The "Daily Telegraph" says that Mr. G. N. Barnes states that the International Labour Committee in Paris has endorsed the British draft of the international ...
Article : 162 wordsIt is not improbable that the German delegates will be summoned to the Peace Conference about the middle of April ...
Article : 27 wordsBrigandage in the streets of Petrograd is general. Parties consisting of from fifteen to twenty Red Guards each go about at night terrorising the population and ...
Article : 144 wordsA crisis is impending in Germany owing to the powerlessness of the Scheidemann Government to induce the National Assembly to endorse the moderate workers' ...
Article : 181 wordsThe White Star liner Ceramic put into King George's Sound yesterday morning, under the latest Federal regulations governing troopships, to land 168 Western ...
Article : 132 wordsThe strike leaders have terminated the strike in the north-east coast shipyards, which lasted eight weeks. They admit that the men were beaten and that the cost to ...
Article : 60 wordsIt has been practically decided that the Nationalist (anti-Imperial) delegates shall sail this week in the Dutch cargo steamer Bewean bound from Java to New York. ...
Article : 79 wordsThere is political and military excitement in Holland regarding the Belgians' territorial claims. The Minister for War speaking in Parliament said:—"We will ...
Article : 55 wordsThe view entertained in British Admiralty circles is that the sinking of the German ships would be the best solution, and would end the acrimony which would ...
Article : 102 wordsMr. Godfrey Isaces, managing director of Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company, says that by means of wireless telegraphy the problem of a talking cinematograph ...
Article : 60 wordsThe conference will examine the status of Dantzig next week. France desires to make Poland as powerful a guarantee of peace in the east as she herself is in the ...
Article : 64 wordsDuring Friday's troubles about two hundred shops were pillaged, mostly groceries and bakeries. One hundred persons were wounded, and 268 arrests were made. The ...
Article : 41 wordsBritish troops landed guns, rifles, and armoured cars at Reval to assist the Esthonians against Trotsky's army. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe French newspapers unanimously persist in their demand for the sharing of the German warships. They say that Britain can afford to dispense therewith, since the ...
Article : 144 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the "Daily News" says that serious tension has arisen owing to the South Slav claims, including a demand that the Italian frontier be ...
Article : 83 wordsThe contests for the King's Prize will be revived at the rifle meeting at Bisley with the short Lee Enfield rifle. It will be open to past and present service men of the ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Copenhagen correspondent of the London "Daily Express" says that a great scandal has been caused by the discovery that Rabbi Schornstein, the head of the ...
Article : 75 wordsThe fact that three children had been isolated at the Children's Hospital gave rise to rumours yesterday that an outbreak of influenza had occurred. ...
Article : 109 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says that Mr. Balfour's references to the United States have aroused intense interest in France. The best friends ...
Article : 281 wordsIt is reported that French and Greek troops advanced north of Odessa, and occupied the fort and town of Tiraspol (on the left bank of the Dneister). The ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of the Chicago "Daily News" says that a great demonstration was held to welcome the German troops which returned from East Africa. ...
Article : 101 wordsA representative of the Australian and New Zealand Press Association has ascertained that there are about 1,400 German naval prisoners of war still in Britain. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Lithuanian troops, pursuing the defeated Bolsheviks, have reached a line about twenty-two kilometres eastward of Vilna. ...
Article : 25 wordsIt is authoritatively stated that the Peace Conference will divide Slesvig into four zones. The first, contiguous to Denmark, comprising North Slesvig, will be ...
Article : 90 wordsIt is announced officially that of 345,000 Italian prisoners of war in Austria, 83,241 died. Of 700,000 Austrian prisoners in Italy 6,000 died. ...
Article : 32 wordsInquiries made in Lincoln discount Mr. O'Kelly's romantic story concerning E de Valera's recent escape from the Lincoln Prison. ...
Article : 28 wordsSir Joseph Ward is paying a brief visit to London, but will return to Paris. When interviewed he said that he believed the peace conditions would be exacting. ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Deputy Postmaster General (Mr. J. J. Lloyd) writes:—"With reference to an item in the "West Australian' of to-day's date, headed 'No Mails by Rail' and ...
