A variety of interviews and conferences at the Trades Rall, the Minister's office, and elsewhere took place yesterday respecting the tramway strike. No ...
Article : 100 wordsIt is understood that the arrangements for the Peace Conference personnel, besides granting the Dominions as a whole ample representation at all the sessions, ...
Article : 183 wordsIn most of the operations which have cleared Sina[?] and Palastine of the Turk the lead has been entrusted to the veterans of the Anzac Mounted Division. In ...
Article : 1,579 wordsThe Polish Chief National Council has appointed the former Polish Diet representative M. Von Capzyneky, to be its first Presidnet. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe British Official Press Bureau has published the following message from Paris:—The third meeting of the Supreme Council for Supply and Relief considered ...
Article : 206 wordsThirty-four States have ratified an amendment of the Constitution, prohibiting the liquor traffic in the United States. The final passage of the amendment is certain. ...
Article : 34 wordsMajor Miles Charles Cariston Seton, of the Australian Army Medical Corps, was shot dead at the house of his cousin, Sir Malcolm Seton, Holland Park. ...
Article : 235 wordsA Berlin wireless message states that the Spartacus strongholds in the Berlin Press quarter have been cleared, after a pitched battle. The casualties were high, and ...
Article : 112 wordsThe British Official Press Bureau notifies that the Controller of Shipping has announced that British vessels completing their voyages after March at ports in the ...
Article : 153 wordsIt is reported from Posen (Prussian Poland) that Polish troops are advancing against Thorn (Western Prussia), eudangering railway communication between Berlin ...
Article : 33 wordsThe American Shipping Board announces that a larger amount of tonnage is now available for foreign trade, this being due to the decreased demands of the War ...
Article : 53 wordsMr. Robert Lansing (the American Secretary of State) denies the report that America proposes to send troops to Poland. ...
Article : 25 wordsA mass meeting of the men held at the Trades Hall yesterday morning considered the proposal made by the "Citizens" Committee," and decided to reject it. The ...
Article : 1,319 wordsThe marine workers, who were on strike, have resumed work pending a settlement of the dispute by the Government. [A New York message of January 12 ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Spartacus Socialists in Dresden tried to rush the "Volkszeitung" offices but the Government troops repulsed them. They also tried to capture the Guildhall, but ...
Article : 81 wordsThe main Bolshevik-forces are advancing on Warsaw by three converging routes, and have reached Orany (about 40 miles south-west of Vilna) and Slonim (about 70 miles ...
Article : 62 wordsMr. Andrew Weir, Minister of Supply, who was so successful as Surveyor-General of Supplies in the British War Office, and who has been raised to the Peerage, has ...
Article : 238 wordsThe Navy Department announces that an underground and sub-sea wireless system, an American invention, was proved to be of practical value in the navy and the ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the "Daily Express" reports that President Wilson carried a large portfolio to the meetings which are being held in connection with ...
Article : 142 wordsThe Supreme War Council is determined that Germany shall not be allowed to crush Poland before the Peace Conference decides Poland's status. It is understood ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of the "Daily Express" states that Herr Haase, the German Foreign Minister, interviewed, declared that the elections for the National ...
Article : 90 wordsIt is reported from Buenos Ayres that previously to the settlement of the strike the riots resulted in 72 persons being killed and more than 800 persons being ...
Article : 107 wordsMajor Miles Charles Cariston Seton was born in 1874 and was a son of the late Captain William Gorden Seton, of the Seaforth Highlanders. The Setons of Cariston ...
Article : 200 wordsMr. Thomas W. Gregory resigned the Attorney-Generalship, in order to give more attention to his private affairs. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe English Pierrots presented their 12th programme at Olympia, Hay-street, last evening to a crowded audience. The entertainment if not the best, has not at ...
Article : 645 wordsGeneral Peyton C. March (the chief of the American general military staff) announces that 693,889 American soldiers have been demobilised. ...
Article : 25 wordsA Dutchman, who dined recently with the ex-Kaiser and Count Bentinck, in Amerongen Castle (Holland) says that Wilhelm gives the impression that he is on the ...
Article : 151 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the New York "Sun" reports that the draft of the American plan for a League of Nations has been completed and will be published ...
Article : 80 wordsAn explosion of munitions in Ostend caused 30 casualties. Five British soldiers were killed. ...
Article : 23 wordsA—Lettish Soviet Republic has been formed in Riga. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe P. and O. Co.'s steamer Khyberwent ashore on the coast of Norfolk during a fog. The vessel, which was ladem with troops, was refloated at high tide. ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Luxembourg Government has issued a proclamation urging the citizens to suppress revolutionary conspiracies. It adds that national unity was never more ...
Article : 120 wordsSir Henry Babington Smith, the Acting British High Commissioner to the United States, in a speech said: "President Wilson's demand for a League of Nations ...
Article : 78 wordsSignor Bissolati (the ex-Minister for Public Assistance and Pensions) attempted in the Scala Theatre to deliver a speech justifying Italy's renunciation. There was a ...
Article : 131 wordsThere have been further executions of friends of the Entente Powers, including Admirals Stestokin, Pahler, and Kovalevski. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe "Australia Day" celebrations will include the usual service in St. Dunstan's Church, where the Bishop of London (Dr. Ingram) will preach. General Sir William ...
Article : 61 wordsThe New York newspapers, commenting of the Paris disclosures to the effect that Britain proposed to deal with the representatives of Russian factions, consider that ...
