Sunday in the United Kingdom witnessed the nation at prayer. Congregations throughout the country of all sects and faiths joined in a public thanksgiving for ...
Article : 417 wordsThe giant British dirigible airship R34 safely came to earth at Mineola, on Long lsland, near New York. It left England on Tuesday morning at 3 o'clock, its voyage ...
Article : 361 wordsA party of munition workers, some of whom were accompanied by their English brides, returned by the s.s. Irishman yesterday. Landing at the New Pier, Port ...
Article : 93 wordsReports from Rome state that the inhabitants of many Italian towns demand a reduction of 50 per cent. in the prices of food. The Mayor of Bologna has promised ...
Article : 255 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle" says it is understood that the tribunal for the trial of the ex-Kaiser will consist of the heads of the judiciary of the five leading Allied Powers. ...
Article : 234 wordsThe conference of State sub-branches of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' Imperial League concluded its sittings in Melbourne yesterday. ...
Article : 1,241 wordsThe compulsory conference in connection with the shipping strike yesterday proved ineffective. The seamen's representatives insisted on three points as a condition ...
Article : 487 wordsAccording to the Washington correspondent of the "New York Times," official despatches have been received stating that the Japanese military commander ...
Article : 141 wordsThe names of Victorian troops on the s.s. Beltana, which left England on June 2, and on the s.s. Bremen, which sailed on June 4, are given in the accompanying ...
Article : 1,653 wordsBRISBANE, Monday.—A message received from the chairman of the shire council at Ravenswood, near Townsville, stated that the town had been without flour for a ...
Article : 162 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—The following motion was unanimously agreed to to-day by a large and fully representative meeting in Sydney of the Chinese community of ...
Article : 163 wordsIt is expected, says the "Daily Chronicle," that a number of German offenders in submarine warfare and the executioners of Captain Fryatt and Nurse Cavell will reach ...
Article : 112 wordsA Bolshevik message says:—"German Landwehr attacked us in the direction of Riga. All the enemy soldiers were drunk. They lost severely. We counter attacked ...
Article : 47 wordsBALLARAT, Monday.—After having been idle for three weeks, the Sunnyside Woollen Mills resumed work this morning, the directors having arranged for the use of ...
Article : 71 wordsNo fewer than 35,000 Bolshevik pamphlets in English, and a similar number in French, have been printed in Sweden, and a large number reprinted in ...
Article : 80 wordsIt is officially stated that the speech in which the Prince of Wales told a gathering of Australian soldiers at the Aldwych Theatre on Friday night that he looked ...
Article : 67 wordsA most serious position, arising out of the lack of refrigerated overseas shipping space, is confronting the producers and the meat exporters of Victoria. The ...
Article : 718 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Lawson), on behalf of the Victorian Peace Celebrations Committee, expressed his cordial thanks yesterday to the musical sub-committee (Professor ...
Article : 199 wordsA passenger train on which the Prime Minister of New Zealand (Mr. Massey) and his family were travelling to Montreal from Halifax, where they had landed from the ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Tokio correspondent of the "Daily Express" reports that leading Japanese statesmen interviewed by him politely welcome the League of Nations, but with the ...
Article : 95 wordsSeventy thousand Germans, who desire to emigrate to Switzerland, have applied to the Swiss Legation in Berlin for passports. ...
Article : 22 wordsAt a great State ceremony the French President (M. Poincare) invested the city of Rheims with the Cross of the Legion of Honour and the Croix de Guerre. M. ...
Article : 62 wordsThere are Australian troops on board the steamer Themistoc[?]es, which collided with and sank the Norwegian barque Edderside, off Cape Agulhas, the southernmost point ...
Article : 124 wordsIn the semi-fianl of the men's doubles for the All England lawn tennis championships at Wimbledon, Lycett and Heath (Melb.) defeated Fisher (New Zealand) ...
Article : 167 wordsThe Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Watt) declined last night to comment in any way on the failure of the compulsory conference. He said that he had heard ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Council of Ten in Paris has determined to maintain the blackade of Hungary, declaring that it is impossible to make peace with the Communist Premier ...