Article : 460 wordsH.M.S. New Zealand has arrived at Gibraltar. The Governor entertained Admiral Jellicoe at a banquet. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the London "Daily Chronicle" says that the Louvre gallery will reopen soon all of its treasures, which have been brought back from ...
Article : 109 wordsAll the Government factories at Spandau will strike on Wednesday in sympathy with the strikers of middle Germany and the institution of communist rule. Strong ...
Article : 52 wordsOwing to the infrequency of the mails. Mr. J. D. Connolly (the Agent-General for Western Australia) is urging the Colonial Mails Office in London to arrange a ...
Article : 107 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the "Daily News" says that the Supreme War Council meets to-day to receive the reports of the financial and economic committees, ...
Article : 145 wordsThe Greek Commission discussed the question of Asia Minor. It is believed that it favours the dissolution of the Turkish Empire, with the creation of a new ...
Article : 99 wordsThe New York "Evening Sun" in a leading article says that Admiral Jellicoe's mission to Australia is one of great importance with regard to the future, for it ...
Article : 98 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of the United Press Association (U.S.A.) says that the German Government has issued a proclamation recognising the social and economic ...
Article : 70 wordsAccording to the British Official Press Bureau the Secretary of State for India, has announced that Nasrulla Khan, the late Amir's brother, has been proclaimed ...
Article : 84 wordsAmid enthusiastic popular greetings the King, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, Prince Albert, Prince Arthur of Connaught, Queen Mary, Queen Alexandra, Princess ...
Article : 62 wordsPresident Wilson made a short speech to-day in greeting the conference of Governors and Mayors, who had been called to Washington by the Secretary for Labour (Mr. ...
Article : 571 wordsFor the purpose of protesting against any further alienation of the river front reserves for the erection of Commonwealth Departments, a deputation comprising ...
Article : 819 wordsMr. Arno Dosch Fleurot the Berlin correspondent of the New York "World," says that a proletariat revolution is about to start in Germany. The Government ...
Article : 131 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the "Daily News" says that the new Economic Council has presented a report to the five Powers declaring that it is urgently advisable to ...
Article : 122 wordsThe "Saturday Review" calls attention to the colour bar question, which Japan has notified her intention to raise at the Paris Conference. It says: "The gravity ...
Article : 145 wordsLords Sydenham, Morris, Beaverbrook, and Shaughnessy have joined the Overseas Parliamentary Committee ...
Article : 18 wordsThe delay in the return of the American troops from Europe having been criticised, Mr. N. D. Baker (the Secretary for War) has explained that the British ...
Article : 68 wordsAn aeroplane fell into the Thames near Richmond. The engine exploded on reaching the water and the pilot was killed. An aeroplane fell into the Irish sea, near ...
Article : 42 wordsM. Pichon (the French Minister for Foreign Affairs) declares that there is no doubt that the position of Germany is very bad, and the Spartacist movement is ...
Article : 47 wordsThe New York "Herald" says that a flying boat which is the largest ever built is nearing completion in the Navy Aircraft factory. It will be capable of ...
Article : 48 wordsOver a dozen cables between Britain, Holland, America, and Australia are broken or interrupted. The Postmaster-General (Mr. A. H. Illingworth) has appealed to ...
Article : 36 wordsA White Paper which has been issued estimates the maximum number of the army at the end of March, exclusive of those serving in India at 2,500,000 which ...
Article : 83 wordsMr. Saito, Secretary to Prince Saionji, the chief Japanese peace delegate, explains that Japan intends to hand Tsingtau to China, but demands the same ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Minister for Industries (Mr. R. T. Robinson) stated yesterday that the works of the Australian Glass Manufacturers Company, Ltd., at Kensington-street, East ...
Article : 430 wordsThe President of the Board of Trade (Sir Albert Stanley) announces that the Government control of paper will cease in April. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Bavarian Soviets have established an executive committee with the view of summoning a National Conference and claiming the power to initiate legislation ...
Article : 48 wordsSix deaths occurred to-day, and 192 fresh cases were reported to the Board of Public Health. The admissions numbered 94 and there are now 1,281 persons in ...
