SHANGHAI, Aug. 7.—Though heavy rain has for the present halted military movements in North China, the Japanese army authorities in Peiping (which is now ...
Article : 494 wordsVANCOUVER, Aug. 7.—Men all over Canada today are calling on the Federal Government to step in in Alberta and displace the Provincial Government led ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 539 wordsLONDON, Aug. 7.—Great interest is being taken in the air defence exercises which will take place at the beginning of next week and in the course of which, for ...
Article : 139 wordsBRISBANE, Aug. 8.—Its tail shorn off in a collision in mid-air, a Royal Queensland Aero Club Moth plane plunged 200 feet to the Rocklea showground early this ...
Article : 543 wordsLONDON, Aug. 7.—After a meeting lasting for an hour and a half at the Foreign Office yesterday, the chairman's sub-committee of the international ...
Article : 588 wordsLONDON, Aug. 7.—The Home Office has refused permission to three German journalists to remain in Britain, alleging "improper activities" against them. They ...
Article : 335 wordsLONDON, Aug. 7.—It is now considered to be established that the three big planes which attacked the British tanker British Corporal (6,972 tons) about 30 ...
Article : 750 wordsCANBERRA, Aug. 8.—Since the disclosure that an expert report prepared for the Federal Ministry has declared that the accessible deposits of iron at present ...
Article : 626 wordsLONDON, Aug. 6.—Britain's emergency army of over 1,000,000 volunteers is being completed in readiness for any air raid emergency. At least a tenth of ...
Article : 300 wordsBOTWOOD (Newfoundland), Aug. 6.—On the first daylight crossing in connection with the proposed transatlantic service, the Pan-American Airways Sikorsky ...
Article : 183 wordsLONDON, Aug. 6.—The "Star," referring to a declaration in the House of Commons by the Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence (Sir Thomas Inskip) ...
Article : 206 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug. 8.—Intended as a model for the production of fighting aeroplanes a NA16 type of aircraft will arrive in Melbourne from the United ...
Article : 157 wordsTOKIO, Aug. 7.—The House of Peers today passed the Supplementary Estimates, totaling £24,000,000 sterling, for contingencies in North China. ...
Article : 53 wordsLONDON, Aug. 7.—At yesterday's meeting of the chairman's sub-committee of the international non-intervention committee the secretary to the committee, as ...
Article : 469 wordsMOSCOW, Aug. 6.—The soviet purge, which has already cost many leading officials their lives on charges of wrecking, treason and espionage, continues ...
Article : 117 wordsTOKIO, Aug. 8.—The newspaper "Yomiuri" reports that the Japan Mining Co. has bought an iron mine in New Caledonia. It is estimated that there ...
Article : 46 wordsLONDON, Aug. 7.—Lieut.-Col A. J. Muirhead, Under-Secretary for Air, will proceed shortly on a visit to East Africa to meet the Minister of Railways and ...
Article : 108 wordsLONDON, Aug. 8.—Another claimant of an invention to nullify air raids is Professor Anthony, a holder of many science degrees who, in the newspaper, ...
Article : 113 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug. 8.—Five more cases of infantile paralysis, including one of a man aged 28 years from Carnegie, were reported at the week-end, ...
Article : 118 wordsOTTAWA, Aug. 7.—Referring to the Alberta Government's legislation to control banking the Prime Minister (Mr. Mackenzie King) said today: "When the ...
Article : 42 wordsBUKAREST, Aug. 6.—Two passengers and the crew of four were incinerated when a Soviet airliner crashed in flames near Bistritza today. The plane caught ...
Article : 42 wordsAMSTERDAM, Aug. 7.—Dutch scouts wearing kilts and full Highland costume may shortly be in attendance at Queen Wilhelmina's palace at the Hague. The ...
Article : 126 wordsLONDON, Aug. 8.—The Lisbon correspondent of "'The Times" reports that the Spanish insurgent offensive in the Teruel sector (north-west of Valencia) ...
Article : 143 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug. 8.—Roaring up a staircase which formed a powerful flue, a fire on Saturday night spread quickly from the ground floor to the top floor of ...
Article : 213 wordsLONDON, Aug. 8.—"The Men I Killed" is the title of a book written by Brigadier-General Crozier, who describes how he himself shot a young British officer who ...
Article : 106 wordsTOKIO, Aug. 8.—The Domel News Agency reports that, British shipowners having failed to respond to the recent Japanese invitation to attend a ...
