Twenty-seven persons have already been killed in Christmas accidents in Victoria, and the holiday period is not yet over. More ...
Article : 109 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.—Progress with the erection about eight miles outside Canberra of the new high-powered radio station ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 349 wordsAn all-day search over a 12-mile stretch of the bay between Mordialloc and Frankston yesterday failed to reveal any trace of ...
Article : 539 wordsEver since the time I played the hindermost legs of an earwig in "The Babes m the Wood," and got sacked for a lamentable ...
Article : 759 wordsFurther advances on the Lerida front, between the Ebro and Segre Rivers, are claimed in a Nationalist communique. It states ...
Article : 340 wordsHAPPY CHILDREN who enjoyed the advantages of the modern equipment at the demonstration playground in the Exhilntion Gardens yesterday. The playground will be officially opened to-morrow. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 26 wordsPresident Roosevelt's message to Congress it the opening of the new session on January 4 is being eagerly awaited, as it will indicate ...
Article : 214 wordsSTAWELL, Tuesday.—Rounding a sharp turn two and a half miles from Glenorchy early this morning, a sedan car carrying five passengers skidded and ...
Article : 122 wordsThe policy of resisting the demands of the totahtaiian States that is advocated by M. Blum, the former Socialist Prime ...
Article : 229 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday—.The Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons), in a statement to-day, agreed that Australian democracy was ...
Article : 410 wordsNazi officials say that proposals are being considered under which Jewlsh bankers in England and the United States will negotlate with Germam ...
Article : 164 wordsGEELONG, Tuesday.—Douglas Corlett, aged 17 years, of Curdie's River, was killed on the Anglesea road, near Bellbrae, early this afternoon. ...
Article : 75 wordsFollowing an investigation into the affairs of the famous film company Pathe Natan, the police have arrested Bernard Natan, a director, and two associates on ...
Article : 60 wordsCyril Plowright, aged 40 years, carrier, of McIlwrick street, Prahran, died in the Alfred Hospital from a fractured skull that he received yesterday when he was ...
Article : 119 wordsOne of the proposals which will probably be discussed by the State Cabinet when It considers the co-ordination of traille control early in the new year is a ...
Article : 310 wordsThe vice-president of the Kuomintang (Wang Ching-wei)is reported to have gone to Hong Kong to meet representatives of the Japanese Government. It is ...
Article : 134 wordsA man, who has not yet been identified was killed instantly when he was struck by a car at the corner of James street and Mt. Alexander road, Moonee Ponds, ...
Article : 70 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—Four men were rescued from the harbour late this afternoon by seamen from H.M.A.S. Penguin, and a party of three men stranded on ...
Article : 201 wordsHarry Auty, aged 46 years, of Weston street, Brunswick, who was riding a bicycle yesterday, came into collision with a car at the intersection of Sydney road and ...
Article : 73 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Heffron Labour group in New South Wales will make a determined attempt to have Mr. Lang and his followers expelled from the ...
Article : 214 wordsHOBART, Tuesday.—An Australian National Council of the Adult Deaf and Dumb was formed at Hobart to-day at a conference of delegates representing ...
Article : 130 wordsBENDIGO, Tuesday.—While cycling to work John Brown, aged 70 years, an employee of the publishing department of the Bendigo "Advertiser," of White Hills road. ...
Article : 85 wordsThe discovery of a substance that renders glass Invisible Is reported from Schenectady (New York State) by Dr. Katherine Blodgett, who Is well known as ...
Article : 107 wordsSYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Minister for External Affairs (Mr. Hughes) said tonight that he was not inclined to agree with Mr. Justice Evatt that it might be ...
Article : 138 wordsMr. Waiter Murray. who had been manager of the Mount Macedon Golf House for several years, was found dead at the wheel of his car in Carter avenue, ...
Article : 119 wordsSt. Kilda police who are investigating the tragedy at the corner of Gleneira and Brighton roads, late on Monday night, when two young women were fatally ...
Article : 41 wordsSir James Sexton, formerly secretary-general of the National Union of Dock Labourers, has died at Liverpool, aged 82 years. He was known as the "dockers' ...
Article : 94 wordsMrs. H. Bonney, one of Australia's leading airwomen, flew from Brisbane to Melbourne yesterday. Leaving Brisbane in her Klemm ...
Article : 64 wordsLord Strabogi,a member of the Labour party,left England by air to-day on his way to New Zealand. He said that,although he was making ...
Article : 131 wordsDARWIN, Tuesday.—The Empire flying-boat Circe, which was due at Darwin this evening with a heavy load of Christmas mail, has been delayed at ...
Article : 88 wordsThomas Hewett, aged 70 years, of Charles street, Abbotsford, received a probable fracture of the skull when he was struck by a taxi-cab in Victoria street ...
