A sharp engagement has been fought at Chunglo two miles from Gyang-tse. Fifteen Thibetans were killed while attempting to trap in ambush a small party ...
Article : 132 wordsIt is expected at Neu Chwang that the Japanese at Feng-huang-cheng will operate in the direction of the Lino-Tung peninsula, where the land forces ...
Article : 70 wordsAnother point of difference has sprung up between the General Officer Commanding (Major-General Hutton) and the Minister for Defence (Mr. Dawson). ...
Article : 1,368 wordsSpeaking last evening at a meeting held at the Ozone Hotel, in support of Mr. Casson's candidature for East Perth, Mr. J. W. Croft, one of the Western ...
Article : 3,019 wordsGeneral Kuropatkine reports that two Japanese divisions are at Feng-Huang-Cheng and the vicinity, and another half-way between Feng-Huang-Cheng ...
Article : 39 wordsOne of Mr. Deakin's principal supporters asserted to-day that his chief's decision not to take Cabinet office came as a surprise to the caucus. He then went ...
Article : 171 wordsItaly has assented to the Egyptian portion of the recent Anglo-French agreement. ...
Article : 21 wordsFrench Indo-China has been swept by a most disastrous typhoon. Five thousand persons are known to have been killed. ...
Article : 45 wordsIn the Civil Court to-day Mr. Justice Gordon gave his reserved judgment in the divorce case, O'Loughlin v. O'Loughlin. His Honour said that he had no ...
Article : 125 wordsThose who go down to the sea in sailing vessels do not always expect to meet with pleasant weather and absolute safety throughout the voyage, be it 2,000 ...
Article : 1,027 wordsDuring the past five weeks 736 political arrests have been effected at Odessa and Kherson, in Southern Russia. Among those arrested are 91 ...
Article : 69 wordsA sensational attempt was made to rob the battery of the New Sterling Goldmining Company, at Sterling, last week. After the clean-up the mine manager ...
Article : 201 wordsA cash-box (containing two cheques for sums totalling £328) was found to-day in a sewer in Pitt-street, Collingwood. It had been stolen from a ...
Article : 148 wordsKing Emmanuel of Italy will, it is announced, visit the Kaiser William at Potsdam in August next. ...
Article : 28 wordsConflicting reports of the situation at Port Arthur are current in St. Petersburg. According to one account General ...
Article : 83 wordsOwing to the Cunard Steamship Co. having entered into an agreement with the Hungarian Government to take emigrants to America at special rates, Herr ...
Article : 67 wordsResumed surplus land in the vicinity of the new central railway station was submitted to auction to-day, but the sale was poor, only nine lots being ...
Article : 41 wordsThe fortnightly meeting of the Fremantle Municipal Council was held last evening. There were present: The Mayor (Mr. Frank Cadd), and Crs. ...
Article : 291 wordsA case of plague has been discovered at Breakfast Creek (a suburb of Brisbane). The patient was employed in stables, the fodder in which was supplied ...
Article : 152 wordsGreat Britain and France, unlike several other countries, have decided to refrain from signing Russia's proposed international convention respecting ...
Article : 58 wordsForeigners at Tokio are asking whether the fact of Russia being at war warrants her laying of mines over the whole world's maritime fairway in the ...
Article : 41 wordsThe "Times" correspondent states that the defenders of Port Arthur are in a desperate mood. Realising the hopelessness of the position, they sent ...
Article : 76 wordsProfessor Ernest Rutherford, of the McGill University. Montreal, Canada, and formerly of New Zealand. who is one of the world's most famous investigators ...
Article : 44 wordsGerman crities do not anticipate that Japan's naval losses will interfere with her operations, or generally with the course of the campaign. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe estate of the late John Ewen (of Dunedin), a partner in the firm of Sargood, Son, and Ewen, has been valued at £203,000. ...
Article : 90 wordsThe famous English-bred stallion and Derby winner, Ormonde, formerly owned by the Duke of Westminster, has died in California, U.S.A. ...
Article : 197 wordsThe object of the Japanese daring naval reconnaissance, in the neighbourhood of the entrance to Port Arthur on Friday last was accomplished. But, ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Russians, having at first denied the fact, now admit that the cruiser Bogatyr was stranded in a fog near Vladivostock. ...
Article : 55 wordsNominations for both Houses of the State Parliament closed this evening. The new Legislative Council will consist of 34 members, returned by 17 ...
Article : 336 wordsFull Court.—At 10.30 a.m., before Mr. Justice Parker and Mr. Justice McMillan. Nisi Prius.—At 10.15 a.m., before Mr. ...
Article : 131 wordsOwing to a bilge-pipe having been left open, the cruiser Orel, one of the new ships of Russia's Baltic fleet, filled, and is badly stranded off Kronstadt. ...
Article : 37 wordsThree hundred Russians, after evicting the Corean garrison, occupied KanKow, forty miles north of Gensan, a port of north-eastern Corea. ...
Article : 70 wordsA "Daily Mail" correspondent, telegraphing from St. Petersburg, says it is stated that the Japanese cavalry are supplied with excellent Australian horses ...
Article : 36 wordsThe International Chess Tournament, at Cambridge Springs. Pennsylvania, U.S.A.. which commenced on April 25, is concluded. ...
Article : 188 wordsThe rumours of a supposed sortie from Port Arthur, which have been circulating in St. Petersburg, had their origin apparently in an unofficial version ...
Article : 172 wordsIt is stated at Tokio that the Japanese have captured Kaiping, a port on the railway, a few miles south of Neu Chwang, and are driving the Russians ...
Article : 48 wordsThe "Times" correspondent on board the Fawan reports that General Kuroki halted at Liao Yang to pull his force together for an advance across the heavy ...
Article : 223 wordsMr. Frod. Stone, of Bayswater, announces elsewhere that he has accepted an agency for a splendid stock of fruit trees and plants of various sorts, also ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Tue 24 May 1904, Page 5
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