The Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate has approved of five reservations, which deal with article No. 10 of the League's Covenant, the Monroe doctrine, ...
Article : 240 wordsGeneral Denikine reports, in an official despatch:—"We have defeated the enemy on the whole of the Kamishin (Volga) front, and taken about 3,000 prisoners. ...
Article : 197 wordsThe war-time liquor control experiment shows a net profit for the year (after the deduction of interest in depreciation and all charges of £109,000 on a total capital ...
Article : 79 wordsWhen the modern American playwright is dealing with affairs of the law, he generally shows the scales of justice tilted by the heavy weight of financial influences and ...
Article : 2,270 wordsThe Italian Mission informed the International Trade Conference that Italy's greatest requirement was wheat of which she must import about 3,500,000 bushels, ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Government of India announces in connection with the punitive expedition to Waziristan that the Waziris will be summoned to appear and be informed of the ...
Article : 164 wordsA message received from Valona (Albania) reports that Etienne Poulet (the French aviator) has arrived there, after a stormy flight from Naples. ...
Article : 37 wordsIn the Senate to-day, Senator Russell, in reply to Senator Grant, said that 14 wooden vessels had been ordered in America and the order was to be fully executed before ...
Article : 124 wordsIn the House of Representatives to-day Mr. Poynton moved the second reading of a Bill to increase the old-age and invalid pensions to 15s. per week as from January 1 ...
Article : 347 wordsIn the House of Representatives yesterday Sir Joseph Cook, in reply to Mr. Finlayson, set out in detail the plans for the air flight from England to Melbourne, so ...
Article : 324 wordsThe Congress has passed a Bill extending the war-time passport regulations in connection with the entrance of aliens into the United States. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe employers in Britain are responding in a satisfactory manner to the King's appeal to them to absorb disabled soldiers. About five thousand of these ex-service men ...
Article : 85 wordsIn the House of Representatives to-day Mr. Greene, in reply to Mr. Laird Smith, said that inspections of imported fruit were made by officers of the State agricultural ...
Article : 328 wordsThe steamer Westpoint has arrived from Australia with a cargo of chrome ore, which is said to be the first shipment of the kind from the Antipodes. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Unionist Congress carried unanimously a resolution accepting the principles laid down in Parliament by the Premier (General Smuts) regarding the Britich ...
Article : 80 wordsThe Labour Group has withdrawn from the National Industrial Conference in consequence of the Employers' Group hvaing, rejected Mr. Samuel ...
Article : 141 wordsThe special correspondent of the London "Daily Chronicle" at Narva (about 80 miles west of Petrograd) says:—"There are indications that Petrograd will be ...
Article : 211 wordsParliament re-assembled to-day. Mr. Austen Chamberlain announced that Mr. Lloyd George had promised that an opportunity would be afforded of discussing the ...
Article : 108 wordsThe Kansas City correspondent of the New York "Times" reports that Mr. William White, whom President Wilson appointed to be a member of the proposed ...
Article : 110 wordsTo-day the Governor of the Commonwealth Bank (Mr. Denison Miller) laid the foundation stone of the first soldiers home to be created in South Australia under the ...
Article : 337 wordsGeneral Holbronn, the Roumanian commander-in-chief in Hungary, has committed suicide in Bucharest owing to his having been recalled to render an account of ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Director of the American Army Air Service has announced that Captain Donaldson's flying time in the trans-continental air race was 57 hours and 34 minutes, ...
Article : 48 wordsMarshal Foch has notified the Government that he has located many thousands of Belgian railway waggons in Germany. ...
Article : 28 wordsNineteen bodies have been recovered from the Levant tin mine in Cornwall, where a mishap occurred recently. Eleven men are still missing, and there is little ...
Article : 66 wordsThe hearing of claims from Nationalist workers by Mr. E. S. Lazarus, the Royal Commissioner, is now nearing completion, and it is hoped to finish the taking of ...
Article : 652 wordsIt is improbable that the League of Nations will meet in Washington before January. It is more likely that the first meeting will take place in February. After the ...
Article : 204 wordsActing on the advice of a committee of inquiry, the Minister for War has decided to try by court martial General Fourtner, who was the commandant of Maubeuge in ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Navy Office notifies the following transport movements:— The Benalla left the United Kingdom on October 8 for Australia, via Capetown. ...
Article : 98 wordsIt is reported that the Finnish army is taking part in the offensive against Petrograd. ...
Article : 27 wordsIn the special case, Judd versus the King, the Privy Council allowed the applications to withdraw the petition being [?] [Ernest Edward Judd was arranged ...
Article : 284 wordsThe experts who were appointed to examine the charred bones which were found in the villa in Gambais, occupied by Landru (the "French Deeming") have ...
