A disastrous railway accident, attributable in part to poor coal, has occurred at Saint Jory, near Toulouse, in France. The low quality of the coal used for the ...
Article : 93 wordsThe French Minister for Finance (M. Klotz) has informed the Chamber of Deputies that the cost of the war was £40,000 000,000. of which the Allies' share ...
Article : 64 wordsMr. H. C. Hoover, the Allied Food Controller has sailed for America. He says that the Western Hemisphere cannot possibly supply Europe's deficiencies. ...
Article : 93 wordsThe officer in charge of the State Immigration and Labour Bureau (Mr. S. Whitehead) stated on Saturday that he had had an interview with Mrs. M. T. Sims and ...
Article : 147 wordsAt a general meeting of the Australasian Merchants' Association at the end of September, Mr. Tredwen, the chairman, will propose:—"That we object entirely to ...
Article : 84 wordsMr. Arthur Henderson (Labour), in a speech at Walworth, said that the people would be glad to learn that the "triple alliance" (railway-men, miners, and ...
Article : 87 wordsVictoria has still a substantial lead in the subscriptions to the Peace loan. New South Wales is second, and Tasmania retains third position. ...
Article : 352 wordsThe Allies' Supreme Council extended the time fixed for Austria to sign the peace terms to September 9. A Vienna message treaty, and a Paris report received in ...
Article : 112 wordsA Government wireless message received from Cettinge, capital of Montenegro, states that the rising in Albania against the Italians is increasing. An Italian garrison ...
Article : 51 wordsThe British Wool Council has discussed the high prices of wool and woollen goods. Sir Arthur Goldfinch, the chairman, said that general supplies were ample, but the ...
Article : 181 wordsOwing to the grain dockers' strike, the steamer Bologda, after waiting several days to discharge her cargo of Australian wheat in London, has gone to Antwerp. Several ...
Article : 95 wordsA conference has been arranged to take place early in October between the merchants, committee of the London Chamber of Commerce and the leading ...
Article : 129 words"On Thursday," remarked Mr. F. Hagelthorn, formerly Minister for Agriculture, "the Minister for Lands (Mr. F. Clarke) informed a delegation of British ...
Article : 970 wordsGeneral Smuts has accepted the Governor-General's invitation to form a new Cabinet. All his late colleagues will continue in their former offices under his ...
Article : 281 wordsLieut.-Colonel Sherwood Kelly, V. C., who has returned to England from Archangel, in a letter to the "Daily Express" says:- "I volunteered for North Russia, believing ...
Article : 107 wordsA reply has been received to the ultimtum sent by the Allies to Germany, directing that the clause providing for the admission of Austrians to the Reichstag be ...
Article : 104 wordsSir Arthur Conan Doyle, in his latest volume of war history, defends Sir Hubert Gough, commander of the 5th Army, which fell back before Amiens. Sir ...
Article : 174 wordsThe music-hall managers of Paris have locked out their employees, and probably the theatres will follow suit next week. This action is taken in protest against the ...
Article : 87 wordsAt the court-martial on the Frenchman Quien who was one of the instruments in betraying Nurse Cavell to the Germans, the Government advocate demanded the ...
Article : 168 wordsThe Russian Bolshevik Government has informed Persia that it does not recognise the Anglo-Persian treaty, abandons all Russian claims on Persia, and neutralises the ...
Article : 35 wordsAccording to an American United Press message from Paris, the Bulgarian peace treaty has been completed, and will be handed to Bulgaria to-day (Monday). ...
Article : 29 wordsThe foundation-stone of the new All Saints Chinch in Bay street, Sandringham, was laid by Archbishop Clarke yesterday afternoon, in the presence of a large ...
Article : 447 wordsTRARALGON, Saturday.—The party of officers conducting the Peace Loan campaign in Gippsland met with misfortune here. After some trouble the engine was ...
Article : 485 wordsThe Vienna correspondent of the "Daily Express" says that the new regime in Hungary has let loose anti-Semitic fanaticism. The fall of Belakhun was the signal for ...
Article : 62 wordsYorkshire wool houses have received offers from German firms who are willing to comb wool and spin years, on Bradford account. ...
Article : 51 wordsThe latest reports from Paris regarding the difficulty with Roumunia state that, in view of the explanation by the Roumanian Premier (M. Bratiano), that messages sent ...
Article : 293 wordsThe American Congressional Committee which is investigating the American aeroplane failure at the front, learnt in evidence taken where the aeroplanes were ...
Article : 60 wordsHertzog, the Nationalist (anti-Imperial) leader, and the deputation that he bended to the Peace Conference have returned. They landed at Durban from Java ...
Article : 659 wordsThe subdivisional sales of large landed estates at inflated prices have aroused fears among tenant farmers, particularly in West Lancashire, that if their rents are raised ...
Article : 283 wordsArmenian advices received in Paris state that the Turkish staff, south of Erivan, are directing an encircling movement by Turtars and Turks against the Armenian ...
Article : 35 wordsIt is understood that the heads of the British Government departments have completed their report on the possibilities of cutting down expenditure as demanded by ...
Article : 69 wordsLord Fisher returns to his charge regarding the Admiralty's lack of foresight, and says:—"It is busy formulating precise regulations for officers' dress, when its hearts ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Dutch Government detained in the Scheldt river vessels and cargoes seized by the Belgians in the occupied zone on the ground that they were stolen by the ...
Article : 104 wordsMr. J. R. Clynes, M.P. (Labour), speaking at Pontefract, said that Labour intended to lighten the burden of taxation on the poorer classes by the immediate ...
