SHANGHAI, Oct. 31.—The furious fighting which has been raging near the western boundary of the International Settlement since the Chinese retirement ...
Article : 533 wordsSHANGHAI, Oct. 31.—Against their own wishes but under the orders of the Generalissimo (General Chiang Kaishek), the Chinese battalion which was ...
Article : 631 wordsLONDON, Oct. 29.—The managing director of Imperial Airways, Ltd. (Mr. 1 G. E. Woods Humphery) today made a t detailed reply to the trenchant criticism ...
Article : 850 wordsLONDON, Oct. 29.—In moving in the House of Commons today the Labour amendment, in the form of a no-confidence motion, to the Address in-Reply, ...
Article : 603 wordsNEW YORK, Oct. 29.—Keen interest is being taken in and there is considerable speculation on the course of United States financial policy, particularly with ...
Article : 316 wordsLONDON, Oct. 30.—It is believed, according to the Berlin correspondent of "The Times," that Herr Hitler will soon make, before a specially called meeting ...
Article : 225 wordsVALENCIA, Oct. 30.—In a long report which he has presented to the Government on the campaign in the north of Spain, the Minister for Defence (Senor ...
Article : 338 wordsLONDON, Oct. 30.—The chairman's sub-committee of the international committee for non-intervention in the Spanish civil war held a further meeting at the ...
Article : 825 wordsROME, Oct. 29.—In inspired articles the newspapers denounce the declaration by Mr. Winston Churchill, the British statesman, that Italy's wartime ...
Article : 66 wordsA tank trap dug by Chinese in the centre of a road in the Chapei district, Shanghai to combat Japanese tank advances. I the foreground are sandbag barricades directly behind the barbed steel gates of the international settlement. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 39 wordsLONDON. Oct. 29.—In a statement made through the Spanish Embassy. Don Jose Deliasa, the delegate in London of the Basque Government, asserts that ...
Article : 161 wordsLONDON, Oct. 31—A message from Madrid states that rebel warplanes, dropping 15 bombs, sank the British steamer Jean Weems (2,349 tons) 16 miles from ...
Article : 103 wordsSHANGHAI, Oct. 31.—Mr. W. A. Farmer, a member of the literary staff of "The West Australian," who is on leave and is at present attached to the ...
Article : 200 wordsVIENNA. Oct. 29.—A message from the proprietress of a tobacco kiosk near the Chancellery that two foreigners bad questioned her as to the habits and ...
Article : 92 wordsCANBERRA, Oct. 31.—Another appeal for co-operation with the Government in its policy on the Par Eastern crisis was made by the Prime Minister. (Mr. Lyons) ...
Article : 151 wordsBUENOS AIRES, Oct. 29.—A Government decree issued today prohibits the exportation of wheat and flour until further notice. The Minister for War ...
Article : 178 wordsNEW YORK, Oct. 30.—The Washington correspondent of the New York "Herald-Tribune" states:—The Navy Department is drafting an expansion ...
Article : 89 wordsMADRID, Oct. 31.—The President(Senor Azana) has announced that the seat of the Spanish Government is to be transferred from Valencia to Barcelona. ...
Article : 43 wordsLONDON. Oct. 30.—The British Government is making efforts to secure the release of Captain Edwin Christopher lance, who has been thrown into prison ...
Article : 48 wordsSHANGHAI, Oct. 30.—According to al report from Tientsin, the Japanese are rushing more troops to North China in an effort to win a decisive victory there ...
Article : 41 wordsPARIS. Oct. 30.—Surprise was caused by the announcement that Signor Cerutti, the Italian Ambassador, is returning to Rome tomorrow. According to Italian ...
Article : 141 wordsDAMASCUS, Oct. 30.—Over 1.000 persons are dead and 10.000 have been rendered homeless in several villages destroyed by floods after terrific rains. ...
Article : 34 wordsBERLIN, Oct. 30.—Torpedoed by Moscow again," says the official German News Agency in commenting on yesterday's meeting of the non-intervention ...
Article : 134 wordsMELBOURNE, Oct. 31—In a manifesto which will be drafted by the interstate executive of the Australasian Council of Trade Unions when it resumes its ...
Article : 248 wordsSYDNEY, Oct. 31.—Death from poisoning in unusual circumstances was revealed at an inquest at Orange into the death of William Joseph Williamson (22), an ...
Article : 102 wordsTORONTO. Oct. 30.—The Dionne quintuplets have conquered the physical handicap of their premature birth, according to a series of reports presented ...
