The British War Medal will also be granted to British and Overseas mercantile mariners, including pilots, fishermen, and crews of pilot boats, the qualification being a ...
Article : 61 wordsIn the course of the debate in the House of Commons on the Colonial Office vote, Sir Donald Maclean (Leader of the Asquithian Liberals) said that he looked forward with ...
Article : 49 wordsThe King received to-day deputations from the London County Council, Non-Conformist ministers, and English Presbyterian ministers. Each deputation presented an ...
Article : 227 wordsThe new German Constitution has been adopted by the National Assembly by 262 votes to [?]4. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Minister for Labour (Sir R. S. Horne) discussed the situation with a deputation of Yorkshire miners, and the Miners' Association agreed to confer with the owners. It ...
Article : 507 wordsThe Australian military depots in England are being closed, except that at Sutton Veny, which will be the final assembly base. There was about 1,500 Australian ...
Article : 156 wordsThe case of Miss Violet Dougles-Pennant, which has been agitating political circles for many months, took a dramatic turn in the House of Lords to-day, when it was decided ...
Article : 121 wordsAli Ahmad, the President of the Afghan delegates at the Peace Conference at Rawal Pindi, in reply to Sir Alfred Hamilton Grent, the representative of the Imperial ...
Article : 593 wordsUnder the above headings the "Australasian Journalist" of July 15 published the following:— "The employees of the Barrier "Daily ...
Article : 1,309 wordsIn the House of Commons this evening Mr. Austen Chamberlain (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) said that the average daily national expenditure from April to July of ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Hanover correspondent of the New York "Sun" interviewed Field-Marshal von Hindenburg, who said that if the trial of the ex-Maiser were held it would violate ...
Article : 121 wordsLieut.-Colonel the Hon. F. S. Jackson, M.P. (the well-known ex-cricketer) is the chairman of the committee which is inquiring into "profiteering," and which meets ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Ministry for Health has bad a survey made of the empty houses in London and is arranging to convert big homes into flats, providing thereby housing for some 100,000 ...
Article : 44 wordsSix parties of Australian aviators are hopeful of being able to take part in the competition for the prize for a flight to Australia. Two machines are being ...
Article : 87 wordsThe King has made Marshal Foch a Field Marshal of the British Army. In receiving the freedom of the City of London to-day, Marshal Foch received the ...
Article : 117 wordsThe Australian military authorities deny that the warning which they issued recently described as "undesirables" the majority of those soldiers who are absent without ...
Article : 178 wordsLieutenant Agar has been awarded the "Mystery" Victoria Cross for exploits in secret naval operations against the Bolsheviks in the Petrograd region. ...
Article : 29 wordsA White Book has been published giving copies of all the documents relating to the collaps of the German army in the 90 days which preceded the armistice. The ...
Article : 116 wordsThe House of Commons has passed the third reading of the Bill which compels ocean-going vessels of over sixteen hundred tons to carry wireless installations. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe King has assumed the title of Chief of the Royal Air Force and has also approved of the alteration of titles of the commissioned ranks. "Marshal of the Air" ...
Article : 56 wordsThe London "Daily Telegraph" says that privates' pay in the British Army will be raised shortly to 2s. a day, increasing to four shillings a day when soldiers are ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Government will move in both Houses of Parliament on Wednesday votes of thanks to the forces and the auxiliary services, and it will also announce honours ...
Article : 85 wordsMr. Austen Chamberlain, Mr. Walter Long, Sir Eric Geddes, and Sir Auckland Geddes issued writs for libel against the proprietors of the London, "Daily News," in ...
Article : 141 wordsRonald Bohlf, test pilot for Mr. Glenn H. Curtiss, the well-known aeroplane manufacturere, has attained a height of 30,700 feet, which is believed to be an official ...
Article : 32 wordsTo-day M. Klotz (the Minister for Finance) informed the Peace Committee of the Chamber of Deputies that the total amount which Germany owed, and which ...
Article : 140 wordsThe Australian surplus army stores are being sold in Britain with satisfactory results. A number of typewriting machines have realised £25 a piece. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe decline in the birth rate continued to excite public discussion and a congress to consider the problem will meet at Nancy in September. In order to encourage ...
Article : 73 wordsRecently a motor car containing Mr. W. M. Hughes injured a man at Brentfore (Middlesex). To-day Mr. Hughes's chauffeur was fined 40s. for dangerous driving, ...
