Apart from pious generalities, the new draft of the Covenant of the League of Nations does not attract favourable comment. ...
Article : 534 wordsA London message says that in the course of a speech in the House of Commons the Prime Minister (Mr. Lloyd George declared that the situation was still full ...
Article : 251 wordsThe prospects of the trans-Atlantic flight are exciting the keenest interest, which has been fostered by the Air Ministry's elaborate arrangements for the fixture, ...
Article : 306 wordsThe Inter-Allied Red Cross Congress in Cannes (France) has decided to begin a world-wide crusade among the young and the old with the view of creating a healthy ...
Article : 253 wordsSome uneasiness has been created in political circles in London over some of the latest messages from Egypt, which indicate a growingly aggressive Nationalist ...
Article : 284 wordsA British official despatch relating to the North Russian front says that General Maynard made an attack with success on Oorosajero on April 11, killing 50 and ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of the London "Daily News" says that the utmost confusion continues to prevail throughout Germany although the strike troubles appear ...
Article : 224 wordsYesterday at noon a special meeting of the Executive Council was held, when his Excellency the Governor swore in the new Cabinet, the names of the members of ...
Article : 423 wordsA London message reports that the Allies have decided upon a definite Russian policy. ...
Article : 25 wordsIt is reported from Paris that the Allies have agreed to provision Russia on the condition that the Bolsheviks cease hostilities. ...
Article : 30 wordsA Russian Bolshevik wireless message claims the capture of Simferopol (near Sebastopol, and Eupatoria (on the western coast of the Crimea), with much ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Ruhr colliery proprietors have conceded a seven hours' day to underground workers. [The German Government expressed its ...
Article : 89 wordsA conference of delegates from about 2,000 branches of the Agricultural Workers' Union has adopted a resolution providing for a minimum wage of £2 10s. for ...
Article : 200 wordsThe Publicity Officer writes:—The organiser (Mr. E. Smith) reports that the appeal is going strongly over the whole of Western Australia, and he asks that ...
Article : 1,079 wordsThe twenty-third annual conference of the Australian Natives' Association of Western Australia will commence at 10 a.m. on Monday, in the Builders' ...
Article : 702 wordsThe new aeroplanes recently imported by the Defence Department to replace the less modern type previously in use were given an outing to-day in honour of the ...
Article : 70 wordsTyphus fever is exacting a terrible tell throughout Poland, where about ten thousand deaths occur every week. It is feared that cholera and dysentery will ...
Article : 51 wordsIt is announced that the maintenance of the army of occupation in the Rhineland is costing Germany about £5,500,000 a month. ...
Article : 34 wordsMr. F. Handley-Page, addressing in January last a large juvenile audience in the Central Hall, Westminster, London gave at description of the flights which have been ...
Article : 598 wordsThe Ministerial changes necessitate two by-elections for the East Province in the Legislative Council due to the resignation of the Premier in order to contest a Lower ...
Article : 155 wordsThe Marquis Centurione and Count Maestretti fought in Genoa a duel with swords for forty-five minutes. They were not wounded but as they showed signs or ...
Article : 49 wordsReports received from Germany show that the Scheidemann Cabinet is confronted by grave difficulties. Significance is attached to the Democratic Party selecting ...
Article : 137 wordsThe London "Daily Chronicle" says that it is probable that the Government will provide members of the House of Commons with free railway passes for the ...
Article : 41 wordsThe police suspect that Landau made away with eleven women. His villa at Gambais, on the borders of the Rambouillet Forest (near Versailles), was a veritable ...
Article : 140 wordsGeneral Sir William Birdwood, and Vice-Admiral Sir Cecil Thursday, addressed about 1,100 Australian soldiers on board of the steamer Suffolk, and about 1,000 ...
Article : 161 wordsAccording to a London message Mr. Lloyd George has announced that the Allies have reached a complete understanding with regard to the fundamental ...
Article : 224 wordsA proclamation has been issued further proroguing Parliament until June 10. ...
Article : 17 wordsIt is reported that the republic in Munich has been overthrown by force of arms. The Rotterdam correspondent of the London "Daily Chronicle" reports that the ...
Article : 98 wordsA meeting of the Senate of the University was held on Monday last. There were present the Chancellor (Archbishop Riley), the Pro-Chancellor (Mr. Cecil ...
Article : 767 wordsAccording to Budapest reports a revolution has broken out in Serbia and the troops are fraternising with the Hungarian Red Guards. ...
Article : 29 wordsSome twenty thousand strikers in Dantzig have expressed themselves in favour of a Soviet Government. Pro-Soviet demonstrations have taken place in ...
Article : 29 wordsThe maximum temperature reading at the Perth Observatory yesterday was 56deg. Yesterday morning's weather chart ...
Article : 686 wordsMiss Ellen Terry, despite her 71 years, gave a wonderful preformance last night as the nurse in "Romeo and Juliet." She was almost word-perfect, and took the Lyric ...
Article : 38 wordsGovernment troops, with heavy artillery, are closing in upon Munich. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe grand march of troops through London on May 3 is likely to be continued to troops from the Overseas Dominions, and soldiers from the Crown colonies will not ...
Article : 40 wordsThe murder of Herr Nauring was perpetrated in dramatic circumstances. The mob was furious because he refused to receive a deputation of wounded soldiers. Herr ...
Article : 106 wordsThe Government Statistician (Mr. S. Bennett) has forwarded Part I. of the Statistical Register for 1918-19, dealing with Population and Vital Statistics ...
Article : 620 wordsSome 500 bottlers are out of work at Liverpool owing to the dockers having refused to handle beer, spirits, and stout while there is a shortage of these articles ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Italian newspapers criticise President Wilson unsparingly, believing that he elaborated the plan for the internationalising of Fiume. This is perhaps due to ...
Article : 68 wordsIn the January number of "Blackwood's Magazine" Major-General Sir C. E. Callwell continues his reminiscences, and shows how difficult it was at first to get people ...
Article : 223 wordsThe opening meeting of the 1919 session of the Insurance Institute of W.A. was held at the Fire Underwriters' rooms, Viking House, on Tuesday, when the ...
Article : 523 wordsA representative of the Paris "Matin" interviewed Dr. Renee, Chancellor of the Austrian Republic, who said:—There is no danger of Bolshevism in Austria, unless a ...
Article : 93 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph" says that the contention is gaining support everywhere that the peace terms should be ratified by the ...
Article : 306 wordsThe street fighting in Dusseldorf continues. Spartacists who attacked the prison with machine guns and bombs were repulsed, 37 persons being killed and 110 ...
Article : 36 wordsPrivate Thomas Ricketts, of the 1st Royal Newfoundland Regiment, who was decorated by the King with the Victoria Cross, is the youngest V.C. in the British ...
Article : 284 wordsThe call for applications in connection with the appointment of an officer to take charge in London of the work of immigration has resulted in an unusually large ...
Article : 187 wordsThe first sitting of the second annual conference of the National Labour Party will take place in Kalgoorlie to-morrow. Delegates will be present from Midland ...
Article : 65 wordsIt is reported that Britain, America, and France will send commissioners to the Near East, to draw up independent reports on the situation in Turkey [?] ...
Article : 37 wordsMr. and Mrs. J. Chambers, of 28 C[?]dale-street, Beaconsfield, have received word that their son, Gunner Frank Ivan Chambers, had to undergo an operation which has proved ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Fri 18 Apr 1919, Page 5
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