Considerable newspaper agitation has followed the news that a Greek military division has been authorised to occupy Smyrna. It is pointed out that two thirds of ...
Article : 279 wordsIt is rumoured among the German peace delegates that the meeting between Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau and the Berlin emissaries in Spa (Belgium) was stormy, and ...
Article : 131 wordsThe American seaplane NC4 departed for Plymouth at half-past 5 this morning, and landed later at Mondego, 100 miles north of Lisbon. The cause of the ...
Article : 125 wordsSpeaking in the House of Commons to-night on the vote for the Department of the Minister for Shipping, Colonel Leslie Wilson (the Parliamentary Secretary of ...
Article : 281 wordsThe ballot of seamen ordered by the compulsory conference last week does not unfortunately, promise an early end of the strike. A meeting of seamen from all the ...
Article : 490 wordsThe outstanding Australian and New Zealand function on Empire Day was the memorial service to the Dominions' dead held in Westminster Abbey at noon on Saturday. ...
Article : 217 wordsIn April Mr. Adam McCay, editor of the Sydney "Sun." sailed for China, Korea, and Japan, in order to limn for the "Sun" and the "West Australian" a series of pen ...
Article : 1,615 wordsThe Falmouth correspondent of the New York "Times" says that Captain Rake, of the steamer Charlottesville, who picked up Hawker's aeroplane, considers that it ...
Article : 52 wordsA Leeds firm has entered an aeroplane for the Australian flight. It is of 250 horse power and has a speed of 100 miles an hour. ...
Article : 35 wordsTen British aeroplanes have arrived enroute to Egypt. Nine landed safely but the tenth crashed, pinning the five occupants underneath. A lieutenant was killed ...
Article : 115 wordsThe NC4 has arrived at Plymouth. The scaplane flew across the Channel at an altitude of 200 feet. Major-General Seely, Under-Secretary of State for Air, welcomed ...
Article : 82 wordsThe nominal roll of personnel of the A.I.F. returning to Australia by the transport Leicestershire is as published below. Owing to mutilations in cabling and ...
Article : 1,184 wordsCount von Brockdorff-Rantzau, addressing several of his departing colleagues of the German delegation at Versailles, declared:—"Tell Berlin that I will never sign the ...
Article : 53 wordsThe staff of Australia House tendered a banquet to Colonel Hogben on the occasion of his appointment as assistant secretary to the High Commissioner of the ...
Article : 187 wordsThe enforcement of an absolute blockade and the onward march of the Allied troope will begin within one hour of Germany refusing to sign the Peace Treaty. ...
Article : 32 wordsCommander Read describing the journey of the seaplane NC4 to the Azores says he started the flight at an altitude of 800 feet nad then rose to 1,800 fect. He ...
Article : 143 wordsIt is estimated authoritatively that the material damage done to the French devastated areas amounts to £800,000,000 for agricultural depreciation, £850,000,000 ...
Article : 323 wordsAccording to a Paris message, Germany is willing to agree to the destruction of her military power if she is allowed to enter the League of Nations on equal terms to ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Paris "Temps" denies that the Peace Conference actually decided to divide Turkey into several zones. The "Big Four," however, considered several ...
Article : 84 wordsField-Marshal Lord French declines to discuss the shell dispute, but he denies that the late Lord Kitchener's version of the position in April, 1915, was correct. ...
Article : 36 wordsA Berlin message asserts that the German Foreign Office has declined categorically to sign the Peace Treaty. ...
Article : 27 wordsMr. P. Beasley, Sinn Fein M.P. for East Kerry, has been sentenced to two years' imprisonment for having delivered seditious speeches. When he was arrested he ...
Article : 56 wordsSir Thomas Mackenzie, High Commissioner for New Zealand entertained the New Zealand footballers previously to their departure for South Africa. Sir Joseph ...
Article : 67 wordsCount von Brockdorff-Rantzau and all the other German peace delegates have returned from Spa. ...
Article : 22 wordsA meeting of wharf labourers and sympathisers held on the Yarra Bank this afternoon was addressed by Labour members of the State and Federal Parliaments ...
