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  2. EUROPE'S PROBLEMS.

    It is reported in London that Germany and Italy have submitted to the Holy See a preliminary plan for the peaceful settlement of European problems. The plan, it is stated, provides for a short truce during which ...

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  3. RUSSIAN POLICY.

    LONDON, Aug. 15.—"Reports indicate," states the diplomatic correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph," "that, although the Moscow talks for an ...

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  4. FEDERAL WHEAT PLAN.

    MELBOURNE, Aug. 15.—The Premier (Mr. Dunstan) declared in the Legislative Assembly tonight that the Commonwealth plan to assist the wheat industry ...

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  5. U.S. TRAIN WRECK.

    RENO (Nevada), Aug. 14.—It is now known that at least 25 persons were killed when the crack Chicago-San Francisco express, City of San Francisco, was ...

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  6. PARIS SENSATION.

    PARIS, Aug. 14.—In dramatic circumstances Watteau's picture, "L'Indifferent," which was stolen from the Louvre in board daylight on June 11, was returned ...

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  7. ARMY CHANGES.

    MELBOURNE, Aug. 15.—Several senior staff officers of the Australian military forces whose retirement was to have been announced this week as part ...

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  8. TIENTSIN DISCUSSIONS.

    LONDON, Aug. 14.—It is reported from Tokio there was a further meeting there today between the British Ambassador (Sir Robert Craigie) and ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  9. MUNICH RECALLED.

    The French Press receives the suggestions of negotiations Icily, the opinion being expressed that it would be unlikely the Italo-German demands would be ...

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  10. DEFENCE OF BRITAIN.

    LONDON, Aug. 14.—The new cruiser Belfast sailed from Portsmouth today on her first commission. She is joining the Home Fleet at present in Scottish waters ...

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  11. PROPOSED CONDITIONS

    SYDNEY, Aug. 15.—grew South Wales officers retiring from the military forces under the new reduced retiring age provisions are not dissatisfied with ...

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  12. THE NEXT WAR.

    LONDON, Aug. 14.—A significant statement of Soviet military policy, in which it is assumed a future war will be against the Fascist states, is published ...

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  13. RECORD RECRUITING.

    LONDON, Aug. 14.—Recruiting for the regular army during July reached the highest total of any month since the war. The figures were 4,778, against 2,646 ...

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  14. BURCKHARDT'S ROLE.

    LONDON, Aug. 15.—The League of Nations High Commissioner in Danzig (Dr. Burckhardt). who visited Herr Hitler at Berchtesgaden in the week-end, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  15. I.R.A. SYMPATHISERS.

    LONDON, Aug. 15.—In s series of raids carried out yesterday by police in Dublin on houses of persons suspected of being associated with the Irish ...

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  16. "PALTRY IN THE EXTREME."

    Criticism of the Commonwealth Government's plan to aid the wheat industry was made by Sir Hal Colebatch in an address at the official opening of the ...

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  17. FRENCH COMMENT.

    PARIS, Aug. 15.—The newspaper "L'Epoque" says that the fact that Britain is preparing to hand over to the Japanese at Tientsin the four ...

    Article : 98 words
  18. R.A.F. VOLUNTEER RESERVE.

    LONDON, Aug. 14.—A number of centres of the Royal Air Force volunteer reserve are now approaching the establishment set them in the current ...

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  19. SLOVAKS BELLICOSE.

    BRATISLAVA, Aug. 14.—Meetings have been held in towns in eastern Slovakia at which the return has been demanded of territories ceded to ...

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  20. ABLAZE IN MID-AIR.

    COPENHAGEN, Aug. 15.—A British Airways plane, bound for Hamburg, caught fire in mid-air today and crashed in flames in the water at Storstroenmen. ...

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  21. ANTI-BRITISH CAMPAIGN.

    LONDON, Aug. 15.—The Tokio correspondent of the "News-Chronicle" states that in the Chinese province of North Hunan the Japanese-controlled ...

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  22. TROOP TRANSPORT BY AIR.

    LONDON, Aug. 14.—A detachment of 180 men of the second battalion, Royal Ulster Rifles, stationed at Parkhurst, Isle of Wight, are tomorrow to be transported ...

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  23. H.M.A.S. AUSTRALIA.

    MELBOURNE, Aug. 15.—The modernisation of H.M.A.S. Australia at a cost of £650,000 will be completed this month and her steam and gunnery trials will ...

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  24. ITALY RELENTS.

    LONDON, Aug. 14.—The Rome correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says that the offices of the British United Press, which were closed when Signor ...

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  25. CHANGES IN INDIAN COMMAND.

    LONDON, Aug. 14.—The King bas approved the appointment of Major- General A. F. Hartley, Indian Army, to be Quartermaster-General in India from ...

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  26. SLAPPED BY SENTRY.

    TIENTSIN, Aug. 15.—Mrs. Richard, a 60-year-old American subject, on entering the French concession today was assaulted by a Japanese sentry, who ...

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  27. S.A. PREMIER'S OPTIMISM.

