Officially opening the annual conference of the Royal Automobile Club of Victoria yesterday, the Chief Commissioner of Police (Mr. A. Duncan) appealed to all members for their continued support in his campaign to reduce the ...
Article : 378 wordsWild scenes of enthusiasm such as can have seldom been witnessed anywhere before were presented at the May Day Field to-night when Herr Hitler and ...
Article : 696 wordsActivity at Sheerness (England) when H.M.S. Cairo and the 8th Division of British destroyers were being prepared for their departure for Gibraltar. There, they joined the patrol in the Mediterranean to enforce the piracy pact signed at Nyon following the attacks on ships ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 50 wordsImmediate withdrawal of foreign volunteers from Spain was demanded by Senor Delvayo, the loyalist Spanish delegate, at a meeting of tho Sixth Committee of the ...
Article : 483 wordsTremendous holes were blown in the ground when Japanese airmen dropped 100 bombs on an aerodrome five miles from Wuhu yesterday. They disregarded the fact that the aerodrome was situated in ...
Article : 611 wordsResolutions urging a reduction in the petrol tax and a fairer distribution of the proceeds for road-making purposes were moved by the president (Mr. J. A. ...
Article : 605 wordsThe Prime Minister (General Hertzog) offered strong criticism to-day of the Treaty of Versailles, of which, he said, the people of Europe were never reminded ...
Article : 178 wordsFollowing the assassination of the District Commissioner for Galilee (Mr. Lewis Yelland Andrews) and Constable Peter Robertson McEwan at Nazareth on ...
Article : 177 wordsThe Victorian branch of the League of Nations Union and the committee of the International Peace Campaign are arranging a meeting to organise a protest against ...
Article : 105 wordsThe petrol tax was defended by the Minister for Customs (Lieut-Colonel White) at the annual dinner of the Royal Automobile Club to country delegates last ...
Article : 291 wordsImmediate action in Australia to boycott Japanese goods as a protest against the bombing of civilians in Chinese cities is advocated by Professor Walter ...
Article : 83 wordsA clergyman brought his rifle to the aid of a Paramount camera-man to-day, and probably saved his life. The photographer was taking pictures ...
Article : 135 wordsMrs. Betty Kirby-Greene will be a flying ambassadress for Great Britain. She recently flew from London to Paris and back for a ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 49 wordsFollowing the refusal of waterside workers to load the Japanese steamer Chifuku Maru, Auckland importers have asked the Prime Minister (Mr. Savage) ...
Article : 57 wordsTwo Russian steamers carrying hundreds of children whose Russian parents are living in Spain left the Thames to-day for Leningrad. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Secretary for War (Mr. Hore-Belisha) called on the Duke of Windsor at the Hotel Meurice, in Paris, yesterday and remained with him for half an hour. ...
Article : 102 wordsSir,—Japan—the nation which many of our woolgrowers and others insisted on calling friend, and helping at the expense of our own people at home. Well, we ...
Article : 67 wordsIn a report to the Administrator (Mr. Abbott) on the capture of the pearling lugger Tokyo Maru No. 1, the master of the Larrakia (Captain Haultain) said that ...
Article : 275 wordsSir,—On behalf of the Houseswives' Association and its thousands of members, I would like to express abhorrence at the inhumanity and savagery displayed by the ...
Article : 72 wordsWhile stating that Mr. Duncan's view was a "common-sense interpretation of the law," the Lord Mayor (Sir George Wales, M.L.C.) emphasised yesterday that ...
Article : 26 wordsA sports and physical culture centre may be built on the site of the Crystal Palace, which was destroyed by fire toward the end of last year. ...
Article : 85 wordsInterpretations of the traffic code were given by the Chief Commissioner of Police (Mr. A. Duncan) yesterday when he addressed the annual conference of the Royal Automobile Club of Victoria. Seated at the table are the president of the club (Mr. J. A. Paterson) and the secretary ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 58 wordsAerial bombs of a destructiveness not thought of in the Great War have been used in aerial attacks upon Chinese cities, according to reports which have reached ...
Article : 94 wordsAs usual, the Festival of Remembrance will be held in the Royal Albert Hall on Armistice Day (November 11). The King and Queen will attend. ...
Article : 29 wordsSir,—Would it not be well for some of our leading men to call a meeting of citizens for the purpose of expressing the general horror which is felt at the ...
Article : 104 wordsSpeaking at the opening of the Bonneville dam, in Oregon, to-day, President Roosevelt said that he could not help thinking that, instead of spending, ...
Article : 94 wordsSpeaking at the annual conference of Labour women, the Minister for Health (Mr. S. W. Munsie) said that he had drafted a bill to amend the Health Act ...
Article : 138 wordsBoth bride and bridegroom ana 12 guests were arrested to-day, when police raided a wedding party. It is alleged that the arrested persons ...
Article : 55 wordsSir,—Surely the sickening horror of the last few days will stir the civilised world into a grim determination to stop the cowardly murder of women, children, and ...
Article : 216 wordsActing upon instructions from the Consul-General in Sydney, the Vice— Consul for Japan has decided not to receive the deputation from the ...
Article : 119 wordsA long journey on sk[?]s for assistance and the difficult task of carrying a man through snow on a sledge and then on a stretcher were accomplished successfully ...
Article : 274 wordsBelgium has been elected unopposed to the third non-permanent seat on the Council of the League of Nations. The two other seats were awarded last week ...
Article : 46 wordsNineteen more employees of the Grain Commission, including eight from Leningrad, have been sentenced to death for having infested warehouses with pests ...
Article : 75 wordsAustralian farming methods were backward, compared with those of New Zealand, said Mr. L. Corkhill, who returned by the Wanganella to rejoin the ...
Article : 83 wordsThe medical school at the University of Melbourne may receive a substantial bequest from the estate of the late Miss Helen Mack[?]e, whose will has been sworn ...
Article : 117 wordsThe pageant "One Hundred Years of Presbyterianism in Victoria," which was staged last night at the King's Theatre as part of the celebration of the centenary ...
Article : 156 wordsIn accordance with the new law for the nationalisation of armaments, which is operating gradually, General Lemoine, representing the Government, took over ...
Article : 36 wordsMiss Martha Raye, the film actress, was granted a divorce to-day from her husband, Mr. Hamilton Westmore, in an uncontested suit. ...
Article : 76 wordsIndustrial lenders in New South Wales have condemned the bombing of defenceless Chinese and are endeavouring to organise a boycott of Japanese goods. ...
Article : 140 wordsPrice of gold, £7/0/7. Exchanges. — Dollar, 4.94[?]; franc, 144[?]; guilder (Batavia), 8.93½. Australian Mining Shares. — Steady. ...
Article : 52 wordsMany architects of Melbourne who have had oversea experience assembled at the Savage Club yesterday to celebrate the 2,000th anniversary of the birth of the ...
Article : 117 wordsThe contract of the boy film actor Freddie Bartholomew with the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Co. has been upheld by the Superior Court. A permanent ...
Article : 55 wordsWhen he was thrown from the dray he was driving and a wheel crushed his head against a tree on his farm to-day, Thomas William May, aged 24 years, of Yorketown, ...
Article : 46 wordsBy special arrangement Reuter's world service, in addition to other special sources of information, is used in the complilation of the overseas intelligence published in this issue, ...
Article : 87 wordsThe engagement was announced to-day of the Crown Prince Paul of Greece and Princess Fredericke, daughter of the Duke of Brunswick and Luneberg. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 30 Sep 1937, Page 11
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