As a result of continued rioting at Belfast, Irelnnd last night, six persons were shot dead and more than 50. persons were wonded. Two of the wounded men ...
Article : 126 wordsA rumour was widely current in Brisbane yesterday to the effect that the writs for the general election were to be issued to-day, and that the nominations ...
Article : 206 wordsThe Bolsheviks continue to claim that the Polish figures in regard to their captures of prisoners are fictions, and add that a Bolshevik counter-offensive is being ...
Article : 137 wordsThe Inter-Allied Commission in Upper Silesia is enforcing the sun ender of arms to the district controller Members of the German commission have enjoined ...
Article : 45 wordsSir,—Mr. Finally endeavours to reply to the statement made by the BritishAustralasian Society in connection with the loan failure. He states that the ...
Article : 517 wordsThe business position of the world to-day is one calling for very grave consideration," for said Mr J. E. Burnard (retiring president) in his address at the ...
Article : 1,158 wordsA coloured framed enlargement of this photograph of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, together with a fae simile of the Prince's letter given hereunder, will be presented to all towns and shires securing their quota of the Second Peace Loan. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 46 wordsA meeting has been held at Breslau to protest against Polish troops invading Silesia disguised as civilians. The meeting was engineered by former German ...
Article : 171 wordsCardinal Logue, the Koman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh, in a letter condemning the attack on the police at Dundalk in which one was killed ...
Article : 205 wordsThe Minister for Mines (Mr. A. J. Jones) addressed a public meeting here on Friday evening He claimed, that the Government deficits were due to ...
Article : 233 wordsThe Warsaw correspondent of "Le Temps" learns semi-officially that the Russians have agreed to send a delegation to Warsaw to arrange peace after the ...
Article : 141 wordsSenator Wairen C. Harding the Republican candidate for the Presidency, in a speech, said: "The League of Nations is utteny impotent to prevent wars. It ...
Article : 318 wordsIt is generally believed that the threatened coal strike will not occur, but that mediation will result in the resumption of negotiations between the ...
Article : 132 wordsAccording to a widespread report, the Lord Mayor of Cork (Alderman M'Sweeney), who is imprisoned in Brixton gaol, is sinking as a result of his ...
Article : 297 wordsAt a meeting of delegates of the Q.W.E.L., N.D.C., and Soldiers' (New) Party tranches in the Oxley electorate held last night, Mr. A. C. Elphinstone, ...
Article : 288 wordsThe Treasurer (Sir Joseph Cook) to-day stated that the subscriptions to dato to the Peace Loan totalled £2,930,500, this sum being considerably over the amount ...
Article : 66 wordsCentrary to expectations, Lieutenauts Parer and M'Intosk arrived at the Central Flying School at Point Cook this afteincon in a biplane belonging to the ...
Article : 337 wordsThe "New York Sun " prints an article by Viscount Admiral Beatty, who says: "It is well to utter a word of warning, lest in the reaction after a great war and ...
Article : 321 wordsA pamphlet has been issued entitled "How to make money " in the Second Peace Loan. The author is Mr. T. J. Rothwell, who shows how 8½ per cent. ...
Article : 130 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the United Press Association states that the United States Shipping Board 13 completing plans for the sale of vessels, ...
Article : 91 wordsThe longshoremen's strike, which was threatened in connection with the treatment of Alderman M'Sweene} and the notion of the Government in forbidding ...
Article : 69 wordsLieut M'Comb, in No. 2 Peace Loan aeroplane has continued to progress as far as Roma ora schedule time after visiting Esk, Toogoolawah Dalby, Jondawae, ...
Article : 234 wordsThe Mt. Perry Shire Peace Loan Committee advises that it has oversubscribed its quota of £4000. Of the £15,000 subscribed by Edwards, ...
Article : 203 wordsThe attendance at the annual meeting of the Murrumba State Electorate Committee, held in Landsborough on Saturday, included Mr. G. H. Pritchard, the ...
Article : 114 wordsThe Secretary of State (Mr. Colby) and the Japanese Ambassador (M. Shidehara) have informally discussed Japanese questions concerning California Mr. ...
Article : 169 wordsIn conformity with the resumtion adopted at the International Labour Conference in Washington, in 1919, an international Commission of Emigration has been ...
Article : 238 wordsMr. H. E, Sizer, M.L.A., will address a meeting of electors of Samford in the Furmers' Hall to-morrow evening, at 8 o'clock. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe official estimate of the present season's cane crop is about l,365,000 tops. In making this announcement yesterday the General Superintendent of Sugar ...
