Lloyds reported yesterday that the following Dutch steamers were torpedoed by the Germans on Thursday night and that their crews were landed:—Zandijk (4,189 ...
Article : 282 wordsThe Johannesburg Rebellion Commission has investigated 6,471 compensation claims for £420,000, and granted £72,374. The report emphasises the gross exaggeration of ...
Article : 54 wordsThe House of Commons was crowded on Friday, and the members on both sides loudly cheered the Prime Minister, Mr. Lloyd George, when he rose to make his ...
Article : 2,603 wordsA communique from Field-Marshal Haig on Friday stated:—"We have improved our position northward of Guedecourt, capturing a portion of a trench and 30 ...
Article : 254 wordsThe American newspapers generally express the opinion that Mr. Lloyd George has taken time by the forelock and that although his measures are heroically ...
Article : 177 wordsA white paper just issued shows that there are 5,000,000 troops on home colonial establishments, exclusive of these serving in India. There are also additional navy ...
Article : 41 wordsWherever it is known amongst the troops that Australian party quarrels are being dropped, and personal differences and jealousies abandoned, in order to allow ...
Article : 313 wordsTwo of the men arrested in Dublin last week were courtmartialled and sentenced to 28 days' imprisonment for having sung seditious songs at a concert. George ...
Article : 63 wordsThe late Roger Casement, who was executed as a rebel, left property valued at £135. In his will, made during his imprisonment, he left everything to his ...
Article : 37 wordsInterest in the local political situation now centres in to-morrow's proceedings in the Legislative Assembly, and in this connection a study of the notice paper is of ...
Article : 1,164 wordsMr. Hoover announces that Great Britain and German have agreed that the Belgian Relief Commission's ships from America to Rotterdam shall pass through ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Reichstag on Friday voted a war credit of £750,000,000. Eighteen of the Ultra-Socialists opposed the vote, but the main party of Socialists supported it ...
Article : 203 wordsA despatch received here states:—The Germans have ordered populations of several places behind the firing line, particularly in the regions of Comines, La ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Dutch Socialist organ "Het Volk," in reply to the German Socialist appeals, states:—"The German Socialist press tries to expound to us and other neutrals that ...
Article : 94 wordsA German official wireless statement, intercepted by the Admiralty here, states:— "We repulsed several British reconnoitring attacks on the Artoise front. The ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) is continually receiving from elderly citizens offers of personal services at the front, but he is reluctantly ...
Article : 237 wordsThe German Governor of Belgium, besides closing the schools, has seized all the coal supplies and has ordered that all shops shall close at 6 p.m. He has ...
Article : 57 wordsThere was an interesting scene at Paddington railway station yesterday upon the arrival of 200 seamen, of various nationalities, from submarined ships. Most of the ...
Article : 34 wordsThe "Dutch Gazette," commenting upon the submarine situation, states: "The last shadow of doubt as to Germany's intentions has been swept away as war has been ...
Article : 414 wordsAt the London School for Economics on Friday, Mr. E. Hutchoock (of the Raw Material Branch of the War Office) read a paper on the importance of Imperial wool. ...
Article : 195 wordsAdvices from Paris state that the first American ship from the United States to enter the submarine zone has arrived secretly in French waters. The vessel was ...
Article : 48 wordsAn Italian official communique issued last night states:—"The enemy seized an outpost at Coldilano, but in a counter attack we drove them out, taking prisoners. ...
Article : 55 wordsThe "Cologne Gazette" alleges:—"The British are attempting to persuade neutral captains to carry poisonous food for the purpose of destroying submarine crews ...
Article : 51 wordsHis Excellency the Governor, Major General Sir Harry Barron, was the guest of the Naval and Military Club on Friday night at a farewell gathering. The ...
Article : 960 wordsThe Government has drawn up a reply to the Entente Powers, and in this it promises to agree to the appointment of a committee of two Entente representatives, ...
Article : 55 wordsThere are signs of uneasiness at President Wilson's action in meeting the submarine menace. A hot debate took place yesterday in the Senate, where the ...
