Poignant stories were told yesterday by the strangest party of refugees yet to arrive in Australia when the Jervis Bay berthed at ...
Article : 777 wordsThe Royal Humane Society of Victoria will reccnmend for its award, Mr. Thomas Muxworthy who risked his life on Friday, when he voluntarily descended a ...
Article : 233 wordsBENDIGO, Monday.—Unsuccessful efforts were made to-day to recover the body of Mr. J. Rooney from the shaft of the Johnson's No. 2 mine, California ...
Article : 333 wordsWe are hoping for our first sight of land this afternoon, when about 2 p.m. (Greenwich mean time) the liner ...
Article : 768 wordsGeneral Franco, who is seeking £20,000,000 foreign exchange credit, is being asked for assurances that he will not join the Italo-German ...
Article : 89 words—(By Airmali) CHEF FRANK SEVERGNINE inspecting the hands of the staff which is preparing the dishes for the King and Queen in the kitchens of the Empress of Australia. The King and Queen will land in Quebec to-morrow. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 39 wordsSpanish, Italian, and German troops, numbering about 170,000, are assembling in and near the capital for the victory parade, which has been arranged ...
Article : 70 wordsHOTEL FRONTENAC, where the Kmg and Queen will be entertained at lunch by the Canadian Government when ihey go ashore in Quebec to-morrow. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 24 wordsBALLARAT, Monday.—The courage of two men and a boy who descended an old mining shaft to rescue a man who had been injured, was warmly ...
Article : 298 wordsCANBERRA, Monday.—The "dead hand of the Sino-Japanesc conflict" continued to weigh heavily on Australia's trade with the East, states a report by ...
Article : 190 wordsThe liner Orduna sailed from La Rochelle yesterday with 156 Spanish Republican militia-men bound for Havana (Cuba), and 250 German and Czech ...
Article : 37 wordsJapanese bombera raided the treaty ports of Swatow and Ningpo yesterday, causing many deaths and much damage. At Swatow British property was ...
Article : 141 wordsMr. Rooney was regarded as one of the most skilled men in Victoria for the highly specialised work of covering abandoned shafts, the Secretary for Mines (Mr. ...
Article : 153 wordsCANBERRA, Monday.—Negotiations will probably be begun late next week for a new trade agreement between Australia and Japan. ...
Article : 174 wordsPORTLAND, Monday.—Mervyn Rodgers aged 15 years and Albert Attwell, aged 17 years of Cashmore were standing on a rock at the Blowholes, ...
Article : 71 wordsSYDNEY Monday—Seven shots were fired by a nightwatchman at a thief who had smashed the plate-glass window at the shop of Pond and Pond Ltd., Pitt street, ...
Article : 199 wordsAny plan for the provision of nightflying in Australia embodied the belief by the Federal Government that Sydney must be the Australian terminus for ...
Article : 297 wordsA census of Jewish refugees would probably be taken by the Jewish Welfare Society of Melbourne, said the president (Mr. I. H. Boas) yesterday. ...
Article : 121 wordsA Foreign Office spokesman said that a reply to the British, French, and United States representations regarding the bombing of Chungking was being ...
Article : 99 wordsBecause of legal opinion that the Attorney-General has power to remit the whole or part of the punishment, it is now considered unnecessary to amend that ...
Article : 172 wordsAlterations are being made to the enclosure in the Australian section at the Zoological Gardens in which there have been no koalas since January. When new ...
Article : 141 wordsThe British Ambassador in Tokio (Sir Robert Craigie) has been instructed to protest to the Japanese Government against the landing of troops at Kulangsu ...
Article : 61 wordsAfter a new, secret bomber had crashed when landing at Rochester yesterday, it was photographed by cyclists, who escaped. ...
Article : 179 wordsCANBERRA, Monday.—Mrs. R. G. Menzies, wife of the Prime Minister will supervise the renovation of the Prime Minister's Lodge into which she and Mr. ...
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Article : 56 wordsTo avoid the unlucky thirteenth, Robert Taylor and Miss Barbara Stanwyck (whose marriage was announced yesterday) had the ...
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Article : 221 wordsDARWIN, Monday.—Although he firmly believed that there would not be a war in Europe; if there were Italy would not fight with Germany, said the Rev. Dr. J. H. ...
Article : 101 wordsM. Stalin and leading Communist officials attended the State funeral yesterday of Brigadier Serov and the woman record-breaking pilot, Major Pauline ...
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Article : 114 wordsONE CAN BE SURE that the topic of conversation is rowing when these men meet. They are the coaches of three of the Public School crews for the Head of the River, and weic photographed yesterday at Geelong. (From left) Messrs. W. Pincott (Geelong Grammar), W. N. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 55 wordsSir Leopold Savile, the engineer who designed and built the Singapore naval base, will leave for Australia at the end or the month to confer with the ...
Article : 70 wordsAs a protest against the new rule adopted by the Easter conference of the Victorian Labour party, limiting representation at conferences to delegates ...
Article : 138 wordsPostal officials may dispose, but the people of Albion propose, to continue to call their locality Albion. So Councillor Glendenning told ...
Article : 143 wordsEight men have been arrested on Charges under the Explosives Act following the discovery of a large quantity of gelignite in a hall. The men will appear ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tue 16 May 1939, Page 9
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