Big bodies of pickets and corresponding bodies of police, mounted and unmounted, are on duty at the gates of the docks, but there was distinctly less work ...
Article : 606 wordsThe sensational fall of the franc, involving something like a panic on the Paris Bourse, has concentrated attention again on the position of the ...
Article : 453 wordsThe president of the P. P. A. (Mr. A. J. Monger) to-night told a Toodyay audience of 100 people his version of the P. P. A. quarrel with the Mitchell ...
Article : 4,775 wordsThe first evening sitting of the House of Commons was devoted to Sir Samuel Hoare's motion regarding the question of air defence, in which the ex-Minister for ...
Article : 497 wordsIn Australia House to-day. Sir Joseph Cook (the High Commissioner for Australia) entertained at luncheon Mr. J. H. Thomas Miss M. Bondfield, Mr. W. ...
Article : 173 wordsThe dissolution of the Reichstag is expected next week in consequence of the opposition of the Social Democrats to the Emergency Powers Act in its preset ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the "New York Times" says:—The Senatorial Chambers continue to echo with sensational charges, which are ...
Article : 176 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of the London "Daily Chronicle" says:—Although most of the Separatists have left the Palatinate or have been taken to France ...
Article : 109 wordsAs a result of a long debate in the National Assembly it seems to be certain that a Republic will be proclaimed in Greece in the near future. Since M. ...
Article : 85 wordsThe Sulgrave Institute has received a cable message from Lord Balfour asking what aid can be extended to the inhabitants of the Hebrides, who are in danger ...
Article : 84 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day. Mr. J. Harris asked whether Major-General Wauchope bad been investigating problems of Empire migration in South ...
Article : 124 wordsAt a meeting of the Australian Advisory Council in connection with the Empire Exhibition Sir Joseph Cook, on behalf of the Commonwealth Government, ...
Article : 90 wordsThe annual conference of the Public Service Association of New South Wales to-day and this evening discussed the advisability of applying to the Federal ...
Article : 157 wordsPresiding at the annual meeting of the Child Emigration Society, Sir Arthur Lawley (a former Governor of Western Australia) welcomed Mr. H. P. ...
Article : 163 wordsFrom reliable information it appears that the situation with record to the Australian-Canadian trade negotiations is us follows:— ...
Article : 339 wordsThe taxation proposals which were adopted by the Chamber of Deputies embodied clause 3, which had been debated hotly for nearly a month. Subsequently ...
Article : 101 wordsIn the House of Commons to-night the Unemployment Insurance Bill passed the Committee stage and was read the third time without opposition. ...
Article : 27 wordsThere is a probability of the settlement of the operative bakers' strike being effected in the course of a few days. A mass meeting of the union was held ...
Article : 123 wordsThe continuance of the strike of dock workers is likely to interfere seriously with the migration arrangements. The Commonwealth authorities have notified ...
Article : 80 wordsThe Bank of England is inviting applications for £1,800,000 in five per cent, debenture stock issued at £98 10s., in respect of which the Government ...
Article : 169 wordsHaving won the day on the most controversial features of the Finance Bill, namely, the authorisation of the Government to reduce the expenditure by ...
Article : 169 wordsThe Grimsby fish trade is held up as a result of a strike of members of the National Union of Railwaymen who were employed in checking consignment of ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Chinese newspapers report that Dr. Sun-Yat-Sen has decided to adopt the Soviet form of Government for the Province of Kwangtung. By that means ...
Article : 120 wordsFrom authoritative sources it was learned to-day that Mr. Bradfield in his report to the Minister for Works, (Mr. Ball) favoured the acceptance of the ...
Article : 357 wordsSome four hundred tons of fish which were landed at Grimsby this morning must be destroyed unless certain railway men return to work. Telegrams on the ...
Article : 136 wordsIn the House of Commons, in replying to three questions concerning the decision of the Government not to sell its holdings in the Anglo-Persian Oil ...
