The return of the Bank of England for the week cnded January 28 is as follows, the figures for the preceding week being given in parentheses:— ...
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Article : 94 wordsA final breath in the negotiations between the Democrats and the Republicans on the Peace Treaty has resulted, Senator Lodge, the leader of the ...
Article : 131 wordsMr. Winston Churchill, the Secretary of State for War, in an article in to-day's "Sunday Herald" deseribes the letters which the ex-Kalser forwarded ...
Article : 344 wordsThere was a stormy scene in the Prussian Parliament yesterday, during a diseussion on the abolirion of the state of siege. The Independent ...
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Article : 118 wordsEtienne Poulet, the French airman, who failed in the attempt to teach Australia owing to a breakdown of his machine, and returned to Marseilles by ...
Article : 112 wordsThe British Ministry of Food is negotiating for the purchase of about 3,000 tons of Dutch butter. ...
Article : 31 wordsA crisis in the South African export trade has occurred, owing to the banks practically refusing to negotiate drafts on foreign countries. The export ...
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Article : 355 wordsSummer time in Great Britain will commence on February 10. The new regulations, which apply from the present year onwards, fix the summer time ...
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Article : 87 wordsM. Poincare, formerly President of France, speaking to-day at Brussels of the gallantry of British soldiers, specially mentioned the Canadians and ...
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Article : 56 wordsGeorges Quient, who was recently sentenced to death for communicating with the enemy during the war, has had his sentence commuted to 20 years' ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Mon 2 Feb 1920, Page 5
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