The following official reports have been [?]:— Paris, Aug. 20 (4 p.m.) (from Mershal Foch):—"There have been reciprocal ...
Article : 383 wordsGeneral Sir Julian Byng made a surprise attack on a nine miles front between Albert and Arras, and captured Courcelles and Achiet-le-petit. ...
Article : 37 wordsAmongst the aeroplanes which supported the Australian troops during the British counter offensive were several Australian squadrons. On certain days these were ...
Article : 734 wordsThe 424th casualty list was released last night, and is published hereunder. It contains the names of Western Australian soldiers, together with those of ...
Article : 694 wordsMr. Justice Street, who has been appointed a Royal Commissioner to inquire into certain charges made against the New South Wales police in connection with ...
Article : 979 wordsReports have been received here to the effect that terrible food riots have occurred in Petrograd. After the city had been breadless for two days, a procession of ...
Article : 103 wordsThe Wheat Marketing Commission, presided over by Mr. W. C. Angwin, M.L.A., took further evidence at Parliament House yesterday. ...
Article : 814 wordsGermany has consented to make a large new financial advance to Turkey. ...
Article : 23 wordsAdmiral von Hintze (the German Minister for Foreign Affairs) will receive the Reichstag leaders to-morrow, when he will communicate officially the result of the ...
Article : 193 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the United Press Association reports that official despatches say that the Chinese Government has sent a large number of ...
Article : 148 wordsGeneral P. C. March (the Chief of the American General Staff) told the Committee on Military Affairs that the war could be won in 1919 with an American army. ...
Article : 65 wordsA representative of the United Press Association states that either because the men's fighting spirit is gone or because the high command is deliberately retiring ...
Article : 117 wordsThe Hague correspondent of the London "Central News" assents that the discontent among the members of the working classes in Germany is increasing to a serious ...
Article : 62 wordsThe executive of the American Federation of Labour has protested to the House Military Committee against the provision in the Man-Power Bill compelling persons ...
Article : 79 wordsThe Duke von Leuchtenberg (Romanowsky) formerly the ex-Czar's adjutant, has arrived in Berlin with a letter from the Cossack General Krasnow to the ...
Article : 76 wordsMr. Percival Philips, special correspondent of the "Daily Express" in France, telegraphed yesterday:—"Covered by temporary belts of wire the German Sixth Army ...
Article : 170 wordsThe Rome newspaper "Giornale d'Italia" asserts that "defentain" is progressing in an alarming manner in Germany, and that the popularity of the military idols is ...
Article : 55 wordsMr. Cecil A. Coghlan, solicitor of Sydney, who has just returned from a trip to the United States, said to-day that he had an interview with President Wilson in ...
Article : 226 wordsThe Blackburn and Wolverhampton municipalities, on their own initiative, have given to the tramway women an extra 5s. per week. The strike has spread ...
Article : 311 wordsA manifesto which has been issued by the Czecho-Slovak National Council in Prague outlines the programme for the union of the Czecho-Slovaks as one nation. ...
Article : 77 wordsThe British Official Press Bureau notifies:—Field-Marshal Haig telegraphed as follows to General Sir Henry Rawlinson:—"My warmest congratulations and thanks ...
Article : 151 wordsThe London "Daily Telegraph," discussing the report received from Madrid to the effect that King Ferdinand of Bulgaria is dying, and that the proclamation ...
Article : 242 wordsField-Marshal Haig issued the following communique at 1 o'clock this afternoon:— "The British attacked at 4.55 this morning on a wide front northward of the Ancre ...
Article : 118 wordsThe following American wireless news has been received from Honolulu by the American Consul here:— Washington.—A leading journalist in ...
Article : 248 wordsMr. G. Gilmour the official representative of the Australian Press Association in France, telegraphed on Tuesday:—"We have the Huns cold in the air. ...
Article : 1,017 wordsThe New York "Herald's" correspondent on the American front says that German machine gunners recently threw up their hands, crying "Kamerad." When the ...
