A wireless Bolshevik message says:— "We started on May 14 a general advance in the Polotsk-Lepel region (Vitebsk) on a fifty-miles front. We penetrated the ...
Article : 93 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day, on the motion for the adjournment of the House over Whitsuntide, Sir Donald Maclean (leader of the Independent Liberals) ...
Article : 1,256 wordsThe Broken Hill branch of the A.M.A. celebrated the first anniversary of the strike by holding a picnic and sports meeting. A "celebration concert" took place ...
Article : 38 wordsAll the States were represented when the "Parliament of Premiers" met in the chamber of the Victorian Legislative Assembly to-day. Fifteen subjects were ...
Article : 1,217 wordsIn the Supreme Court yesterday the attention of the Chief Justice (Sir Robert McMillan) and a special jury of six was again devoted to the hearing of the case ...
Article : 444 wordsSevere strictures on the administration of the Northern Territory by Ministers, Parliament, and officials sent to the Territory are contained in the report of ...
Article : 1,628 wordsTwo alternative schemes with regard to the method of administration of the former German territory in the Pacific, over which the Commonwealth has been promised ...
Article : 923 wordsThe agreement covering employment in the Government Tramways expired on May 6. Mr. G. C. Kerr, secretary of the union, said yesterday that the initiative in regard ...
Article : 69 wordsCommenting upon Mr. Justice Ewing's report, the Minister for Home and Territories (Mr. Poynton) said in Parliament: "The report discloses an unsatisfactory condition of ...
Article : 137 wordsThe executive committee of the New South Wales branch of the Australian Labour Party has set out on a campaign for the capture of the New South Wales ...
Article : 255 wordsAt a sitting of the wages board which is inquiring into the railwaymen's claim for increased wages an accountant of the railway companies produced statistical ...
Article : 75 wordsOwing to the Bolsheviks' enormous superiority, the British military detachment at the Persian town of Enzeli (Caspian Sea) has accepted the Bolsheviks' terms and ...
Article : 45 wordsRepresentatives of the growers and exporters of meat in the various exporting States conferred to-day with the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) about the contract ...
Article : 120 wordsThe Tientsin correspondent of the London "Morning Post" asserts that Englishmen in the Far East are almost unanimous in opposing the renewal of the ...
Article : 151 wordsApart from literary topics, the French reviews have been devoting themselves in the main to affairs of the outside world. One of the most important articles of ...
Article : 614 wordsJudge Rolin, sitting in the Industrial Court to-day, had before him a report from the Industrial Registrar to the effect that the United Co-Operative Bricklayers ...
Article : 157 wordsIn Broken Hill the annual meeting of the Pastoralists' Association of the West Darling considered at length the proposals of the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) ...
Article : 113 wordsThe conferences which have been held by Signor Nitti with the various' party leaders have failed to produce a solution of the political crisis. ...
Article : 104 wordsThe attention of Mr. A. S. Canning, P.M., in the Local Court, has been directed during the last few days to the hearing of a case in which Bert Congdon, a ...
Article : 451 wordsTo-morrow (Sunday) his Grace the Archbishop of Perth will preach at the Cathedral in the morning, and in the afternoon he will give the address at the united ...
Article : 1,040 wordsUnder the provisions of the Arbitration Act it is provided that if it appears to the Federal Arbitration Court that any industrial authority is dealing, or is about to ...
Article : 372 wordsAmerican manufacturers, having realised the seriousness of the "slashing" of retail prices, are now expressing their willingness to co-operate with the bankers in ...
Article : 101 wordsThe new military policy of the Government is becoming more evident in Ireland. Cavalry are increasingly active, and Hussars are patrolling the hills outside of ...
Article : 105 wordsA case in which John Watson Brown, a Customs officer, and Leslie Sydney Wood, a clerk, were charged with having defrauded the Customs Department by ...
Article : 125 wordsMr. W. A. Watt (the Federal Treasurer) had a preliminary conversation to-day with Mr. Austen Chamberlain (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) with regard to ...
Article : 226 wordsIn his judgment delivered this afternoon on certain claims brought by the Australian Timber Workers' Union against respondents in all of the States except ...
Article : 162 wordsIn the South African House of Assembly yesterday a Bill to extend the life of the Senate of the Union to October 31 was read the third time. The Prime ...
Article : 104 wordsThe option held by the Celebration Junction Company on the lease adjoining the Hampton Celebration mine has been further extended for a period of six months. ...
Article : 360 wordsThe Acting Premier (Mr. W. J. George) was asked yesterday if he had anything further to make public regarding the charge of repudiation levelled by Mr. S. ...
Article : 101 wordsTommy Burns announces that he is prepared to put up £1,000 or £2,000 for a match against Beckett for the Empire championship. If he wins he is willing ...
Article : 125 wordsThe New Zealand Workers' Union has decided to amalgamate with the Australian Workers' Union. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe Perth branch of the Australasian Society of Engineers in April last submitted to the Collie District Industrial Union of Employers a schedule for increased pay ...
Article : 166 wordsSpeaking at the luncheon at the opening of the military tournament in London, Mr. Winston Churchill (Secretary of State for War) said that now that we had ...
Article : 350 wordsYesterday morning's weather reports showed that the rain was still chiefly coastal in character, although minor falls had penetrated inland as far as Kellerberrin ...
Article : 296 wordsAt the monthly meeting of the Western Australian Fire Brigades Board held yesterday afternoon a report was tabled dealing with the question of ambulance ...
Article : 299 wordsGiving evidence before the Necessary Commodities Commission to-day on the cost of clothing and blankets, Mr. F. W. Stoddart, of Robert Reid and Co., said that ...
Article : 127 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the United Press Association (U.S.A.) reports that President Wilson and his Cabinet decided on Tuesday that the Allies and ...
Article : 158 wordsIn February last a variation of agreement was made by the Metropolitan Timber Workers' Union and the employers concerned, which provided for increased ...
Article : 88 wordsNisi Prius.—At 10.30 a.m., before Mr. Justice Burnside: Vinka Martinovitch v. Ignatio Russo, Rossio Russo, and Antonio Russo (part heard). ...
Article : 105 wordsFollowing on the visit of the Minister for Mines to Western Australia to make inquiries concerning the iron deposits at Cockatoo Island, Yampi Sound, for the ...
Article : 104 wordsMaking further reference yesterday to the Repatriation Department's advertisement for a staff for the Anzac Hostel at Keane's Point at very much lower rates, ...
Article : 142 wordsIn the House of Representatives last right a Bill to authorise the raising of £30,000,000 for war loan and repatriation purposes passed all stages. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Sat 22 May 1920, Page 7
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