Article : 52 wordsGermany has informed the Allied Supreme Council that Admiral von Reuter, who was in command of the German warships, interned at Scapa Flow, was responsible ...
Article : 53 wordsLabour leaders at Winnipeg have invited the Prince of Wales to attend a Labour demonstration arranged to demand the bailing out of the fomenters of the recent ...
Article : 59 wordsThe British Government has arranged to give cash advances to a maximum of 80 per cent. of the cost of the goods on goods destined for Finland, the Baltic provinces, ...
Article : 49 wordsSpeaking at Lafayette on the anniversary of Jusserand, the Presideut said that France was rebuilding her national life with the same courage as she had shown in ...
Article : 355 wordsA race for tanks over the Alps has been organised in France. The purpose is to test the practicability of motor-tractors for mountainous routes. ...
Article : 30 wordsPreaching in Scots Church yesterday morning from St. John's Gospel, xviii. 36 and 37, the Rev. W. Borland said that Christ made a unique claim of Kingship, which ...
Article : 534 wordsIn compuny with Marshals Foch and Lord Hing, General Pershing, and Lord Beatty, Lieut.-General Sir John Monash, of the Australian Imperial Force, ...
Article : 429 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—A meeting of members of the Sydney district of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers was held this afternoon to discuss "a number of ...
Article : 171 wordsSir Charles Wade (Agent-General for New South Wales) is endeavouring to arrange for a deputation of Australian Agents-General to wait upon the British ...
Article : 55 wordsBy pressing a button at Balmoral Castle His Majesty the King unveiled a statue set up in Montreal, Canada, in honour of Sir Etienne Cartier, in recognition of the ...
Article : 69 wordsThe balance-sheet of the Australian Fund for Distressed Girls shows donations exceeding £2,000. General Foott formed the nucleus of the fund by picking up 14/7, ...
Article : 128 wordsFor the first time since the commencement of the influenza epidemic in Victoria a week-end has passed without any deaths being recorded. On Saturday 13 new cases ...
Article : 113 wordsRecord prices have been paid for Friesian cattle at an auction sale at Aylesbury. One imported cow fetched 5,000 guineas, another 3,000 guineas, an English bred two-year-old ...
Article : 47 wordsAt the September meeting of the Australian Red Cross Council reports were received from divisions showing that several new convalescent homes and sanatoria for invalid soldiers have been acquired ...
Article : 703 wordsA British Chamber of Commerce has been incorporated in New York. Its object is to facilitate trade between Great Britain and America and to promote the interests ...
Article : 41 wordsCaptain T. H. Urquhart, who before enlisting in the A.I.F. was a successful business man in Melbourne, believes that the prospects of developing Australian trade in ...
Article : 233 wordsADELAIDE, Sunday.—The long continued series of flendish outrages upon horses depasturing in the park lands surrounding Adelaide has been added to by the ...
Article : 186 wordsThe twenty-sixth anniversary of the Melbourne Central Mission was celebrated yesterday at Wesley Church. Large congregations attended the morning and evening ...
Article : 338 wordsThe Victorian branch of the Flour Millers' Union, at a meeting at the Old Trades Hall yesterday, after discussing means of having the "living wage" of £3/6 / ...
Article : 121 wordsReplying to President Wilson's announcement that the International Labour Conference would be held, despite deplays in the American Senate, Senator Sheerman, ...
Article : 111 wordsAt the pleasant Sunday afternoon held at Weasley Church yesterday, Brigadier-General H. E. Elliott gave vivid descriptions of modern battles, and referred to many ...
Article : 274 wordsArchdcacon Hindley, in the course of his sermon in St. Paul's Cathedral yesterday, asked the question, "How should a Christian treat a notorious evil-liver?" and ...
Article : 352 wordsSir,—While fully appreciating the letter by "Digger" to-day, I wish to state that, although we are not entitled to any of the benefits the A.I.F. sisters receive from the ...
Article : 156 wordsWhile boarding a train in Norwood road, Burwood, on Friday morning, Samuel McLelland, a boot repairer, fell and injured himself. He was taken to his home at Queen's parade. Burwood, but as his ...
Article : 378 wordsRepresentatives of the Dominions are conferring with the British War Office on the allocation of the payments for the maintenance of the armies of occupation. It is ...
Article : 394 wordsSir,—During the recent municipal elections in the city of Collingwood an election leaflet containing the names of Lieut. Ruthven, V.C., and several other returned ...
Article : 224 wordsBROKEN HILL (N.S.W.), Sunday.— Early last week the Mine Managers' Association offered to employ 87 carpenters at once at the mines, and others as soon as ...
Article : 60 wordsSir,—I would like to direct attention to a notice to be found in many electric tramcars. The placard offers rather tempting prizes to people who collect the greatest ...
Article : 151 wordsThe annual appeal in aid of the Foundling Home at Broadneadows, conducted by the Sisters of St. Joseph, was made at St. Francls's Church yesterday, by the Very Rev. A. Moynihan, C. M., and the ...
Article : 81 wordsAt the Victorian Railways Institute, Flinders street, a cuchre party was held on September 4 by members of the 10th Engineers welcome home committee. The chairman (Mr. Philips) ...
Article : 115 wordsOwing to [?] mishap to the engine of the 2.23 p.m. goods train to Lilydatle on Saturday, considerable interruption was caused to the service on the Camberwell line, and from 3.57 p.m. until 7.3 p.m. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 8 Sep 1919, Page 7
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