Fighting with great courage and determination under a terrific bombardment, a large Chinese force has halted the Japanese south-ward advance on Shanghai in the region of Lotien, where the biggest battle of the southern campaign is now raging. ...
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Article : 276 wordsCANBERRA, Aug. 26.—"If we are returned to power at the coming elections I we will put back those taxes which have been remitted and make those on the ...
Article : 427 wordsLONDON, Aug. 25.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain) was in London today, arriving from Deeside, Northern Scotland, there he has been on a ...
Article : 598 wordsWhile a woman and her two children were eating their evening meal in their home at Cannington about 5.45 o'clock yesterday, a willy-willy struck the house ...
Article : 517 wordsSHANGHAI, Aug. 26.—While returning to Shanghai from Nanking by motor car today with members of his staff, the t British Ambassador to China (Sir Hughe ...
Article : 442 wordsLONDON, Aug. 25.—Professor T. Hytten, of Sydney, economist of the Bank of New South Wales, states in an article in the "Financial Times" that a reading ...
Article : 699 wordsCANBERRA, Aug. 26.—Statements that the standards of measurement used by Australia in the manufacture of munitions were unreliable were denied today ...
Article : 160 wordsTOKIO, Aug. 25.—The Japanese claim further successes in the fighting in North China and their capture of the Nankow Pass (north of Peiping in the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 161 wordsSINGAPORE, Aug. 24.—Arrangements are being made here to accommodate some thousands of refugees who have left China via Hong Kong, including many ...
Article : 71 wordsCANBERRA, Aug. 26.—Amendments designed to give wider powers of inquiry to the proposed Interstate Commission were forecast when the debate on the ...
Article : 577 wordsLONDON, Aug. 25.—In a leading article referring to Australasian defence published today, "The Times" says that the difference in the viewpoints of the ...
Article : 262 wordsEDMONTON (Alberta), Aug. 25.—A six months' moratorium of all debts owing to corporations before July, 1936, has been proclaimed by the Premier ...
Article : 129 wordsROME, Aug. 26.—The capture of Santander is being celebrated as an Italian victory. Blackshirts demonstrated throughout the night and cafes are ...
Article : 42 wordsLONDON. Aug. 25.—Announcement of the details of the scheme for subsidising British shipping in the Pacific which are being discussed by the Governments ...
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Article : 174 wordsLONDON, Aug. 25.—Sydney Frederick Hird, an Australian professional cricketer, of the Ramsbottom Club, was to-day ordered a month's imprisonment for ...
Article : 176 wordsLONDON, Aug. 25.—The danger to the large number of foreign nationals and their property at Tsingtao (north of Shanghai) which would result from a ...
Article : 122 wordsNEW YORK, Aug. 25.—Although a fortnight has elapsed since the Russian airmen who set out to fly non-stop across the North Pole from Moscow to ...
Article : 316 wordsTOKIO. Aug. 25.—The newspaper "Nichi Nichi" reports that the British shipowners have accepted the Japanese proposal for a non-governmental ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 85 wordsLONDON, Aug. 26.—The diplomatic correspondent of "The Times" states that the news of the Japanese blockade of the Yangtze-kiang and the adjacent coast ...
Article : 354 wordsLONDON, Aug. 25.—The film rights of Dr. A. J. Cronin's book "Citadel," in which he makes an attack on West End doctors, have been bought by Victor ...
Article : 60 wordsLONDON, Aug. 2.—The general interpretation of the Commonwealth Government's decision to send Mr. A. R. McComb (a senior official in the Civil ...
Article : 211 wordsLONDON, Aug. 25.—The British Government proposes to maintain continuously for the present a naval force of at least one flotilla of destroyers and two ...
Article : 121 wordsCANBERRA, Aug. 26.—Mr. Nairn's proposed amendment to the Interstate Commission Bill is to insert the word "disabilities" into sub-clause (a) of Clause ...
Article : 58 wordsLONDON, Aug. 25.—The correspondent of "The Times" at Riga states that a military tribunal at Moscow has sentenced to death eight members of a Trotskyist ...
Article : 98 wordsSINGAPORE, Aug. 25.—Official figures regarding the outbreak of cholera in Hong Kong and Macao show that, for the week ended August 21, there were ...
Article : 74 wordsTOKIO. Aug. 26.—Leading woollen manufacturers have met and decided that owing to accumulating stocks and sagging prices it is necessary to increase ...
Article : 67 wordsLONDON, Aug. 25.—The Government has ordered British consular officers throughout the world to refer to London all applications for British ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Fri 27 Aug 1937, Page 23
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