    ADELAIDE, Aug. 15.—The belief that by the time the conference on the stabilisation of the wheat industry is resumed at the end of the month, some ...

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  28. FATE OF JEWS.

    BRATISLAVA, Aug. 14.—The anti-Jewish excesses committed by crowds of Germans and Slovaks in the Jewish quarter of Bratislava yesterday, when shops ...

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  29. ARRESTED MILITARY ATTACHE.

    LONDON, Aug. 14.—Captain Gerald Parker, a British military language officer in Tokio, who is on his way to pay a visit to Colonel C. R. Spear, the British ...

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  30. DENIAL OF THREATS.

    BUDAPEST, Aug. 15.—The Hungarian Press publishes semi-official denials of threats to Hungarian independence, describing them as "products of excited ...

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  31. OIL PRICE DISPUTE.

    DALLAS (Texas), Aug. 14.—The State authorities have ordered the shutting down of 87,000 petroleum wells in Texas, the largest producing State in the nation, ...

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  32. JAPAN AND EUROPE.

    TOKIO, Aug. 15.—The Prime Minister (Baron Hiranuma), the Foreign Minister (Mr. Arita) and the War Minister (General Itagaki) have drafted a formula to ...

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  33. AXIS VIEW OF GIBRALTAR.

    BERLIN, Aug. 14.—Field Marshal Goering's "National Zeitung" declares that Gibraltar in English hands is a standing threat to Spain which cannot ...

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  34. Segregation in Prague.

    PRAGUE, Aug. 14.—In future Jews in Prague will be strictly separated from the Aryan population, under a police decree, excluding them from restaurants, ...

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  35. LAST JOURNEY.

    LONDON, Aug. 15.—While laughing holidaymakers were leaning from the windows of the Continental express at Victoria station today another farewell ...

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  36. WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN.

    SYDNEY, Aug. 15.—"A lightning-like swoop" by Germany on south-eastern Europe was one of the possibilities mentioned by the Federal Attorney-General ...

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  37. BOMBS ON AMERICAN SCHOOL.

    SHANGHAI, Aug. 15.—Seaplanes dropped six bombs on the American mission school at Changchow, completely wrecking the main buildings. ...

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  38. WARSAW IN THE DARK.

    Official circles in Warsaw deny knowledge of any Axis compromise plan. They regard stories of the formulation of such a plan at the Ciano-Ribbentrop ...

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  39. DANZIG INCIDENT.

    WARSAW, Aug. 14.—It is reported from Gdynia that Danzig police today arrested three Polish Customs officers who were patrolling the Danzig harbour ...

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  40. SALVATION ARMY LEADERSHIP

    LONDON, Aug. 15.—There will be a clash between two powerful and resolute factions at the secret conclave of the Salvation Army's High Council, which ...

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  41. Settlement in Abyssinia.

    VIENNA, Aug. 14.—A committee of the "Gildemeester Action." which is safe-guarding the Interests of Jews, is going to Abysinnia by air in order to prepare ...

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  42. FRENCH INDO-CHINA.

    SINGAPORE, Aug. 15.—The Governor- General of Indo-China (M. Jules Brevie) will arrive at Singapore on August 23 by the French cruiser Suffren (9,900 tons). ...

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  43. DARWIN NAVAL BASE.

    DARWIN, Aug. 15.—Although an important Australian naval defence base, Darwin sees but little of ships of the Royal Australian Navy, but the town will ...

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  44. Shanghai Closes the Door.

    LONDON, Aug. 14.—The Shanghai correspondent of "The Times" states that the Shanghai Municipal Council has announced that no more Jewish refugees ...

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  45. MONGOLIAN FIGHTING.

    TOKIO, Aug. 14—In the course of a gun duel across the Khala River, the Japanese claim, their forces silenced the fire of Russians and Mongolians and ...

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  46. ESTONIA'S NEUTRALITY.

    LONDON, Aug. 14.—The Warsaw correspondent of "The Times" states:—"M. Eenpalu (Prime Minister of Estonia) asserts that Estonia will not allow herself ...

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  47. MURDERED CONSUL.

    LONDON, Aug. 14.—The Irak Government is paying £20,000 as compensation to the widow of the late Mr. G. E. A. C. Monck-Mason, the British consul ...

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  48. MILITARY ATTACHE IN TOKIO.

    LONDON, Aug. 14.—The King has approved of the appointment of Lieut.-Colonel B. R. Mulialy, Gurkha Rifles, to succeed Major-General F. S. G. Piggott ...

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  49. FAILURE TO SALUTE.

    ALGECIRAS, Aug. 14.—While watching a bullfight here, the wife of Major Malfey, the embarkation and medical officer at Gibraltar, failed to give the ...

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  50. ARMENIAN MIGRATION.

    LONDON, Aug. 14.—The correspondent of "The Times" at Jerusalem states that 14,000 Armenians from the Hatay (the Syrian territory recently ceded by ...

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  51. SECRETS OF THE MAGINOT LINE.

    STRASBOURG, Aug. 15.—Mr. Winston Churchill was shown the most secret parts of the Maginot Line today. Journalists were not allowed to accompany the ...

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