The British dirigible airship R34 has successfully accomplished the journey from England to Newfoundland, arriv ing at St. John's to-day. ...
Article : 102 wordsThe Aberdeen liner Themistocles, 11,231 tons, which was bound from London to Sydney, has collided and sunk the Norwegian barque Edderside, ...
Article : 91 wordsThe Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Watt) outlined to-night a comprehensive, scheme relief for those who, through no fault of their own, have ...
Article : 368 wordsIn accordance with the wish of His Majesty the King, expressed by proclamation, that yesterday should be observed throughout the far-flung British Empire ...
Article : 7,041 wordsThe Afghan peace delegates have arrived at Jellalabad, on the Kabul River, and negotiations will be opened at Rawal Pindi very soon. Trouble is ...
Article : 78 wordsThe "Daily Express" says it understands that Holland will agree to deliver up the ex-Kaiser, and it is expected that it Dutch warship will bring ...
Article : 58 wordsThe English newspapers protest against the text of the bill ratifying the Peace Treaty, declaring that it gives the Government unlimited ...
Article : 43 wordsThe ex-Crown Prince, intorviowed yesterday, said:—The Allies can only have my dead body. I myself will decide my life or death. ...
Article : 29 wordsA one-clause bill to ratify the treaty has been introduced in the French Chamber of Deputies. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe London representative of the Australian Press Association says he learns that the British Admirnlty has prepared a list of 71 officers of the ...
Article : 106 wordsMr. W. Astor, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Home Office, announced in the House of Commons this afternoon that the Government had ...
Article : 77 wordsThe German Cabinet discussed yesterday the ratification of the Peace Treaty, which the Nationnl Assembly will adopt on Monday next after hearing Herr ...
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Article : 50 wordsMr. W. M. Hughes, the Prime Minister of Australia, had a lengthy interview to-day with Mr. Lloyd George respecting the mandates, Imperial ...
Article : 57 wordsA revolution broke out to-day in Lima, the capital of the South American republic of Peru. The demonstrators got the upper hand, and ...
Article : 49 wordsDeaths from influenza on Saturday numbered five, and on Sunday four, in addition to which there were four deaths in the city reported on Saturday ...
Article : 58 wordsThe War Office reports that Major-General Fraser, with British and Indian troops, has carried out a successful operation, in which he captured the ...
Article : 76 wordsThe "Kreutz Zeitung" says that General Von Groner, Chief of the German Imperial Staff, has been appointed to wind-up affairs on the Eastern ...
Article : 67 wordsLord Bryce and Lord Crowe, in a letter to the newspapers, urge the members of the Peace Conference to appoint commissions to impartially consider the ...
Article : 74 wordsThe anti-Bolshevik army under General Denikin has captured Tsaritsin, on the right bank of the Volga, and taken 10,000 prisoners. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe shortage of refrigerated oversea shipping space has led to serious congestion of meat supplies in Sydney and Melbourne. Sir Owen Cox, Deputy. ...
Article : 114 wordsAdmiral Von Scheer, formorly commander of the German High Sea Fleet, a position he occupied in the battle of Jutland, stated recently that the ...
Article : 114 wordsThe French Government has fixed July 14, which is the anniversary of the storming of the Bastillo in 1789, for the celebration of the Allied victory. ...
Article : 184 wordsThe shipping strike, with its consequent dislocation of trade, has caused a great amount of distress throughout the city, owing to the great lack of ...
Article : 113 wordsThe boxing match between Willard and Dempsey for the heavy-eight championship of the world, took place to-day at Toledo, in the State of Ohio, ...
Article : 543 wordsMr. Austen Chamberlain, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, replying yesterday to a deputation from the Labour Triple Alliance — the railway men, ...
Article : 68 wordsField-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, giving evidence to-day before the Pensions Select Committee appointed by the House of Commons, strongly ...
Article : 154 wordsThe evacuation of the Russian northern front by the British has begun The London representative of the Australian Press Association learns that ...
Article : 70 wordsThe effects of the seamen's strike are being felt at Zeehan. Until now the supply of flour has been limited, but local bakers are now assured of full ...
Article : 67 wordsRelief was felt in Hobart on Saturday morning when the news that the auxiliary schooner Dart had arrived off Wedge Bay at nine o'clock was posted ...
Article : 483 wordsThere were fresh disturbances to-day at Fiume, the Adriatic port, where a mob of Italians attacked a number of French soldiers, and some of the ...
Article : 58 wordsMr. W. M. Hughes, the Prime Minister of Australia, has sold 1,000,000 tons of wheat to the Birtish Government at 56s. 9d. per quarter. ...
Article : 70 wordsOwing to the strike of the cotton spinners in Laneashire, 250,000 othor cotton workers have decided to apply for the Government's unemployment ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Government was defeated in the House of Commons this afternoon on the motion for the third reading of the Women's Emancipation Bill, the ...
Article : 139 wordsThe German Assembly now meeting at Weimar has read a second time the Constitution Bill. The first clause of the Constitution declares that the ...
Article : 52 wordsThe workm[?]n in France and Italy have agreed upon a one day's general strike on the 21rt inst., as a protest against the cost of living. ...
Article : 40 wordsMore than 20 of the Allied Powers will appeal to Holland to surrender the ex-Kaisor for trial. His punishment will either be death or life ...
Article : 285 wordsDuring the hearing of the evidence at the Coal Commission on Friday, a witness disclosed an extraordinary state of affairs in regard to tenders for the ...
Article : 177 wordsThe steamer Prinz Hubertus, with 900 Australian soldiers on board, sailed from Plymouth to-day, homeward bound. ...
Article : 41 wordsSir Joshua Reynolds's picture of Mrs. Siddons as The Tragic Muse, which was painted in 1784, was submitted for sale by public auction, but was passed ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Anzac Hostel, which is to be used for the treatment of the more seriously injured and incapacitated soldiers, was opened by the Governor, Sir Arthur ...
Article : 122 wordsThe Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Watt) has telegraphed to the Premier (Hon. W. H. Lee) acknowledging receipt of his telegram of Thursday last ...
Article : 210 wordsBy the s.s. Osterley, which arrived at Melbourne from London on Saturday morning, 180 soldiers' wives, most of whom were accompanied by children, ...
Article : 93 wordsWhat attitude the Returned Sailors' and Soldiers' Imperial League should adopt in relation to industrial disputes was discussed at a conference of ...
Article : 96 wordsThe British Cabinet has approved of a proposal made by Mr. Lloyd George, the Prime Minister, to erect a great catafalque in Whitehall, opposite ...
Article : 81 wordsThe New National American Sporting Club of New York has cabled to Georges Carpentier, the French boxing champion, offering him a match ...
Article : 62 wordsIt is authoritatively denied that the United States has stipulated, in connection with the prosecution of the ex-Kaiser, that whatever the verdict ...
Article : 57 wordsThe new session of the State Parliament of Victoria will open on Tuesday. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Mon 7 Jul 1919, Page 5
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