A representative of the Australian Press Association interviewed a high naval authority regarding the reorganisation of the naval defences of the Empire. The ...
Article : 340 wordsAn official memorandum reviews the recrudescence of crime in County Clare since January. It describes a determined attack which was made on July 20 on the police ...
Article : 217 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day the Home Secretary (Mr. E. Shortt) announced that the Government was admitting German business men to Britain if the ...
Article : 88 wordsDuring the week-end 44 fresh cases of influenza were reported to the Health Department. Of these 22 were notified on Saturday, the distribution of the cases being ...
Article : 168 wordsThe United States Government has addressed a note of warning to Mexico urging the need of a redical change of policy regarding the treatment of American ...
Article : 47 wordsAmong the passengers on the steamer Nikko Maru, which arrived at Pinkenba from Japan on Saturday, was Lientenant C Clarke, M.C., son of Mr. Clarke, ...
Article : 207 wordsA smoke social in celebration of "Association Day" was held at the Commercial Travellers' Club on Saturday night. The president (Mr. F. T. Knox) presided, and ...
Article : 792 wordsOn August 13 four British aeroplanes bombed Kronstadt heavily. Extensive fires broke out within the fortress, and great destruction has been reported. ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Liverpool Labour leadens, representing all trades, have unanimously decided to demand the reinstatement of the police strikers, otherwise there will be a general ...
Article : 85 wordsA message from Mexico City states that the Mexican Government, replying to the United States' Note, takes exception to the tone of menace employed. It points out ...
Article : 94 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Lloyd George) on Monday will make a statement in the House of Commons regarding future trade policy, and the general position of the ...
Article : 41 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day the Home Secretary (Mr. E. Shortt) said that Sylvia Pankhurst had admitted receiving £280 from Zachariasson for the support of ...
Article : 63 wordsIn consequence of General Mannerheim's refusal to retain the supreme command of the Finnish army, Fremur, Castren, and some of his other colleagues have resigned ...
Article : 37 wordsReplying to a question in the House of Commons, Mr. W. C. Bridgman (Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade) said that a refrigerated steamer which had been ...
Article : 67 wordsIn view of the greatly increased numbers of cases of influenza, and the deaths which have been recorded, the Commissioner of Public Health (Dr. Atkinson) was ...
Article : 899 wordsThe United States has prohibited the further exportation of arms and munitions to Mexico. ...
Article : 24 wordsA London message says that a decisive advance on Petrograd is pending. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe operating employees on the New York subway and elevated lines have decided to strike on August 17 because the traction companies refuse to give their ...
Article : 73 wordsAt the annual conference of the Farmers and Settlers' Association on Saturday Mr. Nicholas, a returned soltier member of the association, obtained leave to bring ...
Article : 446 wordsTwo hundred police and military raided a mansion at Glandore, County Cork, arrested four Sinn Feiners, seized a quantity of arms and ammunition, and Sinn Fein ...
Article : 54 wordsA message from New Orleans states that the arrest of three officers of the Mexican army has revealed a plot to overthrow the Carranza Government in Mexico. ...
Article : 34 wordsA White Paper shows that since the armistice the British expenditure on naval and military operations in Russia has been £70,000,000 including £43,315,000 in ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Profiteering Bill was read the third time in the House of Commons to-day. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe Immigration authorities have ordered the deportation from Vancouver of a number of Winnipeg Russians who are accused of attempting to overthrow the ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Roumanian reply to the Entente is reported to be conciliatory. It protests against the Allied Council's charge that Roumania is desirous of separating herself ...
Article : 93 wordsAccording to a London message, an Anglo-Persian agreement has been signed, by which British influence will be predominant in Persia. ...
Article : 166 wordsThe authorities anticipating grave disorders in Londonderry, the military proclaimed a Nationalist and Sinn Fein Lady Day demonstration, including a procession ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Tokio correspondent of the New York "Times" reports that he has learned authoritatively that the Government of Japan has informed Admiral Koltchak that it is ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Agent-General for Western Australia (Mr. J. D. Connolly) entertained at luncheon Senator Pearce, Generals Hobbs, Monash, and Rosenthal, Colonel Wisdom, ...
