Reports from Holland state that the Germans continue to withdraw their heavy guns and munitions from Zeebrugge and are destroying the docks at Bruges. ...
Article : 69 wordsThe new Imperial Chancellor, Prince Max of Baden, on Saturday caused a sensation in the Reichstag when he announced that he had sent a Note to President Wilson. ...
Article : 572 wordsThe following official reports have been issued:— BRITISH. London, Oct. 6 (1.40 p.m.),—"There was ...
Article : 929 wordsThe total local war loan subscriptions last night amounted to £244,000. The Tasmanian figures stand at over £300,000, and the Western Australian Central War ...
Article : 766 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs, special correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle," telegraphed from France to-day:—"News of the German suggestion for an armistice caused much ...
Article : 116 wordsIt is understood that the Acting-Minister for the Navy (Mr. Poynton) will afford the secretary of his department (Mr. G. L. MacAndie) an opportunity of gaining ...
Article : 89 wordsMr. Gordon Gilmour special representative of the Australian Press Association, telegraphed from France on Sunday:— "Some of the civilians from Mont Brehain ...
Article : 458 wordsThe Austrian Note to President Wilson says:—"Austro-Hungary has never waged any but a defensive war, and on many occasions has shown a desire to end the ...
Article : 105 wordsCommenting upon the proposal of the Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Watt) to pay half the cost of the support of the dependants of soldiers who are absent ...
Article : 174 wordsA German wireless official message, intercepted by the British Admiralty on Sunday, stated:—"The German battalions fighting in Palestine beside the trusty ...
Article : 55 wordsThe following members of the A.I.F. (list "P") are advised as returning per Wyandra, due to arrive last to-day:—Lieut.-Colonel T. Flintoff, Major H. H. ...
Article : 63 wordsAustria's note to the United States has been received at the Swedish Legation. Mr. Lansing, Secretary of State, and other officials decline to comment until the note ...
Article : 93 wordsThe following additional particulars of the events leading up to the capture of Damascus were contained in a message despatched by Mr. Massey on September 30: ...
Article : 1,029 wordsTo-day the rooms of the association at Boans Limited will be open to receive samples, etc., but no tuition can be given; for the remainder of the week they will ...
Article : 462 wordsThe 431st casualty list is published hereunder. It contains the names of Western Australian soldiers, together with those of soldiers who enlisted elsewhere, but whose ...
Article : 1,085 wordsGeneral Pau, leader of the French Mission, in the course of a speech at the Duntroon Military College to-day, remarked:—"Now that the battle in which ...
Article : 259 wordsThe French artillery severely punished the retreating enemy in the Rheims salient, but the rearguards were apparently well handled, and the Germans only ...
Article : 43 wordsThe liberation of Rheims aroused one of the greatest outbursts of enthusiasm among the troops of the entire war period. There are two Aisne tributaries, the Suippe and ...
Article : 130 wordsA Berlin official message announces that the Kaiser has issued a special order of the day thanking the army and navy "for their brave and gallant defence of the ...
Article : 90 wordsMr. W. T. Massey, writing from Damascus last Thursday, stated:— "General Allenby to-day visited the scene of his army's latest triumph, but ...
Article : 685 wordsIntense interest in Prince Max's speech was evinced in London. The first impression is that the proposals fall far short of the necessities of the case, though the ...
Article : 255 wordsThe Germans have set fire to the town of Laon. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe recent change of title of the Braille Writers' Association to that of the Braille and Advancement Society for the Blind indicates a considerable enlargement of the ...
Article : 812 wordsWar correspondents draw attention to the quiet progress of General Birdwood's Fifth Army in the Lens-Armentieres sector, which is now within three miles of Lille. ...
Article : 46 wordsMrs. E. Treeby, of Jandakot, has been informed that her son, Private E. R. Treeby, has been admitted to the 3rd Southern General Hospital, Oxford, England, suffering from ...
Article : 441 wordsTravellers from Germany state that von Hindenburg, after a heated interview with the Kaiser, resigned. He told the Kaiser that retreat on a big scale was ...
Article : 33 wordsA French eastern communique issued on Sunday stated:—"After a vigorous pursuit of the Austro-German forces, which are retreating in disorder northwards, the ...
Article : 93 wordsMr. G. N. Barnes (Labour member of the War Cabinet), speaking at Manchester yesterday, said:—"Prince Maximilian's proposals show the usual, German cynicism. ...
Article : 137 wordsThe Australian Press Association states that the demobilisation of the Bulgarian forces is proceeding rapidly. The Serbians are fighting Austro-German units. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe British Admiralty has intercepted the following German wireless official message:— Sunday.—"We relinquished our projecting ...
Article : 100 wordsNisi Prius (No. 1 Court).—Before the Chief Justice—In Divorce: Henry Anthony Wittmer (petitioner), Hilda May Wittmer (respondent), Harry Sheddon ...
Article : 110 wordsGeneral Mackensen has renounced the occupation of Dobrudja, which was a Bulgarian occupation, and has retired to the Danube. ...
Article : 74 wordsThe French Premier (M. Clemenceau), when interviewed, said: "Prince Max forgets that President Wilson laid down not only 14 points, but equally emphasised that ...
Article : 275 wordsThe Australian Press Association learns that the Germans were retiring on Saturday and Sunday for a distance or one or two miles on a front of seven miles south ...
Article : 153 wordsAn Italian communique issued in Albania states:—"We progressed towards Elbasan, and have reached Lindas." ...
Article : 22 wordsThe President of the Board of Trade (Sir Albert Stanley) warned the coal owners and colliers at a meeting at Newcastle that it is impossible to release from the ...
Article : 59 wordsThe following wireless message was received from Washington to-day by the American Consul:—"The prices and distribution of all articles of wearing apparel ...
Article : 96 wordsWilliam John Doll, staff sergeant-major attached to the transport unit, Victoria Barracks, and Leonard P. Schiffman, grocer, Port Melbourne, were committed for ...
Article : 48 wordsIn a later message despatched from the British headquarters in Palestine last Saturday, Mr. Massey stated:— "It will take some time to collect all the ...
Article : 355 wordsA bar for the Military Medal has been awarded as follows:— Australians: Sergeants R. E. Batton, C. G. Bishop, G. Fitzgerald, and P. Mortimer; ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Tue 8 Oct 1918, Page 7
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