Article : 55 wordsBRISBANE, Tuesday.— An object which he said that he was confident was a woman's head was touched by a bather In 4ft. to 5ft. of water on the Manly side ...
Article : 113 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.—Canberra to-day had its hottest day for eight years. The maximum temperature was 104.2 deg., and this followed a hot night, during ...
Article : 64 wordsM. Emile Vandervelde, founder and leader of the Belgian Socialist party, has died in Brussels, aged 72 years. He was Minister for Foreign Affairs ...
Article : 70 wordsWAGGA (N.S.W.), Tuesday.—Terence McInerny, aged five years of Marrar, was run over by a car in Wagga to-day. One wheel passed over his body. He ...
Article : 48 wordsWilliam Del Roy. 44, a dark-skinned man, who admitted many aliases and many convictions in six countries and who was described by the police as "a thief ...
Article : 343 wordsAt least 400 people were killed In the United States on Christmas Day and yesterday.Three hundred and ten of them were the victims of road accidents ...
Article : 82 wordsThe two serious mishaps within a fortnight caused by explosions of compressed air cylinders have again directed attention to the need for effect to be given to ...
Article : 110 wordsMr.Louis Lebouvier Manager of the Ottoman Bank at Jerusalem,Is believed to have been kidnapped while motoring to Jerusalem from Jericho. ...
Article : 75 wordsBRISBANE, Tuesday.—Joan Telfer, aged 16 years, of Toowoomba, was killed instantly at Stanthorpe to-day. While sitting in the dickey seat of a motor-car ...
Article : 44 wordsAs a New Year's gift to 200 poor children from his district the Rev. Father Cahir, of Fitzroy will entertain them at Luna Park on Wednesday afternoon next at the ...
Article : 86 wordsDARWIN, Tuesday.—Flying a low-wing light metal monoplane, Lieutenant Pulkowski and Lieutenant Jennett, two German airmen, are due in Darwin from ...
Article : 70 wordsWELLINGTON (N.Z.), Tuesday.—Following a farewell party at Parliament House, the second New Zealand troop of Boy Scouts, numbering 311, left in the ...
Article : 34 wordsBENALLA, Tuesday.—While travelling to Melbourne at 6.30 p.m. to-day, a car driven by Mr. Richard Hancock, of Myrrhee, crashed into the front door of ...
Article : 59 wordsThe train disaster at Etulea, 60 miles north-east of Galatl, In which 93 persons were killed and 143 were injured, has been followed by the arrest of the ...
Article : 78 wordsSeveral houses were damaged and many People became panic-stricken when an earthquake,more violent than the one that occured yesterday shook the Grotto ...
Article : 42 words—As honorary air-commodore of the City of Melbourne Citizens' Air Force Squadron, Lord Huntingfield made a reconnaissance flight to Wilson's Promontory yesterday. He is shown boarding an Avro Anson bomber at Laverton. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 35 wordsUsing a young woman as a decoy, a gang of youths assaulted Ronald David Mann, clerk, of Boronia street, Canterbury, on Monday night in St. Kilda road, ...
Article : 168 wordsPERTH Tuesday.—The Comorln arrived at Fremantle to night with the folfiowing passenders for Melbourne:—Mesdames Lamb Purbrick. Sinclair, Katz Erdos James and Bisset ...
Article : 56 wordsBRISBANE, Tuesday.—Three-months-old Kevin Holman was thrown from his mother's arms from a motor-car and on to his face on a gravel road when two ...
Article : 111 wordsThe Soviet Government has closed its consulate at Milan and has asked Italy to close the Italian consulate at Odessa. This isthe sequel to an attack that was ...
Article : 44 wordsWest Australian Seouls joined the driver in the cabin of the Spirit of Progress before they left Spencer Street last night to attend the Australasian Jamboree at Bradfield (N.S.W.). ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 33 wordsThe French calrvoyants'fortune-telling competition was held In the Salle Wagram yesterday, Most of the clairvovants Prophesied peace for 1939. ...
Article : 52 wordsDROUIN, Tuesday.—Two brothers-in-law—William Baker, aged 23 years, married of McKean street. North Fitzroy, and Edwin McGrath, single, of Rae street, ...
Article : 94 wordsWhen he dived into shallow water in the Yarra River at Studley Park, Kew, yesterday afternoon, Jack Milligan, aged 17 years, of Dight street, Collingwood, ...
Article : 49 wordsExtra expenditure of about £3,000 on the University grounds will be made in the next few weeks by the City Councill's public works committee. if the council ...
Article : 79 wordsFollowing heavy snowfalls and bitterly Cold weather in the last few days in England, the temperature rose suddenly this afternoon the snow began to ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wed 28 Dec 1938, Page 7
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