The first meeting of the League of Nations will be held on Friday. The Council of the League is limited to the five Great Powers, together with ...
Article : 187 wordsAt a meeting of the grand council of the Civil Service Association last night consideration was given to the matter of sending delegates to the forthcoming ...
Article : 198 wordsThe Bolshevik peace delegation which is at Dorpat (Livonia) announces that it has received a wireless message to the effect that the Bolsheviks have captured ...
Article : 47 wordsHis Excellency the Governor (Sir William Ellison-Macartney) presided over his last Executive Council meeting yesterday. As a souvenir of his regime in Western ...
Article : 130 wordsThe agitation for the establishment of a combined naval and military air force has been revived in defence circles. Several months ago an ambitions scheme ...
Article : 290 wordsA most important interview took place to-day between Sir Eric Geddes (the Minister for Transport), Sir Robert S. Home (the Minister for Labour), and the ...
Article : 262 wordsTo-day's instalment of the ex-Kaiser's letters to the late Czar deals largely with personal matters. In January, 1905, the Kaiser refers to the sensation caused by ...
Article : 360 wordsThe level crossing on the Guildford-road, adjacent to the Burswood railway station, where several distressing fatalities have occurred in the past, was the scene of an ...
Article : 436 wordsA Moscow wireless message proves the falsity of the assertion that the Bolsheviks have captured Irkutsk (Siberia). The Bolsheviks have not actually advanced ...
Article : 192 wordsJust as there are several recognised methods of getting to the islands, so there are at least two ways of seeing Rottnest, one being by indulging in a single-day ...
Article : 1,513 wordsAction has been taken by the Commonwealth Government to prohibit trading relations with Germany, Austria, Hungary, Turkey, and Bulgaria. During the war ...
Article : 384 wordsTo-night will be the last opportunity of witnessing the current programme at Olympia, and patrons should not fail to see the Maori scena, "Many, My Maori ...
Article : 831 wordsThe spell of hot weather here has comcided with the termination of the cool drinks trouble which has lasted since the Christmas holidays. Prosecutions were ...
Article : 96 wordsAs the result of inquiries which have been made with regard to the whereabouts of Capt. Wilkins and his crew, who left England on November 21 for the purpose ...
Article : 121 wordsThe steamer Reval has been wrecked near Kimmeridge (on the coast of Dorsetshire). Thirty-three out of a crew of forty were drowned. ...
Article : 64 wordsWith the exception of Queensland, the follwoing are the complete returns of the voting for the referendum questions:—LEGISLATIVE POWERS. ...
Article : 158 wordsTrouble is threatening again in the baking trade, members of the Baking Trades Employees' Federation having decided not to do Sunday work in future. The master ...
Article : 109 wordsMr. J. D. Connolly (the Agent-General for Western Australia) is urging that in view of the position of the market in Britain greater space should be reserved for ...
Article : 44 wordsThe statement that Germany has an army of 1,000,000 men in her eastern provinces (vide the "West Australian" of Saturday last) will come as no surprise to at ...
Article : 1,186 wordsThe sentiments expressed by the Western Australian Minister for Works (Mr. W. J. George) on Tuesday regarding the policy of the shipping authorities in ...
Article : 320 wordsThe Northern Union Council has appointed Jack Wilson, of Hull, and Sidney Foster, of Halifax, to manage the Australian football tour. The clubs are now ...
Article : 49 words"The position is unchanged" was the significent announcement made by representatives of the marine engineers after their two hours' conference with the Prime ...
Article : 144 wordsMembers of the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly recently presented to the Governor a protest against the appointment of Mr. Lennon as ...
Article : 681 wordsLord Kilmarnock has left for Berlin as the British diplomatic representative in Germany. He will have the status of a Charge D'Affaires. ...
Article : 79 wordsBrigadier-General E. A. Drake-Brockman, who has been elected to fill the third Western Australian seat in the Senate, was born in 1884, and, prior to going on active ...
Article : 127 wordsConsideration is still being given by the shipping companies to the claims of the Federation of Marine Stewards and Pantrymen. A reply is expected by the union ...
Article : 103 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of the London "Daily Chronicle" says:—"Even the Social Democrats are inclining to the campaign against the extradition of the ex-Kaiser ...
Article : 152 wordsThe Western Australian loan has been underwritten. The prospectus will be issued on Wednesday. The market is very favourable. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe Supreme Court reserve, which is to be the scene of the Ugly Men's Wonderworld Fair, is undergoing a complete transformation. Extensive constructional works ...
Article : 307 wordsIt was announced officially in the Sydney Trades Hall to-day that a meeting of the Building Employees' Trades Council had carried the following motion:—"That a ...
Article : 242 wordsAccompanied by the Premier, General Sir Wm. Birdwood will journey to Northam by motor to-day, and after a civio reception will proceed to Kalgoorlie, in ...
Article : 65 wordsReplying to criticisms emanating from Natal on his statement that the British Empire ceased to exist in August, 1914, General J. C. Smuts (the Prime Minister ...
Article : 203 wordsWith the continued interruption of the shipping service, the butter position becomes more acute daily, as the stocks in the freesers at the commencement of the ...
Article : 109 wordsArgument upon the power of the Arbitration Court to render new awards was heard in the High Court to-day in connection with the case which was stated by ...
Article : 388 wordsScattered inland thunderstorms, and also some trivial coastal showers, were reported for the 24 hours ended 8 a.m. yesterday. The isobaric chart compiled from barometer ...
Article : 347 wordsAn inquest was held to-day concerning the death of Dicky, an aboriginal, who was speared on a vacant allotment near the electric light station on the night of ...
Article : 67 wordsThe latest news from Syria is that the situation is exceedingly grave. Serious fighting between the French and Syrian volunteers took place at Margyun, where ...
Article : 111 wordsThe appointment of Mr. J. R. Collins, Secretary to the Federal Treasury, as Secretary to the High Commissioner in London, is regarded as likely, and if Mr. ...
Article : 88 wordsThere was a good attendance of delegates at a meeting of the Fremantle District Council of the R.S.A., held in the local Army and Navy Institute last night. ...
Article : 344 wordsWhen asked to-day if the Government intended at an early date to remove the embargo on the importation of confectionery into Australia, which had operated ...
Article : 139 wordsThe current week's illustrated portion of the "Western Mail" is one of considerable and varied interest. There are some fine series of views taken along the Suez Canel ...
Article : 195 wordsA Parliamentary party will visit Samoa, eaving here in the second week of February. It is hoped to arrange for the Trade Commissioner to accompany the party, in ...
Article : 82 wordsA proclamation was issued to-day by the Minister for Customs (Mr. Massy Greene) specifying that the Navigation Act is not to apply to fishing boats, pleasure yachts, ...
Article : 46 wordsA public meeting of women is to be held to-morrow afternoon to discuss the shortage of sugar. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe returned soldiers' organisation is urging the authorities to disallow the fight with Carpentier, owing to Dempsey's nonenlistment in the war. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Thu 15 Jan 1920, Page 7
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