SHANGHAI, Dec. 15.China's fast-spreading civil war extended to North Honan in the past 24 hours as the Communist General Chen-yi, ...
Article : 650 wordsMOSCOW, Dec. 15.—A decree issued yesterday by the Council of Ministers and the Communist Central Committee announced the introduction of currency reform to strengthen the exchange rate of the rouble and ...
Article : 795 wordsROME, Dec. 15.—The Prime Minister (Signor de Gasperi) has completed the remodelling of his Cabinet, reinforcing the ...
Article : 175 wordsLONDON, Dec. 15.—The United States delegation to the Foreign Ministers' conference issued a reply last night to statements by the ...
Article : 169 wordsLONDON, Dec. 15.—Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, three times Prime Minister of Britain, died in his sleep yesterday at his home, Astley Hall, ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 795 wordsJERUSALEM. Dec. 15.—Although both Arab and Jewish sources estimate the toll at at least 220 dead a revised official casualty ...
Article : 454 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—Congress is expected to give another cool reception to requests from President Truman to provide ...
Article : 520 wordsDACHAU (Bavaria), Dec. 15.— December 31 has been fixed by the American Army authorities for the closing of the Dachau military ...
Article : 618 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—Government officials speculated yesterday on the possibility that the Soviet might seek to establish an ...
Article : 327 wordsTo relieve pressure against their forces in Central China, Communists are attacking Kaifeng and Chengchow in Honan province. They are also deploying east of Chefoo, a seaport captured by Government troops two months ago. Communists have destroyed a 60-mile ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 49 wordsMELBOURNE, Dec. 15.—The question of resumption of migration from Italy, Bulgaria, Austria and Hungary would be considered by ...
Article : 249 wordsLONDON, Dec. 15—The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Civil Aviation (Mr. G. S. Lindgren), in a ...
Article : 77 wordsSAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 15.—Two ships are in distress in the Caribbean Sea, somewhere off the West Indies. ...
Article : 144 wordsSYDNEY, Dec. 15.—The Jews had lit a fire in which they might well perish, Mr. W. M. Hughes, M.H.R., the veteran politician and ...
Article : 198 wordsThe U.N.O. decision to partition Palestine into Jew and Arab States was received with mixed feelings by the inhabitants of Jerusalem. Above: Jews, pleased at the formation of the third Jewish State, chair a British soldier in Tel Aviv. Below: Resentful Arabs fire Jewish-owned buildings in Jerusalem. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 51 wordsLONDON, Dec. 15.—Mr. J. B. Priestley, the author and playwright, broadcasting after his first visit to New York for ...
Article : 55 wordsMore employees will work a 40-hour week from the first pay period in January as a result of approval given by the State Arbitration Court ...
Article : 138 wordsAUCKLAND, Dec. 15.—Reaching for his pipe as soon as his feet touched the tarmac, the Australian Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley), who ...
Article : 198 wordsNEW DELHI, Dec. 15.—Indian Army troops have killed more than 320 raiders in the Uri area of south-west Kashmir in the last three days, ...
Article : 165 wordsLONDON, Dec. 15.—The Orient Line announced today that the name of the new 31,000-ton liner, a sister ship to the Orcades, would be ...
Article : 92 wordsTUNJA (Colombia), Dec. 15.—Thirty persons are believed to have been killed yesterday when the suspension bridge over the Minero ...
Article : 57 wordsMELBOURNE, Dec. 15.—The 40-hour week to operate from January 1 would increase State expenditure by more than £1,250,000 for ...
Article : 91 wordsSINGAPORE, Dec. 15.—The president of the Singapore Malay Seamen's Union (Mr. Sarifuddin Adam) in a letter to the Australian High Commissioner in Malaya (Mr. Claude Massey) said that he would not dispute the "justification for the repatriation" of the 14 Malay seamen in ...
Article : 331 wordsNEW YORK, Dec. 15.—Over 1,000 doctors have signed a petition asking the New York State Legislature to legalise voluntary death for ...
Article : 151 wordsSINGAPORE, Dec. 15.—An aircraft which was apparently trying to make a forced landing on the beach crashed only 30 yards from the shore ...
Article : 191 wordsWASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—The United States atomic weapon proving ground on Eniwetok atoll, in the Marshall group, will provide opportunities not only for new test explosions of atom bombs but for the first field test of radio-active poison warfare. ...
Article : 183 wordsLONDON, Dec. 15.—Latest Board of Trade figures show that in the first nine months of 1947, 88,351 persons migrated from ...
Article : 93 wordsTEHERAN, Dec. 15.—Sardan Fakher Hekmat, President of the Persian Parliament, has been appointed Prime Minister. He will ...
Article : 45 wordsMEXICO CITY, Dec. 15.—Axel Wenner-Gren, a Swedish millionaire, Was badly injured in a motor car accident on the Mexico ...
Article : 82 wordsExcept where otherwise designated, the overseas intelligence published in "The West Australian" is transmitted to Australia by the ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Tue 16 Dec 1947, Page 10
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