Diggers from within a radius of many miles of Melbourne turned out on masse to welcome General Sir William Birdwood to Victoria. Despite pouring rain ...
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Article : 308 wordsMr. Robert Lansing, the American Secretary of State, has instructed all American diplomatic, and consular officers that official or unofficial relations ...
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Article : 248 wordsSir Charles Lucas, presiding at a luncheon given yesterday at the Royal Colonial Institute to Sir C. G. Wade and Sir T. B. Robinson, the retiring ...
Article : 289 wordsIt has been disclosed before the Central Profiteering Committee that the profit made in the West Riding of Yorkshire on wool is above the fair ...
Article : 449 wordsSir Albert Stanley, who is now Lord Ashfield, and was formerly President of the Board of Trade, and is managing director of the London General ...
Article : 138 wordsDuring last week gales were general in British and French seas and numerous wreeks of coastal vessels occurred. Two enormous seas swept the deck of ...
Article : 73 wordsThe New Zealand Shipping Co.'s new liner Otaki has been fitted with a plate commemerating the old Otaki's gallant fight with the German raider Moewe ...
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Article : 78 wordsThe British Admiralty is disposing of 133 warships, including the battleships Bellerophon, London, Albemarlo, Exmouth, and Jupiter. ...
Article : 27 wordsA remarkable story of a soldier in a masquerade case was told in the Criminal Court to-day. when William Mowbray of as arraigned for sentence on a charge ...
Article : 264 wordsThe Supreme Allied Council, in a communique issued to-day, permits the exchange of goods with Russia on the basis of reciprocity between the ...
Article : 128 wordsAt the City Court to-day Gillies Godfrey Morton, a young man, pleaded guilty to a charge of having obtained £5 by means of false pretences. It ...
Article : 99 wordsGeneral Leonard Wood, the Chief of Staff of the American Army, has caused a sensation throughout the United States by declaring, in a speech, that ...
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Article : 90 wordsA conference of delegates of the unions which have accepted the O.B.U. scheme will be held on Saturday, for the purpose, of launching the scheme ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 21 Jan 1920, Page 5
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