Article : 265 wordsMr. R. M. King, the endorsed Nationalist candidate for the Logan, spent the week-end in the Beenleigh district. He will open his campaign in Beenleigh ...
Article : 64 wordsThe sudden death of the Archbishop of Paris (Cardinal Amette) is announced. ...
Article : 25 wordsIn its endeavours to establish an educational scheme which will embrace all orphans of Australian soldiers, the Repatriation Commission proposes to sec ...
Article : 177 wordsProfessor Anaski, the famous internationalist, in an interview, said ' Japan[?]s now isolated form the rest of the world, and the anti-Japanese agitation ...
Article : 85 wordsThe suggestion that the defeat of the Government on a clause of the Arbitration Amending Bill on Friday was likely to lead to serious trouble was ridiculed ...
Article : 122 wordsThe Bureau of Mines has reported that the gasoline production in the first six months of 1920 was 13 per cent. greater than in the corresponding period for 1919, ...
Article : 49 wordsAn appeal is being circulated amongst railway employees soliciting donations to provide £25 necessary for the nomination fee of what is termed a "Socialist" ...
Article : 137 wordsRobert M'Dougall (aged 30 years), believed to be a travelling showman from Sydney, was arre[?]ted to-day, with two others, and charged with having stolen ...
Article : 210 wordsInquiries in official circles to-day elicited the statement that it was certain that Senator Millen would go to the League of Nations Conference at Geneva ...
Article : 50 wordsThe "New York lune*" ' correspondent at Washington says that reports teaching there indicate that people are taking little interest in the Presidential campaign, save ...
Article : 108 wordsThe Prime Minister (Chin Un Peng), in a speech, pointed out that if the Government decided to call the People's Assembly its purpose would be limited ...
Article : 86 wordsErnest Barry to-day reiterated his intention of retaring from sculling, and he will not row again for the championsship title, which he has just regained from ...
Article : 494 wordsA well attended meeting of supporters of the P.P.U. was held at Killkivan on Saturday, when the candidates for the Wide Bay plebisuite and Mr. W. A. ...
Article : 99 wordsThe Chief Secretary (Mr. Dooley) is calling for a police report in regaid to the allegation that armed men are prowling round the, house at Beonry in which ...
Article : 194 wordsThe scheme of the New South Wales Labour Council to dislocate industry was discussed at a special meeting of union officials and the Labour Council, held in ...
Article : 130 wordsOwing to the refusal of the local compositors to abide by the national agreement which recently settled the claim for wages, no newspapers have been published ...
Article : 81 wordsThe British Ambassador to the United States (Sir Auckland Geddes), in a speech, said: "Now that I am the servant of India, Australia, New Zealand, and ...
Article : 79 wordsIn view of the statements made that certain officers in the Northern Territory service were refusing to handle the "Government Gazette," on the ground ...
Article : 91 wordsA meeting of persons in favour of running a candidate in the interests of the Primary Producers' Union was held on Friday night. Mr. H. E. M'Neile (Cowley) ...
Article : 79 wordsA demonatration or Bligh's dry dredger, a bow invention, designed for the purpose of saving tin in localities where water is not available, was given here on ...
Article : 169 wordsThe War Office announces that Government troops have defeated Zamora, the bandit, and his force, and that Zamora is retreating to the northern part of ...
Article : 55 wordsMr. A. C. Ross, who has challenged the New York Yacht Club for the America's Cup,' on behalf of the Nova Scotia Yacht Club, has published an open letter to Sir ...
Article : 124 wordsThe Railway Commissioner has been advised that while a special cattle train was being shunted at Giru, between Ayr and Townsville, the blake van came into ...
Article : 101 wordsMr. J. v. Plucknett, of Chermside, has received advice that his brother, Captain F. Plucknett, was decorated by the King with the O.B.E. At the outbreak of the ...
Article : 70 wordsAt the North Sydney Police Court to-day, before Mr. Butler, S.M., Arthur Taylor, a milk vendor, was convicted on two charges of having sold watered milk. ...
Article : 76 wordsEllen Carmen, a widow, died at the, Geelong Benevolent Asvium to-day, at the age of 118 years. The records of the institution show that she was admitted ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Post Office Department is inaugurating an aerial mail service between Cuba and the United States. ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Tue 31 Aug 1920, Page 7
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