The "Evening Standard" states that the Supreme Council's decisions regarding economic questions recommend that greatly increased supplies of raw materials shali ...
Article : 143 wordsThe National Transport Workers' Federation have opened negotiations with the Ministry of Labour. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe following first-hand account of Soviet Russia, of Moscow and Petrograd, under Lenin, appeared in the London "Evening News" on January 19. The well-known ...
Article : 1,138 wordsIn the Criminal Court yesterday the trial of the 16 men charged with rioting in connection with the disturbances which took place on the mines at Fimiston on ...
Article : 1,147 wordsAlderman W. Brooks, M.L.C., of New South Wales, president of the Australian Federal Capital League, arrived in Melbourne to-day, with the object of ...
Article : 150 words"The position is still precarious, but it has been improving," remarked the Acting Commissioner of Railways (Colonel-Pope), yesterday, with reference to the effect of ...
Article : 181 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of the "Morning Post," writing on January 27, gives the following interesting details of the post-war feeling in Germany:— ...
Article : 918 wordsLieutenant-Colonel Amery, Under-Secretary for the Colonies, arranged a luncheon at which Mr. Andrew Fisher, Sir Thomas Mackenzie, the Agents-General and their ...
Article : 171 wordsAs a sequel to the railway strike the General Confederation of Labour has begun an agitation for the nationalisation of the railways, and has issued a manifesto on ...
Article : 42 wordsA man named Malatesta, who recently returned from a long exile in London is leading a general strike on the tramways and in the factories. An idle anarchist ...
Article : 57 wordsIt is provided in the Navigation Act that vessels registered in Australia, or engaged in the coasting trade, should have separate mess rooms for seamen and apprentices, on ...
Article : 159 wordsA stormy debate took place in the Prussian Parliament over the first reading of a Bill giving the ex-Kaiser the use for his lifetime of many palaces and theatres, ...
Article : 175 wordsLord Devonport, who was Food Controller in 1916-17, giving evidence before the dockers' wages inquiry, referred to the congestion at the Port of London. He ...
Article : 275 wordsIt is officially announced that the departure of the Renown has been unavoidably postponed owing to an outbreak of influenza on board. The Renown is strictly ...
Article : 118 wordsThe members of the Iron Trades Employers Association have decided to resist any illegal attempt by the Amalgamated Society of Engineers of any other iron ...
Article : 98 wordsHis Excellency the Administrator (Sir Francis Newdegate) and the Premier (Mr. James Mitchell) arrived here about noon on Saturday. They were met by the Mayor ...
Article : 123 wordsThe secretary of the A.W.U. has been notified that the wcodline workers at Gwalia ceased work on Wednesday last, owing to a dispute regarding wages. ...
Article : 33 wordsIt is likely that the offer of the Imperial Government to present six dirigibles to the Commonwealth will be withdrawn in view of there being no intention on the ...
Article : 383 wordsThe Parliamentary Committee, by 15 votes to 11, has recommended that Sweden join the League of Nations. ...
Article : 31 wordsMr. W. G. McAdoo, a former Secretary of the Treasury, suggests that the United States should purchase the British possessions off the Atlantic coast, including the ...
Article : 104 wordsThe report of the Commission of Investigation into Violations of International Law states that Captain Fryatt's courtmartial was conducted without any ...
Article : 155 wordsSuccess still attends the "Wonderworld' fete which is being conducted by the Fremantle branches of the R.S.A., on the Fremantle Oval. Up till last night the gross ...
Article : 667 wordsLord Jellicoe, in his message to the Overseas Dominions, which appears in the March issue of United Empire," says:—"No one can see as we can the efforts ...
Article : 158 wordsMasked men seized a mail van in Dominion-street, Dublin, in daylight, containing the Viceroy's letters and other Government correspondence. ...
Article : 106 wordsThe Secretary of the Navy (Mr. Daniels) has offered three naval proposals dependent upon the Senate's action with regard to the Peace Treaty. He says that if the Senate ...
