At a meeting of the miners' executive to-day it was decided that, in view of the overwhelming majority in favour of accepting the terms of the Government ...
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Article : 101 wordsMr. T. Woolwich, who is a Canadian, and is one of the chief experts of the Dominion to the United States, will probably be sent to Europe, owing to ...
Article : 372 wordsExperts think that Carpenter's undoing was due to an attempt to land his right on Dempsey's head while both feet were off the ground. He missed ...
Article : 223 wordsThe dinner given at the Royal Colonial Institute last night by Mr.0 Hughes, the Prime Minister of Australia, was a most brilliant assembly, ...
Article : 369 wordsThe Emigration Committee favours the granting of £2,000,000 by the Imperial Government for the purpose of settling people from Great Britain in ...
Article : 106 wordsThe London representative of the Australian Press Association says he learns that Indians objected to the clause ni the Anglo-Jipanese Treaty by ...
Article : 104 wordsPresident Harding has made an appeal to Congress for an expression favourable to the limitation of armaments through international agreement. ...
Article : 140 wordsCarpentier stated after the fight:— "The better man beat me. I broke my light hand in the second round when landing an overhand punch on ...
Article : 144 wordsClose secrecy is controlling the proceedings of the Imperial Conference, causing those unable to obtain news in London to speculate widely ...
Article : 276 wordsMr. Hughes the Prime Minister of Australia, in an article in the "Sunday Pictorial," points out that the expenditure of the world in 1920 for ...
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Article : 68 wordsMr. Lloyd George, the Prime Minister, addressing the executive of the Welsh National Liberal Council yesterday, said the old party system in Great ...
Article : 161 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle" says that in view of the ill-advised attempt to suggest that there is dissension between Tennyson and Douglas, the public should ...
Article : 50 wordsM. Deschamps, the Frenchman's manager, in a statement, said that Dempsey was the real champion. It was a case of the best light ...
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Article : 59 wordsDempsey left Atlantic City for Jersey City by special train to-day. He showed no signs of nervousness. Carpentier spent the day lounging. ...
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Article : 51 wordsDespite the Republican Party's agreement to a peace with Germany, Senator King (Democrat) has introduced resolutions providing for the ...
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Article : 274 wordsAt the Kentish Council meeting on Saturday a letter was read from the Table Cape Council, stating that that council were in favour of the formation of a ...
Article : 260 wordsThe sale of seats has reached a value of 1,250,000 dollars. The absence of money on Dempsey is described as amazing. One broker has 100,000 ...
Article : 45 wordsMr. Hughes, the Prime Minister of Australia, speaking at a dinner given last night in London by the Cold Storage Association, said that powerful ...
Article : 189 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle" says that at yesterday's proceedings at the Imperial Conference the discussion on the renewal of the Japanese Treaty took a ...
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Article : 52 wordsThere was intense interest in London and Paris over the fight, and the result was known in both cities within two minutes of its conclusion, owing to ...
Article : 98 wordsThe Judicial Committee of the House of Lords has reserved judgment in the appeal of the Commonwealth versus Hazeldell and the Attorney-General of ...
Article : 35 wordsAlthough all the parties in the Italian Chamber of Deputies have been asked to form a new Ministry, it is declared that the leaders informed King ...
Article : 85 wordsThe contract provided that Dempsey should receive £60,000, and Carpentier £40,000, win or lose. This £100,000 purse is the greatest in the history of ...
Article : 39 wordsThe trustees of the Felton bequest have purchased for the Melbourne Art Gallery Peter De Wint's large watercolour drawing of Lincoln Cathedral. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe following measurements show Carpentier as a worthy foe for Dempsey:- Carpentier Dempsey. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Mon 4 Jul 1921, Page 5
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