The sixteenth anniversary of Armistice Day was celebrated yesterday in all parts of the British Empire. Services in Australia were marked with the customary solemnity and reverence. A remarkable feature of the addresses delivered by clergymen and others ...
Article : 130 wordsQueues of cars travelling to the air pageant exten[?] from Melbourne to Laverton and from Werribee to Laverton for most of Saturday afternoon, blocking this section of the ...
Article : 344 wordsMr. G. G. Knox, chairman of the League of Nations Commission administering the Sanr territory, in a letter to the League, says: "I want to draw the Council's.serious attention ...
Article : 319 wordsRudyard Kipling's ode to Melbourne's majestic Shrine of Remembrance, was read yesterday at the dedication of the shrine. [?] long as Memory, Valour, and Faith endure. Let these Stones witness through the years to come. ...
Article : 339 wordsNoteworthy speeches on defence were made yesterday by the Prime Minister (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald) and Mr. Winston Churchill, M.P. Mr. MacDonald, speaking at the Lord Mayor's banquet, indicated that the Government would not embark on an arms race, but said experience had ...
Article : 182 wordsFrom 9 a.m. people commenced to assemble in Martin-place. By 10 a.m. the section near the Cenotaph was packed closely. The attendance included the Governor (Sir Phillp ...
Article : 665 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Stevens), in an address in the Lyceum yesterday, said that the world was so beset with national and international difficulties that the future was uncertain. The ...
Article : 312 wordsA real inquiry, said Mr. Churchill, ought to be made into the alarming decline in Britain's means of making defence weapons. Should danger come, Britain would be much ...
Article : 191 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Stevens) will be in control of the forthcoming State general elections. In an interview last night, he said that there was no truth in rumours circulated ...
Article : 108 wordsThe Stock Exchange had another record week as far as British Government stocks are concerned, several of them having reached new high levels. This is largely attributable ...
Article : 695 wordsAlthough the American professional golf team completed the rout of the Australian representatives by winning all six singles matches at The Lakes course on Saturday, the ...
Article : 813 wordsMr. A. H. Short, a butcher, his wife, and child had a narrow escape from being frozen to death, when they were trapped in a freezing chamber yesterday morning. ...
Article : 302 wordsMiss Joan Hartigan, Miss Louie Bickerton, and Mrs. Emily Westacott have been selected to represent Australia in the first international women's tennis match to be played in this ...
Article : 346 words"Go to Lloyd's and try to insure against the risk of war within five years; then try to insure similarly for the next five years," said Mr. Lloyd George, opening the "Daily Express" ...
Article : 248 wordsThe Minister for Transport (Mr. Bruxner), in an address at the Grahame Memorial Church, Waverley, said that more must be done than praise the sacrifice of the dead and ...
Article : 177 wordsMr. MacDonald, in his address, emphasised the Government's policy to preserve world peace, and declared that, if an international arms agreement was refused the defence ...
Article : 400 wordsHenry Price, 36, and William Keith Wrathall, 28[?] both of whom were serving sentences of 15 years for murder, and James Hogan, 21, escaped from the Hobart gaol this morning. ...
Article : 164 wordsBishop Kirkby, preaching at Killara, said the two minutes' silence on Armistice Day reminded peoyle of the price paid by those who had suffered or had given their lives in ...
Article : 375 wordsA new financial scandal, which newspapers declare may have political reactions, has broken out with the arrest of Joseph Levy, director of a finance company, which specialised in ...
Article : 92 wordsInaugurating the new corporative system, Signor Mussolini described it as "probably the most important event in Italian history." The Duce initiated 22 corporations to control ...
Article : 337 wordsIntermittent rain fell at Sydney yesterday. Most of the registrations were moderate, but in the Northern Suburbs area the downpour was torrentially heavy at places, at about ...
Article : 129 wordsStanding with bowed head at the Cenotaph, the King embodied the reverence of the peoples of the Empire at the Armistice Day commemoration, which was as solemn and ...
Article : 77 wordsUnable to render any immediate assistance members of a picnic party at Middle Harbour had the distressing experience yesterday of watching one of their companions clinging ...
Article : 255 wordsMr. C. T. P. U[?]m and Mr. G. M. Littlejohn, with their special [?] speed Envoy, sa[?]ed on the Ascan[?]a from Southampton for Montreal. Mr. Ulm said that after test flights, they ...
Article : 135 wordsSir Thomas Bavin, speaking in St. Luke's Church, Clovelly, said that some people deprecated anniversaries such as Armistice Day on the [?]ound that they tended to glorify war ...
Article : 326 wordsJames William Largcssnpr, 25, a seaman on board H.M.A S. Australia, was assaulted in Elizabeth-street, city, and gravely injured. on Saturday night, by a man to whom he ...
Article : 244 wordsWe cannot look the Unknown Soldier in the face and truthfully acquit ourselves, so all we can do is just to apologise to him—[?] mighty poor attainment after sixteen years." ...
Article : 183 wordsIt is understood that the percentage allotted to cash subscribers to the Australian conversion loan of £14,601,806 will be small owing to the gratifying response of converters. The ...
Article : 308 wordsThe Royal Mint, to commemorate the King's silver jubilee next year, is issuing a medal showing the crowned effigies of their Majesties. It has been impossible to find a single emblem ...
Article : 150 wordsA. G. Chipperfield, the test cricketer, had a nerve-shaking experience on Newcastle railway station to-night just after he stepped out of the train by which he made the last stage ...
Article : 165 wordsFurther advances in the prices of Br[?]tsh Government securities took place on the Stock Exchange yesterday. War loan 3½ per cent. closed at £105/17/6. Consols, 2½ per cent., ...
Article : 110 wordsFreed from ring duties at a circus at the Upper Blackwood Agricultural Show, two elephants, wandering in the grounds in search of food, scented the array of salads set on the ...
Article : 113 wordsA special Armistice Dav seivice held in the studio of the B.B.C., London, was successfully broadcast through 2BL, Sydney, last evening. The Rev. W. P. Glyn ...
Article : 201 wordsDespite almost continuous rain, large crowds gathered in the streets yesterday to witness the Lord Mayor's show. The central feature of the procession, ...
Article : 119 wordsImpressive ceremony marked the unveli[?]ng by Brigadier-General Herring of a weatherbeaten memorial cross of the 51st Battalion from Villers-Brettoneux, France, at the historic ...
Article : 128 wordsStriking the top of a tree while fi[?]ing at about 60 miles an hour, a Gipsy Moth aeroplane crashed at Laverton this morning. The occupants. Pilot-officer T. Payne and ...
Article : 111 wordsNo further formal meetings between representatives of the naval Powers engaged in the preliminary bilateral conversations in London have so far been arranged, but contacts ...
Article : 117 wordsGreenore, winner of the Trial Stakes at Hawkes Bay races yesterday, paid a dividend of £244. It was his first race. Greenore is owned by J. Mills, a sheep ...
Article : 48 wordsA slight earth tremor was felt in Canberra this morning. At about 9.50 many residents heard a distinct rumbling noise. Windows rattled and objects on shelves were shaken. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 12 Nov 1934, Page 9
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