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  2. KINGS MESSAGE TO BOY SCOUTS GOOD WISHES AT JAMBOREE OPENING

    BRADFIELD (N.S.W.), Sunday.—Messages from the King and the World Chief Scout (Lord Baden-Powell) were read when the Governor-General (Lord Gowrie), 'who is Chief Scout of Australia, officially opened the Australasian ...

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  3. EXPLOSION CLUES

    MOUNT GAMBIER, Sunday.— Police believe that terrific explosions which wrecked a freezing works plant here early ...

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  4. NAZIS MAY BARGAIN ON SUBMARINES ARMS REDUCTION MOVE FORESEEN

    Germany's proposal to build submarine tonnage equal to the total submarine tonnage possessed by members of the British Empire may be a prelude to a dramatic plea for an all-round reduction of armaments. ...

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    A NEW CITY HAS GROWN at Bradfield (N.S.W.). This special aerial view shows some of the hundreds of tents of Scouts attending the Australasian Jamboree. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  6. "THE ARRIVAL OF CÆSAR."

    —Victorian Scouts took part in this tableau before the GovernorGeneral (Lord Gowrie) at the Jamboree on Saturday. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  7. FRIENDLY DISCUSSION FIRST

    The rights referred to provide that Germany, while not exceeding 35 per cent, of British total tonnage, shall have the right to possess submarine tonnage equal ...

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  8. NEW HOMES AT BEND

    Families now occupying sub-standard houses in the worst areas of South Melbourne and Port Melbourne will be transferred to the new housing settlement at ...

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  9. NEED FOR SPIRIT OF TOLERANCE

    In his address Lord Gowrie said:— "The brotherhood of mon would be more than a mere ideal if we could find expression for the Boy Scout spirit in our ...

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  10. SOVIET EXILES BRITON

    Brian Crover, the young British engineer who flew from Stockholm to Starltza, 100 miles from Moscow, in November, in an attempt to rescue his Russian wife from ...

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  11. BETTER LONDON TRANSPORT

    This year will mark a new peak of activity in connection with the £40,000,000 project for the development of London's traffic facilities. ...

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  12. FELL FROM BOAT Man Drowned

    Falling overboard from a boat 100 yards from the shore at Mordialloc yesterday afternoon. Jack Holt, aged 21 years, of Como parade, East Mordialloc, was ...

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  13. TRADE SIGNS BETTER CHANCELLOR'S REVIEW

    In an interview with the "Sunday Times," the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir John Simon) reviewed the trade position for the ...

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  14. REPUBLICANS HIT BACK Franco's Plans Upset

    Routing the Italians in a counteroffensive on a large scale south of Lerida, the Republicans have temporarily, at least, ruined General ...

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  15. COFFIN CARRIED IN STREETS London Unemployed

    While thousands of West End revellers were waiting to sing out the old year and sing in the new last ningt, 150 unemployed staked the streets, headed by ...

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  16. LABOUR WILL ASSIST

    Both the political and the industrial sections of the Labour Movement have given assurances of assistance in the organisation of the voluntary national ...

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  17. DROWNED IN LAGOON

    WANGARATTA, Sunday.—A young man, Alfred Waldo Goodrope, of Harding street. Coburg, was drowned in a lagoon near the Ovens River at ...

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  18. COOL BREEZE HELPS No Rain Yet

    That temperature was 22deg. higher than the normal maximum recording for January Soon after 4 p m. a cool sea breeze blew up, and the temperature ...

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  19. BAND MEMBER DROWNED

    DAYLESFORD, Sunday.—In full view of a crowd of holiday-makers, Cecil Hedley Grenfell, aged 13 years, of California Gully, near Bendigo, sank in the ...

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  20. CHIEF SCOUT'S RECORDED TALK

    Although in Kenya, thousands of miles away, the World Chief Scout (Lord BadenPosvell) delivered an address to 6,000 Boy Scouts on the arena at the Jamboree ...

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  21. LORD NUFFIELD'S VIEW

    Before leaving London yesterday for a tour of South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand, Lord Nuffield said that there should be a definite improvement in ...

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  22. DEPUTIES DELAY NEW YEAR

    Last-minute hitches in the passage of the French Budget which according to law, should have been passed before midnight yesterday resulted in the clocks ...

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  23. DESTROYER INTERNED

    The Republican destroyer Jose Luis Diez, which was attacked by Nationalist warships when she tried to slip out of Gibraltar early on Friday morning, has ...

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  24. GAY NEW YORK

    Believing that prospeilty was returning people in the United States last night held the wildest New Year's Eve celebrations for a decade. ...

