Throughout the length and breadth of the State, in suburban home and country homestead, the tempo of Christmas festivities is nearing its climax. With few checks on good cheer, it promises to be a joyous Christmas. ...
Article : 1,237 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 23.—The Secretary of Agriculture (Mr. Anderson) yesterday issued a list of 771 so-called "big traders" in commodity ...
Article : 206 wordsPANAMA CITY, Dec. 23.—The Panama National Assembly rejected last night the agreement for leasing 13 military bases to the United States for the defence of the Panama Canal. The proposal included sites which the ...
Article : 449 wordsNANKING, Dec. 23.—The two-year-old Nationalist-Communist struggle in China is not a civil war but a Communist-suppressing ...
Article : 403 wordsCAIRO, Dec. 23.—A secret inquiry into an alleged Egyptian Army plot against the Chief of Staff (General Brahim Attalah Pasha) and the ...
Article : 158 wordsTEHERAN, Dec. 23.—The Shah has commissioned Dr. Ibrahim Hakimi, a former Prime Minister. to, form a Government. Dr. Hakimi, ...
Article : 107 wordsBERLIN. Dec. 23.—The United States Military Governor (Lieut.-General Lucius Clay) announced yesterday, says Reuters, that the ...
Article : 164 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 23.—Government officials said today that the United States would continue to use the military bases in Panama for the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 218 wordsAUCKLAND, Dec. 23.—Bad weather was responsible for three of four factors which caused a Tasman Empire Airways flying-boat to get ...
Article : 224 wordsNEW YORK, Dec. 23.—Mr. Nicholas "Kyriazedes, the Greek newspaperman accredited to the United Nations Organisation, who is ...
Article : 368 wordsTwo U.S. Navy ice-breakers have arrived in the Antarctic to resume the mapping initiated by the Byrd expedition in 1946. They are now heading for the Shackleton ice shelf on the coast of Queen Mary Land, after which their mapping work will take them to Little ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 63 wordsHAVANA, Dec. 23.—The conference of the International Trade Organisation will enter its first major test this week, as the showdown ...
Article : 156 wordsNEW YORK, Dec. 23.—Branding Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek as a dictator. Marshal Feng Yu-hsing, who is at present investigating water ...
Article : 87 wordsFRANKFURT, Dec. 23.—German police say that 37 persons were killed, 98 seriously injured and 200 others hurt when two express trains ...
Article : 52 wordsSHANGHAI, Dec. 23.—The copilot was killed and ten missionaries were injured when a plane, carrying about 25 Roman Catholic ...
Article : 247 wordsLONDON, Dec. 23.—The Foreign Secretary (Mr. Bevin) said yesterday, says Reuters, that the Marshall Plan had fired the imagination ...
Article : 161 wordsLONDON, Dec. 23.—The Stateowned British European Airways Corporation in its first eight months of working made a loss of ...
Article : 227 wordsSquadron-Leader James Lomas, of the Royal Air Force, beside the Meteor jet fighter which he flew from Edinburgh to Bovingdon, Herts, on November 25, at an average speed of 627 miles on hour. He had the benefit of an 80-mile-an-hour rail-wind on his record-breaking flight, in which he covered 313 miles in 30 min. 25 sec. at a height of 25,000ft. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 62 wordsJERUSALEM, Dec. 23.—A British destroyer is reported to have intercepted a Jewish illegal immigrant ship, carrying 850 Jews ...
Article : 192 wordsSINGAPORE, Dec. 23.—Yesterday 900 opium smokers petitioned the Governor of Singapore (Sir Franklin ...
Article : 85 wordsTemperatures will probably rise gradually during the next few days and it is expected that Christmas Day will be ...
Article : 124 wordsBATAVIA, Dec. 23.—The second mystery bomb to explode in Batavia during the last ten days slightly injured two Netherlands soldiers ...
Article : 124 wordsLONDON, Dec. 23.—The general secretary of the Communist Party in Britain (Mr. Harry Pollitt) has denied the statement by the general ...
Article : 142 wordsVANCOUVER, Dec. 23.—The steamer Waihemo, which cleared from here yesterday, may be the last ship out of port before the ...
Article : 145 wordsVANCOUVER, Dec. 23.—The Australian Trade Commissioner (Mr. F. R. Gullick) said yesterday that he was confident that by this ...
Article : 78 wordsLONDON, Dec. 23.—Britain's wartime shipping losses of 8,000,000 gross tons have been made good in actual tonnage, writes the president ...
Article : 54 wordsBELGRADE, Dec. 23.—According to the Yugoslav Newsagency, a Belgrade court has sentenced to 16 years' forced labour Father Albino ...
Article : 66 wordsLONDON, Dec. 23.—The crew an R.A.F. Lancaster bomber saw Comet 1947 at an altitude of 18,000 ft. at 5.55 a.m. (G.M.T.) today, ...
Article : 164 wordsMOSCOW, Dec. 23.—The Tass Agency announces that an agreement for exchange of goods has been reached between the Soviet ...
Article : 25 wordsLONDON, Dec. 23.—The New Zealand Government's four-masted barque Pamir berthed at Victoria Docks today after "a great voyage"— in the words of her skipper, Captain Collier. In her best day's sailing, north of the Azores, the Pamir covered 267 miles, he said, and she sailed. ...
Article : 299 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 23.—After 22 years in prison, an Italian immigrant is to be given a new trial on a charge of murder, to which a plea was made of which he was ignorant. The order for a new hearing of ...
Article : 251 wordsROME, Dec. 23.—The Constituent Assembly approved today of the new Constitution, which lays the foundation of the Italian Republic. ...
Article : 87 wordsSecretary of the Ukraine Communist Party since March, he had been appointed Deputy Chairman (equivalent of Deputy ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 32 wordsCANBERRA, Dec. 23.—The Acting-Prime Minister (Dr. Evatt) tonight issued the following Christmas message: ...
Article : 467 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 23.—Changes to be made in the Douglas DC6 as a result of safety studies will probably keep these aircraft ...
Article : 88 wordsLONDON. Dec. 23.—Speaking at a London exhibition yesterday, the Minister of Civil Aviation (Lord Nathan) said that the flying time ...
Article : 55 wordsGUAM. Dec. 23.—The United States weather station on Guam reported today that a typhoon struck the island of Yap, administrative ...
Article : 48 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 24 Dec 1947, Page 12
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