A dinner was given by leading trade unionists to Mr. W. M. Hughes in recogniton of his services to trade unionism in Australia and Britain. Mr. J. Havelock ...
Article : 241 wordsThe Admiralty announces that the German battleship Baden is three feet below her normal draught in readiness to be beached. The engines apparently are ...
Article : 92 wordsImmense quantities of American war stores at the Prunier camp, near Ramortin, including motors, bicycles, and waggons, are being destroyed because the French ...
Article : 90 wordsA remarkably brilliant rainbow was witnessed in London to-day, concurrently with the receipt of Germany's intimation that she would sign the treaty. The rainbow ...
Article : 112 wordsThe Senate met to-day. The President announced that Mr. E. Mulcahy had been elected a member for Tasmania in the place of Senator Long, ...
Article : 120 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Jas. Mitchell) announced last night that following upon the resignation of Mr. R. T. Robinson from the Government, Mr. Frank Broun, the member ...
Article : 274 wordsYesterday's summary of the influenza position reported during the day showed that 14 fresh cases had been notified of which 11 came from the city, distributed ...
Article : 342 wordsIn the course of his address to the Federal National Party last evening Mr. Watt (the Acting Prime Minister) said that since the signing of the armistice ...
Article : 360 wordsThere were imposing obsequies yesterday in connection with twenty martyred civilians, including M. Bancq, who helped Nurse Cavell and was shot at the same time. ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Admiralty announces that Admiral Fremantle addressed Admiral von Reuter, the members of his staff, and other German officers, who were paraded under an ...
Article : 105 wordsThe House of Representatives met today. QUESTIONS. Mr. J. A. Jensen asked the Minister for ...
Article : 1,069 wordsSingapore reports that the Chinese boycott of Japanese resulted in riots and the Australian cruiser Sydney landed bluejackets. Three Chinese and one Japanese ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Postmaster-General (Mr. A. H. lilingworth) stated in the House of Commons to-day that the annual loss on the telegraph service was £1,000,000 and on telephones ...
Article : 51 wordsPeace will be signed on Thursday. ...
Article : 13 wordsAn eye-witness aboard a patrol boat at Scapa Flow says that the first indication of the scuttling was the crews of several of the ships rapidly throwing baggage into ...
Article : 164 wordsThirty thousand Bolsheviks with 250 guns are concentrated on the Finnish frontier near Petrograd, and an attack is momentarily expected. ...
Article : 29 wordsSir Joseph Cook has returned to Paris. Mr. W. M. Hughes will return on Wednesday afternoon for the signing of the treaty. ...
Article : 30 wordsDr. C. Addison, President of the Local Government Board, has been appointed Minister for Health. ...
Article : 21 words"I have no wish." the Premier (Mr. J. Mitchell) stated last night, "to proceed any further with the discussion with Mr. Robinson. I notice however, that when referring ...
Article : 326 wordsThe Boston correspondent of the New York "Times" reports that about 50,000lb. of various grades of Australian wool have been sold by Government auction. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe report that the Peace Treaty had been accepted led to patriotic demonstrations in Germany. Processions in Berlin and Munich sang the old martial songs. ...
Article : 147 wordsThe British naval airship 34 travelled 1,700 miles continuously in 48 hours and returned to Scotland, fighting her way over the North Sea against a heavy western ...
Article : 70 wordsAt His Majesty's this evening Mr. Walter Hunt will present Miss Marie Ney and company in Arnold Bennett's unique comedy success "The Great Adventure," ...
Article : 806 wordsEach day the situation in connection with the outbreak of pneumonic influenza at Fremantle shows improvement, and when spoken to last night Dr. Birmingham, the ...
Article : 192 wordsHeligoland, which is to be dismantled under the Peace Treaty, was in the forties of last century, when a British possession, a refuge for many Germans exiled from ...
Article : 138 wordsA British midshipman armed with a rifle boarded a sinking German destroyer at Scapa Flow and compelled the crew to close the seacocks. He repeated this ...
Article : 65 wordsThere is a growing suspicion in Conservative circles regarding the Government's attitude towards the schemes of nationalisation. It is suspected that the ...
Article : 108 wordsThe Germans sank their remaining warships in Kiel Harbour. It is considered here that this affords clear proof that the Scapa Flow incident was planned in ...
Article : 125 wordsGuardsmen students entered the Berlin arsenal, seized the French banners which were captured in 1870, and burned them the Unter-den-Linden. The Germans had ...