Article : 62 wordsGeneral Sir John Monash, interviewed by a representative of the London "Daily Telegraph" emphasised the necessity for the coordinated training of the armies of the ...
Article : 169 wordsThe House of Commons, under the "guillotine resolution," voted £460,000,000 in Committee of Supply without discussion. ...
Article : 23 wordsAmong the most notable instances of recognition of this kind is that of the Duke of Wellington, who was not only a great military leader, but a statesman of ...
Article : 393 wordsThe German National Assembly has passed a Bill which provides for Customs duties to be paid in gold. If German bank notes should be used in this ...
Article : 50 wordsIn the House of Commons to-night, Mr. E. Shortt (the Home Secretary) announced that 11,750 Germans (male and female) had been exempted from repatriation. ...
Article : 31 wordsBritain has notified Holland that she cannot recognise the sale of two 20,000 tons Hamburg-American liners sold to a Dutch firm from Germany, as they fall within ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Peace Committee of the Chamber of Deputies pointed out that the Germans disguised a number of merchant ships as Dutch vessels for service in ...
Article : 67 wordsDuring the week-end 27 fresh cases of influenza were notified to the Health Department, 17 being reported on Saturday and 10 yesterday, The distribution of the cases ...
Article : 190 wordsThe Commonwealth Wine Company has secured the output of Graham's (Rutherglen, Victoria) and Lindeman's (New South Wales) vineyards. It proposes to acquire ...
Article : 133 wordsMr. J. H. Thomas, M.P. secretary of the Railwaymen's Union, referring to the triple industrial alliance ballot, said the workers were not in favour of Bolshevism, but they ...
Article : 142 wordsSome 180,000 workers in Berlin are receiving out-of-work pay. Strikes involving tens of thousands of persons are of daily occurance, and there is a serious shortage ...
Article : 73 wordsRecord breaking bank holiday crowds are besieging the London termini, and there are duplicate trains to all seaside resorts. Aeroplanes are being used ...
Article : 77 wordsAfter August 15 the Imperial Graves Commission will take over the work in connection with the formation of the Australian military cemeteries in France, under ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Committee of Inquiry has approved of the scheme for the construction of the Channel tunnel. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe British representative in Vienna de nies the report as to the overthrow of Dr. Bela Kun (the Soviet Minister for Foreign Affairs in Hungary). ...
Article : 108 wordsPeace celebrations are commencing to-day throughout the Union, and are extending over four days. All the principal towns are decorated. Features of ...
Article : 60 wordsUnder an arrangement with the War Office, Australia, after the demobilisation has been finished. will be in possession of complete new uniforms, arms, and equip ...
Article : 46 wordsTwo hundred cases of war trophies from France are being shipped to Australia is the Barambah; also the trophies forming the war museum in Australia House. The ...
Article : 84 wordsThe National Union of Police has called a strike immidiately as a protest against the Government's Bill prohibiting the police joining a trade union. Some of the ...
Article : 285 wordsIn connection with the Sex Disqualification Removed Bill the House of Lords has rejected the provision for the admission of Pearesses. The Government left the ...
Article : 128 wordsThe necessity for retaining in London a senior staff of officers for clearing up Australian repatriation operations has aroused apprehension among officers regarding their ...
Article : 214 wordsFive new cases of influenza were admitted to the isolation ward of the Fremantle Public Hospital during the week-end, and three deaths were reported. There are now ...
Article : 63 wordsAmong the matters to be submitted to the forthcoming Nationalist Congress are resolutions protesting against the acceptance by the Union of the mandate over ...
Article : 64 wordsThe opera season closed with a gala performance at the Covent Garden Theatre for the benefit of officers' families. The house was draped with the Allied flags, and ...
Article : 89 wordsThe Roumanians have defeated completely the Hungarian troops at the River Theis, and taken many prisoners and much booty. ...
Article : 93 wordsAs the result of an outbreak of fire in a forward hatch the steamer Wauchope, a small vessel, which was well-known in the Tasmanian trade, and which was lying in ...
Article : 404 wordsThere are 21 patients in the isolation hospital, five of whom are seriously ill. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe House of Commons agreed to-day to the Army Vote. [In 1917-18, according to the appropriation account, the net cost of the British ...
Article : 131 wordsMr. Roos, the chairman of the Transvaal Nationalist Party, and who is General Hertzog's principal lieutenant, has issued what amounts to an ultimatum declaring ...