Article : 82 wordsLONDON, Oct. 30.—The Foreign Secretary (Mr. Eden) at the head of the British delegation to the Brussels Nine-Power conference to seek a restoration ...
Article : 160 wordsNEW YORK, Oct. 30.—An annulment has ended a marriage at Mountain Grove (Missouri) between a brother and sister who were not aware of their relationship ...
Article : 119 wordsPARIS, Oct. 30.—Floods in the Ariege Department (south of Toulouse) have swept away 20 bridges and inundated 30 villages, many of which have been ...
Article : 32 wordsPARIS, Oct. 30.—Further outbreaks of violence in French Morocco have followed the serious rioting at Port Lyautey recently by nationalist agitators and 300 ...
Article : 128 wordsMELBOURNE, Oct. 31.—Caveman tactics by "King Kong" Cox almost caused a riot after the roughest wrestling match of the ...
Article : 115 wordsSYDNEY, Oct. 31—Four members of the crew of the 26ft. yacht Rona jumped overboard near the Heads on Saturday when a collision with the interstate ...
Article : 206 wordsHOLLYWOOD, Oct. 30.—A local court today convicted Groucho and Chico Marx, screen and radio comedians, on a charge of having illegally used radio ...
Article : 97 wordsSYDNEY. Oct. 31.—The wash of a ferry boat from Manly is believed to have been responsible for the drowning of James Eland (30), of Phoebe-street, Balmain, ...
Article : 258 wordsGENEVA, Oct. 30.—Another Chinese Note to the League of Nations recounts further Japanese bombings of over 20 defenceless towns and the machine-gunning of ...
Article : 56 wordsLONDON, Oct. 29.—The last of the three new appointments foreshadowed at Mansion House last week by the Secretary for War (Mr. Hore-Belisha) as part ...
Article : 127 wordsTOKIO, Oct. 30.—The "Council on Current Affairs." an unofficial body consisting of industrialists and members of the House of Representatives, carried a ...
Article : 87 wordsPEIPING, Oct. 30.—Kweihua, the former capital of Suiyuan and now the capital of the new autonomous State of Inner Mongolia, embodying Chahar and ...
Article : 69 wordsMOSCOW. Oct. 29.-For a month 28 fishermen have been lost in the frozen Gulf of Ob (in north-western Siberia, within the Arctic Circle). Last week ...
Article : 93 wordsHOBART, Oct. 31.—Henry Raymond Hack Davies (26), of Llewellyn, and his sister, Dorothy Jean Davies (19), were killed when the motor car in which they ...
Article : 102 wordsJERUSALEM, Oct. 31.—Lifted 10 days ago when the disorders caused by Arab terrorists quietened, the curfew was imposed again on Friday, following ...
Article : 63 wordsTOKIO. Oct. 30.—The newspaper "Asahi" says it is understood that Italy is joining the Germano-Japanese anti-Communist pact. An official ...
Article : 22 wordsLONDON. Oct. 29.—Prayers in both the Chinese and Japanese tongues were heard in Westminster Abbey during a festival of thanksgiving organised by the Anglican ...
Article : 100 wordsLONDON, Oct. 30.—A first consignment of medicines and drugs, costing £8,000, has been ordered by the medical supplies committee of the Lord Mayor's ...
Article : 93 wordsROME, Oct. 29.—Following the inauguration today of the town of Aprilia, built within two years on the newly-drained Pontine Marshes, Signor ...
Article : 80 wordsROME, Oct. 31.—Signor Mussolini to-day inaugurated the new town of Guidonia. which will be devoted wholly to aviation. ...
Article : 42 wordsLONDON, Oct. 31.—The Northern Ireland Labour Party, at a conference today, rejected by 90 votes to 20 a resolution introduced by the Amagh branch ...
Article : 43 wordsLONDON, Oct. 29.—Sir James Jeans, the famous scientist, has agreed to take the place of the late Lord Rutherford, who died earlier this month, as ...
Article : 45 wordsOTTAWA, Oct. 29.—The Dominion Government has agreed to submit to the Supreme Court the question whether it has power to disallow the Albertan ...
Article : 42 wordsMELBOURNE, Oct. 31.—Eleven new cases of infantile paralysis were reported in the week-end, six yesterday and five today, making the total number 658. A ...
Article : 40 wordsLONDON, Oct. 31.—Labour members of the House of Commons in future will not attend functions where Court dress is conditional, says s "Reynold's News" . ...
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