Article : 290 wordsThe Anglo Hellenig League states that 8,000 Greek troops interned in Germany are in a pitiable plight, Some of them are compelled to beg in the streets, and others ...
Article : 59 wordsA short supply of potatoes in London yesterday led to the selling of restricted quantities in many districts. Wholesale dealers attribute the shortage to army ...
Article : 166 wordsThe police yesterday tracked down a German agent who had lately been operating at Cartagena. They effected a timely capture, as the man was about to motor ...
Article : 94 wordsThe German Legation states, in order to prevent the forming of wrong impressions, that the seven torpedoed Dutch vessels were previously aware that they could ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Rio de Janeiro correspondent of the "Observer" reports that an armed band of Germans, apparently sailors, who were interned in Argentina, recently crossed the ...
Article : 41 wordsMr. Arthur Lee, Director-General of Food Production, when interviewed yesterday, said that agriculture was the most vital and most important of our national ...
Article : 57 wordsA German officer, in a pessimistic war article in a students' newspaper, states:— "The time for happy nights and jolly beer parties is over, and the Pieroots waltz has ...
Article : 58 wordsThe latest British ships sunk by German submarines are:—S.s. Trojan Prince (3,196 tons), s.s. Grenadier (1,004 tons), s.s. Wathfield (3,012 tons), s.s. Belgier 5,588 tons), ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Lord Mayor of London has adopted a meatless day. ...
Article : 16 wordsThe German propagandists are flooding the mails with bitter anonymous attacks upon the American Government, and they are also denouncing the Entente, Similar ...
Article : 42 wordsIt is reported that the Archduke Friedrich has been imprisoned in a palace in Vienna owing to a Secret Military Court having found him responsible for the ...
Article : 41 wordsA leading English brewer stated to an interviewer on Friday that the proposal to reduce the output of beer from 18,200,000 barrels to 10,000,000 barrels would be a ...
Article : 82 wordsAn official announcement states that the Messageries Maritimes mail steamer Athos, bound from China to France and transporting Senegalese, Tirailleurus, and ...
Article : 110 wordsThe "Providence Journal" says high officials have intercepted letters showing that spy plots now being investigated embraced a scheme of frightfulness, including plans ...
Article : 39 wordsA Mesopotamia official communique received here states:—We secured and consolidated two lines of trenches at the southern end of the Sanna I Yat position. ...
Article : 48 wordsSpeaking yesterday at a meeting of the Newspaper Fund, Lord Burnham said he feared that the cutting down of paper supplies would mean less employment for ...
Article : 49 wordsThe editor of the London "Economist" stated to the representative of the "New York Times" yesterday:—"If America, with her great wealth, joins the Allies she will ...
Article : 74 wordsA despatch received here states:—The food ration in Berlin, which has been reduced until March 15, includes one egg monthly. ...
Article : 51 wordsThe "Echo de Paris" states that between the 1st inst. and last Monday the French fought 22 enemy submarines. Several of the latter went down, and failed to ...
Article : 66 wordsThe King and Queen yesterday entertained the following wounded officers at Buckingham Palace:— Australians. — Lieut.-Colonel Flintoff, ...
Article : 107 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" reports:—"The French authorities on Friday arrested on the frontier three men who were accompanying Mr. ...
Article : 122 words"Le Journal's" correspondent states:—The German losses are heavy considering the nature of the actions. One battalion at Miraumont lost 40 per cent. of ...
Article : 89 wordsThe German submarine B30 became stranded on the Zealand coast on Friday. but it did not suffer any damage. It was towed to Flushing, and its crew of ...
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Advertising : 59 wordsThe New Zealanders from Codford camp beat the New Zealanders from Hornchurch by 17 points to 8 points in a Rugby football match yesterday. Roberts (an ...
Article : 132 wordsPrisoners' statements, together with Russian scouts' information, indicate that the Germans lost an army corps in the Riga operations in January. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe captain of a Dutch trawler in the North Sea on Thursday noticed what appeared to be a floating German water plane, but which proved to be a sham ...
Article : 62 wordsYesterday 1,000 food rioters stormed the Waldori Astoria Hotel. Fifty of them were trampled upon and injured. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 26 Feb 1917, Page 7
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