Six large meat carriers are being built on the Tyne for the Federal, Shaw, Savill, and Commonwealth and Dominion lines. Messrs. R. and W. Hawthorne, Leslie and ...
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Article : 64 wordsAccording to a message from Paris, a copy of the Peace Treaty will be handed to the German delegates at 2.15 p.m. on Wednesday. ...
Article : 36 words"I demand, in the name of that large section of the public whom I think I can fairly speak for to-day—indeed, in the name of all honest citizens—that Mr. Colebatch ...
Article : 1,605 wordsThe excitement which pervaded Fremantle during the week-end gave place to a more settled feeling yesterday, the hopes of a termination of the strike being uppermost ...
Article : 180 wordsThe British Official Press Bureau has issued the Viceroy's report dated April 23. It says:—"In the Punjab strikes are reported from Gogra and Lyallpur. "Martial ...
Article : 230 wordsSome of the German delegates at Versailles essayed to leave their hotel for a walk, but were informed that they must not go out, as the Government felt that it was ...
Article : 118 wordsA Russian official message notifies that the Bolshevik Commissary, M. Gregoreff, has been murdered in Petrograd. ...
Article : 23 wordsIn view of Mr. Lloyd George's references to the support given by the Allies to Admiral Koltchak, the following extract from the "Manchester Weekly Times" regarding ...
Article : 207 wordsMr. T. J. Ryan (the Premier of Queensland) returned to London to-day, after a visit to the devastated areas in France and Belgium, and to the Australian troops. ...
Article : 345 wordsThe newspapers state that the German delegates at a meeting on Sunday passed a resolution in favour of presenting an ultimatum to the Entente that they will ...
Article : 92 wordsIn the course of a statement last night, the secretary of the Nationalist Worker, (Mr. L. L. Williams) said:—"I was advertised to speak at Subiaco to-night, but the ...
Article : 366 wordsInterviewed yesterday morning regarding the statement that Edward Brown, the man bayoneted during Sunday's rioting on the wharf, was a returned soldier, the ...
Article : 235 wordsAt the Congress of International Transport Workers here it was resolved unanimously to urge the German representatives to endeavour to induce their Government ...
Article : 76 wordsIt is reported that the Belgian Crown Council has decided that Belgium shall sign the Peace Treaty. [A Brussels message of May 4 said:— ...
Article : 65 wordsIt is announced that an Avro machine will compete in the proposed flight to Australia. A special machine of this type is being built and it will be fitted with a ...
Article : 170 wordsThe Russian Bolshevik Government has proclaimed a state of siege at Petrograd, and is relying for defence mainly on the Finnish Red Guards. The Government has ...
Article : 106 wordsYielding to the strong protest which was made against the exclusion of Press representatives from the meeting at which a draft of the Peace Treaty will be handed ...
Article : 96 wordsYesterday Constables Read and Patterson, who received serious injuries as the result of Sunday's rioting, were discharged from the Fremantle Public Hospital. The ...
Article : 53 wordsThe French Cabinet has reviewed the essential clauses of the Peace Treaty. M. Clemenceau (the Prime Minister) informed a French interviewer subsequently that he ...
Article : 176 wordsMiss Sylvia Pankhurst led a section of May Day processionists to Westminster. They attempted to force an entrance to the House of Commons, and Miss Sylvia ...
Article : 36 wordsDr. Bela Kun has sent messages to the Czecho-Slovak, Jugo-Slav, and Roumanian Governments, formally recognising their nationalist claims. He demands in return ...
Article : 60 wordsArchbishops Riley and Clune continued yesterday their efforts to create a conciliatory spirit among the various sections of the community involved in the present ...
Article : 47 wordsAs the result of inquiries made yesterday, it was ascertained that of the force of police engaged in the encounter on the wharves on Sunday, about a dozen have ...
Article : 84 words"I know Harry Hawker very well," said the Commonwealth Air Service adviser (Lieut.-Colonel S. J. Goble) in Melbourne last week, "and, granted that he does not ...
Article : 143 wordsA deputation of Australian merchants in London interviewed Mr. H. B. G. Larkin (the manager of the Commonwealth Government line of steamers), and submitted a ...
Article : 168 wordsLast night a large meeting was held at the Trades Hall, and a committee was formed to promote the appeal for funds in the metropolitan area to aid families ...
Article : 109 wordsThe members of the disputes committee waited upon the Premier (Mr. H. P. Colebatch) and his Ministers yesterday shortly after mid-day to further discuss the ...
