CANBERRA, Tuesday.—For part of the time to-day the Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) attended the sitting of the Royal Commission which is investigating the circumstances in which the Sydney General Post-office contract was signed. ...
Article : 1,089 wordsFog covered most of Victoria yesterday, delaying shipping and dislocating air services. In the north-west fog gave way to misty ...
Article : 398 wordsThe Cabinet's policy regarding former German colonies was referred to by the Foreign Secretary (Viscount Halifax) in a ...
Article : 255 wordsSCLNE IN VICTORIA ROAD, principal thoroughfare in the British Concession of Tientsin. The Japanese are erecting barricades of electrified wire, which will completely isolate the British and French concessions when the Japanese blockade is begun to-day. One exit from the concessions has already been blockaded. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 491 wordsCANBERRA, Tuesday.—The statement made yesterday by the Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) on the Federal Parliamentary ...
Article : 425 wordsA MAP showing Tientsin, where the Japanese are making preparations to blockade the British and French concessions. On the right is Sir Robert Craigie, British Ambassador in Tokio, who has been instructed to warn Japan of the possible consequences. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 398 wordsDisclosures in Germany and Italy of the extent of intervention in 'Spain in support of General Franco aroused questions in the House of Commons ...
Article : 214 wordsThe shooting incident that occurred near the Duchess of Kent's car last week was referred to again in the Westminster police court ...
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Article : 186 wordsAn application for the committal to prison for alleged contempt of court of Mr. Geoffrey Dawson. editor of "The Times," was made before Mr. Justice ...
Article : 116 wordsSalvage operations on the submarine Thetis will begin again as soon as possible, although it may be two or three weeks before the necessary gear for ...
Article : 141 wordsIt is announced from Tokio that two officials of the Japanese consulate-general in Nanking died from the effects of poison that was placed in wine served ...
Article : 81 wordsThe French Navy will order four diving bells from the United States for use in submarine disasters. French submarines at present are ...
Article : 51 wordsPrice of gold, £7/8/4 (fall of 1d.). Exchanges.—Dollar, 4.68 9-16; franc, 176¾; guilder (Batavia), 8.79, Australian mining shares irregular. ...
Article : 73 wordsThe House Appropriations Committee has recommended Congress to approve the 293,000,000 dollars (£A73,250,000) Army Air Bill for the construction of ...
Article : 88 wordsMiss Gracie Fields the Lancashire comedienne, underwent a major operation in a nursing home at Chelsea this morning. ...
Article : 51 wordsA denial that British foreign policy had undergone a change recently was given by the Foreign Secretary (Viscount Halifax) in the ...
Article : 775 wordsDrastic extension of Nazi influence in Bohemia and Moravia is beginning, ac cording to the Prague correspondent of the "Daily Express." ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wed 14 Jun 1939, Page 9
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