The following French communique was issued yesterday:—"A German attack yesterday east of Vauxaillon was extremely violent. It was preceded by a fierce ...
Article : 412 wordsA congress of workmen and soldiers councils, representative of the whole of Russia, passed resolutions at Petrograd yesterday expressing confidence in the ...
Article : 54 wordsBeyond the meeting of the Parliamentary National Party in the morning, at which committees were appointed to further the party's interests, there were no ...
Article : 899 wordsA deputation from the conference of Victorian fruit growers, which on Thursday resolved to form a Victorian fruit pool was introduced to-day by Sir Robert ...
Article : 339 wordsThe Montreal correspondent of the "New York Times" reports: "Great progress has been made with shipbuilding in Canada, but there is room for further ...
Article : 102 wordsFar-reaching results from aeroplane production may be expected. Members of the Wilson Cabinet are convinced that acronauties offer the best field for American war ...
Article : 360 wordsFor reasons that so far have not been divulged, the sailings of the P. and O. steamers to Australia have been suspended, and it is understood that after the arrival ...
Article : 684 wordsThe Cossack Congress yesterday demanded firmer measures against the German propaganda and pleaded for the organisation of a distinct Cossack army ready for any ...
Article : 91 wordsThe following cable message from his Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught and the Marquis of Lansdowne has been received by Lady Helen Munro Ferguson:— ...
Article : 242 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle's" Amsterdam correspondent states: "Refugees describe the state of Belgium as economically critical, although the morale of the population is ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the "Daily Express" interviewed M. Terestchanko (Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs) yesterday. The Minister said:— ...
Article : 88 wordsDuring the consideration of the Army Estimates in the House of Commons yesterday, Mr. W. M. R. Pringle (Liberal) raised a debate upon the re-examination of ...
Article : 257 wordsMr. J. O'Grady, M.P. (Labour), speaking in the Queen's Hall yesterday, said the ex-Czar and the reactionaries in Russia would be publicly tried. M. Kerensky (the ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Minister for Home and Territories (Mr. Glynn) announced to-day that although the meat freezing works of Messrs. Vestey Bros. at Darwin had not yet been ...
Article : 160 wordsInformation has been supplied by the Defence Department that invalided soldiers will disembark at Fremantle at 11 a.m. to-morrow (Sunday). The men in the list ...
Article : 180 wordsThe personnel of the commission of business experts which is to be appointed by the Government to investigate and report upon the business side of Defence and Navy ...
Article : 91 wordsExperts anticipate that the vast American air fleet will turn the scale and give the Allies the air supremacy before the spring thus enabling the destruction of the ...
Article : 49 wordsThe London correspondent of the New York "Times" yesterday interviewed Lord Sydenham, who said:—"We can no longer expect a great Russian offensive, which, ...
Article : 110 wordsBaron Moncheur, a Belgian missioner, says that, despite the annihilation of Belgian trade and industry by Germany and the system of deportations which would ...
Article : 72 wordsA return issued by the Defence Department to-day shows that of the first 209,500 members of the Australian Imperial Force the various religions were represented as ...
Article : 143 wordsRecently a regulation under the Post and Telegraph Act was gazetted, which provided that the cheap rate allowed for the postage of printed circulars should apply ...
Article : 120 wordsThe Military Union of Women Volunteers, in a manifesto to the people and the workers, appeals to them to struggle as strongly as possible against the enemy ...
Article : 77 wordsNews has been received that Private S. J. Cottrell, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Cottrell, of King-street, East Fremantle, has been wounded in France. ...
Article : 296 wordsSince April 121,000 recruits have volunteered for the regular army. The President aims at bringing the war strength of the regulars up to 293,000. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Corporation of the City of London has decided to prepare a petition demanding air reprisals against Germany. The Sheriffs will exercise an ancient privilege ...
Article : 107 wordsA wireless German official report intercepted by the Admiralty yesterday afternoon stated:—"Near the coast last night we surprised and attacked the English, ...
Article : 73 wordsThe opposition to the Food Control Bill is weakening. There is some talk of [?] Senate compromise measure including authorisation for the Food Control ...
Article : 38 wordsM. Maklakos, leader of the Cadet Party in the Duma has been appointed Russian Ambassador at Paris. ...
Article : 23 wordsAppended are nominal lists of sick and wounded soldiers returning to Western Australia at an early date. The lists are cabled, and are open to correction on ...
Article : 607 wordsThe Commonwealth Shipping Board held a meeting this afternoon at the Federal Government Offices to consider a number of matters in relation to oversea shipping. ...
Article : 165 wordsA message from Petrograd states that martial law has been proclaimed at Tomsk owing to murders, robberies, and wholesale excesses. Over 2,000 arrests have been ...
Article : 46 wordsThe 314th casualty list was released by the Censor yesterday, and is published below. It contains the names of Western Australian soldiers, together with those ...
Article : 859 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs, in the course of a despatch, says:—"The great battle on the West front blazes with sudden fury at different points, but there is always a ...
Article : 168 wordsThe United Press Association's correspondent with the American Navy abroad states that a United States cruiser recently rammed a submerging German ...
