Victoria Crosses have been awarded to the following Australians:— Lieutenant L. D. McCarthy, 16the Battalion, of Western Australia. ...
Article : 471 wordsThe American Fleet, operating in conjunction with the British Fleet has been recalled from European waters. A naval review has been planned in New York on ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Colonial Secretary (Mr. H. P. Colebatch, in the course of replying on the second reading debate on the Discharged Soldiers' Settlement Bill in the Legislative ...
Article : 918 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph's" Paris correspondent says that because there are no signs of a permanent Government in Germany it is likely that after the Peace ...
Article : 126 wordsAnother soldier died at Woodman's Point quarantine hospital yesterday, making the 14th victim of the disease. The deceased cause from South Australia, and Dr. Cox ...
Article : 298 wordsThe Arbitration Court yesterday delivered its award in the Railway Officers case, the hearing of evidence in which recently occupied the Court for some weeks ...
Article : 1,639 wordsTo-night the Government made available the report of Mr. Justice Street, as Royal Commissioner to inquire into the charges made in Parliament and elsewhere against ...
Article : 581 wordsMr. G. J. Foley. M.L.A. who occupies the chairmanship of the Hospitals Advisory Board to the Minister for Defence in Western Australia, received a telegram ...
Article : 67 wordsCaptain Lester, of the Army Intelligence Service giving evidence before the Senate investigation into German espionage, stated that the German Government ...
Article : 112 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the New York "Times" states that the Ukrainian Congress has passed resclutions requesting the Peace Conference to settle ...
Article : 44 wordsThe A.L.F. State executive, which met last night, instructed the secretary (Mr. A. McCallum) to forward to the Acting Prime Minsiter the ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Indian delegates to the Peace Conference have arrived in London. ...
Article : 17 wordsIt is officially announced that the banches been lifted from practically all the exports to England, France, Italy, Japan, and their colonies and protectorates, and ...
Article : 54 wordsWindows of houses in the Avenue duBois de Boulogue have been let at from £20 to £100 apiece to permit of the viewing of the procession on the occasion of ...
Article : 97 wordsThe Health Department has issued a comprehensive circular to local authorities giving detailed and specific information as to the measures to the taken should an ...
Article : 984 wordsMr. J. M. Fowler, M.H.R., stated to-day:—"Following upon the reciept of a large number of telegrams regarding the quarantine trouble in Western Australia, ...
Article : 127 wordsThe Jugo-Slav Council at Zagrab (or Agram), the capital of Croatia and Slavonia, has appealed to the United States to prevent bloodshed in Dalmatia, in ...
Article : 38 wordsDr. Cox stated yesterday that he had received advice that the troopship Sardinia with a large number of contacts on board had been ordered on to Albany, where she ...
Article : 94 wordsThe Japanese delegates for the Peace Conference have started for Paris, via San Francisco. [The Japanese delegation to the Peace ...
Article : 53 wordsHis Majesty the King on December 18 will entertain at luncheon Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, General Sir Herbert Plumer, General Sir Henry Rawlinson, and General ...
Article : 58 wordsIn the House of Representatives to-day Mr. Fowler said he had received a telegram from a friend holding a responsible position in the expeditionary forces, who ...
Article : 161 wordsA paragraph which appeared in the "West Australian" yesterday setting out the uneasiness felt in Fremantle that the contacts would break quarantine was ...
Article : 93 wordsM. Marcel Hutin forecasts that the French plenipotentiaries at the Peace Conference will be M. Clemenceau. M. Pichon, Marshal Foch, and M. Leou Bourgeois, ...
Article : 53 wordsThe London police have arrested 10 men, who are supposed to have carried out extensive thefts of motor cars. ...
Article : 27 wordsA message from Kieff states that the Don Cossacks defeated the Bolsheviks in a two day's battle at Novochopersk, in the government of Voronezh in the south of ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Censor has released for publication the names of the undermentioned three soldiers from the Boonah who have succumbed to pneumonic influenza:—3203 Private H. S. ...
Article : 65 wordsLieutenant L. D. McCarthy, Croix deGuerre, 16the Battalion who has been awarded the Victoria Cross hails from Lion Mill, Western Australia. ...
Article : 32 wordsSignor Caproni, the aeronautical expert, is building a triplane capable of carrying 100 passengers. [The Caproni biplane is recognised as a ...
Article : 78 wordsThe death late last night of G. Grainger a Makura sreward increases the fatal cases in quarantine to 41. This is the first death from among the Makura ...
Article : 93 wordsThe released prisoners who have arrived at the distributing camp at Ripon since the armistice was signed, include 30 Australian officers and 800 men. ...
Article : 30 wordsIn the Legislative Council last nights the Colonial Secretary (Mr. H. P. Colebatch) speaking in reply to the debate on the second reading of the Discharged ...
Article : 500 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Lefroy) stated at a late hour last night that he had not received any reply from the Federal authorities to his telegram protesting against keeping ...
Article : 58 wordsBerlin newspapers assert that Marshal Foch told the Kreuzanach Soviet, who requested facilities for the delegates of the occupied regions to proceed to the Berlin ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Australian troops are arranging a sports meeting in London, including a push ball tournery on horseback. ...
Article : 20 wordsMR. W. H. Taft, interviewed at Philadelphis, said: "There is some doubt whether England will adhere to the attitude that she is not seeking territorial gain out ...
Article : 126 wordsBerlin reports state that the programme of the Spartacus group includes the disarmament of all non-proletarian forces, the formation of a workers' militia and Red ...
