Giving evidence before the Federal Parliamentary Joint Committee on Public Accounts to-day. Dr. Wade. Technical Adviser to the Federal ...
Article : 744 wordsColonel Childs, director of Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company (South Africa), referring to the establishment of wireless communication with Great ...
Article : 210 wordsA "communique" relating to this morning's conversation between Mr. Austen Chamberlain and M. Herriot says that agreement was reached on various ...
Article : 179 wordsThe Berlin newspapers discuss the Anglo-German Trade Treaty mainly from the standpoint of Sunday's Reichstag elections. ...
Article : 151 wordsBeautiful cool weather prevailed yesterday for the third day's play in the match England versus an Australian Eleven, and the attendance approached ...
Article : 884 wordsWith reference to the sensational reports to the effect that Egyptian extremists are conspiring to assassinate British Ministers in London, it has been ...
Article : 201 wordsThe general council of the Congress of Trade Unions has appointed a sub-committee to evolve a scheme for carrying out the resolution of the Hull Congress ...
Article : 84 wordsThe Government has placed twelve speedy destroyers along the Atlantic seaboard to conduct a campaign against the rum fleet. Eight more will be ...
Article : 190 wordsThe return of Sadoul, the Communist, and the demonstrations in honour of M. Krassin (the Russian Ambassador) have intensified the agitations in the Press ...
Article : 156 wordsBecause they allege non-unionists were being employed on the same work, 50 members of the Ship Painters and Dockers' Union employed at the ...
Article : 45 wordsM. Herriot's reply to M. Cachin was made during the course of a debate in the Chamber of Deputies on the Navy Estimates, when the Communists ...
Article : 82 wordsThe provisions of the Anglo-German Commercial Treaty are arousing much interest in the city, particularly in banking circles, in which a considerable difference ...
Article : 146 wordsSeveral cases of shopbreaking and other crimes, at first thought to have been committed by experienced criminals, are now asserted by Plain-clothes ...
Article : 227 wordsThe London reports to the effect that the British Government is expected to address a request to Washington for information regarding the question of the ...
Article : 293 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the London "Daily Herald" says:—Mr. Chamberlain and M. Herriot agreed that each should leave to the other's country a free hand ...
Article : 147 wordsWith regard to statements in the Press concerning a conspiracy to attempt to murder some prominent members of the Imperial Government, the Home ...
Article : 162 wordsThe success which attended the transmission of the message of the High Commissioner for South Africa by the beam system has created treat interest ...
Article : 118 wordsSome 800 policemen and Republican Guards raided the Communist quarters at Bobigny, a suburb of Paris. Special attention was paid to the Leninist school, ...
Article : 112 wordsThe butcher Haarmann, whose trial in Hanover is attracting the attention of criminologist throughout the world, continues his extraordinary attitude. He ...
Article : 160 wordsExpressing his delight at the result of his general exchange of views with M. Herriot, Mr. Austin Chamberlain has left for Rome. He issued to ...
Article : 54 wordsThe experimental wireless system which is in operation at the new Milnerton receiving station (near Capetown) reveals greater success as the wave lengths ...
Article : 167 wordsThe London "Sunday News" says it understands that members of the royal family, as well an members of the Cabinet, will now be guarded by special ...
Article : 48 wordsA London cable message says that at the inquest concerning the death of Mr. Hardman (formerly manager of the Windsor and Oriental. Hotels, ...
Article : 761 wordsLying in wait in the shadows of the Yarra Junction railway station about 2 o'clock this morning, four detectives watched two men approach the building. ...
Article : 183 wordsThe British delegation to the Council of the League of Nation's, headed by Mr. Chamberlain, has arrived here. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe Egyptian Association of Great Britain and Ireland has issued a protest against "the latest attempt by the Press to inflame public opinion against the ...
Article : 61 wordsThe first evidence of the return flow of gold to Europe after four years' heavy importations was seen to-day, when two shipments aggregating about ...
Article : 102 wordsIn the course or a speech at a luncheon which was given to-day by the Overseas League, Mr. L. Amery (Secretary of State for the Colonies) said ...
Article : 266 wordsIn connection with the Midland Bank case, Hobbs re-appeared in the Bow-street (London) Police Court to-day Great public interest was shown in the ...
Article : 159 wordsThe London office of the Sudan Government has received from Lady Lee Stack (the wife of the late Sirdar) a telegram declaring that the report that she ...
Article : 130 wordsThe Norwegian whaler Sir James Clark Ross (at degrees from the South Pole) has reported by radio. The signals to the Federal telegraph station ...
Article : 62 wordsIt is understood from a well-informed but unofficial source that steps are likely to be taken soon to push on with the, plan for the construction of a naval base ...
Article : 62 wordsShortly before six o'cock to-night the oversea steamer Piako left Swift's wharf in Hamilton Reach bound for Sydney. The vessel negotiated the difficult bends ...
Article : 115 wordsSir W. S. Brancker (Director of Civil Aviation in Great Britain) has arrived in Bucharest (Rumania). [A Constantinope message of ...
Article : 69 wordsThe late Sir Lee Stack's chauffeur, Fred. March (who is an Australian), has been awarded the medal of the Order of the British Empire.—Reuter. ...