Article : 166 wordsThe St. John's (Newfoundland) correspondent of the New York "Times" says that Hawker's machine weighed 6,200lb. and was so heavily laden that it was at first ...
Article : 613 wordsCongress has assembled. President Wilson's message is expected from Paris, and will be delivered on Tuesday. It is not anticipated that he will deal with the ...
Article : 60 wordsA wireless message reports that the Ukrainian Central Executive Council in Kieff has passed a resolution protesting against the Entente's severity towards ...
Article : 29 wordsSir Arthur Stanley, G.B.E., C.B. (Treasurer of St. Thomas's Hospital, London), presiding at the inaugural meeting of the committee of the Russian Red Cross Fund, ...
Article : 196 wordsA company is being formed with a capital of £300,000, to purchase the rights pertaining to the Werry engine. Mr. Werry, the inventor, is a Victorian. He has ...
Article : 214 wordsHerr Paul Hirsch, Premier of Prussia, in formed the Prussian Diet that Dr. Proderger, on behalf of supporters, proposed a Rhenish Republic, and negotiated secretly ...
Article : 53 wordsA Paris message says that President Wilson in a Memorial Day speech said that secret councils among nations were things of the past, because the people were ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the New York "Times" says that, according to information received from Senatorial circles, the Peace Treaty contains a clause ...
Article : 66 wordsReplying to a question which was asked in the House of Assembly, the Acting Premier (Mr. F. S. Malan) said that the Government was introducing legislation to ...
Article : 87 wordsThe officials of the Sydney branch of the Seamen's Union state that they are awaiting instructions from Melbourne with regard to the taking of a ballot upon the ...
Article : 144 wordsAn association of Belgian spelter manufacturers has been formed in Liege. It comprises seven large companies with a producing capacity of nearly 120,000 tons ...
Article : 44 wordsThe London "Observer," a Sunday newspaper, edited by Mr. J. L. Garvin, demands the immediate raising of the blockade which, he asserts, is inflicting frightful ...
Article : 103 wordsThe King's Bench Divislou of the High Court of Justice has decided against the Board of Trade for having refused a licence to Mr. Henry Gardner (formerly ...
Article : 77 wordsMr. W. M. Hughes is engaged actively in London in connection with the terms of the mandatory over Germany's Pacific possessions south of the Equator. The ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Kingston (Jamaica) correspondent of the New York "Times" reports that the Legislative Council has passed a Bill prohibiting the immigration of undesirable ...
Article : 35 wordsMr. J. A. M. Elder is inquiring on behalf of the Commonwealth Government into the frozen meat trade with Britain and the Continent of Europe. He is advising Mr. ...
Article : 70 wordsThe sailors of Holymans and Sons steamer Wauchope, at the expiration of their 24 hours' notice, left the vessel on Saturday. The Wauchope is likely to be ...
Article : 39 wordsThe police raided a room at a London hotel during a committee meeting held by the Egyptian Association and found 14 young Egyptians, mostly medical students. ...
Article : 65 wordsA great Polish offensive has been begun. The army has occupied the whole of Eastern Galicia. The junction of the Poles with the Roumanians now cuts off ...
Article : 41 wordsMr. Lloyd George, in addressing recently the Welsh Division of the Army of Occupation, said: The Germans were reckoning on this war for years, even counting the ...
Article : 152 wordsThe Tokio correspondent of the New York "Sun" says that the Foreign Minister. Viscount Yasuya Uchida, has issued a statement to the effect that Japan will ...
Article : 67 wordsA wireless official message from Moscow says:—The Finnish landing on the east coast of Lake Ladoga and the Finnish operations in the Olonetz region, coupled ...
Article : 63 wordsA most interesting situation has arisen in relation to the collier Monaro. This vessel arrived in Melbourne some time ago with about three thousand tons of coal for ...
Article : 104 wordsIgnoring the state of sicge, members of the Young Men's Christian Association in Munich held their usual meeting and were arrested. Government troops entered the ...
