Last year a Commission was appointed by the Imperial Government to inquire into the conduct of operations in Mesopotamia, the members being Lord George ...
Article : 743 wordsYesterday the personnel of the National Cabinet was determined by the members of the Parliamentary National Party, and the New Ministerial team will be sworn ...
Article : 2,040 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs states:—"During the past two days a great change has developed in the situation round Lens. They enemy are retreating from the suburbs of ...
Article : 725 wordsThe British National Socialist Party has declined an invitation from the Russian Workmen's and Soldiers' Council to attend an international Socialist conference, on ...
Article : 87 wordsThis afternoon, at 4 o'clock, in the [?]iterary Institute, a meeting of citizens has been convenced to consider the best method of stimulating recruiting. ...
Article : 102 wordsExcellent work is being accompanied by the Australian and New Zealand wireless squadron which is serving in Mesopotamia, under the Government of India. ...
Article : 221 wordsMr. Baker (Secretary for War) has asked Congress for an appreciation of £1,900,000 for procuring rifle manufacturing machinery. He says that unless this money is ...
Article : 48 wordsWhilst our heroes keep the flag flying in France some who remain at home talk of all that "we have done." That plural pronoun includes themselves, but why this ...
Article : 435 wordsMrs. M. Ryan, of Kooyong-road. Burswood, has been advised by the military authorities that her eldest son, Private William Ryan, has been wounded in France. ...
Article : 414 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the New York "Times" states that the Exports Council will probably ask neutral countries to aid in the shipping of Australian wheat ...
Article : 33 wordsThe United States has loaned £3,000,000 to France and £2,000,000 to Britain. ...
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Article : 148 wordsBaron von Hantenfels the German emissary who was implicated in the plot to destroy Norwegian shipping, was arrested at Christiania, where was employed as the ...
Article : 336 wordsDuring a discussion on the Conscription Bill in the Dominion House of Commons yesterday Colonel Arthur Vimy said that France urgently needed men, and that ...
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Article : 37 wordsM. Bakhmetieff, a member of the Russian mission, speaking in the Senate yesterday, said that the Russian situation was grave, but the outcome was certain to be ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Premier, Senor Dato, in an interview yesterday stated that the comments of a section of the Press were compromising his neutrality policy, as were also the ...
Article : 102 wordsWith a view to preventing ineligible men from enlisting in future, an order has been issued by the authorities, instructing recruiting officers that all volunteers with ...
Article : 347 wordsA wireless Russian official message received yesterday evening stated: "South of Brezany to-day the enemy forced their way into our trenches, but a counter-attack ...
Article : 51 wordsAgain the association makes an appeal for donations of old treadles or old sewing machines, for they are so urgently needed. Arrangement and payment of ...
Article : 646 wordsA German official report issued yesterday afternoonstated that fighting activity continues south-west of Luch and between the Strypa and the Dniester. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe 316th casualty list was released by the Censor yesterday and is published below. It contains the names of Western Australian soldiers, together with those ...
Article : 687 wordsLast night's Russian official report stated: "We repulsed a Kurdish attack south-east of Erzinghan to-day and occupied some enemy trenches on the Abishirvan River." ...
Article : 29 wordsThe "Petit Parisien" states that the Berlin Cabinet demand an apology from Norway for opening the diplomatic valise which revealed the bomb plot. Herr Michaelis has ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Turksh cruiser Breslau bobarded the radio station and lighthouse on Fidonish Island, in the Black Sea, on Monday, but Russian warships drove her off and ...
Article : 39 wordsIn the House of Lords yesterday, Lord Strachie suggested the expediency of a policy of reprisals against the Germans in connection with the air raids. ...
Article : 243 wordsThe Athens correspondent of the "Morning Post" reported last night:—"In consequence of disorders M. Jonnant has ordered the occupation of Athens by Allied troops ...
Article : 150 wordsThe newspapers regard the report as a scatching indictment of Indian adminitration and the earlier conduct of the war. The report, they say, largely justifies Earl ...
Article : 580 wordsOne of the last official acts of the Minister for Industries (Mr. James Mitchell) as a member of the Liberal Government was in connection with the scheme for the ...
Article : 612 wordsA wireless German official report, intercepted by the Admiralty yesterday afternoon, stated: "After numerous artillery duels yesterday evening the French ...
Article : 49 wordsM. Jonnart, the Allies' High Commissioner, announces that certain agitators whose removal was ordered fled to Peloponnesus, where they have been placed ...
Article : 79 wordsThe Victoria Cross has been awarded to eight more heroes, including Corporal George Julian Howell, of the Australian Infantry, for most conspicous bravery ...
Article : 132 wordsFresh German troops have reached Flanders and are proceeding to the Ypres, Dixmnde, and Ostend districts. The Citizens have evacuated Menin, a small Belgian ...
Article : 66 wordsM. Venizelos has been summoned to form a Ministry. ...
Article : 18 wordsGeneral Friedrich Von Bernhardi, writing in the Berlin "Vossiche Zeitung," advises the Government to arraign Cardinal Mercier, Archibishop of Malines (Belgium). ...
Article : 75 wordsOn account of the refusal of the shipping agents to accede to the demands of the Wheat Lumpers for increased wages at country stations, a meeting of the ...
Article : 79 wordsIt is officially announced that Germany has agreed to indemnify Holland for the seven Dutch vessels torpedoed on February 22, by ceding to the owners of the sunken ...
Article : 115 wordsThe Press Bureau announces that Lord Rhondda, the new Food Controller, has decided upon a stricter and more complete control of foodstuffs, enforcing maximum ...
Article : 83 wordsIt will be remembered that some considerable dissatisfaction was expressed by fruitgrowers in the early part of this year owing to the shortage of fruit cases, and ...
Article : 375 wordsThe Kaiser, addressing his troops on the west front, said: "I thank you for your gallant work and express my firm confidence that you will continue to stand firm ...
Article : 64 wordsMr. W. A. Holman (Premier of New South Wales), giving evidence yesterday before the Empire Settlement Committee, said that the settlement of New South ...
Article : 165 wordsSir,—In your issued of to-day's date is a letter signed "Bible Student" re the above, which is delightfully vague as to its import. May I ask your correspondent if it is ...
Article : 87 wordsSeveral more changes of name are announced in connection with the action taken by his Majesty the King for the abolition of German titles. The Duke of ...
Article : 87 wordsA conference of the Allied Powers will shortly be held to discuss the question of war aims. It is understood that Russia pressed for the holding of the conference. ...
Article : 39 wordsLieut, Guynemer, the celebrated French aerobnaut, yesterday destroyed his 45th German aeroplane. ...
Article : 18 wordsAn Italian official report issued yesterday evening stated:—"The enemy are desperately attempting to retake the positions they recently lost at Ortigara, and in ...
Article : 46 wordsA syndicate of Junkers and industrialists, under the Conservative leader, Von Heydebrand, the "Uncrowned King of Prussia," is purchasing many newspapers to support the ...
Article : 64 wordsMr. Bonar Law, in moving in the House of Commons yesterday for the appointment of a Select Committee of Inquiry into the army medical examinations, under the ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Thu 28 Jun 1917, Page 7
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