In the course of his presidential address to the Congress of African political organisations representing the interests of the coloured population, Dr. Abdurahman, ...
Article : 194 wordsSenator Pearce, the Commonwealth Minister for Defence, addressed a number of departing munition workers. He said that the Commonwealth appreciated the fact ...
Article : 105 wordsAt Versailles a cross table at the foot of the room was reserved for the German plenipotentiaries, while the Press were seated behind the Germans. The enemy ...
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Article : 1,160 wordsThe Colonial Secretary (Mr. C. A. Hudson) has received a "round robin" from passengers who were recently quarantined at Port Augusta and again at Karonie during ...
Article : 311 wordsInquiries made at Government House and the Premier's office yesterday show that the arrangements in connection with the visit of Admiral Lord Jellicoe are ...
Article : 209 wordsThe Allies are confidently waiting the Germans' next move, but the latter's rumoured intention to withdraw from Versailles is discredited. ...
Article : 142 wordsSenator Pearce visited Tilbury, and inspected the s.s. Alexandra Woermann, 3,828 tons, which sailed to-day, with 439 women and children aboard, representing the ...
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Article : 47 wordsA Pretoria message states that an important departure in municipal government is forecasted as the result of recent occurrences at Johannesburg. The provincial ...
Article : 54 wordsVilhjalmur Stefanson, the commander of the Canadian Arctic expedition, has addressed to Parliament the outlines of a scheme for converting Arctic Canada into a wool, ...
Article : 61 wordsThe opinion was expressed in union circles to-day that the seamen's strike would be confined to Queensland. Officials of the Sydney branch of the Firemen's and ...
Article : 201 words[?] Cologne correspondent of the "Daily Express" learns that Berlin business agents have bags packed in readiness to return to England the moment peace is signed. ...
Article : 113 wordsOn board the P. and O. liner Kaisar-I Hind, 11,430 tons, which is leaving Southampton for Australia, are 236 officers and 1,465 non-commissioned officers and men of ...
Article : 161 wordsIn the House of Assembly yesterday Mr. T. Boydell, member for the Greyville division of Durban, referred to a charge of profiteering by Australian State-owned ...
Article : 122 wordsAn official telegram from Murmansk (Northern Russia) announces that the Allied troops have captured Meselskava on the railway, 25 miles southward of Urosozero ...
Article : 35 wordsDuring the 24 hours ended 8 o'clock [?] night 11 deaths from pneumonic influenza occurred in the metropolitan hospitals and six in the country. Only 46 fresh cases ...
Article : 46 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday Mr. Cecil Harmsworth, Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, stated that the British Government has now recognised ...
Article : 37 wordsWurtemberg troops avenged the death of hostages by clubbing to death the Spartacist Seidl, who ordered the shootings. Toller, the youthful dictator under the recent ...
Article : 45 wordsMr. Stirling Taylor, who has succeeded Mr. Walter Leitch as Director of the Bureau of Commerce and Industry, has issued an outline of the work which the ...
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Article : 60 wordsGeneral Stafanic, the Czecho-Slovak, War Minister, was killed while flying at Pressburg. He served with distinction in the Siberian anti-Bolsbevik campagn. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe members of the American delegation describe Von Rantzau's speech as crude and sordid. He is a typical German without a sporting instinct, and his ...
Article : 58 wordsAt a meeting of the goldfields branch of the R.S.A. to-night members adversely criticised the recent remarks of Mr. Corboy, M.H.R., at Fremantle when he said ...
Article : 95 wordsMr. T. J. Ryan, the Premier of Queensland, was a witness before the Coal Commission. He said that State control in Queensland had been successful, enabling ...
Article : 119 wordsThere is no confirmation of the report of the Roumanian entry into the suburbs of Budapest. On the contrary, a Hungarian official wireless message claims to hold ...
Article : 85 wordsThe trial of several of those who were accused in connection with the Bolo Pas[?]espionage cases has been concluded. [?]noir, who was formerly proprietor of "La ...
Article : 129 wordsBlank spaces have begun to re-appear in the newspapers—more open diplomacy! As they occur in articles on Germany's defiant attitude, they indicate clearly that ...
