The committee of the International Red Cross Society has written to the President of the League of Nations urging the limitation of aerial warfare to military ...
Article : 322 wordsScotsmen gathered in force at St. Andrew's Hall last night, the occasion being the annual St Andrew's Day dinner. The guest of honour was the Governor (Sir ...
Article : 887 wordsA number of Sinn Feiners ambushed a party of "Black and Tans" (auxiliary police) at Kilmichael, County Cork. Fifteen of the police were killed, while another is dying, ...
Article : 85 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly yesterday, the Premier (Mr. J. Mitchell) moved the second reading of the Land Tax land Income Tax Bill which provides for a ...
Article : 809 wordsThe shareholders of the Orient S.N. Co. adopted to-day the capitialisation proposals. Sir Kenneth Anderson, who presided, expressed his regret that the profits of the ...
Article : 786 wordsTo-day was the third day of the match between England and Queensland, and the home team needed 233 runs to prevent an innings' defeat. The attendance was large. ...
Article : 239 wordsProbably few Bills have been before the State Parliament which have called forth such a multitude of amendments as the Shops and Factories Bill, which was the ...
Article : 759 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly Mr. Petric gave notice of his intention to ask the Premier: (1) is he aware that the collections of the Australian Workers Union, inclusive ...
Article : 257 wordsFrom 70 to 100 Sinn Feiners were engaged in the Kilmichael ambush. They saught the "Black and Tans" in a hilly district, and also broke up a portion of the ...
Article : 306 wordsThe report of Judge Beeby (President of the Board of Trade) on the question of a shorter working week was laid on the table of the Legislative Assembly to-night. It ...
Article : 193 wordsThe match South Australia v. Victoria was resumed to-day in fine, cool weather. When Armstron reached the second century the crowd cheered repeatedly. He ...
Article : 427 wordsSir Thomas W. Smartt (Leader of the Unionist Party) appeals in a manifesto to all members of the party to join the new organisation unreservedly and support ...
Article : 215 wordsThe military continue to comb out Dublin. Fifty arrests were made during the week-end, and the week's total was 300. The imposition of the 10 o'clock curfew is ...
Article : 43 wordsArgument was continued in the High Court to-day in the case in which the Broken Hill Proprietary Co. challenged the legality of the award of the special Coke ...
Article : 86 wordsThere has been an outbreak of incendiary fires in newspapers offices in Dublin. A number of masked and armed men entered the offices of the "Freeman's Journal" ...
Article : 75 wordsThere was practically no change to-day in the position on the Kurrawang woodline. A small number of the A.W.U. men were working, but members of the O.B.U. ...
Article : 108 wordsFour men of high rank in the "republican army," named Keys, Cotter, Donegan, and J. Sullivan, were captured outside Bantry, owing to their motor car breaking ...
Article : 141 wordsThe Shah of Persia has informed the Government that the Parliament must meet immediately to discuss the British Note. Ministers declare that no information has ...
Article : 52 wordsNothing occurred yesterday to bring the termination of the plumbers strike nearer. The two unions concerned (Perth and Fremantle) are meeting separately. At a ...
Article : 293 wordsThe officials in Australia House discredit Lieut. Stabback's recent estimate, and say that the number of discharged "Diggers" and dependants for repatriation ...
Article : 56 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly yesterday the Premier (Mr. J. Mitchell) moved the second reading of the Dividend Duties Act Amendment Bill, which he said imposed an ...
Article : 146 wordsThere is great activity in police and military circles in Liverpool. The troops are confined to their barracks, and motor 'buses are held in readiness to convery troops. It ...
Article : 143 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly yesterday the Premier (Mr. Mitchell) moved the second reading of the Land Act Amendment Bill. He said it would be remembered that a ...
Article : 606 wordsMr. Josephus Daniels (the Secretary for the Navy) has ordered the trial by court martial of Lieutenant-Commander Bouocher, Assistant Governor of American Samon, ...
