrible bloodshed in a fierce assault yesterday evening, the town of Badajoz, in the ...
Article : 408 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug. 16.—Trade relations between Australia and Japan in the light of the new tariff policy adopted by the Commonwealth Government will be ...
Article : 203 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug. 16.—The body of Adelaide Bendixen Bek (50). single, of Skeats-street; Canterbury, was found in a quarry hole at Pewley Hill, about 30 ...
Article : 312 wordsJERUSALEM, Aug. 16.—Eight Jews were killed in two Arab outrages in the week-end, one near the port of Haifa and the other at Safed, a few miles north of ...
Article : 205 wordsVarious observations were attached by the Portuguese Government to its communications to the French and British Governments announcing adherence in ...
Article : 186 wordsGENEVA, Aug. 15.—The Jewish World Congress today appealed for the observance of the Balfour Declaration of 1917 (promising British assistance in the ...
Article : 54 wordsTOKIO, Aug. 16.—It is reported from Hsinking, the capital, that the Emperor of Manchukuo has sanctioned the promulgation of ordinances, effective for the ...
Article : 207 wordsGovernment troops on the roof of a Madrid building preparing for the expected advance of the rebels on the capital. Two young women may be seen on the right of the line. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 34 wordsGIBRALTAR, Aug. 15.—The 38 Britons reported to have been held as hostages by the miners at the Rio Tinto mines are safe at Huelva, where a British destroyer ...
Article : 242 wordsThe desperate struggle for the north coast key towns of san Sebastian and Irun. which are only a few miles apart and are close to the French frontier, ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 419 wordsTOKIO, Aug. 15.—An organisation to control wool Imports has been formed by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry with the co-operation and participation ...
Article : 72 wordsWASHINGTON, Aug 15.—Re-stating his Government's policy of American neutrality in an important speech to-night at Chautauqua (New York). ...
Article : 225 wordsSINGAPORE, Aug. 16.—Dr. Earle Page, the Australian Minister for Commerce, who reached Singapore on Friday evening on his way to Australia from ...
Article : 229 wordsLONDON, Aug. 16.—A dispatch from Oslo says it is reported that police investigations exonerate M. Trotsky, the Russian exile, of an accusation of using ...
Article : 170 wordsMeanwhile, the desire of the British Government for a speedy agreement for non-intervention in the Spanish conflict is strengthened by the knowledge that ...
Article : 547 wordsBERLIN, Aug. 14.—An incident reminiscent of the occurrences at the Spanish Embassies in Rome and the Vatican City took place at the Spanish Embassy in ...
Article : 206 wordsNAIROBI, Aug. 16.—The Swedish ambulance unit that operated in Abyssinia during the Italian conquest arrived to-day from Abyssinia after a two months' ...
Article : 121 wordsOTTAWA, Aug. 15.—At a level crossing in Louisville (Quebec) last night a freight train smashed into a motor truck carrying 40 men and boys, killing ...
Article : 116 wordsCAPE TOWN, Aug. 14—The publication of more definite details of the South African defence agreement reached with the British Government by the Defence ...
Article : 152 wordsNearer the capital, the loyalists are bombing and shelling the positions held by General Mola's insurgent troops in the Guadarrama Ranges. But the main ...
Article : 507 wordsPARIS, Aug. 15.—Alone in a runaway aeroplane when it took off from Angouleme aerodrome today, Colette Loup, a 13-year-old girl, for half an hour made a ...
Article : 132 wordsROME, Aug. 15.—An official dispatch from Addis Ababa states that the property in that city of M. Wolde Mariam, former Abyssinian Minister to Paris, and ...
Article : 60 wordsSHANGHAI, Aug. 15.—When the British gunboat Seamew was steaming to-day along the West River, past Wuchow, Kwangsi provincial troops holding forts ...
Article : 74 wordsLONDON, Aug. 15.—Great as was the speed of the De Havilland Comet that won the Melbourne centenary air race in 1934, the three men associated in the ...
Article : 84 wordsThe belief is growing that the French proposals will meet with the same fate in Berlin as the British questionnaire on Herr Hitler's peace plan, which was ...
Article : 496 wordsNEW YORK, Aug. 15.—The opinion that fast land aeroplanes would be more suitable than seaplanes for the proposed air service between America and New ...
Article : 112 wordsORAN (Algeria), Aug. 15.—Carrying a cargo of wine and grain for France. a steamer on the way to Oran suddenly blew up and sank off Algiers. Of 35 ...
Article : 63 wordsBELGRADE, Aug. 14.—Scenes of enthusiasm continue to mark King Edward's holiday cruise along the Dalmatian coast. Troger, the "Dalmatian Venice " vas ...
Article : 130 wordsLONDON. Aug. 14.—The Swiss Government has prohibited the export or transport of arms and munitions to Spain, and forbidden its nationals to participate in ...
Article : 50 wordsLONDON, Aug. 16.—A sad sequel to ,the death of Sir Harry Preston, the "Uncrowned King of Brighton," whose efforts in the cause of charity resulted ...
Article : 96 wordsDUBLIN, Aug. 15.—General O'Duffy, leader of the Blue Shirts, states that he is forming an Irish brigade to help the rebels on the ground that the present ...
Article : 92 wordsROME, Aug. 14.—"Only God can save us from this chaos of ideas and human failings and help us to arrive at something good," said the Pope today when ...
Article : 81 wordsVIENNA, Aug. 15.—The Duke and Duchess of Kent and their host, Count von Hoffmannsthal escaped Injury today when the car in which the Count was ...
Article : 56 wordsTHE HAGUE, Aug. 16.—Royal Dutch Airlines have bought eight - Douglas (American) transport planes with which they will reduce the time of the ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 17 Aug 1936, Page 19
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