In connection with the Air Ministry's gift of aeroplanes to the Commonwealth Government, Senator Pearce has completed arrangements for the acceptance of the ...
Article : 102 wordsThe Commission which is considering the question of the revision of the Treaty of London of 1839 heard Dr. R. de Maren van Swinderden (formerly Minister for Foreign ...
Article : 171 wordsBearing important proposals from Sydney, Mr. Le Cornu (president of the Seamen's Council) and Mr. Blackburn (legal adviser) arrived in Melbourne by express ...
Article : 355 wordsRepresentatives of the Mining Associations of Western Australia (Incorporated) waited upon the Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Watt) yesterday, and were introduced ...
Article : 1,542 wordsPreviously to his departure for a holiday [?] France the Prime Minister (Mr. Lloyd [?]ge) took the unusual course of issu[?] a full summary of his recent speech ...
Article : 242 wordsWhen the amalgamation of the demobilisation and administrative departments of the Australian Expeditionary Force has been effected General Sir John Monash will ...
Article : 107 wordsAll the arrangements for a memorable welcome to the Prime Minister (Mr. W. M. Hughes) and the Minister for the Navy (Sir Joseph Cook) at Fremantle have been ...
Article : 467 wordsThe task of turning the far north of Western Australia to greater account is being undertaken by the Government, and as a preliminary step, an advisory ...
Article : 396 wordsThe annual congress of the Salvation Army was opened auspiciously in the Town Hall last night, with bright and merry hymn, choruses, a busy brass band the ...
Article : 592 wordsPresident Wilson, replying to written questions asked by Senators, said that the President of the United States had no power to declare peace by proclamation, ...
Article : 174 wordsThe following awards are announced:— Bar to the Military Medal.—Australians: Sergts. J. Edwards (21st Battalion). I. Johnson (24th Battalion), W. S. Moodie (22nd ...
Article : 71 wordsAn American mission, under Major-General James G. Harbord, is leaving Brest to investigate the situation in Armenia and the Caucasus. ...
Article : 32 wordsIt is reported from Pera that the Young Turks movement has reached Konieh (in Asia Minor), and is spreading to Angora and Broussa. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Government of the United States has decided to comply with Senator Pearce's request for contributions of war appliances to the Australian War Museum ...
Article : 35 wordsA representative of the Australian and New Zealand Press Association reported to-day:— The authorities will issue in a few days ...
Article : 230 wordsThe Poles in Upper Silesia are calling to the colours all men between 20 and 40 years of age, and have assumed power in several towns. Forty German soldiers ...
Article : 86 wordsThe Customs Department has published details of the method of obtaining preferential rates on duties on products of the Empire. From September 1, whether from ...
Article : 98 wordsMessrs. Gerred (president) and Raeburn, of the Sydney branch of the Seamen's Union, left for Melbourne to-night, but they declined to state their business as ...
Article : 89 wordsThe Mexican Ambassador here has been ordered to protest against American troops entering Mexico, and to demand their withdrawal. ...
Article : 25 wordsIntroduced by Mr. R. J. Burchell. M.H.R., a deputation representative of women citizens and war workers and of the Returned Soldiers' Association waited ...
Article : 834 wordsThe Quebec correspondent of the New York "Times" reports the arrival of the Prince of Wales. The Lieut.-Governor (Sir Charles Fitzpatrick) the Anglican Bishop ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Prime Minister's official engagements in Western Australia are as follow:— To-day. Reception on Fremantle wharf. ...
Article : 88 wordsOwing to the decrease in the rates of foreign exchange and the restrictions on American exports, Chicago banks lost in a single day about £100,000. ...
Article : 47 wordsA demonstration against loyal carters who had been carrying "black" cargoes during the week occurred outside the gates of Thomas Brown and Son's Short-street ...
Article : 308 wordsThe Japanese Navy Department's new programme includes two battle cruisers, three light cruisers, five first-class and five second-class destroyers, several submarines, ...
Article : 79 wordsThe report upon the organisation and activities of the Department of Repatriation for the period from April 8, 1918, to June 30, 1919, was made available to-day ...
Article : 958 wordsIn Louisburg (North Carolina) for an alleged assault on a farmer's wife a negro named Elliott was lynched. A mob first shot the man, and then tied his body to ...
Article : 50 words"There has been a most phenomenal growth in every phase of the Army's activities since I was in Australia 30 years ago as the first Commissioner," remarked ...
Article : 714 wordsThe Government of Japan is making inventories of German and Austrian property in Japan previously to taking possession of it as part security for Japan's claims. It ...
Article : 55 wordsThe War Office confirms the report as to the Bolsheviks' admissions of retirement. General Denikine's left wing is continuing its progress brilliantly and successfully. ...
Article : 85 wordsThe jury in the case in which Mr. T. J. Ryan, Premier of Queensland, sued the Melbourne "Argus" for £10,000 damages for alleged libel before Mr. Justice Isaacs ...
Article : 230 wordsOwing to the great public interest which is being taken in the arrival of Mr. Hughes and Sir Joseph Cook, the Mayor of Perth (Mr. W. F. Lathlain) has come to the ...
Article : 137 wordsThe Governments of Roumania and the Ukraine have reached a settlement amounting to the recognition of the Ukraine's independence. Each country agrees not to ...
Article : 37 wordsThe British Government has allocated vessels in which to remove civilians who desire to leave Northern Russia before the British withdrawal. Several thousand ...
Article : 147 wordsFrance is demanding the extradition of the German generals von Heinrich and von Gravintz for cruelties perpetrated in Lille. They will be tried in Lille. ...
Article : 64 wordsOn Monday, shortly after 1 p.m., the State Government will entertain the Prime Minister and the Minister for the Navy at an official luncheon at Parliament ...
Article : 178 wordsPractically throughout the world gold has ceased to be a currency, serving now only as a basis for it, and the old standard value of about £4 5s. per oz. troy being retained, ...
Article : 709 wordsA complaint was made to-day by the Master Carriers' Association to the Necessary Commodities Commission that chaff supplies since the price was fixed were ...
Article : 78 wordsA spareely attended general meeting of the Perth branch of the R.S.A. was held at the Soldiers' Institute on Wednesday night, to discuss certain important items. ...
Article : 580 wordsA fugitive from Petrograd reports that the "Red Terror" there is of unprecedented dimensions. The notorious Jacob Peters (chief of the Department of Internal ...
Article : 255 wordsThe Rev. G. Nisbet Dods, M.A., will conduct both services in St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church. He will preach it the morning on the "Mystery of Prayer," ...
Article : 584 words"I have received," the Minister for Education (Mr. H. P. Colebatch) remarked yesterday, "the protest from the teachers regarding the appointment of the new ...
Article : 321 wordsSir Joseph Ward, leader of the Liberal Party, resigned from the National Government last night, and it is expected that all the other Liberal Ministers will follow ...
Article : 319 wordsA deputation representing the Federal Public Service waited to-day upon the Acting Leader of the Federal Ministry (Senator Millen) with a request that a ...
Article : 119 wordsThe Commissioner of Commonwealth Railways (Mr. Bell) was interviewed here to-day with reference to a report that there was a likelihood of the ...
Article : 219 wordsReferring to his remarks as published in Thursday's "West Australian." the Minister for Mines (Mr. J. Scaddan) stated yesterday that some exception had been taken ...
Article : 197 wordsThe Anglican Church.—A cable has been received from his Grace the Archbishop of Perth stating that his departure has been postponed but that he will leave England ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Sat 23 Aug 1919, Page 5
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