Serious fighting occuncd early this morning between the police Communists, and anarchists at Barcelona, Saragossa, and other towns. One civic guard and ...
Article : 386 wordsThe State department has forwarded communications to the nations which have defaulted in their war debt payments reminding them of their ...
Article : 116 wordsBENDIGO, Sunday.—The secretary of the Provincial and Country Master Bakers' Council, Mr. C. H. Jeffrey, in a statement on the flour tax, said that, ...
Article : 596 wordsThe Irish Free State Government has banned the National Guard (Blueshirts). True to a promisc General O'Duffy, leader of the United Ireland party, who ...
Article : 480 wordsIn a speech at Birmingham the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Neville Chamberlain) declared that Britain intended to defend herself against the ...
Article : 240 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—Alderman A L. Parker, a solicitor and a member of the Civic Reform party, was elected Lord Mayor of Sydney on Saturday in unusual ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 211 wordsTwo youths were drowned yesterday afternoon in an old quarry-hole containing water 60ft. deep, which is on the Ferntree Gully road beyond Oakleigh. The ...
Article : 309 wordsCANBERRA, Sunday.—Demands on the Budget, this year and next for more than £1,000,000 for assistance to wheatgrowers and for about £500,000 for the ...
Article : 262 wordsThe Treasury announced to-day that subscriptions for certificates bearing interest at 2¼ per cent. to pay 727,000,000 dollars (about £145,400,000) of liabilities ...
Article : 178 wordsThe Rome correspondent of the "Financial Times," referring to the Ottawa agreements and trade negotiations proceeding between Italy and India and Australia ...
Article : 102 wordsA private Licensing Bill, aimed at removing anomalies in the law caused by varying opening hours in different districts, passed the second reading in the ...
Article : 342 wordsKALGOORLIE (W.A.), Sunday.—One of the richest parcels of ore ever treated in this State, being reminiscent of the sensational yields of the early years ...
Article : 520 wordsTOORA, Sunday. — Desmond Cruickshank, aged l8 years, and several other youths went to an old mining dam at Toora to swim this afternoon. They set ...
Article : 134 wordsSir Alan Anderson, who is president of the International Chamber of Commerce, addressing the Bath Chamber of Commerce, said that the Associated Chambers ...
Article : 133 wordsNational Banks which sell preferred stock to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to permit an extension of credit are potentially subject to considerable ...
Article : 241 wordsThe Foreign Office has issued a statement that it is trying to control exports with a view to coping with the world-wide agitation against Japanese goods. It is ...
Article : 73 wordsThe "People" says that if civil war breaks out in the Free State as a consequence of President de Valera's banning of the Blueshirts, no British troops will ...
Article : 63 wordsAn appeal for consistency on the part of the electors was made by the leader of the Opposition in the Federal Parliament (Mr. Scullin), at a meeting of the Port ...
Article : 492 wordsThe "Sunday Express" understands that the British tramp steamer owners' request for a subsidy of £3,000,000 will be granted within three weeks. ...
Article : 33 wordsBROKEN HILL, Sunday.—Ron Taylor, aged l8 years died as the result of a fracturned neck received while diving at the [?]mberumberka waterholes this afternoon. ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Prince of Wales urged a forward policy in regard to civil aviation at a conference in London called to stimulate the movement for the equipping of more towns ...
Article : 238 wordsIn a speech at Retford (Nottinghams[?]ire) the Dominions Secretary (Mr. Thomas) referred to the relations of the British Government with the Irish Free ...
Article : 326 wordsFormal steps to end the most famous romance in the moving picture world were initiated to-day, when Mary Pickford filed a suit for divorce from Douglas ...
Article : 124 wordsARARAT, Sunday.— John Tydell, aged 19 years, an employee at the Ararat Butter Factory, was drowned while bathing at Lake Bolac this afternoon. He was ...
Article : 118 wordsTragedy overtook a week-end house party the night before a proposed hunt, when the Due de la Tremoilic, a wellknown French cavalryman, and Captain ...
Article : 236 wordsSurprise was occasioned to-day when it was announced that the Treasury was investigating complaints that the London market had been receiving information ...
Article : 87 wordsTwo boys were rescued from the River Yarra near Prince's Bridge by Mr. A. Johnstone, of Queen street, city, on Saturday afternoon. Mr. Johnstone heard a ...
Article : 119 wordsDouglas Fairbanks, who is spending a holiday in Switzerland, declines to discuss personal matters. He announces, however, that he is building another home ...
Article : 58 wordsOwing to the reticence of the victim, detectives have made little progress in their inquiries into the shooting of Jack Devine, aged 33 years, showman of St. ...
Article : 127 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the New York "Times" learned to-night that President Roosevelt has settled the dispute in the agriculture administration ...
Article : 124 wordsSpeaking at Bradford, Sir Henry Strakosch, the financier, said that a most illuminating demonstration of how order might be evolved from in almost chaotic ...