Article : 70 wordsNEW YORK, Aug. 6.—Out of work and suffering from ill-health and despondency, Bernard Gregor (20) killed his mother and two elder sisters with a ...
Article : 96 wordsLONDON, Aug. 6.—Of two accidents which occurred today at games, one proved fatal and in the other the victim was Mr. J. H. Thomas, the former ...
Article : 93 wordsLONDON, Aug. 7.—H. W. Austin, the British Davis Cup tennis players, addressing the Hull Rotary Club today, said he had received much abuse because he ...
Article : 85 wordsLONDON, Aug. 7.—In 1930 a Melbourne office boy, aged 15, was given a letter which had been posted at random by an American youth. Correspondence ...
Article : 131 wordsLONDON, Aug. 8.—Four girls were jammed on the port side at the head of the fore saloon when the cross Channel steamer Princess Marie Jose with 750 ...
Article : 145 wordsWELLINGTON, Aug. 8.—A reunion of the wartime complement of the Marama (6,497 tons) took place on the vessel today. About 30 of those who served on ...
Article : 84 wordsSALAMANCA, Aug. 7.—Bearing gifts and greetings from his brother, the "Blue Sultan" of Ifni the Moorish Prince Sidi Mohamet Liman called on General ...
Article : 149 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug. 8.—Accompanied by a threat that two houses in Alma- street, Fitzroy, would be blown up if the tenants were not ejected before 11 a.m. ...
Article : 129 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 8.—The possibility of foul play associated with the disappearance of Miss Mary St. George (51), of Terminus-street, Petersham, is being ...
Article : 110 wordsLONDON, Aug. 8.—Mrs. Lingwood (26), of Brandon, Suffolk, whose husband is a company director, has given birth to quadruplets, all boys. Two of them weigh ...
Article : 82 wordsMONTREAL, Aug. 7.—Dr. Arme Green-hut (39), an Australian-born physician practising at Belair (Quebec), was found dead today in a prison cell after his ...
Article : 83 wordsMOSCOW, Aug. 7.—The newspaper "Izvestia," in a leading article today attacks Britain for exceeding her mandate in suggesting the granting of ...
Article : 120 wordsLONDON, Aug. 7.—Enraged friends of a couple whose wedding was postponed today threatened the Rev. J. Burford, of Stoney Stanton, Warwickshire, until he ...
Article : 112 wordsNEW YORK, Aug. 7.—Deductions reminiscent of Sherlock Holmes based on six lumps of sugar found in the pocket of a Frenchwoman, Miss Irma Pradier ...
Article : 126 wordsLONDON, Aug. 8.—Three Australians still in England challenge the statement of Marvyn Day last week before his departure for Australia that he was the only ...
Article : 93 wordsMADRID, Aug. 8.—The Government has decided to permit the practice of the Roman Catholic religion in private and it is granting licences to a large number ...
Article : 79 wordsBRISBANE, Aug. 7.—Mr. F. J. S. Wise, Minister for Agriculture in Western Australia, was injured today when he fell about 20 feet to the concrete floor of ...
Article : 143 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug. 8.—Believed to have been hit on their heads with an iron bar, two men were taken to hospital after an affray in a house in Carlton on ...
Article : 78 wordsCHICAGO, Aug. 7.—The case in which a two-year-old boy named Donald Horst was kidnapped by Mr. and Mrs. John Regan last week ended happily today ...
Article : 147 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 8.—Two bodies which were recovered from backwaters of the Hawkesbury River on Saturday were today identified as those of William ...
Article : 114 wordsNEW YORK, Aug. 7.—The infant girl which was delivered by a Caesarian operation on Mrs. Mary Boccasini (27), the wife of a labourer, immediately after her ...
Article : 125 wordsLONDON, Aug. 6.—Declaring that he would rather go bare-skinned than wear imported cloth, Mr. James Larkin, a member of the Free State Parliament, ...
Article : 83 wordsLIVINGSTONE (Northern Rhodesia), Aug. 7.—On her flight from Australia to Cape Town, Mrs. H. B. Bonney, the Queensland airwoman, arrived here on ...
Article : 74 wordsLONDON, Aug. 6.—The Bordeaux correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" reports that when French officials approached the Spanish Government ...
Article : 109 wordsPARIS, Aug. 6.—The Minister for Air (M. Cot) opened the parachute- jumping tower at the International Exhibition today by parachuting from a ...
Article : 53 wordsLONDON, Aug. 7.—Because, he states, the race of people understanding the art of eating and drinking is dying out, Rudolf Stulik is closing down his famous ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 9 Aug 1937, Page 15
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