LONDON, Feb. 21.—The debate on the Government's defence programme was opened in the House of Commons yesterday with a speech by the Chancellor of ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 1,137 wordsMELBOURNE, Feb. 21.—Labour's policy on defence and military training will be thrown into the melting pot for revision at the triennial Federal ...
Article : 340 wordsLONDON, Feb. 21.—At question time in the House of Commons yesterday the Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain) announced that the Secretary to the ...
Article : 785 wordsNEW YORK, Feb. 20.—While 22,000 American Nazis demonstrated in Madison-square Garden tonight huge crowds jammed the surrounding streets and ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 316 wordsPENSACOLA, (Florida), Feb. 21.—It was officially announced this morning that 12 single-seater navy pursuit planes made forced landings in fog last night over a ...
Article : 147 wordsTwo men were killed instantly when a Fremantle-bound passenger train crashed into a heavy model sedan car on the Napier-street level crossing, Cottesloe, ...
Article : 563 wordsWASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—The fate of President Roosevelt's rearmament programme is no longer in doubt. It has survived the first assault on it in the ...
Article : 460 wordsLONDON, Feb. 21.—The Foreign Offices of Europe are keeping a keen watch on the village of Chust, which has become the capital of the autonomous ...
Article : 376 wordsSYDNEY, Feb. 21.—How the bodies of Mrs. Edna Muriel Dixon (24), and her sister, Gwendoline Murray (15), were found by the MacDonald River, adjacent ...
Article : 1,064 wordsLONDON, Feb. 20.—The Egyptian delegation to the Palestine talks submitted to a conference at St. James's Palace today a joint memorandum on behalf of ...
Article : 388 wordsSYDNEY, Feb. 21.—A meeting of the Commonwealth Council of the Amalgamated Engineering Union will be held tomorrow to decide whether the union ...
Article : 310 wordsLONDON, Feb. 21.—The Paris correspondent of the British United Press reports that the Prime Minister of Spain (Senor Negrin) yesterday sent a ...
Article : 354 wordsLONDON, Feb. 21.—Hong Kong dispatches state that Japanese war planes bombed British territory early this morning when raiding the village of ...
Article : 119 wordsWASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—Senator Nye introduced in the Senate today a measure to grant the Army and Navy Departments authority to restrict the release of ...
Article : 136 wordsBRISBANE, Feb. 21.—The Premier (Mr. Forgan Smith) said today that the Queensland Government was deeply concerned because of the manner in which ...
Article : 133 wordsSHANGHAI, Feb. 21.—A Japanese communique claims that war planes made a mass attack on Lanchow (in the far north-west) yesterday. shooting down 36 ...
Article : 82 wordsPARIS, Feb. 20.— "Le Temps" says today that because Britain and France desire peace they are prepared, while watching their own interests, to facilitate ...
Article : 81 wordsLONDON, Feb. 21.—The Paris correspondent of "The Times" says it is reported from Tunis that 16 Italians, including the head of the immigration ...
Article : 100 wordsSHANGHAI, Feb. 21.—Marquis Li Kuochieh, a grandson of the famous Marquis Lt Hung-chang, who was connected with the puppet government in Nanking, ...
Article : 97 wordsBRUSSELS, Feb. 21.—M. Pierlot, a Catholic senator and former Minister of the Interior, today formed a new Cabinet to succeed the Spaak Government, ...
Article : 119 wordsLONDON, Feb. 20.—Asked in the House of Commons today whether, as the paramount power in India was bound by treaty to protect the Indian ...
Article : 222 wordsMELBOURNE, Feb. 21.—The Minister for Defence (Brigadier Street) said today that no decision to increase the strength of the permanent military forces by 2,000 ...
Article : 108 wordsVATICAN CITY, Feb. 21.—It was officially announced today that the conclave of Cardinals to elect a successor to the late Pope Pius XI will open on ...
Article : 157 wordsBERLIN, Feb. 20.—Cellars for protection in case of air raids which are being constructed below the Chancellery include garages for over 200 cars and ...
Article : 92 wordsLONDON, Feb. 20.—The Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Butler) informed the House of Commons at question time today that the question of what ...
Article : 70 wordsMELBOURNE, Feb. 21.—The Minister for Defence (Brigadier Street) said today that one of the most formidable obstacles to the rapid development of ...
Article : 223 wordsLONDON, Feb. 20.—In the House of Commons today the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Butler) replied in the affirmative to a question whether the ...
Article : 143 wordsLONDON, Feb. 20.—In the House of Commons today Mr. A. P. Herbert (the Independent member for Oxford University) asked the President of the Board ...
Article : 134 wordsAUCKLAND, Feb. 21.—A request by the New Zealand Freedom Association, a body formed before the last general election, which opposes the Labour ...
Article : 138 wordsLONDON, Feb. 20.—An action in divorce by Bryan Wallace, son of the late Edgar Wallace, the popular writer of detective fiction, against his wife, is due ...
Article : 84 wordsCAIRO, Feb. 20.—The Egyptian Government, at a cost of £3,000,000, has decided to build a coastal defence fleet consisting of six minesweepers and two ...
Article : 57 wordsPARIS, Feb. 21.—France's north-eastern border, including the Maginot Line and the fortified cities of Metz and Thionville, will be "blacked out" ...
Article : 150 wordsBERLIN, Feb. 21.—Captain Wiedemann, formerly aide-de-camp to Herr Hitler, by whom he was entrusted with a number of confidential political missions, ...
Article : 54 wordsNEW YORK, Feb. 21.—A female chimpanzee, fresh from the Belgian Congo jungle, wrecked a pet shop in Fifth avenue today and disrupted the traffic ...
Article : 97 wordsAUCKLAND, Feb. 21.—A warning that profiteering would not be permitted was issued by the Minister for Commerce (Mr. Sullivan) today. The Government, ...
Article : 76 wordsLONDON, Feb. 20.—The French and Persian Governments, the Paris correspondent of the British United Press reports, have resumed the diplomatic ...
Article : 68 wordsLONDON, Feb. 21.—A bomb hidden in a fireplace in a hall owned by the Ancient Order of Hibernians exploded last night and seriously damaged the ...
Article : 37 wordsMELBOURNE, Feb. 21.—The Minister for Defence (Brigadier Street) said today that every step would be taken to detect and punish offenders against the ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Wed 22 Feb 1939, Page 17
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