Senator Pearce (Minister for Defence in Australia) has completed Mr. W. M. Hughes's arrangement to ship the 11in. railway gun which the 31st Battalion ...
Article : 191 wordsGeneral Birdwood is visiting France for the purpose of presenting to the people of Amiens the 15in, naval gun which the Third Battalion Captured in August at ...
Article : 85 wordsSir Auckland Geddes (the President of the Board of Trade) has announced that a Government scheme has been devised in conjucntion with the banking and trading ...
Article : 58 wordsSenator Millen to-day forwarded to the Federal Council of the Seamen's Union his reply to the representations made to him recently. He intimated that he had made ...
Article : 148 wordsThe outstanding feature of yesterday's developments in connection with the pneumonic influenza outbreak was the increase in the mortality. Nine deaths were ...
Article : 247 wordsIn a letter in the Government journalistic organ, the Capetown "Ons Land," Mr. F. S. Malan, the Minister for Industries, discusses the movement for the reunion of ...
Article : 237 wordsThe Yorkshire miners contiue to await overtures from the coal masters. The latter are awaiting action by the Coal Controller (Sir Even Jones). Every day the ...
Article : 231 wordsNo material progress has been made towards the settlement of the woodlines dispute. The industrial disputes' committee is awaiting a reply from the Chamber of ...
Article : 105 wordsThe following sentences have been passed on the Laon "informers":—Toque and seven other spies, sentenced to death; and others to various terms of imprisonment, including ...
Article : 277 wordsThere are 91,818 German prisoners of war in the United Kingdom, including 2,908 sailors and 4,306 civilians. Most of the prisoners are employee in the agricultural ...
Article : 46 wordsThe final quota of the mobile Australian military force sailed for Australia in the steamer Ulysses. It is representative of the last of the 80,000 or 90,000 men ...
Article : 82 wordsIn the House of Commons this evening Mr. Winston Churchill (the Secretary of State for War), replying to criticisms of Britains military policy ...
Article : 333 wordsA large meeting of unemployed was held at Boulder to-day for the purpose of protesting against the action of the Government in reducing the rations to the men ...
Article : 296 wordsAt a meeting of the Trades Hall Council on Thursday night, a report, submitted by the Disputes' Committee, concerning the treatment meted out to its representatives ...
Article : 134 wordsThe bread subaidy is costing the Treasury about £47,000,000 a year. The Government has now decided that it cannot be increased, and that if it should be ...
Article : 269 wordsThe newspapers announce that an agreement has been concluded between an important British syndicate and a Dutch company, with the object of making wholesale ...
Article : 71 wordsThe King and Queen and other roya[?] met with a great reception in the city to-day, when the King was presented with an address of congratulation on the ...
Article : 359 wordsThe German allegation that the Belgian archives proved the existene of Anglo-Belgian complicity at the outbreak of the war has been disproved by Colonel ...
Article : 83 wordsFollowing on negotiations between the Fremantle Public Hospital board of management and the Commissioner for Public Health (Dr. E. Atkinson), it was decided to ...
Article : 373 wordsThe Council of Five has granted to the Austrain peace delegates an extension of a week in which to submit their observations on the Austrian Peace Treaty. ...
Article : 37 wordsIn the House of Representatives to-day, Mr. Sampson asked what policy and action the Government proposed to adopt in connection with the revolt of the seamen ...
Article : 171 wordsMr. C. B. Stanton, M.P. for Aberdare (Glamorganshire), and a member of the Coalition National Democratic Party, is at the head of a movement among the Welst ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 167 wordsThe Boston correspondent of the New York" Evening Sun: reports that, owing to the scarcity of fine American wool on the market, wool men are urging the ...
Article : 58 wordsSir Robert S. Horne (the Minister for Labour) said, in the course of an interview to-day:—"The country's wealth is depleted, and the industrial outlook is grave ...
Article : 84 wordsThe following resolution was carried at a meeting of the Kalgoorlie Roads Boards to-night:—That a message be sent to the Premier to the effect that this board ...
Article : 71 wordsA branch of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers' Association has been formed in London. ...