Article : 40 wordsLondon, Aug. 20 (10.45 p.m.) (from Field-Marshal Haig):—"Early on Monday morning we very successfully attacked the Phalempin aerodrome, to the south of Lille. ...
Article : 158 wordsIn the Toowoomba Police Court to-day Nelson Campbell McLean was charged with having stolen moneys amounting to £5,422 which had come into his possession on ...
Article : 133 wordsMr. H. W. Nevinson, representative of the "Daily Chronicle" in France, referring to General von Marwitz's order warning the German troops against the Australians' ...
Article : 78 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day the Premier announced that the Government was in a position to announce its proposals for the future management of the wheat ...
Article : 151 wordsMr. Guy Calthrop, the Coal Controller, addressing a conference of the Miners' Federation at Southport yesterday, said that the country was faced with a coal ...
Article : 273 wordsThe following Italian official message was made available last evening:—We repulsed strong attacks on Cornone, and on the southern slopes of Sasso Rosso, inflicting ...
Article : 129 wordsThe following invalids (list "A") are expected to disembark to-day, the time of disembarkation not being evailable:— Lieutenant Garnsworthy, S. Y.; Second ...
Article : 364 wordsThe Frankfort "Gazette" explains the German retreat, and says that the general staff proposes to resume the offensive in the autumn. German strategy, it says, is ...
Article : 41 wordsThe British Admiralty on Tuesday evening intercepted the following wireless German official message:—"We repulsed attacks to the north of Vieux Berquin. We ...
Article : 110 wordsIt has been decided by the military authorities that there is no objection to the wearing of service stripes on civilian clothes by discharged returned officers and ...
Article : 53 wordsThe three keels of vessels which are to be laid at Walsh Island next month will be for steel vessels of 5,500 tons displacement built on the Isherwood principle. ...
Article : 135 wordsPrivate John Costello, a resident of Malvern, and a former member of the 7th Battalion, has been repatriated from Holland. He was taken prisoner at ...
Article : 142 wordsAll the States with the exception of Victoria and New South Wales will share in the allocation of the proceeds of the loan of £4,750,000 which has been raised in ...
Article : 122 wordsThe Directorate of War Propaganda, appointments to which were announced on Tuesday by the Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Watt), will commence operations ...
Article : 135 wordsThe Australian Press Association learned yesterday that General Mangin attacked practically the same front as previously. In spite of the enemy's stubborn ...
Article : 309 wordsAs a result of the meetings of the Imperial War Cabinet in London, Canada now possesses the full control of her overseas troops, except with regard to matters of ...
Article : 84 wordsAt the last meeting of the Metropolitan Hospitals and Kindred Institutions Industrial Union of Workers, it was resolved that delegates be instructed to oppose the ...
Article : 237 wordsThe King has approved of the design of the Gallipoli Star. [According to recent cable messages, the ribbon for the Gallipoli Star to be ...
Article : 120 wordsThere has been hard fighting during the last few days on wide fronts on the Australian portion of the battlefield, but all has been fighting between patrols and not ...
Article : 201 wordsEvidence given at the morgue to-day during the course of the inquest on the body of Charles Jacob Knapp, who committed suicide in the watch-house at ...
Article : 148 wordsInteresting details of the establishment of a lithographic printing press by the Australian Army headquarters are contained in a recent despatch received by the ...
Article : 160 wordsThe French Mission, of which General Pau has been appointed the head, instead of M. Henri Bergson (as announced yesterday) has departed for Australia. ...
Article : 40 wordsY.M.C.A. Military Committee.—At the Y.M.C.A. board meeting on Tuesday evening the military committee's report by Mr. Wm. Pedbury showed that the ...
Article : 207 wordsThe desirableness, or otherwise of an immediate general election being held has been discussed widely. It has been suggested in some quarters that opposition to the ...
Article : 228 wordsFrance has protested strongly against Germany's irregularities in connection with the agreement which was made for an exchange of prisoners of war. Germany— ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Thu 22 Aug 1918, Page 5
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