The Commonwealth Government has refused to sanction an application by Mr. Lang, on behalf of New South Wales, to the Commonwealth Bank for £500,000 to make up an amount of £958,763 falling due to-day as interest and charges on oversea debts. ...
Article : 300 wordsWhen the driver of a heavy steam engine applied his brakes near Erskineville railway station on Saturday afternoon they failed to act, and the engine, pushed on by the weight ...
Article : 320 wordsTwo armed and masked men bailed up Mr. Richard Stephens and his wife and son, at the door of the garage at their home in Pope-street, Dutton Park, ...
Article : 687 wordsAmericans have begun to consider the possibility of war with Japan. They are discussing the subject on every street corner and in every home, but express not the slightest ...
Article : 259 wordsAt Geneva this morning, the Council of the League of Nations reconsidered the position arising from the decision announced by the Chinese delegate (Dr. Yen) to invoke ...
Article : 745 wordsUnofficial reports from Shanghai declared that China had decided formally to declare war on Japan, hut so far no official declaration has been made. A truce which was declared on Friday was followed by fighting, hut eventually there was a lull. ...
Article : 264 wordsA new formal protest to Japan has been made by the United States and Great Britain as a result of Japanese military action at Shanghai yesterday. The protests weer made ...
Article : 183 wordsJames Kaye, a bookkeeper, and George Muddle a saddler, both of Dubbo, collapsed and died during Friday's intense heat. Numbers of people in the same district were prostrated. ...
Article : 263 wordsAccording to a Reuter message from Banking last night it was reported in reliable quarters that the National Government had decided to declare ...
Article : 133 wordsThe meeting of the Loan Council on Friday—the most dramatic since that body was formed in 1925—was followed on Saturday by developments even more startling and ...
Article : 2,377 wordsPresident Hoover met the Cabinet in a lengthy session, after which, according to the Associated Press, it seemed evident that there had been lack of unanimity regarding the ...
Article : 326 wordsLand owners in the Wymah and Holbrook districts are concerned auout the number of bushfires in the district, and the indications that several small outbreaks, which were ...
Article : 455 wordsApart from sniping, which continued all day in the northern district, and occasional shots in the central district, there is a lull in the actual fighting. Both the Japanese ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 1,044 wordsA Foreign Office communique says that, in response to representations by the British Ambassador at Tokio, the Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs gave him the assurance ...
Article : 71 wordsAmateur athletes and swimmers apparently realising that the selection of Australia's team for the Olympic Games of Los Angeles is close at hand, are weekly ...
Article : 207 words"The state of affairs at Shanghai is deplorable," said the Primo Minister (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald), speaking in his constituency tonight for the first time since the general ...
Article : 463 wordsOn the heels of the vigorous protest by the United States and Britain against the seizure of Shanghai, the Navy Department to-day oidered the Asiatic fleet to stand-by to protect ...
Article : 227 wordsAllan Oliver Baxter, 30, formerly manager of the Savings Bank at Collie, was sentenced at the Quarter Sessions at Bunbury to three years' imprisonment with hard labour for ...
Article : 83 wordsThe correspondent of the New York "HeraldTribune," at Washington, says that the suspense at Washington on Saturday night was greater than at any time since the world war. ...
Article : 408 wordsAt the Derby Quarter Sessions, Nick Fallon was found guilty of having on October 17, unlawfully attempted to kill Robert William Graham, and was sentenced to seven years' ...
Article : 271 wordsThe truce was declared after the Mayor of Shanghai (Mr. Wu) and the Japanese Consul-General (Mr Maral) were brought together, with the American Consul-General (Mr. ...
Article : 170 wordsThe question of the export of arms again came briefly before Congress, with the introduction of a resolution in the House of Representatives demanding a ban on private ...
Article : 292 wordsAn appeal for "advocacy of justice" was received to-day from a group of prominent Americans from a number of cultural organisations in Shanghai. The appeal read: "After ...
Article : 129 wordsPressure on Japanese stocks and exchange continued unabated to-day, bond issues falling as much as five points and the yen reaching the record low level of 35 cents. ...
Article : 71 wordsThe State revenue for January was £584,315, compared with £639,911 for January, 1931, and the expenditure totalled £838,0[?]9, against £805,259 in 1931. The deficiency for the ...
Article : 52 wordsAll telegrams for China are subjected to censorship there. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Mon 1 Feb 1932, Page 9
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