LONDON, Feb. 8.—Though the rearguard of the Spanish Government forces continues to show fight, covering the exodus of civilian and military refugees ...
Article : 744 wordsPARIS, Feb. 8.—The Senate carried a vote of confidence in the Government by 290 to 16 last night after the Foreign Minister (M. Bonnet), using even stronger ...
Article : 214 wordsLONDON, Feb. 7.—The first comprehensive plans for the provision of 100 per cent protection against air raids in Britain by deep underground bomb-proof ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 385 wordsLONDON, Feb. 7.—High tributes to the peace efforts of the Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain) were paid by Arab delegates when the British Government's ...
Article : 748 wordsSYDNEY, Feb. 8.—The battered body of Eric Carlson (50), a Swedish seaman from the steamer Caledon, was found in a lavatory at the rear of the Glengarrie ...
Article : 269 wordsLONDON, Feb. 7.—According to the Tokio correspondent of "The Times" Japan is not likely to welcome proposals for expanding the Anti-Comintern Pact ...
Article : 225 wordsDUBLIN, Feb. 8.—References to the recent series of bomb outrages in England attributed to Irish Republican Army extremists, were made in the Senate last ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 510 wordsThe scale of payment in distributing the £100,000 specially provided for assistance to drought-affected wheatgrowers in this State from the equalisation fund ...
Article : 995 wordsHONG KONG, Feb. 8.—While Vice- Admiral Sir Percy Noble and Admiral Yarnell, the British and American commanders-in-chief in China, were paying a ...
Article : 183 wordsBERLIN, Feb. 7.—The journal "Schwarzekorps," organ of the Nazi Black Guards. praises Britain's colonial work in the course of an article explaining that in ...
Article : 254 wordsLONDON, Feb. 7.—During his State visit to London the President of the French Republic (M. Lebrun) and Madame Lebrun will attend a reception ...
Article : 123 wordsSHANGHAI, Feb. 8.—The names of Mr. H. J. Timperley, the former West Australian journalist, who has given wide publicity to Japanese atrocities in China, and ...
Article : 54 wordsTOKIO, Feb. 7.—The Minister for Navy (Admiral Yonai) announced today that a supplementary budget would shortly be submitted to the Diet providing for new ...
Article : 29 wordsWASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—Mrs. Roosevelt, the wife of President Roosevelt, whose daily column of comment in a Large a umber of newspapers is ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 134 wordsLONDON, Feb. 7.—The Secretary for War (Mr. Hore-Belisha) announced today that although the Government was not desirous of qualifying the Territorial ...
Article : 69 wordsBERLIN, Feb. 7.—The Reich Cultural Leader (Dr. Alfred Rosenberg), in an address to the Diplomatic Corps and foreign journalists today, blandly explained the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 150 wordsCAPE TOWN, Feb. 8.—The National Assembly by 88 votes to 22 today rejected a motion introduced by the leader of the Nationalist Party that "Die Stem van Suid ...
Article : 100 wordsLONDON, Feb. 8.—The "Star" reports that detectives from Scotland Yard before dawn today raided a house in Sutton, arrested six Irishmen and seized ...
Article : 220 wordsLONDON, Feb. 7.—Mr. Alan Tully, of Melbourne, who was a passenger aboard the Imperial Airways plane Delia, which, bound from Hong Kong to Hanoi (French ...
Article : 183 wordsLONDON, Feb. 7.—The following official statement regarding the composition of the Arab delegations at the Palestine conferences was issued today: "His ...
Article : 243 wordsLONDON, Feb. 7.—Six 40-seater airliners for the England-Australia route have been ordered by Royal Dutch Airlines from the Douglas Aircraft Co. in ...
Article : 197 wordsLONDON, Feb. 8.—Mr. Alexander Henshaw, who landed at Cape Town on Tuesday after a record-breaking flight from England, left there yesterday at ...
Article : 193 wordsLONDON, Feb. 8.—It is understood that in reply to representations by the British Government, the Italian Foreign Minister (Count Ciano), on behalf of ...
Article : 450 wordsWASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—President Roosevelt at a Press conference today stated that the manufacture of American anti-aircraft equipment had been ...
Article : 135 wordsBELFAST, Feb. 8.—Four men were arrested this morning after Irish Republican Army posters reading "We citizens of the Irish Republic demand the ...