Article : 116 wordsAt the opening of yesterday's session of the Legislative Council, Mr. Duffell moved the adjournment of the House for the purpose of drawing attention to the ...
Article : 329 wordsIn reply to Mr. Kelly in the House of Representative to-day, Mr. Massy Greene said that when the present trouble was past inquiries would be made to ascertain ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Swedish naval attache at Petrograd has arrived here. He says that the Bolshevik leaders heatedly discussed the question of abandomine the entire Soviet ...
Article : 56 wordsThe "Tribune" states that two Bolshevik emissaries were arrested after crossing the French frontier with the intention of assassinating M. Clemenceau the French ...
Article : 36 wordsIn reply to Sir Robert Best in the House of Representatives to-day, Mr. Watt said he had not heard any rumours of misconduct on the part of anybody in authority ...
Article : 84 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the New York "Times" states that in well informed circles it is understood that Allied troops will occupy the western provinces of ...
Article : 58 words"Vonwaerts," the leading Socialist organ states that Dr. Leibknecht, leader of the Spartacus group, is mad, and is suffereing from moral insanity, the same as the ...
Article : 40 wordsSeveral newspapers, commenting editorially on the desire of the negroes to rule Germany's African colonies, say that it would be hard to imagine a more foolish ...
Article : 116 wordsThe Colonial Secretary (Mr. H. P. Colebatch) stated yesterday that on November 6 Mr. Lambert, M.L.A., made the following statement in Parliament in the course ...
Article : 531 wordsThe transport Borda, which arrived at Fremantle yesterday afternoon withcut pnemonic influenza aboard, is the first vessel to arrive from South Africa ...
Article : 643 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of the United Press Association states that the National Assembly elections will be held on January 8. ...
Article : 31 wordsAlthough it is intended to have fireworks displays in connection with the peace celebrations in areas specially set apart for that purpose the military authorities are ...
Article : 78 wordsA Belgian communique issued on Saturday stated:—"Our Rhine front extended yesterday from Ossenberg to the Wessel bridges." ...
Article : 46 wordsThe League of Nations Union canvassed 1,500 electoral candidates, and claims that 528 of these are in favour of a league being formed. An American ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Mayor of Fremantle has convened a public meeting to be held in the supper room, Town Hall to-night, at 8 o'clock to discuss the treatment by the Federal ...
Article : 130 wordsThe medical officers were kept busy yesterday with a steady stream of people desirous of submitting themselves to inoculation. At the Public Health Department ...
Article : 127 wordsIn the House of Representatives to-day, Mr. Finlayson asked if it were true that representations had been made to the Imperial Government to get a proportion of ...
Article : 79 wordsAccording to reports from Berne, German newspapers state that a French regiment has occupied Wiesbaden, Prussia. The German Government has protested ...
Article : 40 wordsMr. Theodore Roosevelt, writing in the "Metropolitan Magazine" for January on the proposed league of nations says that Germany and Turkey must not be admitted ...
Article : 148 words"Whom am I to believe—the lunatics who agree or the attendants who deny?" asked Dr. Cole, the Coroner, at the resumed inquiry to-day into the death of John ...
Article : 89 wordsAccourding to reports from Munich, Switzerland has refused to allow the ex-Emperor Carl of Austria to reside in the confederation, in view of Holland's difficulties ...
Article : 41 wordsIn reply to Mr. Lister, in the House of Representatives to-day, Mr. Wise said that the travelling concessions to relatives of men who were returned on furlough were ...
Article : 57 wordsThe following statement as to the activities of the local Red Cross on behalf of the patients and contacts at Woodman's Point has been received from the general ...
Article : 648 wordsIn connection with the retention on board the transport Boonah of a number of Western Australian soldiers the general secretary of the R.S.A. (Mr. R. G. ...
Article : 121 wordsIn the House of Representatives to-day, Mr. Considine asked if the Acting Prime Minister had yet any answer to a question he had asked regarding an ex-police spy of ...
Article : 79 wordsAccording to a message from Berlin, Herr Haase, the Foreign Minister, states that secret documents in the German Foreign Office do not confirm the existence ...
Article : 76 wordsSubstantial profits have been earned during the war panied by canteens established by the Defence Department in Military camps, on troopships, and elsewhere. These ...
Article : 75 wordsHerr Erzberger read to the Armistice Commission a declaration complaining of the increased severity of the Allies' conditions and of their failure to revictual ...
Article : 190 wordsFull Court.—No. 1 Court, at 10.30 a.m., before the Chief Justice Mr. Justice Burnside, and Mr. Justice Northmore: R D. McKenzie (appellant) and F. Higgs ...
Article : 119 wordsAt a meeting of the South Fremantle branch of the Returned Solders' Association held yesterday Mr. Dunn stated that he had it on good authority that at least ...
Article : 211 wordsM. Ledebour has withdrawn from the Independent Socialist Party, as he disagrees with the party's attitude toward the German Cabinet. ...
Article : 27 wordsMrs. Chas. Ford, of Kelvin-street, Maylands, has received inforamtion from the military authorities that her son, Private R. H. Ford, who has been a prisoner of ...
Article : 106 wordsA new democratic Cabinet has been formed, with M. Theodoroff as Premier and Foreign Minister. In includes a civilian as War Minister, which is an important ...
Article : 39 wordsIn the House of Representatives to-day, in reply to Mr. Sampson, Mr. Wat said that the negotiations regarding the payment of a guarantee on the coming wheat crop ...
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