Article : 502 wordsNew and serious labour troubles have broken out in Germany. The electricians' strike in Upper Silesia has led to a gradual deadlock, and a general strike is ...
Article : 77 wordsMessages received from Helsingfors (Finland) say that the reported establishment of a Socialist Coalition Government in Petrograd is regarded as an indication that ...
Article : 81 wordsThere was an anxious day at London-derry. River processions nearly came into conflict, but the police drew cordons. The Sinn Feiners have hoisted an effigy of Sir ...
Article : 125 wordsA representative of the "Corriere della Sera" interviewed the Archduke Joseph, the head of the new Hungarian Government, at Budapest. He said that he ...
Article : 142 wordsMeetings of the Trade Union of Engineers in the Manchester district, who are over thirty thousand strong there, have resolved to relinquish the agitation for reduced ...
Article : 57 wordsThe final report of the committee of inquiry into matters affecting the British Cellulose Company says that the Government departmets which granted concessions ...
Article : 79 wordsIn order to prevent further delays the Senate Foreign Relations' Committee has decided to hold a conference with President Wilson with the object of securing ...
Article : 58 wordsA message received by the goldfields branch of the A.W.U., from the Port Augusta branch, says that the following resolution was carried by the latter branch on ...
Article : 119 wordsUnrest is increasing in Ireland. A particularly brutal episode cocurred at Glennistymon, where a boy of 16 was murdered while reading by the fireside, in his ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Unionists have selected Mr. F. Fisher, a New Zealander, as their candidate in connection with the by-election for the Widnes division caused by the ...
Article : 42 wordsM. Lociezi has formed a Cabinet, which includes Count Julius Andrassy and three Socialists. ...
Article : 20 wordsDuring a sitting of the House of Representatives, Mr. Thos. L. Blanton (Democrat, Texas) accused a fellow Democrat, Mr. Rufus Hardy (Texas) of being a "rubber ...
Article : 53 wordsTwo further entries have been made for the flight from Britain to Australia. Captain C. E. Howell, D.S.O. M.C., a Sydney, ite, who served in the Royal Air Force, will ...
Article : 170 wordsThe Supreme Council here has instructed the Allied Missions in Budapest to observe a guarded attitude towards the Archduke Joseph's Government, the Council being ...
Article : 56 wordsWriting the war history of Australia will be a much more formidable task than was supposed in 1914, when Mr. C. E. W. Bean was appointed sole war ...
Article : 386 wordsThe Government is utilising 2,000 military lorries as auxiliaries to relieve the traffic congestion. The whole of the kingdom has been divided into districts, and ...
Article : 44 wordsWork will be resumed underground in the Ivanhoe mine at 12 o'clock to-night. A start will be made on the Lake View Start on Monday morning, on the Golden ...
Article : 49 wordsThe importance attached to the effort which is now being made to induce the Federal Government to lift the embarge upon the export of lead concentrates from ...
Article : 296 wordsPresident Wilson has vetoed the Daylight Saving Abolition Bill. [A Washington message of July 14 stated:—The House of Representatives failed to ...
Article : 101 wordsA Lincoln ram has been sold for 1,600 guineas. The previous record was 1,450 guineas. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe Bolshevik leaders confess that they planned a kind of St. Bartholomew's massacre for August 7, when the police and other officers who were suspected of ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Royal Commission which has been inquring into the Caporetto disaster says that it was due above all to General Count Cadorna's infallible absolutism and ...
Article : 101 wordsGunner Goodson died yesterday in the No. 1 London General Hospital. Private Perry is recovering. [A London message of July 24 said:—A ...
Article : 152 wordsA message from Lenox, Massachusetts, states that the funeral of the late Mr. Andrew Carnegie was a simple affair, there being no pall-bearers and no sermon. ...
Article : 65 wordsThe following letter was sent by the Governor-General to Lord Jellicoe, previously to the Admiral's departure for New Zealand:—"Sydney, August 16, 1919. My Dear ...
Article : 453 wordsIt is announced that British troops have arrived in Dantzig, en route for Poland. German opposition to the occupation of the disputed territory has weakened and ...
