Even the Opposition newspapers welcome Lady Astor's election on the ground that women should be represented in the House of Commons. Messrs. Lloyd George and A. ...
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Article : 320 wordsThe International Labour Conference at Washington close M. Albert Thomas, the French Labour leader, as Director-General of the International Labour Office under ...
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Article : 104 wordsThe members of the Legislative Assembly last night raised their own salaries by £100 a year. Under the motion passed at a recent sitting suspending the Standing ...
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Article : 179 wordsThe liquor strike has been settled. Representatives of the parties concerned in the dispute met to-day at a compulsory conference in the Arbitration Court. After a ...
Article : 100 wordsThe American delegation is remaining in Paris owing to the German delay in signing the protocol. A Washington message states, however, ...
Article : 65 wordsThe report of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company says that a contract has been made with Messrs. Harland and Wolff Ltd., Belfast, for the ...
Article : 146 wordsThe Commonwealth electoral authorities advise:—"Section 10 of the Commonwealth Electoral (War-time) Act. 1917-1919, provides that a naturalised British ...
Article : 1,271 wordsAn English syndicated has offered £10,000,000 for the ex-Emperor Karl's tapestries, gold and silver ware, and art objects if the Allies will allow Austria to sell them ...
Article : 65 wordsThe brewery section of the Federated Liquor Trades Employees' Union by a secret ballot to-night declared a strike. The three breweries in the metropolitan area are ...
Article : 70 wordsIn dealing with the housing famine, Mr. Lloyd George, is calling a conference of trade unions in order to make an appeal for the relaxation of all restrictions in ...
Article : 72 wordsThe "Times" has published some remarkable extracts from German official documents. The investigations made by Herr Karl Kautsky, German Minority Socialist ...
Article : 197 wordsThis morning the Mayors of Kalgoorlie and Boulder met representatives of the Chamber of Mines, and intimated that the disputes committee of the A.W.U. desired ...
Article : 169 wordsThe Supreme Council in Paris has decided that Fiume shall be excluded from the Hungarian Peace Treaty, enabling Italy to sign. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Lloyd George) during his visit to Woolwish Arsenal said: "Clear out the shells; we shall never want them again." ...
Article : 53 wordsA short Bill, amending the Constitution so far as the life of the Legislative Assembly is affected, was introduced into the Legislative Council yesterday by the ...
Article : 847 wordsThe Socialist Deputies, who hold 156 out of 550 seats, have endrosed formally the doctrine of Bolshevism, and they demand the recognition of the Soviet Russian ...
Article : 38 wordsPortsmouth's plans to welcome the Prince of Wales on Monday may cut out owing to the declared intention of the unemployed to seek an interview with the Prince ...
Article : 77 wordsThe death took place to-day of Field-Marshal Sir Evely Wood, at the age of 81 years. ...
Article : 1,031 wordsAt a special meeting of the Perth Chamber of Commerce held last night, with Mr. H. S. Bickford in the chair, consideration was given to the question of ...
Article : 766 wordsA truculent note from the German Government repudiates responsibility for the Scapa Flow sinkings. It declares that Admiral Von Reuter did not ...
Article : 73 wordsBy 276 votes to 84 the House of Commons rejected Mr. Horatio Bottomley's motion in favour of the issue of premium bonds. ...
Article : 140 wordsGeneral Sir William Birdwood, who is visiting Australia as the guest of the Commonwealth Government, is due to arrive at Fremantle on December 17, and ...
Article : 396 wordsMr. Cecil Harmsworth (Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs) announced in the House of Commons that the Allies had decided, owing to Roumania's attitude, ...
Article : 42 wordsA message received from Weltevreden (Batevia) states that the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies, Count van Limburg Stirum, who is an intimate friend of ...
Article : 132 wordsThe Anzac Buffet in London was closed formally by a social gathering of the workers connected with it. Colonel Reay (formerly of Melbourne) presided, and ...
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Article : 158 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the New York "Times" says that the general opinion is that the Mexican situation is still capable of peaceful adjustment. The ...
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Article : 374 wordsThe Navy Department announces that H.M.A.S. Australia and the destroyers Torrens, Swan, and Huon, which returned to Sydney this week, will remain there for ...
Article : 381 wordsGovernment troops manned a coal mine train in the Pittsburg district. The train was derailed but the soldiers escaped with little injury. ...
Article : 25 wordsA Charleville message reports that since Monday night no further trouble with returned soldiers has occurred. Although there are large numbers of men in the ...
Article : 176 wordsSenator Millen, the Minister for Repatriation, made available to-day an official statement of the decision which has been arrived at in relation to the scheme for ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Thu 4 Dec 1919, Page 7
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