BROOME, May 28.—Robin Hunter, who carries mails between Broome and Cape Leveque lighthouse, about 160 miles to the north, was returning to Broome on ...
Article : 940 wordsTHE HAGUE, May 28.—The Government is expected shortly to introduce a Bill providing for the construction of three and, probably, four battleships for ...
Article : 271 wordsLONDON, May 27.—The possibility of action involving or implying recognition of the German annexation of the Bohemian and Moravian provinces of ...
Article : 963 wordsSHANGHAI. May 26.—It is estimated 880 persons were killed and 760 wounded in yesterday's raid on Chungking (the seat of the Chinese Government) by ...
Article : 143 wordsBANFF (Alberta). May 27.—Leaving the prairies for the Rocky Mountains, Their Majesties the King and Queen yesterday afternoon arrived at Banff, ...
Article : 453 wordsLONDON, May 28.—Japan's claim to sovereignty over the International Settlements in China and her proclamation of a blockade of the Chinese coast with the ...
Article : 513 wordsLONDON, May 28.—An important stage in the efforts to establish a peace front against aggression was reached on Friday afternoon when the detailed ...
Article : 327 wordsLONDON. May 28.—Berlin reports state that feeling in Danzig is being kept at a high temperature and Herr Hitler's recent talks with the Danzig Nazi leader ...
Article : 320 wordsMELBOURNE, May 28.—Several highly-armed four-engined Sunderland flying boats will arrive in Australia from Britain within a few months for use in ...
Article : 178 wordsA youth was killed and another young man seriously injured at South Perth shortly after midnight on Saturday when a motor cycle and a tramcar collided. ...
Article : 216 wordsBELGRADE, May 28.—The creation of a new autonomous Croat province embracing the existing provinces of Sava and Primorje, and the town of ...
Article : 134 wordsWAPSAW, May 27.—After the Polish Government had scrutinised the draft of the British proposals for an Anglo- French-Russian agreement, the Foreign ...
Article : 36 wordsCANBERRA, May 28.—Statements repeatedly made In Queensland that the Commonwealth Government had no intention of attempting to defend Northern ...
Article : 165 wordsPARIS, May 27.—The Foreign Minister (M. Bonnet) declared today that the Franco-British alliance was so consolidated that the two countries were now ...
Article : 74 wordsBANFF, May 27.—An early visit to Australia and New Zealand by the King and Queen is being unofficially discussed. Their tour of Canada is proving such a ...
Article : 702 wordsLONDON, March 27.—Changes in the personnel of General Franco's Government, which will be announced soon, are expected to indicate the increasing ...
Article : 129 wordsLONDON. May 26.—The Hong Kong correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says the possibility of Japan stopping the American liner President Coolidge ...
Article : 64 wordsLONDON, May 27.—A personal message, as stated in the House of Commons yesterday, has been addressed by the Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain) ...
Article : 357 wordsAs he was walking across Canning- highway, East Fremantle, just before mid-night on Saturday, a young man was struck by a tramcar and killed instantly. ...
Article : 183 wordsMELBOURNE. May 28.—When the escort vessel H.M.A.S. Swan leaves Sydney on June 8 for Darwin and Singapore the First Naval Member of the Naval Board ...
Article : 63 wordsTOKIO, May 27.—Interviewed today by the Australian Associated Press, the Foreign Office spokesman (Mr. Kawai). said:—"Australia's new Government has ...
Article : 151 wordsLONDON, May 27.—General Franco has ordered the demobilisation of another 50,000 men making a total of 250,000 demobilised since the end of the civil war. ...
Article : 29 wordsMELBOURNE, May 28.—The Duchess of Kent will officially re-name as H.M.A.S. Perth the cruiser Amphion, which has been acquired by the Commonwealth from ...
Article : 104 wordsSYDNEY, May 28.—A man whose car was bogged on the Diamond Head-road, near Coopernook. was arrested last night and charged with robbery under arms ...
