After seven days discussions in Committee, chiefly on the subject of disarmament, the plenary sittings of the Assembly were resumed to-day. ...
Article : 36 wordsTo the Treasury authorities there has come from Mr. W. G. Harvey, of the ketch Iolanthe,a t Burketown, interesting information bearing on the loss of the ...
Article : 318 wordsWith the Presidential election some six weeks away, the preliminary campaign is moving rapidly towards a elimax and there are many important ...
Article : 321 wordsAn official despatch from the Spanish military authorities admits that the Spanish losses are considerable, but they are small proportionately to the ...
Article : 53 wordsThe French Consul-General has issued rifles, ammunition, and hand grenades to 60 Russian cadets who are stationed in the French concession, and who have ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Transport Workers' Union has decided to make an offer to the employers in the Covent Garden Markets that the men shall so to work forthwith, the ...
Article : 78 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the London "Morning Post" says—Reports from Tiflis are to the effect that "Red" troops entered the Georgian capital on ...
Article : 170 wordsThe Dublin correspondent of the London "Morning Post" says:—Residents of the northern border territory are discussing openly the imminence of ...
Article : 183 wordsIn pursuance of a motion which was carried in the Chinese House of Representatives, the Government of China has telegraphed from Peking to the Chinese ...
Article : 219 wordsThe calling of a meeting of the Assembly for this morning aroused expectations of an announcement regarding arbitration and security. The public ...
Article : 192 wordsFive Spanish columns which were operating to relieve the post at Gorgues lost heavily. The Riff tribesmen ate offering fierce resistance, and the fighting ...
Article : 33 wordsA meeting of the Seamen's Union to-day discussed the strike at the Williamstown shipyards. It was agreed that no members of the union should accept any ...
Article : 68 wordsA Fengtlen aeroplane dropped this morning a bomb between two foreign vessels which are anchored near the Chinwang-tao breakwater (Gulf of ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Barcelona correspondent of the London "Observer" says that nearly twenty thousand soldiers are engaged in the work of trying to relieve the post at ...
Article : 63 wordsThe boomings of guns west and north-west of Shanghai are now heard clearly in the city. This does not mean that Kiangsu troops are near of to Shanghai. ...
Article : 88 wordsOne man was killed and three others injured when a motor car containing six men overturned at Dandenons to-night. The victims were: Killed, George Uglow ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Central Council of the Miners' Federation has decided, after a three days' session, to order all idle mines in the northern districts to resume work. ...
Article : 95 wordsAfraid which was made to-day by police on an unoccupied house in Belfast resulted in the discovery of a machine gun, a quantity of bombs, a score ...
Article : 59 wordsAccording to a Spanish official despatch Spanish troops have occupied the Gorgues position, thus safeguarding the surrounding points, and dominating the ...
Article : 41 wordsShanghai-Kwan was shelled by Marshal Chang-Tso-Lin's artillery yesterday. A Chinese banker was killed. Foreign residents telegraphed protests on the ...
Article : 61 wordsSignor Salandra (Italy) announced to-day in the Assembly of the League that an Italo-Swiss Treaty relative generally to arbitration had been signed in Rome. ...
Article : 103 wordsA motor accident in which one man was killed and two badly injured occurred on Saturday might in William-street, East Sydney. The car skidded ...
Article : 170 wordsSpurred by the strong public protest against the proposed double tram line over the Horseshoe Bridge, the Minister for Railways (Mr. J. C. Willcock) ...
Article : 956 wordsThe survivors from the wreck of the steamer Asian arrived in Liverpool to-day. They tell graphic stories of their sufferings. They say that they were ...
Article : 356 wordsMr. M. Chariton (Australia) spoke at the anti-war meeting this evening, when thousands of persons were present, among others being M. Boncour (the ...
Article : 237 wordsExperts are not sanguine about the wireless on the Huddlesfield, and are doubtful whether the operator will be able to establish communication with ...
Article : 25 wordsIn a public thoroughfare at Petersham on Saturday afternoon a young woman was shot dead, and her assailant made an ineffectual attempt to take his own ...
Article : 217 wordsMr. C. D. Wilbur (the secretary for the Navy) called at the White House to-day, and after he had a conference with President Coolidge he announced ...
Article : 116 wordsGeneral Wu-Pei-Fu was interviewed to-day by British, American, French, Japanese and Chinese Press correspondents. Asked whether, he intended to follow ...
Article : 186 wordsA writ has been issued by Lilian Tune, wife of George Tune, master of the ill-fated Douglas Mawson, against John Burke, Ltd., for £2.214 ...
Article : 16 wordsIt has been agreed that the protocol shall not be operative until it has been ratified in the fifteen States concerned and the Conference on Disarmament has ...
Article : 305 wordsSir.—From the letter of September [?] by "Challenger," in your columns, it is easily seen that the one "who has had considerable experience of aborigines" ...
Article : 198 wordsThe question of sending a British seaplane to Baltimore to take part in the race for the Schneider Cup may have to be reconsidered in consequence of an ...
Article : 190 wordsSenator Payne, interviewed, said that about half a million natives inhabited the mandated territory, but only a fringe were under control. Twenty miles from ...