Article : 105 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the New York "Times" reports that Senator Henry L. Myers (Democrat Montana) contended, in the course of a speech, that as ...
Article : 235 wordsMarshal Foch was present at a meeting of the military and technical experts of the Allied army at which question of conferring and carrying out the ...
Article : 207 wordsA Government Bill has been drafted for restoring the trade union rules and oustoms which were suspended during the war. These will be restored at the request ...
Article : 48 wordsSpeaking at a Zionist banquet, Mr. Henry Burton, K.C. Minister for Railways, declared that there were substantial elements of Bolshevism in South Africa. He ...
Article : 168 wordsThe Commonwealth Government is erecting in front of Australia House in London, A large screen on which cinematographic pictures will be thrown from 4 to 7 p.m. ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the London "Daily Chronicle" says:—"Simultaneously with the arrival of representatives of the so-called United Kingdom of Serbians, ...
Article : 586 wordsViscount French (the Viceroy of Ireland) convened a conference in Dublin Castle on Monday night. This is interpreted in some quarters to indicate that a drastic ...
Article : 150 wordsAbout 100 Belgian journalists who took refuge in Britain during the war were entertained by Lord Burnham (managing proprietor of the London "Daily Telegraph") ...
Article : 50 wordsMajor E. Druce-Drayton, of Bunbury (late of the Imperial Army), has received word that this son. Sergeant Geo. Druce-Drayton, who was a prisoner of war in Germany has been ...
Article : 263 wordsThe Foreign Office announces that there will be no censorship of British Press correspondents' messages from Paris during the sittings of the Peace Conference. ...
Article : 30 wordsIt is reported that the Admiralty authorities have begun a large programme of auship construction, including monster vessels which will be similar to the largest ...
Article : 130 wordsDespatches from Lima, the capital of Peru, say that strikers attacked the lighting plant and the city is in darkness. Connections between Lima and Callao have ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the United Press Association says that a movement is believed to be under way to reduce the number of representatives of smaller ...
Article : 87 wordsThe Football League has refused the Southern League's application to amalgamate. ...
Article : 17 wordsThere was a crowded attendance at the Queen's Hall to witness the Maori soldiers' display in aid of Durstan's House for the Blind. The display included war dances ...
Article : 39 wordsDuring the course of his extended trip through the North-West, the Chief Protecter of Aborigines (Mr. A. O. Neville) investigated the mission subsidy problem, and ...
Article : 326 wordsThe Australian battle cruiser Brisbane has arrived at Portsmouth from the Grand Elect to be refitted previously to returning to Australia. The vessel entered the ...
Article : 44 wordsThe South Perth branch of the Ugly Men's Association will hold a special carnival at Como on Monday, January 27, with the object of assisting the present appeat. ...
Article : 527 wordsThe four leaders of the Bolshevik plot which was discovered by the Monte Video police to overthrow the Governments of Uruguay and Argentian are all Russians, ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Acting Premier (Mr. Theodore), when asked to-day whether anything had been done with regard to the proposed Camooweal-to-Darwin railway, said that ...
Article : 58 wordsNisi Prius.—Before the Chief Justice, at 10.30 a.m.: Speen v. Rinaldi (judgment). In Chambers.—Before the Chief Justice, ...
Article : 29 wordsMr. Stephen Walsh, Labour M. P. for Ince (Lancashire), is retiring from the Government in compliance with the wished of the Lancashier Miners' Union. ...
Article : 48 wordsLord Inchcape and Sir Owen Phillips, M.P., have jointly bought 137 incompleted Government standard ships, and are offering them to all shopowners at cost ...
Article : 42 wordsSir,—I was much interested in the remarks made by Mr. Griffins, M.L.A., concerning the damage caused by sparks from railway engines using Collie coal, which ...
Article : 400 wordsMr. and Mrs Warren, of Paget-street, Benconsfield, South Fremantle, have been notified that their son. Lanco-Corporal Silvester Warren, was admitted to the 10th General Hospital, ...
Article : 62 wordsWhen seen late yesterday afternoon the Minister for Railways (Mr. C. H. Hudson) was asked if the would make any statement regarding the negotiations which ...
Article : 99 wordsA joint sitting of both Houses of the State Parliament elected Mr. E. Mulcahy to fill the vacancy in the Federal Senate cause by the resignation of Senator Long. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 180 wordsSir,—The present tram strike has raised the question as to the efficiency or otherwise of the Arbitration Court. Your correspondent Mrs. Madge Bevan, in your ...
Article : 295 wordsThe Leader of the Opposition (Mr. P. Collier) was approached yesterday by Archbishop Riley and the Rev. G. E. Wheatley with the suggestion that he ...
Article : 786 wordsThe Australian War Records Section desires to secure a complete collection of individual photographs of members of the A.I.F. who have won decorations while on ...
Article : 103 wordsOwing to the resignation of Signor Nitti (the Minister for Finance) over the Adriatic question, Signor Orlando (the Prime Minister of Italy) has gone to Rome ...
Article : 33 wordsAfter inquiring into the prices of fruit and vegetables and the conditions controlling distribution the Interatate Commission has reported that it is impracticable to ...
Article : 124 wordsA deputation to-day from poultry keepers requested that the embargo on importation into Australia be continued. It was stated that the egg-producing industry was ...
Article : 71 wordsThe stranded Australians have been informed that they can have passages on the Tofua, which leaves for Adelaide to-morrow. The Minister for Defence (Sir J. Allen) ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Fri 17 Jan 1919, Page 7
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