SYDNEY, Sunday.—Only bruises and minor lacerationes were suffered by two women to-day when on the light plane in which they were flying dived 200ft. into ...
Article : 154 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—More flexible terms are likely-in any new trade agreement with Japan. The present trade agreement, which ...
Article : 209 words"Our mighty armaments threaten no one, but they are available to-day to resist aggression or domination," said the Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain) in a speech at Cardiff last evening. ...
Article : 968 wordsFOR THE FIRST TIME IN AUSTRALIA the flag of the St. John Ambulance Brigade was paraded yesterday. The occasion was the annual church parade of the brigade at St. Paul's Cathedral. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 31 wordsIn preparation for the opening on Wednesday afternoon of the third session of the 33rd Parliament of Victoria, State Cabinet ...
Article : 511 wordsProtection for the Borneo oilfields was discussed yesterday by the conference of high officers of the British and French defence ...
Article : 327 wordsAn agreement to exchange cotton and rubber supplies for storage against an emergency was signed on Friday by the President of ...
Article : 506 wordsDARWIN, Sunday.—One hundred troops of the Mobile Force are searching the bush 40 miles from Darwin for a gunner in the regiment, who has been lost ...
Article : 175 wordsAustralia has decided to use John Bromwich and Harry Hopman, the captain and manager, in the singles in its Davis Cup tie against Mexico, which win ...
Article : 117 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—By order of the city coroner (Mr. Oram) the body of Mrs. Lorna Costello, aged 30 years, who was found dead by an electric washing ...
Article : 124 words"REYNOLD"S NEWS" says that a giant super speed-boat, built of new plastic material, and carrying 125 passengers and a crew of ...
Article : 89 wordsCANBERRA, Sunday.—Two senior officers of the Bristol Aircraft Company— Messrs. R. Latham, technical adviser, and H. Perman, contract expert—will ...
Article : 201 wordsJapan was informed privately by the Foreign Secretary (Lord Halifax) and publicly by the Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain) at the week-end that Britain will not allow the situation at Tientsin to continue. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 1,309 wordsFailure of the Loan Council to devise a means of regulating Government guarantees of non-Government loans left a serious weakness in the control of ...
Article : 185 wordsAdolphe Menjou, the well-known Hollywood motion picture actor, may visit Australia, according to the general manager of Columbia Pictures (Mr. Cecil Mason), ...
Article : 111 wordsIt comes as a surprise to find that Hopman, and not Quist, will be playing with Bromwich in the singles against Mexico. It was expected that Quist and ...
Article : 303 wordsThe fastest sea passage between London and New Zealand is expected to be made by the new Blue Star line passenger and refrigerated cargo vessel ...
Article : 116 wordsDARWIN, Sunday.—The closer settlement project to revive the Northern Territory pastoral indistry by opening sheep runs, will start next September. ...
Article : 110 wordsPrisoners at Pentridge yesterday afternoon greatly appreciated a concert given by the Meistersingers' Male Choir. It was arranged by the honorary secretary of the ...
Article : 122 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—Mr. George O'Brien and his family in the ketch Hispaniola returned to Palm Beach on Saturday after having failed for the third ...
Article : 73 wordsSenator Borah has asked Congress to scrutinise carefully President Roosevelt's proposal for the issue of 500,000,000 dollars (£125,000,000) in foreign loans, and to ...
Article : 83 wordsThe barter agreement between Great Britain and the United States whereby American cotton will be exchanged for rubber grown in British possessions or ...
Article : 434 wordsPaymaster-Commander J. D. Jackson, R.A.N., will be heard in a special talk on "Naval Customs" from 3UZ in "Sidelights of the Services" at 9.15 this evening. ...
Article : 31 wordsAeroplanes and a blimp flew over New York Harbour and craft whistled greetings as the new liner Mauretania passed the Battery at 8 a.m. yesterday. ...
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Advertising : 184 wordsThe Turkish Government has announced that it will fortify again Alexandretta, which has been ceded to Turkey by France under the mutual assistance ...
Article : 139 wordsMr. Justice Bucknell (chairman) visited Portsmouth yesterday before the opening of the inquiry into the loss of the submarine Thetis. ...
Article : 92 wordsThree announcements to-day indicate that daily reports of air crossings of the Atlantic will soon be a matter of routine. ...
Article : 101 wordsAUCKLAND (N.Z.), Sunday.— Parachuting for 2,000ft. over Mangere aerodrome, Leo E. A. Hayward, aged 24 years, was blown into ...
Article : 104 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Mr. Pirow), who visited Germany late last year, said in a speech yesterday that it was quite impossible to return South-West Africa ...
Article : 76 wordsSixteen persons were killed and 133 injured in a severe earthquake along the Gold Coast on Thursday night. The shocks were first felt in Accra at ...
Article : 69 wordsWith two gaping holes in her side, the liner Abosso (11,300 tons) reached Plymouth on Friday after a collision in dense fog with the cargo steamer Yew Forest, ...
Article : 101 wordsMiss Molly Newbould, of Fremantle (.A.), was a mourner at the funeral of her fiance, Mr. James Elmslie, the wireless operator in the plane that crashed ...
Article : 66 wordsDr. J. T. Ruddy, of Los Angeles, used a vacuum appliance yesterday to extract an eye cataract by suction. He hopes to restore the sight of a man aged 57 years ...
Article : 115 wordsCommenting on Mr. Pirow's speech, the official Foreign Office spokesman said:— "There can be no question of compensation for the loss of our colonies. We ...
Article : 72 wordsMRS. S. CHANDLER, of Middle Park, cclebrated her 90th birthday on Saturday. She is shown reading congratulatory telegrams to her sons, Messrs. Charles (left) and Reginald Chandler, and her great grandson Ray Wightman. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 33 wordsCaptain H. B. Crane, R.N., arrived last night in the Orontes to take up the position as from to-day of captain superintendent of training at Flinders Naval ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of the International News Service understands that the hand-picked Brandenburg Evangelical Church Consistory has placed Pastor ...
Article : 104 wordsThe Government is placing orders for 1,000,000 more of its standard steel shelters to give protection from bomb blast, splinters, and debris. ...
Article : 67 wordsOf 600 passengers for Australia in the R.M.S. Orontes, which reached Melbourne last night, 480 were aliens, including about 320 Jewish refugees from Germany, ...
Article : 54 wordsThe National Art Collections Fund has bought for the nation two portraits by Barker of Bath. One is a portrait of the artist's wife and the other is a self-portrait. ...
Article : 143 wordsPERTH, Sunday.—During an altercation between two quarter-caste brothers on a farm 12 miles from Woodanilling. 212 miles south of Perth, yesterday, ...
Article : 50 wordsAt the British Standards Institution's annual meeting it was announced that the British standard of "concert pitch" in music was recently accepted at a ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 26 Jun 1939, Page 9
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