A wireless Russian official message received yesterday afternoon stated: "General Kornitoff's offensive continues, despite an energetic resistance and stubborn ...
Article : 723 wordsA secret session of the House of Commons was held on Monday to consider the problem of air raids. The Premier (Mr. Lloyd George) stated ...
Article : 833 wordsField-Marshal Haig reported yesterday morning:—"We advanced our line slightly last night east of Costtamerne, and successfully raided German trenches south of ...
Article : 475 wordsThe second session of the seventh Commonwealth Parliament was opened to-day for the despatch of public business. The proceedings commenced with the meeting of ...
Article : 1,493 wordsThe "Petit Parisien" says:—"In the event of the Reichstag's majority becoming weakened, Hindenburg and Lodendorff will be summoned to the Reichstag, and whatever ...
Article : 78 wordsGerman telegrams show that the renewal of the disorders in the industrial centres is causing great anxiety in official circles. The working classes are indignant at the ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Stockholm correspondent of the "Evening Mail" predicts that a coalition Ministry will be formed in Germany, as the demand for democratic reform is so ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Admiralty Commodore at Lowestoft reports that on Monday evening the armed trawler Iceland destroyed two enemy sea-planes, and brought four prisoners to port. ...
Article : 76 wordsInformation as to the present addresses of the next-of-kin of the undermentioned soldiers is desired by the Military Department:— ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Messageries Maritimes liner Caledonien (4,140 tons) was sunk in the Eastern Mediterranean on June 30, either by a mine or a torpedo. Out of 431 persons who were ...
Article : 94 wordsSergeant Gallois, the bero of the recent aeroplane bombardment of Essen, tells a thrilling narrative of his 500 miles flight, which occupied seven hours. He started at ...
Article : 140 wordsAlthough farewells to soldiers at the Midland Junction workshops are now held much less frequently than in the earlier months of the war, the reason is to be ...
Article : 248 wordsDenmark has applied for a licence for the export of meal cakes from the United States, and the Exports Council has withheld its decision until Denmark proves that ...
Article : 77 wordsA wireless German official report intercepted by the Admiralty yesterday stated: "Artillery duels of very great intensity took place to-day in the coast of Ypres ...
Article : 63 wordsTwo Dutch factory foremen from Essen state that at the time of the raid the workmen were half undressed. The local police had given warning that night ...
Article : 216 wordsThe 321st and 322nd casualty lists were released by the Censor yesterday, and is published below. They contain the names of Western Australian soldiers, together ...
Article : 897 wordsLord Northcliffe, addressing the Overseas Club yesterday, paid a tribute to the war efforts of Australia and the other dominions. The British, he said, were ...
Article : 91 wordsMr. E. M. Clarke, M.L.C., of Bunbury, has received a notification from the military authorities that his son, Lieutenant Ray Clarke, has been dangerously wounded. A ...
Article : 664 wordsThere are already three or four large temporary crosses erected to the memory of the Australians who fell around Pozieres and another is in course of construction. ...
Article : 43 wordsThe doctors are investigating a puzzling yellow powder from the German bombs. It is causing dermatis, which appears after nine days. The trouble yields to ...
Article : 61 wordsGermany is undergoing a political crisis of the first magnitude. It commenced on Friday when the Socialists sent a deputation to Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg and ...
Article : 529 wordsThe Berlin "Vossiche Zeitung" correspondent in Galicia, in describing the latest fighting, states that the Russian heavy artillery, which was very strong in the ...
Article : 74 wordsGeneral Petain (states a Paris correspondent, writing on May 15) stands out preminently in France as a leader who has gained the complete confidence of the ...
Article : 713 wordsSimpsous, of the Strand, were fined £45 yesterday for allowing the consumption of more than the allotted quantity of meat. ...
Article : 30 wordsA Berlin message admits that the Russians have smashed the German front at Stanislan. Yesterday evening's German official report ...
Article : 60 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday, Mr. Bonar Law (Chancellor of the Exchequer) announced that a Government statement would be made to-day with respect to the ...
Article : 33 wordsMr. Rudyard Kipling. in a poem in the "Morning Post." bitingly denouncing the Mesopotamian horrors says that dead heroes cannot return, and he asks whether or not ...
Article : 62 wordsA German official report issued yesterday stated:—"The enemy during June, lost 220 aeroplaned and 33 captive balloons, while we lost 68 aeroplanes and three balloons." ...
Article : 33 wordsAt an inquest held yesterday on the body of Wilfred Saimon, of the Royal Flying Corps, who was killed in Saturday's raid, the verdict was that Salmon died ...
Article : 210 wordsIn the House of Lords yesterday the Earl of Dunraven asked whether or not it was a fact that wounded soldiers at Salonika were accommodated in huts and tents ...
Article : 171 wordsLieutenant Aidan Chavasse, youngest son of the Bishop of Liverpool, was shot yesterday while on Patrol duty. He was recently awarded the Victoria Cross for five ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Empire Parliamentary Association privately entertained Mr. W. A. Holman (Premier of New South Wales) at luncheon in the House of Commons yesterday. ...
Article : 123 wordsMrs. May V. Clarke, of 204 Brown-street, East Perth, has received word that her husband, Sapper W. J. A. Clarke, has been mentioned in despatches for conspicuous ...
Article : 1,091 wordsAt the inquest upon the air raid victims yesterday, the Coroner said that the authorities took all steps apparently that they could take to combat these raids, but ...
Article : 64 wordsA great sensation has been caused at Florence, where the police arrested Vitorio, a spy. The arrest led yesterday to a lively scene in the Chamber of Deputies, ...
Article : 77 wordsThe "Gazette" notifies that Second-Lieu-tenant H. G. Douglas, of the Australian Infantry, has been dismissed from the service by a general court-martial. ...
Article : 31 wordsMany gatherings of the German political parties and groups have apparently resulted in a compromise formula which was introduced in a full session of the Reichstag ...
Article : 158 wordsThough a clerical error, the Speaker of the House of Commons (Mr. J. W. Lowther) was recently called up under the national service regulations to labour in some ...
Article : 60 wordsAnti-German disturbances continue in the East End and other parts. Two baker's shops at Holloway were sacked yesterday Women carried stones in their aprons, and ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Thu 12 Jul 1917, Page 7
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