GEELONG, Monday.—A Ballarat woman was killed instantly and four other holiday-makers were injured when, after a rear tyre ...
Article : 220 wordsEvery time I go to a beach I discover some new compensation in the human body. Yesterday, all the way down to Portsea and back, I discovered spines. ...
Article : 780 wordsSpanish Nationalists claim that after heavy air attacks, in which fortifications were smashed for a depth of three miles, they have ...
Article : 269 wordsELEVEN BABIES were born at the Women's Hospital on Christmas Day. Six are girls. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 14 wordsPhotographs taken at the time that the American gunboat Luzon and a French gunboa shot down three Japanese bombing planes ...
Article : 188 wordsSoft music on the sands at Portsea yesterday. (From left) Miss J. Sharp, Dr. A. Aitken, Mr. B. Stewart, Miss Pam Smith, and Gordon Leonard. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 25 wordsWith a roar that could be heard some distance away, a steel cylinder containing compressed air exploded yesterday morning ...
Article : 293 wordsA man and his wife who had just arrived in Melbourne from' Maryborough last night were struck by a motor-car as they were crossing Spencer street near the ...
Article : 73 wordsThe death-roll for the Royal Air Force in 1938 has been heavier than in any year since 1920. So far 223 deaths have occurred In 115 ...
Article : 161 wordsWhen two cars came into collision on Point Nepean road, Cheisea, yesterday, Clarence Woollard, aged 21 years, of Kent street, Box Hill, suffered extensive ...
Article : 45 wordsKarcl Capek, the eminent Czechoslovakian dramatist, novelist and essayist, and patriot, has died of pneumonia at the age of 48 years. One of Czechoslovakia's ...
Article : 346 wordsBALLARAT, Monday.— Sidney Colt, aged 19 years, and Selma Johnson, aged 21 years, of Beaufort, were riding on a motor-cycle at Ballarat to-day when the ...
Article : 85 wordsEighty-five persons were killed and 325 were injured in a railway disaster that occured at Etulea, Rumania, GO miles north-east of Galati, near the northern ...
Article : 71 wordsCharles L. Giles, of Middle Camberwell, was admitted to the Ararat Hospital suffering minor head injuries sustained when his car skidded in loose gravel on the ...
Article : 64 wordsThe fortheoming visit to Corsica by the French Prime Minister (M. Daladler) is attacked by Signor Gayda, spokesman for Signor ...
Article : 160 wordsThe Boy Scout movement in England had been greatly stimulated by the recent European crisis, said the Chief Commissioner of ...
Article : 386 wordsSYDNEY, Monday. — Several holiday-makers were struck by a monoplane on Yamba beach this afternoon when they ran on to ...
Article : 148 wordsARARAT, Monday. — Walking to a farmhouse at Tatyoon about 6.30 on Sunday night, John Gray, railway line repairer, reported the death of his mate, ...
Article : 119 wordsDAYLESFORD, Monday.—While helping his father to deliver milk early today the 10-year-old son of Mr. Eric Mead, of Hepburn, was critically injured when ...
Article : 71 wordsSubsidies amounting to 750,000,000 doliars (£A187,500,000) will probably be paid to American farmers for reducing crops in 1940. ...
Article : 85 wordsJUNEE, Monday.—William, the 10-yearold son of Mr. and Mrs. R. McDonald, of Meeniyan, was admitted to a private hospital yesterday, suffeilng from a fractured ...
Article : 47 wordsGold and rainbow trout are now used in the treatment of rheumatism and diabetes, according to Dr. F. X. Mulcahy and Dr. I. Blaubaum, who returned to ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 271 wordsThe Dionne quintuplets were besieged with presents and greetings from all parts of the world as they celebrated their fifth Christmas at Callander (Ontario). ...
Article : 82 wordsAn acquaintance of dictators, politicians, millionaires, and film stars. Mr. Eric Malpas, known as the singing cyclist, arrived in Melbourne yesterday by ...
