Interviewed yesterday by a "Mercury" reporter with regard to the statements made by Mr. Lewis, one of the Labour candidates at Sandy Bay on ...
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Article : 103 wordsH.M.S. New Zealand arrived here in perfect weather this morning, and Admiral Lord Jellicoe, accompanied by Lady Jellicoe and staff, was received ...
Article : 1,165 wordsIn the House of Assembly this afternoon, Mr. Smartt questioned the Government as to the disturbances on the Rand last Sunday between the ...
Article : 253 wordsCount Rantzou, leader of the German delegation, has presented a fifth NOte to M. Clemenceau, protesting against the decisions regarding the ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Austrian delegates have arrived. They met with a cold, but correct, reception. The Allies refused the request by ...
Article : 63 wordsThe death on the transport Medic of an Australian soldier named Thomas O'Connor (28), who enlisted in September, 1914, formed the subject of a ...
Article : 146 wordsThe German Notes protesting that the economic clauses of the Peace Treaty mean ruin to Germany, objecting to the transfer of the Saar Valley ...
Article : 45 wordsDemobilisation is procceding rapidly now throughout the Australian Corps. The First and Fourth Divisions have amalgamated, and also the Second ...
Article : 342 wordsDifficulties are arising regarding the representation of Austria at Versailles. The Socialists demand that the leader of the delegation shall not be an ...
Article : 41 wordsCount Rantzau has presented to the Allies three Notes, which repudiate Germany's responsibility to repay the Allied war losses, and dispute ...
Article : 106 wordsThe Danish newspapers are enthusiastic, over the Peace Treaty, declaring that without an Entente victory Denmark would never again have recovered ...
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Article : 375 wordsSerious disturbances are taking place in China in consequence of the Peace Conference decision regarding Shantung. A Japanese boycott is pending ...
Article : 41 wordsUsually unionists who appeal to the Arbitration Court confine their demands to increased wages, fewer hours, and improved conditions, but the Federated ...
Article : 230 wordsIt is officially stated that mandates will be granted for the German colonies, as previously cabled. France and Great Britain will make a joint ...
Article : 70 wordsSenator Borah {Republican), in the course of a speech vigorously opposing the alliance between England, France, and America, said American ...
Article : 100 wordsBritish Industrics' Fairs are being arranged in London, Birmingham, and Glasgow for February and March of 1920. Dominion firms desiring to ...
Article : 43 wordsThe committee of the International Socialist Conference has issued a manifesto which welcomes the League of Nations, regrets that the League will ...
Article : 164 wordsThe West Australian Government has sold the steamer Western Australia to a Norwegian firm for £90,000, which is double, the price for which it was pur ...
Article : 39 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day, Sir Newton Moore, M.P. for North Islington, and formerly Agent-General for West Australia, asked if the Government ...
Article : 99 wordsIt is officially denied that the Abyssi[?]an Mission now in Paris is inviting a French Protectorate over their country. ...
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Article : 49 wordsThe military authorities announced to-day that in future it will be necessary for troops returning to Tasmania to report at the Athenæum-hall, Melbourne, ...
Article : 92 wordsBefore Mr. Justice Cussen in the Bunco Court to-day, references were made to the settlement reached in the tramway litigation. The case had ...
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Article : 89 wordsThe Mount Lyell smelting return for the four weeks ended May 7 is as follows:—Mount Lyell ore treated, 6,915 tons; North Mount Lyell ore treated, ...
Article : 172 wordsThe situation on the Afghan frontier is well in hand. There is no information that the present Amir is identified with the acts ...
Article : 42 wordsAdmiral Reginald Hall states that the naval terms of the Peace Treaty are satisfactory, but any arrangement allocating German merchant ships ...
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Article : 128 wordsThe strike is not yet over. Many men reported themselves for work at the various mines last night, but only a few were taken on for surface work. ...
Article : 192 wordsThe sitting of the German National Assembly on the Peacee Treaty ended in a vigorous demonstration against the so-called "peace of violence," ...
Article : 63 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day Mr. E. Shortt, Home Secretary, stated that, exclusive of the cases in connection with the Irish rebellion, 19 persons had ...
