The British navy and its distinguished representative and former leader, Admiral of the Fleet, Viscount Jellicoe, were yesterday given a welcome by Melbourne that ...
Article : 623 wordsThe Australian Press Association learns that the anti-Bolshevik insurgents on the Upper Don, numbering 25,000, are suffering from ...
Article : 209 wordsRestrictions as to the use of coal, coke, electric light, and electric current will operate in Victoria from midnight on Wednesday next. ...
Article : 517 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" telegraphs:—"It is announced on official authority that Germany will not sign the Allies' peace terms in their present ...
Article : 295 wordsThe strike situation yesterday showed no material change. As expected, the general secretary of the Seamen's Federation (Mr. T. Walsh) endeavoured to use ...
Article : 506 wordsShortly after noon yesterday the Wyandra left Melbourne for Hobart with 300 of Tasmanian soldiers, who have been stranded in Melbourne as a result of the seamen's ...
Article : 63 wordsMuch uneasiness was evident in tradeunion circles yesterday regarding the danger of the wharf labourers' dispute spreading, even it the seamen's strike is settled. ...
Article : 318 wordsBROKEN HILL (N.S.W.), Friday.— There has been no change in the strike position to-day. There is talk of the carpenters offering to return to work, but nothing ...
Article : 51 wordsTOWNSVILLE (Q.), Friday.—The shipping deadlock is likely to become serious for the meat industry. If no solution is found soon ...
Article : 115 wordsA great crowd of people awaited Lord and Lady Jellicoe in front of the Town Hall. When they arrived shortly after midday the cheering was most ...
Article : 2,546 wordsThere was no work at the Brooklyn wheat stacks yesterday. A number of unionists whose services were dispensed with the previous day put in an appearance ...
Article : 956 wordsCouncillor Wales (mayor of Brunswick) and Mr. Thomas Griffen addressed a good meeting of electors in the Coburg Town Hall on Wednesday night. The mayor of ...
Article : 240 wordsThe Geneva correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" reports that the Russian Bolsheviks have been expelled from the whole of the northern Ukraine, also from a large ...
Article : 92 wordsThe scope of the unemployment incidental to the seamen's strike is rapidly widening, and the week-end will find nearly 7,000 men in various trades out of work, with the ...
Article : 262 wordsThe Under-Secretary of the Air Ministry, Major-General S[?]ly, speaking in the House of Commons on Thursday, foreshadowed the free gift by the Air Ministry of a ...
Article : 310 wordsIt is understood that the Austrian army will be limited to a maximum of 20,000 men. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe Rotterdam "Conrant" has published an article, probably inspired which hinted that the Dutch Government might make a change in the constitution, to enable ...
Article : 74 wordsA meeting of friends and supporters of Mr. F. W. Dawborn, a candidate for the above province, was held in the Richmond Town Hall last night, Councillor G. W. ...
Article : 196 wordsA number of Hungarian politicians of the old regime have established a provisional Government, under the leadership of Count Julius Karolyi. His Government ...
Article : 47 wordsIn a warning given yesterday to those who desire to incite attacks on loyalists, the Chief Commissioner of Police (Sir George Steward) said that ...
Article : 219 wordsThe delegates who attended the compulsory conference at which a ballot of seamen was decided on met as a committee yesterday evening and confirmed that ...
Article : 364 wordsA vast concourse of people gathered yesterday morning at St. Kilda, which again served as the "front door of Melbourne," to await the landing of Admiral of the Fleet ...
Article : 941 wordsIt is understood that the question of the future control of Fiume has been settled, on the basis that the city is to become autonomous, and that Italy will receive ...
Article : 72 wordsSir,—The electors should know that one of the candidates refuse any such arbitration as "Voter" suggests. Both were invited to meet the committee of the ...
Article : 114 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—Six collieries have been thrown idle at Kurri Kurri through the seamen's strike. ...
Article : 18 wordsIn his speech at Newcastle, Mr. Asquith, ex-Prime Minister replied to the criticism of the speech he made at Newcastle on April 20, 1915, denying that the British ...
