MELBOURNE, July 15.—Contracts for a period of six months have been given to several Australian aviation companies for the carriage of air mails on the new ...
Article : 198 wordsDeveloping unexpectedly under the influence of an easterly wind, valuable rains were experienced yesterday in the north-eastern and eastern portions of ...
Article : 733 wordsNEW YORK, July 14.—Having circled the world, the Lockheed Super-Electra twin-engined monoplane commanded by Mr. Howard Hughes landed at New York ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 657 wordsLONDON, July 15.—The Australian Attorney-General (Mr. R. G. Menzies) and the President of the British Board of Trade (Mr. Oliver Stanley) had a ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 409 wordsSAN FRANCISCO, July 14.—In a public address delivered prior to his reviewing the United States fleet here today, President Roosevelt said that all ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 229 wordsLONDON, July 15.—According to a dispatch from Salamanca, the Spanish insurgent forces advancing on Valencia under the direction of General Varela ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 253 wordsHONG KONG, July 15.—A large squadron of Japanese planes raided Canton at noon today, subjecting it to a heavy bombing. It is reported that 96 ...
Article : 121 wordsLONDON, July 15.—A vivid picture of the future of travel to Australia is given by M. Albert Plesman (managing director of Royal Dutch Airways and Royal ...
Article : 169 wordsLONDON, July 14.—The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir John Simon), stated in the House of Commons today that various proposals had been made by the ...
Article : 96 wordsTOKIO, July 15.—The Cabinet today gave approval to the decision of the Public Welfare Department that the Olympic Games should not be held ...
Article : 133 wordsConfirmation was received yesterday by the MacRobertson, Miller Aviation Co., that it would be required to operate the North-West aerial service, from Perth to ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 661 wordsHANKOW, July 15.—The Chinese People's Political Council has issued a decree appealing to Chinese women not to use powder, rouge or lipstick and to ...
Article : 88 wordsCANBERRA, July 15.—Members of the Federal Loan Council will be summoned to a special meeting which will probably be held about the middle of next month ...
Article : 292 wordsLONDON, July 15.—As a result of yesterday's unexpected development in the House of Commons, the case of Mr. Duncan Sandys, M.P., arising from a question ...
Article : 593 wordsLONDON, July 15.—"The Games certainly will not be abandoned." said Count Baillet Latour (president of the International Olympic Games Committee). ...
Article : 310 wordsLONDON, July 14.— Asserting that reinforcements from Germany to rebel Spain are largely increasing, the "News- Chronicle" says that the Kondor Air ...
Article : 69 wordsPARIS, July 15.—It is thought that France will have to look back 250 years before finding a parallel for the spectacular welcome to be given to the King ...
Article : 484 wordsLONDON, July 14.—The First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. Duff Cooper) speaking at Newton Abbot today, emphasised the obligation of the Government to ...
Article : 92 wordsBERLIN, July 15.—Herr Hans Bertram left Berlin at 12.30 a.m. today on a trip round the world as a passenger on commercial air services. He will go flint to ...
Article : 114 wordsLONDON, July 14.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain) was asked in the House of Commons today whether instructions would be given to the ...
Article : 77 wordsLONDON, July 14.—As Queen Mary entered Hampton Court for a garden party today, celebrating the centenary of the opening or the historic structure to the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 132 wordsHELSINGFORS, July 15.—Following on Japan's decision to surrender the Olympic Games at Tokio, the City of Helsingfors intends immediately to ...
Article : 42 wordsThe following reports were received last night from country correspondents of - "The West Australian":— ARDATH.—Thunderstorm occurred here ...
Article : 632 wordsShots were fired in Fremantle early yesterday morning by a policeman when pursuing a man who, with two companions, was alleged to have been ...
Article : 428 wordsNEW YORK, July 15.—The chairman of the United States Olympic Committee (Mr. Brundage) said today that the decision by Japan not to hold the Olympic ...
Article : 125 wordsJERUSALEM, July 15.—Troops fired today on Arabs who were invading the Jewish quarter of Sated and one was killed and three wounded. The Arab ...
Article : 179 wordsSYDNEY, July 15.—Inquiries in Sydney tonight showed that as far as Australia was concerned the decision by Japan not to hold the Olympic Games ...
Article : 259 wordsLONDON, July 15.—The British Broadcasting Corporation announced to- day that a full description of the unveiling of the Australian war memorial at ...
Article : 92 wordsROME. July 15.—Disaster overtook an Italian flying boat which, with 16 passengers and a crew of four, left Cagliari (Sardinia) for Rome on Wednesday ...
Article : 93 wordsSINGAPORE. July 15.—Owing to the delay in the arrival of mails from Melbourne and Adelaide at Darwin and the subsequent additional two hours taken in ...
Article : 99 wordsLONDON, July it-Sister Kenny, the Queensland nurse, who has been in London for the past year introducing her method for the treatment of paralysis ...
Article : 240 wordsTOKIO, July 15.—The Japanese Foreign Office has protested to Russia that a Soviet detachment is occupying a military hill in Manchukuo near Posyeta ...
Article : 81 wordsLONDON, July 15.—Herr Albert Forster, head of the Danzig district of the Nazi Party, who is on a private visit to London, has had interviews with Mr. ...
Article : 114 wordsLONDON. July 15.—The Air Minister (Sir Kingsley Wood) announced today that the Air Ministry bad placed an immediate initial order with Lord Nuffield's ...
Article : 40 wordsDARWIN, July 15.—A hint of an early move to improve facilities for flying boat passengers at Darwin was given today by the private secretary to the Minister for ...
Article : 226 wordsGENEVA. July 14.—Frau Dollfuss, widow of Dr. Engebert Dollfuss, Chancellor of Austria, who was shot and killed by a band of Nazis in the Chancellery ...
Article : 84 wordsLONDON, July 14.—The King's doctors-Lord Dawson of Penn and Sir John Weir—saw their patient again today at the Royal Lodge, Windsor. The ...
Article : 84 wordsCANNES, July 14—Miss Jean Batten, New Zealand airwoman, has received the Harmon Trophy for the third year in succession. ...
Article : 23 wordsSYDNEY, July 15.—The Minister for Social Services (Mr. H. M. Hawkins) will shortly be married to Mrs. George H. Bosch, widow of G. H. Bosch, whose ...
Article : 49 wordsNAREMBEEN.—A heavy thunderstorm. ac. companied by rain, broke over the district last night, 41 points being registered up to 10 o'clock this morning. An additional 63 ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Sat 16 Jul 1938, Page 23
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