Moscow, Dec. 20.—An official announcement states that eight leading Soviet officials have been tried, sentenced to death, and executed for high treason, ...
Article : 332 wordsMUNICH, Dec. 20.—General Ludendorff, Germany's famous wartime leader, died today, following a sudden relapse. He had been seriously ill for some time, ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 2,214 wordsLONDON, Dec. 20.—Newspapers speculate at length on British policy in the Far Eastern situation, which will no doubt be thoroughly discussed at the ...
Article : 672 wordsSHANGHAI, Dec. 20.—With Peiping, Tientain, Shanghai and Nanking—four of the biggest cities in China—in Japanese bands and the Chinese National ...
Article : 365 wordsLONDON, Dec. 19.—In addition to an overflow meeting at Hammersmith Hall, 9,000 persons attended a Labour demonstration in favour of the Spanish ...
Article : 334 wordsSHANGHAI, Dec. 19.—The Japanese admit the destruction by Chinese in Tsingtao, the capital of Shantung Province, of mills owned by nine important ...
Article : 404 wordsLONDON, Dec. 20.—The latest edition of "Jane's Fighting Ships" Indicates that 85 vessels will be added to the Royal Navy by the 1937 programme. ...
Article : 139 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 19.—An unprecedented public apology for the sinking of the United States river. gunboat Panay on the Yangtze near Nanking on ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 288 wordsNEW YORK, Dec. 20.—The Washington correspondent of the United Press states that it is understood that President Roosevelt will recommend Congress ...
Article : 78 wordsCANBERRA, Dec. 20.—The first direct step towards the negotiations of a trade agreement between the United States and Australia was taken today when the ...
Article : 349 wordsEAST LONDON (Cape of Good Hope), Dec. 20.—Latest reports indicate that the Blue Star freighter stuart Star (11,928 tons), which, bound for North ...
Article : 214 wordsLONDON, Dec. 20.—Flerce fighting continues around the rebel city of Teruel in Aragon (in the north-east of Spain) against which the Government troops ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 467 wordsTOKIO, Dec. 20.—The Foreign Office spokesman (Mr. Kawai) recanted today the earlier denial that the Japanese had machine-gunned the Panay after the ...
Article : 241 wordsSHANGHAI, Dec. 20.—The Japanese have launched four columns in the direction of Hangchow, the beautiful city on Hangchow Bay, which it was hoped ...
Article : 63 wordsSHANGHAI. Dec. 19.—All heads of the Chinese Government have assembled at Hankow today under their chief, General Chiang Kal-shek, and are planning ...
Article : 75 wordsHONG KONG, Dec. 19.—It is disclosed that the British river gunboat Ladybird, which was fired on by a Japanese share battery on the Yangtze on December 12, ...
Article : 146 wordsHONG KONG, Dec. 20.—A Japanese attack in force on Canton is widely feared, and its meaning to Hong Kong is being discussed. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 148 wordsST. PAUL (Minnesota). Dec. 19.—Mr. Frank B. Kellogg, the former Secretary of State and originator of the Kellogg Pact of renunciation of war (which was ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 63 wordsLONDON, Dec. 20.—The "Daily Telegraph" gives prominence to a letter, signed "Nauticus," obviously well-informed, deprecating the ...
Article : 359 wordsCHICAGO, Dec. 19.—In an anti-Japanese demonstration today Chinese burnt Japanese merchandise of an estimated value of £2,000 on a vacant lot, ...
Article : 57 wordsNEW YORK, Dec. 20.—In a dispatch from Shanghai a special correspondent of the "New York Times" states:—"Colonel Hashimoto, the Japanese military ...
Article : 159 wordsLONDON. Dec. 19.—The town of Villers Bretonneux is celebrating with festivities its recapture by the Australians from the Germans in 1918. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 443 wordsAUCKLAND. Dec. 20.—A fire which occurred today at the Farmers' Trading Company's furniture factory, destroyed one building and much ...
Article : 136 wordsSHANGHAI, Dec. 19.—It is now revealed that their own planes killed several Japanese officers when, after disposing of the U.S.S. Panay, they returned to destroy ...
Article : 105 wordsROME, Dec. 20.—M. van Zeeland, the ex-Prime Minister of Belgium, who arrived in Rome several days ago, has left for Brussels. He did not see Signor ...
Article : 198 wordsLONDON, Dec. 18.—Australia's first Considerable export of beef was sent to Hong Kong in 1840 to supply British troops in the first China War. Australia ...
Article : 167 wordsMOSCOW, Dec. 19.—Ten thousand prisoners who were engaged on the work of laying a second track for the trans Siberian railway from Karymskaya to ...
Article : 42 wordsLONDON, Dec. 20.—The Berlin correspondent of '"The Times" states:—"Two German newspapers, quoting the account of the bombing and machine-gunning of ...
Article : 177 wordsLONDON, Dec. 19.—In order to ascertain what is really wrong with Scotland Yard. 'the Commissioner of Metropolitan Police (Sir ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 135 wordsLONDON. Dec. 20.—Greta Garbo, the screen star, has arrived unexpectedly at Stockholm from the United States, for Christmas. She announced that her ...
Article : 50 wordsROME, Dec. 19.—A son has been born to Countess Ciano, who is a daughter of Signor Mussolini and the wife of Italy's Foreign Minister. The child has ...
Article : 40 wordsSHANGHAI, Dec. 20.—Britain, the United States and other Powers have made representations to Tokio to establish a safety zone in Hankow (the first ...
Article : 174 wordsLONDON, Dec. 19.—The representatives of young farmers' clubs of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland who will attend the Sydney ...
Article : 74 wordsLONDON, Dec. 19.—The Archbishop of York, the Bishop of London, Lord Bledisloe and Vice-Admiral Swabey are appealing for financial aid for the diocese ...
Article : 85 wordsSHANGHAI, Dec. 20.—In a statement from Chungking the Chinese Government declares that the establishment of the Peiping provisional government ...
Article : 86 wordsMANILA. Dec. 20.—Heavy gales and high seas have caused the skeleton crew left aboard the Dollar liner President Hoover (21,936 tons), which ran on a ...
Article : 94 wordsPARIS, Dec. 19.—On an attempt to establish a woman's record for a long distance flight, Maryse Hilsz, a well- known French air woman, took off today ...
Article : 66 wordsLONDON, Dec. 20.—The stock markets were quietly steady today despite the approaching holidays and a fair amount of business was transacted. ...
Article : 24 wordsHOLLYWOOD. Dec. 19.—Ptomaine poisoning compelled Jeanette Macdonald, the film star, to cancel a broadcast. Her husband said her condition was not ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Tue 21 Dec 1937, Page 17
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