The position regarding the strike came to a head this afternoon when a meeting of the Federated Enginedrivers' Association decided to fall into the with ...
Article : 163 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day Captain F. E. Guest, Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury, stated that the Bolsheviks, have adopted poison-gas as ...
Article : 55 wordsHawker, the Australian aviator, who left St. John's, Newfcundland, on his trans-Atlantic flight yesterday afternoon, has been sighted 400 miles from ...
Article : 506 wordsThe Sydney seamen have decided to give 24 hours' notice of their intention to leave their ships. This decision will apply to inter-State and coastal vessels, ...
Article : 263 wordsThe Rotterdam, correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle," after summing up further evidence, predicts confidently that Germany will sign the Peace ...
Article : 79 wordsAt yesterday's meeting of the Mersey Marine Board a letter was received from the Broken Hill Proprietary Co., pointing out the diffienities they were ...
Article : 123 wordsIt is officially stated that General De[?]kin, one of the leaders of the Omsk anti-Bolshevik Government, is personally conducting the operations at ...
Article : 44 wordsGreat unrest prevails in the East German districts, which the Peace Treaty assigns to Poland. Mass demonstrations indicate that all classes, including the ...
Article : 41 wordsThe lack of money is likely to be a very great factor in bringing the trouble to an early end. There is a very interesting story to be told regarding this ...
Article : 302 wordsIt is reported that 30,000 people are dying of starvation each week in Petrograd. ...
Article : 24 wordsWhen the case in which the Federated Liquor and Allied Trades' Employees' Union is seeking increased wages and improved conditions from Messrs. G. H. ...
Article : 358 wordsThere is a congestion of produce at stanley because of so few bouts calling since the influenza [?] broke out on the maintand. Producers are feeling ...
Article : 101 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the "New York Workd" says reports are current that the "Big Four"—Great Britain, France, America, and Italy— ...
Article : 57 wordsTo-day there were 64 admissions to hospital, and 107 diseharges. There are now 1,077 patients in hospital, the lowest number for many weeks. Twenty ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Bolsheviks are exercising a frightful reign fo terror in Rign. They are killing many people without sentence. The soldiers of the Red Army carry off ...
Article : 84 wordsM. Troelstra (leader of the Dutch Socialists) sharply criticises the peace terms, which, he says, will be a calamity, not only to Germany, but to the ...
Article : 88 wordsThe steamer Somerset has proceeded to Manchester to unload her cargo of apples. The Somerset loaded 70,243 cases of apples ...
Article : 58 wordsFive Bolshevik cruisers bombarded the Finnish coast yesterday. Three British light cruisers came up and sank one of the Bolshevik cruisers, almost the whole ...
Article : 109 wordsAnother official stated that now that the Sydney branch bad decided to take part in the strike the trouble was likely to spread throughout the whole of ...
Article : 69 wordsThree further deaths from influenza occurred in the hospitals to-day. Fifty patients were discharged. from the Isolation Hospital to-day, but their ...
Article : 179 wordsWith the exception of the "Telegraaf," the Dutch press unanimously condomns the peace terms. It does not waste sympathy on Germany, but ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Auditor-General's report on the Ministry of Munitions' expenditure for 1917-18 states that heavy expenditure was often incured without Treasury ...
Article : 195 wordsMembers of various maritime unions other than firemen and seamen are very much perturbed in consequence of the seamen's latest decision. It means ...
Article : 133 wordsLoyalist workers were to-day subjected to various acts of intimidation at the hands of the strikers, who went to the length of brutal[?]y assaulting several of ...
Article : 383 wordsLord Grey, formerly Foreign Secretary, in the course of an interview, sand he was delighted to find that the convenant of the League of Nations covered ...
Article : 111 wordsAnglo-American war claims arising out of military operations have reached the American Liquidation Commission, which finds that's a balance of £7,000,00 ...
Article : 40 wordsA representative of the colliery proprietors stated to-night that the effect of the strike would be that inter-State trade in coal would cease, and ...
Article : 171 wordsThe Admiralty ordered many vessels to proceed to sea to assist in the search for Hawker, but without success up to 11 to-night. The search will proceed ...
Article : 247 wordsReferring to-day to statements made at the meeting of returned soldiers, who are officers of the Public Service, held on Sunday afternoon, the Acting Public ...
Article : 121 wordsTwo deaths were reported from influenza in the metropolis to-day, while there were 61 fresh admissions to the hospitals. Country deaths numbered ...
