JOHANNESBURG, Oct. 21.--The first shipments of locomotives of which the Union plans to purchase 333 steam and 71 electric under a £4,500,000 ...
Article : 48 wordsBRISBANE, Oct. 22.--The commission consisting of Messrs. B. Wade, State member for Inverell, N.S. Wales (chairman), J. T. Ness, ...
Article : 181 wordsPARIS, Oct. 21.--Havas Agency says Gijon has surrendered. The insurgents claim that on their entering Gijon the Asturians blew ...
Article : 122 wordsHOBART, Oct. 22.--Back at his home in Devenport to-night, the Prime Minister (Mr. J. A. Lyons) will have completed 10.000 miles of the most ...
Article : 234 wordsLONDON, Oct. 21.--Questioned in the House of Commons on Palestine, the Colonial Secretary (Mr. W. Ormsby-Gore) made the following statement: "In the light of resolutions passed by the Council and the Assembly of the League last ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 555 wordsLONDON, Oct. 21.--Parliament reassembled to-day after the summer recess, and in the House of Commons the Foreign Secretary (Mr. Anthony Eden) opened the debate on international affairs. The House was crowded, and the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 1,658 wordsLONDON, Oct. 21.--The Government realised £10,985 from the sale of the chairs and stools used at the Coronation ceremony in Westminster Abbey, ...
Article : 43 wordsBERLIN, Oct. 20.--Aga Khan visited Herr Hitler at Berchtesgaden. ...
Article : 15 wordsLONDON, Oct. 21.--Pending the entry of the main body of insurgents on Friday, the advance guard of the fifth column has taken over control of Gijon. ...
Article : 417 wordsROME, Oct. 20.--Signor Mussolini laid the foundation stone of the first building of the universal exhibition which will be opened in Rome in 1941. ...
Article : 47 wordsCANBERRA, Oct. 22.--In spite of the general belief that small families are general in Australia, there still are some which run into ...
Article : 153 wordsLONDON, Oct. 20.--Mr. R. A. Eden has been bequeathed £4000 and his wife £20,000 upon trust from the estate of Gervase Beckett amounting to ...
Article : 33 wordsLAUNCESTON, October 22.--Commenting on the report from Brisbane that the United Protestant Association was advising its members to vote for ...
Article : 86 wordsLONDON, Oct. 21.--Dr. James Black, the celebrated preacher and educationist, is nominated as ModeratorGeneral of Scotland for 1938. ...
Article : 24 wordsLONDON, Oct. 21.--Commenting on the storm of criticism concerning his latest statue, Christ, Epstein said: "It's no good trying to get the right ideas ...
Article : 78 wordsBRISBANE, October 22.--Final appeals to the electors were made by the leader of the Opposition (Mr. J. Curtin) and Dr. Earle Page last night. ...
Article : 183 wordsMELBOURNE, Oct. 22.--The question of whether an increase in production to meet the consumption of sugar in Australia should be regarded as the special preserve of Queensland, was discussed in State political circles yesterday. ...
Article : 149 wordsJERUSALEM, Oct, 21.--Shots again punctured the Iraq pipeline at Belsan. A repair gang was rushed to the scene. A 'bus on the main road to Jaffa ...
Article : 66 wordsSHANGHAI, Oct. 21.--The Chinese launched a general counteroffensive in a determined attempt to cut off the Japanese who have ...
Article : 168 wordsMr. Curtin's appeal stated: Put Labor first on polling day and you will put Australia first. I emphasise, put Australia first, because our opponents ...
Article : 150 wordsLONDON, Oct. 21.--The Foreign Office has divulged the story of the clash between insurgent and British warships. It is stated that on October ...
Article : 97 wordsCANBERRA, Oct. 22.--Efforts to settle a dispute between the owners and charterers of the British freighter Silksworth and ...
Article : 490 wordsWASHINGTON, Oct. 21.--The Secretary to the Department of the Interior, Mr. Ickes, in a statement to the Press indicated that the Government ...
Article : 87 wordsKARACHI, Oct. 21.--Miss Jean Batten, who is on a flight to England in an attempt to break Broadbent's record, landed at 7.10 p.m. yesterday and ...
Article : 75 wordsROME, Oct. 21.--The Cabinet has decided to conscript pilots for the air force owing to lack of volunteers and losses in Spain. ...
Article : 34 wordsBURNIE (Tasmania), Oct. 22.--In a national broadcast to-night Mr. Lyons said: "I have done all I can to kill the conscription lie and the lie about ...
Article : 244 wordsCANBERRA, Oct. 22.--The emergency regulations to check the spread of Victorian infantile paralysis have been effective, according to reports ...
Article : 157 wordsROME, Oct. 21.--It is authoritatively stated that Italy's acceptance of the invitation to the Nine-Power Conference is most probable, though the ...
Article : 66 wordsBRISBANE, Oct. 22.--Minerals other that gold, coal and precious stones to the value of £602,329 were won in Queensland in the quarter ended ...
Article : 60 wordsROME, Oct. 21.--Italians are angry with Britain for allowing concentrations of Abyssinian refugees in Kenya near the frontier. ...
Article : 114 wordsBRISBANE, Oct. 22.--To-day's maximum temperature of 90.2 degrees was the highest in Brisbane, since March 28 last summer, when 96.5 deg. ...
Article : 89 wordsLONDON, Oct. 21.--In the House of Lords, Lord Barnby, dealing with the suggestion for a boycott of Japanese goods, said that a boycott generally ...
Article : 166 wordsWASHINGTON, Oct. 21.--The United States has joined Venezuela and Costa Rica in an effort to settle a threatened war between Nicaragua and ...
Article : 75 wordsLONDON, Oct. 21.--A brief debate took place in the House of Lords. Lord Plymouth made a statement along similar lines to that of Mr. Eden. ...
Article : 35 wordsJapanese soldiers shown during the drive on Nankow Pass. This picture was taken just as the men were about to march on a hill abandoned by the Chinese under heavy fire. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 33 wordsLONDON, Oct. 21.--The new nonintervention development led to a day of activity at Whitehall. Interest in tomorrow's resumption of the meeting ...
Article : 337 wordsSYDNEY, Oct. 22.--Two summonses were served this morning on Sir Alexander Gore Arkwright Hore-Ruthven Baron Gowrle, of ...
Article : 122 wordsNEW YORK, Oct. 22.--Sir Hubert Wilkins tested his new plane. It is a Lockheed Electra monoplane purchased by the Soviet from Dick Merrill. sir ...
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Daily Mercury (Mackay, Qld. : 1906 - 1954), Sat 23 Oct 1937, Page 7
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