Miss Jean Batten, the brilliant young New Zealand flyer, added to her list of achievements in the air she landed at Darwin yesterday morning, five days 21 hours out from England, breaking the existing record for a solo flight by over 24 hours. ...
Article : 605 wordsJERUSALEM, Oct. 10.—A group conference of Arab national committees with the higher Arab committee has resulted in a unanimous decision to accept the ...
Article : 336 wordsVIENNA, Oct. 10.--At a meeting that began yesterday and lasted through last night until 7 a.m. today the Cabinet decided on the dissolution of the Helmwehr ...
Article : 314 wordsDARWIN, Oct. 10.—"The criticism by Mr. Crocombe, of the Darwin direction finding radio bearings has been made to justify and error which was incurred by ...
Article : 982 wordsLONDON, Oct. 11.—Meeting in the morning, afternoon and evening the international committee co-ordinating the application of the measures for ...
Article : 706 wordsLONDON, Oct. 11.—With the strong rebel armies closing in on it from north. west and south, Madrid is reported to be facing siege or surrender. The rebels, ...
Article : 416 wordsFor courage and determination, Miss Batten's record-breaking flight, as disclosed by her own graphic story, ranks as one of the most meritorious yet made. ...
Article : 1,702 wordsGENEVA, Oct. 10.—Australia's conten- tion that reform of the League of Na- tions Covenant was an essential prelude to a political appeasement in Europe was ...
Article : 696 wordsMELBOURNE, Oct. 11.-An attempt may be made to prevent Miss Jean Batten from flying across the Tasman Sea to New Zealand. The Acting ...
Article : 205 wordsBERLIN, Oct. 10.—The first reaction to Dr. Schuschnigg's coup is that it will benefit Nazi elements in Austria and further Austro-German cooperation, in ...
Article : 34 wordsNEW YORK, Oct. 10.-Both President Roosevelt and the Republican candidate for the Presidency (Mr. A. M. Landon) were engaged in intensive campaigning ...
Article : 164 wordsMOSCOW, Oct. 11.-The Council of 'Trade Unions reports that it has collected over 26,000,000 roubles in aid" of women and children in Spain. Four ...
Article : 84 wordsNEW YORK, Oct. 9.—The Official Secretary of the Australian Office (Mr. Dow) has just returned from Memphis (Tennessee) where he witnessed a field ...
Article : 308 wordsCANBERRA, Oct. 11.-The Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons) today sent the following message to Miss Jean Batten:— "Heartiest congratulations on your ...
Article : 28 wordsBERMIN, Oct. 11—The Government's reply to the proposal by the British Foreign Secretary (Mr. Anthony Eden) for a conference of the five Locarno ...
Article : 108 wordsSYDNEY, Oct. 11.—What is believed by the police to have been a methylated spirit drinking party ended disastrously in a relief workers' ...
Article : 334 wordsPARIS, Oct. 9.-The Prime minister (IM Blum) is reported to have assured the British Foreign Secretary (Mr. An- thony Eden) that France will adhere to ...
Article : 42 wordsWearing a brown coat, a helmet and a white flying suit with a gaily-colored scarf wound. loosely around her neck, Miss Batten made a striking picture as ...
Article : 639 wordsNEW YORK, Oct. 9.--Seven of the eleven members of the "Black Legion," who were convicted in Detroit of having kidnapped and killed Charles Poole, a ...
Article : 267 wordsLONDON. Oct. 9.—Messrs. C. R. Attlee and A. Greenwood, M'sP., Labour leaders, reported to the National Executive of the Labour Party at Edinburgh today on ...
Article : 167 wordsLONDON, Oct. 9.—According to a statement from Hollywood, Mr. Miles Mander the English actor and director (who went to Australia last year to direct ...
Article : 186 wordsSYDNEY, Oct. 11.—The Minister for Defence (Sir Archdale. Parkhill) announced yesterday that an investigation was already proceeding into the ...
Article : 212 wordsSAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 10—The inauguration of an air service between San Francisco and Hong Kong, connecting Asia and North America by air for the ...
Article : 192 wordsLONDON, Oct. 10.—The Dublin correspondent of the "Sunday Despatch" states that Mr. De Valera intends to introduce in the Dail in November a ...
Article : 106 wordsLONDON, Oct. 10.-A communication was made yesterday by the Spanish Embassy in London to the British Foreign Office alleging that the capture by the ...
Article : 178 wordsMARSEILLES, Oct. 9.-When Henri Ponsard, a one-armed ex-service man and a member of the Chamber of Deputies, was threatened with death unless he ...
Article : 84 wordsLONDON, Oct. 9.-Sr John McLaren, formerly Official Secretary at Australia House, will leave London tomorrow with Lady McLaren and their daughter Jean ...
Article : 90 wordsWASHINGTON, Oct. 9.-A report for the financial year ended on June 30 shows that income tax collections in- creased by 313,708,000 dollars (about ...
Article : 66 wordsROME, Oct. 9.—Apparently the Italian Ambassador in London (Signor Grandi) does not want to follow Air-Marshal Balbo into the wilderness. It was ...
Article : 65 wordsMELBOURNE, Oct. 11.-The Secretary of the Air Board (Major Coleman), referring to the allegations of incorrect wireless bearings given to the Monospar, ...
Article : 690 wordsLONDON, Oct. 11.—AddressIng a church parade in Gloucestershire of the British Legion today, General Sir Ian Hamilton, the Commander-in-Chief on ...
Article : 149 wordsLONDON, Oct. 10.-Participants in a Fascist open-air demonstration at Tunbridge Wells were surrounded today by a large hostile crowd, and were pelted with ...
Article : 43 wordsLONDON, Oct. 11.—In commemoration of London's millionth telephone, an instrument, suitably inscribed, will be installed in Mansion House, from where ...
Article : 42 wordsLONDON, Oct. 9.—When a Royal Air Force machine crashed near Bubwith, in Yorkshire, today, Sergeant Simpson (23) was burnt to death a few hundred yards ...
Article : 50 wordsTOKIO, Oct. 10.-After a delay caused by a stabbing affray among the crew, the 18,000-ton whaler Nisshin Maru, which is reputed to be the biggest in the ...
Article : 36 wordsBUDAPEST, Oct. 10.—The Minister of Agriculture (Dr. Daranyi) has been appointed to succeed the late General Geomboes as Prime Minister of Hungary. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 12 Oct 1936, Page 15
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