The first day's sale of second-hand Australian military stores at the Australian general headquarters in Horseferry-road, London, realised £12,285. A number of ...
Article : 170 wordsThe Peace Conference's reply to Austria declares that Austria's pre-war debt and war expenses shall be borne pro rata by Austria, and the countries lately Austrian, ...
Article : 57 wordsProceedings in connection with the State School Teachers' Annual Conference were resumed yesterday morning at James-street School ...
Article : 890 wordsWith a certain knack of languages and a good tutor, with close attention to his study, and an avoidance of people speaking his own tongue, a man coming to ...
Article : 1,547 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly last night Mr. Maley moved:—That in the opinion of this House, in order to encourage production and revive ...
Article : 897 wordsThe "Petit Parisien" has caused a sensation by publishing a telegram from Herr von Jagow, the then Gorman Foreign Minister, on December 11, 1914, to the ...
Article : 347 wordsSir, John Swanwick Bradbury (Joint Permanent Secretary of the Treasury) has been appointed principal British representative on the Reparations Commission in Paris. ...
Article : 47 wordsYesterday's new cases of influeuza numbered only 11. Three deaths took place, the victims being Mrs. Smith, late of Lincoln-street, Perth (died at home); Mrs. Maggie ...
Article : 88 wordsProfessor Patrick Geddes is co-operating with Dr. Weizmann in planning a New Jerusalem, including a university. [Professor Geddes is Professor of Botany ...
Article : 134 wordsIt is semi-officially understood that Italy in willing to accept a compromise regarding Fiume, under which the town goes to Italy, while the League of Nations leases ...
Article : 60 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly yesterday matters in connection with the quarantine regulations and the influenza epidemic were briefly discussed on a motion by Mr. ...
Article : 364 wordsThe Supreme Council's telegram expressing surprise that Roumania will not give definite pledges of a changed attitude towards Austria and Hungary is interpreted ...
Article : 65 wordsThe probable vacancies in four of the Australian Agencies-General raise the question whether it is not possible to secure closer co-ordination in Australian ...
Article : 343 wordsMr. Harry G. Hawker has entered for an international seaplane which is to take place on September 19. The course will consist of ten laps of 20 miles, ...
Article : 63 wordsThe dispute between the Dutch and Belgain delegations at the Commission for the revision of the Treaty of 1830 became so violent that the Belgians decided to return ...
Article : 142 wordsThirteen aeroplanes have arrived at Albany from Toronto. Colonel W. G. Barker, V.C., the Canadian "ace." has arrived at Mineola, Long Island, and is ...
Article : 219 wordsGaston Quien, who is on trial in connection with the betrayal of Nurse Cavell, when examined, stated that he gave the French military attache at the Hague ...
Article : 81 wordsIt is estimated that 20,000 Poles in Upper Silesia have crossed the frontier into Poland, to avoid harsh treatment. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Department of Justice has discovered that Russian soviets are supplying funds to stir up racial antagonism in the United States. ...
Article : 36 wordsGeneral Smuts had a most enthusiastic reception on paying a visit to Maritzburg. His speech followed along the lines of his former utterances. He denied that race ...
Article : 103 wordsIt was reported from the local health office last night that during the day the municipal ambulances had removed fresh cases from Point-street, North Lake, and ...
Article : 155 wordsThe Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company is resuming its weekly special trains to and from Marseilles in conconnection with the Australian and Indian ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Senate Foreign Relations Committee has adopted an amendment of the Peace Treaty eliminating the United States from membership of the Commission appointed ...
Article : 58 wordsGeneral Allenby has issued a warning proclamation owing to the wholesale formation of so-called labour syndicalist political organisations menacing public order. The ...
Article : 47 wordsMr. Brownlie, the chairman of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, has written to Mr. C. W. Bowerman, M.P., Parliamentary secretary of the Trade Union Congress' ...
Article : 123 wordsGiving evidence before the Lowgrade Mines Commission this morning, Colonel Pritchard, Director of Native Labour, uttared a grave warning regarding native ...
Article : 178 wordsThese are 57 patients in the isloation hospital, eight being dangerously ill and 15 seriously ill ...
