In Friday morning's despatch Sir Douglas Haig reported:—"We drove off last night two raids north-east of Armentieres." A later despatch stated: "Hostile ...
Article : 330 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" telegraphed on Friday night:—"It is probable that the Socialists in addition to the portfolios will take a ...
Article : 403 wordsThe Admiralty reports:—"Early on Tuesday Austrian light cruisers and destroyers raided the allied drifter line, in the Adriatic, and sank 14 British drifters, ...
Article : 185 wordsThe Senate yesterday passed army and navy appropriations for £668,400,000, without a division. The amount includes £150,000,000 for the taking over of ...
Article : 43 wordsThe German Minister here is attempting to buy 100,000 tons of Argentine wheat in order to decrease the exports to the Allies. ...
Article : 30 wordsMr. Arthur Henderson (Labour member of the War Cabinet), speaking at Richmond yesterday said that there was no immediate prospect of a cessation of hostilities ...
Article : 117 wordsIn the course of a speech in Wesley Church this afternoon, Sir William Irvine said that the one thing necessary for every citizen of Australia to do at the ...
Article : 245 wordsLord Derby (British Secretary of State for War), in an interview with a representative of the United Press Association, says:—"The war will not end until the ...
Article : 178 wordsThe Commonwealth and High Commissioner (Mr. Andrew Fisher) writing to the League to Abolish War, said:—"The determination exists that the war shall be prosecuted to ...
Article : 75 wordsMr. Kennedy Jones, M.P., speaking at Edinburgh, said that, thanks to the Admiralty's ingenuity and our sailors' courage and skill, the war on submarines ...
Article : 68 wordsIt is understood that the British and French missions have suggested the establishment of an allied committee here, to co-operate in the conduct of the war. ...
Article : 52 wordsThe following reports concerning the engineers' strike were issued yesterday:— Seven members of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers have been arrested. ...
Article : 356 wordsAccording to a German newspaper Count Reventlow declares that before Easter Dr. von Bethman-Hollweg (German Imperial Chancellor) and Count Czernin ...
Article : 211 wordsA despatch has been received from the British authorities by the Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) announcing that as most of the Australian soldiers serving ...
Article : 115 wordsThe first United States contingent—a medical unit—has arrived in Great Britain. The commander of the United States contingent states that Americans are crazy ...
Article : 54 wordsThe "Petit Parisien's correspondent on the Italian front reported yesterday: "The battle continues fiercely. The enemy brought up considerable reinforcements by ...
Article : 83 wordsSir Albert Stanley (President of the Board of Trade), in the course of a speech in the Aldwych Club yesterday, said that enemy submarines were an ...
Article : 52 wordsPresident Wilson will ask Congress to appoint Mr. H. C. Hoover to the position of Food Administrator, with the widest control over exports and imports and the ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Press Bureau announced on Friday that the British troopship Cameronia was torpedoed in the Eastern Mediterranean on Tuesday last. One military officer and ...
Article : 141 wordsA military order issued on Saturday provides that half-castes may be enlisted in the Australian Imperial Forces if the examining medical officers are satisfied that ...
Article : 41 wordsThe War Office reports that British heavy artillery is co-operating in the Italian offensive on the Julian front, and affording material assistance. The British ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the "Sun" reports:—"The crisis is past, and there is now no question of Russia's loyalty to the Allies." ...
Article : 33 wordsGerman commercial newspapers are disturbed over America's coming into the war because of the risk of America's supporting the British anti-German Customs union. ...
Article : 30 wordsAn order is published in a special Commonwealth "Gazette" which was issued on Saturday directing that the publication known as "Direct Action," the organ of ...
Article : 122 wordsM. Branting, writing in the "Social Demokraten" says:—"The formula of peace without annexations implies the remodelling of frontiers according to the principle of ...
Article : 84 wordsIt has been learned that the Russian Government is considering the question of the transfer of the capital to Moscow for sentimental and political reasons, and ...
Article : 43 wordsAn Austrian official communique issued yesterday, after declaring that the Italian mass attacks on the Vodice heights on Friday were repulsed, admits that the Italians ...
