The Governor-General and Lady Helen Ferguson, attended by Captain Clifford, private secretary, and Captain Duncan, A.D.C., will return to Melbourne on ...
Article : 949 wordsNo further meeting of the Melbourne seamen will be held to consider the terms of settlement. The decision of the Melbourne meeting on Wednesday to accept ...
Article : 811 wordsThe list of King's Birthday honors, the publication of which has been delayed, contains the following:-- Earldom. ...
Article : 98 wordsMr. H. C. Hoover, chairman of the Allied. Food Commission, in an article in the "National Food Journal," states:--"Fifteen million families in Europe are ...
Article : 246 wordsSir Auckland Geddes, President of the Board of Trade, in moving the second reading of the Profiteering Bill in the House of Commons, said the reduction of ...
Article : 181 wordsAmong the Australians, New Zealanders and Canadians in London the sentiment is strongly, growing that the services of the commanding officers of the oversea armies. ...
Article : 128 wordsIt is announced that the Anglo-Russian offensive has destroyed six Bolshevist battalions. A Bolshevist wireless message admits ...
Article : 89 wordsSYDNEY.--A mass meeting of Sydney seamen on Thursday carried the following resolution:-- "The men will man the ships on Monday ...
Article : 545 wordsSome of the London newspapers give prominence to the question asked by Mr. Brennan in the Commonwealth House if Representatives last week in reference to ...
Article : 52 wordsSpeaking on the Air Force vote in the House of Commons to-day, Major General Seely, Under-Secretary for Air, replied to charges of extravagance. He said that the ...
Article : 515 wordsIt is understood that the conversion of the Cabinet from a war to a peace basis has involved considerable modifications in the methods of conducting business. Full ...
Article : 105 wordsThe Budapest correspondent of the "Daily Express" gives sensational details of the "red terror" atrocities under Bela Kun's regime in Hungary. An orgy of ...
Article : 244 wordsAn interesting incident is reported from Paris in connection with the successful effort of the Consumers' League in forcing down prices. The salesmen in the Paris ...
Article : 85 wordsThe labor triple alliance discussed the question of direct action to-day. The decision was postponed, but a vote is immaterial, as the transport workers' federation ...
Article : 207 wordsSenator Pearce, Commonwealth Minister of Defence, is inundated with inquiries from officers and men as to whether the Government is granting a gratuity in ...
Article : 108 wordsA start has not yet been made by the royal commission on profiteering. An informal meeting was held shortly after the appointments were announced, but in the ...
Article : 82 wordsGerman commercial travellers are already returning to the Allied countries, and some of them have reached England. They are unable to get rooms in the hotels, and ...
Article : 120 wordsThe miserable weakness shown by the State Ministry in regard to the profiteering question, aud its utterly futile expedient of appointing a commission to fuss ...
Article : 1,544 wordsA voluminous report prepared by a committee appointed by the British Ministry of Reconstruction in February, 1918, and presented to the House of Commons in April, ...
Article : 1,863 wordsA heat wave is being experienced in Great Britain. The temperature in London for four days has been 84 deg. Several persons dropped dead in the streets from ...
Article : 75 wordsWhen the adjourned cases, Commonwealth Attorney-General versus the Seamen's Union and Phillip le Cornu, president of the Seamen's Union, in which ...
Article : 373 wordsSir Charles Wade, Agent-General for New South Wales, has written to Mr. B. C. Amery, Under-Secretary for the Colonies, proposing that if the Imperial ...
Article : 94 wordsFurther strikes have been commenced. The tramway services have ceased and other public services are threatened. The agitators are advocating a general strike. ...
Article : 36 wordsSalyage operations on the coast of Donegal have resulted in the recovery of over £1,000,000 worth of bullion, forming portion of the cargo of the White Star liner ...
Article : 55 wordsViscount Grey, formerly Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has been appointed temporary Ambassador to the United States. It is announced officially ...
Article : 57 wordsFurther evidence has been heard by the court martial before which the Eurasian warrant officer, Fratel is charged with leaving cruelly ill-used British prisoners ...
Article : 140 wordsThe recent police raids revealed that the extremists' plans included the establishment of a republic at Glasgow, and of Bolshevist regimes on the Clyde and in ...
