Great interest attaches to the American plan for a league of nations which it is expected President Wilson will announce at the opening session of the conference. ...
Article : 104 wordsProceedings in connection with the Peace Conference were begun on Saturday. On the motion of President Wilson, seconded by Mr. Lloyd George, M. ...
Article : 95 wordsA wireless message issued by the German Government says that the Spartacus disturbances were quelled on January 12 with the storming of the Police Presidency ...
Article : 230 wordsSir Eric Geddes (Minister without Portfolio, who has been appointed to co-ordinate the activities of the various Government departments regarding demobilisation) ...
Article : 286 wordsPrivisions from the British Army in Italy have reached Vienna under a British escort. It has always been recognished that the Austrians' treatment of prisoners ...
Article : 165 wordsThe Trans-Siberian railway will be worked by Japan and America under a board representing the inter-Allied nations. [A correspondent, in Peking says that ...
Article : 191 wordsThe plague of rats in Britain is so serious that the Board of Agriculture is establishing a special department to cope with the matter under the supervision of ...
Article : 36 wordsA Bloomfontein message says that the Nationalist (anti-Imperial) Congress has decided to send a deputation to Europe to lay before President Wilson their claim to ...
Article : 135 wordsFour Maori soldiers have been detained in connection with a shooting affair in Bloomsbury (London), in which a woman and a soldier were wounded. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Peace Conference has decided to refer the question of a League of Nations to an Inter-Allied Commission for an carly report. Germany will not be represented. ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Prince of Wales arrived in Cologne in an aeroplane from Spa(in Belgium). He persuaded the pilot of the machine to do "stunts," which he enjoyed thoroughly, ...
Article : 70 wordsMr. Carl W. Ackerman, a special correspondent of the New York "Times" is visiting Peking where he interviewed the Chinese President, Hsu Shih-Chaug, who ...
Article : 141 wordsIt is officially stated in Paris that the only authorised accounts of the Peace Conference proceedings will be communiques, and that the delegates will be pledged not ...
Article : 170 wordsThe Labour and Socialist conference will open at Berne on January 21, and a German delegate will attend. Simultaneously the International Trades Union Congress ...
Article : 119 wordsThe Government announces insurrectionary movements supported by Bolshevik agents. The insurgents attacked the palace of St. George, but they were checked ...
Article : 142 wordsM. Noulens (who was the French Ambassador to Russia) has explained the Russian situation to the members of the Peace Conference. ...
Article : 28 words"Lloyd's Register" says that 424 merchantmen, aggregating 1,979,952 tons, were under construction in the United Kingdom at the end of December. Ferro-concrete ...
Article : 49 wordsA counter-revolution is reported to be taking place in Petrograd. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe Spartacus Socialists having realised that their efforts have failed, are preparing for another outbreak during, the elections for the National Assembly. The ...
Article : 56 wordsIt is reported that Ukrainian troops bomberded Przemysl (Galicia) for several days by land and air. The situation is described as terrible. There have been some ...
Article : 49 wordsThe iron ship Kirkeudbrightshire (1,582 tons) has arrived in the London docks from Australia via New York. She is the first sailing ship to reach the Thames since ...
Article : 59 wordsGeneral Peyton C. March (Chief of the American General Military Staff) says that the number of American soldiers in France and Germany has been reduced to ...
Article : 70 wordsLord Robert Cecil (ex-Assistant Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in Britain), in the course of an interview with a representative of the Paris "Matin", said ...
Article : 145 wordsWith reference to the projected visit to England of the Treasurer of Victoria (Mr. W. M. McPherson) the opinion in financial circles is that Victoria will have to pay at ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Berne correspondent of the London "Morning Post" reports that the results of the elections for the National Assemblies of Baden Bavaria and Wurttemberg. in ...
Article : 92 wordsThe journalists' conference demanded acutual representation at the sittings, but the French journalists dissented from this and withdrew. The British, American, and ...
Article : 85 wordsThe King has approved of a parade by the City of London troops in the summer, and he will inspect them at Buckingham Palace. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Helsingfors correspondent of the "Aftonblad" reports that serious hurgerriots are taking place in Petrograd and the streets are crowded with people ...
Article : 70 wordsThe popular agitation in Luxembourg has subsided. The Republican Committee was dissolved after the official announcement was made relative to the abdication ...
