LAUSANNE, July 23.—Though it is denied by his secretary, ex-King Alfonso of Spain is reported to have dramatically claimed the Spanish throne at a secret ...
Article : 262 wordsLONDON, July 22.—There are reports from Berlin and Rome of a relaxation of tension as a result of yesterday's declaration by a Government spokesman ...
Article : 731 wordsMEXICO CITY, July 22.—The entire Mexican Press gives great prominence to- day to reports that the Guatemalan Government has asked for the intervention ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 393 wordsLONDON, July 23.—With astonishment England has read reports appearing in several London newspapers yesterday that a new plan for appeasing Germany is ...
Article : 562 wordsMOSCOW, July 23.—Further fighting is reported on the Outer Mongolia-Manchukuo frontier between Russians and Mongolians on one side and Japanese and ...
Article : 137 wordsThe Japanese Foreign Office announced on Saturday the Craigie-Arita talks had resulted in agreement in a basis for negotiations for a settlement of the Tientsin dispute. Statements will be made in London and Tokio this afternoon. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 939 wordsMELBOURNE, July 23.—No agreement was reached at the conference between the Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) and the Federal Labour Advisory Committee ...
Article : 228 wordsSYDNEY, July 23.—With a roar that could be heard more than a mile away, an explosion shortly after noon yesterday almost wrecked the engineering factory of ...
Article : 333 wordsSYDNEY, July 23.—A mass meeting held on the Domain today carried a motion in favour of boycotting the national register and defeating the ...
Article : 308 wordsCHUNGKING, July 22.—It is expected that the Chinese leaders will be deeply disappointed if the reported agreement is confirmed. At present they are studying ...
Article : 77 wordsNEW YORK, July 22.—At his home at Hyde Park yesterday President Roosevelt told a Press conference that the refusal of the Senate to take action this session ...
Article : 181 wordsCANBERRA, July 23.—After having lived in apparently poor circumstances in a camp at Canberra, George McManus (67), formerly of the British army, died ...
Article : 127 wordsLONDON, July 22.—In connection with the Government plans for utilising services of doctors to the best advantage in the event of war, it is announced that a ...
Article : 129 wordsTIENTSIN, July 22.—The Japanese are intensifying the anti-British boycott. A mass meeting of Chinese today agreed to boycott the British currency ...
Article : 40 wordsAttracted by announcements that national register forms would be publicly burnt as a protest against the National Register Act, several hundred people ...
Article : 288 wordsLONDON, July 22.—Mrs. Tom Clarke, the first woman Lord Mayor of Dublin, the widow of the first signatory of the proclamation of the Irish Republic (who ...
Article : 82 wordsWASHINGTON, July 21—The Secretary of State (Mr. Cordell Hull) at a Press conference today intimated that the United States and Britain were ...
Article : 268 wordsLONDON, July 23.—The 50-foot yawl Zjawa III., with two Australian rover scouts. Bernard Plowright and David Walsh, and a Polish sea scout, Ladislas ...
Article : 218 wordsSAN FRANCISCO, July 21.—Additional evidence designed to prove the association of Mr. Harry Bridges, the Australian born Pacific Coast labour leader, with ...
Article : 193 wordsAUCKLAND, July 23.—Despite eight attempts to pull the stranded steamer Port Bowen off the shore at Wanganui the vessel remains in practically the same ...
Article : 110 wordsLONDON, July 22.—"The reserve fleet is no longer the navy's Cinderella," writes Mr. Hector C. Bywater, the naval correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph." ...
Article : 111 wordsWARSAW, July 22.—The Polish Commissioner in Danzig (L. Chodacki) has rejected the explanation of the Danzig authorities of the fatal shooting of a ...
Article : 160 wordsTOKIO, July 23.—A high Government official stated today that Japan's purchases of wool in 1939 were likely to exceed considerably those in 1938, the ...
Article : 47 wordsBIG BELL, July 23.—A number of national register forms were publicly burnt here yesterday afternoon after a mass meeting of mine employees ...