Article : 184 wordsFurther details of the manner in which Mr. W. J. Schutt, aged 61 years a former justice of the Victorian Supreme Court met his death were obtained when the ...
Article : 184 wordsHOBART, Sunday. — The body of Thomas Bishop, aged 65 years, a visitor from New Zealand, was found in the water near Blackman's Bay. beyong Kingston ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Australian Press Association understands that any suggestion for calling the Dominions into consultation upon the question of the future of the Free State ...
Article : 59 wordsWhen her engines failed at 10 p.m. yesterday the auxiliary yacht Britannia, with 110 passengers on board, ran aground off St. Kilda. Heavy seas were running, and ...
Article : 193 wordsYehudi Menuhin, the violinist, who is aged 17 years, will give a recital in New York on January 7 that will be broadcast throughout the world. He will receive the ...
Article : 84 wordsSenator La Follette (Rep., Wisconsin) announced to-day that he intended to propose that Congress should authorise a public works programme involving the ...
Article : 75 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—The Minister for Lands (Mr. Buttenshaw) mentioned a strange coincidence when speaking at the opening of the avenue of honour at Manly ...
Article : 78 wordsAn attack upon the tariff policy of Australia is made in the weekly bulletin of the Australian Country party. "Four years ago Australia sold £2,000,000 worth ...
Article : 272 wordsThe new French Ministry led by M. Chautemps succeeded, by 403 votes to 63, in winning a test vote on the crucial paragraph of the Finance Bill on which the ...
Article : 146 wordsThe Federal Surplus Relief Corporation, through the Farm Credit Administration, has bought about 12,000,000 bushels of wheat in the open market. It is being ...
Article : 50 wordsA message from Kountze (Texas) states that the body of David Gregory, a negro ex-convict, who was accused of having assaulted and then killed a white woman, ...
Article : 72 wordsA special interdepartmental committee on alcohol has recommended that Congress impose a tax of 260 cents (approximately 10/10) a gallon on distilled spirits, ...
Article : 131 wordsSpeaking at Birmingham the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Chamberlain) recalled that he said a year ago that he saw signs of a revival of trade. These signs ...
Article : 182 wordsA reqest that certain protions of the quarantine reserve at Point Nepean be thrown open to the public was made to the Federal Minister for Health (Mr. ...
Article : 129 words"Scrutator," writing in the "Sunday Times," says that the Dominions will in time no doubt carry equality to its logical conclusion, and take an equal part in the ...
Article : 81 wordsThe Senate Committee, which is investigating the payment of subsidies on ocean mails heard evidence to-day on the affairs of the American West African Steamship ...
Article : 153 wordsA falling gangway struck Andrew Gaysen, aged 37 years, boatswain, of the vessel William McArthr, when he was Working at Victoria Dock near the vessel ...
Article : 80 wordsThe State department learned to-day that the Chinese Government is considering the imposition of high import duties on wheat and flour. At present there is ...
Article : 110 wordsThe diarist of the "Evening Standard," London reports that an official invitation to the Prime Minister of Italy (Signor Mussolini) to go to Moscow as the guest ...
Article : 101 wordsCommenting on the fact that 130 members of the House of Commons have signed a petition to the Dominions Secretary (Mr. Thomas), asking the Government to ...
Article : 101 wordsThere was a moderately rapid movement of a southerly pressure system toward Victoria from Western Australia during the week-end. It brought the ...
Article : 93 wordsTwenty-one members of the Canadian Legion at Stratford Ontario, who fought in the Great War, have passed a resolution declaring that the war was foutht ...
Article : 90 wordsThe price of gold to-day is £6/6/6 an ounce, compared with £6/6/9 yesterday. The price is equal to £7/16/1½ an ounce ...
Article : 45 wordsAn appeal for gifts to enable more than 200 blind children and adults to enjoy a happy Christmas is made by the Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind, St. Kilda ...
Article : 94 wordsPERTH, Sunday.—Owing to lack of water residents of Wiluna were unable to prevent the destruction by fire of a block of wood and iron buildings in ...
Article : 44 wordsDARWIN, Sunday.—The French training sloop Aldebaran arrived to-day. The crew was granted liberty leave to-night, but as few can speak English and the ...
Article : 51 wordsThe leader of the Opposition in the House of Commons (Mr. George Lansbury) slipped on the stairs at the Grainsborough Town Hall, Lincolnshire, on ...
Article : 64 wordsRichard McNamara, aged about 55 years, of Page street, Middle Park, collapsed and died at the Moonce Vallcy racecourse on Saturday afternoon. The ...
Article : 39 wordsBROKEN HILL, Sunday.—At a meeting of the Workers' Industrial Union this morning a resolution aiming at refusing to allow any men to start work at any ...
Article : 68 wordsColonel and Mrs. Lindbergh landed here to-day after a flight of 1,094 miles from Natal (Brazil). ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 11 Dec 1933, Page 9
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