Article : 40 wordsAt the annual meeting of a large catering firm in London yesterday the chairman stated that the increase in food prices since the beginning of the war averaged 97 ...
Article : 65 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday during the discussion of the Conscription Bill the Liberal Whip (Mr. Pardee) appealed to members to ignore party and ...
Article : 82 wordsIt is announced that three million persons subscribed to the Liberty Loan an average of £200 each. ...
Article : 26 wordsA conference at Westminster, comprising 270 delegates, representing 1,286,000 miners, railwaymen, and transport workers, passed a resolution in favour of the summoning ...
Article : 117 wordsThe Milan correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" states:"The brilliant capture of Ortigara by the Italians was a sequel to the capture of Agnella Pass on the 10th ...
Article : 124 wordsThe cessation of rain in the north-eastern aleas is having a marked effect on the rivers, which are now steadily approaching the normal level. With a continuance of the ...
Article : 129 wordsMr. and Mrs. J. E. Tregilles, of Victoria Park, received word by the last mail that their son, Flight-Lieutenant F. E. Tregilles (G.P.O., Perth), has passed his examination ...
Article : 532 wordsThe High Commissioner for Australia (Mr. Andrew Fisher), in the course of his visit to France, traversed the scenes of the recent Australian fighting on the ...
Article : 292 wordsA French patrol vessel yesterday picked up 50 English survivors from a submarined steamer. Another patrol rescued 40 Englishmen, who reported that a German ...
Article : 47 wordsAn extraordinary mistake was made on Wednesday in connection with the presentation of medals for bravery to four Australian soldiers. ...
Article : 453 wordsAlthough cotton trading in Manchester has practically ceased, the mills continue to run, but it is feared that unless prompt measures are taken the raw materials will ...
Article : 140 wordsAt the Adelaide Police Court to-day Henry Kneebone, editor of the "Daily Herald," the Adelaide Labour morning paper, was charged with having printed ...
Article : 92 wordsThe "Cologne Gazette" correspondent with the Austrian army on the Italian frontier states that a battle of extraordinary magnitude has begun along the whole front, ...
Article : 88 wordsThe French shipping figures for the week ended last Sunday were:—Arrivals, 1,028; departures, 1,122; sinkings above 1,600 tons, nil; below 1,600 tons, 75; ...
Article : 66 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday Mr. Macpherson (Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the War Office) said that 137 British medical officers had been killed in ...
Article : 51 wordsHerr Scheidemann (Leader of the German Socialist Majority) and his colleagues have declared their readiness to participate in an international conference at ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 360 wordsBaron Sonnino (Minister for Foreign Affairs) said in the Chamber of Deputies yesterday that Italy edhered to the Allies' war aims respecting Belgium, Serbia, ...
Article : 102 wordsMr. W. A. Holman (Premier of New South Wales) desires to correct the impression that he blamed the Press for the lack of information received in Austraia. He ...
Article : 88 wordsThe German Roman Catholic clergy are straining their efforts to use the Catholic world-wide organisation to secure a German peace. The "Kolnische Volks ...
Article : 45 wordsA correspondent at headquarters says that Welshmen who participated in the savage fighting resulting in the capture of Oostaverne found many German corpses ...
Article : 80 wordsA meeting of the advisory council of the Commonwealth Bureau of Science and Industry will be held in Melbourne on July 9 or 10 with the object of ...
Article : 98 wordsThe "New York Times" states:—"The high Conservative Junker classes in Germany are displaying apathy in connection with the negotiations with Russia, as they ...
Article : 67 wordsA French communique issued last night stated: "The British air service bombed enemy camps and depots between Lake Doinan and the Vardar and on the Struma ...
Article : 88 wordsThe Trade Corporation is offering £2,500,000 of its capital for public subscription. ...
Article : 19 wordsAn Australian Press Association representative visited the Australian Red Cross base at Boulogne recently. He says: "The work has attained a high level of vigour ...
Article : 168 wordsCabinet has decided to relax the beer restrictions and to permit a larger output forthwith. This decision will avert widespread labour discontent. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe hearing was concluded in the County Court to-day of the case in which Myrtle Keane, of Fawkner-street, St. Kilda, claimed £2,000 damages from Thomas Greene, ...
Article : 117 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) stated to-day that he had received the second progress report from the Luxuries Board. He declined, however to give any ...
Article : 82 wordsThe State Council at Geneva has apologised to the Consuls of the Central Powers for the incidents connected with Constantine's arrival. ...
Article : 55 wordsAt a meeting in Queen's Hall yesterday to welcome the returned Labour delegates from Russia. Mr. Hyndman denounced the Independent Labourites for endangering. ...
Article : 71 wordsCertain newspapers assert that M. Zaimis has refused to reconstruct his Cabinet and to convoke the Chamber of Deputies. The persons expelled at the instigation ...
Article : 37 wordsSwedish newspapers report that M. Odier, the Swiss Minister at Petrograd, has been recalled, owing to his connection with the Hoffman episode. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Sat 23 Jun 1917, Page 7
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