A continuance yesterday of the "go-slow" conditions under which oversea wharf work has been performed by wharf laborers during the week has been to drastic action on ...
Article : 876 wordsIn a statement mode to-day, the Prime Minister, Mr. Lloyd George, admitted that the anti-dumping bill was retrospective, but said the promoters of the Tariff ...
Article : 356 wordsReplying to a question by the Australian Press Association, the Prince of Wales's private secretary says:--"As regards a possible visit to Australia in the near future ...
Article : 111 wordsThe Allies' Supreme Council in Paris, as a secret meeting, discussed the question of enforcing the Peace Treaty upon Germany. Marshal Foch was present. ...
Article : 920 wordsCASTLEMAINE.--In continuation of his final tour of the Bendigo electorate, the Prime Minister addressed meetings at Sutton Grange, Metcalf, Redesdale, Barfold ...
Article : 505 wordsThe intense public interest which has been aroused by the cabled reports of the progress towards Australia of Captain Ross Smith and his party in the Vickers-Vimy aeroplane had a thrilling culmination ...
Article : 352 wordsWith the triumphant arrival of Captain Ross Smith and his Vickere-Vimy crew at Darwin, the great adventure that the Commonwealth Government's prize ...
Article : 2,825 wordsChaplain J. T. O'Donnell, in a letter to the "Morning Post," protests against Mr. Winston Churchill having added insult to injury by his tactics in the House of ...
Article : 128 wordsIt is expected that the army will have been reduced to 400,000 by March, 1920. The expenditure for the year is estimated at £405,000,000. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe High Commissioner for New Zealand, Sir Thomas Mackenzie, has interviewed the Minister of Food, Mr. G. H. Roberts, for the purpose of asking whether ...
Article : 169 wordsMr. Walter Long, First Lord of the Admiralty, in a statement upon the revised navy estimates, explains the additional pay for officers and other expenses ...
Article : 99 wordsMr. Lloyd George, replying to the Discharged Soldiers' Federation, points out that the Treasury has definitely decided that gratuities cannot be increased. The ...
Article : 65 wordsBENDIGO.--An open-air meeting, arranged by the Prime Minister's local campaign committee, was held on Wednesday night at the intersection of Carpenter and ...
Article : 166 wordsThe Commonwealth Statistician, Mr. G. H. Knibbs, read a paper before the Royal Colonial Institute to-day, entitled Statistics and National Destiny. He affirmed the ...
Article : 79 wordsHerr Schultz, a former Governor of Samoa, in a lecture in Berlin, refuted accusations which have been made against the German colonial administration in the ...
Article : 111 wordsThe committee of the New York State Legislature which is investigating the subject of Bolshevism expresses the opinion that national propaganda, directly ...
Article : 110 wordsCaptain Ross Smith, in reply to the welcome, said he had hoped to make the journey in 30 days, but he was proud to say that he had done it in 28 days. He ...
Article : 419 wordsCASTLEMAINE.--Mr. Hughes at Castlemaine last night, after detailing the benefits derived by Australia generally and Castlemaine particularly, from the ...
Article : 370 wordsA Tokio telegram states:--"The newspaper Nichi-Nichi-Shimbrin announces that the revised Government Land Owner ship Bill, which will be presented to the ...
Article : 76 wordsThe mine workers to-day considered the terms proposed by Mr. W. B. Wilson, Secretary for Labor, for the settlement of the strike. It is understood that the terms are ...
Article : 238 wordsAccording to advices from Tokio the Japanese Mail Steamship Company (Nippon Yusen Kaisha) has declared a dividend of 50 per cent. and a bonus of 50 ...
Article : 38 wordsCASTLEMAINE.--When Mr. Hughes announced the arrival of Captain Ross Smith at Darwin at his meeting at Castlemaine on Wednesday night there was a ...
Article : 180 wordsA number of ex-service men are voyaging to Australia without passports, but on permits issued by the Overseas Settlement Committee. The Foreign Office points out ...
Article : 74 wordsSerious diversion of overseas shipping from the port of Melbourne may result, owing to the "go-slow" policy adopted by the stevedores on the wharfs. Yesterday ...
Article : 218 wordsUnemployment in Great Britain has steadily declined for many weeks. Ninety per cent. of the demobilised soldiers have been absorbed. The only increases in ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 76 wordsPolling booths will be open on Saturday from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Preferential voting will be in force for the Senate and House of Representatives. ...
Article : 311 wordsA meeting of the Coalition and Independent Liberal members of the House of Commons discussed the action of the whips in office in selecting a candidate ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Department of Commerce announces that the exports of the United States for the fiscal year ending 30th June last totalled £1,414,802,306, and the imports ...
Article : 31 wordsThe United States Senate has adopted a resolution requesting President Wilson to furnish the Senate with the correspondence which passed between the Governments of ...
Article : 40 wordsIn view of the seriousness of the position, the Minister of Agriculture decided last night to call a conference of all the parties interested. The conference will ...
Article : 107 wordsMr. J. Daniels, Secretary of the Navy reports that during the war the expenditure on the navy totalled £596,400,000. ...
Article : 31 wordsFollowing the announcement in the Legislative Assembly of the success of Ross Smith's magnificent venture, the Premier sent the following telegram to Darwin:-- ...
Article : 54 wordsThe members of the Chamber of Deputies gave an ovation on the entry of the deputies representing Alsace-Lorraine. M. Siegfried, the doyen of the Chamber ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Navy Office in Melbourne yesterday afternoon received the following radio message from Darwin:--"Ross-Smith arrived at 3.45 p.m. ...
Article : 22 wordsDuring the third reading of the India Home Rule Bill in the House of Commons an Indian stood up in the Strangers' Gallery and shouted, "Give India complete ...
Article : 56 wordsThe military sub-committee of the House of Representatives has approved of a peace time army of 18,000 officers and 300,000 men. ...
Article : 28 wordsAn intimation by the Attorney-General in the Legislative Council yesterday that Captain Ross Smith had landed at Darwin was received with cheers. ...
Article : 26 wordsDARWIN.--Flying high and strong the Viekers-Vimy aeroplane, manned by Captain Rosa-Smith and his companions, crossed the coast of Australia at 3.20 p.m. ...
Article : 245 wordsThe War Office states that General Wrangel has been compelled to withdraw to the defence of Tsaritsin. The Bolshevists made a general assault on 1st ...
Article : 38 wordsBRISBANE.--Owing to the continuance of he go-slow policy by the waterside workers at Townsville the Shipping Controller has carried has threat into effect ...
Article : 37 wordsIn the Grimsby court a solicitor stated that some skippers of trawlers were earning at the rate of £7000 per annum. ...
Article : 31 wordsFull preparations for the reception of Captain Ross Smith in Melbourne are being made by the Prime Minister's department, in conjunction with the Defence ...
Article : 228 wordsThe total cost of pensions during the current financial year is £104,899,000. ...
Article : 21 wordsA telegram from Rome says:--"The Vatican has learned from Vienna that the starving citizens are eating human flesh." ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the New York Herald states that Senator hall has published documents alleging that President Carranza and Mexican consular ...
Article : 100 wordsThe Government's Housing Bill passed its second reading in the House of Commons yesterday without division. ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Thu 11 Dec 1919, Page 7
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