In the House of Commons last evening Sir Eric C. Geddes, the First Lord of the Admiralty, in introducing the Naval Estimates, said that generally the ...
Article : 1,455 wordsMr. Lloyd George yesterday addressed the Unionist War Committee, and replied to criticisms regarding the appointment of newspaper proprietors to responsible ...
Article : 32 wordsThe investigation into the number of reinforcements required to keep the Australian forces at full strength, which is to be part of the Ministers' recruiting scheme, is ...
Article : 189 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs, describing the Australian raid at Warneton says that this is just the kind of warfare wherein the volunteer is better than the pressed men. An ...
Article : 422 wordsMr. A. McCallum (general secretary of the A.L.F.) has submitted to the State executive his report of the Federal Repatriation Conference proceedings. ...
Article : 70 wordsThe administration of the Lands Department was under review by members of the Legislative Assembly yesterday, when further consideration was given in Committee ...
Article : 1,725 wordsIn order to raise the funds necessary to enable the metropolitan charities participating in the present appeal to carry on their good work during the year, the ...
Article : 610 wordsThe London tank subscriptions amount to £11,000,000, including £1,000,000 from Messrs. Furness, Withy, and Co., the well-known ship owners. There were three ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Y.M.C.A. Soldiers' Club at Cremorne was availed of last week to a greater extent than in any previous week since its inception. The ladies assisting in ...
Article : 683 wordsSpeaking in the Legislative Assembly on the Lands Department Estimates for the current financial year, the Honorary Minister for Lands (Mr. F. E. S. Willmott) ...
Article : 291 wordsThe Washington correspondents of the New York newspapers say that the news of Japan's military action in Siberia is awaited hourly, but it is believed ...
Article : 216 wordsLord Jellicoe (the es-First Sea Lord), in a speech at Liverpool, said that the late Lieutenant-Commander Saunders. V.C., was one of the greatest heroes of the war. ...
Article : 78 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) has received, in reply to telegraphic inquiries made as to the number of Australian prisoners-of-war released from ...
Article : 115 wordsThe Minister for the Navy (Mr. Cook) has received news to the effect that 58 members of the crew of the German raider See Adler had reached Chili on the ...
Article : 107 wordsReferring to-day to the circular issued by the Secretary to the Defence Department regarding 2,500 eligibics in his department the Minister for Defence ...
Article : 257 wordsDr. Harold Williams the Petrograd correspondent of the London "Daily Chronicle," telegraphs that the Bolshevik newspaper, the "Pravda," gives the Bolsheviks' ...
Article : 229 wordsFines amounting to £50 were imposed upon the secretary of the Musicians Union (Alfred O'Brien) in the Industrial Court to-day. Judge Rolin said: O'Brien is ...
Article : 340 wordsSenator James H. Lewis (Illinois) the Democratic whip, discussing the question of Japan's intervention in Siberin, said:—"The United States will not allow any ...
Article : 99 wordsThe following official despatches have been issued:— London, March 5 (12.40 p.m.).—"Australian soldiers made a successful raid on ...
Article : 283 wordsThe "Martin" states that M. Pichon, the French Foreign Minister, in a speech delivered before the Foreign Affairs Committee, declared that Bolshevik ...
Article : 156 wordsThe letter from Lord Landsdowne regarding the possibility of peace negotiations, which was published in a cable message to-day, was commented upon by the ...
Article : 245 wordsLittle short of sensational has been the saving among the workers of Australia during the period of the war. It brings home in a striking way the immunity this ...
Article : 393 wordsThe Department of State has received information which tends to show that Count von Czernin (the Austrian Minister for Foreign Affairs) warned Roumania that it ...
Article : 95 wordsThe German newspapers, commenting on the question of Japan's intervention profess to believe that she is playing her own game against the Entente, and they even ...
Article : 174 wordsWhen the Premier (Mr. Ryan) visited Dallarnil be brought a policeman with him in a special train. In answering a farmer's interjection he became much annoyed and ...
Article : 50 wordsMrs. Heaton, of McCourt-street West Leederville has received word that her son Jack has been admitted into hospital in London suffering from trench fever. ...
