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  2. NULLARBOR STORM.

    The severe storm which dislocated the I telegraph service between Perth and Adelaide on Thursday afternoon was responsible for' a second stoppage in the ...

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  3. APPROACHING ITALY

    LONDON, Feb. 20.—Following conversation on Friday between the Prime Minister (Mr. Neville Chamberlain), the Foreign Secretary (Mr. Anthony Eden) ...

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  4. KIMBERLEY RAINS.

    Heavy rain has fallen in the Kimberleys and the Fitzroy is in flood. Telegraphic interruptions have left reports incomplete but, from various sources, it ...

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  5. RAILWAY AWARD.

    There is no longer any likelihood of direct action arising out of the dissatisfaction of the West Australian Amalgamated Society of Railway Employees with ...

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  6. FRONTIER WARFARE.

    LONDON, Feb. 19.—A dispatch from General Sir Robert Cassels, Commander in-Chief in India, published in the "London Gazette," describes the ...

    Article : 348 words
  7. CROWDED SCHOOLS.

    "At least one additional central school is urgently needed," said the secretary of the Teachers' Union (Mr. W. E. Thomas) on Saturday in the course of comment on ...

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  8. MINISTERS MEET IN ROME.

    ROME, Feb. 19.—Signor Mussolini summoned a Cabinet meeting for 10 a.m. today. It is stated the agenda contains "matters of great importance" but no ...

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  9. WAR IN THE AIR

    WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.—A new type' of aerial attack was referred to today by Mr. Lester Barlow, an inventor, when giving evidence before the Naval Affairs ...

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  10. FIRE AT SCHOOL.

    SYDNEY, Feb. 20.—Nuns of the sisterhood of St. Joseph, who were at prayers in their chapel last night, had to leave hurriedly when a fire broke out in the ...

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  11. ROAD ACCIDENTS.

    When a motor cycle crashed into an electric light pole near the oyster beds, East Fremantle, on Saturday afternoon, a boy who was riding it was seriously ...

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  12. ITALIAN CRUISER.

    ADELAIDE, Feb.20.—An appeal to the people of South Australia to receive the Italian cruiser Ramondo Montecuccoli in spirit of friendship was made by the ...

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  13. STUCK ON REEF.

    Aground on a reef near Phillip Rock, off Rottnest Island, the mew of the yacht Stella Maris spent four unpleasant hours on Saturday afternoon while ...

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  14. BREACH OF PROMISE.

    LONDON, Feb. 19.—"I love Eric. I shall remember him to the end of my life," said Winifred Wilson (25), a dancer, who was awarded £1,000 sterling ...

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  15. STRUCK BY MOTOR CYCLE.

    While mounting a bicycle in Carrington-street, Palmyra, on Saturday evening, Donald Victor Cole (46), of 41 Carrington-street, was struck by a motor ...

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  16. RESTORING THE LINE.

    The telegraphs branch of the General Post Office, Perth, reported yesterday that, after communication had been restored on Friday afternoon, following the ...

    Article : 244 words
  17. FEDERAL INTEREST.

    SYDNEY, Feb. 20.—The Minister for External Affairs. (Mr. Hughes) said to- night that he would Interview the Acting Consul-General for Italy (Dr. Arright) in ...

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  18. ACCIDENT PROVES FATAL.

    The death occurred in the Perth Hospital on Saturday morning of Keith Smith (28), of Albany-road, Maddington, who win severely injured on ...

    Article : 181 words
  19. TASMANIAN MINE DISPUTE.

    LAUNCESTON, Feb. 20.—More than 150 members of the Austrailan Coal and Shale Employees' Federation. who attended an enthusiastic mass meeting in ...

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  20. ROYAL CHILDREN.

    LONDON, Feb. 18.—An exhumation secretly carried out at Westminster Abbey has verified beyond doubt that the bodies of Edward I's two four-year-old ...

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  21. MOTOR CAR OVERTURNS.

    When Harold Martin Wickman, engine-driver, of Collie, who was staying with his parents in Guildford, was driving a motor car along West Swan-road. ...

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  22. GREAT WESTERN EXPRESS.

    Up to a late hour last night railway officials in Perth were unable to state definitely when the Great Western express, due in Perth this morning, would ...

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  23. UNPLEASANT GUEST NIGHT.

