SYDNEY, May 26.—When a motor cycle and a car collided near the Ingle-burn Camp late on Saturday night, the rider of the cycle, Arthur Claude Smith ...
Article : 84 wordsUrged by a sense of the gravity of the hour and responding to the call of the Sing, citizens of Perth yesterday thronged the churches to overflowing in ...
Article : 572 wordsLONDON, May 25.—An Order-in- Council promulgated last night implements one of the drastic powers conferred on the Government by the new ...
Article : 521 wordsWASHINGTON, May 25.—While mass meetings held in various centres throughout the United States sponsored by leading citizens have voted for a petition to ...
Article : 869 wordsSIMLA, May 25.—The Government announced today that it would implement immediately plans for a large-scale expansion of the Indian fighting forces. ...
Article : 257 wordsROME, May 25.—Rome's beflagged streets and monuments, celebrating the anniversary of Italy's entry into the last war, necessitated adroit Italian Press ...
Article : 339 wordsMystery surrounds the discovery of a car abandoned after an accident, with the engine running, in Albany-road, between Maddington and Victoria Park, on ...
Article : 228 wordsAUCKLAND, May 26.—Little further concerning the Government's drastic war legislation proposals emerged after the Labour Party Caucus had ...
Article : 304 wordsFour persons were injured shortly after eight o'clock on Saturday night when two sedan motor cars collided on the Causeway. Both cars were extensively ...
Article : 258 wordsPARIS, May 24.—Anglo-Italian negotiations for a relaxing of the Mediterranean blockade are progressing and an agreement is expected. ...
Article : 26 wordsROME, May 25.—The Italian Line yesterday confirmed reports that the sailing of the giant liner Rex (51,062 tons) from Genoa to New York had been ...
Article : 171 wordsLONDON, May 25.—A thousand delegates, representing 5,000,000 organised workers, at a special conference called by the general council of the Trade Union ...
Article : 272 wordsAt Fremantle yesterday all churches were crowded at both morning and evening services. A naval and military parade preceded the morning service at St. ...
Article : 650 wordsAfter be had alighted from a tram bound for Inglewood at the corner of Beaufort-street and Ninth-avenue, Inglewood, on Saturday afternoon, Ronald ...
Article : 130 wordsSYDNEY, May 26.—"The Australian Government has, in the past, been too ready to gamble on there being no war. Now, however, we are at death grips, and ...
Article : 340 wordsAUCKLAND, May 26.—There has been a sharp increase in enlistments for the New Zealand Expeditionary Force during the past few days. ...
Article : 54 wordsNEW YORK, May 25.—Before Congressional and military spectators today, Mr. Lester Barlow, a specialist in aerial bombs, detonated a 1,0001b. liquid-oxygen ...
Article : 108 wordsLONDON, May 26.—The British Broad-casting Corporation abandoned the broadcast of Cardinal Hinsley's National Prayer Day sermon from Westminster ...
Article : 138 wordsTwo men were injured in a collision between a utility truck and a military truck on Guildford-road at Bayswater shortly after eight o'clock on Saturday night. ...
Article : 123 wordsLONDON, May 25.—It appears that the publicity given to the enrolment of men for the Local Defence Volunteers—the numbers of which are already ...
Article : 302 wordsTHREE SPRINGS, May 21.—At a meeting of the Three Springs Road Board last night, the Mingenew Road Board advised that it had protested against ...
Article : 186 wordsA service was conducted at the Greek Orthodox Church yesterday morning by Archbishop Timotheos. The subject al the address was the invocation of divine ...
Article : 73 wordsMEXICO CITY, May 25.—M. Trotsky, the exiled Communist leader, who was attacked by between 30 and 40 men armed with machine-guns, alleged yesterday that ...
Article : 192 wordsIn a collision between two motor cars at the intersection of Government-road and Beechboro-road, at Morley Park, near Bayswater, on Saturday afternoon, ...
Article : 93 wordsNEW YORK, May 25.—A more optimistic interpretation of the war news was the most important factor in the financial markets today, when stocks moved ...