Article : 271 wordsThe romantic story of the gamekeeper's son securing the hand of the proud daughter of the lord of the estate on which the lad had been reared is told ...
Article : 827 wordsSome important discoveries have been made in connection with the Dekerninon mystery. The Comtesse, who was accused by the Comte on his deathbed, ...
Article : 301 wordsAn engagement between Chang's second army and enemy forces near Jehol resulted in the flight of the whole of the first Chihli mixed brigade. ...
Article : 50 wordsMarshal Chang-Tso-Lin called a meeting at his residence, it being attend by the British and American Consuls and other citizens. He ...
Article : 134 wordsThe rain received on Saturday morning was the best general downpour of the year, for in addition to further benefiting the agricultural areas it has ...
Article : 216 wordsAt the luncheon of members of the Conference of the Institute of Transport at Wembley. Mr. H. Gosling (Minister for Transport), in proposing, the toast ...
Article : 135 wordsThe British airman, Mr. Alan Cobham, arrived here at 7.30 o'clock on Friday evening, having flown from London in about fourteen hours, with only one ...
Article : 66 wordsThe sub-committee on the question of disarmament had a prolonged sitting to-day. It is expected to conclude its business to-morrow. The ensemble work ...
Article : 109 wordsPromise of improved mail and cable service is given by the Postmaster-General (Mr. W. C. Gibson) who is a passenger by the Osterley, which arrived at the ...
Article : 193 wordsThree officers were killed and another injured seriously as a result of the "crashing" of a bombing aeroplane. ...
Article : 29 wordsOfficial despatches report that Government troops near Chaoyang (Chihli) shot down an enemy aeroplane, and that three of Chang-Tso-Lin's companies have ...
Article : 37 wordsIn connection with charges of gun-running. Mr. Attfield, senior, has been released from the Brixton (London) Gaol, where he has been imprisoned since ...
Article : 303 wordsReports have been received to the effect that 37 out or 49 villages on the banks of the Aras River in the vilayet of Erzerum (Armenia) have been ...
Article : 51 wordsMr. Arthur Henderson (Great Britain) announced to-day that the International Conference on the Question Disarmament would begin on June 15. He ...
Article : 112 wordsA plebiscite programme brought the beautiful art of Mr. Munz to the ears of Perth music lovers for the last time on Saturday. At the previous concert ...
Article : 319 wordsAt Haverford (Pennsylvania), the Gentlemen of Philadelphia in their first innings were all out for 315 against the Incogniti, who replied with 236. In their ...
Article : 83 words"Summer time" in the United Kingdom will end at 3 o'clock to-morrow (Sunday) morning. Following Great Britain's action in ...
Article : 495 wordsFurther earthquake shocks have occurred in the Erzerum district. The ground in many places is fissured, and terrifying subterranean noises are audible. ...
Article : 46 wordsA passage between Mrs. Helena M. Swanwick (Great Britain) and Miss Helen Vacaresco (Rumania) was one of the titbits of the day. Mrs. Swanwick ...
Article : 171 wordsAlec Bannerman, whose death was announced last week, was 65 years of age, and was Australia's most inveterate, stone-waller. He had a long career as a ...
Article : 320 wordsA deputation from the Licensed Victuallers' Association recently waited upon the Minister for Justice to protest against the method of allocation of ...
Article : 380 wordsMr. A. R. Hassan (the British representative of the Australian Meat Council) has written to the London newspapers questioning the fairness of ...
Article : 125 wordsAs a result of Mr. M. Chariton's protest, the French delegation to the Assembly of the League of Nations has requested the French Foreign Office to ...
Article : 80 wordsA vivid word picture of conditions as they exist in France to-day was given by M. Georges Bader, commercial attache to the Consul General for France ...
Article : 202 wordsLong terms of imprisonment were to-day imposed by Acting Judge Sheridan on three men convicted at the Darlinghurst sessions. ...
Article : 194 wordsSir,—With reference to the running of trams over the Horseshoe Bridge and the prohibiting of the use of the existing bridge by pedestrians, I would like to ...
Article : 113 wordsThe chairman of the Oversea Shipping Representatives' Association (Mr. S. J. Clarence) referred to-night to the objection which has been raised by the ...
Article : 226 wordsM. G. Motta (President of the Assembly of the League of Nations) has entrusted to Mr. George Taylor, of Sydney, the arrangements for the ...
Article : 83 wordsPhotographs of every member of the English cricket team will appear in this week's "Western Mail." ...
Article : 18 wordsA City Council linesman working on the overhead power wires at Neutral Bay was electrocuted this afternoon. He expired before medical aid reached him, ...
Article : 101 wordsMrs. McCluskey and Mr. G. Ogden, local workers on behalf of the Children's Home at Parkerville, arranged that yesterday should be an egg gift day at the ...
Article : 72 wordsThieves on Saturday night displayed considerable daring in sealing a fire escape and breaking into the rear of Leash House, 127 York-street, and making a ...
Article : 92 wordsA cattle boat left Darwin this morning with five hundred head for Manila. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe Council of the League discussed the question of Mosul. Felthi Bey (Turkey) claimed that the whole vilayet of Mosul belonged ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 22 Sep 1924, Page 7
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