Article : 51 wordsA by-election took place to-day to fill a vacancy in the Kalgoorlie Municipal Council. The polling was as folows:—William Schwan, 378; Frederick Beard. 207. ...
Article : 73 wordsThe latest prominent medical officer to return from the front is Col. Athelstan Saw M.L.C., who reached Perth overland on Sunday after a voyage from Liverpool ...
Article : 589 wordsOne death in Adelaide and another in Port Adelaide were reported to-day in connection with the influenza epidemic. ...
Article : 26 wordsSerious food riots and plundering in Berlin have necessitated the calling out of the military. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe past relations between the Country Party and Mr. R. T. Robinson, M.L.A., were again referred to yesterday by Mr. E. B. Johnston, M.L.A., in a reply to Mr. ...
Article : 365 wordsInquiries yesterday showed that it was expected that portion of the consignment of bananas on the s.s. Minderoo, whose period of quarantine will expire to-day, ...
Article : 106 wordsThree deaths occurred in the influenza hospitals to-day, while two were reported by registrars to the Board of Health. The admissions to the hospital numbered 74, as ...
Article : 39 wordsHerr Eduard Bernstein, a Minority socialist, addressing the Socialists' Congress at Weimar deckared that nine-tenths of the peace conditions were justified. The ...
Article : 71 wordsSenator Lynch to-day referred to a telegram published in a Melbourne newspaper from Perth, in which the leader of the Official Labour Party in the West Mr. ...
Article : 724 wordsThere were 37 deaths from pneumonic influenza in the public emergency hospitals in the metropolitan area during the 24 hours ended at 8 o'clock to-night. The number ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Socialists at Weimar passed a resolution protesting against a peace of violence being imposed on the German people on principles inconsistent with President ...
Article : 53 wordsIn September last the Board of Trade was authorised to make a special inquiry into the coal industry. Its report has been made available. The board found that ...
Article : 172 wordsFor some months a committee appointed by the Federal Government has been inquiring as to the steps that should be taken by the Commonwealth Government ...
Article : 120 wordsHerr von Erzberger on behalf of the German Armistice Commission at Spa, has protested against the French council of war at Mayence sentencing twenty-two strikers ...
Article : 65 wordsCrowds of Communists bearing red flags and banners attended the funeral of Rosa Luxemburg, who in company with Dr. Liebknecht was killed durlng the Spartacist ...
Article : 46 wordsThe adjourned bankruptcy examination of J. H. Jennings, who formerly conducted a butcher's shop at Fremantle, was resumed yesterday before the Acting ...
Article : 332 wordsThe matter of G. K. Watson v. Ockerby and Co., Ltd., which originated in April, 1918, was further dealt with yesterday before the Chief Justice (Sir Robert ...
Article : 537 wordsYesterday morning's weather bulletin disclosed the fact that weather conditions south from the tropic were generally cloudy to overcast. The isobaric chart compiled ...
Article : 398 wordsSince the Peace Conference began the British staff of telegraphists has transmitted six million words to London. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Swiss newspapers publish the text of Dr. Renner's first note to the Allies, wherein he points out that Austria is being deprived of her richest and most fertile ...
Article : 61 wordsThe inquiry into the death of Miss Maud Alice Mackwell, who died from injuries received in a motor car accident which occurred while driving along the ...
Article : 350 wordsThe Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Watt) said to-night that he had received no information confirming or explaining the wireless message which had been ...
Article : 95 wordsBoth Houses of the Federal Parliament met to-day to resume business. The following statement was read by the Minister in charge in each Chamber:—Upon the ...
Article : 1,851 wordsMr. Arthur Henderson announces that Labour is about to begin a public campaign for the revision of parts of the peace settlement which are regarded as ...
Article : 52 wordsAn application for an injunction to restrain a returned soldier from operating on his banking account pending the hearing of a civil action instituted by the ...
Article : 174 wordsMr. W. E. Wray, a Nationalist candidate for the West Province election, opened his campaign in the Fremantle Town Hall on Tuesday night. Mr. J. F. Allen ...
Article : 119 wordsReplying to complaints as to the vagueness of the Government s economical policy the President of the Board of Trade (Sir Auckland Geddes) stated in the House of ...
Article : 60 wordsNisi Prius.—At 10.30 a.m., in No. 1 Court, before the Chief Justice.—E. Lodge (plaintiff) and W. H. Boyce (defendant). In Chambers.—At 10.30 a.m., before Mr. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Thu 26 Jun 1919, Page 5
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