Lord Fisher, in a characteristically vigorous letter to the "Times" says, regarding the current expenditure on the navy, that there are incredible rumours of ...
Article : 159 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly yesterday evening the Premier (Mr. Mitchell) moved the second reading of the Wheat Marketing Bill. The measure, he said, was a ...
Article : 553 wordsWhen the treaties with Hungary and Turkey have been settled the Peace Conference must determine the frontiers of some of the territories adjoining Russia, and ...
Article : 74 wordsThere were renewed attacks on Yemza on Saturday, and the village changed hands several times. British troops did not take part in the operations. ...
Article : 181 wordsEven in Japan the murmurs of Bolshevism are heard, and I have heard some rich Japanese say that they regard this as a menace, believing the anything is possible ...
Article : 1,540 wordsThough the Government's decision to drastically curtail its airship programme is deplored in some quarters as savouring of panic and being likely to hamper ...
Article : 127 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly yesterday the Minister for Works referred to the visit of two gentlemen from France who have been on the look out for timber ...
Article : 175 words"I am assured here that you want immigrants, but if that is really the case, your representatives in England have some strange methods of securing them." ...
Article : 777 wordsYesterday was one of the lightest days since the commencement of the epidemic, only 12 new cases being reported in the metropolitan area. The distribution was as ...
Article : 298 wordsThe Supreme Council discussed to-day the Bulgarian Peace Treaty. Thrace remains the stumbling block. It is suggested as a compromise between the American and ...
Article : 61 wordsOwing to the Government's decision to curtail the airship programme, it has been decided to place certain airships, airship stations, and stores at the disposal of ...
Article : 42 wordsNationalisation bulks largely on the agenda of the Trade Union Congress at Glasgow, apart from the annual resolution in favour of the ...
Article : 124 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the "West [?]ster Gazette" says that although there is no doubt that the French Parliament will accept the Peace Treaty, there is ...
Article : 192 wordsIn reply to Dr. Arthur in the Legislative Assembly to-day, the Premier said that the Government had received no communication from the Agent-General bearing ...
Article : 832 wordsAccording to a Bolshevik wireless message the negotiations between Generals Denikine and Petlura have resulted in an agreement under which the Ukraine ...
Article : 81 wordsLieutenant W. J. Warneford, of the Australian Flying Corps, is taking to Australia a number of aeroplanes in the steamer Barambah, which is sailing to-day. ...
Article : 45 wordsM. Pierre Renaudel and M. Albert Thomas, ex-Minister for Munitions, addressing a Socialists' conference, denounced the extremists' Bolshevik tendencies. They ...
Article : 60 wordsThe chief health inspector for Fremantle (Mr. T. J. Smith) reported last night that one case of influenza had been removed to the Alma-street Hospital yesterday, making ...
Article : 179 wordsMr. W. C. Bowerman, M.P., parliamentary secretary of the Trade Union Congress, has announced his intention of laying the letter he received recently from ...
Article : 189 wordsLettish and Lithuanian troops have expelled the Bolsheviks from Novo Alexandrovsk (Kovno) and the surrounding area, capturing many guns and prisoners. ...
Article : 67 wordsThe Tokio correspondent of the United Press of America reports that the Marquis Saionji, who was at the head of the Japanese Peace delegation has arrived in Kobe. He ...
Article : 111 wordsThere are persistent reports that Herr Stephan Friedrich, the Prime Minister of Hungary, has resigned, and that Herr Heinrich is forming a new Hungarian ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Stockholm correspondent of the Paris "Matin" says that the fall of Pskof was due to General Arsenieff's treachery. When he was relieved of his command, ...
Article : 60 wordsTwo deaths from influenza have taken place at the isolation hospital since Monday, the victims being Mrs. Mitchell and Mrs. A. Faull. Three patients have been ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Government has decided to repatriate the Austrian and Hungarian prisoners of war immediately the Peace Treaty has been ratified. ...
Article : 240 wordsThe Minister for Agriculture (Mr. H. P. Colebatch) is in receipt of a report from the Officer in Charge of Fruit Industries, who has recently been visiting orchards in ...
Article : 305 wordsMr. G. N. Barnes, Labour member for the Gorbals division of Glasgow, and Minister without a portfolio, in a speech at Walworth, said that lop-sided ...
Article : 82 wordsOwing to Communist agitations, martial flaw has been proclaimed in Munich, and machine guns have been posted in the streets. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Bolsheviks are pursuing vigorously the White Russian army, which is retreating from Pskof towards Narva. The Bolsheviks are also pushing westward with the ...
Article : 98 wordsNo deaths were reported to-day in Hobart, but 19 new cases were notified, and 10 from the country. There were nine admissions to the Hobart Hospital and nine ...
Article : 78 wordsImport restrictions, except with respect to key industries ceased to-day. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe independence of the Palatinate (Bavaria) has been declared but there is no indication of the extent of the popular support which the movement will receive. It is ...
Article : 224 wordsM. Poska, the Esthonian Foreign Minister, says that Esthonia does not demand independence as the price of her co-operation against the Bolsheviks, but she ...