Article : 56 wordsLOS ANGELES, July 21.—Sir Keith Smith who, in 1919, with his brother, the late Sir Ross Smith, made the first flight from England to Australia, and who is ...
Article : 160 wordsLONDON, July 23.—The negotiations for an Anglo-French-Russian pact against aggression were resumed in Moscow today when the British Ambassador (Sir ...
Article : 154 wordsLONDON, July 22.—The Paris correspondent of the "News-Chronicle" reports that Pola Negri, the well-known Hollywood film star of the silent era, who last ...
Article : 118 wordsLONDON, July 22.—The Russian steamer Spartak left Tilbury last night for Russia with 137 pedigreed cattle on board including 30 from the royal farms ...
Article : 73 wordsLONDON, July 22.—Early this morning the salvage vessel Zelo raised the sunken submarine Thetis from the seabed in Liverpool Bay (where it has ...
Article : 121 wordsSHANGHAI, July 22.—A band of terrorists attacked today the office in the International Settlement of the "Daily News," an American-owned ...
Article : 95 wordsPRAGUE, July 23.—Dr. Hacha (President of Bohemia) in a statement today said that in the event of certain developments in German foreign policy the ...
Article : 155 wordsWINNIPEG, July 21.—Mr. Hugo Schilling, leader of a party of German farmers who are leaving Canada and head of the German Bund (an organisation on Nazi ...
Article : 99 wordsSHANGHAI, July 22.—The Chinese claim to have recaptured Swabue, the Kwantung port where the Japanese landed yesterday. ...
Article : 21 wordsROME, July 22.—Signor Gayda (the semi-official publicist), writing in the "Gionale d'Italia" yesterday, cited the inauguration of the extensive land ...
Article : 108 wordsLONDON, July 22.—The Duchess of Kent, who usually rides side-saddle, has been informed that this is considered old-fashioned in Australia. She is ...
Article : 57 wordsAUCKLAND, July 23.—Statements that the New Zealand Government has been advised by the British Government to prepare for war in August or September, ...
Article : 168 wordsMOSCOW, July 22.—It is officially announced that the Russo-German trade and credit negotiations have been resumed in Berlin. ...
Article : 23 wordsLONDON, July 21.—Asked in the House of Commons today to what missionary body the property that was recently damaged in the province of Shansi (China) ...
Article : 134 wordsJERUSALEM, July 23.—The Rev. Jacob Goldmer, an American missionary, who, with his son Gerald, was recently kidnapped by Arab bandits and was later ...
Article : 107 wordsLONDON, July 22.—Mr. C. G. Grey has resigned the editorship of the "Aeroplane," of which he was one of the founders in 1911. He declines at present to ...
Article : 99 wordsBRATISLAVA, July 22.—The Parliament of Slovakia (which is nominally independent under German protection) voted yesterday to transform the country ...
Article : 71 wordsBRISBANE, July 23.—After ten years' experience on Queensland and interstate flying routes, Captain Alan Cameron, acting flying superintendent for Airlines of ...
Article : 139 wordsLONDON. July 22.—The Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Butler) was questioned in the House of Commons yesterday about the German allegations ...
Article : 151 wordsLondon regards with reserve the statement by Baron Hiranuma on the Tokio agreement. The news reached London exclusively ...
Article : 283 wordsAUCKLAND, July 23.—An early settlement of the strike of 400 fertiliser workers, involving three large works in Auckland, is considered possible following a ...
Article : 70 wordsNEW YORK, July 22.—Stocks were lifted to new high levels for the current movement today, and with the ticker running late, many of the leading issues ...
Article : 61 wordsLONDON, July 21.—Many parts of England experienced severe thunderstorms this afternoon and reports have come in from many towns of damage ...
Article : 67 wordsBERLIN, July 23.—Germany will give extensive help to Rumania to develop her agriculture as a result of the agreement signed on Thursday (for the exchange of ...
Article : 66 wordsJERUSALEM, July 23.—The authorities have ordered the release of 400 Arabs from concentration camps as a gesture to Arab nationalists. ...
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