Article : 87 wordsThe American cargo steamer Lake Erie has been sunk in a collision in the Bristol Channel. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe President of the Board of Trade (Sir Albert Stanley) informed a deputation of British meat importers that he could not consider the question of the ...
Article : 77 wordsDr. Liebknecht, on being arrested, attempted to escape from the guard which was conveying him to the Berlin police station. and he was shot dead. An infuriated ...
Article : 147 wordsCaptain Frederic Charles Dreyer, C.B., has been appointed to the battle cruiser New Zealand as Commodore and Chief of Staff to Admiral Lord Jellicoe. ...
Article : 92 wordsForty-three I.W.W. anti-war agitators have been sentenced to from one to ten years' imprisonment for having been implicated in sabotage plots. ...
Article : 33 wordsIn the Senate Mr. Hiram W. Johnson (Republican California) said that its was President had to attend the sittings of the ...
Article : 198 wordsAs the British Ministers will be going frequently backwards and forwards to England, their places on the delegation are likely to be filled by overseas ...
Article : 106 wordsA meeting was held in Kalgoorlie this afternoon for the purpose of considering a proposal to form a branch of the One Big Union. The meeting recommeded ...
Article : 197 wordsIn Boston 30 persons have been killed and 50 injured by an explosion of a tank which contained molasses. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Belgian newspapers are demanding that the Parliamentary and civil authorities shall held an inquiry into the surrender of Antwerp to the Germans in October, ...
Article : 51 wordsSome details have been disclosed of the Admiralty's surprise class of three superdreadnoughts, of which the Hood is already launched and is nearing completion, ...
Article : 143 wordsWilliam Alison a timekeeper in the London and North-Western Railway Co.'s locomotive sheds in Rugby says that he has inherited £50,000 from an uncle who was a ...
Article : 94 wordsThe London "Daily Teegraph" says:—"Among the Sinn Fein plans are, first, the summoning of a National Assembly in Dublin; Secondly, action to compel the ...
Article : 171 wordsTentative decisions regarding the delegates aroused disstisfaction in Paris particularly the fact that Belgium has fewer representatives than Brazil. A Belgian ...
Article : 54 wordsAt the opening of the Union Parliament on Friday Lord Buxton (the Governor-General) intimated in the course of his speech that his Ministers would lay before the ...
Article : 86 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of the "Daily Express" says that notwithstanding recent events many theatres are still open and are attended by men and women in ...
Article : 92 wordsThough the newspapers assert that the Dominions have been granted two delegates to the Peace Conference, no official confirmation of the statement has been made. ...
Article : 113 wordsThe theatrical activities of Mr. "Solly" Joel, the South African mining magnate, are creating widespread interest in London. It is understood that he is behind ...
Article : 362 wordsThe German armistice has been extended for a month, Germany having accepted Marshal Fochs's conditions. ...
Article : 23 wordsMr. F. G. Kelleway, Parliamentary Secretary to the Munitions Department, says that the reason for the cessation of German air raids was the secret of the ...
Article : 90 wordsShaftesbury Theatre.—The new programme of vaudeville and revue submitted at the Shaftesbury Theatre on Saturday night in place of the recent successful ...
Article : 546 wordsPrince Antoine of Orleans is the plaintiff in an action at law for the recovery of a pearl necklace which he lent to a lady (Carmen Flores) to wear at an evening ...
Article : 83 wordsHer von Erzberger (the leader of the Centre Party in the Reichstag, and a member of the German armistice delegation) protested against the continuation of the ...
Article : 66 wordsHerr Richmer, Berlin's Chief of Police, has resorted to the old police force, which has been armed with its former authority, but he maintains a soldier defence corps ...
Article : 154 wordsSinn Fein members of the House of Commons met in Dublin recently, and discussed the question of a national assembly. They appointed Mr. E. de Valera, A. ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Miners' Conference at Southport discussed a lengthy resolution dealing with post-war employment problems including a proposal for a six hours' day instead ...
Article : 89 wordsMr. A. J. Fraser (the special representative of the Australian and New Zealand Press Association) reported this evening:—M. Pichon, in a statement which he made ...
Article : 343 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the "Morning Post" says that President Wilson at the recent sessions of the conference urged the despatch of food to Germany as the only ...
Article : 79 wordsThe Hungarian Government has demanded the extradition of Prince Louis Windish-Graetz, on a charge of having misappropriated 4,000,000 kronen from the ...