Article : 40 wordsCanberra due Fremantle at 5.30 p.m. to-day. Present advices indicate clean ship and if confirmed on arrival troops will disembark at "E" Shed about 10 o'clock to ...
Article : 76 wordsThe insurance premium against a Parliamentary dissolution before the end of the year hardened yesterday from 20 per cent. to 30 per cent. ...
Article : 30 wordsIn the Supreme Court to-day James Alexander Smith, of Port Lincoln, an inspector in the Waterworks Department, applied for a divorce from his wife, Leah ...
Article : 166 wordsSenator Millen announced this morning that a settlement of the dispute with the waterside workers had been reached. Half an hour after the statement was made ...
Article : 433 wordsThe King has approved of the granting of a bronze Victory Medal without a clasp, attached to a ribbon with a red centre and green and violet on each side, shaded ...
Article : 126 wordsGeneral Pershing and his staff have sailed for America. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe public, who gave a most enthusiastic reception to the American boys are exceedingly wrath at the action of the Customs Department in engaging a special local ...
Article : 114 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day Mr. Angwin will ask the Minister for Works if he is aware that an industrial upheaval is likely to take place early in this State. ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Peace Conference's cession of the Teschen (Cracow) coalfields to the Poles is causing indignation in Czecho-Slovakia, which threatens to occupy the district as ...
Article : 45 wordsThe New Zealand military hospital at Walton-on-Thames has been closed. Sir Thomas Mackenzie (the High Commissioner for New Zealand) has paid a tribute to the ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Allied authorities are inquiring as to the truth of the report concerning the destruction of German Zeppelins. The statement has not yet been confirmed officially. ...
Article : 36 wordsOn Monday the acting general secretary of the Returned Soldiers and Sailors' Imperial League received the following telegraphic message from Port Darwin: ...
Article : 107 wordsThe Governor-General (the Duke of Devonshire), in opening the special session of Parliament to-day, said that legislators had been called together for the purpose ...
Article : 47 wordsA divorce suit, in which the parties are well known in Melbourne, was heard, before Mr. Justice Mann in the Divorce Court to-day. The suit was one in which ...
Article : 386 wordsIn the Divorce Court to-day Mr. Justice Gordon delivered his reserved decision in the application by Jessie Smith, the petitioner in a suit against Philip Smith, a ...
Article : 90 wordsHarland and Wolff, Ltd., have acquired the businesses of D. and W. Henderson and Co., Ltd., and W. and J. Inglis, Ltd., two of the biggest shipbuilders on the ...
Article : 50 wordsThe newspaper "Freiheit" states that the German Government has prepared lists of the principal revolusionaries, and intends to send the latter to France to assist in the ...
Article : 38 wordsAt the trial of Gaston Quien, on the charge of having betrayed Nurse Cavell, Isadore Ryck, a Belgian printer, gave evidence that he shared a prison cell with ...
Article : 84 wordsA message from Leipzig, the capital of Saxony, reports that British, Belgian, Italian and American buyers of toys, porcelain, and fancy ware attended the fair ...
Article : 52 wordsReports received at the Weather Bureau yesterday morning showed that copious rains had again visited coastal and agricultural areas, and in a somewlt lighter ...
Article : 459 wordsAn exciting story in connection with the recent mutiny at sea was disclosed at the Portland Police Court when five members of the crew of the oil tanker Mariska were ...
Article : 195 wordsShortly after the recent firewood workers' dispute was settled there was a further cessation of work on the Lakeside woodline owing to a dispute between the company ...
Article : 236 wordsAt the annual general meeting of the Perth branch of the National Federation of Western Australia last night Mr. Williams, secretary of the National Waterside ...
Article : 396 wordsThe trial of a German countess and a doctor on the charge of having smuggled jewels has begun. The prosecution demands the confiscation of the jewels, which ...
Article : 134 wordsHaving been appointed by the Imperial Government to inquire into the possibilities of settling women war workers in Australia, Mrs. M. T. Simm and Miss Pughe ...
Article : 308 wordsA conference of friendly societies held to-night adopted resolutions urging the Government to establish a national medical service. The scheme provides for ...
Article : 105 wordsThe Rugby Football Association committee has postponed further consideration of the New Zealand Association's application for a tour in Australia. ...
Article : 23 wordsExtraordinary weather conditions were experienced today. Several thunderstorms occurred, one this morning being particularly severe. During its progress four ...
Article : 163 wordsIn the City Police Court to-day John Vincent Hamilton (19), a law clerk, who charged with having imposed on Albert Leslie Toohey by false representations in ...
Article : 170 wordsA large meeting of farmers was held at North Kuminin on Sunday last, and the following resolutions were carried unanimously:—(1) "That the Government be asked ...
Article : 138 wordsGiving evidence to-day before the Royal Commission on the Cost of Living, Alfred Pizzey, of the firm of Pizzey and Son, tanners, said that, though the war had been ...
Article : 150 wordsThe conference of the Australian Post and Telegraph Association debated to-day the following motion brought forward by the Victorian branch:—"That the time has ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Wed 3 Sep 1919, Page 7
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