The Acting-Chief Health Officer (Dr. A. H. Clarke) stated last evening that Tasmania was still free of pneumonic influenza. ...
Article : 185 wordsAdmiral Halsey, third Sea Lord of the Admiralty, to-day conferred with Mr. Hughes, Prime Minister of Australia, on Australian naval matters. ...
Article : 33 wordsTowards the close of last year the British Government notified the Commonwealth Government that it was prepared to register claims in the Foreign ...
Article : 131 wordsM. Clemenceau, Premier of France, continues to make progress. The connection of Emile Cotton, his assailant, with Bolshevik propaganda is becoming ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Munich correspondent of the "National Tidende" writes:—The news of the murder of Herr Eisner, the Premier, spread like wildfire through the ...
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Article : 83 wordsConsequent on recent casualties through floating mines, very active mine-sweeping is proceeding in the North Sea. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Genera correspondent of the "Echo de Paris" states:—During December 24 known anarchists and Bolsheviks arrived in the neighbourhood ...
Article : 90 wordsApplication was made in the Practice Court to-day that bail be allowed in the case in which Thomas Wilson is charged with having shot at Constable A. C. ...
Article : 71 wordsSt. Paul's Cathedral was crowded to-day at a memorial service for journalists and printers killed in the war. To-night London bellringers tolled ...
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Article : 14 wordsThe German Government has ordered the dissolution of the Communal Councils and their re-election on the popular vote. As this is calculated to ...
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Article : 69 wordsPresident Wilson held a private conference to-day with members of the Senate. He does not wish to make a pronouncement to Congress at present ...
Article : 273 wordsThe "Star" states that Mr. Giles, secretary of the Grocers' Federation, addressing a meeting of grocers said the Food Controller had been the ...
Article : 67 wordsThe wool appraisements have been proceeding on a slightly reduced scale in Sydney since Wednesday last. The wools catalogued continue to include ...
Article : 115 wordsGeneral Ludendorff has written to Herr Ebert, announcing his intention to return to Germany, and serve the people as formerly. He points out that ...
Article : 61 wordsA large fire which occurred in Balmain, Sydney, last night. demolished a timber factory used by the Veneer Co. Ltd. The building was of wood and iron, ...
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Article : 74 wordsDr. Russell, the port health officer, in giving evidence before the New Zealand Royal Commission on the influenza epidemic, last week stated that he ...
Article : 323 wordsThe retail price of Government cheese will shortly be reduced from 1s. 8d. to 1s. 6d. The scarcity will probably disappear in May when the extra shipping ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Press Bureau announces that the following official communique has been received from Paris:— The Ministers of the Great Powers ...
Article : 53 wordsMajor J. Honda, of the Imperial Japanese Army, is in Sydney arranging for the purchase of a number of Australian horses for the Japanese Cavalry ...
Article : 58 wordsSunday, March 9, has been set apart by the Government as a day of humiliation, intercession, and prayer in connection with the influenza epidemic. All ...
Article : 61 wordsThe King held an investiture at Buckingham Palace to-day, when he decorated 270 officers and men of the overseas forces, including six Victoria ...
Article : 37 wordsMrs. Wheeldon, who, with her daughter and son-in-law, was involved in the conspiracy against the life of Mr. Lloyd George, has died of influenza. She was ...
Article : 47 wordsReports from Munich state that, owing to the suspension of the publication of newspapers, many conflicting reports are now abroad. It has now ...
Article : 230 wordsThe fact that the Reparation Commission has requested further instructions from the "Council of Ten" on the meaning of "reparation" is taken ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Commonwealth Government is taking stops to dispose of its unsold purchases of cornsacks. A letter sent to the jute merchants states that the ...
Article : 246 wordsThe Director of Quarantine (Dr. Cumpston) has approved of the arrangement proposed by the Overseas Shipping Committee (who are ...
Article : 150 wordsThe Copenhagen correspondent of the "New York Sun" writes:—The situation in Norway as regards the Bolshevik movement is extremely delicate. ...
Article : 72 wordsThree cargo steamers now being constructed for the Commonwealth Government will probably be launched in March. ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Jugo-Slavs are reported to have authorised a general mobilisation, claiming that the Izonso River be made the boundary of Italy and Jugo-Slavia. Italy ...
Article : 75 wordsMr. Lloyd George, Prime Minister, stated to-day that the blockade would not be raised until Germany signed a peace making future war impossible. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Grand Duke Cyril states that the Dowager Empress Marie and the Grand Dukes Nicholas and Boris are living in the Crimea. He says he believes the ...
Article : 49 wordsIt is expected that a special Commission will be shortly appointed to examine in detail the working of the system of Colonial mandates. ...
Article : 44 wordsAs the Australian crop of hops will not be sufficient for local requirements, and in order that the brewing industry might not be hampered, the Minister of ...
Article : 73 wordsHerr S[?]eidemann, in the National Assembly to-day, condemned the murderous attacks at Munich, and that on M. Clemencean. The Assembly ...
Article : 34 wordsDr. Clarke, the Acting Chief Health Officer stated yesterday that the Federal authorities had arranged to open the port of Devonport, so that any ...
Article : 210 wordsLight and heavy rain associated with thunder, has fallen in all parts of the State, including the districts where it was needed, namely, the northern slopes ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the "New York World" says:—The relations between Italy and Jugo-Slavia are most grave. The Peace Conference, fearing ...
Article : 50 wordsSir Nevil Macready, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, owing to the tone of a letter from the executives of the Metropolitan policemen's ...
