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 ...
Article : 921 wordsLONDON, Aug. 15.—"Reports indicate," states the diplomatic correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph," "that, although the Moscow talks for an ...
Article : 475 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug. 15.—The Premier (Mr. Dunstan) declared in the Legislative Assembly tonight that the Commonwealth plan to assist the wheat industry ...
Article : 503 wordsRENO (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 ...
Article : 336 wordsPARIS, Aug. 14.—In dramatic circumstances Watteau's picture, "L'Indifferent," which was stolen from the Louvre in board daylight on June 11, was returned ...
Article : 353 wordsMELBOURNE, Aug. 15.—Several senior staff officers of the Australian military forces whose retirement was to have been announced this week as part ...
Article : 278 wordsLONDON, Aug. 14.—It is reported from Tokio there was a further meeting there today between the British Ambassador (Sir Robert Craigie) and ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 371 wordsThe French Press receives the suggestions of negotiations Icily, the opinion being expressed that it would be unlikely the Italo-German demands would be ...
Article : 217 wordsLONDON, 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 ...
Article : 90 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 15.—grew South Wales officers retiring from the military forces under the new reduced retiring age provisions are not dissatisfied with ...
Article : 449 wordsLONDON, 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 ...
Article : 169 wordsLONDON, 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 ...
Article : 74 wordsLONDON, Aug. 15.—The League of Nations High Commissioner in Danzig (Dr. Burckhardt). who visited Herr Hitler at Berchtesgaden in the week-end, ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 380 wordsLONDON, 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 ...
Article : 91 wordsCriticism 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 ...
Article : 342 wordsPARIS, 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 wordsLONDON, Aug. 14.—A number of centres of the Royal Air Force volunteer reserve are now approaching the establishment set them in the current ...
Article : 148 wordsBRATISLAVA, Aug. 14.—Meetings have been held in towns in eastern Slovakia at which the return has been demanded of territories ceded to ...
Article : 94 wordsCOPENHAGEN, Aug. 15.—A British Airways plane, bound for Hamburg, caught fire in mid-air today and crashed in flames in the water at Storstroenmen. ...
Article : 102 wordsLONDON, Aug. 15.—The Tokio correspondent of the "News-Chronicle" states that in the Chinese province of North Hunan the Japanese-controlled ...
Article : 111 wordsLONDON, 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 ...
Article : 43 wordsMELBOURNE, 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 ...
Article : 261 wordsLONDON, Aug. 14.—The Rome correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says that the offices of the British United Press, which were closed when Signor ...
Article : 106 wordsLONDON, Aug. 14.—The King bas approved the appointment of Major- General A. F. Hartley, Indian Army, to be Quartermaster-General in India from ...
Article : 50 wordsTIENTSIN, Aug. 15.—Mrs. Richard, a 60-year-old American subject, on entering the French concession today was assaulted by a Japanese sentry, who ...
Article : 65 wordsADELAIDE, 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 ...
Article : 64 wordsBRATISLAVA, Aug. 14.—The anti-Jewish excesses committed by crowds of Germans and Slovaks in the Jewish quarter of Bratislava yesterday, when shops ...
Article : 87 wordsLONDON, 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 ...
Article : 92 wordsBUDAPEST, Aug. 15.—The Hungarian Press publishes semi-official denials of threats to Hungarian independence, describing them as "products of excited ...
Article : 24 wordsDALLAS (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, ...
Article : 64 wordsTOKIO, Aug. 15.—The Prime Minister (Baron Hiranuma), the Foreign Minister (Mr. Arita) and the War Minister (General Itagaki) have drafted a formula to ...
Article : 70 wordsBERLIN, Aug. 14.—Field Marshal Goering's "National Zeitung" declares that Gibraltar in English hands is a standing threat to Spain which cannot ...
Article : 42 wordsPRAGUE, Aug. 14.—In future Jews in Prague will be strictly separated from the Aryan population, under a police decree, excluding them from restaurants, ...
Article : 30 wordsLONDON, Aug. 15.—While laughing holidaymakers were leaning from the windows of the Continental express at Victoria station today another farewell ...
Article : 111 wordsSYDNEY, Aug. 15.—"A lightning-like swoop" by Germany on south-eastern Europe was one of the possibilities mentioned by the Federal Attorney-General ...
Article : 287 wordsSHANGHAI, Aug. 15.—Seaplanes dropped six bombs on the American mission school at Changchow, completely wrecking the main buildings. ...
Article : 24 wordsOfficial circles in Warsaw deny knowledge of any Axis compromise plan. They regard stories of the formulation of such a plan at the Ciano-Ribbentrop ...
Article : 287 wordsWARSAW, Aug. 14.—It is reported from Gdynia that Danzig police today arrested three Polish Customs officers who were patrolling the Danzig harbour ...
Article : 78 wordsLONDON, 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 ...
Article : 146 wordsVIENNA, 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 ...
Article : 59 wordsSINGAPORE, 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). ...
Article : 50 wordsDARWIN, Aug. 15.—Although an important Australian naval defence base, Darwin sees but little of ships of the Royal Australian Navy, but the town will ...
Article : 273 wordsLONDON, Aug. 14.—The Shanghai correspondent of "The Times" states that the Shanghai Municipal Council has announced that no more Jewish refugees ...
Article : 112 wordsTOKIO, 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 ...
Article : 36 wordsLONDON, Aug. 14.—The Warsaw correspondent of "The Times" states:—"M. Eenpalu (Prime Minister of Estonia) asserts that Estonia will not allow herself ...
Article : 68 wordsLONDON, 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 ...
Article : 101 wordsLONDON, 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 ...
Article : 65 wordsALGECIRAS, Aug. 14.—While watching a bullfight here, the wife of Major Malfey, the embarkation and medical officer at Gibraltar, failed to give the ...
Article : 61 wordsLONDON, Aug. 14.—The correspondent of "The Times" at Jerusalem states that 14,000 Armenians from the Hatay (the Syrian territory recently ceded by ...
Article : 46 wordsSTRASBOURG, 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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