Article : 43 wordsThe delegation from Korea has petitioned the Peace Conference claiming liberation from Japan, and the reconstruction of Korea as an independent ...
Article : 54 wordsIncluded in the list of outward bound transports issued to-day by the Commonwealth Shipping Board are the names of three new departures for ...
Article : 104 wordsLord French continues his narratives on the early days of the war in the "Daily Telegraph" to-day. He says: —"I impressed upon the War Office ...
Article : 286 wordsThere now are 82 patients in Adelaide Exhibition Isolation Hospital, five of whom are dangerously ill and 21 seriously. ...
Article : 148 wordsThere is much comment in the newspapers on Italy's exclusion from the new Defensive Afliance. The "Idea Nazionalo" regards it as "an attempt ...
Article : 81 wordsThe most significant incident of the day, in so far as the situation in Melbourne is concerned, accurred in connection with the loading of a small ...
Article : 355 wordsAt Devonport to-day, Senator Pearce (Australian Minister of Defence) inspected the transports Soudan and Port Napier, on leaving for Australia with ...
Article : 256 wordsThe Minister of Agriculture (Mr. Oman) had the unique experience to-day of receiving a deputation which asked that the Government should put a tax ...
Article : 89 wordsThe South Australian branch of the Federated Seamen's Union remains firm in its refusal to carry out instructions forwarded by the central executive to ...
Article : 89 wordsThe crew of the American seaplane No. 3, participating in the trans-Atlantic flight via the Azores, have been saved. ...
Article : 143 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the United Press Association states that Belgium refuses to prosecute the ex-Kaiser, and uncertainties regarding his trial are ...
Article : 43 wordsThe school of butter factory managers was continued at St. Andrew's school-room, Launceston, to-day. During the meeting an interesting and instructive ...
Article : 262 wordsThough practically no official information can be secured in Brisbane from the local branch of the Federated Seamen's Union, it has been learned from other ...
Article : 151 wordsIn the Criminal Court to-day, John Percival Haines, formerly a member of the Australian Imperial Forces, but now a horse trainer, was charged with ...
Article : 216 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the United Press Association, in outlining the terms of the Austro-Hungarian Peace Treaty, says:—Austria will be ...
Article : 301 wordsA silk Union Jack, representing the King's colours, is to be presented by the Imperial War Office to each of the A.I.F. infantry and maching-gun ...
Article : 96 wordsA military Handley-Page aeroplane with a crew of nine, has made a record circuit of England, scotland, and Ireland in 30 hours' flying during four ...
Article : 92 wordsThe members of the Irish-American delegation in Ireland, accompanied by a priest and several Sinn Fein members of the House of Commons, attempted to ...
Article : 98 wordsSo far no advice has been received of any dislocation or interruption in the Tasmanian steamer service. The s.s. Wainui was timed to leave Melbourne ...
Article : 470 wordsAt the Carlton Police Court to-day, the story of the savage assault and robbery in which Mr. Le So[?]f, director of the Zoological Gardens, was the ...
Article : 264 wordsIt is now possible, thanks indirectly to the ever-inventive Marconi, and more directly to two other Italians, Signori Bellini and Tosi, to make air ...
Article : 513 wordsThe waterside workers have not yet joined the seamen in an overt strike, but it is generally anticipated that this action will be taken to-morrow, or on ...
Article : 272 wordsA meeting of members of the Australian Workers' Union was held at Gormanston last night to consider an offer by the Mt. Lyell Company to purchase ...
Article : 94 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day, it was announced that Germany's ships surrendered to Great Britain up to May 9 were:—22 passenger ships of ...
Article : 49 wordsOne hundred disguised men arrived in ten motor-cars and cycles at the late General Nugent's castle at Carlingford Lough, Ireland, last night. They ...
Article : 65 wordsGovernment troops have occupied Leipzig (in Saxony), and hold all the principal buildings. Martial law has been proclaimed, and the Spartacuser ...
Article : 87 wordsThe autumn show of the Queenstwon Horticultural Society was opened this afternoon. The chief exhibits were chrysanthemums, of which there was a ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Labour party has decided to move the rejection of the second reading of the Finance Bill, as a protest against its proposals and the continuance of ...
Article : 49 wordsIt is officially announced that more than 15,000,000 persons subscribed to the Victory War Loan, which closed on Saturday. The total subscription ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 21 May 1919, Page 5
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