CALCUTTA, Dec. 21.—Messages from Kabul state that on the night of December 14 thousands of rebel tribesmen, who during the afternoon had seized Baghibala ...
Article : 122 wordsLONDON, Dec. 21.—The terrific gas explosion which occurred early yesterday morning under West Central London did a tremendous amount of damage. There ...
Article : 241 wordsSYDNEY, Dec. 21.—The English cricket team to-day began a two days' match against the Hunter River district at Newcastle. Twenty-five years ago ...
Article : 521 wordsLONDON, Dec. 21.—Speaking in the House of Commons to-day on the vote of £100,000, in the Supplementary estimates, to facilitate the transfer of work ...
Article : 334 wordsNEW YORK, Dec. 20.—Col. H. C. Brinsmead, Controller of Civil Aviation in Australia, and Mr G. F. Hughes, president of the New South Wales branch of the ...
Article : 631 wordsA stronger note of optimism is sounded in the latest bulletins concerning the King, and favourable significance is attached to the fact that the doctors did not consider it necessary to issue a bulletin on Thursday night. His Majesty's progress, they stated in the afternoon bulletin, is ...
Article : 337 wordsLONDON, Dec. 20.—"Britain's greatest and most valuable industry is slowly bleeding to death," says a special correspondent of "The Times," who has been ...
Article : 149 wordsDECEPTION ISLAND, Dec. 20.—In continuation of his narrative of the flight over Graham Land, Sir Hubert Wilkins says:— "Eielson started the engine, and we ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 539 wordsLONDON, Dec. 24.—A big section of High Holborn continues desolate. Five hundred police an many firemen were on duty all night, patrolling the danger ...
Article : 144 wordsADELAIDE, Dec. 20.—Referring yesterday to the murder of the settler Henty by blacks at Hatche's Creek, Central Australia, Mr. J. O'Neil, who has just ...
Article : 257 wordsKELLERBERRIN, Dec. 21.—Charles Massingham (17), of Kellerberrin, was badly burned in a petrol explosion early yesterday morning. While dressed in his ...
Article : 97 wordsLONDON, Dec. 20.—Late to-night flames six feet high were still coming from portions of the roadway. Fire engines were standing by most entrances to the affected ...
Article : 56 wordsLONDON, Dec. 20.—Authoritative amplification of to-day's comprehensive report states that the doctors are very much more hopeful regarding his Majesty's ultimate ...
Article : 150 wordsALBANY, Dec. 21.—Norman McGough (6) lies in the Government Hospital in a serious condition as the result of a driving accident at Redmond this morning. ...
Article : 114 wordsLONDON, Dec. 21.—High Holborn shopkeepers in the danger area have suffered heartbreaking experiences. A butcher, with a large supply of Christmas turkeys, ...
Article : 116 wordsADELAIDE, Dec. 20.—In an interview this afternoon Dr. H. Basendow, M.L.A., an authority on aborigines, adversely criticised the constitution of the Commission ...
Article : 172 wordsTwo men were injured when they were thrown out of a motor truck which struck a fallen tree at the side of York-road, Wooroloo, last night. They were:— ...
Article : 145 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—After a filibuster lasting over two hours, the warring Senate factions agreed to delay consideration of the Kellogg Treaty and the Naval ...
Article : 165 wordsLONDON, Dec. 20.—Seven doctors were at the palace to-night, including the ray specialists. It is understood that the object of the second visit was to continue ...
Article : 85 wordsCALCUTTA, Dec. 21.—7 Ten persons were killed and many injured in a fire at Karachi yesterday morning. Fourteen escaped by jumping from windows or ...
Article : 27 wordsA motor truck, driven by Jack Millane, of GUildford-road, Bayswater, was traveling over the William-street railway bridge about 5.15 p.m. yesterday, when ...
Article : 60 wordsLONDON, Dec. 20.—The news of the past couple of days, so happily confirmed by to-day's bulletins further strengthened by to-day's bulletins and further ...
Article : 158 wordsLONDON. Dec. 20.—"The Times" in a trade supplement states that the trade treaty between South Africa and Germany, giving Germans equality in all new ...