Article : 136 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the London "Daily Chronicle" says that there is a continuance of the panic on the Bourse, and the heavy sellings of the franc ...
Article : 113 wordsThe Shanghai "China Press" learns that Baron Matsui (Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs) has made overtures to the Chinese Government regarding oil ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Sofia correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph" says:—Some members of the secret service surprised a group of Anarchists at a meeting in a ...
Article : 84 wordsWhereas most of the other ports are at a standstill, some 3,000 men are working at the London docks to-day, or about one-fifth of the normal number. ...
Article : 60 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day, in replying to Colonel J. Gretton with regard to the forthcoming discussion of the resolutions of the Imperial ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Legislative Assembly adopted by 76 to 48 votes a motion which was submitted by Motilal Nehru, the leader of the Swarausta, urging that steps be ...
Article : 198 wordsThe efforts of woollen manufacturers in Roubaix and Tourcoing to acclimatise South African and Australian merino sheep in Madagascar and the French ...
Article : 127 wordsA Court of Inquiry into the dockers' dispute was opened publicly in the Law Courts this morning. The President is Mr. Holman Gregory, K. C., and the other ...
Article : 114 wordsThe Marquis of Graham (son of the Duke of Montrose) and Lieutenant-Commander Newcombe, who lost a limb while he waw serving in the British Navy at ...
Article : 458 wordsThere are persistent reports to the effect that Mr. Ramsay Macdonald is contemplating the resignation of the Secretaryship for Foreign Affairs on ...
Article : 53 wordsAn infantryman named Flour has been the unhappy victim of a comedy an a result of the authorities insisting that he died in 1916 and was buried at ...
Article : 169 wordsThe Royal Commissioner (Mr. Ross McDonald) appointed in Western Australia to inquire into the affairs of the Kendenup Development and Packing ...
Article : 356 wordsIn replying in the House of Commons to a question, Mr. Sidney Webb (President of the Board of Trade) said that the Government considered that an ...
Article : 64 wordsAbout 1,000 members of the Society of Amalgamated Engineers at the Southampton docks struck in consequence of a break down of the wages conference ...
Article : 52 wordsMr. Sydney H. Pardon, editor of Wisden's" Cricketers' Almanack, says the most hopeful feature of English cricket in 1923 was the improvement in the ...
Article : 204 wordsLord Parmoor said in the House of Lords that the Government intended to introduce a Criminal Justice Bill under which the penalty for having been drunk ...
Article : 54 wordsMore than 1,000 London busmen struck this morning, as a result of their dissatisfaction with the system of transferring men from one depot to another. ...
Article : 34 wordsMeetings of members of the Stevedores' Union in Poplar and Canning Town, decided unanimously to-day to cease work.—Reuter. ...
Article : 27 wordsIn the House of Commons, replying to Mr. H. Becker, Mr. Vernon Hartshorn (Postmaster-General), said that the Government had not granted a monopoly ...
Article : 118 words"Japan's policy with regard to Russia remains unchanged. She is desirous of resuming full relations with Russia Provsided that various outstanding questions ...
Article : 73 wordsMr. Fenton, M. H. R. the Labour Opposition Whip in the House of Representatives, said to-day that he had received no application from Mr. W. M. ...
Article : 141 wordsCharles Ledoux outpointed Edouard Mascart yesterday in a 20-round contest for the featherweight championship of Europe. ...
Article : 20 wordsGeorge Stagg, an ex-policeman, was sentenced to death to-day in connection with the murder on November 12 last of Thomas Edgar Ball, the centre half-back ...
Article : 57 wordsThe King dined to-night with the Earl and Countess of Granard in Forbes House. Halkin-street, London, the Prime Minister (Mr. Macdonald), Miss Macdonald, and ...
Article : 62 wordsIn an Association game against Kilmarnock to-day Scottish Rangers won by 2 goals to nil.—Reuter. ...
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