MELBOURNE, Jan. 24.—Success for the campaign for 70,000 militia volunteers as well as for the £63,000,000 defence programme was in sight, the ...
Article : 224 wordsLONDON, Jan. 23.—It is learnt that further serious charges will be made against the Government in connection with alleged defence and air raid ...
Article : 168 wordsMELBOURNE, Jan: 24.—Australians f should know that the defence programme was being carried out with the greatest possible expedition, and that ...
Article : 651 wordsBRISBANE, Jan. 24.—Two armed intruders late last night entered the cyanide treatment works of Mr. William Scott, at Millchester, Charters Towers, battered the ...
Article : 206 wordsSYDNEY. Jan. 24—When a tram bound for Leichhardt crashed into the rear of a tram going to Abbottsford at the Larking-street stop in ...
Article : 183 wordsOther cable headings: "Non Intervention. Britain and France Firm." What does the dictionary give as the meaning of the word "firm"? ...
Article : 1,352 wordsLONDON, Jan. 23.—The Home Office has dispatched a memorandum to local authorities disclosing that there will be whole-time as well as part-time air raid ...
Article : 59 wordsLONDON, Jan. 23.—Speaking on the subject of gun turrets for military aircraft at a factory in Surrey which he visited today, the Secretary for Air (Sir ...
Article : 74 wordsSYDNEY, Jan. 24.—Evidence of un- usual happenings at the Junee District Hospital was heard at Junee today before mr. W. A. E. Lewis, a member of the ...
Article : 470 wordsHOBART, Jan. 24 —With a bullet wound in his forehead, Athol Suckling (15), of Derwent Park, was found lying unconscious in the back yard of his home ...
Article : 123 wordsBRISBANE, Jan. 24.—Mr. F. M. J. Baker, M.H.R., Labour member for the Federal electorate of Grimith, enlisted to day and joined the 2/14th Light ...
Article : 82 wordsLONDON, Jan. 23.—The Government, It is understood, has adopted a policy for the standardisation of anti-aircraft equipment, one item being the Swedish Bofors ...
Article : 65 wordsT. Newton Mackenzie: Your correspondent, W. Cyril Taylor, Is to be congratulated on his concise and skilful treatise on defence. I submit, however, that he ...
Article : 1,035 wordsCANBERRA, Jan. 24.—The militia campaign in Canberra has been so successful that there is now one soldier in the city for every three eligible civilians. ...
Article : 89 wordsAt the last meeting of the West Australian Amateur Boxing and Wrestling Association the following motion was carried unanimously:— ...
Article : 83 wordsSYDNEY, Jan. 24—In evidence today at the inquiry into the price of bricks in the metropolitan area, a witness admitted. that the Great Northern Co., in the last ...
Article : 387 wordsLONDON. Jan. 22.—In connection with the Government's measures to prepare all British merchantmen for a possible crists, the naval correspondent of the ...
Article : 80 wordsEnlistments in the militia forces at the main recruiting depot at the corner of Barrack-street and Murray-street yesterday totalled 64, increasing the ...
Article : 299 wordsMELBOURNE, Jan. 24.—Judge Stretton, a member of the County Court Bench, was appointed a royal commissioner today to conduct an investigation ...
Article : 211 wordsLONDON, Jan. 23.—The Duke of Gloucester today opened a new wing of the Staff College at Minlel Manor, near Camberley. From now the old buildings at ...
Article : 63 wordsWARSAW, Jan. 23.—Seven English bachelors have proposed by letter to unknown girls in the Zbonszyn refugee camp, on the frontier of Germany and ...
Article : 71 wordsSYDNEY, Jan. 24.—The failure of Britain to fulfil Important armament orders for Australia will be one of the vital subjects discussed by the Australian ...
Article : 202 wordsBRISBANE, Jan. 24.—A dash by rail and air from Perth by Mr.P. R. T. Wills (secretary to the Commissioner for Railways) and Mrs. Wills to reach the ...
Article : 130 wordsWASHINGTON, Jan. 123.—The Secretary of Labor (Miss Frances Perkins), in a statement issued today, declared that the Dies Committee which is ...
Article : 160 wordsHOBART Jan. 2—Many serious bush fires are raging in the northern part of Tasmania, particularly on the north-west coast and, so serious has the position ...
Article : 326 wordsRepresentatives of the South Perth Road Board, South Perth sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League, Southern Suburbs Cricket Club, South Perth Tennis ...
Article : 209 wordsKALGOORLIE, Jan. 24.-Senator Clothier, who passed through Kalgoorlie to-night by the Great Western express on his way to Perth after a tour of New ...
Article : 312 wordsHONOLULU, Jan. 23.—Patrick J. Cassidy, who was extradited from Adelaide end subsequently found guilty of the embezziement of 13,0OO dollars (£2,600) from ...
Article : 67 wordsDARWIN, Jan. 24.—With the clearing of the land now almost completed, an early start is likely to be made with the erection of two of the most powerful naval ...
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Advertising : 108 wordsThe Claremont Municipal Council on Monday night decided to assist the recruiting campaign by forming a sub-branch of the Australian Defence League ...
Article : 154 words"The Progress of Esperanto in Five Continents," was the subject of a public lecture which Miss Martha L. Root, a New York journalist, gave on Monday ...
Article : 262 wordsThe employment of British labour only is permitted on public works in connection with defence, it was stated at Military Headquarters yesterday. in ...
Article : 272 wordsWhen a five-year-old boy, Mervin Beard, of South;-street, South Fremantle, jumped into Fremantle Har[?] from a drifting dinghy yesterday afternoon he ...
Article : 222 wordsIn response to a request from the Australian Defence League for co-operation in the recruiting campaign, the Mosman Park Road Board at its last meeting ...
Article : 62 wordsNORTHAM, Jan. 21.—A meeting of "A" Company, 28th Battalion Welfare and Recruiting Committee was held last night. A list, drawn up at a meeting of officers ...
Article : 179 wordsSUVA, Jan. 24.—A cyclone in Fiji during the week-end caused minor damage to plantations, roads and telephonic communications. A Fijian and his wife and ...
Article : 44 wordsWYALKATCHEM, Jan. 24.—Richard Walter Phillips (about 65), farmer, of Korrelocking. was found dead in his bed at his lodgings in Wyalkatchem this ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Wed 25 Jan 1939, Page 18
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