Article : 153 wordsSYDNEY, May 26.—With a fervour which has not been seen in Sydney since the darkest days of the Great War, people of all shades of religious thought today ...
Article : 380 wordsKOORDA, May 25.—At a meeting of the Koorda Agricultural Society last night it was resolved that all available funds be offered as a free-of-interest loan to the ...
Article : 90 wordsFalling from a bicycle at the corner of George and Hay streets on Saturday afternoon, Frederick Watts (28), of 306 Lord-street, Perth, suffered lacerations to ...
Article : 53 wordsAlthough several hundred of the 2,500 London taxi-cabs requisitioned for the Auxiliary Fire Service have been returned to their owners and the ...
Article : 191 wordsMELBOURNE, May 26.—A cheque for £10,000 to assist Australia's war effort was presented to the Commonwealth Government yesterday by Mr. E. B. ...
Article : 70 wordsTwo naval men had fortunate escapes from injury yesterday morning when the motor car in which they were travelling snapped an iron verandah post and ...
Article : 119 wordsNEW YORK, May 25. —The spokesman for the Anglo-French Purchasing Mission said today that Allied orders for war-planes and accessories in the United ...
Article : 51 wordsIn all Roman Catholic Churches throughout the State yesterday was observed as a day of special intercession for a lasting peace based on the ...
Article : 294 wordsLONDON, May 25.—In a broadcast to-night, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Information (Mr. Harold Nicolson) suggested the formation of ...
Article : 37 wordsLONDON, May 24.—Baron Austin, who has been chairman for the last four years of the committee established in connection with the production of aero engines ...
Article : 70 wordsCHICAGO, May 24.—Speaking at a luncheon given today by the English Speaking Union, the Australian Minister (Mr. Casey) said that Australians ...
Article : 150 wordsNEW YORK, May 25.—The dissolution by consent of a decree of agreement whereby Bausch and Lomb and the German-controlled firm of Carl Zeiss are ...
Article : 70 wordsSYDNEY, May 26.—William Ashman (46), of Saville-street, St. Leonards, was drowned at Cowan, Hawkesbury River, on Saturday. Police were told that he was ...
Article : 84 wordsSwerving to avoid an oncoming car at the corner of Sullivan and Lochee streets, Mosman Park, at 1.25 p.m. on Saturday, a motor cycle, with a side-car carrier, ...
Article : 74 wordsA novel method of securing recruits for the New Zealand forces was introduced at a rugby match between teams from the Trentham and Burnham military ...
Article : 183 wordsLONDON, May 24—The bacon ration will be reduced from eight ounces to four ounces a week on June 10. ...
Article : 24 wordsWASHINGTON, May 25.—Twenty-one American countries have protested to Great Britain and Germany in connection with the scuttling of the German ...
Article : 88 wordsLONDON, May 24.—The case in which six members of the Peace Pledge Union are charged with having committed breaches of the defence regulations has ...
Article : 73 wordsSYDNEY, May 26.—When a car left the road on Pymble-road, French's Forest, and struck a tree on Saturday afternoon, Stephen Best (41), of Wilford-street, ...
Article : 60 wordsSYDNEY, May 26.—William Earl Doyle (16) who lived at Emu Plains, near Penrith, was accidentally shot dead in the bush today. Doyle had climbed a tree ...
Article : 98 wordsCANBERRA, May 26.—The Minister for Supply (Sir Frederick Stewart) today announced the personnel of the machine tools committee which has been appointed ...
Article : 89 wordsNEW YORK, May 25.—The steamship President Roosevelt, its public rooms filled with cots, sailed for Galway today without cargo and passengers to bring home ...
Article : 30 wordsGAZA, May 26.—Special references to the King's day of prayer were made In all church parades of the A.l.F. today. and a number of soldiers on leave in ...
Article : 75 wordsSYDNEY, May 26.—Frank Bowen (24), of Wellington, was killed when a touring motor coach carrying 27 passengers came into collision with a motor lorry about ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Metro Theatre was packed to capacity and many hundreds of people were unable to gain admission to the "Sacred Hour" programme of station ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 27 May 1940, Page 8
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