Article : 56 wordsThe proceedings of the Methodist Conference were continued yesterday in Wesley Church, the president (Rev. H. Faull) presiding. ...
Article : 671 wordsMr. Gilmour representative of the Australian and New Zealand Press Association, writing from France is Friday last, said: "All France is awaiting coming ...
Article : 432 wordsA peace treaty carving up Roumania will be signed to-day. It cedes Dobrudja to Bulgaria, fixes the Hungarian frontier nd grants the Central Powers economic ...
Article : 55 wordsAbout one thousand men are still idle at the Small Arms Factory in Lithgow. It has been announced officially that no single "eligibles" will be employed unless they ...
Article : 59 wordsMr. Albert E. Spencer, clerk in charge of the records branch of the Lands Department, lies at present in the Perth Public Hospital in a very serious condition, ...
Article : 341 wordsPicked troops are guarding the frontiers against the menace of Siberian disorders. It is reported here that Russian troops are being massed on the western Chinese ...
Article : 45 wordsThe first meeting of the Belgian Parliament since the war began will be held in Paris this month. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Federal Treasury has available for issue a series of four stamps to be used in connection with the War Loan publicity campaign. Each of the stamps bears a ...
Article : 55 wordsThe coal porters at the Tilbury Docks threaten to strike to-day unless they are allowed an extra meat ration. ...
Article : 30 wordsMr. Lewis. the "Daily Express's" correspondent at Petrograd, says that the peace terms caused a storm of indignation amongst the local Soviest, who were not ...
Article : 95 wordsCertain criticism has recently been made in reference to the quality of the land at Osborne Park acquired by the Government for poultry settlement for returned ...
Article : 327 wordsPresident Wilson has asked Congress for authority to seize German-owned piers in American harbours. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe British Press Bureau reports that a fire and a slight explosion took place in a munitions factory in South Wales. Two persons were killed and four sustained ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Archbishop of York (Dr. Cosmo Gordon Lang), who is visiting America, gave an address to American soldiers, in which he said:—"Unless America gives her full ...
Article : 51 wordsStrong exception to the way in which enemy aliens interned in Berrima (New South Wales) were allowed to celebrate the Kaiser's birthday was taken recently at the ...
Article : 160 wordsSir Thomas Mackenzie (the High Commissioner for New Zealand) has been visiting the New Zealand camps, where he found all of the units in a very fit ...
Article : 66 wordsA Bill has been introduced empowering the President to conscribe labour, if necessary, from the men who have been drafted, for farms and for shipbuilding. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe second reading of the Industrial Arbitration Bill was moved by Mr. Fitzgerald in the Legislative Council to-day. Mr. Fitzgerald pointed to the provisions ...
Article : 132 wordsThree wireless installations have been discovered here, including one plant in a Broadway "sky-scraper." ...
Article : 22 wordsMr. Percival Philips says that the Australians have every reason to be proud of Sunday's and last night's raids. Both were perfectly planned, and were carried out ...
Article : 242 wordsIn the House of Lords last evening Lord Newton (Assistant Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs), in reply to a question asked by Lord Beresford, admitted ...
Article : 107 wordsCurious revelations have been made regarding the Austrian banker Rosenberg, concerned in the French espionage case His accomplice, Henry Bettelheim, ...
Article : 129 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) stated to-day that home service troops who were entitled to separation allowance paid to members of A.I.F. before the Prime ...
Article : 46 wordsThe trouble in the baking trade has not yet been settled. The master bakers are not prepared to entertain the request of the union for an all-round increase ...
Article : 127 wordsAnother conference regarding the appointment of tribunals to deal with disputes arising out of the Commonwealth's shipbuilding scheme and fixation of piece ...
Article : 96 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) announced to-day that the second report of the Royal Commission on the business methods of the Defence Department had ...
Article : 96 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph" understands that the settlement of the engineers' dispute with the Government over the Man Power is within sight. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe eighth German was loan opens on March 18, and closes a month later. It consists of 5 per cent. bonds, 4½ per cent Treasury bills, both issuing at 98. The ...
Article : 44 wordsIt is understood that Mr. Bonar Law will to-day demand a vote of credit for £550,000,000, making a total for the war period of £6,890,000,000. ...
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