Article : 49 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday Mr. F. D. Acland (Liberal, Camborne) moved the rejection of the Finance Bill. He objected to preferential tariffs, the ...
Article : 294 wordsA farewell review was held at Chaklet to-day. General Hobbs gave the people of the Charleroi district an opportunity to show their affection for and appreciation of ...
Article : 393 wordsA Berlin telegram received via Copenhagen says that the final adjustment of war losses shows that 1,677,000 Germans were killed, 384,000 are missing (of whom ...
Article : 51 wordsSome nine hundred builders' labourers will strike to-morrow morning for 14s. a day. Fifty per cent, of the total membership is already receiving 14s. and over, ...
Article : 52 wordsThe War Office announces that Russian infantry have occupied Povienetz at the northern extremity of Lake Onega. The Bolsheviks, before evacuating the town, ...
Article : 40 wordsA Berlin Government wireless message reports that there was a great drop in prices when the Stock Exchange in that city was re-opened. In some cases a ...
Article : 47 wordsMr. W. M. Hughes stated to-night:—"Hawker and his companion have come back safe and sound to a world which had almost abandoned hope. There is no ...
Article : 285 wordsA British troop train was derailed at Charleroi, Belgium, owing to a signalling error. Seven persons were killed and 24 seriously injured, besides many slightly ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Australian and New Zealand Press Association reported this evening:—About 150 Australians, mostly infantry who enl[?] to go to Russia, have been ...
Article : 194 wordsThe position of the National Waterside Workers' Union and its connection with the recent trouble at Fremantle were dealt with at a meeting held in Hannan-street on ...
Article : 196 wordsA correspondent of the London "Daily Chronicle," who has visited Silesia, states that the fire of revolt is burning in the breasts of one million and a half out of ...
Article : 149 wordsAccording to an official report, three Afghan regiments, with considerable war material, have arrived at Fort Baldak, and two regiments have reached Peimar Kotal, ...
Article : 195 wordsThe Austrian peace delegates are protesting against the delay in communicating the peace terms, in view of the cost of the delegation in St. Germain-en-Laye (near ...
Article : 124 wordsLord Sydenham on behalf of the British Empire League, gave a luncheon to an important gathering of officials and commercial men for the purpose of ...
Article : 87 wordsThe German Government's reply to M. Lenin's offer of an alliance stipulates that the Soviet system in Russia must be transformed into a Socialist Government. Then ...
Article : 62 wordsIt is believed that the leaders of the police strike have arranged to call out the men at midnight on Monday. Some apprehension exists as to how this will affect the ...
Article : 353 wordsThe State revenue for May was £2,121,060, being £20,344 less than the revenue for the corresponding month of last year. For the eleven months of the financial ...
Article : 158 wordsThe New York newspapers pay a tribute to Hawker's great daring, but emphasise the dangers of his adventure, which is described as the most perilous in ...
Article : 81 wordsThe Council of Four is willing to recognise any non-Soviet Russian Government which will agree to a convention with respect to the new independent border States. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe ketch Mary Virginia, 70 tons, owned by Dunkley Bros, Ltd., of Zeehan, and running from Adelaide to Launceston with a cargo of salt struck the Black Reef just ...
Article : 112 wordsThe committee which was appointed by the Ministry for Reconstruction to make inquiries regarding trusts, reports after an investigation of the iron and steel ...
Article : 83 wordsAccording to the latest official list of Australian war casualties there are now only 14 members of the A.I.F. interned in prison camps in enemy countries, the ...
Article : 61 wordsMr. T. Sopwith will not ask Hawker and Grieve to re-attempt the trans-Atlantic flight. The Board of Trade has awarded p[?] ...
Article : 95 wordsThe Ukrainian Bolshevik troops claim to have crossed the Dniester, and to have defeated the Roumanians who, they essert, are fleeing. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Italian and the Jugo-Slav peace delegates have practically settled the basis of the Italian concessions in the Dalmatian hinterland. Fiume will be treated like ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 2 Jun 1919, Page 5
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