Information received in official circles indicates that the reported defeat of General Sun Chuan-fang was only an unimportant skirmish. Serious fighting is not expected ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,163 wordsPreparations for the defence of British interests in China will apparently not be followed on the present extensive scale by a similar concentration of United States ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 240 wordsSydney had a fine day for the holiday, and all branches of sport were well attended. There were plenty of thrills at Penrith speedway. While J. Fox was giving his ...
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Article : 121 wordsMr. Charlton, leader of the Federal Opposition in the House of Representatives, states that the Labour party is strongly opposed to intervention in connection with the ...
Article : 68 wordsIn a circular issued to all trades unions affiliated with the Trades and Labour Council announcing the agenda for the special conference to be held on February 19, the ...
Article : 89 wordsA mineral train laden with 580 tons of [?]e crashed into a dead end at Tumulla, 20 miles from Bathurst. The brakes failed, and the train began to ...
Article : 72 wordsMr. Gerald J. West teacher at Tuntable Public School. was entertained at a social [?]ing at the residence of Mr. and Mrs [?] Ar[?]stall send presentation prior to ...
Article : 326 wordsThe Lord Mayor last night prevented the [?] disc[?]sing the alleged maladministra tion of the civi[?] garag[?] His minate recom mending that the matter b[?] referred to the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 161 wordsAllegations of extensive thefts of bulk tea from the Australian Commonwealth Line wharf were made at the Central Police Court when three charges of having stolen [?] ...
Article : 169 wordsMr. Baddeley, replying to Sir Arthur Rickard's statement, denied that the nomina tion system of migration had[?]ceased. It was being more strictly supervised, he added, be ...
Article : 42 wordsAt the A.W.U. convention a proposal to disseminate in Australia more foreign literature on "the class struggle" was defeated. Mr. Bartle (N.S.W.), declared that ...
Article : 56 wordsOwing to the unsettled state of the weather the Lismere Hibernian Jockey Club's inaugural race meeting, arranged for next Saturday, has been postponed till February ...
Article : 46 wordsAn unenviable experience befell a party of motorists on Tuesday afternoon, while they were returning from Lismorc to Woodbur[?] The road chosen was via Wardell owing to ...
Article : 167 wordsThe steamer Northumherland struck a submerged object off the New Zealand coast and was severely damaged. The vessel put, into Gisborne and steamers and a tug are ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 47 wordsThe hulk Nymboida sank at her moorings in Kerosene Bay yesterday. The vessel was at one time engaged in the Clarence River. ...
Article : 30 wordsYesterday the Famous Lasky Film Service. Ltd., paid more than £17,000 as State film tax for one year. The company filed notice of appeal in the Mctropolitan Court of ...
Article : 40 wordsMary Cassidy, the prisoner who sustained shocking injuries when she made a sensational leap in front of an oncoming train at West Perth, died yesterday. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe illness of Miss Akhurst prevented her from playing, in the Australian title tennis matches to-day. In the men's singles J. B. Hawkes ...
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Article : 52 wordsA tragic accident occurred near Nowra when a motor car conveying a honeymoon party from Melbourne to Sydney overturned. Mrs. Rebecca Hales (55), of Northcote, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 151 wordsMrs. Warren, of Annandale. was killed when a motor car in which she was riding skidded and overturned near Campbelltown to-day. Two of her children were sliglitly ...
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Article : 44 wordsThe Ponsford incident is relatively of minor import compared with the bonus squabble, says Alderman McElhone, of Sydney. interviewed by the Australian Press. ...
Article : 207 wordsJohn Samuel Gill, charged with the murder of his wife, Ethel Gill, at Donnybrook, was convicted of manslaughter on the ground of provocation and sentenced to ten years ...
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Northern Star (Lismore, NSW : 1876 - 1954), Thu 27 Jan 1927, Page 5
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