Article : 78 wordsThe admissions to the hospitals on Saturday numbered 58, and on Sunday 69. To-night there were 1,180 patients in the hospital. The deaths in the metropolitan ...
Article : 91 wordsThe Government has decided that Sir Edwin Lutyens's "Cenotaph to the Glorious Dead" shall be re-erected in Whitehall (London) as a permanent memorial and be ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Governor of Tasmania (Sir Francis Newdegate), besides taking the keenest interest in the welfare of members of the A.I.F. who have returned ...
Article : 285 wordsMr. W. M. Hughes, Sir Joseph Cook, and the members of their party arrived yesterday morning by the ex-German liner Friedrichsrube. They were met at the ...
Article : 173 wordsIt has been announced semi-officially that the Supreme Council here will slow Bulgaria a commercial outlet to the Aegean Sea, by means of a special railway across ...
Article : 67 wordsThe Washington, correspondent of the New York "Times" says that Mr. Chas E. Hughes, who unsuccessfully opposed Dr. Wilson at the last Presidential election, has ...
Article : 147 wordsIn the House of Commons this evening Mr. Bonar Law (the Leader of the House) said that the Peace Conference had not arrived at a decision concerning the fate ...
Article : 96 wordsOnly two deaths from influenza were reported during the week-end. The admissions to the hospitals for two days numbered 25. ...
Article : 29 wordsJapanese workers in many trades, under threats of striking, have secured increases in wages ranging from 20 to 60 per cent. and a general reduction in the number of ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Supreme Council here has given to the Roumania the whole of the Dobrudja, accepting her voluntary rectification of its southern frontier. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Florant, which has been searching for the steamer Llywellyn, arrived at Mackay on Saturday. The master stated that, according to the wreckage found. ...
Article : 204 wordsAfter a strike which lasted three weeks, the seamen have agreed to a settlement whereby they will have a working day of eight hours, increased wages, and the ...
Article : 56 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day Mr. Walter Long (the First Lord of the Admiralty) said that the Government did not propose to hold a Court of Inqury into the ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Poles have now occupied the whole of Eastern Galicia. ...
Article : 18 wordsMost of the German interness at Maritzburg, Natal, have been released and have gone to various parts of the country under strict injunctions to keep away from ...
Article : 97 wordsAfter a 20 days' debate the Chamber of Deputies has approved of a scheme of electoral reform and proportional representation. ...
Article : 32 words"Don't move or I will stiffen you," was the sinister threat hurled at Mr. Edric Anderson and his wife from the darkest corner of their bedroom when they were ...
Article : 182 wordsMr. H. B. G. Larkin (manager of the Commonwealth Government line of steamers) has signed contracts for the construction of two Commonwealth Government ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the New York "Times" says that the Treasury Department has announced that the estimated revenue for the fiscal year 1920 will total ...
Article : 48 wordsAfter nearly a fortnight's total cessation of tram traffic there is now a prospect of a settlement of the strike. The main issue has been the refusal of the tramway ...
Article : 158 wordsA conference of those interested in the dairying industry in Queensland will be held, in Brisbane on August 14 and 15 to consider the proposal for a dairy ...
Article : 164 wordsReferring on Saturday to a cable message announcing that Britain and America had resumed trade relations with Germany, and that similar action by Australia ...
Article : 102 wordsThe Appeal Court has upheld a decision of the Transvaal Supreme Court to the effect that gold mines are liable to taxation by the Provincial Councils. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the United Press Association of America reports that the Government of the united States has made a new loan of 157,549,000 ...
Article : 57 wordsAbout four thousand remaining New Zealand soldiers, many with wives and families will embark during the next two months. The Corinthic will sail on August 9, with ...
Article : 133 wordsAn element of mystery surrounds the manners in which Albert Walsh (25), a labourer who resided with his mother in West Melbourne, met with the injury which ...
Article : 126 wordsThe conference between the coal miners and the colliery owners to consider the miners' demands for increased wages and fewer working hours has, so far, been ...
Article : 89 wordsApart from any debate which may arise in connection with the strike developments, there is nothing on the notice paper of either House of the Federal Parliament ...
Article : 85 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the New York "Evening World" says that the Treasury Department has announced that the United States exports for the fiscal year ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 4 Aug 1919, Page 5
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