In perfect weather and upon a wicket which had quite recovered from the thunder-burst of Thursday, the elevens of Victoria and New South Wales commenced ...
Article : 2,181 wordsStock markets closed for the holidays in a very cheerful mood. Business in giltedged securities has been on an enormous scale. Some firms and dealers are reported ...
Article : 594 wordsThe Bolshevik Prime Minister of Russia (M. Lenin), in opening the ninth congress of the Soviets, sarcastically attacked those Communists who still believed it to be ...
Article : 444 wordsIt is stated by the Dublin correspondent of the New York "World" that there were few churches in Ireland where on Christmas Day the clergy failed to ask the ...
Article : 232 wordsAlthough the boycott and general strike imposed by Gandhi's agents had a marked effect in Calcutta on Saturday, it failed to produce as great an impression on the ...
Article : 871 wordsAt a joint meeting of the committee on the limitation of armaments and the subcommitee on the limitation of naval armaments on Thursday, the First Lord of the ...
Article : 3,582 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the "New York Times" says that experts appointed by President Harding to investigate the matter have proposed an extraordinary ...
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Article : 197 wordsDiscussing reparations, the "Journal" says:—"We hope France and Great Britain will find themselves united to demand that debts due them shall not be ...
Article : 365 wordsAfter the discussion on Britain's proposals had ended, Mr. C.E. Hughes placed before the committee the American suggestions for the limiting of submarine ...
Article : 643 wordsThe "Matin" publishes an interview with General Hoffman, the German commanderin-chief on the eastern front, during the war in which he states that Bolshevism is ...
Article : 145 wordsThe Government of Ulster has dissolved the Fermanagh County Council, which recently refused to acknowledge any authority except that of Dail Eireann, and has ...
Article : 43 wordsA special court at Charlestown, County Mayo, his committed for trial Herbert Craig and Hugh Leonard, both butchers, on a charge of having attempted to murder ...
Article : 111 wordsThe Board of Trade food department anounces that in view of the large arrivals of free butter it is no longer possible to continue the system of fixing prices weekly ...
Article : 355 wordsScotland Yard, being cognisant of a plot on the part ot Communists to raid banks and West End shops at the height of the Christmas shopping period, took special ...
Article : 315 wordsThrilling scenes occurred during a fire at the Convent of the Good Shepherd, in Cork More than 170 small girls were in peril, but firemen, with the assistance ...
Article : 67 wordsMen concealed by a garden hedge shot dead Mr. Armstrong, a Belfast Freemason and Orangeman. who had been threatened and fired at earlier last week. ...
Article : 65 wordsA body of police dramatically raided the parochial hall at Tollcross, in Glasgow, and arrested 13 members of a Sinn Fein organisation, besides capturing large ...
Article : 121 wordsTwo shots were fired and bottles were used as weapons in some vigorous fighting on a disturbance in Napier street, Fitzroy, on Saturday afternoon, which followed an ...
Article : 400 wordsThe Viceroy (the Earl of Reading) made a very firm answer to a deputation of leading Indians, who requested him to abandon the action which is being taken by the ...
Article : 343 wordsThe High Commissioner (Held Marshal Viscount Allenby) has issued a proclamation prohibiting banks and other institutions from advancing, without his ...
Article : 222 wordsChristmas Eve brought a record crime wave. There were 10 "hold-up" robberies, in which four persons were killed, one of whom was a bandit and one a woman. ...
Article : 96 wordsThe correspondent of the "Chicago Tribune" at Tokio says that Vice-Admiral Okada, chief of the Warship Administration Board, indicated that while a material ...
Article : 145 wordsThe "New York World" circiumutantially asserts that President Harding has further complicated the four-Power pact by telling the Conservative senators that he ...
Article : 114 wordsThe Railways Wages Board has reduced the wages of British railway-men by 4/ [?] week as from January 1. Sir Percy Loraine, the new British ...
Article : 393 wordsA man named Domblides, at Orthez, capital of the Department of Basses-Pyrenees, France, barricaded himself in his house to prevent eviction for the nonpayment of ...
Article : 81 wordsTwo thousand seven hundred and fifty Moplah rebels have surrendered at Chembraseri. Thangal, one of the two principal rebel leaders, has surrendertd to the ...
Article : 149 wordsSYDNEY, Saturday.—Eleven plagueinfected rats have been discovered on premises in Day street, near the Darling Harbour water front during the past eight ...
Article : 93 wordsThe correspondent of the United Press at Tokio learns that a hash authority in Japan does not consider it necessary that the quadruple agreement should be ...
Article : 93 wordsThe Berlin rate of exchange on London is 790 marks to the £1 sterling, as against the previous quotation of 755 marks 1,400 Marks to the £1. ...
Article : 102 wordsThe Australian Rugby football team defeated Hull by 21 points to 10. The proposed match in Pans has been abandoned Several of the Australians will ...
Article : 55 wordsThe famous temperance advocate "Pussyfoot" Johnson, after an eight months' speaking tour abroad, has returned home. He says that India will be "dry" within ...
Article : 98 wordsAmerican conference circles regard recent events in China, especially the establishment of a so-called dictatorship by the super-Tuchun (military Governor), General ...
Article : 281 wordsThirty-three persons were brought before Mr. C. Go[?]spink, J. P., at the City Watchhouse yesterday morning. The majority were charged with having been drunk and disorderly, and all were discharged ...
Article : 47 wordsIn the billiards match between Clark McConachy, the New Zealand champion, and T.Aiken (Scotland) the scores are:— Aiken (rec: 4,000). 8,703; McConachy, 6,642. ...
Article : 43 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.— A fire broke out early on Christmas morning in the factory of the City Furniture Company, at Leichhardt, and caused damage estimated at ...
Article : 63 words"Midget" Smith, bantam-weight, decisively defeated "Pete" Herman in a 15 rounds' bout. Smith was severely punished. ...
Article : 23 wordsMaurice Joseph Collins, of Beaconfield parade St. Kilda, manufacturers' agent. Causes of insolvency Adverse judgements in various courts losses when in the manufacturing business, and sickness in ...
Article : 44 wordsSYDNEY, Monday. — There are no developments to record in the political situation in New South Wales. The Government has not decided when the elections ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tue 27 Dec 1921, Page 5
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