Article : 42 wordsThe London "Daily Graphic" suggests the formation of a regiment of Dominion Guards to round off happily the establishment of household troops. It says that ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Secretary of State for War (Mr. Winston Churchill), in moving the army estimates of £287,000,000 for two and a half million men, in the House of ...
Article : 242 wordsDespatches received from Archangel report that M. Zinovieff (Governor of Petrograd), whose real name is Apfelbaum said, in the course of a speech:—"The ...
Article : 81 wordsTelegrams from Berlin state that conditions remain chaotic and critical. The newspaper strike continues, and "Vorwaerts," the Socialist organ, is the only ...
Article : 119 wordsThe Food Controller (Mr. G. H. Roberts) has decided to permit the unrestricted use of barley except for the manufacture of malt. He has revoked the orders restricting the ...
Article : 47 wordsAll the schools throughout Victoria, including the high and elementary schools, will reopen on Monday, with the exception of those schools which are at present ...
Article : 90 wordsDr. Dillon the Paris correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph," warns the Allies that no German Government will sign a treaty embodying some of the conditions ...
Article : 107 wordsThe London "Morning Post" deplores the fact that the Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian soldiers are going home without receiving an official farewell. It says ...
Article : 76 wordsBy the s.s. Dimboola which arrived at Fremantle yesterday, the Premier (Sir Henry Lefroy) and the Minister for Works (Mr. W. J. George) returned to this State ...
Article : 390 wordsIn the Senate Mr. L. Y. Sherman (Republican, Illinois) denounced the League of Nations as a Pandora's box full of evils emptying upon the American people the ...
Article : 125 wordsTo-day's new cases of pneumonic influenza numbered 11, including six nurses. There were no deaths. The total number of cases reported since the outbreak of ...
Article : 106 wordsFollowing upon the decision arrived at by the temporary clerks employed in the Federal Public Service at the mass meeting held at the Trades Hall on Monday night ...
Article : 229 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the New York "Times" reports that Mr. Robert Lansing (the American Secretary of State, and one of the American delegates to the Peace ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the New York "Evening Sun" says that he has learned from an authoritative source that the War Responsibility Committee of the ...
Article : 88 wordsWhen Dr. Wilson returns he will find but few changes suggested in his League of Nations' plan. Japan will be ready to present her views concerning immigration ...
Article : 127 wordsThe outbreak of influenza in the Newcastle Hospital continues to cause anxiety. To-day a wardsman and a patient were found to be suffering, and were removed ...
Article : 146 wordsThe conference of meat companies and meat workers in Townsville to-day was without result. The companies insist on the men abiding by the award. It is ...
Article : 104 wordsRepresentatives of the Returned Soldiers' Association to-day were informed that the New South Wales Lands Department has undertaken the settlement of ...
Article : 175 wordsThe Reparation Committee estimates that the Central Powers must pay the Allies £24,000,000,000, the payment to be extended over 30 years, including ...
Article : 41 wordsM. Clemenceau has now resumed his duties fully ...
Article : 16 wordsThe naval armistise terms are practically completed, and amount to the enemy's total disarmament. They require that all the finished German submarines be destroyed, ...
Article : 162 wordsOwing to the indisposition of Rear-Admiral Clarkson, who is confirmed to his bed, the conference between him and Mr. T. Walsh (general secretary of the ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Navigation Department to-day received a message stating that the steamer Myee had run on the beach at Trial Bay. The position was excellent for refloating ...
Article : 58 wordsAs the result of a family quarrel in Westport, John Walshe has been charged with having shot his father. He said that his father was using bad language ...
Article : 78 wordsQueensland is still free from influenza. There are now over four hundred persons at the Coolangatta camp. They will be released on Thursday and the camp will be ...
Article : 42 wordsIt is understood that the Czecho-Slovak commission gives the city of Presburg (a former capital of Hungary) to the Czechs, while the Hungarian districts inhabited by ...
Article : 65 wordsThe New Zealand Rugby League has accepted an invitation to send a Rugby team to Australia this season. The first match will take place early in June. ...
Article : 37 wordsA fire swept over about 3,000 acres of tussock country near Lyttelton and destroyed nearly a thousand sheep. ...
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