In Tokyo I have seen the Prime Minister and one former Prime Minister; another former occupant of the highest political place. Count Teruchi was too ill to be ...
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Article : 148 wordsThe rapid demobilisation of the Australian troops has been largely due to Senator Pearce's efforts to secure ships. He also effected a considerable saving in ...
Article : 49 wordsA message from Salisbury, the capital of Southern Rhodesia, says that, replying to the resolution carried by the Legislative Council of Rhodesia ...
Article : 212 wordsThe seamen spent the greater part of to-day "considering the position," and at the end of the day which was in no sense perfect, the extremists snatched a temporary ...
Article : 481 wordsAs Messrs. Hughes and Watt will be present in Perth on Monday, leading members of the Central Peace Loan Committee decided that it request them to ...
Article : 268 wordsThe Mayor of Fremantle (Mr. W. Montgomery) said yesterday that the local arrangements for the welcome of the Prime Minister (Mr. W. M. Hughes) and the ...
Article : 275 wordsMajor Isacaon has furnished Senator Pearce with a report on the conveyance of German prisoners from Australia to Rotterdam. He says:—Many of the ...
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Article : 135 wordsA public meeting passed a resolution urging the Union Government to legislate for the establishment of marine boards at Capetown and Durban. It was stated ...
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Article : 151 wordsAs the result of tragic happenings in the city last night, two returned soldiers, both of whom had seen considerable service with the A.I.F., lost their lives. ...
Article : 398 wordsMr. Thomas Millard, a well-known American writer and war correspondent, who is attached to the Chinese peace delegation, giving evidence before the Foreign ...
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Article : 76 wordsMexican bandits seized two American air lieutenants and threaten to murder them unless they are immediately ransomed. The State Department regards the incident as ...
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Article : 69 wordsBetween 2,000 and 3,000 members of the Sydney branch of the Seamen's Union attended a mass meeting to-day, when, by a two-thirds majority the following ...
Article : 455 wordsThe final session of the twenty fourth Parliament of New South Wales was opened officially by the State Governor to-day. His Excellency's speech dealt with the work ...
Article : 966 wordsThe United States Government has decided to pay the ransom for the release of the air lieutenants. ...
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Article : 118 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-night the Leader of the Opposition asked the Premier to carry out his promise to appoint a Royal Commission to inquire more fully ...
Article : 131 wordsThe French and American Consuls in Mexico City have protested against the expulsion of the British Charge d'Archives, Mr. William Cummings. ...
Article : 33 wordsA party of Sinn Feiners at Castle Blay ney, in County Monaghan, attacked a building, where some Nationalists were conducting a dance. They smashed the ...
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Article : 29 wordsThe President (Mr. W. Kingsmill) took the Chair at 4.30 p.m. DIVORCE BILL. Mr. Nicholson gave notice to move for ...
Article : 110 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the New York "Times" says:—According to official messages received from Pekin, Britein and China have reached an ...
Article : 82 wordsMr. W. A. G. Walter, R.M., gave his reserved decision in the Kalgoorlie Police Court to-day in the case in which Joseph Andrew Wittman, of Burbanks, was charged ...
Article : 391 wordsThe influenza epidemic in Hobart shows signs of abating as far as the pneumonic symptoms are concerned. The additional cases were admitted to the Claremont ...
Article : 114 wordsHaving decided to rely upon documentary evidence, Mr. Knox, K.C., leading counsel for the defence in the action, before Mr. Justice Isaacs, of Thomas J. ...
Article : 727 wordsMr. Joseph Wingate Folk, ex-Governor of Missouri, who is acting as counsel for the Egyptian commission which is visiting the United States, has filed a brief with the ...
Article : 78 wordsThe Legislative Assembly met yesterday at 4.30 p.m. ASSAULT ON A MAYOR. The Premier informed Mr. Mullany that ...
Article : 231 wordsGeorge James Dark (36), a labourer, fell from some staging into a sewer at Burswood (Sydney), and was drowned. Apparently he had been overcome by gas fumes. ...
Article : 134 wordsThe seamen of the deep-sea vessels at present in Port Jackson have decided to give their support to the Federated Seamen's Union of Australia. About 150 ...
Article : 124 wordsBritish aviators bombed Petrozavodsk, a town in the Olonetz district, 185 miles north-east of Petrograd, causing large fires. They also dropped proclamations, ...
Article : 69 wordsAt Broken Hill to-day an inquiry into the South mine mill fire was opened before the Coroner (Mr. Brown, S.M.). Wm. Wainwright (general manager of the South ...
Article : 253 wordsDuring the hearing of a divorce petition in Wagga to-day the petitioner Charles Crawford, commenced to harangue the Judge and officials. The Judge committed ...
Article : 89 wordsThe adjourned cases against Philip Le Cornu (president of the Seamen's Federation of Australasia) and the federation as a body, in which Le Cornu individually ...
Article : 71 wordsIn the Police Court to-day an Italian named Jack Spinac (26) on remand from Casino, was charged with having applied nitric acid to the person of Jean Hudson with ...
Article : 149 wordsAmendments of the constitution of the Victorian branch of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' Imperial League were considered to-day by a conference of ...
Article : 108 wordsThere were no local developments in connection with the shipping strike to-day. Members of the Seamen's Union declare that they have "said their say," and they ...
Article : 121 wordsSeveral times during the hearing of the claim made by the Waterside Workers Federation in the Arbitration Court Mr. Justice Higgins showed an unwillingness to ...
Article : 196 wordsIn the Police Court to-day, William Salotti was committed for trial on a charge of having wounded unlawfully Charles O'Connor, a football umpire, after a match ...
Article : 173 wordsDamages amounting to £1,500 were claimed before the Chief Justice in the Civil Court to-day by Henry Hunter Yule, trading as Yule Bros., motor car agents ...
Article : 145 wordsPapers laid on the table of the Legislative Assembly to-night showed that, on legal advice, the Government had paid £14,941 as compensation for "loss of ...
Article : 92 wordsInquiries yesterday showed that the negotiations with the Federal Government for the extension to Broome of the trip of the John Forrest, which is taking ...
Article : 163 wordsThere were no developments to-day in connection with the Italian trouble. Most of the Italians, with the exception of the married men, appear to have left the ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Premier (Mr. A. H. Peake), in the House of Assembly to-day gave notice that on the following day he would move for leave to introduce a Bill to amend the ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Wed 20 Aug 1919, Page 5
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