The Prime Minister (Mr. Lloyd George) was accorded a great ovation yesterday on rising to address a great meeting in the Queen's Hall to express Britain's inflexible ...
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Article : 414 wordsM. Kerensky summoned a Council of War at headquarters on Wednesday, which lasted from 4 in the morning until 11 in the evening. General Brusiloff and other ...
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Article : 23 wordsThe Athens correspondent of "Il Secolo" reports:—"The Greek Consul from Constantinople states that two Turkish divisions—one from Dobrudja and the other ...
Article : 64 wordsThe merchants' committee of the London Chamber of Commerce have submitted to the Government a statement respecting the effect of the Government's ...
Article : 201 wordsSeven days' almost continual rain has seriously damaged the crops in the south-west of England. ...
Article : 24 wordsWilliam A. Cassoon, a retired civil servant, was charged in the Bow-street Police Court yesterday with corruption in conspiring with Wing Commander John C. ...
Article : 251 wordsPetrograd reports state that the Russian army has shown a marked recovery of military spirit, and even the units which led the recent retreat are fighting bravely. ...
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Article : 86 wordsOn Wednesday evening next a grand fancy and evening dress carnival will be held (in aid of the Soldiers' Welcome Committee) at the Centennial Skating Rink, Hay-street. ...
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Article : 52 wordsAn 18-years-old French soldier named Le Morne has won the Legion of Honour. In his first day in the trenches he captured 15 Germans single-handed. ...
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Article : 28 wordsA well informed source announces numerous desertions of Turkish troops in the Caucasus. The deserters have organised themselves into bands, and they are ...
Article : 55 wordsIt is officially announced that the Food Controller (Lord Rhonnda) has invited the local government bodies in Great Britain to appoint food control committees to ...
Article : 93 wordsA Maestricht newspaper describes an immense aviation ground which the Germans have established in Belgium, between Elversale and Ham. Large construction sheds ...
Article : 38 wordsInformation has been received indicating that the Central Empires, early in July, 1914, decided upon a policy which would certainly lead to war with Russia. The ...
Article : 158 wordsIt may help to an understanding of the great battle of July 31 in Flanders if it be explained that before the Allied line on that morning there were stretched line upon ...
Article : 256 wordsA crime of unparalleled ferocity has been revealed by the deliberate murder of 38 members of the crew of the Belgian Prince, three survivors of which, after fearful ...
Article : 349 wordsMrs. E. Holloway, of 91 Martha-street, Beaconsfield, has been informed that her son. Private Ernest Charles Holloway, of the 16th Battalion, is a prisoner of war in Limburg. He ...
Article : 619 wordsThe report of the Empire Settlement Committee shows that that body carried out its investigations by means of two subcommittees. The first, a general purposes ...
Article : 659 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the "Evening Post" says he has learned on high authority that Herr Zimmerman (recently German Minister for Foreign ...
Article : 55 wordsA wireless German official message, intercepted on Friday evening, stated:—"The English advances on the Nieuport-Westende road, west of Bixschoote, and Langemarck, ...
Article : 110 wordsThe Germanophile newspapers are attacking the Government concerning the German submarine interned at Ferrol. The censorship of the Press has been re-established. ...
Article : 28 wordsFriday afternoon's wireless Russian official message stated: "After a stubborn battle to-day we retired across the Zbrucz at several places. Our troops are retiring ...
Article : 266 wordsThe King telegraphed yesterday to the Emperor of Japan, the Kings of Italy, Serbia, and Roumania, and the Presidents of France, America, and Portugal, as ...
Article : 268 wordsA Bill has been passed declaring war on Germany, and the measure now awaits the President's confirmation. It is reported that the president is prepared to sign the ...
Article : 35 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs telegraphs that the weather continues frightful, and resembles the foulest Flemish winter. The Germans, despite repeated efforts, have failed to ...
Article : 60 wordsMr. Baker (Secretary for War) estimates that the cost of drafting the army will amount to £1,720,000,000. United Press Washington correspondent ...
Article : 117 wordsThe shipping board has decided to commandeer all ships under construction and to hasten their completion. It will take over seven hundred vessels, with a total ...
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Article : 153 wordsThe Minister for the Navy (Mr. Cook) and members of the Naval Board sent a message on Saturday to the Rear-Admiral commanding the Australian Navy, and to ...
Article : 70 wordsM. Denys Cochin has resigned the position of Under-Secretary for Blockade owing partly to health and partly to the fact that America's taking over of the main ...
Article : 44 wordsPaul Schlyck, a nephew of Von Hindenburg, has enlisted with the American Navy and has been sent to France ...
