Although the final report of the Royal Commission on the Double Income Tax has not yet been adopted, there is reason to believe that no solution which would ...
Article : 45 wordsAfter the adjournment of the American Senate, ending the present session, Senator Gilbert M. Hitchcock (chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee) expressed his ...
Article : 143 wordsIn Colorado the strike of coal miners has been suppressed by an injunction of the Federal Court. ...
Article : 28 words"I never saw greater apathy amongst the Official Labour Party, nor more enthusiasm in our party, that is, among those who follow me," said the Prime Minister (Mr. ...
Article : 100 wordsThe Blackburn Kangaroo machine piloted by Lieutenant Rendle left Hounslow at 10.37 last night in clear weather. It has reached Romilly, 62 miles east of Paris, ...
Article : 48 wordsSir Eric Geddes Minister for Transport, estimates that £33,000,000 will have been spend on roads in 1919, the ratepayers providing £23,000,000. A committee is ...
Article : 36 wordsThe tendency towards Imperial devolution was evidenced by two announcements which were made in the House of Commons on November 19. ...
Article : 1,052 wordsThe steamer Prinz Hubertus (from Australia) has been partially destroyed by fire in the Albert Dock, London. It is anticipated that a large part of her cargo ...
Article : 40 wordsThe International Labour Conference has adopted the report of the committee on international child labour. The minimum age of juvenile workers is to be 14 ...
Article : 42 wordsSevere weather has hitherto greatly hampered Captain Ross Smith's journey. There was a torrential downpour when he landed at Pisa, which reduced the surface of ...
Article : 102 wordsThe Australian Press Association learns that General Judenitch's position is extremely difficult in consequence of repeated successful Bolshevik attacks. These are ...
Article : 181 wordsThe court martial, which will try Chaplain Father O'Donnell, of Tasmania, will be opened on Wednesday. The charge has been laid under section 35 of the Army ...
Article : 227 wordsThe reported statement of Archbishop Mannix that he had been approached by a Minister of the Crown who sought to enlist his support for Mr. Hughes's ...
Article : 202 wordsA special mass meeting of the Queensland branch of the Federated Liquor and Allied Trades Employees' Union was held in the Trades Hall this afternoon for the ...
Article : 137 wordsSenator Hithcock says that there is a possibility of a compromise being reached before the Peace Treaty is re-submitted in the Senate in December. ...
Article : 38 wordsCaptain Matthews has reached Dagsburg, 100 miles south-west of Mayence. ...
Article : 14 wordsA message received in New York from Calgary (Alberta Territory, Canada) reports that Lord Jellicoe said in the course of an interview that he was extremely disheartened ...
Article : 49 wordsIn view of the verdict of the Coroner's inquest, the Australian headquarters authorities are not participating in the investigations being made in connection with the ...
Article : 47 wordsThere was a well-attended mass meeting of returned soldiers at the Shaftesbury Theatre yesterday afternoon to further discuss the war gratuity question, particularly ...
Article : 1,024 wordsThe Supreme Council in Paris has agreed to ratify the Peace Treaty with Germany on December 1. ...
Article : 24 wordsSome five hundred pottery workers struck work in Melbourne and the suburbs on Saturday. They demand that their present w ges of £3 3s. a week be ...
Article : 51 wordsLieutenant R. Parer, of the Australian Flying Corps is negotiating with the Beardmore Aeroplane Company, with the view of competing in the Australian flight. ...
Article : 27 wordsAt the laying of the foundation stone of the Holy Name Convent School at Toowoomba to-day, Archbishop Duhig said he would like to add a word of advice and ...
Article : 245 wordsIn the House of Commons Mr. Bonar Law (the Leader of the House) announced that the Allies intended to proceed with the League of Nations without the membership ...
Article : 41 wordsThe builders' labourers, at a mass meeting to-day, affirmed that they did not want to work under £1 a day. Trouble is threatened failing a favourable reply from the ...
Article : 45 wordsSensational cable messages appear in the "Times" and the "Daily Mail" of November 19 to the effect that Australia (especially New South Wales) is suffering from ...
Article : 268 wordsA Chicago message states that Captain D'Annunzio, a son of Gabrielle D'Annunzio, has stated that Signor Caproni is planning a flight from Italy to America ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Russian north-western army announces that on Tuesday last the Bolsheviks made a heavy attack on the centre and right, gaining ground on both banks of ...
Article : 90 wordsBritain and France have exchanged ratification of the Treaty guaranteeing British said to France if Germany attacks her. ...