Article : 63 wordsThe machinery of the Albany Woollen Miss was [?] in motion for the first time on Friday night and the plant ran continuously until Saturday afternoon ...
Article : 382 wordsThe Imperial Defence Committee discussed yesterday the question of the Singapore base. It is understood that it recommended that the work be resumed. ...
Article : 85 wordsAn official of the Midland Bank gave evidence to the effect that an account was opened in the Kingsway branch of the bank on January 5, 1920, crediting ...
Article : 270 wordsA heavy wind, blew across the harbour last night and caused the mooring lines of the cattle boat Pronto to break and the ship was blown on to a mud bank. ...
Article : 52 wordsA summary court-martial, in Khartum sentenced to death four Egyptian officers who were involved in the recent mutiny. In one case the sentence was commuted ...
Article : 61 wordsFlying was continued to-day at the Richmond aerodrome, in the aeroplane trials for low-powered machines. Captain F. W. Follett, in his baby De ...
Article : 317 wordsThe executive council of the British Empire Exhibition has decided unanimously that the exhibition shall be continued next year. ...
Article : 146 wordsThe Minister for Agriculture (Mr. E. F. L. Wood), said in a speech in Chelmsford that the consumption of wheat in China and Japan was growing steadily, ...
Article : 606 wordsThe cattle boat Pronto again prose loose from her moorings last night, and stuck on a mud bank in heavy wind. At high tide she was unable to get off. ...
Article : 64 wordsOnly two of the persons condemned to death in connection with the recent rising were executed. The other while en route to the place of execution, ...
Article : 91 wordsThe English team yesterday commenced a three-days match against Rhodesia. The Englishmen batted first and had scored 37 runs for the loss of 1 wicket ...
Article : 71 wordsWhen a motor bus not got of control through a supposed mechanical defect and ran into a verandah post at Woolahra to-day three of the passengers ...
Article : 186 wordsRecently the Minister for Defence (Mr. Bowden) invited firms desirous of tendering for the construction of one of the cruisers in Australia to submit their ...
Article : 383 wordsThe condemned man who committed suicide begged permission to shake hands with his fellow prisoners who attended to his injuries when he was wounded at ...
Article : 71 wordsWith reference to the negotiations for the establishment of the steel industry in South Africa, it is said that the Government of the Union is not disposed to ...
Article : 116 wordsThe London "Daily Herald"' says:-In spite of statements in other newspapers, to the effect that General Hari Singh has reached Europe, he is still aboard ...
Article : 108 wordsSir James Craig (the Prime Minister of Ulster), in a statement with regard to the Boundary Commission's public appeal for evidence, reiterates Ulster's ...
Article : 75 wordsA Royal Australian Air Force pageant will he held at Flemington racecourse on Saturday, when twenty aeroplanes will demonstrate nil phases of military flying. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe extreme violence which has characterised recent mob fights in the city and suburbs was again exhibited in an affray at Redfera on Saturday night, ...
Article : 100 wordsAt Dunrobin Bridge, about four miles from Ouse, one man was killed, and another has his leg broken, through the top of a stand gravel quarry falling in upon ...
Article : 139 wordsThe following passengers by the Great Western express will reach Perth to-day:—Messrs. Searle, Gracuclay, Brown, Birney Burham, Anderson, Callapy, Johns, ...
Article : 92 wordsThe report of the executive committee of the Empire Cotton Growing Corporation says that the committee has considered the recommendations of the ...
Article : 220 wordsNine men have been killed and a number are missing as a result of an explosion in the Llay Main Colliery. Wrexham (Denbigh, Wales). ...
Article : 142 wordsThe Government will introduce during the next session of the Parliament a Bill dealing with South African citizenship and the South African flag. ...
Article : 28 wordsMr. Alexander MacCallum Scott, who was Liberal member for Bridgeton (Glasgow) from 1910 to 1918, and who for a time was the Coalition's Whip in ...
Article : 111 wordsMr. V. J. Patel, the Swarajist Mayor of Bombay, has resigned.—Reuter. [Mr. Patel announced that he would refuse invitations to public functions ...
Article : 57 wordsThe final counting of the ballot of the Miners' Federation for the office of general president resulted in the re-election of Mr. D. Rees. There was a heavy ...
Article : 139 wordsAbout 9.30 on Saturday morning the body of a man, afterwards identified as Thomas Flanigan, a miner, was found in an open cut on the Lake View lease. ...
Article : 125 wordsWonderful fortitude was displayed by a schoolgirl to-day in bearing excruciation pain. The girl fell over a precipice with a jagged edge and almost ...
Article : 136 wordsMrs. Annie Besant has rejoined the Indian National Congress, after a secession of three years, which was caused by the Congress's adopting M. K. Gand ...
Article : 78 wordsAlarm was occasioned recently at Wagga by the reported outbreak of anthrax on a holding within the jurisdiction of the Wagga Pastures Protection Board ...
Article : 106 wordsThe two men arrested in connection with the Hampton Bank murder appeared at the City Court on Saturday morning. After the charges of wounding and ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 8 Dec 1924, Page 7
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