17 Jan 1939
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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Jan 17, 1939
Page
1
Rain halted the Sheffield Shield game between New South Wales and South Australia with intermittent showers and a heavy ground, preventing players from taking the field. Play in country tennis championships and planned trials at Victoria Park were postponed to Thursday.
London reports Franco forces pushing toward Tarragona and Barcelona with heavy nationalist artillery support. Rebels claim large territorial advances and extensive captures, while Madrid cites renewed Republican resistance and troop movements. Estimates note 40,000 prisoners and wide sweeps across 600 square miles around Panalunik with 200000 people affected.
Reports from a Daily Telegraph correspondent describe Hitler entering a period of seclusion in a fortified location. The narrative mentions a large iron door, a steel and glass pavilion, and a distant mountain setting as preparations for future plans are noted amid war era intrigue.
Dutch air machine flying from Australia to Java develops engine trouble over Timor and returns to Darwin. The machine will stay overnight and take off again tomorrow.
London reports indicate Britain refuses to recognise changes Japan seeks in China and Inner Mongolia under the Nine Power Treaty. The note expresses British anxiety over Japan’s Far Eastern policy and reiterates that Britain will not accept Soviet or puppet changes while China’s sovereignty remains unresolved.
Kalgoorlie district endures three days of heavy rain with many townships at risk of wall collapse. Residents are marooned in floodwaters, streets turned to rivers, and a Kalgoorlie to Pardee train passenger narrowly escaped as water covers tracks.
A boy named Ian Halliday was pulled from danger after a fall into a river. He was rescued and revived after medical treatment, with witnesses noting a close call and a 10 day period of recovery.
Australia’s Navy reports the Blue Funnel passenger liner Oudycus will be allocated as a troop ship to carry 82 chief petty officers and 450 ratings to England to repatriate personnel. The Outlycus is due to depart Sydney on May 15, with additional officers traveling on another liner.
Penrose tragedy linked to an unextinguished campfire igniting township blaze near Goulburn. Cyril Hayward, 88, sentenced to three months for setting an open fire. Fires rage across New South Wales with 50 homes lost at Millagong and a total district damage around £100,000. Many evacuations, deaths in Victoria reported, and relief funds rise past £50,000 as rain helps area slowly recover.
Adgworth Upjohn, 28, a water mechanic, was jailed four months and fined £87 with three years’ driving ban after pleading guilty to stealing a car in a Newtown Court session. He appeared on multiple charges linked to the thefts and received compensation orders.
Rome announcement quotes Mussolini telling Chamberlain that mediation and arbitration with France are useless while the Spanish conflict continues. Italy demands belligerency for Franco and warns it will resume liberty of action if Barcelona is aided, with France blocking progress in the Barcelona issue.
Prime Minister Lyons announced that Treasurer Casey, Defence Minister Street, Emington Lewis, and Sir Colin Fraser would meet with the Irish Air Mission visiting Australia. The group would explore expanding aircraft production capacity in Australia and help prepare a plan for submission to both governments.
Weather forecast predicts heavy rain and thunder in New South Wales within the hour as a 32 day heat wave ends. Record highs and a death from heat collapse mark western suburbs while fires ease with a light rain. A school wing burns for £25,000 and market prices for vegetables rise amid the heat spike.
A Melbourne court ordered all employers in the fruit preserving industry to pay Federal Award rates. The Fruit Preserving Union of Australia had sought an order to curb employers paying non unionists less than award rates. The judge indicated today the move aims to quell fear and ensure compliance.
Interior Minister McEwen rejected any Commonwealth support for a Jewish refugee colony in Australia. A London backed committee sought to establish a self supporting settlement of up to 8,000 Austro Germans and Poles Hungarians, to leave Italy by March, but the Australian policy opposed concentration of foreigners and any aggregation of aliens.
Sidney Weston, defeated Independent Labour candidate, seeks equity court action after the Returning Officer delays declaration to tomorrow. Weston claims heat caused polling officials to collapse and Lang Party helpers followed voters into booths. Caldwell denies irregularities. John O Carroll echoes similar accusations.
Alexander Howard Minnett, 20, a cleaner, faced North Sydney court charged with felonious assault after an argument at Neates Bay led to William George Bowie Hendry being struck and dying in hospital. Minnett remanded on £100 bail to appear January 23.
In Brussels on Monday the Socialist Party won convincingly in a vote for Premier M. Spaak by 312 to 167. Two men drowned in Wellington when their sailing skiff overturned in Middleton Harbour, leaving Arthur Clark injured. Britain’s trade figures show a reduced import bill with a balance of £43,208,000 lower than last year. A divorce case saw John Went Worth Shand ordered to return to his wife Mary Shand within 10 days by Acting Justice Hartwick.
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