Article : 116 wordsThe German National Assembly has adopted a resolution by a large majority expressing regret at some portions of the new armistice agreement. ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of the "New York Times" writes:—The draft of the new German Constitution which will be submitted to the National Assembly ...
Article : 123 wordsThe "Council of Ten" to-day heard the Akbanian delagates, who claimed all the Albanian territories added to Servia and Greece by the Treaty of ...
Article : 64 wordsAlbert Boase (28), railway goods guard, West Melbourne was brought before the Chief Justice (Sir William Irvine), in the Criminal Court to-day for sentence, ...
Article : 226 wordsThe State Military Commandant (Major-General Lee) to-day replied to letters in the press written by soldiers off the Orsova, in which complaints ...
Article : 157 wordsM. Tardien is drawing up a report on Germany's Western frontier. He hopes to present the views of the French Government on the subject before the Peace ...
Article : 78 wordsIn the house of Commons to-day, Mr. E. Shortt, Secretary of State for Home Affairs, introduced a bill to establish a Ministry of Ways and ...
Article : 117 wordsMr. A. Mitchell Palmer has been nominated Attorney-General of the United States of America. ...
Article : 27 wordsIt is semi-officially stated that the British Government favours the German battleships at Seapa Flow being sunk. The other Allies oppose this ...
Article : 51 wordsReports from Weimar state that the Government exp[?] another Spartacus outbreak, and is determined to use extreme force to suppress it. This is ...
Article : 185 wordsThe Press Burean has issued the following official communique from Paris: The Labour Legislation Commission has agreed to the clauses in the ...
Article : 81 wordsThe influenza bulletin for to-day is as follows: — Admissions, 102; discharges, 114; in hospital, 1,368; deaths, 12; cases ...
Article : 32 wordsAn Army Council order issued to-day removed the restrictions on dealings in wool of all descriptions as from the 25th inst., and also on tops made from wool. ...
Article : 85 wordsDr. E. L. Crowther met a number of the mothers of the children attending the Central State-school (his district) on Thursday evening, and gave ...
Article : 106 wordsThe joint Divisional Councils of Denison and Franklin met last evening to receive the nominations from candidates standing under its auspices for ...
Article : 104 wordsThe Brussels correspondent of "Le Matin" writes:—The Belgian Premier, speaking in the Senate, said the nation insisted on the punishment of those ...
Article : 77 wordsIn the Communist riot at Buda pesth, the capital of Hungary, the Communists arrested Archbishop Faulhaber and a number of aristocrats, including Count ...
Article : 40 wordsThe "Journal" denies the report that the German fleet is to be sunk, and adds:—M. Georges Leygues, Minister of Marine, has declared he will oppose ...
Article : 78 wordsThe Royal Agricultural Society's Show dates were to-day fixed for April 14 to April 26. ...
Article : 24 wordsA number of claims for increased wages and improved conditions were embodied in an application for an award made by the Meat Inspectors' ...
Article : 209 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of the newspaper "Politiken" writes:—The Radicals intend to proclaim a Soviet Republic in Saxony. There has been ...
Article : 75 wordsAt a meeting of the Queenstown Municipal Council on Thursday night the health inspector reported the total number of complete influenza ...
Article : 31 wordsM. Leygues (Minister of Marine) informed the Navy Commission to-day that France had been unable to replace her war losses in the navy, owing to ...
Article : 78 wordsThe military authorities ask us to state the lists published on Thursday of troops returning per Demosthenes and Margha were supplementary only. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe Nationalist paper to-day publishes a letter by the secretary of the Independence Delegation to Europe concerning a visit to H.M. Minerva, ...
Article : 258 wordsOwing to the scarcity of lemons in the Commonwealth and the great demand arising in consequence of the pneumonic influenza epidemic, the Minister of ...
Article : 109 wordsIn connection with the forthcoming Legislative Council election for the Tamar seat, which it is understood, the Hon. G. T. Collins will not again ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Union S.S. Company received advice yesterday that the steamer Wainui was leaving Portsea on March 4 for Launceston, and would leave ...
Article : 154 wordsThe Red Cros executive and detachments are requested by advertisement to assemble at the Ocean Pier to-morrow morning to receive the returning ...
Article : 28 wordsThe "Pall Mall Gazette" states: — The Governments of Great Britain and the United States have decided to entirely oppose the use of submarines in ...
Article : 207 wordsThe Weimar correspondent of the Jmted Press Association writes:—Herr Ebert balieves that the only solution of the political and economic situation ...
Article : 87 wordsThe sub-committee of the Producers' Association having investigated the meat industry of this State has now forwarded its report to the Government. ...
Article : 115 wordsIt would appear that there is to be no lack of candidates at the forthcoming State elections, at least as far as Wilmot is concerned. The Labour ...
Article : 172 wordsAn American correspondent, writing to the Minister of Repatriation (Senator Millen), states:—"What you are doing in Australia for returned men is very ...
Article : 117 wordsThe matter affecting awards of the Postal Electricians' Union, Letter Carriers' Association, General Division, Telephone Officers' Association, and ...
Article : 72 wordsThe number of cases of pneumonic influenza reported to-day was seven, including four among the crew of the steamer Age, which bas been in ...
Article : 59 wordsThe "Cologue Gazette" states that the German Government is preparing a bill to create a standing army of 175,000, excluding officers, constituting ...
Article : 110 wordsThe following donations are acknowledged:— Mrs. H. Dobson, £1 1s.; Friend, £l; Friend, 10s.; previously acknowledged, £137 6s. 5d. Total, £133 ...
Article : 33 wordsAt a public meeting at Durban last nigtit a resolution was passed against ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Sat 1 Mar 1919, Page 7
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