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India, at Karachi and Calcutta. Here the traveler will don his linen suit and silk shirt before taking off for humid Bangkok, Siam, the transfer point for Imperial Airways' shuttle service to Hong Kong. Sixth night he sleeps at Singapore, where Quantas (Queensland and Northern Territory Services) Empire Airways Ltd. takes over the rest of his journey. Seventh night is spent at Rambang, Dutch East Indies, eighth at Longreach, Australia. Ninth day the traveler, his all-British 13,000-mile flight completed, is landed in Brisbane, busy capital of Queensland. The long trip will cost...
Instead of an exciting Budge-von Cramm final, Australians witnessed the painful spectacle of Champion Budge annihilating the ambidextrous and two-handed attack of 19-year-old Jack Bromwich,-which had been powerful enough to win three of the four major state championships (Queensland New South Wales...
...days later she limped miraculously into Queensland, where Sir John, awake for once to the human factor of shipping, shook hands mightily with the captain...
...Very Reverend Dean's little speech changed the whole atmosphere of Australia. Roaring with rage, the Commonwealth's high-blood-pressured politicians forgot their local strife last week in attacking Dean Johnson's "outburst of ignorance." Cried Premier Forgan Smith of the Australian State of Queensland which adjoins the vast and almost vacant Northern Territory: "As a means of smashing the British Commonwealth of Nations no more effective scheme could be devised...
Died. Sir Frederic John Napier Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford, 64, onetime (1916-21) Viceroy of India and (1924) First Lord of the Admiralty; of a heart attack; in London. A onetime Governor of Queensland and of New South Wales, he was appointed Viceroy while serving as captain of a territorial battalion in a remote corner of India. Faced with widespread native unrest, he, with the late Edwin Samuel Montagu, in 1918 sponsored the plan which brought limited home rule to India, has since been the keystone of British policy there...