SHANGHAI, Aug. 8.— Severe fighting continues in the Yangtze Valley. up which the Japanese are endeavouring to advance against Hankow, from which, ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 275 wordsLONDON, Aug. 7.— The rebel claim of an important victory over the loyalists following a fierce offensive launched on the Ebro River front is supported by ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 283 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 8.— The Chalet, a large wooden building at Charlotte Pass, near Kosciusko, was totally destroyed by fire early this morning and 53 members of the ...
Article : 579 wordsAnother Japanese attempt to secure a truce in the Changkufeng zene on the Manchukuo-Siberian border to enable the frontier dispute to be settled peacefully has failed. Submitting the new request in Moscow on Sunday, the ...
Article : 863 wordsLONDON. Aug. 7.— Heavy rain, after mist and fog had caused interference with the original plans, terminated at 2.15 p.m. today the most extensive ...
Article : 287 wordsLONDON, Aug. 7.— The British Secretary for the Colonies (Mr. Malcolm MacDonald) is homeward bound by air after a secret surprise visit to Palestine, where ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 262 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug. 8.— Unless there is outside intervention, all union labour will be withdrawn tomorrow night from the factory of the Commonwealth ...
Article : 501 wordsLOS ANGELES, Aug. 7.— Four unions affiliated with the Committee for Industrial Organisation—the United Automobile Workers, International Ladies' ...
Article : 184 wordsHAIFA, Aug. 7.— Twenty-six bandits are known to have been killed in the course of the past week. Additional week-end casualties were a ...
Article : 43 wordsLONDON, Aug. 7.— A graphic description of the bombing of the British steamer Lake Lugano (200 tons) by a rebel plane of Italian type at Palamos ...
Article : 247 wordsCANTON. Aug. 8.— One hundred and fifty persons were killed and 200 wounded outside the French cathedral today when Japanese planes bombed government ...
Article : 41 wordsSYDNEY, Aug 8.— Developments today indicated that the national convention of the Miners' Federation would reject the offer in its present, form of the ...
Article : 284 wordsSHANGHAI, Aug. 8.— The mobilisation of 2,00.000 men, with 200,000 officers, has begun in Kwangsi Province (South China). It is anticipated the troops will ...
Article : 40 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 8.— A hold-up of the defence programme of the Commonwealth Government is threatened. The Commonwealth council of the Amalgamated ...
Article : 311 wordsLONDON, Aug. 8 — Before leaving for Australia, the Commonwealth Attorney- General (Mr. R. G. Menzies) frankly admitted in an interview that the foremost ...
Article : 382 wordsDUBLIN. Aug. 7.— Financial measures establishing control over public finance along similar lines to the present practice in Australia are recommended in the ...
Article : 169 wordsPARIS, Aug. 7.— The Illustrated daily, "Excelsior" says that France Is planning to build her "Singapore" base at the Bay of Cam-ranh, on the coast of ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 167 wordsBARCELONA. Aug. 7.— Senor Gabriel Decallejon, the British Consul in Allcante, who was seriously wounded when insurgent planes raided the port ...
Article : 120 wordsSINGAPORE, Aug. 8.— "I hope to attack Flying-Officer Clouston's record for a flight from England to Australia and New Zealand and return and Mr. C. W. ...
Article : 219 wordsBRISBANE, Aug. 8.— Beyond stating that so far he had received no invitation to intervene in the miners dispute, the Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons), when ...
Article : 40 wordsPRAGUE, Aug. 7.— Apart from several hours of discussion with representatives of the Sudeten German Party on their autonomy demands, the Runciman ...
Article : 195 wordsBERLIN, Aug. 7.— Two pilots were killed and five parachuted to safety after hailstones had riddled the wings of their machines at the famous glider ...
Article : 121 wordsNEW YORK, Aug. 7— Three persons were killed and 14 suffered severely from shock when a lightning bolt today struck the heart of Riis Park Beach, where ...
Article : 118 wordsLONDON, Aug. 7.— Mrs. Haden Guest, the wife of. Mr. Leslie Haden Guest, a well-known British author, Journalist and physician, said today that their ...
Article : 82 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug. 8.— Declaring that the Dominions Office In London was as obsolete as the muzzle-loading rifle and the hansom cab, the Minister for ...
Article : 193 wordsTOKIO, Aug. 8.—The Japanese steamer, Canberra Maru, which, following a request by Pan-American Airways, had been ordered to diverge from its course and ...
Article : 151 wordsLONDON, Aug. 7. — The Rome correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" reports that Air-Marshal Balbo will confer with Signor Mussolini tomorrow before ...
Article : 68 wordsLONDON, Aug. 8.— Interviewed by a representative of the Australian Associated Press on the eve of leaving for Australia, the Commonwealth ...
Article : 215 wordsRussian claims to have reoccupied the whole of the disputed territory are scouted in Tokio, where the Foreign Office spokesman (Mr. Kawai) this morning ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 542 wordsLONDON. Aug. 7.— The Moscow correspondent of the '"Daily Telegraph" reports that fourteen high officials of the Commissariat of Agriculture in Azerbaljan ...
Article : 80 wordsBUKAREST, Aug. 7.—The important concessions to minorities in Rumania announced last week by the Government, involving a relaxation of anti-Semitism, ...
Article : 152 wordsWARSAW, Aug. 7.— Murder and suicide stopped a wedding today. Before the ceremony was due to take place the couple went to church together to pray. ...
Article : 85 wordsLONDON, Aug. 7.— The political police have closed down the Lutheran church of St. Peter and St. Paul, the last of Moscow's Practising Protestant churches, ...
Article : 249 wordsMOSCOW, Aug. 7.— After the hearing of 85,000 appeals from members of the Communist Party who were expelled or otherwise punished in the "clean-up" of ...
Article : 80 wordsHAMPTON ROADS (Virginia), Aug. 8.— The Italian salvage ship Falco, which is returning to Italy, is reported to be carrying Mexican coins and the crown ...
Article : 161 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 8.— Professor Alexander Brady, in an address to the Constitutional Association today, said that, although many Canadians did not share ...
Article : 182 wordsNEW YORK., Aug. 8.— From Manila (Philippine Islands) it is reported that 8,000 people, mostly labourers and their families, have been rendered homeless by ...
Article : 60 wordsHAMBURG, Aug. 7.— In the fire which broke out early this morning in the liner Reliance (19,580 tons) while she was lying in the harbour, a night watchman lost ...
Article : 110 wordsNEW YORK, Aug. 8.— Two boatloads of Father Divine's "angels," hilariously singing and provisioned with ice cream, soda water and water melons, sailed up ...
Article : 117 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug. 8.— Citizenship for Australian aborigines was advocated by the Minister for External Affairs (Mr. Hughes) in an address tonight. Mr. ...
Article : 89 wordsLONDON. Aug. 7.— Three further cases of infantile paralysis, all in children, have occurred at Braintree, Felsted and Dunmore. With 47 cases already reported ...
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