The German right, so far from being turned or "crumpled up," appears to be giving a very good account of itself. The latest information from Paris states that ...
Article : 499 wordsAccording to German newspapers, Franz Joseph, of Hohenzollern, the Kaiser's nephew, is on board the German cruiser Emden, which has been harassing British ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Australian Labour Federation last night received a communication from the Esperance branch requesting the goldfields district council to urge upon the Minister ...
Article : 56 wordsA non-profit-making company has been formed, with a capital of £215,000 under the control of the German War Office, to take over all the stocks of wool ...
Article : 136 wordsThe North Sea is still silent. We have lost a cruiser and Germany a minclayer and a submarine. These are mere incidents. The struggle between the main fleets has ...
Article : 1,315 wordsThe committee of the W.A. Poultry and Dog Association, who have organised the big patriotic art union, are making a display of the prizes at the Royal Show, ...
Article : 418 wordsAn interesting letter received by a Perth resident from his brother in Dundee contains frequent references to the outbreak of hostilities and the feeling dominating ...
Article : 631 wordsMr. W. J. Bryan, Secretary of State, who last year formulated a general international peace scheme, informed a peace promotion meeting last night that the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 471 wordsA telegraphic despatch from Rome reports that the French fleet in the Adriatic has bombarded and destroyed the Lustica fort, which formed the outer defence of ...
Article : 40 wordsA French artillery officer states that the German 17-inch Howitzers have disastrous effects at long ranges, but the mechanism is so complex and their transport so ...
Article : 99 wordsSir,—The thanks of your readers are due to you for having published so important a criticism of German polity as that given in your issue of Saturday by ...
Article : 1,294 wordsAt least five German army corps were engaged in the Battle of Suwalki (Poland). The German bombardment destroyed three-fifths of the town of ...
Article : 145 wordsAccording to the latest communique, a German force made a night attack from Tsing-Tau, but failed, losing 47 men killed. The Japanese lost five men, and eight of the ...
Article : 69 wordsBritish lancers and French troopers on the extreme western wing got between the German main body and the Imperial Guards yesterday, and cut off and ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Victorian Price of Food Board to-day decided that as there had been no in crease in the retail rates beyond what might be considered reasonable in view of ...
Article : 93 wordsFrench soldiers relate that David Kay, of the Fifth British Lancers, became separated from his regiment, and took refuge in a railway carriage. On being approached by ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Russian em[?]y states officially that two Russian armies are proceeding towards Allenstein (in East Prussia), from the east and south. The German ...
Article : 41 wordsAccording to the latest accounts which have been received here, the prices of food-stufis vary just now in a most remarkable degree in different parts of Germany (says ...
Article : 149 wordsNearly 600,000 men have joined the new British army, and of this number London has contributed 85,000. ...
Article : 28 wordsIn the Prize Court to-day, before the President (Sir William Cullen, Chief Justice), an application was made, on behalf of the Crown, for an order that the seized ...
Article : 113 wordsAn official statement issued late last night declared: "The Germans are still masters of parts of the province of Kielce, in the south of Russian Poland, but ...
Article : 51 wordsIn the Dover Police Court last week Karl Ernst, a hairdresser, was remanded on a charge of espionage. Mr. A. H. Bodkin, who appeared for the police, stated that ...
Article : 138 wordsThe Russians are continuing their advance into Hungary. They have occupied Loesszumezo, and Cossacks, after crossing the Tisza River, have cut the railway line ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 99 wordsThe German cruiser Leipzig arrived off San Francisco on August 12. The officers, in interviews with newspaper men, expressed themselves as confident of success in any ...
Article : 113 wordsThe people of Sydney were to-day treated to the spectacle of a route march by the local forces through the city. The weather was excellent and the parade was an ...
Article : 99 wordsThe English steamer Ardtloydt, bound from Dover to Zeebrugge (in Belgium), struck a mine yesterday and sank. Her crew were saved. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe well-known French author, M. Gabriel Hanotaur, writing in "The Figaro," cites the Austrian Ambassador's remarks, made on July 31, ...
Article : 101 words"There are plenty of hospitable people who will readily place their homes at the disposal of one or more of these unhappy Belgian widows," declared Mrs. Holman at ...
Article : 214 wordsThe Prince of Wales Patriotic Fund now amounts to £3,000,000. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 36 wordsNow that the prices of wheat in England have shown a marked tendency to become lower, it is unlikely that more wheat will be seized by the State Government at the ...
Article : 101 wordsA communique issued at 12 o'clock last night stated: "The general situation is stationary. On our left [?] the action is still in progress, but we have repulsed ...
Article : 180 wordsAmerican sentiment has been greatly moved by a letter written by a bereaved Belgian mother to the German Empress apropos of the Kaiser's decoration of his ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 91 wordsThe Press Bureau states:—"During last month the Germans made several raids upon British territory in Africa, and attempted to cut the Uganda railway, but, ...
Article : 83 wordsThe flag which was symbolic of German authority in New Britain is now in possession of the Lord Mayor of Sydney, who holds it on behalf of the citizens of ...
Article : 55 wordsThousands of persons assembled in front of the French-and Belgian Legations yesterday and carried resolutions protesting against Germany's cynical contempt for the ...
Article : 36 wordsPreviously acknowledged £1,159 3 2 Employee of Perth City Council Electric Lighting and Gas Department (sixth ...
Article : 592 wordsThere will be a large number of royalties in the field of battle (observes a London contemporary of August 18). In this country, of course, no king has led his troops ...
Article : 393 wordsCaptain Belloni, of the Italian naval reserve, has made off with a submarine built at Spezzia, the principal naval port of Italy, for the Roumanian Government. At ...
Article : 176 wordsTwo camps of military training are now in operation, the Light Horse Squadron having settled down to work at the Guildford remount depot. The men at the chief ...
Article : 113 wordsA correspondent writing to the "Cape Times" states: "The Germans have in South-West Africa 10,000 well-trained troops with 66 guns, many machnie guns, ...
Article : 51 wordsApart from carnage on the battlefield the bombardment of defenceless towns and the burning of villages, the war upon [?] Europe has entered bring in their train a ...
Article : 316 wordsThe capture of German trenches in recent fighting on the allies' left was largely due to the Britishers, particularly two famous Highland regiments. For some days ...
Article : 111 wordsThe German cruiser Eber left the Cape before the outbreak of war, and subsequently a letter addressed to her commander was intercepted. This was dated ...
Article : 100 wordsAt a meeting held in Geraldton last week it was decided to inaugurate a distress fund, apart from the Patriotic Fund, in order to relieve cases of distress due to the ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Wed 7 Oct 1914, Page 7
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