LONDON, Aug. 12.—After an all-night sitting the House of Commons passed, by 178 votes to 63, the third reading of the Supplies and Services Bill, which gives the Government powers to deal with the economic crisis. ...
Article : 1,242 wordsCANBERRA, Aug. 12.—Drastic cuts in the import of some American commodities into Australia. to conserve dollars, are likely to be ...
Article : 189 wordsTHE HAGUE, Aug. 12.—The Netherlands Government announced today that it had offered to form immediately an interim Government for Indonesia "in which representatives of the various States will ...
Article : 423 wordsNEW DELHI, Aug. 12.—Troops with machine-guns mounted on trucks yesterday patrolled Lahore streets and tanks were posted at ...
Article : 344 wordsGENEVA, Aug. 12.—After weeks of complicated negotiations delegates to the International Trade Conference yesterday reached agreement on a plan to incorporate in a world trade charter provisions enabling ...
Article : 334 wordsNEW YORK. Aug. 12.—The Egyptian Prime Minister (Nokrashy Pasha), who on August 5 asked the Security Council of U.N.O. to order ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 512 wordsCANBERRA, Aug. 12.—The offer by the United States to negotiate tariff concessions on the basis of a 25 per cent cut in the wool ...
Article : 228 wordsThe August bank holiday found many Londoners waiting and watching anxiously in Dawning-street. London, as Cabinet Ministers arrived at No. 10 (in the background) for emergency discussions on Britain's economic crisis. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 34 wordsWASHINGTON, Aug. 12.—The Senate War Investigating Sub-Committee, after a brief meeting yesterday abruptly adjourned the ...
Article : 86 wordsLONDON, Aug. 12.—In a speech in the House of Commons yesterday the Foreign Under-Secretary (Mr. C. P. Mayhew) said he regretted ...
Article : 224 wordsAMMAN (Transjordan), Aug. 12.—King Abdullah of Transjordan announced last night that a proclamation proposing a conference ...
Article : 179 wordsMELBOURNE. Aug. 12.—At the dictates of a few union officials Australia had been virtually at war with the Dutch for two years except ...
Article : 208 wordsNEW YORK, Aug. 12.—The trade newspaper "Daily News Record" says that when private traders enter Japan on Friday for the first ...
Article : 291 wordsLONDON, Aug. 12.—Britain had made no arrangements to finance the expansion of food production in Australia but would welcome any ...
Article : 161 wordsPrincess Hermine, widow of the former Kaiser, died last Thursday in the Russian zone of occupied Germany. The U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Department has asked the Russian authorities to investigate fully the circumstances of her death, vaguely announced as due to "heart failure." The alleged loss of the Hohenzollem Crown jewels, which had been in her possession, is also being probed. Left: ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 99 wordsLONDON, Aug. 12.—"Since the breakdown of the Anglo-Russian trade talks, another instalment of £A3,000,000 became due from the ...
Article : 128 wordsPEIPING, Aug. 12.—Communist troops broke into Yulin, north of Yenan, but were repulsed with heavy losses, according to Chinese ...
Article : 40 wordsBATAVIA. Aug. 12.—Documents which have fallen into Dutch hands are said to have included a list of Indonesians in sympathy with ...
Article : 657 wordsLONDON, Aug. 12.—Mr. Michael Balcon, the film producer, of Ealing Studios, says in a letter to "The Times" that the new 300 ...
Article : 98 wordsBERLIN, Aug. 12.—The United States and British Military Governments, in an attempt to increase German exports, announced today that ...
Article : 166 wordsPARIS, Aug. 12.—The French Assembly yesterday passed a vote of confidence in the Government by 404 votes to 184. The Prime ...
Article : 64 wordsNEW YORK, Aug. 12.—The "Herald-Tribune" forecasts that General MacArthur will return to the United States from Tokio for ...
Article : 93 wordsLONDON, Aug. 12.—The British Government has notified the Chancellor of Austria (Dr. Figl) that it is prepared to agree to the deferment ...
Article : 93 wordsLONDON, Aug. 12.—Mrs. Amy Victoria Clements, whom the Coroner's jury at Southport found was murdered by her husband, Dr. ...
Article : 59 wordsROME. Aug. 12.—The Italian Foreign Office today denied a "Pravda" report that the United States' had asked Italy for the use ...
Article : 31 wordsLONDON, Aug. 12.—The British Government's political representative in Budapest has delivered to the Hungarian Government a ...
Article : 71 wordsLONDON, Aug. 12.—The crisis within the Labour Party continued unchecked after the meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party yesterday, says Reuters political correspondent; 150 or more "leftists," seeking to force a decision on steel nationalisation and the size of the armed ...
Article : 249 wordsNEW YORK, Aug. 12.—The Secretary-General of the United Nations Organisation (Mr. Trygve Lie) in his annual report points out that Australia has not yet submitted a draft trusteeship agreement for Nauru. ...
Article : 295 wordsBELGRADE, Aug. 12.—The Yugoslav Minister of Foreign Trade (Mr. Popovic) will accompany the Yugoslav delegation of 25 which ...
Article : 36 wordsLONDON, Aug. 12.—Collins Ltd. will publish in London next week the Australian best seller "This Other Eden," which is now in ...
Article : 152 wordsBELGRADE, Aug. 12.—The Supreme Court today sentenced to death by shooting three of 15 Slovene intellectuals who had been ...
Article : 66 wordsOTTAWA, Aug. 12.—Eight hundred immigrants sailed from Bremer- haven to Canada yesterday. They comprise the second group of a ...
Article : 75 wordsExcept where otherwise designated, the overseas intelligence published in "The West Australian" is transmitted to Australia by the ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Wed 13 Aug 1947, Page 9
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