The Ministry of Information has wound up its affairs. [Lord Beaverbrook, a well-known Canadian journalist, has been head of this ...
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Article : 113 wordsThe Tramway Union meeting to consider what action should be taken in connection with the demand for increased wages was held in the Hiberian Hall ...
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Article : 65 wordsThe disputes' committee of the A.L.F. gave further consideration to the tramway trouble yesterday, and as "their final effort to avert the threatened strike" adopted ...
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Article : 39 wordsThe Board of Trade has decided not to grant permission to construct a deep water wharf at Gravesend. ...
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Article : 37 wordsAll attention is being focussed upon Australian demobilisation, but the problems are manifold. General Monash has established an office in London with a number ...
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Article : 21 wordsA correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" draws attention to the situation in Russia, which he says is causing great anxiety in official circles in Britain. There ...
Article : 261 wordsIn the House of Representatives to-day, the Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Watt) announced, to the accompaniment of cheers, that General Pau had generously donated ...
Article : 55 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly yesterday, Mr. Angelo asked the Premier, without [?]tice if his attention had been drawn to the report of the mass meeting on the ...
Article : 232 wordsMrs. L. E. Peters, of 121 Hubble-street, East Fremantle, has received word that her husband, Private Leslie Ernest Peters, of the 44th Battalion, A.I.F., has been ...
Article : 70 wordsOn the adjournment of the House of Representatives to-day, Mr. Watt stated that it was expected that the embarkation and repatriation of the Australian forces ...
Article : 112 wordsThe War Office announces the following promotions:—Major-Generals Chauvel and Monasn to be Lieutenant-Generals; Major-General Hobbs to be temporary ...
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Article : 579 wordsPoland severed diplomatic relations with Germany on the ground that Germany planned the revolution in Poland with the aid of the Russian Maximalists. ...
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Article : 28 wordsAt the last meeting of the women's section of the Strength of Empire Movement the following resolution was adopted unanimously:—"That the women's section of ...
Article : 150 wordsGeneral Miller a Russian general and formerly the commander of an army corps in Bukowina has left London for Archangel to take command of the Russian army ...
Article : 44 wordsAdmiral Sir David Bea[?]y, in delivering a farewell address to the Sixth American Battle Squadron aboard the United States battleship New York, said: "I know that ...
Article : 163 wordsThe Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Watt) stated in the House of Representatives to-day that the Commonwealth Government had intimated to the State Governments of ...
Article : 70 wordsSenator Knox (Republican, Pennsylvania), speaking in the Senate, said that the widest diversity of opinion existed regarding the proposed league of nations ...
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Article : 187 wordsTo-day in the House of Representatives the Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Watt), in reply to Mr. Gregory, said that a complete plan of the Henderson Naval Base ...
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Article : 158 wordsThe Press Bureau states that the report that the Air Ministry is to be abolished is without foundation. The "Daily Express" states that the Air ...
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Article : 36 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the United Press Association states that the first conference of the American Peace Delegation with President Wilson began on Tuesday. ...
Article : 64 wordsIn the House of Representatives to-day Mr. Gregory moved the adjournment of the House to discuss the quarantine arrangements at Fremantle. He said he had ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Sat 21 Dec 1918, Page 7
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