Article : 193 wordsReplying in the House of Commons to a question by Mr. T. J. Bennett (Coalition Unionist, Sevenoaks), who inquired witth reference to the recent riots in Fiji, where ...
Article : 137 wordsThe newspapers are discussing the heavy fall of North Atlantic shipping freights. It is stated that the Government hopes to secure all the space it requires after the end ...
Article : 207 wordsConsiderable interest has been aroused by references to the arrest in Paris of an Australian officer in connection with alleged disorders. The interest has been ...
Article : 121 wordsStrong reinforcements of colonial troops are being sent to Cilicia, in Asia Minor, where the position is critical owing to the strength of Mustapha Kemal's legionaries. ...
Article : 38 wordsDr. J. L. Cope, in an interview with a representative of the Australian Press Association, said that he was greatly surprised at the Royal Geographical Society's ...
Article : 212 wordsMr. Chamberlain announced in the House of Commons that Britain's cash advances to the Allies since the signing of the armistice have been £169,500,000, the greater ...
Article : 41 wordsThe question of whether a street procession should receive the sanction of the Lord Mayor or the council as a whole was discussed at a meeting of the City Council ...
Article : 134 wordsSpecial leave to appeal from the decision of the High Court to the Privy Council has been granted in the case of the Westralian Powell Wood Process, Ltd., versus the ...
Article : 108 wordsA special "Gazette" was issued to-day, containing a proclamation by his Excellency the Governor-General, referring to the termination of the war. The proclamation ...
Article : 229 wordsThe newspapers are discussing the reconstruction of the Cabinet. They anticipate that Sir Robert Horne, Minister of Labour, will go to the Board of Trade; that Dr. ...
Article : 286 wordsColonel John Ward the Navvy M.[?].[?]. speaking in the city to-day, said that the late Admiral Koltchak was a clean-souled Russian patriot. The Allies persuaded him ...
Article : 363 wordsHeavy floods and snowstorms on the Atlantic coast have done damage which is estimated at 2,000,000 dollars. Documents read before the Senate ...
Article : 109 wordsDiscussing the subject of the war service housing scheme with representatives of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' Imperial League to-day, Senator Millen ...
Article : 297 wordsNisi Prius.—At 10.30 a.m., before Mr. Justice Burnside: Applications to fix dates for March list. Petition to confirm reduction of capital; in the matter of M. C. ...
Article : 84 wordsGeneral Sir Arthur Currie, who commanded a Canadian Corps during the war, addressing the Old Comrades' Association (Princess Patricia's Regiment), revealed the ...
Article : 129 wordsThe threatened expulsion of Mr. Minahan, one of the selected Labour candidates, from the A.L.P. because of his pledge to support the unconditional ...
Article : 160 wordsSir,—Mr. Stuart Patterson, in your issue of March 4, brings forward the suggestion of increasing the amount of super annually applied to the wheat crop. Professor ...
Article : 175 wordsYesterday morning opened with hot weather still established over practically the whole State. In the city the mercury rose steadily to a maximum of 101.8 ...
Article : 207 wordsMr. Robert Sievier's libel action against Mr. Richard Wootton has been opened, it being alleged that the defendant distributed pamphlets on the racecourse on ...
Article : 120 wordsAdmiral Horthing has been elected unopposed as Chief of State by the National Assembly at Budapest. The new Regent is a member of an old Hungarian family, and ...
Article : 107 wordsIt was announued to-day that Cabinet had approved of the erection of a State enterprise building. The intention of the Government is to erect a building of four ...
Article : 74 wordsMr. R. D. Meagher, ex-Lord Mayor of Sydney, and ex-Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, made his eighth ap lication to the Full Court to-day for reinstatement as ...
Article : 69 wordsThe profits made during 1919 by Lever Bros., Ltd., the well-known soap manufacturers. of Port Sunlight, amounted to £2,439,000. A dividend of 17½ per cent. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Tue 9 Mar 1920, Page 5
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