Article : 108 wordsBERLIN, Dec. 20.—The German National Party is introducing a Bill in the Reichstag which, passed, will render any foreigner living in Germany liable to ...
Article : 87 wordsExcept for one glorious day, when the Australians scored a round three hundred runs for the loss of only three wickets, the home team failed disastrously in ...
Article : 1,587 wordsLONDON, Dec. 21.—Clem Hill in the "Daily Telegraph" writes:—"There should be six certainties for the next Test. Woodfull, Oldfield, Grimmett and ...
Article : 145 wordsIn a collision between a motor cycle driven by Percy Hague (22), of Gerald-street, Victoria Park, and a motor truck driven by George Morrison, of Elon-street ...
Article : 74 wordsLONDON, Dec. 20.—Important research on the Kalgoorlie goldfield, which has resulted in the successful application of a modified bromo-cyanide process to whole ...
Article : 130 wordsLONDON, Dec. 20—The Constantinople correspondent of "The Times" says that despite concealment of the facts it is clear that the authorities have discovered a plot ...
Article : 52 wordsWalter Joseph Holt (53), of Radium-street, Welshpood, was admitted to the Perth Hospital at 7.20 last night, suffering from a compound fracture of the lower ...
Article : 54 wordsLONDON, Dec. 21.—A report has been received from the British Minister at Caracas (Mr. W. E. O'Reilly), stating that the Venezuelan Government has decided, as ...
Article : 237 wordsMELBOURNE, Dec. 21.—The Victorian members of the Australian Eleven reached Melbourne to-day after the second Test match in Sydney. Those on the train ...
Article : 121 wordsAfter stepping off a footpath at the intersection of St. George's-terrace and William-street at 7.50 last night, Clive H. Farrell, of the Commercial Travellers' ...
Article : 84 wordsLONDON, Dec. 21.—Prince George arrived at Cherbourg to-day from the United States. He refused an offer by Imperial Airways of a seaplane to carry him to ...
Article : 43 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—With the Wave of influenza epidemic steadily apt proaching the larger centres of population the public health service officials have ...
Article : 77 wordsLONDON, Dec. 20.—In reviewing the expenditure incurred by the Empire Marketing Board, the House of Commons Select Committee on the Estimate expresses ...
Article : 92 wordsNEW YORK, Dec. 20.—Noted explorers and scientists are unanimous in their praise of Sir Hubert Wilkins's Antarctic flight, Dr. Constantin Dumbrava, the Rumanian ...
Article : 289 wordsBERLIN, Dec. 20.—A new Russo-German trade treaty is imminent. The Soviet agrees to utilise a certain amount of German shipping, accept the German ...
Article : 54 wordsLONDON, Dec. 21.—The King has permitted the Columbia Company to circus late privately a gramophone record of His Majesty's last utterance before his illness ...
Article : 50 wordsCALCUTTA, Dec. 21.—Twenty arrests, mostly of student members of Nationalist organisations hare been made in connection with the murder of police at Lahore ...
Article : 31 wordsVALPARAISO, Dec. 20.—The body of Captain B. J. H. Marden, the British explorer, who was lost last July in an attempt to climb Aconcagua (23,000 feet) ...
Article : 47 wordsLONDON, Dec. 19.—Sir George Tallis has placed the Australian firm of J. C. Williamson, Ltd. in the ranks of West End theatrical management by the ...
Article : 62 wordsLONDON, Dec. 20.—The good news could be discerned in the countenances of London crowds yesterday and to-day. London is crowded with eager shoppers. ...
Article : 138 wordsTOKIO, Dec. 21.—The Municipal Assembly was dissolved to-day on the order of the Minister for Home Affairs. The law requires an election within three ...
Article : 81 wordsPARIS, Dec. 20.—M. Maximovitch Litvoff, former head of the Russian Trade Delegation in Berlin and brother of the Soviet Minister, who fled from Berlin ...
Article : 71 wordsLONDON, Dec. 20.—At a Mansion House meeting, with Earl Derby presiding, a resolution was carried endorsing the "Come to Britain" movement, Which ...
Article : 87 wordsLONDON, Dec. 20.—The Rome correspondent of "The Times" states that the Pope celebrated at St. Peter's the commencement of the jubilee year of his first ...
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