The Army estimates tabled in the House of Commons to-day total £[?],000,000. This sum includes £28,000,000 for the Standing Army, ...
Article : 157 wordsDetails of the shooting at Buer, near Essen, following the murder of Lieut. Coltin, who had control of the Buer railway station, and M. J. Ely, ...
Article : 278 wordsThe Irish Republicans arrested in England and Scotland on Sunday arrived at Dublin in a cruiser and destoyers early this morning. They ...
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Article : 657 wordsAs a delegate to the Conference of the Third International at Moscow, Mr. Gard[?], Secretary of the Sydney Trades and Labour Council, made a speech ...
Article : 977 wordsLord Kitchener now threw himself into the task of concentrating and organising a relieving army. He telegraphed at 9.40 a.m. on October 3 ...
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Article : 123 wordsAsked yesterday by a representative of "The Mercury" whether he proposed to attend the conference of Premiers te be opened in Melbourne on April 16, ...
Article : 96 wordsM. Poincare, Prmie Minister of France, in a speech to-day, declared that the Buer crime would be mercilessly avenged. He intended to ...
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Article : 48 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Theodore) has received an invitation to attend the Premiers' Conference in Melbourne on April 16. He stated to-day that he would ...
Article : 64 wordsMr. Jack Jones (Labour), moved the adjournment of the House of Commons to-day for the purpose of calling attention to the arrest of Irish people ...
Article : 515 wordsThe Chinese Government has refused to permit the Westinghouse Corporation to erect a radio station, or to import radio materials into China ...
Article : 89 wordsThe German Government officially declares that the French officers killed at Baer were done to death by a couple of French soldiers. ...
Article : 100 wordsThe State Cabinet agreed to-day to the request of the Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce) for the holding of the Premiers' Conference on April 16. ...
Article : 67 wordsOn the night of March 2 a door at the rear of Degraves's Building, Degraves-street, Melbourne, was forced, and the showrooms and offices in the building ...
Article : 398 words"But for men of your type housebreaking would not be so prevalent and not so profitable as it appears to be," declared Judge Dethridge in the Court of ...
Article : 105 wordsMr. F. S. Jackson, the Conservative member for Howdenshire, has been appointed to succeed Sir George Younger as chief Conservative organiser, and ...
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Article : 120 wordsThe explosion of a landmine concealed beneath a barricade which a party of rebels was defending yesterday at Cahersiveen, in County Kerry, killed ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 14 Mar 1923, Page 7
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