The Prince of Wales had yesterday morning to himself, but his time was fully occupied during the afternoon and evening. ...
Article : 1,307 wordsA party of Sinn Feiners, lying in ambush at Ballinure, in County Cork, attacked a sergeant and three constables, and shot the sergeant dead ...
Article : 44 wordsThe return of the Bank of England for the week ended July 1 is as follows, the figures for the preceding week being given in parentheses:— ...
Article : 76 wordsThe San Francisco correspondent of the "New York Times" states that the Democratic platform was submitted to the Convention at San Francisco ...
Article : 437 wordsAn official communique, issued in Brussels to-day, states that the Allied Conference held its first meeting this morning, and that the military and ...
Article : 270 wordsThe Paris edition of the "Chicago Tribune" says that General Pilsudski, the Polish Commander-in-Chief, has argently appealed to the Allies for ...
Article : 62 wordsThere are persistent rumours that the Orangemen are preparing reprisals on the 12th of July for the Sinn Fein outrages. Several Ulster members of ...
Article : 62 wordsIt is understood that the British Labour delegates who visited Russia generally agree that Soviet rule is not adaptable to Western civilisation. ...
Article : 58 wordsThe market rate for short date bills is 5½ per cent., and for long date bills 6[?] per cent. ...
Article : 20 wordsIn the House of Commons this afternoon, Mr. Bonar Law, Lord Privy Seal, intimated that it was most probable that the Home Rule Bill would ...
Article : 105 wordsImperial Consols, 2½ per cent., quoted at £47, the same rate as last week. British war loan, 3½ per cent., £82 10s., and 5 per cent., £84 10s., the first ...
Article : 49 wordsMr. Bonar Law, Lord Privy Seal, replying in the House of Commons this afternoon to Colonel J. Gretton (Unionist), said that negotiations with M. ...
Article : 98 wordsCommonwealth Loan, 4½ per cent., £96, and 5½ per cent., £94. Victoria, 4 per cent., 1920 (January-July), £98; 3½ per cent., 1920 ...
Article : 165 wordsA number of the men of the Connought Rangers in India have refused to do their duty, on the ground of the alleged wrongs inflicted on Ireland. ...
Article : 201 wordsA further preliminary conference was held at Brussels in reference to the division of the indemnity, but an agreement has not yet been reached. ...
Article : 193 wordsThere is a remarkable after-the-war sporting boom in England at the present time. There are record attendances at the horse races throughout the ...
Article : 531 wordsThe following are the foreign rates of exchange on London:—Paris, 48.05 franes; Stockholm, 17.90 kroner; Christiania, 24.13 kroner; Calcutta, ...
Article : 36 wordsIn referance to the press telegram from Melbourne announcing that Victoria is underwriting on the London market portion of a £6,000,000 ...
Article : 100 wordsThe Resolutions Committee presented a draft platform, which was silent on prohibition, and in which the League of Nations is endorsed, with ...
Article : 111 wordsMr. Lloyd George, the Prime Minister, Lord Curzon, Foreign Secretary, Sir L. Worthington-Evans, Minister of Pensions (who is replacing Mr. Austen ...
Article : 125 wordsAn official Greek communique published to-day regarding the operations against the Turks in Asia Minor states:—"We continued our advance ...
Article : 61 wordsThe "Yorkshire Observer" says that the people in the wool trade calculate that at the present rate of absorption it will take four years to dispose of ...
Article : 71 wordsThe San Francisco correspondent of the "New York Times" states that, after casting 16 ballots, the Democratic Convention adjourned for several ...
Article : 241 wordsReplying in the House of Commons this afternoon to Mr. H. Bottomley (Independent), Mr. Bonar Law, Lord Privy Seal, stated that all the German ...
Article : 129 wordsThe Seamen's Conference at Genoa has approved of the extension of the decisions reached at the League of Nations' Labour Conference concerning ...