Article : 44 wordsMajor-General Seely, Under-Secretary of State for Air, announced in the House of Commons to-day that the Government was holding competitions for commercial types of ...
Article : 39 wordsSerious disturbances took place recently in Luxembourg when 20,000 people attacked the Duchess's palaces and Parliament buildings. Ostensibly the demonstration ...
Article : 58 wordsThe San Francisco correspondent of the New York "Times" says that according to despatches received" from Tokio, K. Isiderera, Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs in ...
Article : 43 wordsLieutenant H. S. Morris, of the Royal Air Force, an Australian who was formerly private secretary to the Governor of Fiji, was killed while flying to Marlow, ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Chief Health Inspector (Mr. Thos. Smith) stated that during the week-end two cases were removed to the Fremantle Public Hospital from Congdon-street North ...
Article : 395 wordsThe German mark continues to fall in value and 85 marks are now offered for one pound sterling. The fall is partly due to the reduction of the British army in ...
Article : 76 wordsLord Lee of Fareham, the new Minister for Agriculture, anticipates being able to inaugurate an active ploughing campaign in order to increase the supply of home-grown ...
Article : 59 wordsA divorce suit, in which the principals are well known in business circles in Melbourne, was heard in the Divorce Court before Mr. Justice Hood to-day, when Frank Wallach, ...
Article : 468 wordsMr. Sampson, M.H.R., speaking in Charlton, referred to the overlapping of Federal and State legislative activities, and said that it was time for the people to ...
Article : 204 wordsStarting with very scanty information to work upon regarding the identity of the men concerned in the shooting of the two women in Roe-street in the early hours on ...
Article : 341 wordsThe Belgian Chamber of Representatives has adopted unanimously the German Peace Treaty. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Immigration Act Amendment Bill, introduced in the House of Representatives to-day, amends the definition of a "prohibited immigrant," so as to include any ...
Article : 234 wordsIn consequence of the decision of the Returned Soldiers' Association to take no further action against Italians before Tuesday afternoon, the town was quiet on ...
Article : 144 wordsMarshal Foch has dismissed von Winterstein, the Governor of the Palatinate (Bavaria), replacing him by von Klingensberg. The German Government demands von ...
Article : 35 wordsIt is expected that the Austrian Peace Treaty will be signed within ten days. ...
Article : 20 wordsA German wireless message states that a German company has established a regular steamship line to the Levant. The first steamer will leave Hamburg for ...
Article : 44 wordsFighting still continues on the frontier with irreconciliable tribes. The Mahsuds and Waziris descend from the hills for occasional raids on our lines, and it is ...
Article : 86 wordsThe State Prices Regulation Commission, which recently ordered a reduction in the price of sugar from 4d. to 3½d, per pound in the metropolitan area, has forwarded a ...
Article : 249 wordsThe following resolution was carried at a meeting of the Social Democratic League this afternoon:—"That an emphatic protest be recorded against the illegal ...
Article : 132 wordsWith reference to reports to the effect that the Government proposes to bring in a Bill during the special session of Parliament for the incorporation of Swaziland in ...
Article : 106 wordsLast week the bulk of the preliminary work facing the local Peace Loan Committee (headed by the Mayor of Perth, Mr. W. F. Lathlain) was completed, and a ...
Article : 174 wordsNisi Prius.—At 10.30 a.m., in No. 3 Court, before the Chief Justice:—In the matter of the trusts of the will of Somerville Bouinois Davis, late of York, medical ...
Article : 84 wordsA determined effort was made late on Saturday night, or early on Sunday morning, to blow open a safe in the new Adelaide premises of the South Australian ...
Article : 129 wordsThe steamer Melusia, from Rabaul, was berthing at the Federal wharf in Darling Harbour yesterday afternoon when the tug Stirling, which was straightening her ...
Article : 79 wordsUp to to-night there have been four deaths in Hobart from pneumonic influenza, and twenty-seven patients have been taken to the isolation hospital. The ...
Article : 98 wordsWith the view of improving the organisation and management of the Victorian branch of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' League. It is proposed to form a ...
Article : 64 wordsAn in memoriam badge for mothers or wives or nearest female relations of Australian soldiers who have died on active service will, it is officially stated, be ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 18 Aug 1919, Page 5
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