Article : 50 wordsThe United Press Association asserts that America's participation in the war has incited Japan to greater efforts. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe Central American republics of Honduras and Nicaragua have severed diplomatic relations with Germany. ...
Article : 24 wordsA message from Paris states that, between May 1 and 5 a dozen German submarines were sunk, mainly owing to the British Admiralty's appliances. ...
Article : 37 wordsWhen attempting to retake Roeux on Tuesday the German batteries showered shells at the rate of 60 a minute for sixteen hours. A British officer, describing ...
Article : 198 words"Le Matin" quotes from the "Russkoye Slowo" a revelation made by Count Witte (a former distinguished Foreign Minister) to a journalist at the beginning of the ...
Article : 86 wordsThe "Corriere d'Italia" states:—"The Austraians have ordered civilians to evacuate exposed points on the Italian front. All the Trieste banks are closed, and the ...
Article : 62 wordsWar Precautions Act regulations to cover the appointment of a board to control the importation of luxuries were gazetted on Saturday. These regulations ...
Article : 305 wordsSir Robert Borden (Prime Minister), speaking in the House of Commons, said that he brought back from the Canadians at the front the message, that they must ...
Article : 291 wordsThe King sent the following message to the workers at Vickers, Ltd., at Barrow, at the conclusion of the Royal visit:—I am confident that British workmen will ...
Article : 59 wordsMr. Lloyd George before going for a hard-earned week-end rest added one more to the long list of triumphs he has achieved in the settlement of Labour ...
Article : 1,073 wordsThe Earl of Lytton (Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty) stated in the House of Lords yesterday that some of the new standardised merchants steamers ...
Article : 37 wordsIt is reported that the Austrian losses in the present campaign up to last Tuesday were 12,000 in killed, wounded, and missing. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe French shipping report for the past week gives the following figures:—Arrivals, 952; departures, 991; sunk by enemy submarines, three vessels of over ...
Article : 36 wordsThe case against Major Waldorf Astor (Unionist member for Plymouth) for having accepted Government contracts, was dismissed, with costs for the defendant. ...
Article : 81 wordsA Polish newspaper, describing the May Day incidents are Lodz, states:—"The German infantry fired upon a crowd of Polish workmen who were holding a meeting. A ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Socialist Party has issued a manifesto which demands the abolition of the Senate, the right of Parliament to meet when it chooses, universal suffrage, ...
Article : 68 wordsThere was a noisy debate on the Budget in the Reichstag on Wednesday The Socialists attacked the Government for forcing the soldiers' co-operative societies ...
Article : 50 wordsAdvices from Sweden states that the Anglo-French offensive has provoked deep emotion in Germany owing to the heavy losses, and that a sharp disagreement over ...
Article : 156 wordsA wireless Russian official report received on Friday stated:—"We repulsed a dense attack in the direction of Vladimir Volvnsk, in the region of Shelvov." ...
Article : 108 wordsThe "Frankfurter Zeitung" states that coal cards have been introduced in Munich. Each household is restricted to a dwt. of of coal per week, but single people get ...
Article : 38 wordsCorrespondents at the Austrian headquarters state that the Emperor Karl arrived on the Isonzo front when the Italians were bombarding Monte Gabriele and Monte ...
Article : 48 wordsHerr Cohn in the Reichstag recently hotly denounced the German cruelties in Belgium, Poland and Lithuania. The municipality of Neuhausen passed a resolution ...
Article : 57 wordsThe police and the military raided several East End gambling dens yesterday, secking for military shirkers and absentees. Exciting scenes, with several free fights, ...
Article : 55 wordsBy Executive Council order, notified in the "Commonwealth Gazette" of Saturday, was set out that Francis Thomas Langer, of Jarman Island, Western Australia, ...
Article : 75 wordsM. Branting, presiding at a great international Socialist meeting here on Friday, after paying a tribute to the leaders of the Russian revolution, declared: "It is the ...
Article : 275 wordsSir,—Reference was made in your columns some time ago to the fact that Sergeant L. W. Marshall, of the 28th Battalion, who was a prisoners of war in Aachen, was not ...
