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GESTAPO BUSY AFTER CZECH PARADE THE Nazi Gestapo are searching Prague for organisers of demonstrations there on ..

... CZECH PARADE THE Nazi Gestapo are searching Prague for organisers of demonstrations there on Saturday—Czecho-Slovakla Independence Day. A number of arrests have been made. Hundreds of hostages were seized recently by the Nazi authorities, and presumably ...

Published: Monday 30 October 1939
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 191 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

75 ARRESTS. INDEPENDENCE DAY SEQUEL IN BOMBAY. BOMBAY, Tuesday. Seventy-five members of Congress have been ..

... 75 ARRESTS. INDEPENDENCE DAY SEQUEL IN BOMBAY. BOMBAY, Tuesday. Seventy-five members of Congress have been arrested in connection with Independence Day celebrations. There an ugly scene in Bombay late tonight when the mob, attracted into the Hindu quarters ...

Published: Wednesday 27 January 1932
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 126 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

MONEY FOR A FEW LINES

... Church, Manayunk, and Monastery Avenues, Philadelphia, to his memory, to mark the centenary of the particular type of Independence Day celebrations founded by Samuel Lawson and observed in the Twenty-First Ward of Philadelphia. Samuel Lawson died about ...

Published: Thursday 13 August 1931
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 218 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

FIREWORK DISPLAY

... FIREWORK DISPLAY Rather more than 12 months ago. Major Foster married an American and, in keeping with American custom, an Independence Day party was held on Tuesday night in the grounds of Old Harrowins, situated off the main Bradford-Halifax road. Many guests ...

Published: Thursday 06 July 1939
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 50 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

FLASHLIGHTS

... FLASHLIGHTS. (By THOMAS JAY, the Famous “Punch” Writer). Independence Day has been celebrated in America, where they used to have some. Not even bookmaker is allowed to knock his wife about, s-ays the Willesden magistrate. No wonder bookmakers always ...

Published: Tuesday 07 July 1931
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 68 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

RIOTING IN EGYPT

... attacked and its windows smashed. There was a short lull last night while 30,000 people attended the Great Wafd party Independence Day meeting, at which Nahas Pasha, the Wafd leader, made a fierco. anti-British speech. ...

Published: Thursday 14 November 1935
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 106 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

VISIT MORAL

... VISIT MORAL From Our London Staff FLEET STREET, Tuesday The Duke of Kent told the American Society in London at their Independence Day dinner to-night that the American reception of the King and Queen made him feel very proud as an Englishman. The tremendous ...

Published: Wednesday 05 July 1939
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 112 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

MAYOR SENT TO GAOL AGAIN

... expiration of a week’s sentence, was arrested in Calcutta yesterday when ho tried to address a meeting in celebration Independence Day.” —British United Press. PREMIERS SPEECH PRAISED MADRAS, Tuesday Hindu,” the Nationalist newspaper, commenting upon the ...

Published: Wednesday 28 January 1931
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 124 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

STUDENTS' DEMANDS

... STUDENTS' DEMANDS The trouble began when students ceased work to celebrate Independence Day, the anniversary of the foundation of the Wafd party, by holding demonstrations in which speeches were made denouncing Sir Samuel Hoare and acclaiming Nahas Pasha ...

Published: Thursday 14 November 1935
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 175 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

U.S. STATESMEN PRAISED Mr. Anthony Eden’s Tribute From Our London Staff FLEET STREET, Monday A tribute to ..

... grasping at tempoi'ary expedients,” could not be too grateful—was paid to-night by Mr. Anthony Eden. Speaking at the Independence Day dinner of the American Society in London, he made a plea for better understanding between the two countries. my conception ...

Published: Tuesday 05 July 1938
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 179 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

A RADIO REVIEW TRANSATLANTIC

... A RADIO REVIEW TRANSATLANTIC Some Echoes of a Week’s Broadcasts By Frank Toothill AMERICA’S Independence Day was celebrated in the usual fashion in America and viewed without any grudging on our side. There was an interchange of broadcasts between the ...

Published: Monday 11 July 1938
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 176 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

WOMAN KILLED BY CANNON

... WOMAN KILLED BY CANNON Party Tragedy at Queensbury TRAGEDY has marred a celebration of America’s Independence Day at a Queensbury residence at which American guests were being entertained. The explosion of a cannon, which was fired as part of the proceedings ...

Published: Thursday 06 July 1939
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 213 | Page: 5 | Tags: none