Article : 277 wordsThe Roumanians have entered the suburbs of Budapest, and probably now occupy the entire city, whence they can operate against the Bolsheviks in any direction. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Premier's attention was drawn yesterday to the statements made by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr. P. Collier) and Mr. W. C. Angwin, M.L.A., accusing ...
Article : 78 wordsA message received here from Rome says that Signor Orlando and Baron Sonnino (two of the Italian peace delegates) will return immediately to Paris. ...
Article : 118 wordsThe Government troops are tightening their cordon round Munich. They are refraining from artillery fire, and are endeavouring to crush the Spartacists at ...
Article : 131 wordsTo supplant the steps taken to foster the traditions of the A.I.F. by alloting to the Citizen Forces of the A.I.F. unit numbers it is intended by the Defence ...
Article : 117 wordsMr. S. M. Rocke, M.L.A., who returned on Monday night from Geraldton, where he has been putting the case of the lumpers before the people, was informed that the ...
Article : 88 wordsThe London "Daily Express" announces that the Princess Mary (the only daughter of the King and Queen) has been betrothed to the Earl of Dalkeith (the ...
Article : 461 wordsAn announcement was made yesterday that a public meeting would be held at Subiaco that evening, with a view of placing before the residents from a ...
Article : 1,028 wordsAt a meeting of the National Labour Party held yesterday the trouble existing at Fremantle was discussed and the following resolution was carried:—"That Goldfieds ...
Article : 99 wordsGovernment circles protest that international law does not justify the Allies' proposal to try the ex-Kaiser. They consider that the proposal is a belated act of war, ...
Article : 79 wordsExamined to-day, before the Royal Commission which is inquiring into the sugar industry, Edward Whittington, secretary of the Pyrmont Sugar Works Employees ...
Article : 84 wordsIt is reported from Sofia (the capital of Bulgaria) that a revolution has occurred there, and that there has been sanguinary fighting. It is expected that a Soviet ...
Article : 43 wordsUpon inquiry last night it was ascertained that the employers' committee had forwarded the proposals from the disputes committee to the Commonwealth ...
Article : 38 wordsIt is believed that a hitch has occurred which will prevent the Irish-American delegation from meeting Mr. Lloyd George. [Recent Paris cable messages said:—"As ...
Article : 109 wordsTo-night at the Queen's Hall the culminating ceremony in connection with the recently-concluded successful effort of the Ugly Men's Association will take place. ...
Article : 260 wordsThe president of the Returned Soldiers' Association at the committee meeting to-night said that as soon as a soldier was demobilised he lost the protection of the ...
Article : 72 wordsFollowing on the mass meeting of the three affiliated railway unions on Sunday which unanimously carried a resolution according full support to the Fremantle ...
Article : 140 wordsMr. A. McCallum, the general secretary of the A.L.F., referred hopefully last night to the negotiations during the day, and made an earnest appeal to all ...
Article : 312 wordsThe Minister for Agriculture (Mr. C. F. Baxter) stated yesterday that an important appointment had recently been made to the expert staff of the Department of ...
Article : 367 wordsAccording to a Paris message, Japanese officials says that Japan will return Shantung to China, retaining only the economic privileges which were granted to ...
Article : 105 wordsWe have received £1 from "Justice" South Perth, for the distressed families of the National Waterside Workers. The contribution is being forwarded to the ...
Article : 36 wordsThe China has sailed from Plymouth with one thousand Australian soldiers on board. The mail steamer Rotterdam, which was arriving from New York, wildly ...
Article : 33 wordsAn aggregate meeting of the Miners' Union voted £100 from its funds, to assist the wives and families of the Fremantle lumpers. The union will send ...
Article : 252 wordsFinis has been written to the story of a Sydney merchant who attempted to evade the regulations governing export during the war, and to send abroad a large ...
Article : 126 wordsIt is believed that as all of the Powers have decided to recognise the British protectorate over Egypt, a special clause will be inserted in the Peace Treaty compelling ...
Article : 63 wordsReferring to-day to the suggestion made by Mr. Higgs, M.H.R., that some member of the Federal Cabinet had connived at the departure of Mr. J. A. Jensen from ...
Article : 150 wordsAt a meeting of the State executive of the Australian Labour Federation on Monday night, the following motion was carried:— ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Commonwealth Government has decided that every child in Australia under 1[?] years of age shall be the recipient of a souvenir medal to commemorate the ...
Article : 115 wordsAt the conclusion of the above meeting the chairman said he had a request from Father Fahey for permission to say a few words in connection with the returned ...
Article : 926 wordsThe Tobacco Pipe Manufacturing Pty., Ltd., is at present employing about 40 partially incapacitated returned soldiers, most of when have either lost an arm or a leg. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Wed 7 May 1919, Page 7
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