Article : 21 wordsThe Government is opening retail stores throughout the country to sell surplus war stocks. ...
Article : 12 wordsA terrifio explosion at a munitions depot at Pellegrino devastated the valley and uprooted trees miles distant. Rescue parties have been ordered not to remove the ...
Article : 71 wordsThe question of the construction of the Esperance railway was once again under discussion in the Legislative Assembly yesterday, when Mr. Griffiths moved— ...
Article : 743 wordsThe number of cases of influenza in the various metropolitan and emergency hospitals continues to decline steadily. The new cases admitted to-day numbered 14. Two ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Admiralty has suspended the construction of 60 light cruisers, destroyers and submarines in 20yards. A committee of experts is considering wheather the ships ...
Article : 128 wordsThere were 23 deaths from pneumonic in fluensa in Tasmania between August 13 and 26. The total number of cases diagnosed as serious pneumonic cases was 164. The ...
Article : 106 wordsThe Japanese Peace delegates have returned, and have been accorded an enthusiastic roeption. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe Supreme Court, on appeal, reversed the sentence imposed by a magistrate of a fine and imprisonment upon two persons who were charged with publishing ...
Article : 83 wordsIn the High Court to-day, Mr. Justice [?]cs dismissed the motion on behalf of the defendants, in the libel action Ryan v. Cunningham and others (the "Argus"). ...
Article : 459 wordsIn the course of a speech in Parrametts to-night, the Minister for Lands (Mr. Ashford) said that 3,385,479 acres had been made available to date for soldiers' ...
Article : 438 wordsGeneral Denikine's advance is progressing with great rapidity. ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Royal Commission which is now inquiring into the causes of the high cost of living continued its sittings to-day. Henry W. Osborne (manager of the ...
Article : 383 wordsTwo men named Roy Olsen (a returned soldier) and Harry Wagner were drowned in Moreton Bay this afternoon. Together with Oscar Olsen (a returned soldier) they ...
Article : 93 wordsThe Cabinet Finance Committee's scheme for the reorganisation of the Treasury control of State expenditure establishes three departments within the Treasury, under ...
Article : 174 wordsReports received by the Acting Minister for Defence (Senator Russell) from the A.I.F. headquarters in London indicate that many members of the A.I.F. took ...
Article : 115 wordsA Bolshevik wireless message claims the re-occupation of Zhitomir, the capital of Volhypia. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe Welsh timplate industry is sending a delegation to the United States with the view of reorganising the Welsh industry on an up-to-date basis, scrapping antiquated ...
Article : 40 wordsThe newspaper "Izvestia," published at Moscow, states that Germany, under Entente pressure, is sending thousands of Russian prisoners to General Denikine's ...
Article : 49 wordsThe illustrated section of the current week's issue of the "Western Mail" is most attractive, and covers a wide field of matters, of topical interest. The Prime ...
Article : 263 wordsMr. F. Fisher, of New Zealand, who is contesting the by-election for Widnes, in the Unionist interest, challenges the accuracy of Mr. Arthur Henderson's statement ...
Article : 154 wordsThe plague has broken out in the Don Cossacks' territory. [The province of the Don Cossacks is situated to the north-east of the Sea of ...
Article : 39 words"The first vital lesson of the war," said Lieut.-General Sir C. B. B. White in an address to military officers this evening, "is that the defence of Australia can be best ...
Article : 124 wordsAt to-day's sitting of the Australian Post and Telegraph Association's Conference delegates agreed to refer for the consideration of the branches the general ...
Article : 94 wordsIn the Fitzaroy Police Court to-day Leslie Taylor was charged that, being a suspected person, he loitered in or about a public place on August 5 with intent to commit ...
Article : 129 wordsTo shorten debates in the State Parliament the Premier (Mr. Lawson) made a proposal at a meeting of the Standing Orders Committee to-day that Parliament ...
Article : 64 wordsThe South Wales Miners' Federation has reasserted its determination not to pay income tax on incomes under £250, and has rejected the executive's proposal that, in ...
Article : 50 wordsFor the first time since July 16 trams were running after 7 o'clock this evening. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Thu 28 Aug 1919, Page 7
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