Article : 23 wordsIn the National Assembly in Weimar Her Harman Muller (the Minister for Foreign Affairs) said that Britain told the Papal Nuncio that it had no opportunity of ...
Article : 152 wordsIn the House of Commons to-night, in moving the second reading of the Soudan Loan Bill, Mr. Cecil B. Harmsworth (the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs) ...
Article : 100 wordsA representative of the London "Daily Chronicle" interviewed the Governor-General of the Archangel Procvince, who said. "I am optimistic regarding the future. ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Acting Chief Secretary (Mr. Hunter) stated to-day that he had received a telegram from the Mayor of Townsville, to the effect that no flour will be available in ...
Article : 80 wordsThe golden jubilee of the arrival of the Christian Brothers in Australia was celebrated at Fremantle on Thursday. In the morning a solemn High mass was onered ...
Article : 1,029 wordsOwing to constant small strikes, the directors of the Ebbw Vale Steel, Iron, and Coal Company, Monmouthshire, have decided to rake out the blast furnaces. The ...
Article : 158 wordsA British company has been registered here as the Commonwealth Wine Company with a capital of £250,000. Sir Newton Moore, M.P., is a director. ...
Article : 132 wordsA wireless message says that the anti-Bolsheviks claim to be within two days march of Kieff, and that the Bolsheviks admit that they have retired to Zhmerinka ...
Article : 45 wordsMr. H. B. G. Larkin, the manager of the Commonwealth Government line of steamers has notified the Australian Merchants' Association (London) that he is prepared to ...
Article : 115 wordsOwing the the refusal of the crew to put to sea, the Commonwealth liner Austral Port has been detained, and is now lying off Williamstown. She will remain there ...
Article : 154 wordsShipping circles here are somewhat dubious about the commercial practicablenees of America's scheme for the construction of gigantic Atlantic liners. It is pointed out ...
Article : 87 wordsThe Commissioner of Public Health (Dr. Atkinson) stated last night that he desired to reiterte his previous warning to the public that during the present epidomic it ...
Article : 147 wordsThe Cleveland (Yorkshire) iron masters have decided not to increase the prices of iron, etc., in consequece of the increase of 6s. a ton in the price of coal. ...
Article : 38 wordsIn Rhondda (Glamorganshire) a crowd which consisted largerly of demobilised non assailed Mr. Tom Mann, who was attempting to make a speech in favour of the ...
Article : 69 words"Broklyn" writes:—At the invitation of Major Norman Breafley I was anorded yesterday morning an opportunity of nyine from the Belmont Park facecourse, where ...
Article : 402 wordsAt the Bothwell (Scotland) by-election J. Robertson (Labour) polled 13,135 votes, and Provest Moffat (Coalition) 5,967 votes. [At the recent general election D. H. ...
Article : 67 wordsLord Askwith (formerly Sir George Rankin Askwith Chief Industrial Commissioner), has a remarkable letter in the newspaper, intering Mr. Lloyd George for his ...
Article : 158 wordsCount Karolyi has been arrested in Prague. He was travelling with his wife and using a false passport. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe New Zealand and Australian Officers' Club in Granville-place, London, is about to be closed. General Johnstone (of New Zealand); presiding at an officers' diner, ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Coal Board met to-day, and the chairman (Commander Bracegirdle) after wards made the following statement:—"The board took into consideration the latest ...
Article : 89 wordsAdvice has been received that the following N.C.O., ex Rio Pado, left Sydney by rull on July 27 for this district:—34369 Sgt. Anderson H.L. ...
Article : 255 wordsA wireless Hungarian official message admits the retirement on July 27 behind the river Theiss in order to obviate engagements with greatly superior Roumanian ...
Article : 83 wordsIn connection with an application made to-day on behalf of the child of the late Mrs. Eliot (foremerly Mr. Atherton) by her first marriage, the Court granted letters of ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Health Department advised last night that further supplies of old linen were urgently required for use in connection with the influenza hospitals, and ...
Article : 44 wordsA committee of the House of Commons has reported in favour of the expenditure of an additional sum of £20,000,000 which will increased soldiers' pensions by 40 per ...