    LONDON. Feb. 19.—The Air Ministry announces that Pilot-Officer Frederick Robert McGuire (23). of the 114th Bomber Squadron Royal Air Force. has been I ...

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  24. LONDON JEWEL THEFT

    LONDON, Feb. 18.—Four men who were arrested in December last in connection with the theft of rings from a room in a fashionable West End hotel were ...

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  25. TRUCK MURDER TRIAL

    MELBOURNE, Feb. 20.—One of the longest Criminal Court trials for many years is expected when the Demsey murder trial begins before Mr. Justice ...

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  26. TWO GIRLS DROWNED.

    MELBOURNE, Feb. 20.—Venturing from a shallow wading pool into the Yarra River. at Studley Park, yesterday afternoon, two girls were drowned. ...

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  27. FRENCH SHIP LOSES BLADE.

    Having lost a propeller blade, it is understood in the vicinity of the Leeuwin, the Messageries Maritimes steamer Lieutenant St. Loubert-Bie, which is on the ...

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  28. VIMY RIDGE MURDER.

    PARIS, Feb. 18.—Georges Hervault, a farm labourer, has been guillotined for the murder of Rachel Renard (16) at Vimy Ridge last year. It was stated at ...

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  29. ACCOUNTANT CHARGED.

    On the application of Inspector Tetterington, a remand for eight days was granted by Mr. H. D. Moseley, P.M., in the Perth Police Court on Saturday, ...

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  30. PICTURES AND JEWELS STOLEN

    LONDON. Feb. 19.—Eluding the watch dogs at the house of Mr. Claude de Bernales, Alton Lodge, Rochampton, thieves removed a pane of glass from a ...

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  31. EAST-BOUND TRAIN DELAYED.

    ADELAIDE. Feb. 20.—The express, which was due to arrive in Adelaide from Perth early this afternoon, has been delayed by washaways west of Port Augusta ...

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  32. LOUISVILLE AT ADELAIDE.

    ADELAIDE, Feb. 20.—Watched by a crowd of 3,000 people the United States cruiser Louisville reached the Outer Harbour this morning. This is the first visit ...

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  33. SOUTH AUSTRALIAN RAINS.

    ADELAIDE, Feb. 20.—Monsoonal weather, which prevailed over most of South Australia during the weekend, yielded some of the best rains experienced for ...

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  34. STRUCK DEAD BY LIGHTNING.

    SYDNEY, Feb. 20.—Claude Vincent Smith (23), of Nyngan, was struck dead by lightning during a severe storm in the Carinda district. He was struck ...

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  35. ART EXHIBITION SELECTION.

    Sir.—People interested in the development of West Australian art will, I am sure, be gratified to learn, from the explanation offered "in Friday's issue of ...

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  36. WOMAN FOUND IN RIVER.

    ADELAIDE, Feb. 20.—Having disappeared yesterday from the Wendouree private hospital, Wayville, Gertrude Dittmer (49) was found drowned in the River ...

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  37. SEVERE CYCLONIC DEPRESSION

    Reports received by the Weather Bureau yesterday after communication with the Eastern States was restored revealed that an intense cyclonic depression with ...

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  38. WORLD'S BEST-DRESSED WOMEN

    PARIS, Feb. 19.—Famous dressmakers who were invited to nominate the world's best-dressed women, placed the Duchess of Windsor first, the Duchess of Kent ...

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  39. MISSING ENGINEER.

    Nothing was reported during the weekend of the whereabouts of John Mitchell McKenzie (30), a native of Scotland, third engineer of the freighter Wearwood, ...

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  40. SMOKE-FILLED BEDROOM.

    MELBOURNE, Feb. 20.—When Mr. and Mrs. Albert Harry, of Marshall. returned home on Friday night they found that their two young children had been ...

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  41. MT. LAWLEY SUBWAY WIDENING.

    At a meeting of the Local Government Association of Western Australia on Friday night, the Secretary (Mr. E. H. Rosman) was instructed to\ask members of ...

    Article : 75 words
  42. Advertising

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  43. DUTCH AIR ENTERPRISE.

    LONDON, Feb. 19.—M. Koolhoven, a director of big Dutch aeroplane factories announces his company's Intention of establishing in Java this year the first ...

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  44. JEWISH NEWSPAPERS SUSPENDED

    BUKAREST, Feb. 19.—All newspapers published in Rumania in Yiddish or Hebrew have-been suspended, by order of the Ministry of the Interior. ...

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