In the course of a statement setting [?] the reasons why the Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Watt) convened the recent coal conference, Rear Admiral Sir William ...
Article : 1,350 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the London "Daily News," telegraphing on Tuesday night, said that the British official view of the Peace Conference prospects was ...
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Article : 56 wordsAn Anglo-Spanish agreement is being prepared. It is expected to have the result of improved rates of exchange. Great Britain will agree to unlimited importation of ...
Article : 44 wordsIt is reported by the Paris correspondent of the United Press Association of American that the League of Nations Commission has adopted a new section in the covenant ...
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Article : 153 wordsThe House of Lords has passed the second reading of the Service Bill. Lord Curzon, leader of the House, pointed out that the war was not yet over. ...
Article : 552 wordsSeveral thousand German prisoners are clearing up the ruined towns in Northern France. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe Under Secretary of State for the Colonies (Lieut-Colonel Amery) announced in the House of Commons on Tuesday that the British Government would, after ...
Article : 68 wordsAccording to the "Morning Post's" Paris correspondent, Marshal Foch and Generals Petain and Joffre have furnished a report, demanding the military occupation of the ...
Article : 118 wordsThe Parliamentary Secretary of the Local Government Board (Major Waldorf Astor), in the House of Commons on Wednesday, accepted thu principle of a motion in favour ...
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Article : 213 wordsA new Aliens Bill, passed by the House of Commons, will operate for two years, and will continue the Aliens Restriction Act of 1914. It empowers the authorities ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Constantinople correspondent of the "New York Herald" has interviewed the Sultan, who indicated that he is determined to arrest and punish the men responsible ...
Article : 71 wordsAdmiral of the Fleet Sir David Beatty. when taking farewell on Monday of the ship's company of the Queen Elizabeth, which was the flagship of the Grand Fleet, ...
Article : 114 wordsThe Paris press is becoming increasingly insistent on securing France's full demands. The "Matin," in a leading article published on Wednesday, declares:— ...
Article : 157 wordsIt is announced officially in London that General Sir Edmund Allenby, who was appointed special High Commissioner for Egypt and the Soudan when the native ...
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Article : 45 wordsReplying yesterday to the comments in "The Argus" on the suggestion that a departmental inquiry should be held into compalnts made by the officers of the ...
Article : 130 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph" says that the drafting committee of the Peace Conference has completed the financial clauses, the provisions ...
Article : 288 wordsThe British Shipping Conference is arranging for steamers to call at Antwerp to take cargo to Australasia as soon as sufficient is offering, thus filling the place of ...
Article : 44 wordsThough social and sporting fixtures for the season in London are not expected to resume their pre-war gaiety, a great number of fashionable fixtures have been ...
Article : 60 wordsAviation companies in London are establishing a daily service for the delivery of letters between London and Paris for a half-crown fee. They guarantee delivery ...
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Article : 170 wordsAccording to the Brussels correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph," the number of unemployed in Belgium at the end of March was 850,000, and the total was ...
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Article : 326 wordsThere is a possibility of a tobacco "war." An American syndicate is making a big effort to break the tobacco combine in ...
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Article : 378 wordsThe Rev. Father Bernard Vaughan, of London, doubts the accuracy of the report that 350 priests at Naples voted for the abolition of celibacy. There was, he said, ...
Article : 66 wordsGermany's population, which before the war was 68,000,000, is now 65,000,000. During war time the deaths of civilians was 5½ millions, and of soldiers 1? millions. Of ...
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Article : 105 wordsThe articles of the League or Nations covenant have been rearranged, and many textual alterations have been made to strengthen and simplify them. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 12 Apr 1919, Page 21
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