Article : 42 wordsSYDNEY, Feb. 8.—The Dutch airliner which arrived at Sydney at 7 p.m. today created a new Darwin to Sydney record of 12 hours two minutes for the 2,225 ...
Article : 81 wordsLONDON, Feb. 7.—The Czechoslovakia Financial Assistance Bill (under which Britain will treat as a free grant £4,000,000 of the £10,000,000 already ...
Article : 115 wordsAUCKLAND, Feb. 8.—A 19-year-old girl who was formerly employed at an Auckland private hospital was charged in the Supreme Court today with the theft ...
Article : 167 wordsSYDNEY, Feb. 8.—Police believe that a story of unrequited love lies behind the death of Leslie George Scorgie (17), of Wheeney Creek, near Kurrajong, who ...
Article : 156 wordsJERUSALEM, Feb. 8.—Terrorism is apparently being continued to reinforce the Arab speeches at the Palestine Conference in London. A landmine killed ...
Article : 84 wordsPARIS, Feb. 7.—Dr. Charles Roos, an Alsatian autonomist leader, and several of his followers have been arrested at Strasbourg on charges of having plotted ...
Article : 82 wordsLONDON, Feb. 8.—Some of his influential friends are again urging the Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain) to decide on an early general election. They believe ...
Article : 110 wordsROME, Feb. 7.—Italy's foreign trade decreased in value in 1938 by 12 per cent. Imports last year totalled £121,000,000, compared with £151,000,000 in the ...
Article : 50 wordsLONDON, Feb. 8.—A supplementary civil estimate of £4,549,000 published to-day includes £3,134,000 for the Palestine troubles. This is made up of £1,120,000 ...
Article : 76 wordsLONDON, Feb. 7.—The Dartmouth Corporation has banned the Lambeth Walk's popular rival, the Palais Glide, "because it strains the ballroom ...
Article : 74 wordsDURBAN, Feb. 8.—Fifteen persons have been drowned and thousands are homeless in Natal and the Transvaal as a result of heavy floods. Bridges and ...
Article : 51 wordsROME, Feb. 7.—Commercial relations between Italy and the Soviet, broken in 1936, are renewed under a treaty between the two countries signed today. It is ...
Article : 40 wordsSYDNEY, Feb. 8.—The operation performed at St. Vincent's Hospital in the hope of saving the life of Jack Dyke (30), of Glasgow-avenue, Bondi, after he had ...
Article : 87 wordsPARIS, Feb. 8.—It is believed that two men were killed and 30 injured when a French cruiser and a destroyer collided in a heavy fog during manoeuvres in ...
Article : 37 wordsPARIS, Feb. 8.—Two seaplanes and three landplanes will maintain France's transatlantic air service between Bordeaux and New York when it begins in ...
Article : 40 wordsBUKAREST, Feb. 8.—It is understood the Soviet Government has suggested a security pact to Rumania. Turkey, Bulgaria and Greece to preserve the status ...
Article : 37 wordsBRISBANE, Feb. 8.—Mr. C. R. Bignell, of Isabel plantations, Eulakora, who has spent the last 31 years in the British Solomon Islands, passed through by the ...
Article : 93 wordsWASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—Giving evidence today before the Senate Finance Committee the Secretary of the Treasury (Mr. Henry Morgenthau) predicted that ...
Article : 79 wordsLONDON, Feb. 3.—"Germany's expenditure on military purposes since the inception of the Nazi regime to April, 1938, totalled £2,800,000,000 and she is ...
Article : 69 wordsAUCKLAND, Feb. 8.—Believed at the time to have been drowned, a man who failed to answer to bail upon which he had been released and whose clothes were ...
Article : 105 wordsSYDNEY, Feb. 8.—The engine of the north-west mail train which left Sydney at 3.30 p.m. today struck oxywelding gear on the lines two miles north of the ...
Article : 66 wordsTOKIO, Feb. 8.—Ten miners were killed and ten were seriously injured when an avalanche today overwhelmed workings near the ridge of Sugino. Eighty men ...
Article : 35 wordsLONDON, Feb. 6.—The results of the all-Australian export lamb competition, fifth series, have been announced as follows: First: R. B. Mills and Son, of ...
Article : 44 wordsWARSAW, Feb. 8.—By sending a trade delegation to Burgos, Poland has accorded General Franco's regime de facto recognition. ...
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