A meeting of the State Peace Celebrations Committee, presided over by the Premier the Hon. W. H. Lee), was held in the Mayor's room at the Town-hall ...
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Article : 120 wordsOne of two aeroplanes which left Melbourne on Monday of last week arrived in Sydney late this afternoon. The other machine, which was delayed owing to ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Repatriation Department has secured a 21 years' lease of a site on the St. Kilda-road, near the Defence Department. It is intended to [?] a ...
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Article : 178 wordsMr. Lloyd George, the Prime Minister, in an appeal to all sections of the community to read his speeches carefully, adds:—I earnestly ask you to ...
Article : 69 wordsAt conferences held secretly at Berlin and Colberg, in Prussia, German leaders expressed themselves as convinced that, because of the labour unrest in ...
Article : 63 wordsAdvices received in Paris from Aix-la-Chapelle, in Rhenish Prussia, record that drastic measures have been taken against highly-placed individuals found ...
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Article : 68 wordsThe Chinese Government has again appealed to the Peace Conference to abrogate the 21 demands Japan compelled China to sign in 1915. ...
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Article : 957 wordsAt the end of last week the Hon. J. W. Evans sent the following telegram to Senator Keating in Melbourne:—"Kindly interview ...
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Article : 183 wordsColonel Harrap, of Launceston, hon[?]ry A.D.C. to the Governor (Sir Francis Newdegate), received intimation last night that His Excellency and ...
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Article : 239 wordsLord Reading, the British Ambas[?]ador to the United States, says that the suggestion that Mr. Lloyd George, the British Prime Minister, advised at any ...
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Article : 112 wordsMr. H. Hur[?] the United States Shipping Controller, in a speech at New York on Saturday said that during the past 18 months the united ...
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Article : 63 wordsOwing to the Spartacusers in Munich, the capital of Bavaria, occupying the Parliament buildings and proclaiming a Soviet republic, the Bavarian ...
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Article : 128 wordsGerman financial experts plead that Germany will be unable to pay for food in gold, owing to her stock of bullion being soon exhausted by having to meet ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 9 Apr 1919, Page 5
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