In London on Monday the fall of Petrograd was regarded as imminent. The Allies have arranged to provision the city. It is believed in London that the Allies ...
Article : 361 wordsParis learns that an insistent minority in Germany is in favour of signing the Peace Treaty, but the Government's encouragement of popular agitation against ...
Article : 741 wordsEscorted by aeroplanes from Grantham ([?]05 miles from London), the train conveying Harry G. Hawker, the Australian airman, and his navigator, ...
Article : 1,069 wordsAfter the compulsory conference, presided over by Mr. Justice Higgins, which is to resume this afternoon, it will be possible to form some idea of how long the seamen's ...
Article : 734 wordsThe Council of Foreign Ministers in Paris has discussed the question of demanding from Germany the restitution of the archives stolen from Brussels. ...
Article : 25 wordsIt is expected in Washington that Mr. Lloyd George will visit the United States in October to attend the first sittings of the League of Nations. ...
Article : 31 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday.—At a stopwork meeting of the Waterside Workers' Union it was decided to abide by the resolution previously passed—not to handle ...
Article : 88 wordsA message from Allahabad states:—"The aeroplane reconnaissance reports that the Afghan army is in retreat between Jelalabad and Kabul. Both town have been ...
Article : 86 wordsA despatch received in New York from St. John's (Newfoundland) states that the steamship Lake Charlottesville has picked up parts of Hawker's biplane and the mail ...
Article : 39 wordsSir,—Dr. Mannix's criticism of "The Argus" at the Catholic Young Men's Society, he blamed that journal for the unequalled "embittering of the relations ...
Article : 82 wordsThe United States Secretary of State (Mr. Lansing), who is a member of the American Peace Delegation in Paris, has replied to the Sinn Fem representatives, ...
Article : 98 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Lawson) said last night that he proposed sending a cable message to Mr. Hawker, expressing the admiration of the people of Victoria of his ...
Article : 98 wordsSir,—Notwithstanding Dr. Mannix's criticism of the leading article which appeared in "The Argus" on Tuesday, I feel sure that ll right-thinking people in our ...
Article : 107 wordsSir Charles Wade (N.S.W. Agent-General), in giving evidence before the Coal Commission, said that the Railway Board of New South Wales had reduced the ...
Article : 220 wordsThe United States Naval seaplane [?]C4, in continuation of her flight from America to Europe, left Ponta del Gada, in the Azores, on Monday, and reached Lisbon, ...
Article : 136 wordsComfort cleanliness, and increased speed were demonstrated in the formal opening run of an electric train on the Essendon— Sandringham line yesterday as material ...
Article : 1,210 wordsReports from India show that the recent rising of the native population was a serious and well-organised movement. The moderation of the authorities at ...
Article : 123 wordsA disgraceful scene was witnessed in Spencer street yesterday afternoon, when the loyalists who had been working on the wharves during the day marched to the ...
Article : 652 wordsAlthough no phase of total eclipse of the sun, which will occur to-day, can be seen from Australia, the question to which the attention of the observing parties is to ...
Article : 943 wordsMr. Winston Churchill (Secretary of State for War), speaking at D[?]dee on May 15, said that the Budget proposals would not add to the coast of living or ...
Article : 145 wordsArrangements have been made for the steamer Wyandra to take 300 of the Tasmanian soldiers, who are stranded in Melbourne, to Hobart to-morrow. They will ...
Article : 212 wordsTheophilus James Metcalf and Frank Milton, who in September, 1917, were sentenced to terms of imprisonment in connection with the sensational robbery o[?] ...
Article : 352 wordsPresident Wilson, speaking at a Pan-American banquet in Paris on Monday, hinted that he did not intend to stand as a candidate for another Presidential term. ...
Article : 36 wordsA belated message from Winnipeg, Canada, states that on May 16,30,000 unionists were on strike in connection with their demand for the recogniton of the unions. ...
Article : 50 wordsDuring the attempt made by the strikers to interfere with loyalist workers on the wharf on Tuesday, Osborne Wright and Arthur McLaughlin, two young men, were ...
Article : 359 wordsThe number of men unemployed as a result of the strike was augmented yesterday by a large number of carters and drivers. These men are now the most ...
Article : 169 wordsHungary on May 15 appealed to the Soviet army of the Ukraine to come to her assistance against Roumania[?] pointing out that if the Roumanians conquered ...
Article : 42 wordsIt was reported in London on Monday that British and American marines have landed at Danzig, which the Allies have decided shall be created a free city, with ...
Article : 47 wordsShortly before 1 o'clock this morning a young single woman, who gave the name of Rita Williams, her age as 28 years, and her address as Osborne street, St. Kilda, ...
Article : 250 wordsOwing to the soaring prices of bacon, cheese, and margarine the British Food Ministry has assumed control. ...
Article : 25 wordsM. Clemenceau's reply to the German Note asking for the repatriation of German prisoners says that the Allies cannot release those guilty of crimes. They are ...
Article : 114 wordsIt is learned by the Australian Press Association representative in London that 430 British mine sweepers, manned by 14,600 volunteers, are now at work ...
Article : 86 wordsThe rejection by the seamen of the wharf labourers' proposal in the early stages of the strike, that the two unions should pledge themselves to make common cause, ...
Article : 145 wordsHawker and Grieve had a triumphal night journey through Scotland after leaving Th[?]o. People gathered at the stations hoping to obtain a glimpse of the train, ...
Article : 108 wordsIn the knowledge that while engaged on steamers within the Customs compound at lower North Wharf they would be free from molestation by unionist strikers, ...
Article : 270 wordsFor some time past several causes have been bringing about an unprecedented amount of congestion and confusion in the sheds on the Melbourne wharves in which ...
Article : 370 wordsA Berlin message[?] dated May 16, said that the feeling against the Allies was so strong that Bntish and American officers had been ordered to wear mufti, lest they ...
Article : 83 wordsReferring to the definite promise given to Parliament of a return to normal trading conditions as soon as possible, the Minister for Customs (Mr. massy Greene) said ...
Article : 262 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—Officials of the Sydney branch of the Seamen's Union stated to-day that there had been no change in the strike position, but that members ...
Article : 245 wordsA most extraordinary situation has arisen with regard to the rift in the Seamen's Union and the events which occurred yesterday cannot fail to have an ...
Article : 526 wordsThe Council of Four, it was considered likely in Paris last week, would grant to Turkey Constantinople, Anatolia, and the non-Greek coasts of Asia Minor, to be ...
Article : 183 wordsHawker, when interviewed in London, said that he was willing and eager to attempt the Atlantic flight again, but that depended on the Sopwith Company. The ...
Article : 323 wordsIn the match against Australia, who made 370 runs, Middlesex scored 408, of which Henr[?]n made 135. P. F. Warner collapsed after a long drive, and was carried off, but ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Imperial War Museum, which now is in possesion of 100,000 exhibits, will be given a habitation in the Crystal Palace, near London. ...
Article : 86 wordsDespite the promises made by the union officials that loyalists working on the wheat stacks at Brooklyn would not be interfered with the unionists on the stacks yesterday ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 29 May 1919, Page 7
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