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  3. HIS RISE TO POWER.

    Rising from humble beginnings to the Premiership of his home State and then to the post of Prime Minister of the Commonwealth, the late Mr. J. A. Lyons ...

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  4. EARL STANHOPE'S SPEECH

    LONDON, April 6.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain) made a statement in the House of Commons yesterday with reference to Tuesday night's ...

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  5. "A GREAT AUSTRALIAN."

    Eloquent tributes and many expressions of sympathy and regret were voiced throughout Australia yesterday on the death of the Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons). ...

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  6. SORROW IN PERTH.

    "Mr. Lyons's death came as a great shock to me, as I feel sure it did to all the peoples of the Commonwealth." said the Lord Mayor (Mr. C. Harper). "His ...

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  7. THE CABINET.

    SYDNEY, April 7.—Problems of constitutional procedure in the solution of which he had no precedent to guide him were expeditiously disposed of by the ...

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  8. "SERVED WITH FIDELITY."

    MELBOURNE, April 7.—"The death of Mr. Lyons has deprived Australia of a leader who has played a great part in our history," said the Chief Justice of the ...

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  9. "DIED AT THE HELM."

    SYDNEY, April 7.—"The people of Australia are at one in their grief," the new Prime Minister (Sir Earle Page) said tonight. "We have lost a man who ...

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  10. THE STATES SPEAK.

    In the various State capitals expressions of sympathy were voiced by the Premiers. The following tributes were voiced:— The Premier of New South Wales (Mr. ...

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  11. STATE FUNERAL.

    SYDNEY, April 7.—At a meeting this afternoon to discuss arrangements for the burial of Mr. Lyons, the Federal Ministry decided to accord him a State ...

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  12. MURDERED CONSUL.

    BAGDAD, April 6.—The Irak Government has issued a statement expressing its detestation of the "dastardly crime" of the murder of the British Consul at ...

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  13. N.S.W. LABOUR.

    SYDNEY, April 7.—The annual Easter conferences of the rival Labour Parties in New South Wales were begun in Sydney this morning. They will be continued ...

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  14. THE LAST HOURS.

    SYDNEY, April 7.—Shortly after Mr. Lyons was admitted to hospital on Wednesday his condition was diagnosed as acute heart trouble. Electrocardiograph ...

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  15. ARABS MOURN DEAD KING.

    LONDON, April 5.—A message from the High Commissioner for Palestine, received at the Colonial Office, reports that there has been widespread mourning over the ...

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  16. PALESTINE STRUGGLE.

    JERUSALEM, April 6.—The Palestine rebel headquarters has called on Arabs to join in a holy war against Zionist and British infidels. The manifesto ...

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  17. Sentence on Arab Boy Explained.

    LONDON, April 6.—The Colonial Secretary (Mr. Malcolm MacDonald) answered in the House of Commons today a question about the sentence passed in ...

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  18. VICTORIAN FLOODS.

    MELBOURNE, April 7.—Victoria's Easter holidays began today with the worst flooding in north and north-western areas for more than 20 years, terrific ...

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  19. REPUTATION OVERSEAS.

    LONDON, April 7.—Although no newspapers were published today (Good Friday) the news of the death of Mr. Lyons spread rapidly and was received with the ...

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  20. LABOUR CONDOLENCE.

    Labour leaders in the Commonwealth and the various States also paid tributes to Mr. Lyons. The Leader of the Federal Opposition (Mr. Curtin) said last night ...

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  21. CHURCHES' ADMIRATION.

    The Primate of Australia (Dr. Le Fanu) said:—"I received with profound regret the news of the unexpected death of the Prime Minister. I had the ...

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  22. GERMAN GIBES.

    BERLIN, April 5.—The newspaper "B.Z. Am Mittag" comments: "Did Lord Stanhope mean that Martians were marching on Europe. The tendency ...

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  23. NEW ZEALAND SYMPATHY.

    WELLINGTON, April 7.—The Prime Minister of New Zealand (Mr. Savage) sent the following cable message to Sir Earle Page today:—"News of the sudden ...

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  24. SMASH AT CROSSING.

    HOBART, April 7.—Three persons were killed and one was injured severely when a motor car crashed into an express train at a level crossing at Woodbury on ...

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  25. DAM MURDER MYSTERY.

    MELBOURNE, April 6.—Detectives investigating the Dumosa dam murder mystery are looking for a cyclist who is believed to have spent a night at ...

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  26. "A Devoted Christian."

    MELBOURNE, April 7.—"The unexpected, almost tragic, death of the Prime Minister brings grief to Australia and far beyond its borders," said Archbishop ...

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  27. KILLED IN CEMETERY.

    MELBOURNE, April 7.—Harold Currle (about 18) was killed when the top of a tombstone, weighing about 1cwt. fell on his chest in the Mawallok cemetery this ...

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  28. CAR OVERTURNS.

    ADELAIDE, April 7.—A youth was killed and four persons badly injured when a touring car in which they were travelling from Adelaide to Horsham ...

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  29. BELGIAN STRIKE ENDS.

    BRUSSELS, April 5.—The majority of the 10,000 coalminers in the Charlerol and Liege areas who struck yesterday in protest against a 2½ per cent reduction ...

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  30. Cathedral Prayers.

    At all functions in St. Mary's Cathedral yesterday prayers for the repose of the soul of the late Prime Minister were said by the people. The Archbishop of ...

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  31. U.S. RESERVE FORCE CAMPAIGN.

    WASHINGTON, April 5.—The War Department has launched a campaign to raise a special reserve force of 75,000, composed from regular army men under ...

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  32. BOMB DROPPED ACCIDENTALLY

    LONDON, April 6.—A Royal Air Force plane accidentally dropped a bomb over Trustthorpe, near Mabelthorpe, yesterday. The bomb landed in a wheatfield ...

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