Article : 80 wordsThere were 25 deaths from influenza reported by the registrars to the Board of Health to[?]-day. Eleven of them were in the metropolitan area. The total ...
Article : 67 wordsThere are persistent rumours that Petrograd is likely to fall in a few days. All the leading Bolsheviks have left the city. Herr Branting (Swedish ...
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Article : 144 wordsMr. Lloyd George, Prime Minister, has received shoals of telegrams from all parts of the British Empire congratulating him on the Peac[?] terms. ...
Article : 102 wordsAn additional batch of War Precautions Act regulations were repealed to-day. This batch includes those prohibiting entry on the merchant ships ...
Article : 157 wordsIt is understood that the War Office and the Colonial Office favour the formation of a regiment of Imperial Guards, commanded, officered, and ...
Article : 172 wordsNo reply has been received by the Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Watt) to the second telegram he sent to the Acting Premier of Queensland (Mr. ...
Article : 126 wordsField-Marshal Haig has been installed rector of St.Andrew's University. In the course of his inaugural address be said:—A few of the passions from which ...
Article : 134 wordsIt is officially announced that an Allied counter-bombardment has silenced the enemy's artillery on all parts of the front in Northern Russia. The ...
Article : 56 wordsForeign Ministers in Paris are considering how the enemy subject owners of private property in captured territories can be compensated. The Allies ...
Article : 48 wordsWhen H.M.A.S. Australia arrives in Melbourne, the members of her crew will be given leave ashore, and the vessel will be open to inspection by the ...
Article : 178 wordsThere are now 89 patients in the Exhib[?] Isolation Hospital suffering from influenza. Four patients are dangerously ill, and there are 23 suspicious ...
Article : 47 wordsThe industrial position on the waterfront is causing anxiety to all who would be affected by a disturbance there. The Waterside Workers' ...
Article : 180 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day, Mr. Bonar Law, Leader of the Government, said there were no definite proposals for a naval or military force to ...
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Article : 445 wordsPublic opinion is veering in the direction that the United States should endorse the Treaty with Germany, as other nations are doing so, in order to ...
Article : 118 wordsAt the annual conference of the Australasian Butter and Cheese Factory Managers' and Secretaries' Association, which was continued to-day, the ...
Article : 108 wordsThere was a most imposing demonstration to-day, when the remains if Nurse Cavell left for England, where they will be buried in Norwich ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Minister of Health stated to-day that the embargo on passenger traffic from Australia cannot be lifted yet. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe steamer Manuka was to have sailed to-day from Wellington for Sydney with 336 passengers, including 150 passengers [?] Makura from Vancouver, but ...
Article : 123 wordsFor several months systematic [?]obberies of bar silver, amounting in value to thousands of pounds, have been going on at the works of the Broken Hill ...
Article : 174 wordsUnder the provisions cf the Enemy Trading Act, the Modderfontein Deep Company. Transvall, purchased 70,000 of the company's shares held by enemy ...
Article : 85 wordsMarshal Foch has returned to headquarters, where there is great activity in preparing for "contingencies." ...
Article : 28 wordsThe "Daily Herald's" well-informed correspondent says there are the best reasons for believing that a definite agreement has been signed between the ...
Article : 89 wordsA serious railway accident occurred on the North Island main trunk line last night, when thirty heavily laden trucks broke away on a steep grade near ...
Article : 129 wordsThe Peace Congress "Council of Ten" was revived this afternoon to define the boundaries of Austria. PARIS, May 14. ...
Article : 137 wordsA deputation led by Mr. Tudor, M.P., waited on the Acting Solicitor-General (Mr. G. S. Knowles) to-day, and urged the release of Mrs. Rickie, ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Permanent and Casual Waterside Workers Union of Sydney, which comprises loyalists who came to the aid of the Government during the strike ...
Article : 64 wordsThe New South Wales gold yield for April was 5,807oz. fine, compared with 6,073oz. for the corresponding month last year. For the first four months ...
Article : 54 wordsAdmiral Koltchak, head of the Omsk (anti-Bolshevik) Government, is preparing to advance with his forces upon Omsk. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Fri 16 May 1919, Page 5
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