Article : 27 wordsThe "Irish Independent," published in Dublin, prints a letter, signed by Messrs. A. Lynch, D. O'Leary, J. J. O'Shee, M. Meagher, and other Irish members of the ...
Article : 123 wordsThe completion of three years of war with the Central European Powers was celebrated throughout the British Empire on Saturday, and Perth, as the Capital city ...
Article : 622 wordsGeneral Louis Botha, in a telegram to yesterday's anniversary meeting in London, stated: "I can only reiterate last year's message and say let us press on to ...
Article : 280 wordsM. Possitch (the Serbian Premier) states that the Turks have deported to the Constantinople harems 8,000 Serbian girls of from 10 years to 14 years of age. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Dutch steamer Noordam (12,531 tons) struck a mine on Friday off Texel and was towed to Moas. The vessel was damaged in No. 5 hold ...
Article : 97 wordsThe German semi-official newspapers warn the public that they must expect large losses in Flanders in the battle which has hardly begun. The Munich "Nachrichten" ...
Article : 50 wordsA wireless German official message intercepted on Friday afternoon stated: "We captured several villages on the Lower Zbrucz. We also captured Czernowitz and ...
Article : 79 wordsA decree which has been issued restricts the daily consumption of bread to 500 grammes for adults, and 300 grammes for children under 6 years of age. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe "Petit Parisien," in a description of the fighting in Flanders, states:—"The struggle was one of terrible grandeur. La Basseville was retaken by the Germans, ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Swedish newspapers publish a scheme to send Swedes to Germany and Austria to hew coal for Sweden, one condition being that a percentage of the coal must be ...
Article : 59 wordsThe "Aftenbladet" says: "Germany has apologised for the sinking of Swedish vessels in the North Sea. She declares that she will endeavour to avoid a recurrence ...
Article : 58 wordsMr. W. C. Redfield (Secretary for Commerce). when interviewed by the Australian Press Association yesterday, in connection with Mr. Hughes's statement that ...
Article : 103 wordsThere are indications that the Labourites are hopelessly divided over the sending of delegates to the Stockholm Conference. The maritime unions are strongly averse to ...
Article : 96 wordsGeneral Erdelli, Commander of the 11th Army, has been fatally shot in the back. He is supposed to be the victim of efforts to restore discipline. The newspapers ...
Article : 119 wordsThe Kaiser has sanctioned a number of new appointments to the Prussian Ministry The new men are practically all bureancrats. The democratic newspapers ...
Article : 39 wordsThe "Petit Parisien" says that the Anglo-French, with admirable bravery and tenacity, resisted all the German counterattacks, the enemy sustaining heavy losses. ...
Article : 55 wordsThe German newspapers are attacking Spain for not allowing foreign submarines to enter her territorial waters. The "Eaglesdre Rundschau" says that England ...
Article : 94 wordsRobert Tees, a music hall artiste, who is a native of South Yarra, Melbourne, was yesterday fined in the Bow-street Police Court £5 on a charge of being a ...
Article : 45 wordsThe editor of "De Nieuwe Courant." who fraternised with Herr Von Kuhlmann (the new German Foreign Minister at the Hague. declares that Von Kuhlmann, who was ...
Article : 78 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) said to-day that as the result of representation by the Commonwealth Government the Imperial authorities are now prepared ...
Article : 78 wordsThe United States Ambassedor (Dr. Page) reviewed forces of [?] soldiers at Plymouth yesterday. [?] Mayflower carried the ideas [?] into ...
Article : 62 wordsM. Tudesq states that a Bavarian officer who was taken prisoner relates that his battalion, which was stationed to the north of Hollebeke, mutinied for three days before ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Premier, M. Kerensky, resigned on Friday and left Petrograd, declaring that the difficulty of reconsituting the Government was insuperable. He declined to ...
Article : 109 wordsThe King held an investiture at Buckingham Palace on Friday, and bestowed 255 decorations, including the Victoria Cross to Lieutenant Rupert Moon. ...
Article : 29 wordsCaptain Perseus, summarising Germany's naval work during the third year of the war, reiterates the warning against exaggerated hopes of the operations of the ...
Article : 85 wordsPresident Poincare. replying to King George's message, stated that France was resolved to pursue to a finish the work of liberation and justice in close ...
Article : 53 wordsPrince George, of Serbia, while inspecting some troops a few days ago, was badly injured through a fall caused by his horse having been shot under him. He ...
Article : 42 wordsThe South Wales Miners' Conference by 112 votes to 43 decided on Friday to recommend the institution of a peace move in the belligerent countries with a view of ...
Article : 75 wordsThe "Petit Journal's" correspondent describes Poligone-de-Zonebeke, whence the Germans made a violent and unsuccessful counter attack, as one of the very strongest ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 6 Aug 1917, Page 7
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