The Air Ministry has received a report, stating that Lieutenant R. J. Parer, the Melbourne aviator, who is flying to Australia on a De Haviland machine, has ...
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Article : 401 wordsThe Finance Ministers of the Allied nations will shortly meet to discuss European financial problems. They will report to the Supreme Council. ...
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Article : 79 wordsIn the course of a speech at Dundee the Secretary of State for War (Mr. Winston Churchill) said there were no differences between the Coalition and the Independent ...
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Article : 54 wordsSpeaking in the House of Commons, the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Austen Chamberlain) explained that the new Silver Coinage Bill provides for the minting of ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Prussian Government has brought forward a bill which proposes the transfer to the Ruhr coal district, in Western Prussia, of, 150,000 workers and their families, ...
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Article : 437 wordsIn an international Rugby football match played at Dublia, England defeated Ireland by 14 points to 11. An international Association match at ...
Article : 33 wordsThe British Government has purchased the whole of the Patagonian meat output for 1920. This decision has surprised the meat trade, as it has been understood that ...
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Article : 222 wordsThe Criminal Investigation department has received a report that a Chinese, Ah Cow, who keeps a fruiterer's store in the Victoria Market, was hit on the forehead ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 16 Feb 1920, Page 7
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