Article : 259 wordsKALGOORLIE, May 28.—When a utility truck in which they were travelling from Coolgardie to Kalgoorlie on Friday afternoon overturned when ...
Article : 124 wordsNEW YORK, May 26.—Captain Amsden, acting commandant of the navy yard at Portsmouth (New Hampshire), in a formal statement today on the ...
Article : 109 wordsBERLIN. May 26.—The Japanese Embassy denies the Ambassador has offered his resignation. Japanese circles in Rome have issued ...
Article : 34 wordsBERLIN. May 26.—The Institute of Economic Investigation, reports that the number of persons employed has increased from 20,000,000 to 21,300,009. ...
Article : 72 wordsIn Walcott-street, Mt. Lawley, a short distance west of the tram terminus a car driven by Dr. Alexander Walters and another car driven by Mrs. Grace ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 120 wordsROME, May 27.—The Press applauds an attack on France by the Ambassador in London (Court Grandi) when he spoke at a London Embassy function in ...
Article : 132 wordsZURICH, May 27.—Officials of the Bank for International Settlements explain that the bank was obliged to transfer the Czech gold from London to the ...
Article : 41 wordsSYDNEY. May 28.—A mass meeting of ironworkers yesterday decided to with-draw forthwith all labour from engineering shops that are in dispute with the ...
Article : 204 wordsMELBOURNE, May 28.—The sum of £479, which was stolen on Friday afternoon from Eric Russell Allan, a clerk on the staff of the Mildura City Council, ...
Article : 114 wordsLONDON, May 28.—The annual air race from Hatfield to the Isle of Man, which is held under handicap conditions and covers a course of 256 miles, was held ...
Article : 126 wordsBRISBANE, May 28.—Intense police activity in two States since last Wednesday led to the appearance in the Police Court yesterday of Derwent Evans ...
Article : 165 wordsLONDON, May 26.—The Rome correspondent of "The Times" state :—"There Is no reason to expect further Papal diplomatic action in the cause of peace. ...
Article : 129 wordsA young man and woman were injured yesterday morning when a motor cycle and sidecar was struck by a sedan motor car at Subiaco. They were:— ...
Article : 206 wordsLONDON, May 26.—The Secretary for the Colonies (Mr. MacDonald) Informed the House of Commons today that the White Paper setting out the. ...
Article : 75 wordsLONDON, May 28.—Well-informed circles in London say the possibility of Their Majesties visiting Australia is always actively kept in mind, but whether ...
Article : 68 wordsNEW YORK, May 27.—Completing the first round trip on the transatlantic commercial service, the Pan-American Airways giant flying boat, Yankee Clipper, ...
Article : 134 wordsClothing and household linen valued at about £100 was stolen from a house occupied by James George Derby in Tyrell-street, Nedlands, on Saturday ...
Article : 80 wordsATHENS, May 26.—The engagement is announced of Princess Irene, a sister to King George of Greece, and the Duke of Spoleto, the younger brother of the ...
Article : 46 wordsSuffering from a depressed fracture of the skull, Harris Mills (20), of Turton-street, East Guildford, was taken in a St. John ambulance to the Perth Hospital ...
Article : 128 wordsSYDNEY, May 28.—Charles Martin McCarty (26). of Bayview-street, Banksia, died last night from injuries which the police allege were received in a fight ...
Article : 114 wordsSTRASBOURG, May 26—Despite German denials, there is no doubt that a number of Siegfried Line blockhouses have been flooded and evacuated. This ...
Article : 112 wordsSYDNEY, May 28.—A masked and armed man walked into the smallgoods shop of Walter Field, Enmore-road. Marrickville, tonight, and stole 12 in cash ...
Article : 93 wordsWhen a telephone message was received at the central police station last night that a boy was seen at the rear of flats in Adelaide-terrace a message was flashed ...
Article : 65 wordsTOKIO, May 26.—Japan will send 20 delegates to the conferences of the Young Men's and Young Women's Christian associations in Amsterdam in July. ...
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