Munitions maker admits supplying both sides in Manchurian dispute
Sir Harry McGowan, chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries, confirms at the Arms and Munitions Commission that his firm supplied Japan with materials for the Manchurian invasion and China with materials to defend Manchuria. He defends sales as inevitable if not undertaken by ICI. The inquiry notes ICI could convert many products to war use and questions repeated investments abroad.
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London
Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd
Manchuria
Harry McGowan
Arms and Munitions Commission
Italy
League
Imperial Chemical Industries
Ras
Qresic
Seat SE
Sean Rate
Phillip Gibba
Jekyll and Hyde
China
Sir Phillip Gibbs
Phillip Gibbs
LCL
League of Nations
Eldon Bank
New Australian Air Force Units Planned for Brisbane Adelaide and Canberra
The Federal Government is set to reveal a plan creating air force units at Brisbane Adelaide and Canberra as part of a ten step expansion. Three coast reconnaissance squadrons will be formed including one with firing boats. most machines will be bullet proof mono similar to British designs. The South Wales unit B Canberra will be an army cooperation squadron formed from new monoplane types.
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Melbourne
Brisbane
Adelaide
Canberra
New South Wales
Death of King George V—Dail expresses sympathy
On Wednesday the Dail, by motion of Mr De Valera, unanimously passed a resolution expressing sympathy with the Queen and the Royal family and the people of Great Britain on the death of King George V.
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de Valera
Sileaty
Great Britain
George V
NZ Storm Damage Toll Estimated at 100000
The weekend storm in New Zealand left 12 people dead and caused damage estimated at £100,000.
Drastic Pekin Strike Shuts Pekin Businesses
In Pekin Illinois a 17 000 population town erupts in a near total labor strike. All union backed shops close while police take a hands off approach amid threats of violence. National guard units stand ready but officials delay action to end the stoppage.
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Pekin
Illinois
National Guard
Raw Materials World Conference Debated in Commons
George Lansbury urged an International conference on economic conditions through the League of Nations to address raw materials access and migration as war precursors. Critics warned the plan would fail without real surrender of territory and policy shifts amid armament concerns. The motion failed 228 to 157, and an amendment passed 207 to 125.
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London
George Lansbury
Aof
Labour Party
House of Commons
Lansbury
Lloyd George
Lanabury
Amery
Lord Cranborne
Great Britain
Hughes Reentry to Cabinet and Italo Abyssinian policy
The Prime Minister announced W M Hughes is reappointed as Minister for Repatriation and will act as Attorney General in Menzies absence abroad. Hughes swore in by the Governor General. Lyons keeps health portfolio and serves as Executive Council vice president. Treasurer Casey replaces Menzies as external affairs spokesman. Hughes expresses full alignment with League of Nations policy and British Empire unity.
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W. M. Hughes
R G. Menzies
Mr. Lyons
Hughes
Lord Gowrie
Lyons
Hunter
Executive Council
Casey
Menzies
Spakesman
House of Representatives
George Pearce
League of Nations
League
Hughes—Havingegard
League Nations
MR. Hughes
Srd
League of Nationala
Baldwin
New Migration Plan Considered by Commonwealth Government
The Commonwealth Government weighs a new migration policy as Britain asks Australia to review re entry of permanent settlers. Officials stress no large scale migrant program while unemployment persists. potential avenues include industrial investment and targeted settlement of families on small blocks to produce wool.
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Commonwealth
Britain
Australia
Malcolm MacDonald
United Kingdom
Dominion
Italian Advance in South Italy and Dawa River
An official report says General Gragziani advances on Lamancillindi after defeating a garrison and seizing grain stores. Aosta lancers reportedly shattered Abyssinians at the Dawa River, taking men arms and supplies. Italians claimed Lamancillindi six weeks earlier.
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Rome
Gragziani
Lamancllindi
Aosta
Lancers
Dawa
Lamancillindi
Steel Strike Holds Port Kembla in Idle Lockout
At Port Kembla the Australian Iron and Steel works show no change as over 8,000 men stay idle. Union representatives met in Sydney and will confer again Monday to assess the dispute. Worries arise that moving work to Newcastle could spread the stoppage to BHP plant there. No other industries at Port Kembla are affected now.
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Port Kembla
Australian Iron and Steel Ltd
Sydney
Newcastle
B.H.P. Co
Lost in Bush Hope Abandoned for Blind Man
Francia Joseph Brennan, practically blind, has been missing from his Leura home on the Blue Mountains since last Thursday. Search parties organized by local residents have found no trace as he potentially wanders the rough bush without food.
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Sydney
Hope
Francia Joseph Brennan
Leura
Blue Mountains
Brennan
Stevens supports overseas labour and capital for Australia
Mr Stevens urged that a balance of overseas labour and capital could lift both Britain and Australia and aid world and Australian recovery. He argued a buoyant Australian money market would absorb unemployed into private work within a year or two and dismissed fears migrants would take jobs. He urged leaders to show security and growth for Australians and to keep Australia British in spirit and name.