Article : 65 wordsGold totalling 6,500,000 dollars arrived at San Francisco to-day from Hongkong for the account of the British Government, bringing the total to ...
Article : 59 wordsThe King, the Queen, and Princese Mary arrived in Edinburgh to-day, and received an ovation. They will make a fortnight's tour of Scotland, the Isle ...
Article : 79 wordsThe Australian section of the British Chamber of Commerce has appointed a sub-committee to approach the French authorities and urge them to make ...
Article : 63 wordsIn the House of Commons this afternoon. Mr. T. Thomson (Liberal) asked whether the Government, as the mandatory Power, intended to administer ...
Article : 107 wordsThe final in the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley (eight oars) was won by Magdalen College, Oxford, which beat the Leander (Thames) crew by two ...
Article : 46 wordsIn response to the message received by President Wilson from the Convention endorsing his administration, praising his peace work, and expressing ...
Article : 120 wordsThe agricultural statistics issued by the International Institute of Agriculture at Rome show that on April 1 there were still 105,000,000 quintals of ...
Article : 221 wordsThe Chicago correspondent of the "New Yank Sun" states that Dr. Mannix, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne, in a speech at the ...
Article : 119 wordsThe Commonwealth Government has paid over a moiety of Australia's share of the purchase money under the Nauru agreement. ...
Article : 24 wordsGollan (Australia) won the seventh heat in the Diamond Sculls, but in the final was beuten by Beresford, who led throughout and won casily by three ...
Article : 59 wordsIn the House of Commons this afternoon Mr. Bonar Law, Lord Privy Seal, announced that Germany had hitherto surrendered 19 seaplanes, while 2,846 ...
Article : 39 wordsThe San Francisco correspondent of the "New York Times" states that the convention unanimously adopted the platform as proposed by the Platform ...
Article : 82 wordsA large army supply depot and aviation park was destroyed by fire near Paris to-day. The damago is estimated at from £5,000,000 to £10,000,000. ...
Article : 39 wordsDr. Mannix, in his speech, said: Australia and the United States have one great thing in common, namely, the Asiatic menace, which is always ...
Article : 140 wordsJoseph Baptists, one of the Jeaders of the extremists in India, has attacked the growing campaign against the visit of the Prince of Wales to India. He says ...
Article : 99 wordsYesterday Italian peasants invaded land at Gio Jadaloolic, near Bari, to the north-west of Brindisi, with the intention of working it for themselves, ...
Article : 51 wordsFurther evidence was taken to-day in the Kidwelly murder case, brought on as the result of the suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of ...
Article : 129 wordsThe Japanese naval authorities defend the proposed increases in Japanese income taxes, as a means of providing revenue with which to strengthen the ...
Article : 57 wordsTwo hundred varying types of aeroplanes and 26 balloons participated in an air pageant yesterday at Hendon, near London, on behalf of the Royal ...
Article : 45 wordsThe official programme of the Royal visit to Tasmania was issued on Saturday by Mr. D'Arcy Addison, the organiser for Tasmania. Mr. Addison ...
Article : 1,545 words9 a.m.—H.M.S. "Renown," escorted by T.B. Destroyers, from a readezvons outside, arrives in the Derwent. Warships in Port— ...
Article : 1,177 wordsReports received in Allahabad from Teheran state that Mushir Ed Dowleh, the new Premier of Persia, having received assurances of support from ...
Article : 52 wordsThe exploding of a bomb yesterday at the outer gates of the Japanese Diet is regarded as the work of Jingo agitators, and as a demonstration ...
Article : 45 wordsThe following shows the dress that should be worn at various functions during the visit of His Boyal Highness the Prince of Wales:— ...
Article : 291 wordsThe single-ship actions in the war with Germany, for which a clasp will be awarded to officers and men, include the destruction of the Emden by the ...
Article : 42 wordsSporadic fighting has broken out between Japanese troops and Korean bandits on the north-eastern border. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Mon 5 Jul 1920, Page 5
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