PARIS, Jan. 25: It is reliably reported, says the British United Pius, that France has informed Britain and the United States of her Intention to devalue the, franc as from midnight today. The new rate, it is expected, will be 864 francs to the £1 ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 823 wordsARCTIC TEST: The submarine Ambush alongside its parent ship, H.M.S. Montclare, at Rothesay, Firth of Clyde, where it is being prepared for an Arctic test. The submarines will leave soon to spend several weeks in the Arctic, testing the "snort," a telescopic air-feed which projects above water when the submarine is submerged. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 52 wordsMANILA, Jan. 25: At least 13 persons, including one Australian member of a tugboat crew, are reported to have been killed In a series of earthquakes—the most severe experienced for 50 years—which shook Panay Island today. Radio messages said ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 563 wordsSYDNEY, Jan. 25: The strike on the New South Wales coal-fields is expected to end tomorrow and miners will probably go back to work at all collieries on Tuesday. The State executive of the ...
Article : 576 wordsLONDON, Jan. 25: The U.S. Department of State has issued a statement welcoming the proposal by the British Foreign ...
Article : 289 wordsSYDNEY, Jan. 25: A woman was found battered to death in her cottage at Annandale today. She was Mrs. Maud Bechtold ...
Article : 345 wordsHOBART, Jan. 25: The two occupants of a Tiger Moth plane which crashed about two miles off Bruni Island escaped ...
Article : 105 wordsADELAIDE, Jan. 25: The provision of an electric power station at Port Augusta will result in the establishment of one ...
Article : 101 wordsNEW YORK, Jan. I5: A blizzard that lashed the entire Atlantic seaboard swept out to sea early today leaving at least ...
Article : 147 wordsNEW YORK, Jan. 25: The Chinese Government intelligence services have learnt that the first large rebellion in the history of the Soviet Government is flaring in the southern Ukraine, the Nanking correspondent of the "Journal American" says. ...
Article : 255 wordsNEW YORK, Jan. 25: Dr. Yevgenis Varga, the Soviet's chief economist, has been demoted and 20 other ...
Article : 122 wordsNEW YORK, Jan. 25: Earl Albert Seele, "an old China hand" who is slowly recovering from blindness caused by a Japanese bullet in Shanghai, said today that the Japanese hated the Australian William Henry Donald, former political adviser to ...
Article : 199 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), Mon 26 Jan 1948, Page 5
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