Article : 2,293 wordsA Russian wireless message on Friday reported:—"We repulsed a Turkish attack in the direction of Ognot, on the rear of our troops, in the direction of Khanikin. ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Allied commercial conference passed a resolution that the peace treaty should require Germany to replace ships illegally sunk. Resolutions were also carried in ...
Article : 52 wordsThe French people greatly appreciate the British help in restoring the agriculture of the liberated territory. Already 100,000 acres in the Somme department are under ...
Article : 50 wordsMany German newspapers are on the verge of stoppage owing to the scarcity of paper. As most of her exports have been forbidden, Germany cannot import ...
Article : 89 wordsMr. Kennedy Jones stated yesterday that compulsory rationing was not yet necessary, and that the supplies of wheat and wheat substitutes (with the possible ...
Article : 110 wordsFor having wilfully maimed himself, with intent to render himself unfit for service, Private John Dunn, of the 7th reinforcements, 37th Battalion, has been sentenced ...
Article : 48 wordsThe President has fixed June 5 as the date for registration under the Selective Draft Act, which has been passed by Congress. Brigadier-General Pershing, will ...
Article : 398 wordsThe death is announced of General Putnik, ex-Commander-in-chief of the Serbian army. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe latest German attack on the Australian position in the Hindenburg line turns out to have been most carefully prepared. Ten days beforehand a Lehr ...
Article : 179 wordsAt the Railway Institute on Saturday the Perth Station Traffic Employees' Social Club met in honour of Privates A. Pratt, A. Yews, and R. Wolfe, former members of ...
Article : 299 wordsHerr Erzberger, the Leader of the German Centre, speaking at Dusseldorf yesterday, said that his party would never agree to the introduction of the ...
Article : 179 wordsAdvices received in Berlin from a Palestine representative of the German Jews Relief Society admits that Jaffa was evacuated for military reasons, the inhabitants ...
Article : 92 wordsThe Food Controller (Lord Devonport) has reduced manufacturers' allowance of sugar from 40 to 25 per cent of the amount used in 1915. This does not apply to the ...
Article : 97 wordsThe destruction of the Zeppelin L22 off Esbjerg was clearly seen from the Danish coast. The Zeppelin came from the south early in the morning on its usual patrol ...
Article : 115 wordsColoned Sunderland, formerly Chairman of the Bedford Sessions, was fined £100 yesterday for having fed his poultry and pigeons on wheat. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe battle against the fortifications east of Gorizia has been extended, and is proceeding favourably. The Austrian losses amounted to several divisions. Monte ...
Article : 200 words"Vorwaerts" states that representatives of both the minority and majority Socialist Parties have been granted passports to go to the Stockholm Congress. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe "Westfaclische Anzeiger" states:—"We will have shortly to face most disagreeable facts. We can only gradually repair our position in the world's market, ...
Article : 111 wordsThe Finance Bill provides, with regard to the duty on colonial excess profits that where duties are chargeable in the colonies and in England only the higher duty shall ...
Article : 37 wordsThe British official report from Salonika yesterday stated:—"We drove back the enemy's heavy counter-attack on our new positions on the Struma. Our naval air ...
Article : 40 wordsAt Vienna yesterday the trial of Dr. Friedrich Adler (son of the Reichsrath Deputy, Dr. Victor Adler) on a charge of having murdered Count Strength (the ...
Article : 116 wordsVice-Admiral Sir F. Doveton Sturdee (the hero of the Falkland naval engagement) has been promoted to the rank of Admiral, and Rear-Admiral Sir John de Robeck ...
Article : 46 wordsMr. and Mrs. Andrew Geddes, Hillcrest, Yarloop, have been notified that their eldest son, Sergeant A. D. Geddes has been killed in action. He was previously ...
Article : 1,048 wordsThe Socialist Party in the Reichstag has explained that its members recently voted against the Budget because two-thirds of the burden fell upon the lower classes, ...
Article : 45 wordsAn official German wireless message, intercepted on Friday, stated:—"After six days' fighting enemy artillery attacks on both sides of Makovo failed." ...
Article : 28 wordsIt is expected that horse-racing will be practically suspended. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 21 May 1917, Page 7
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