Article : 911 wordsCount von Rantzau has presented two notes to M. Clemenceau, the President of the Peace Conference. The first states that the Allies' demands are such as [?] ...
Article : 156 wordsA Hungarian Bolshevik official message states that order has been restored within the army, and throughout the army zone. It admits the withdrawal of troops for the ...
Article : 38 wordsThe R.S.A. to-night decided to send delegates to a conference called by the Chamber of Mines to be held on May 27 to discuss the possibilities of co-operative ...
Article : 51 wordsThe House of Commons to-day passed a vote for £1,451,700 salaries in connection with the Ministry of Food. The Food Controller (Mr. G. H. Roberts) claimed that the ...
Article : 214 wordsIn the District Court to-day Gelanie Shah, a Mahomedan priest, appeared on a charge of having unlawfully celebrated a marriage between Golanie Kadder (an ...
Article : 78 wordsAnti-Bolshevik ex-officers carried out a sensational coup on Friday, seizing the Hungarian Legation at Vienna, taking prisoners the occuptions, and seizing £6,250, which ...
Article : 66 wordsClemenceau made every effort before the war to arouse the French to the possible necessity of defending themselves against a rapacious Germany (says the San ...
Article : 751 wordsCount von Rantzau will visit Berlin during the coming week and will return with the Government's counter treaty. The Government authorities, at von Rantzau's ...
Article : 57 wordsTelegrams received from Perth this afternoon announced that Mr. John Scaddan had definitely decided to nominate for the Albany seat in the Legislative ...
Article : 224 wordsThe Director of Quarantine (Dr. Cumpston) received advice to-day that three transports, the Dunsluce Castle, the Dongala and the Shropshire would arrive in ...
Article : 46 wordsCount von Brockdorff-Rantzau and the members of his staff worked all Wednesday night and completed the translation of the treaty into German. The "Berliner ...
Article : 77 wordsOne of the trade romances of the war (says the London "Daily Telegraph") is the rise of the fancy leather goods industry in this country. Prior to the war ...
Article : 627 wordsA victory choir of ten thousand voices will sing in Hyde Park on Empire Day, and the massed guards' bands will also participate. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe Government is spending £2,000,000 on agricultural research and education during the next five years. ...
Article : 18 wordsAdvices received by the Government from London indicate that the peace treaty is not expected to be ratified and signed by the King until August 1. ...
Article : 34 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday Captain F. E. Guest, Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury, said it was impossible to prosecute the men who were in ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the New York "Times" says that it is understood that Signor Orlando, the Italian Premier, rejected M. Clemenceau's and Mr. Lloyd ...
Article : 76 wordsThe nominal rolls of war workers and munition workers returning to Western Australia by the Benalla and St. Albans respectively appear below. These rolls are ...
Article : 138 wordsThe Police Commissioner has gone to Paris to consult the Prime Minister regarding the demands which are being made by the London police ...
Article : 31 wordsWesley Church, Perth, was well filled last night, on the occasion of the anniversry of its establishment, when the Rev. Brian Wibberey, Mus. Bac., delivered an ...
Article : 373 wordsThe organising committee of the International Labour Conference established by the Peace Conference met for the first time in London to-day, seven ...
Article : 83 wordsField-Marshal Lord French, in the course of his account of the retreat from Mons, as published in the "Daily Telegraph," says that in his communications to London he ...
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Article : 71 wordsBelgium has protested against a British mandate in East Africa on the ground that Belgium at great cost and sacrifice contributed to the conquest and ...
Article : 43 wordsThe "Manchester Guardian" states that the Peace Conference has given Japan virtual dominion in the Shantung province, enabling her to secure a strong hold on ...
Article : 87 wordsThe military authorities desire to communicate with the next-of-kin of the following soliders:—No. 7321 A. C. Taquer, 11th Battalion; next-to-kin, mother, Mrs. E. Taquer, G.P.O., ...
Article : 91 wordsThe Austrian delegation has been delayed, and will not arrive before Wednesday. It now consists of Chancellor Renner, a Christian Socialist named Guentler, and ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Tue 13 May 1919, Page 5
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