Three constables frustrated a carefully planned attempt to set fire to the Vacuum Oil Company's depot at Wandsworth, in which 60,000 barrels, containing 2,500,000 ...
Article : 464 wordsLord Robert Cecil, in an address at Hitchin, Hertfordshire, in support of the League of Nations, said:—Membership in the League is costing Great Britain £50,000 ...
Article : 248 wordsM. Peret, who was entrusted with the task of forming a new Government, failed in his mission, and the President of the Republic (M. Millerand) asked M. Aristides ...
Article : 143 wordsThirteen was a lucky number for the huge audience which assembled at Austral Gardens on Saturday evening, for 13 members comprised the opening chorus of the ...
Article : 1,017 wordsThe Indian Nationalist extremists have arranged for special demonstrations during the stay of H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught in India. The Royal visitor is due at Delhi ...
Article : 202 wordsOfficial details were issued recently of the scheme to harness the Severn tides for generating cheap, electricity for a wide industrial area, and to construct a rail and ...
Article : 1,019 wordsSaturday saw a large audience in just the right mood for appreciation gathered under the lamp-wreathed trees at the Garden Theatre, where a new, varied, and ...
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Advertising : 39 wordsThe Observer, referring to the dissolution, of the French Government, says:—The British Government takes an extremely grave view of the French crisis. The ...
Article : 292 wordsAnother fraudulent scheme promising to assume the proportions of the Ponzi swindle has been revealed at Boston, U.S.A. The authorities have begun an ...
Article : 153 wordsThe British Ambassador at Washington (Sir Auckland Geddes) has sailed for England to confer with Mr. Lloyd George. The American Foreign Office and the British ...
Article : 164 wordsThe story of how Foch took control of the armies of the Allies is now-being told in Paris by M. Stephane Lauzanne, the editor of The Matin. On a critical ...
Article : 720 wordsThe London representative of The New York World—which paper is conducting a disarmament campaign in the United States—has secured an exclusive statement ...
Article : 197 wordsThe Portsmouth Docky[?]orkers have received notice that their hours will be reduced by seven each week to avoid dismissals, and that there will be a ...
Article : 67 wordsThe Paris correspondent of The Sunday Times says:—"M. Poincare represented the pound of flesh principle in the interpretation of the Versailles Treaty, but the ...
Article : 77 wordsThe British Mission now at the Afghanistan capital, Cabul, has been received by the Ameer with much courtesy, and cordiality. Discussions in regard to the treaty ...
Article : 101 wordsThe Australian Minister for Repatriation (Mr. Millen) to-day expressed gratification that the British Government had given its approval to the Australian scheme for the ...
Article : 206 wordsA notice was posted at the Proprietary Mine to-day, which read:—"Operations will cease on the completion on the day shift to-day, owing to the shortage of coal." ...
Article : 123 wordsToo few people realize the strain to which vaudeville artists are submitted when they provide their portions of a music hall programme. Only a brief time ...
Article : 464 wordsAdmiral Milne has begun in The Sunday Express the narrative of the escape of the Turkish (ex-German) battleship Goeben from its British pursuers in the ...
Article : 136 wordsA report from Warsaw says that the League of Nations has forwarded an ultimatum to the Polish leader, Gen. Zeligowski, who recently occupied Vilna, to ...
Article : 42 wordsInterviewed for a New York newspaper, Mr. Charles Doherty, Canada's delegate to the League of Nations, said he had the utmost confidence that the Empire would ...
Article : 134 wordsThe 24 hours' bicycle race at the Sydney Sports Ground finished on Saturday night. The winners were Grenda and Erskine, who scored 33 points. Clark and Priestly ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Mayor of Portsmouth headed a deputation to the Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian High Commissioners with the view of enlisting oversea dominions ...
Article : 83 wordsThe general opinion in London wool circles is that if the Australian realization scheme ia administered on business lines with a reasonable meeting of the market ...
Article : 204 wordsThe delights (and drawbacks) of living in a flat were discussed in the King's Bench Division in London, at the end of November, before Mr. Justice Darling ...
Article : 667 wordsThe Greeks have captured Bozenyuk after considerable resistance, the enemy having concentrated there for the defence of Eskishehr. The enemy is now retreated to ...
Article : 60 words"Sir E. Marshall-Hall, K.C., wall appear for the defence." Can you pass that single sentence without a pause? Can you dismiss it before it awakens memories of famous ...
Article : 652 wordsThere were 13 members returned without opposition in the nominations for the South African general election. Of these the parties represented were:—Labour. 1: ...
Article : 140 wordsA Judge of the Chancery Division. Sir Arthur Peterson, and a K.C., Mr. W. J. Disturnal, were two of the plaintiffs who contended before Mr. Justice Astbury in ...
Article : 374 wordsCommonwealth financial experts report that the money market da steadily improving. Sir Timothy Coghlan has published a ...
Article : 62 wordsThere was a large attendance at the Theatre Royal on Saturday night, when a new programme of cinema pictures was presented. There was but the one big ...
Article : 334 wordsThe New York Times, commenting on last week's wool auctions in Australia and London, says:—It will be interesting to watch how the scheme under which Great ...
Article : 125 wordsThe management of West's announce that they have secured for a limited engagement "the dramatic novelty of the year"—"The Long Arm of Mannister." ...
Article : 177 wordsUnemployment in France in increasing, and many factories are closed down owing to the high prices of raw materials and the difficulty of financing operations. Many ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Government of Panama has sent a vigorous Note to the United States Government protesting against the seizure by American officers of a small tract of ground ...
Article : 97 wordsIn October, 1918, the London Zoological Society acquired a large reticulated python measuring 16 ft. in length, and weighing just over 150 lb.; it was placed in one of ...
Article : 252 wordsCommunist demonstrators on Saturday, attempted, in defiance of a prohibition, to pass through the cordon of police surrounding the Reichstag building. The police ...
Article : 45 wordsTo-day, at the Pavilion Theatre, Metro's production of "Clothes," by Avery Hopwood and Channing Pollock, starring OhveTell, will be shown for the first time in ...
Article : 123 wordsThe match for 16,000 up between "Smith end Inman was carried by the former tonight to 14,205, and by the latter to 11,947. Crowded houses have witnessed the ...
Article : 154 wordsHerr Hugo Stinnes, a famous German commercial magnate, has acquired extensive forest areas along the Baltic coast to provide wood pulp for conversion into ...
Article : 185 wordsThe mountain motor tours conducted by the Government Tourist Bureau through the fine scenery and panoramic glories of the Mount Lofty Ranges are an ...
Article : 186 wordsThere is a production at Paramount's Wondergraph Theatre, today, which promises, something unusual on a scale of notable grandeur, "a picture which pulses ...
Article : 194 wordsThe cool change brought a big crowd of dancers to the new Palais Royal, Glenelg, on Saturday night, and a particularly enjoyable evening was spent by the seaside ...
Article : 150 wordsThe Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants has decided to take a ballot on the question of striking in the event of the non-payment to members of the society ...
Article : 48 wordsThe next annual general meeting of the Rugby Union Committee intends to propose the representation of New Zealand, Australia, and South Africa on the ...
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The Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 - 1929), Mon 17 Jan 1921, Page 9
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