Article : 56 wordsSkirmishes in the streets of Petrograd among the Bolsheviks caused an attempted rising. Other reports say that Bolshevik vessels ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Australian public is familiar with "Mrs. Chisnolms," the great soldiers' club, which Mrs. W. Chisholm and Miss Raina Macphillamy conducted at Kantara during ...
Article : 517 wordsIn his domestic circle, with his military uniform laid aside, Count Terauchi (whose death was announced in our issue of Friday) was described by ...
Article : 444 wordsAt a meeting of the council of the Australasian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation to-day the unionists' scheme to attempt to limit the exportation of certain ...
Article : 159 wordsAt a meeting of the Senate of the University of Western Australia held on Monday. October 20, there were present—The Chancellor (Archbishop Riley), the ...
Article : 819 wordsOwing to the dearth of fuel in Petrograd, the local Soviet is destroying all of the wooden houses in the city, and many wooden vessels and barges. About 500 ...
Article : 56 wordsGermany is despatching delegates to the International Labour Congress in Washington. [The United States Congress passed a ...
Article : 101 wordsGeneral Judenitch has sent a mission to Warsaw with the view of establishing an anti-Bolshevik alliance with Poland. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe London "Daily Express" announces that Mr. Arthur J. Balbour is about to relinquish the portfolio of Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and that Lord ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Government of the Ukraine has appealed to Britain to intervene with the view of arranging peace with General Denikine, who, it is alleged, has attacked ...
Article : 63 wordsTwo cases of interest to the public in showing the position in which they stand with regard to the Commissioner for Railways was heard in the Local Court ...
Article : 703 wordsIn the House of Commons this evening Mr. Bonar Law (the Leader of the House) said that the Allies were taking the necessary steps to bring the ex-Kaiser to trial ...
Article : 47 wordsIt was learned last night that as the result of the audit of the books and accounts of the Perth Public Hospital and the discovery of certain matters demanding ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Supreme Council has refused to modify the blockade of Russia, but it says that the measures in connection with it will be applied benevolently. ...
Article : 119 wordsIn connection with the demand made in the Treaty of Peace that Germany shall hand over 140,000 milch cows and ten thousand goats, a number of British ...
Article : 150 wordsA meeting of the W.A. divisional council of the Australian National Federation was held on Thursday evening at which there was a fully representative attendance ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 71 wordsAt a meeting of the Adelaide Chamber of Manufactures to-day the following resolution was carried:—"This chamber views with alarm the attempt of the Federal ...
Article : 70 wordsThe annual two days' show of the Southern Tasmanian A. and P. Society in Hobart concluded to-day in fine weather. There was a record attendance on both ...
Article : 131 wordsAt the Holtorn Stadium "Tibby" Watson, an Australian, beat Chris. Langdon, a Welshman, in the tenth round. ed Fulton knocked out Gordon ...
Article : 35 wordsIn receiving the freedom of Wallasey (near Birkenhead), Lord French (the Viceroy of Ireland) said that the self-constituted and illegal Sinn Fein Government ...
Article : 183 wordsApplication was made by Mr. C. S. Beeby on behalf of the Darling Island Stevedoring and Lightering Co., Ltd., and other New South Wales shipping and stevedoring ...
Article : 161 wordsIn a reply to criticisms of his office, contained in the report of the Economics Commission, the Federal Auditor-General (Mr. J. W. Israel) has presented to the Prime ...
Article : 185 wordsThe schooner Valmarie, which ran aground on the 90-mile Beach on September 30, while on a voyage with timber from New Zealand to Melbourne, was ...
Article : 110 wordsThe general superintendent of the Bureau of Sugar Experimental Stations (Mr. Easterby) states that the probable estimate for the 1919 sugar crop is in the region of ...
Article : 91 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day the Home Secretary moved that the House Cshould at its next sitting consider the desirableness of introducing a Bill to further ...
Article : 228 wordsFine and clear conditions predominated over all areas, with the exception of the Kimberley, at 8 a.m. yesterday, and the only rainfall recorded for the 24 hours was ...
Article : 146 wordsThe High Court gave judgment to-day an appeal by the Government on the question of whether sub-section 2 of section 87B of the Commonwealth Patents ...
Article : 129 wordsThe Governor of the Commonwealth Bank (Mr. Denison Miller) made an interesting statement in the course of a speech at the Commonwealth Club luncheon ...
Article : 156 wordsMr. J. Abfalter, secretary of the No. 2 branch of the Australian Tramway Employees' Association, asked recently for a rise in his salary from £5 to £6 a week. A ...
Article : 115 wordsThere is to be no increase in the price of sugar, at least in the near future. Commenting to-day on a report that householders were endeavouring to obtain stocks ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Sat 25 Oct 1919, Page 7
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