Article : 88 wordsThe Milan correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph" says:—"The great conference question for Italy is the settlement of the boundaries of Jugo-Slavia and Italy. ...
Article : 72 wordsLord Inchcape and Sir Owen Philipps, M.P., state that they have taken over the contracts for standard ships from the Government, and will distribute the vessels ...
Article : 202 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph Company reports that France has formulated the following Note:—"The enemy shall bear the burden of French war ...
Article : 82 wordsThe German Governments has issued a proclamation to the effect that all civilians must be disarmed by Sunday (the election day). The sailors in Wilhelmshaven ...
Article : 51 wordsA French steamer, which has not been identified, but is supposed to be the Chaproi, has been mined in the Straits of Messina. About 500 lives are believed to have ...
Article : 86 wordsAustria has handed over to the Italian Armistice Commission one billion and a half of lire which were removed at the outbreak of the war to Vienna, from the ...
Article : 47 wordsHerr Eisner (President of the Bavarian Republic) says that the Bavarian Government has drafted the following Constitution:—Bavaria to be a member of the ...
Article : 130 wordsThe Australian destroyers Swan Torens, Warrego and Yarra, after a buffeting in the Bay of Biscay have reached Plymouth. The others are expected to ...
Article : 128 wordsThe results of the first day's "pourparlers" were far from satisfactory. It is evident that Russia is a very thorny problem. None of the Allied Governments has ...
Article : 131 wordsThe Belgian Government is expelling from Belgium all German and Austrian subjects. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe Geneva correspondent of the London "Daily Express" reports that an Innsbruck telegram says that there is a serious situation between the Slavs and the Italians. ...
Article : 83 wordsThe National Tourist Office is arranging for motor tours to Rheims, Arras, and Verdun during the spring. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe Air Ministry is preparing for an experimental aeroplane flight to Capetown shortly. The trip will probably take a week or a fortnight. No attempt will be ...
Article : 54 wordsThe French Government's Note, which has been received, declines the German proposal regarding the settlement of territorial differences between the ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Ministry for Reconstructions publishes the report of the Committee on Financial Risks, which was appointed owing to manufacturers and traders fearing ...
Article : 90 wordsField-Marshal won Hindenburg has been appointed to conduct the defence of the eastern frontier. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the United Press Association (U.S.A.) interviewed Mr. W. M. Hughes. who said:—"Australia wants the German islands in the Pacific ...
Article : 93 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the United Press Association learns that Italy has abandoned definitely her imperialistic programme, and accepted the British and ...
Article : 50 wordsNegotiations with the Polish representatives in Paris resulted in an agreement whereby with the common consent of the various parties in Peiand Paderewski ...
Article : 72 wordsAn interesting account of an Australian trooper's visit to Mount Sinal appears in the "Windsor Magazine." An expedition was undertaken with the object of ...
Article : 175 wordsAt a special meeting of the Municipal Council, at which Mr. Underwood, Minister for the North-West, and Mr. Angelo, M.L.A. for Gascoyne, attended, members ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Swiss Government is dealing drastically with German and Russian Bolshevik agents. Many are under surveillance, and a number of arrests have been made. A ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Bolsheviks have entered Mitau, a town near Riga, and the captial of the province of Courland. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe Union of Seamen and Firemen has summoned an international conference in London for February 24 to consider the question of the holding up of foodstuffs ...
Article : 169 wordsThe Jugo-Slav Committee in Paris has made a protest against the admittance of Serbian delegates to the exclusion of Jugo-Slavs from the Austro-Hungarian Provinces ...
Article : 49 wordsThree questions which are being asked concerning the opening of the sessions of the Peace Conference are of dominating interest—named—Will the sessions be ...
Article : 126 wordsThe transport Nestor which has arrived here is one of the ships whose troops are responsible for the recent troubles at Colombo. The other ship was the ...
Article : 104 wordsA so-called count named Bouyon, who was a friend of the late M. Auguste Rodin, the famous French Sculptor has been arrested on a charge of fraud. He ...
Article : 66 wordsMr. and Mrs. P. MacKay, of a Subiaco, have received word that their son, Private A. T. J. MacKay (Alf), is in Emereary Hospital, Illford, England, suffering from ...
Article : 100 wordsM. Venizelos (the Prime Minister of Greece) says that Greece hopes to realise a Greater Greece, based on nationality, by the acquisition of portions of Northern ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 20 Jan 1919, Page 7
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