Article : 20 wordsMr. Henry P. Davison (chairman of the War Council of the American Red Cross Society, and a partner in the firm of J. P. Morgan and Co., financiers) ...
Article : 940 wordsThe strike of musicians who are members of the Musicians' Union was put into effect on Saturday night, but it failed in its purpose. All of the theatres in the ...
Article : 108 wordsAccording to a London message received in New York, it is believed that Major D'Annunzio is about to annex Dalmatia, and attack Montenegro. The Jugo-Slavs ...
Article : 41 wordsGeneral Bermondt has resigned his command to General von Eberhardt, who has gone to Miteu to assume the control of the German troops, which will withdraw ...
Article : 73 wordsMr. Winston Churchill announced in the House of Commons that arrangements were made for 11 British. 9 French, 7 American, and 6 Italian battalions to be stationed in ...
Article : 50 wordsAbout 100 members of the Actors' Federation of Australia met this afternoon and considered the decision of the Registrar of the Arbitration Court, who refused on ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Minister for the Navy (Sir Joseph Cook) told the audiences of the open air meetings which he addressed on Saturday evening what it would cost Australia if the ...
Article : 190 wordsAn unconfirmed report received from Helsingfors (Finland) says that a serious rebellion has broken out at Moscow and that the insurgents are surrounding the town. ...
Article : 31 wordsIn Budapest Sir George Clerk (the head of the Allied Mission to Hungary), addressing representatives of the various political parties, threatened to leave the city at the ...
Article : 125 wordsAdmiral Koltchak has telegraphed to the Russian Embassy in Washington to the effect that his retreat was planned merely to rest his exhausted troops, whose ...
Article : 30 wordsThe latest development in the Auckland butchers' strike is that the carters outside the butchering trade refuse to convey meat from the city aboard shipping, or from the ...
Article : 65 wordsIn the House of Commons Lieut-Commander J. M. Kenworthy (Liberal, Contral Hull) asked wheather the Admiralty authotities endorded Lord Jellicoe's report on ...
Article : 143 wordsMr. Lloyd George stated in the House of Commons that it was not proposed that the British fleet should control the Baltic in the spring. ...
Article : 31 wordsField-Marshal von Hindenburg and General von Ludendorff gave evidence on November 18 before the War Responsibility Committee of the German Reichstag. At the ...
Article : 839 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Lloyd George), answering a question in the House of Commons said that the conference at Dorpat (Livonia) in connection with peace ...
Article : 42 wordsThree British prisoners who accompanied M. Ltvinoff to Copenhagen, where the Russian Minister is to hold a conference with Mr. J. O'Grady, M.P., with regard to the ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Prime Minister was asked to-day about a statement he is alleged to have made to the effect that returned soldiers in the employ of the State Governments ...
Article : 82 wordsThe French election returns, although [?]till incomplete, confirm the earlier impression that the Socialists, especially the extremists among them, have been defeated ...
Article : 201 wordsAn attempt has been made during the past few days to overcome some of the difficulties in the way of bringing about a peaceful solution of the industrial situation ...
Article : 696 wordsReferring to the recent report of the Dardanelles Commission of Inquiry the military correspondent of the London "Times" says that a single sentence in ...
Article : 62 wordsSenator Pearce had exceptionally good meetings at Albany, and Mt. Barker. When asked if he had anything to say in reply to Mr. Fowler's strictures in Perth ...
Article : 883 wordsThe Agents-General for Australia have made a joint request to Lord Milner (the Secretary of State for the Colonies) to receive a deputation with reference to the ...
Article : 77 wordsBrigadier-General Sir Rebert M. McC. Anderson met the Agents-General for Australia, and explained to them that he had been commissioned by Mr. Holman (the ...
Article : 139 wordsThe French Government is making a first issue of £160,000,000 worth of lottery bonds in order to reconstruct the devastated areas in the war regions. The bonds (of 500 ...
Article : 370 wordsThe shareholders of J. P. Coats, Ltd., thread manufacturers of Paisley, have accepted the scheme for capitalising the reserves. Members of the Glasgow Trades ...
Article : 200 wordsThe "Daily Mail" has offered to provide Barry's stake for a match against Felton for the world's sculling championship. In the final of the Colquhoun Sculls ...
Article : 229 wordsStruck by a sudden squall while crossing the outer sandbank which skirts the beach at Chelsea, a fishing boat in which were Mr. Sydney S. Hayes (a commercial ...
Article : 111 wordsAs the result of the attack made by university students upon Mr. William Eugene Johnson, the American temperance advocate, his eyesight is permanently affected. ...
Article : 112 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 59 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 24 Nov 1919, Page 7
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: