The Socialist coup in Finland makes the news from Russia fragmentary, but the reports disclose appalling chaos there. The northern part of Russia is dominated by ...
Article : 211 wordsMr. Lloyd George's justification of his Paris speech to-day in the House of Commons is eagerly awaited. It is understood that Mr. Bonar Law will formally move the ...
Article : 344 wordsIt is officially announced from the British headquarters in Palestine:—"The Australian and New Zealand mounted men on Saturday occupied Jaffa without ...
Article : 273 words"We are up against it, our backs are set to the wall. We are at the crisis of this fearful war, and it is a crisis for Australia also." In this way the Minister for the ...
Article : 132 wordsDelegates to the Interstate Forestery Conference sat at the Technical School again yesterday morning when chief consideration was given to a paper by Mr. N. W. ...
Article : 2,568 wordsRecruiting last week in the four States for which returns were available to-day showed an encouraging improvement as compared with the previous week. The ...
Article : 42 wordsNews has been received the Trcoper Albert Cotter was killed in action on October 30. He was one of the most consistent of the State's leading cricketers. At ...
Article : 86 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) left for Adelaide this afternoon to open the reinforcements referendum campaign there to-morrow night. He will return to ...
Article : 67 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle's" Petrograd correspondent states that fighting at Moscow began on October 10 and lasted a week. A committee of public safety, consisting of ...
Article : 250 wordsFurther arrangements for the conduct of the campaign of the reinforcements referendum were made at a meeting of the council of the Victorian division to-day. It ...
Article : 126 wordsThe 354th casualty list was released by the Censor yesterday, and is published below. It contains the names of Western Australian soldiers, together with those who ...
Article : 714 wordsThe Berlin "Vossiche Zeitung' says:—"The British conquest of Palestine is of the greatest strategic and political value, as it protest the Suez Canal and assures ...
Article : 153 wordsThe "World" remarks:—"No good oan come of Lord Northcliffe's criticism of the British Prime Minister. Would the downfall of Mr. Lloyd George help the war? ...
Article : 270 wordsSome doubt seems to exist as to the age at which a man would cease to be liabel to be called up under the Government's proposals. A. Correspodent has asked the ...
Article : 98 wordsM. Edstroen, president of the Swedish Electric Company, has returned from Petrograd, and states that he saw nothing of the bloody fighting chronicled in the ...
Article : 55 wordsAccording to the "Encyclopaedia Bristannica" a German colony was established at Jaffa in 1869. The colonists built two villages, one just outside the town, and ...
Article : 115 wordsAn important amendment of the War Precautions Military Service Referendum Regulations, gazetted to-night, deals with false statements made during the ...
Article : 277 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle's" Petrograd correspondent telegraphed on Sunday night that a large force was approaching Petrograd, its purpose being unknown. Another ...
Article : 72 wordsDespatches from London state that America insists upon a unified control of the war on the part of the Allies. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe following official bulletins have been issued:— London, November 18 (12.35 p.m.).—"The Lancashires and Highlanders made a ...
Article : 328 wordsPresident Wilson has sent the following message to King Albert of Belgium:—"I renew my sympathy with the sufferings the Belgians have endured under a wilful, ...
Article : 86 wordsMr. and Mrs. Kendall, of Sawyer's Valley, have received word that their son, Private J. H. Kendall, late of the Claremont Training College, has been wounded in France. ...
Article : 347 wordsA wireless Russian official notification signed by General Duklonin, the new chief of the Russian Military Staff, has been issued at Petrograd. He states that ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) stated to-day that special machinery was being provided at the Defence Department to answer inquiries concerning the ...
Article : 66 wordsA Petrograd message of the 13th inst. states that the railwaymen declared against Mr. Kerensky and demanded his surrender They desire a coalition ...
Article : 60 wordsThe President, in a letter to the United States Loyalty League, states:—"The war demands sacrifice and service from every class, party, and creed. Every ...
Article : 66 wordsMr. Tolmie (the Leader of the Opposition) wrote to the Premier (Mr. Ryan) to-day. suggesting that the House be adjourned until a date early in the new ...
Article : 126 wordsDescribed by Mr. Justice Gordon as an unmitigated scoundrel. Edward Broughton Wilson (37) was sentenced to two years' imprisonment at the Criminal Court ...
Article : 214 wordsAccording to the United Press Association's correspondent at Tokio, Kazuye Shoda, the Japanese Minister for Finance. declared that the sending of Japanese ...
Article : 80 wordsThe British Admiralty issued the following report on Sunday afternoon:—"There is no further information regarding the Heligoland Bright operations beyond the ...
Article : 157 wordsMr. W. F. A. Larcombe, ex-commissioner of the Australian Comforts' Fund (of which the Victoria League of Western Australia is the Western Australia division) writers:— ...
Article : 445 wordsA largely attended meeting of the organising committee of the Reinforcements Referendum Council was held at St. George's House last night under the chairmanship ...
Article : 141 wordsA general prohibition of exports of Danish goods will be shortly decreed. This will enable the Government to control them in order, firstly, to ensure better ...
Article : 59 wordsThe United Press Association's correspondent with the British armies states that newspapers found on recently captured Germans show that Germany is preparing the ...
Article : 53 wordsThere was an unexpected development this morning in the case in the High Court at Darlinghurst concerning the sale of the racehorse Quinologist. Mr. Shand, ...
Article : 208 wordsM. Clemencean's paper has re-appeared with the title of "L'Homms Libre ("The Free Man"). [The paper was formerly known as ...
Article : 31 wordsThe following Italian official report was issued on Sunday:—"We completely broke up four attacks of extreme violence in the direction of Zomo and eastward of Gallio. ...
Article : 226 wordsA naval cannonade was heard for two hours, and concusion broke many windows in coastal towns. [A Copenhagen message published ...
Article : 83 wordsThe organising committee of the Anti-Conscription League decided last night to open its campaign during the present week, at a place and time to be announced later ...
Article : 84 wordsHonours have been awarded to Australians as follow:—Bar to the Distinguished Service Order: Colonel J. C. Steamer. Distinguished Service Order: Lieut-Colonels N. ...
Article : 284 wordsMrs. Anstey of Roelands, Toodyay, has received from a few comrades of her late brother Sergeant John Walker (late of Millars') an appreciation of his heroic work ...
Article : 952 wordsIt is believed that the American steamer Kansas City, 3,679 tons, has been lost. She has been missing since September 5, when she became separated from her convoy. ...
Article : 36 wordsAt a meeting of the newly-formed Mining and General Workers' Union to-night, the question of conscription was discussed, and it was resolved:—"That this union affirms ...
Article : 132 wordsThe Distinguished Service Order has been conferred upon Lieut.-Commander Frank Worsley, and the Distinguished Service Cross on Lieut. Joseph Stephouse, both ...
Article : 37 wordsAdditional particulars were given to-day by the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) concerning the 14 wooden steamers which are being built in America for the ...
Article : 108 wordsThe estate of the late J. D. Ormond, equatter and racehorse owner, has been valued for probate at £450,000. ...
Article : 25 wordsMr. Daniels, Secertary for the Navy, says:—"Ships will win the war, but the output must be increased, otherwise we will not get the requisite cargoes and foodstuffs ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Tue 20 Nov 1917, Page 5
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