While the ultimate tide of battle remains doubtful, Shanghai reports indicate that the Japanese forces north of the city are making little headway as yet with the invasion from the Yangtze and Whangpoo Rivers. ...
Article : 656 wordsLONDON, Sept. 7.—While preparations are proceeding for the twelve-Power conference called by Britain and France for next Friday to deal with the menace to ...
Article : 878 wordsLONDON, Sept 7.—Moving at the Trades Union Congress at Norwich today a motion of sympathy with the Spanish Government, Sir Walter Citrine, general ...
Article : 103 wordsLONDON, Sept. 7.—British and British Indian infantry, tanks and aeroplanes engaged in an action yesterday in retaliation for a raid on Chaudwan (South ...
Article : 272 wordsMELBOURNE. Sept. 7.—From widely scattered suburbs, five new cases of infantile paralysis were reported today, bringing the total number of cases since ...
Article : 316 wordsBERLIN, Sept. 7.—Herr Hitler's proclamation at the opening today of the annual congress of the National Socialist (Nazi) Party at Nuremberg (Bavaria) did ...
Article : 745 wordsA brief chase at high speed in the early hours of yesterday morning ended when one of the cars concerned crashed into a pole near the Swanbourne railway ...
Article : 500 wordsLONDON, Sept. 6.—The British Government has instructed its Charge d'Affaires at Hendaye (France), where its Embassy to Spain is now situated, to ...
Article : 62 wordsHENDAYE (France), Sept. 7.—The British steamers Molton (3,091 tons) and Candelstone Castle (2,494 tons), which were seized by Spanish insurgent ...
Article : 37 wordsSYDNEY, Sept. 7.—Three strikes, involving about 250 engineers, took place in the metal trades industry today. Engineers employed at Mort's Dock and the ...
Article : 207 wordsLONDON, Sept. 6.—The crew of a Royal Air Force flying boat which was forced down in the North Sea yesterday and was drifting helplessly for some hours were ...
Article : 244 wordsTOKIO, Sept. 7.—The Japanese Government's interim reply to the British Note protesting against the wounding of the British Ambassador in China (Sir ...
Article : 340 wordsADELAIDE, Sept. 7.—Bookmakers in South Australia last year made an aggregate gate profit of £540,233, made up of £293,935 from South Australian meetings ...
Article : 139 wordsLONDON, Sept. 6.—"Behind the announcement that a large delegation of members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science will attend ...
Article : 154 wordsMELBOURNE, Sept. 7.—The Leader of the Opposition in the State Parliament (Sir Stanley Argyle) announced today that the policy of the United Australia ...
Article : 260 wordsLONDON, Sept. 6.—Scientific investigation to solve the rabbit problem in Britain was urged at the British Association Congress today by Captain C. W. ...
Article : 223 wordsLONDON, Sept. 6.—An officer appropriately named Bearpark is taking over the steamer Sherard Osborn (1,481 tons) during the absence of the master ...
Article : 310 wordsBUENOS AIRES, Sept. 6.—Rioting broke out today in Buenos Aires, following yesterday's presidential election and the failing of the revolutionary plot ...
Article : 62 wordsLONDON, Sept. 7.—It is stated in Whitehall that in view of the interim nature of the Japanese reply to the Note protesting against the wounding of the ...
Article : 45 wordsMELBOURNE, Sept. 7.—When Frederick Mervyn Wilson (17), of High-street, Windsor, a factory . employee, pleaded guilty to several charges in the General ...
Article : 224 wordsHAMILTON (Bermuda), Sept. 6.—The race for a cup between the square-riggers Joseph Conrad and Seven Seas, which began from Newport (Rhode Island) on ...
Article : 81 wordsLONDON, Sept. 7.—The Hong Kong correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" reports British apprehension following the seizure of the Pratas Islands (south-east ...
Article : 266 wordsCLEVELAND, Sept. 6.—A fraction of a second only separated Rudy Kling, the winner of the £4,800 Thompson Trophy race today, from Earl Ortman, who ...
Article : 55 wordsTOKIO, Sept. 7.—The Diet today passed the Supplementary Budget, providing £119,000,000 sterling for war expenditure. ...
Article : 20 wordsLONDON, Sept. 6.—Nearly 1,500 army reservists are already back in the army under the offer announced by the Secretary for War (Mr. Hore-Belisha) recently ...
Article : 68 wordsCANBERRA, Sept. 7.—Information received today by the Federal Ministry indicates that the decision of Japanese buyers not to operate at the last wool ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 193 wordsCUNDERDIN, Sept. 7.—At about 8.45 o'clock this morning a sedan car driven by Miss Marjorie Lukies left the road on approaching a railway crossing at ...
Article : 160 wordsLONDON, Sept. 7.—In an explosion in the engine-room of the British vessel Sydney Star (11.095 tons), homeward bound from Australia, off Las Palmas ...
Article : 69 wordsLONDON, Sept. 7.—The city of Nottingham will shortly receive 500,000 gas masks. It is also seeking 1,295 officers and men for an auxiliary fire brigade. ...
Article : 110 wordsLONDON, Sept. 7.—While it has been suggested in Italy that the Mediterranean Conference on the menace to shipping might well end in a dangerous fiasco, the ...
Article : 432 wordsAUCKLAND, Sept. 7.—Plans for a temporary base for Pan-American Airways were provisionally approved by the Auckland Harbour Board today after Mr. ...
Article : 90 wordsCANBERRA, Sept. 7.—Representatives of Australian manufacturers of cotton textiles today asked the Minister for Customs (Mr. White) to review the rate ...
Article : 136 wordsCAPE TOWN, Sept. 7.—Although the South African Dairy Control Board asserts that the position is being exaggerated, dealers are convinced that ...
Article : 122 wordsNEW YORK, Sept. 6.—Tommy Farr. the Welsh boxer, who lost on points to Joe Louis in a bout for the world championship a week ago, complained to the ...
Article : 75 wordsLONDON, Sept. 6.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain) left the north of Scotland, where he has been on holiday, this afternoon and will arrive at ...
Article : 93 wordsPEIPING, Sept. 7.—The Japanese armies in North China, having subjugated Chahar and established an autonomous Government at Kalgan, have now ...
Article : 33 wordsDETROIT, Sept. 6.—The 90-mile Gold Cup speed boat race, in which there were ten competitors, representing the United States, Britain, France and Italy. ...
Article : 62 wordsCANBERRA, Sept. 7.—A record number of Australian entries have been forwarded to the Imperial Fruit Show, which will be held at Birmingham (England) ...
Article : 74 wordsSHANGHAI, Sept. 7.—The American Chamber of Commerce has indignantly deprecated President Roosevelt's warning that Americans in China were ...
Article : 162 wordsLONDON, Sept. 6.—Instances of increases in the production of market gardens by the heating and sterilisation of soil were given at the British Association ...
Article : 121 wordsNEW YORK, Sept. 6.—A tavern argument at Silver Spring (Maryland) today led to a highway duel, in which motor cars were used as weapons. It resulted ...
Article : 85 wordsLE HAVRE, Sept. 6.—Leaving New York on the last voyage, the giant French liner Normandie struck a submerged log, damaging a propeller. She made the ...
Article : 77 wordsFEZ, Sept. 7.—Further rioting is reported in French Morocco, where last week 15 natives were killed and a number of soldiers wounded in a clash ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Wed 8 Sep 1937, Page 17
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