Article : 248 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—The strike of tobacco workers at the Kensington factory of the british Australasian Tobacco Company is still in progress, but it may ...
Article : 257 wordsThe Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Cecil Harmsworth) [?]ted in the House of Commons on Thursday that the whereabouts of Enver Pasha ...
Article : 75 wordsSir,—"Voter" points out to-day the possibility of Labour Capturing the seat, and suggesting the advisability of the Liberal candidates submitting their claims to ...
Article : 190 wordsAt the annual meeting of the Preston branch of the Victorian Protestant Federation on Thursday night, the vice-president (Mr. H. P. Zwar) stated that "The Argus" ...
Article : 92 wordsThe Paris journal "Humanite" publishes the letter, in which Mr. Bullitt conveyed his resignation as a member of the American delegation. Mr. H. Bullitt, in his ...
Article : 103 wordsADELAIDE, Friday.—The South Australian members of the Seamen's Union are participating in the ballot on the question of arbitration. They will fall into line ...
Article : 323 wordsA general meeting of the Seamen's Federation, open to all members at present in Melbourne, was held at the Wharf Labourers' rooms, Flinders street, last night. It ...
Article : 259 wordsInquiries are being made by a detective into a serious accident in Queen's parade, Clifton Hill, at a quarter past 7 o'clock yesterday evening, when a young man was ...
Article : 203 wordsStreet fighting of a serious nature has taken place in the Prupsian city of Stettin. The crowd stormed the prisons nnd released the prisoners, and also plundered ...
Article : 46 wordsThe giant new British airship R34, which it is intended to send out on a flight across the Atlantic, when making a trial trip lost its bearings in a fog. It was forced to ...
Article : 65 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—The executive of the One Big Union have formulated a reply to the attack made by the A.W.U. on the O.B.U. ...
Article : 183 wordsThe "Daily Express" is informed by its Geneva correspondent that the aged ex-King Ludwig of Bavaria has gone mad. He suffers from violent fits, during which he ...
Article : 60 wordsConditions along the river water front yesterday were quiet, and no effort was made to disturb the loyalists, 140 of whom were engaged on three steamers. ...
Article : 329 words"A fire which occurred in a building occupied by American troops at Colog[?]e spread to a neighbouring ammunition dump, which exploded. Considerable loss of life ...
Article : 40 wordsNews comes of a serious rising in Mosul, in Khurdistan, Asiatic Turkey. The rebels have defeated the gendarmerie. They have also cut the telegraph lines. It is feared ...
Article : 67 wordsA story of free revolver-shooting in Lonsdale street yesterday evening, in which poor marksmanship appeared to be the outstanding feature, was told to the police ...
Article : 163 wordsThere is considerable dissatisfaction among Australian officers because the Government will grant wives only third-class fare when their husbands are repatriated, ...
Article : 117 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—The announcement that a plebiscite would be taken of the members of the Federated Seamen's Union of Australia to determine whether the ...
Article : 227 wordsGraduates from the Duntroom Military College distinguished themselves greatly in the war, and their losses were very heavy. In all, 160 graduates went to the front, of ...
Article : 137 wordsWONTHAGGI, Friday.—A "stop work" meeting was held to night to hear the result of the conference btween the Victorian colliery proprietors and the Miners' ...
Article : 177 wordsThree Spaniards, two of whom were carrving revolvers, were arrested on Saturday last in Paris, near the residence of the Prime Minister, M. Clemenceau. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe general strike at Winnipeg, Canada, over the demand by the unionists for the recognition of collective bargaining, has led to 50,000 persons in Canada being ...
Article : 33 wordsThe dispute between the authorities and the Policemen's Union is reaching a critical stage. It is declared in responsible quarters that a strike is practically ...
Article : 72 wordsOn May 28, according to a statement circulated yesterday by the Federal Treasury, the amount of Commonwealth notes issued was £55,682,137. On the same date ...
Article : 74 wordsOxford University made 152 runs in their first innings in the match against the Australian military team. Kellaway took seven wickets for 47 runs. The Australians ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 31 May 1919, Page 19
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