In the House of Commons, Lord Robert Cecil (formerly Assistant Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs), continuing his speech on the Russian question, said that ...
Article : 623 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the New York "Times" says that President Wilson's determination to reject the Peace Treaty if the Senate adopts it with Senator ...
Article : 403 wordsThe steamer Port Mocquarie sailed on November 17, taking about five hundred passengers, mostly the wives and families of Australian soldiers. The vessel is ...
Article : 60 wordsThe funeral of Captain Douglas and Lieut. Ross will take place to-morrow in the Australian cemetery at Rookwood with full military honours. ...
Article : 28 wordsIn connection with the proposed new railway agreement Mr. J. H. Thomas (the general secretary of the Railwaymen's Union) said in his speech in Bristol that the ...
Article : 138 wordsPractically the whole of yesterday's sitting of the Legislative Assembly was occupied by members in discussing in Committee the Constitution Act Amendment Bill ...
Article : 1,958 wordsMr. J. Boyland, secretary of the Boulder branch of the Coolgardie Federated Miners' Union, made the following statement yesterday regarding the deputation ...
Article : 1,335 wordsCaptain G. C. Matthews (the Australian aviator) is still delayed in Mayence (on the Rhine), which he reached on November 6. The weather continues bad. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe lease of the Aldwych site provides for the Bush Company spending £750,000 on buildings. [It was reported recently that a ...
Article : 104 wordsSatisfactory progress is being made by Captain Wrigley, the military aviator selected to survey the air route between Melbourne and Cloncurry, Queensland. ...
Article : 98 wordsOwing to the coal strike various industries are being suspended, and freight services curtailed. An embargo on railway freights is anticipated. In such an event ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Office of Works is opposing the proposal of the London County Council to build a tramway through Hyde Park, linking up the terminals at Vauxhall Bridge ...
Article : 55 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly, yesterday the Premier (Mr. J. Mitchell) made the following statement regarding the conference of Premiers on September 26 and 29 ...
Article : 1,133 words"I am sorry that a suggestion which was thrown out in the course of these four cases," said Mr. Justice Higgins in the Commonwealth Arbitration Court to-day, ...
Article : 232 wordsGeorge Morgan, a miner, has established successfully a claim to common land near Coleford (Forest of Dean, Gloucester), which his family has occupied for ...
Article : 42 wordsThe first motor show held at Olympia (London) since the outbreak of war was phenomenally successful, about 285,000 visitors paying over £40,000 for admission ...
Article : 70 wordsGeneral Bermondt's army in the Baltic Provinces is dissolving. The Allies are seeking to organise an offensive alliance with the Finns, Poles, White Russians, ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Senate has rejected the Peace Treaty and adopted the reservation making the Congress the deciding authority. ...
Article : 20 wordsInterviewed on the eve of his departure for Sydney, Lieutenant-Colonel L. J. Hurley (who has been acting in London as the commercial representative of New ...
Article : 226 wordsPitiful tales of destitution and actual starvation in the homes of the lower paid railway employees were related to-day to the Premier (Mr. Lawson) by ...
Article : 177 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the New York "Times" says that the League to Enforce Peace, of which Mr. W. H. Taft (ex-President) is the head, has issued ...
Article : 151 wordsGeneral Denikine has ordered the evacuations of Kieff, which the Bolsheviks and the Ukrainian rebels are threatening. ...
Article : 21 wordsAccording to a Helsingfors message, General Judenitch has evacuated Jamburg. He has informed his troops that they must fight to the death as the Esthonians have ...
Article : 75 wordsA Paris message notifies that the Bulgarian Peace Treaty has been signed. ...
Article : 16 wordsMajor Oakley-Gore (Coalition Unionist) deplored the delay in making peace with Turkey. He said that half of the trouble in Egypt to-day was due to this continued ...
Article : 737 wordsThe State Department in Washington says that the revolutionary disturbances in Vladivostok are confined to Russians. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe conference of delegates from railway unions throughout the Commonwealth concluded in Sydney to-day. It decided that the organisations of railway ...
Article : 289 wordsThe Supreme Council's ultimatum to Roumania has been despatched to Bucharest. ...
Article : 15 wordsCheering throngs greeted the Prince of Wales on his arrival here from West Virginia. The Mayor (Mr. John F. Hylan) attended in the City Hall, and extended the ...
Article : 252 wordsThe Premier (Mr. J. Mitchell) was asked yesterday whether, following upon his statement in Parliament on the previous day, that arrangements had been made ...
Article : 184 wordsA report received from Rome says that a Fiume message asserts that d'Annunzio headed a naval expedition which occupied Zara (in Dalmatia). ...
Article : 25 wordsThe Supreme Council in Paris has notified Greece that the occupation of Smyrna must be regarded as merely provisional. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe Waziris accepted the British terms yesterday. They were brought to terms by the British bombing attacks on Kamgurun, the Mansud capital, which was bombed on ...
Article : 509 wordsThe authentic history of China goes back more than 2,000 years before Christ, and organised government had long been established in that country when Moses led the ...
Article : 218 wordsIt was announced to-day at the office of the Coal and Shale Employees' Federation that the miners at two collieries on the south coast had ceased work, the trouble ...
Article : 64 wordsFalkiner, receiving 2,000, beat Inman, the final scores being 16,000 and 11,970. ...
Article : 16 wordsThe declaration of a strike by the Sydney branch of the Seamen's Union up to the present has had practically no effect in tying up coastal steamship traffic. The ...
Article : 208 wordsMr. Fihelly, the Acting Premier and Minister for Railways, went out of his way to deliberately insult a deputation of representative commercial men who waited ...
Article : 372 wordsMr. Pearce (president), Mr. Douglas (secretary), and Mr. W. Fisher and several other members of the State executive committee of the Returned Sailors and ...
Article : 181 wordsThe Leader of the Opposition (Mr. Collier) was informed by the Minister controlling the police (Mr. Scaddan) in the Legislative Assembly yesterday, that the ...
Article : 57 wordsAll the Sydney hotels and breweries will be closed to-morrow as a stop work meeting of liquor trades employees is to be held to take a ballot on the question of a ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Perth No. 2 branch of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers carried the following resolution at its last meeting:—"That this meeting of unionists strongly ...
Article : 60 wordsJack Dempsey announces that he has signed a 175,000 dollar contract to meet the victory of the Carpentier-Beckett match in the event of the victor agrecing to ...
Article : 37 wordsNisi Prius.—At 10.30, in No. 3 Court, before Mr. Justice Northmore.—In Divorce: Frances Florence May Hill (petitioner), Percy Stephen Hill (respondent); Margaret ...
Article : 107 wordsThe Transvaal team in their second innings scored 173 runs, the Australians thus winning the match by an innings and 14 runs. ...
Article : 31 wordsNominations closed to-day for the vacancy in the representation of the North-Western Province in the Legislative Council caused by the resignation of Mr. R. B. ...
Article : 92 wordsThe claim of Edward Bandley, of Jolimont, professional musician, who was injured when the Bendigo express ran off the line over an embankment between ...
Article : 100 wordsMr. Fisk the managing director of the Amalgamated Wireless has succeded in [?] with an operator on the Bombala when the ...
Article : 86 wordsAll the members of the new police force for the Northern Territory, which has been given the official title of The Northern Patrol, saw active service with the Light ...
Article : 68 wordsThe South African Olympic Games Committee has accepted an invitation to take part in the Olympic Games at Antwerp next year. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Thu 20 Nov 1919, Page 7
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