Article : 35 wordsImportant amendments in the method of assessing war pensions were announced yesterday by the Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Watt). ...
Article : 316 wordsAccording to Mr. Lazarus, British press correspondent at Fiume, General Grazioli has appealed to the French to prevent the Jugoslavs from landing at Martinschizza, ...
Article : 112 wordsAfter reading the statement of the registrar of the Arbitration Court, Mr. T. Walsh (secretary of the Seamen's Union) stated last evening: ...
Article : 375 wordsArrangements had previously been announced for the distribution of the Commonwealth Government's peace souvenir medals to children under 15 years of age, to ...
Article : 244 wordsFurther information concerning the statement made at the conference of the Victorian branches of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' League on Friday, that a secret ...
Article : 558 wordsThe Australian riflemen who will engage in the shooting contests at Bisley are making excellent practice at the long ranges, but their shooting at the shorter ranges ...
Article : 52 wordsThe English newspapers in Cape Town are dissatisfied with the manifesto of General Smuts in regard to the peace terms. The "Cape Argus" remarks that doubtless ...
Article : 104 wordsAt the meeting of the University Council, held at the Town Hall yesterday, with the vice-chancellor (Sir John Grice) in the chair, Sir J. W. Barrett moved: ...
Article : 342 wordsIn connection with the opening of the Anzac Hostel for permanently incapacitated soldiers at Brighton on Saturday, it was stated yesterday that properties had been ...
Article : 191 wordsEight students of the University of Melbourne who have been on active service were admitted to degrees at yesterday's meeting of the University Council, ...
Article : 663 wordsA thanksgiving service for peace was held in St. Paul's Cathedral yesterday afternoon for the girls of the secondary schools of Melbourne and the suburbs. ...
Article : 73 words"Is the Melbourne University to be the only public institution in the city that cannot display the national flags on such an occasion?" asked Dr. Leeper, when the ...
Article : 154 wordsThe failure of the conference leaves the position as it was when several weeks ago Mr. Justice Higgins delivered his warning against giving way before the assault ...
Article : 219 wordsSir,—Your report in to-day's issue of the proceedings of the Manchester Unity at the Prahran Town Hall provides excellent material for a just appreciation of the ...
Article : 542 wordsSir,—After reading so many excuses which the Land Board has made regarding the delays of soldier settlement, I would like to direct your attention to my own ...
Article : 176 wordsThe annual congress of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' Imperial League, postponed from last March through quarantine restrictions, will commence on July 15 in ...
Article : 332 wordsSYDNEY, Monday,—An unusual story concerning a young woman recently found drowned and a large fortune was relateu at an investigation held to-day by the city ...
Article : 331 wordsSir,—A correspondent, "Working Man," in "The Argus" to-day, asks me if I will "give the names of those comprising the combine that caused the price of hides and ...
Article : 232 wordsThe wool sales were concluded on Friday. Keen competition prevailed throughout the series. Continental buyers operated freely for merino combings and scoureds. ...
Article : 156 wordsSir,—In reference to an account of a secret appeal for funds in the Dimboola district to aid German prisoners, our society has no knowledge of this, and has not ...
Article : 61 wordsWork was commenced yesterday afternoon on the collier Five Islands, lying at the South Wharf coal berth. The vessel arrived on Friday with a cargo of coal from ...
Article : 124 wordsKEMPSEY (N.S.W.), Saturday.—A monument erected to deceased Germans at the Trial Bay internment camp was blown up on Thursday afternoon. ...
Article : 132 wordsA good audience was present at the Athe[?]eum Hall last evening when the A.N.A. musical and elocutionary competitions were continued. The following competitors received highest marks in their ...
Article : 174 wordsThe Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Watt) was unable to give any details last night of his scheme for the relief of those who have lost their employment through the ...
Article : 262 wordsA meeting of the A.I.F. Medical Association was held at the Base Hospital, St. Kilda road, last night, Colonel A. H. Sturdee, C.M.G., presiding, The association was recently formed with a view ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tue 8 Jul 1919, Page 5
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