With a maximum temperature of 100deg., recorded at 3.10 p.m., Christmas Day, celebrated in traditional Australian style yesterday, was the hottest experienced by Perth residents since 1915. Morning church services were ...
Article : 1,131 wordsBATAVIA, Dec. 25.—Details of its plan for achieving a speedy and effective truce in Indonesia by the creation of demilitarised zones have been released by the Security Council's Committee of Good Offices together with letters ...
Article : 639 wordsLONDON, Dec. 25—The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, comprising Viscount Simon and Lords Porter, Uthwatt, Du Parcq ...
Article : 698 wordsLONDON, Dec. 25.—"It is in a spirit of thankfulness and hope that the Queen and I send our Christmas greetings to my peoples of the ...
Article : 248 wordsNANKING, Dec. 25.—While the civil war rages with undiminished ferocity and the Communist threat to Mukden (the capital of Manchuria) is reported as seriously intensified, the new Chinese Constitution came into ...
Article : 614 wordsHAVANA, Dec. 25.—The United States yesterday warned the International Conference on Trade and Employment that America might ...
Article : 431 wordsLieut.-General A. E. Percival and his wife. General Percival commanded the British forces in Malaya in 1941-42. For three and a half years he was a prisoner of war in Japan. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 35 wordsSINGAPORE, Dec. 25.—Dr. Sjahrir, a former Indonesian Premier, has returned to Singapore by air from Australia after a ...
Article : 216 wordsATHENS, Dec. 25.—Government sources have reported, says Reuters, that a broadcast from General Markos's guerilla headquarters has ...
Article : 159 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 25.—Referring to the Panamanian Assembly's unanimous rejection of the proposed United States agreement ...
Article : 178 wordsLONDON, Dec. 25.—With a sort of desperate gaiety, Britons, in the midst of their austerity, seemed determined to make Christmas, 1947. ...
Article : 137 wordsNEW DELHI, Dec. 25.—After a conference lasting for over two hours, the Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan again failed to reach agreement on Kashmir and a solution of that troubled province's problems is ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 254 wordsVANCOUVER, Dec. 25.—The agents for the Panamanian freighter Colima said yesterday that the ship would not carry a cargo of ...
Article : 149 wordsNANKING, Dec. 25.—The newly-appointed Governor of Hope[?] Province (General Chou Hsi-chuan) told the Press before' he left for ...
Article : 293 wordsMELBOURNE, Dec. 25.—The Director of Rationing (Mr. 5. B. Cumming) repeated today the warning that 1945-46 special ...
Article : 67 wordsBETHLEHEM, Dec. 25.—Four thousand British soldiers armed with rifles and Sten-guns today thronged Bethlehem, the birthplace of the ...
Article : 188 wordsADELAIDE, Dec. 25.—Three infantile paralysis patients have died during the past three days at North-field Infectious Disease Hospital. It ...
Article : 209 wordsBRISBANE, Dec. 25.—At least four persons had been killed and 14 injured in holiday accidents in Queensland by tonight. ...
Article : 279 wordsCANBERRA, Dec. 23.—All members of the Australian Antarctic expedition on Heard Island were well and looking forward to a "boisterous but exciting Christmas," according to messages received yesterday and released by the Acting-Prime Minister (Dr. Evatt). ...
Article : 615 wordsCANBERRA, Dec. 25.—Australia's gravest economic problems in the New Year will be to balance the drive for dollar exports against the ...
Article : 258 wordsNEW YORK, Dec. 25.—When the frantic rush of Christmas shopping ended last night, Americans had spent 10 per cent more than the ...
Article : 99 wordsNEW YORK. Dec. 25.—The Lake Success correspondent of the "New York Post" says that American" military authorities, operating ...
Article : 131 wordsMELBOURNE, Dec 25.—It was' reported yesterday by the Department of Supply and Shipping that large quantities of forged petrol ...
Article : 200 wordsROME, Dec. 25.—In his Christmas broadcast, the Pope said that the world was further than ever from true peace. He warned against ...
Article : 180 wordsLONDON. Dec. 25.—A forecast of what Lieut.-Gen. A. E. Percival. the British commander in Singapore at the time of its fall, is going to say in his report explaining the collapse of the fortress is given by a military correspondent of the "Daily Express.' with his own comments ...
Article : 224 wordsMELBOURNE, Dec. 25.—Qantas Empire Airways has applied for permission to buy a fifth Constellation aircraft from America for its ...
Article : 85 wordsNEW YORK, Dec. 25.—Early this morning the American freighter John Owen (7,176 tons) reported that she was disabled and adrift in ...
Article : 50 wordsTOKIO, Dec 25.—An Australian soldier was killed in Tokio on Tuesday night when be fell from a fail way platform and was struck by a ...
Article : 55 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), Fri 26 Dec 1947, Page 8
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