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Advertising : 22 wordsRising from humble beginnings to the Premiership of his home State and then to the post of Prime Minister of the Commonwealth, the late Mr. J. A. Lyons ...
Article : 1,061 wordsLONDON, April 6.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain) made a statement in the House of Commons yesterday with reference to Tuesday night's ...
Article : 1,139 wordsEloquent tributes and many expressions of sympathy and regret were voiced throughout Australia yesterday on the death of the Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons). ...
Article : 206 words"Mr. Lyons's death came as a great shock to me, as I feel sure it did to all the peoples of the Commonwealth." said the Lord Mayor (Mr. C. Harper). "His ...
Article : 1,082 wordsSYDNEY, April 7.—Problems of constitutional procedure in the solution of which he had no precedent to guide him were expeditiously disposed of by the ...
Article : 1,051 wordsMELBOURNE, April 7.—"The death of Mr. Lyons has deprived Australia of a leader who has played a great part in our history," said the Chief Justice of the ...
Article : 168 wordsSYDNEY, April 7.—"The people of Australia are at one in their grief," the new Prime Minister (Sir Earle Page) said tonight. "We have lost a man who ...
Article : 833 wordsIn the various State capitals expressions of sympathy were voiced by the Premiers. The following tributes were voiced:— The Premier of New South Wales (Mr. ...
Article : 913 wordsSYDNEY, April 7.—At a meeting this afternoon to discuss arrangements for the burial of Mr. Lyons, the Federal Ministry decided to accord him a State ...
Article : 204 wordsBAGDAD, April 6.—The Irak Government has issued a statement expressing its detestation of the "dastardly crime" of the murder of the British Consul at ...
Article : 434 wordsSYDNEY, April 7.—The annual Easter conferences of the rival Labour Parties in New South Wales were begun in Sydney this morning. They will be continued ...
Article : 868 wordsSYDNEY, April 7.—Shortly after Mr. Lyons was admitted to hospital on Wednesday his condition was diagnosed as acute heart trouble. Electrocardiograph ...
Article : 486 wordsLONDON, April 5.—A message from the High Commissioner for Palestine, received at the Colonial Office, reports that there has been widespread mourning over the ...
Article : 87 wordsJERUSALEM, April 6.—The Palestine rebel headquarters has called on Arabs to join in a holy war against Zionist and British infidels. The manifesto ...
Article : 45 wordsLONDON, April 6.—The Colonial Secretary (Mr. Malcolm MacDonald) answered in the House of Commons today a question about the sentence passed in ...
Article : 149 wordsMELBOURNE, April 7.—Victoria's Easter holidays began today with the worst flooding in north and north-western areas for more than 20 years, terrific ...
Article : 357 wordsLONDON, April 7.—Although no newspapers were published today (Good Friday) the news of the death of Mr. Lyons spread rapidly and was received with the ...
Article : 349 wordsLabour leaders in the Commonwealth and the various States also paid tributes to Mr. Lyons. The Leader of the Federal Opposition (Mr. Curtin) said last night ...
Article : 445 wordsThe Primate of Australia (Dr. Le Fanu) said:—"I received with profound regret the news of the unexpected death of the Prime Minister. I had the ...
Article : 123 wordsBERLIN, April 5.—The newspaper "B.Z. Am Mittag" comments: "Did Lord Stanhope mean that Martians were marching on Europe. The tendency ...
Article : 78 wordsWELLINGTON, April 7.—The Prime Minister of New Zealand (Mr. Savage) sent the following cable message to Sir Earle Page today:—"News of the sudden ...
Article : 113 wordsHOBART, April 7.—Three persons were killed and one was injured severely when a motor car crashed into an express train at a level crossing at Woodbury on ...
Article : 91 wordsMELBOURNE, April 6.—Detectives investigating the Dumosa dam murder mystery are looking for a cyclist who is believed to have spent a night at ...
Article : 123 wordsMELBOURNE, April 7.—"The unexpected, almost tragic, death of the Prime Minister brings grief to Australia and far beyond its borders," said Archbishop ...
Article : 111 wordsMELBOURNE, April 7.—Harold Currle (about 18) was killed when the top of a tombstone, weighing about 1cwt. fell on his chest in the Mawallok cemetery this ...
Article : 137 wordsADELAIDE, April 7.—A youth was killed and four persons badly injured when a touring car in which they were travelling from Adelaide to Horsham ...
Article : 83 wordsBRUSSELS, April 5.—The majority of the 10,000 coalminers in the Charlerol and Liege areas who struck yesterday in protest against a 2½ per cent reduction ...
Article : 34 wordsAt all functions in St. Mary's Cathedral yesterday prayers for the repose of the soul of the late Prime Minister were said by the people. The Archbishop of ...
Article : 43 wordsWASHINGTON, April 5.—The War Department has launched a campaign to raise a special reserve force of 75,000, composed from regular army men under ...
Article : 29 wordsLONDON, April 6.—A Royal Air Force plane accidentally dropped a bomb over Trustthorpe, near Mabelthorpe, yesterday. The bomb landed in a wheatfield ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Sat 8 Apr 1939, Page 16
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