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  25. BATHER RESCUED

    QUEENSCLIFF, Sunday.—A woman spectator at the front beach this afternoon gave the alarm when she saw a middleaged man disappear under the water. The ...

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  26. RAIN AND SUN LESS

    Although the total rainfall in Melbourne last year was far below the average, the total hours of sunshine were also fewer than usual. ...

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  27. LABOUR FACTION FIGHT

    SYDNEY, Sunday.—A special committee appointed by the Federal Australian Labour party executive some months ago to investigate disunity in the New South ...

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  28. ROSEDALE DROWNING

    ROSEDALE, Sunday.—Thomas Hill, aged 18 years of Cobain Estate, near Sale, was drowned at 7.30 p.m. to-day in a billabong near the homestead of Mr. ...

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  29. PROMPT POLICE WORK

    Smart work by the police wireless patrol car in charge of Senior-constable Murphy on Saturday resulted in the clearing up of a Williamstown robbery within three hourse ...

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  30. CRIPPLE BURNED TO DEATH Rescue Effort Fails

    SYDNEY, Sunday.—Firemen fought desperately to save an old man from a burning cottage at 5 Railway street, Marrickville, yesterday morning. The fierce ...

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  31. STILL STRIVE FOR PEACE

    The Secretary for Air (Sir Kingsley Wood), in a new year message said:— "There are those who constantly would heap condemnation on other countries ...

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  32. HOMAGE PAID TO PIONEER

    ADELAIDE, Sunday.—Never has the old Sulby Glen property at Cudlee Cieek seen so many visitors as passed through its befiagged entrance gates yesterday ...

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  33. FRANCE SENDS TROOPS

    The transports Sphinx and Chantilly sailed for French Somaliland yesterday with 760 troops, 16 French officers, 100 mules, and enough equipment to supply ...

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  34. BODY RECOVERED

    ADELAIDE, Sunday.—The body of Cecil Francis, aged 20 years, of Cheltenham parade, Cheltenham, was recovered from the Torrens River. near the city weir, ...

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  35. LOW RAINFALL

    The lowest rainfall on record was received at many, stations in northern Victoria in 1938, and almost generally. over the State the falls were below average. ...

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  36. BURIED TREASURE

    DAYLESFORD, Sunday.—The search for a buried treasure at Queenscliff, which was made unsuccessfully in 1937 by a Daylesford syndicate headed by Messrs. ...

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  37. POPE'S HOME IN AUSTRALIA?

    "Reynoldss News publishes on its iront page to-day a report that the Pope may transfer his headquarters to Australia. ...

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  38. STORMS IN QUEENSLAND

    BRISBANE, Sunday.—Severe wind storms were experienced in parts of the Darling Downs last night. Considerable damage was caused at Dulacca, where the ...

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  39. DEFENCE BIG ITEM IN U.S. BUDGET

    Piesldent Roosevelt has approved the Budget of 1939-40, which provides for the expenditure of 8,880,000,000 dollars (£A2,220,000,000), including ...

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  40. MR. WELLS'S VISIT

    ADELAIDE, Sunday.—Mr. H. G. Wells, the famous author, who has spent the last four days in Adelaide, left soon after 10 a.m. to-day to drive to Melbourne with. ...

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  41. LIONESS RIDES IN TAXI

    Leno a lioness was given an audition at the B.B.C. last month. She was taken in a taxi and was escoited into the offices of Mr. Arthur H. ...

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  42. TO MARRY MAN SHE HAD NOT SEEN

    Miss Jane Stott, of Tyldesley, a 50-yearsold Lancashire weaver, cheerfully said good-bye to her 80-years-old mother last month when she left on a 5,000-miles trip ...

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  43. DEATH OF CHILD

    ADELAIDE, Sunday.—Donald Henry Kennewell, aged five years, was burned to death last night at the home of his patents in Wills lane, Railway Town. ...

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  44. RABBITER SHOT DEAD

    ADELAIDE, Sunday.—While out shooting on Friday night, E. Inge, 57. of Main North road, Prospect, was shot dead. He and three companions were shooting ...

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  45. Advertising

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  46. W.A. TENNIS TITLES

    PERTH, Sunday.—In a quarter-final of the State singles championship yesterday N. Wasley defeated the title-holder G. B. Davis 6-4, 7-9, 6-4, 6-4. Wasley ...

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  47. DR. HYDE'S WIFE DIES

    The death has occurred of Mrs. Lucy Hyde, wife of the President of Eire (Dr. Douglas Hyde). ...

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