Article : 48 wordsAn air of suspicion has been engendered in political circles by rumours and the kite-flying tactics of certain Ministers, and Mr. Ryan's Cabinet is believed to be ...
Article : 232 wordsThe council of the Peace Conference is discussing the project submitted by Signor Tittom (the Premier of Italy) for an inter-Allied economic committee of the Entente ...
Article : 81 wordsThere are, now 18 patients in the isolation hospital, six of them being seriously ill ...
Article : 23 wordsAbout two hundred vessels of the pre-Dreadnought type of the British Navy are being sold for breaking up. They include a number of destroyers. ...
Article : 32 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day Mr. Boner Law (the Leader of the House) said that no statements as to the Government's Irish policy would be made before the ...
Article : 89 wordsThe Customs revenue of the Commonwealth for the financial year which ended on June 30 last was the highest since Federation, but the figures for July seem to ...
Article : 217 wordsThe influenza admissions to hospitals to-day numberd 69, and discharged cases 146, leaving 1,281 cases under treatment. Seven deaths occurred in hospital. The registrans ...
Article : 45 wordsIn view of the British Government's invitation to merchants to trade with Germany, commercial circles here are anxious to receive an early pronounement of ...
Article : 89 wordsIn the House of Commons to-night Major General J. E. B. Seely (Under-Secretary of State for Air) said that all of the German air machines would be handed ...
Article : 43 wordsPatick Guerin, of Richmond, a returned soldier, committed sucide last night by shooting himself with a gun. He was very popular in the district, was a member of ...
Article : 157 wordsAn Egyptian telegram says that General Allenby informed a Greek diplomatic representative in Cairo that Britain intended to hand Cyprus over the Greece. ...
Article : 69 wordsThe demolition of the Heligoland forts has been in progress for some time, and will be completed in a few days. ...
Article : 30 wordsConsiderable interest is being taken in the debates in the House of Lords on the Transport Bill, which has reached the committee stage. Notice has been given of a ...
Article : 216 wordsThe prospectus of the new Commonwealth Peace Loan, for £25,000,000, was issued to-day. Most of the clauses in the prospectus have already been explained by the Acting ...
Article : 376 wordsSome time ago the National Party in the Federal Parliament House appointed committes of its members to look after sectional interests, such as the wheat, wool ...
Article : 327 wordsMr. Justice Pring, sitting as a Royal Commission to-day, listened to counses addresses relating to the Georgeson contract for the purchase of wheat for the ...
Article : 283 wordsA Japanese syndicate has purchased about 800,000 acres of land on the upper reaches of the River Amazon suitable for sugar. coffee, and cotton. This is the forerunner ...
Article : 46 wordsThe attention of the Premier (Mr. Peake) was directed to a statement made by Mr. Madison Harvey, at Mildura, in which he urged the formation of a new inland State ...
Article : 238 wordsThe Australian military authorities are issuing a warning to all soldiers who are absent without leave that after August 15 they will forfeit free pasages and war ...
Article : 96 wordsThe Rotterdam correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph" says:—"Germany is sick of disorder, and the old military leaders are being welcomed back as the ...
Article : 69 wordsOver the greater part of the State fine weather was again reported yesterday morning but the heavy barometric declinc noted on the previous day had continued over ...
Article : 191 wordsAdmiral Fitzmaurice sent a mission to Denizli (Asia Minor), under Captain Atkinson to demand the return of a number of [?]and [?]had been deported ...
Article : 74 wordsThere is great congestion at the Tilbury docks on the Thames. Several vessels have been held up for a fortnight awaiting berths. These include some vessels from ...
Article : 130 wordsThe members of the Parliamentary Labour Party have passed a vote of censure on Mr. Neil McLean (M.P. for Govan), the Labour Whip, for having refused to rise ...
Article : 51 wordsThe advance in the prices of tin is due to America anto-dating the time for the resumption of general dealings to August 15. instcad of September 1, as well as to ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Government of France has purchased from the United States war stores valued at 1,000,000,000 dollars (about £200,000,000) and about 100,000 motor lorries and motor ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Sat 2 Aug 1919, Page 7
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