MONTREAL, March 7.—Major-General Sir James Howden Macbrien, Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, died today at the age of 60 years. ...
Article : 624 wordsSYDNEY, March 8.—A comprehensive plan of closer settlement and relief for the man on the land; the establishment of special maternity hospitals and the ...
Article : 678 wordsLONDON, March 8.—The Japanese forces, after their drive through Shansi province in China, have reached the Yellow River at six places, but, owing to ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 345 wordsLONDON, March 8.—A message from Barcelona states that the loyalist Ministry of Defence, after sitting the evidence, is convinced that the insurgent cruiser ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 477 wordsAt the outset of his speech, Mr. Chamberlain dwelt on the significance of the fact that for four successive years the House should have had to discuss a ...
Article : 1,365 wordsLONDON, March 8.—Great interest has been aroused by the reference by Sir Thomas Inskip (Minister for Co-ordination of Defence) to the balloon barrage ...
Article : 208 wordsMr. Lees-Smith, in moving the Labour amendment, contended that the defence programme was the result of the policy pursued by the National Government over ...
Article : 329 wordsLONDON, March 8.—In a leading article "The Times" states that Mr. Chamberlain's defence speech in the House of Commons was an ...
Article : 113 wordsPARIS, March 8.—French newspapers give Mr. Chamberlain's defence speech in the House of Commons an enthusiastic reception. They especially welcome the ...
Article : 88 wordsTOKIO, March 8.— new onslaught on the Government's Bill for control of electricity took place in the Diet today, on the ground that a virtual bilking of the ...
Article : 84 wordsMr. Churchill contended that the British expenditure, although enormous, must be compared with what is being expended elsewhere, notably in Germany. He ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 724 wordsBERLIN, March 8.—Political circles here are willing to accept Mr. Chamberlain's assurances that the British rearmament is not aggressive. The ...
Article : 52 wordsLONDON, March 8.—"Fire bombs are perhaps more dangerous than explosives and gas," writes Mr. Duncan Sandys, a member of the House of Commons, in ...
Article : 169 wordsSHANGHAI, March 7.—After a struggle all day against pounding seas, the British cruiser Cape Town rescued six Europeans and 54 Chinese, among ...
Article : 104 wordsROME, March 7.—It is officially denied here that the Government proposes the restoration of portion of Abyssinia to the Emperor Haile Selassie. ...
Article : 150 wordsGIBRALTAR, March 7.—The Baleares death-roll Is estimated at 600 men, including the rebel rear-admiral, the commander and several senior officers. ...
Article : 53 wordsSYDNEY, March 8.—Four men were charged at the Quarter Sessions today with conspiracy to effect a public mischief and also with conspiracy to cheat ...
Article : 200 wordsADELAIDE, March 8.—The remarkable story of a father's intuition that his son was in danger and the relief of the son by aeroplane was told tonight, when a ...
Article : 254 wordsCAIRO, March 7.—Tewfik Nessim Pasha, who was three times Prime Minister of Egypt, died today in his 63rd year. Last year some excitement was caused ...
Article : 410 wordsSYDNEY, March 8.—The Premier (Mr. Stevens) tonight described as "entirely false" a statement made by Mr. Lang, in the course of his policy speech at Auburn ...
Article : 317 wordsPARIS, March 6.—The Spanish loyalists have refloated a destroyer of 1,650 tons which was sunk by rebel planes in Gijon harbour last October. The vessel, ...
Article : 64 wordsWASHINGTON, March 7.—The Supreme Court has confirmed the fine of 364,000 dollars (about £72,400 at par) which was the fraud penalty in the ...
Article : 297 wordsLONDON, March 8.—Owing to fears of fresh borrowing for rearmament in France, combined with the interpretation of the statement by the Prime Minister ...
Article : 109 wordsLONDON, March 8.—A message from Burgos (the Spanish rebel headquarters) states that a law has been gazetted by General Franco's Government ...
Article : 59 wordsSYDNEY, March 8.—A strong attempt to secure later trading hours for hotels is being made by a State conference of the United Licensed Victuallers' ...
Article : 293 wordsLONDON, March 8.—Colonel Forbes, the Commonwealth Government's liaison officer, who is preparing the arrangements for the unveiling by the King of ...
Article : 66 wordsPERPIGNAN (France), March 8.—The French destroyer, Poursulvante, after a short absence at sea, returned to Port Vandres today and put ashore two of ...
Article : 79 wordsMELBOURNE, March 8.—The executive of the League of Nations Union is indignant at the "extremely humiliating and intolerable" restrictions by the City ...
Article : 178 wordsA stop-work meeting of workers in the building trades will be held at the Unity Theatre next Saturday at 10 a.m. The decision to hold the meeting was made ...
Article : 368 wordsPARIS, March 8.—Damage, estimated at £6,600 sterling, to the accumulators of a Spanish Republican submarine under-going repairs at St. Nazaire, is believed ...
Article : 35 wordsAUCKLAND, March 8.—The discovery that a serious stock disease which for many years has been the cause of grave concern on a farm in the Reporoa ...
Article : 103 wordsLONDON, March 7.—The Warsaw correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" states that when General Kozicki returned to his home after a short absence ...
Article : 87 wordsLONDON, March 7.—Interviewed in regard to the intention of the New Zealand Government to increase the duty on imported leather footwear, the ...
Article : 116 wordsLONDON, March 7.—The young Australian who was taken ill on board the liner Cathay and whose complaint was later diagnosed as severe smallpox, died ...
Article : 172 wordsSYDNEY, March 8.—Cyril Clive Maher. night officer at Farley railway station, was found unconscious with a bullet wound in his head in his office at the station ...
Article : 97 wordsWASHINGTON, March 7.—A stamp revision was announced today. It has been decided to have a likeness of Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United ...
Article : 74 wordsMELBOURNE, March 8.—A Moth plane owned by Australian National Airways Pty., Ltd., crashed near Campbell-field about noon today. The machine ...
Article : 206 wordsCOLLIE, March 8.—Although record orders have lately been received by the Collie mines there is not a sufficient supply of railway trucks to cope with the ...
Article : 189 wordsSYDNEY, March 8.—Mr. G. E. Murray, manager of Greenfields, Ltd., landowners, of Forbes, had a narrow escape from death this morning, when his truck was ...
Article : 145 wordsLONDON, March 7.—The Rumanian legation announces that the Crown Prince Michael will accompany King Carol on his State visit to London this ...
Article : 87 wordsLOS ANGELES, March 7.—A reconciliation has taken place between Jan Rubini, a violinist who has appeared in Australia and his wife, Adele Crane, a ...
Article : 91 wordsLONDON, March 8.—Nothing thus far has reached Whitehall in connection with the report that Princess Juliana, of Holland, might be invited to visit Australia ...
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