Article : 47 wordsThe council of the Yorkshire Miners' Association has decided to recommend the resumption of work. There is no doubt that the advice will be accepted by the ...
Article : 39 wordsIt is understood that Roumania is ready to meet the Allies' representatives in Hungary. ...
Article : 20 wordsA movement is on foot to erect replicas of the Whitehall memorial cenotaph in various towns in the United Kingdo m. It is also intended to make the cenotaph the ...
Article : 170 wordsFurther light was thrown on the proceedings at the meeting of the Federated Seamen's Union held in Melbourne on Wednesday by an official report which was ...
Article : 737 wordsThe following official statement was issued last evening:-- "The Central Coal Board has under consideration the question of a continuance ...
Article : 270 wordsA despatch from Honolulu states that in a speech delivered there, Mr. W. F. Massey, the New Zealand Premier, said:--"I do not distrust Japan's policy in regard to ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Berlin '"Vossiehe Zeitung" dispels the mystery which had prevailed regarding the disappearance of the egrman ...
Article : 63 wordsThe German Government has addressed to Marshal Foch a protest, against Germany not being allowed to send 300,000 prisoners back to Russia, as the Allies ...
Article : 55 wordsIn the House of Commons Major General Seely, Under-Secretary for Air, replying to questions bearing on the disclosures in connection with the administration of the Air ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Railway Commissioners were advised yesterday that employes at the Slate Coal Mine, Wonthaggi, had ceased work, and the mine was closed. Yesterday the men held ...
Article : 207 wordsThe German general staff is to be dissolved on 1st October. The Intelligence department will continue as a branch of the Foreign Office. ...
Article : 39 wordsIn the House of Commons Mr. C. F. Entwistle, Liberal member for South-West Hull, asked whether the Commonwealth line steamers were unable to bring copra ...
Article : 88 wordsThe interest manifested in "The Age" announcement of the arrival at the Exhibition Building of the case containing the mosaic unearthed in Palestine by ...
Article : 250 wordsWing Commander Portes's flying boat, carrying a crew of seven, has been wrecked at Felixstowe, on the coast of Suffolk. One man was killed. The boat was officially ...
Article : 81 wordsA message from Buda Pest states that when it was announced that 696 bad been executed during Bela Kim's regime the people lynched several communists. ...
Article : 47 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday the bill granting £1,000,000 to the Welsh local authorities for tithe commutation under the 1914 Welsh Church Disendowment Act ...
Article : 36 wordsAt the wool sales to-day there was excellent competition, Continental buyers operating freely for medium and fine, crossbreds. The opening prices were:-- ...
Article : 45 wordsAn application for a rehearing of the recent prosecution in which the wm. Lawrence Globe Dye Co. Pty. Ltd. was fined £25 for failing to furnish a return of coal to the Naval Board, was ...
Article : 219 wordsThe Goliath aeroplane, carrying eight passengers, which left Paris on a voyage to Morocco, has arrived at Casablanca. ...
Article : 24 wordsCapablanca, the "pan-American" chess champion, is participating in the first international chess tournament held in Great Britain for twenty years, which has ...
Article : 116 wordsThe people of Melbourne and suburbs will be asked to-day to contribute to the relief of the women and children who are suffering as a result of the seamen's strike. ...
Article : 174 wordsAt the meeting of the Royal Society held last evening Professor Skeats gave an account of Dr. Teale's paper on the Palacozocic Geology of Victoria. Dr. ...
Article : 199 wordsAt the wool sales to-day 7672 bales were offered, of which 3495 were from New Zealand. There was a moderate selection of New Zealand and Melbourne crossbreds ...
Article : 173 wordsIn connection with a long series of housebreaking and robbery offences for which two men stand charged, Detectives Rohan and Milne yesterday evening recovered ...
Article : 148 wordsSYDNEY.--The threatened beer strike has been averted. At a mass meeting of the Federated Liquor and Allied Trades Union on Thursday night it was agreed to ...
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Advertising : 109 wordsSYDNEY.--The steamers Makambo and Morinda sailed from Sydney on Thursday. for the islands. They both carried supplies and were manned by volunteer crews. ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Fri 15 Aug 1919, Page 7
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