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Sydney
Britain
Australia
Stevens
Charlie Chaplin Debuts Modern Times in New York
Charlie Chaplin’s first film in five years Modern Times had its world premiere in New York. The satire targets the machine age with limited dialogue and familiar tricks. Chaplin wrote directed and composed the music. critics praised the film.
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New York
Charlie Chaplain
Hapsburg Pledges to Powers Dash to Paris and London
Prince Otto arrives in Paria with Dr. Wiesner amid reports of opposition from Prince Starhemburg who is en route to Vienna. Vienna press criticizes Starhemburg for overstepping. Paris reports no firm assurances from Vienna, but promises to inform big powers of the restoration intent. Wiesner asserts the restoration is not indefinitely postponed.
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London
Prince Otto
Paria
Wiesner
Prince Starhemburg
Vienna
Prince Stahremburg
Country hotels urged modernisation and inspections
A deputation representing the B L A M A the Commercial Travellers Association and the National Travel Association pressed the Minister for Justice Mr Martin for action to raise country hotel standards. They urged compulsory septic systems for hotels with 12 or more rooms and the appointment of independent inspectors to educate proprietors on traveler expectations.
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Sydney
Martin
B.la.m.a
Commercial Travellers’ Association
National Travel Association
Winter Games Opened at Garmisch Partenkirchen
Berlin reports the Winter Games opening tomorrow at Garmisch Partenkirchen with 50,000 in attendance. 1593 competitors from 28 nations, full hotels, and packed travel. Greece leads the procession, Germany closes, British bobsled captain F J McEvoy to lead the British contingent.
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Berlin
Hitler
Garmischpartenkirchen
Germany
Greece
F. J. McEvoy
King's Prize at Albury as Pat Lee leads second stage
Pat Lee of Albury takes the lead in the King's Prize second stage with a 201 aggregate. Rogers of 5.A. sits second on 200, followed by MacDonald New South Wales Wohlers Victoria Lette Victoria O'Brien Queensland Palmer Victoria and Dean Tasmania on 199. NSW marksmen Healey Morton Brunehill and F show 198 each as Lee shoots 49 at 100 yards and possible at 700 yards.
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Melbourne
Pat Lee
Albury
Rogers
5.A
MacDonald
New South Wales
M. Healey
H. Morton
E. Brunehill
A. F
Lee
Girl cut to pieces by train near Rockhampton
Joyce Dowse ten steps from a railway crossing when a train diverted at the points and cut her to pieces. The incident occurred as she walked to school along the Rockhampton line.
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Brisbane
Rockhampton
Joyce Dowse
Air Fatality as Bomber Dashes Into Crowd at Swansea
An Air Force Hawker Demon bomber failed to lift off at Swansea Island landing ground and struck a crowd, killing two women identified as Mrs. A. T. Collen and Miss Jean Collon and injuring several others. The aircraft belonged to No. 1 R.A.A.F. training squadron from Point Cook en route to Tasmania to photograph land for the Military Board.
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Hobart
Air Force
Swansea Inland
A. T. Collen
Jean Collon
No. 1
R.A.A.F
Point Cook
Tasmania
Launceston
Military Board
Murder at Cavosa Sparks International Inquiry
The German and Swiss press report the assassination of Nazi leader Wilhelm Gunstloff in Cavosa, Switzerland, yesterday. The murder is marked as unique since it is the first Nazi leader killed by outsiders, prompting calls from Berlin for a thorough investigation into potential accomplices.
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London
Cavosa
Switzerland
Wilhelm Gunstloff
Geneva
Manchester Guardian
Berlin
the Times
Berne
M. Motta
Health conference on February 14 in Sydney discusses sanitation goals
Health authorities gather in Sydney on February 14 to discuss reducing fires and mosquitoes, garbage removal, and swamp reclamation. Experts from the Health Department, School of Tropical Medicine, municipal and shire engineers, health inspectors, Works Department engineers, Water and Sewage Board, and Agricultural Department entomologists attend.
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Sydney
Health Department
School of Tropical Medicine
Works Department
Water and Sewerage Board
Agricultural Department
R.S.P.C.A Opposes Sword Fishing Despite Enforcement Doubts
The R.S.P.C.A. remains opposed to sword fishing though President W. G. Acocks says enforcing a ban would be very difficult. He notes there is currently no law to prohibit it and that any law would apply only within three miles, where most big game fishing occurs.
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Sydney
R.S.P.C.A
W. G. Acocks
Wyatt Earp Heads for Valparaiso Amid Arrival Forecast
In a terse dispatch, Wyatt Earp moved toward Valparaiso, escorted by alliances and laborors, with a 6 am departure. The journey, covering about a thousand miles, aims to reach the port within a month, signaling a fresh phase after prior conflicts.
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Valparaiso
Fragmented Overseas Intelligence Notice
A scrambled OCR fragment references special arrangements and overseas intelligence. details are unreadable but imply a service or measure connected to intelligence operations and cryptic arrangements.
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