Article : 263 wordsBRISBANE, Monday.—Struck by the wing of a plane as it landed on the beach at Coolangatta this afternoon, Marie McCulkin, aged 12 years, of Gregory ...
Article : 56 wordsLondon is blanketed in snow, which has been falling continuously for seven hours. All the principal streets are inches in deep snow, which, owing to the ...
Article : 150 wordsIn dense scrub near Kangaroo Ground last night a man was serlously wounded In a shooting accident. With a boy who was spending a holiday with him he had ...
Article : 152 wordsThe severance of diplomatic relations and the breaking-off of all commercial ties with Germany was advocated to-day by Senator King (Dem., Utah), one of the ...
Article : 132 wordsSnow and cold weather have drlver wolves farthest south for years. They are even entering towns. One pack surrounded a hotel and ...
Article : 34 wordsThe lack of oilfields within the British Kmpire was described yesterday by Sir John Fiett, formerly Director of Geological Survey of Great Britain and ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 185 wordsNotwithstanding the fatigue that he suffered after he had delivered his long address to the College of Cardinals on Christmas eve, the Pope said midnight ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Registrar-General's statistical review for England and Wales estimates the population of the two countries on June 30,1936, at 40,939,000,including 21,248,000 ...
Article : 64 wordsSufficient energy to take the Queen Mary on a round voyage between London and New York could bo supplied from the atoms in a glass of water, said ...
Article : 188 wordsThe head office of "The Argus" at 365 Elizabeth street will be closed to-day (public holiday), but the side office in Latrobe street will be open for the receipt ...
Article : 117 wordsThe Railways Hospital Auxiliary has furnished the nurses' dining-room at the Base Hospital with chairs and tables. The auxiliary has given the hospital numerous ...
Article : 48 wordsM. Anatole Deibler, the official executioner, Who is aged 76 years, is the only French civil servant who has not been affected by the new decrees under which ...
Article : 72 wordsThe "Evening Standard" says that the King may broadeast twice on his tour of Canada and the United States—once from a State gathering at Ottawa, and also ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 68 wordsThinking that he may have been attacked, police are investigating how Robert Edwards, aged 36 years, of Napier street, Fitzroy, suffered the head injuries ...
Article : 47 wordsStraying from a party of picnickers at the Sandbank Reserve, on the Latrobe Rive, this afternoon, Jean Chamley, aged six years, was later found drowned. ...
Article : 30 words"The teeth of this country are bad; you might almost say rotten," the British Minister for Health (Mr. Walter Elliot) declared when he opened a health ...
Article : 173 wordsA new Cabinet has been formed in Iraq. It consists of the following Ministers:— Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs.—General Nuri Said. ...
Article : 67 wordsFunds are urgently needed to assist in absorbing refugees from Europe into our economic life. The public is appealed to to subscribe ...
Article : 113 wordsFIVE MEN, it is feared, lost their lives when this 16-foot skiff capsized between Edithvale and Chelsea yesterday, On the right is Mr. L. Gibbs, who dived and made a. vain attempt to free one of the men who was tangled in the rigging of the craft. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 47 wordsConstable Fennessy, of police headquarters, is anxious to hear from anyone who witnessed an accident on the platform at Flinders street raliway station on ...
Article : 101 wordsDespite the unoflicial armistice that was reported to have been announced by the Arab rebels, 1,000 British troops in all Parts of Palestine stood by throughout ...
Article : 63 wordsExperiments for creating under-water storage depots for food and petrol in wartime in the Swiss Lakes have been completed. ...
Article : 84 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—Professor Bernard Heinze, Professor of Music at the University of Melbourne and musical adviser to the Australian Broadcasting ...
Article : 151 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—Detectives met the Zealandia when the vessel berthed at Darling Harbour to-day from Hobart and wrrested a gipsy woman who was a ...
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