In an endeavour to establish themselves firmly at Shanghai the Japanese began a general land, sea, and air attack to-day. They made their strongest thrust at Woosung, where the numbers of the ...
Article : 1,249 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday. — Plans to safeguard Australia against foreign invasion and raids were outlined by the Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons) to-day in a statement made to the House of Representatives ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 1,119 wordsThe modernisation of H.M.A.S. Canberra and Australia and the construction of three small vessels required for local seaward defence will be undertaken in ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 74 wordsPrice of gold £6/19/4½. Exchanges, dollar, 4.98 13-16; frane, 132 27-321; guilder (Batavia), 9.02. Australian mining shares, quiet and ...
Article : 61 wordsA message from Carson City (Nevada) states that Mrs. Helen Wills Moody, the tennis player, was granted a divorce to-day from Mr. F. S. Moody, jun., ...
Article : 48 wordsAmazing progress in wireless and television will be revealed when the 16th Radio Exhibition is opened at Olympia to-morrow. ...
Article : 94 wordsThanks to the discovery of an American physician, it is now possible to get rid of those terrible spells of choking, gasping, coughing, and wheezing asthma by killing ...
Article : 145 wordsThousands of sufferers from Kidney trouble and Bladder weakness have stopped Getting Up Nights, Leg Pains, Circles Under the Eyes Swollen Ankles, ...
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Article : 70 wordsCall at your nearest paint store and buy a tin of TAUBMANS "DULSETTA." the very latest overseas vogue for interior home decoration—walls, ceilings, ...
Article : 84 wordsMetal prices were quoted as follow at 2.45 p.m.:— Copper, lower. £56. Tin, flat, £260/2/6. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wed 25 Aug 1937, Page 11
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