Throughout the British Empire, the signing of peace was joyfully celebrated on Saturday. The event, one of the most momentous in the history of our race, came ...
Article : 413 wordsA strike ar[?] our or the rejection of an engine-driver who failed to pass the eyesight test is spreading throughout the North-Eastern railway system, and the ...
Article : 248 wordsVictory day was celebrated by all classes in Great Britain on Saturday. The bright weather ensured the success of the long-prepared festivities. ...
Article : 942 wordsMr. W. Brace, the Labour member for Abertillery (South Wales) has appealed to the Mines Conference at Keswick to accept the Government's offer to suspend ...
Article : 305 wordsThe committee of the Peace Conference which is dealing with the question of responsibility for war crimes has resolved to adhere to the terms of the treaty, and to ...
Article : 275 wordsSpeeches made by the leaders in the past few days will not help the interstate labour conference in arriving at a settlement of the shipping strike. The determination of ...
Article : 369 wordsThe members of the council of the Victorian Railways Union held another meeting on Friday night to consider the relation of the union to the strike. The union, it is ...
Article : 266 wordsThe 12th of July celebrations in Belfast drew a record attendance. A motion was agreed to demanding the repeal of the Home Rale Bill. Sir Edward Carson made a ...
Article : 367 wordsThe Australian Wheat Committee is selling considerable quantities of flour for Mediterranean ports. The excellent prices obtained should materially assist in bringing ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Supreme Council has decided to attach the eastern province of Galicia to Poland. It will send the completed treaty to Austria on Tuesday, July 22, and will ...
Article : 142 wordsAt the saluting base the scene was one of great animation. Distinguished sailors and soldiers, politicians, war workers, and relatives of deceased soldiers filled the ...
Article : 601 wordsThe Food Controller (Mr. G. H. Roberts), in commenting on the food outlook, said that the only remedies were a reduction in prices and increased home production. His ...
Article : 91 wordsInflammatory speeches were delivered at the Socialists' Hall on Friday night, when several speakers addressed a large audience in repard to the fine of £100 imposed upon ...
Article : 631 wordsBelgium has agreed to cede to Great Britain, it is reported in Paris, a considerable portion of her old Congo possessions in the region of Lake Tanganyika in exchange for ...
Article : 76 wordsSuburban train services were yesterday reduced by 50 per cent., and no electric trains were run on the the St. Kilda-Brighton and Sandringham Black Rock lines. With ...
Article : 206 wordsAt a meeting of the Wool Council on Friday, Sir Arthur Goldfinch (Director of Raw Materials) stated thal he was prepared to issue periodically, by means of ...
Article : 104 wordsThe demonstration in Melbourne on Saturday in celebration of the signing of peace was remarkable. The streets were densely crowded, flags fluttered gaily ...
Article : 1,295 wordsM. Bouillon, a French member of the intec- Allied Commission, which went to the Adriatic port of Fiume, to which Italy and the Jugoslavs make conflicting claims, has ...
Article : 190 wordsThomas Walsh, the general secretary of the Seamen's Union, was prosecuted in the Third District Court on Friday, before Mr. Cohen,P.M., by the Commonwealth ...
Article : 1,340 wordsIn a speech at San Francisco on Friday, De Valora, the "President of the Irish Republic," said that he would rather have the recognition of the Irish Republic by the ...
Article : 132 wordsThe British Admiralty has placed contracts for refloating the German ships which were sunk at Scapa Flow. The workmen at Dantzig have sunk the ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Coal Board sat all day on Saturday working out a scheme for allowing the employers of female labour to resume work with the stocks of coal saved by the ...
Article : 65 wordsWhen speaking in the House of Commons, the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Austen Chamberlain)stated that the result of the Victory Loan was ...
Article : 92 wordsAdvices from Warsaw received at Copenhagen state that the Poles have forced an entrance into the town of Minsk, on the junction of the Moscow-Warsaw railway, ...
Article : 94 wordsDiplomatic advices received in Washington from Peking indicate, according to the correspondent of the "New York Times," that the Chinese Government has been ...
Article : 316 wordsAlthough the shipping authorities secured additional men to complete the crew complement of the cargo steamer Woolgar, which hsa loaded at Newcastle a 5,000-ton ...
Article : 86 wordsA report containing allegations of Japanese atrocities in Korea has been published by the Presbyterian Church of America. It is based on investigations by representatives ...
Article : 81 wordsThe steamer Takada, with 1,500 troops, and the Rugia, with 600 munition workers and members of their families, have sailed from Plymouth for Australia. ...
Article : 77 wordsTo a large party of sick and wounded soldiers was given the honour of leading Saturday's procession. The men were collected from the different military ...
Article : 302 wordsThe scareity of refined sugar in Victoria and other States arising from the shipping strike is daily becoming more acute. The Minister for Customs (Mr. Massy Greene) ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the New York "Times" reports that the Shipping Board learns that several American firms will establish steamship lines between ...
Article : 192 wordsADELAIDE, Sunday.—The president of the Adelaide Trades' and Labour Council (Mr. F. W. Birrell) addressed a noisy meeting of workers at the Islington ...
Article : 131 wordsGeneral Sir William Birdwood was entertained at a farewell dinner in the Connaught rooms by Australian officers. Lieut— General Sir Harry Chauvel presided. The ...
Article : 421 wordsLord Newton has brought an action, claiming £5,000 damages, against the "Daily Mail" for alleging that he delivered heartless speeches in the House of Lords ...
Article : 136 wordsA meeting of strikers and strike sympathisers was held in the Bijou Theatre on Sunday afternoon, when Mr. Walsh took the opportunity deliberately to repeat the ...
Article : 1,120 wordsThere was a large congregation at St. Patrick's Cathedral on Friday morning, when a solemn Requiem Mass was celebrated for the repose of the souls of the ...
Article : 295 wordsSir,—We allowed our legislators to repeal the Daylight Saving Bill like lambs, with not a kick aganist it. Everywhere we hear of shortage of coal and restrictions on ...
Article : 76 wordsFrance intends to erect a statue representing an Australian soldier in front of Amiens Cathedral in recognition of the way in which the "Australians saved Amiens by ...
Article : 41 wordsIt is reported in London that Bela Kun, the Communist Premier of Hungary, has resigned, also that many Hungarian Bolsheviks have deserted on the Czecho-Slovak ...
Article : 58 wordsWilliamstown is visited during winter time by whales. During the past week two appeared off the Esplanade. They had been seen approaching from the direction of ...
Article : 119 wordsThough a fine display of flags and hunting was made from most buildings to the city, there was little in the way of illuminations at night to mark the historic ...
Article : 457 wordsThe American House of Representatives has appointed a special committee to investigate alleged brutalities in the American army. It is alleged that one officer who ...
Article : 220 wordsNews comes from Vienna that martial law has been proclaimed in Serbia, There are daily demonstrations at Belgrade to protest against the wholesale arrest of ...
Article : 62 wordsBefore Messrs. J. Sneddon (chairman). J. B. McAlpia. F. C. Drake, and J. M. Tweedle, J.P.'s at the Box Hill Court on Friday, Vaughan Brox, house removers, were proceeded against on two ...
Article : 265 wordsIn moving the Post-office estimates in the House of Commons on Thursday, the Post-master-General (Mr. A. H. Hllingworth) stated that the profits of the Post-office in ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 21 Jul 1919, Page 7
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