Article : 218 wordsAt a meeting of the King's Park Board held yesterday the question of the [?] creased traffic in the park, due to the bad condition of the main roads outside the ...
Article : 286 wordsNews was received yesterday that Mr. Neil Durack, manager of the Auvergne station, of Connor, Doherty, and Durack, Ltd., had been drowned at the Ivanhoe ...
Article : 389 wordsLieut. Briggs, and Mr. C. J. De Garis arrived in Adelaide at 11.15 this morning, having completed the first stage of their flight from East to West. Their actual ...
Article : 158 wordsA resident named Reginald Gibbs, accompanied by several friends went to Ocean Beach about sundown yesterday to enjoy a swim. When about up to his waist in ...
Article : 177 wordsThere is only one entrance to the Houses of Parliament for strangers, and the carriage gates in Palace Yard are closed against all vehickes. Nobody unless ...
Article : 115 wordsThe dispute in the Fremantle office of the Vacuum Oil Co., Pty., Ltd., assumed a promising complexion yesterday. In the morning a representative of the head office ...
Article : 132 wordsA manifesto was issued to-day on behalf of the Committee of the United Churches, protesting against the announcement of the intention of the State Government to ...
Article : 146 wordsA message from Phoenix (Arizona) reports that Mr. Thomas E. Campbell (Governor of Arizona) has telegraphed to Mr. Painbridge Colby (the Secretary of State) ...
Article : 145 wordsThere have been some curiosus episodes at the House of Commons. Two or there members who have been active in putting the Sinn Fein point of view before the ...
Article : 164 wordsThe State Regulation Commission considered recently the prices of motor tyres and came to the conclusion that the South Australian Motor Tyre Traders' Association ...
Article : 183 wordsThe difficulties in obtaining supplies of coal continue to cause serious concern. Production is still considerably below requirements, and the output of the mines, ...
Article : 355 wordsAn arrangement has been come to between the Employers' Federation and the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, where by members of the latter organisation are ...
Article : 54 wordsMr. H. Millington, A.L.P. general secretary, and returning officer for the selection ballot for the Kalgoorlie seat in the House of Representatives, said yesterday ...
Article : 155 wordsIn reply to Mr. Brookfield, in the Legislative Assembly to-day. Mr. Cann (Minister for Labour) said that he would have steps taken to expedite the medical examination ...
Article : 147 wordsAt a meeting of the United Labourers' Union to-day it was resolved—"That, in order to retain the confidence of the workers, the Government must take definite action, ...
Article : 167 words"Hazard" in the "Sporting Life" gives a culogistic penpicture of the career of the Australian billiard player, J. R. Hooper, including his defeat of Stevenson at ...
Article : 214 wordsWilliam Robinson, who was arrested while attempting to set fire to the timber yards of Ingram, Perkins, and Co., Finsbury, London, has been remanded, bail ...
Article : 74 wordsThe weather throughout the State yesterday morning was generally fine, with cloudy to overcast conditions in the Kimberley and on the extreme south-west coast. ...
Article : 178 wordsAn incendiary bomb, with a time fuse and placed in a portmanteau, expleded at 1 o'clock this morning in a dried skin warehouse, in Upper Thames-street. London ...
Article : 47 wordsThe records of the Department of Labour and Industry show that unemplymont during the month of November increased in New South Wales by 4,000 ...
Article : 76 wordsNisi Prius.—In No. 1 Court, at 10.30 before the Chief Justice: J. S. Roberts (plaintiff) v. J. L. Shaw (married woman), defendant). In Divorce: Alice May Cocks ...
Article : 81 wordsThe nominations for the by-election to fill the vacancy in the representation of the Leonors constituency in the Legislative Assembly, caused by the resignation of ...
Article : 66 wordsA huge waterspout broke over the town of Tangier, Morocco, causing floods and the collapse of buildings. Several persons were drowned. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Wed 1 Dec 1920, Page 7
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