The following British, French, and German official despatches have been issued:— London, Nov. 26 (1.10p.m.).—"The enemy has not repeated his attacks on the ...
Article : 294 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the London "Morning Post" writes that the fact that M. Lenin has ousted M. Kerensky has not brought peace nearer, because if ...
Article : 289 wordsA Queensland "Government Gazette Extraordinary" was circulated in the streets of Brisbane to-night, in which the Premier, under the heading of "To the Public of ...
Article : 520 wordsMr. Ward Price telegraphs from Italy:—"The snow has come at last, and the mountains are covered with a whirling blizzard of snowflakes, which will soon be deep ...
Article : 208 wordsMr. A. J. Balfour stated in the House of Commons yesterday that his Majesty had permitted him to announce that there was not a vestige of truth in the Hamburg ...
Article : 60 wordsSome 50,000 engineers have struck in Coventry in sympathy with earlier strikers, protesting against the failure to recognise shop stewards. ...
Article : 30 wordsIn connection with the Christmas Cheer Carnival which is being organised for the benefit of soldiers and sailors' children, the secretary of the Soldiers and Sailors' ...
Article : 912 wordsA wireless Russian official message, intercepted by the British Admiralty, reports: "There were fusillades on the northern western, south-western, and Roumanian ...
Article : 55 wordsThe hearing of the charge against Captain Yeates, of having worn unlawfully the New Zealand military uniform, was continued to-day and adjourned. General ...
Article : 270 wordsThe serious shortage of shipping for the purpose of conveying goods from the Eastern States to Western Australia engaged the attention of the Perth Chamber ...
Article : 1,281 wordsAn official despatch received from the British headquarters in Palestine, says:— "General Allenby's advanced patrols were pressed back to the southern bank of the ...
Article : 78 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the London "Daily Chronicle" reports:—"The executive council and the Soviet disagree seriously over the peace proposals. M. Lenin ...
Article : 153 wordsFighting continues in terrible weather conditions, the thermometer showing 10deg. below zero. The reports as to the severity of the enemy losses ...
Article : 89 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs telegraphs from the British Headquarters:—"There is not the slightest doubt that the Germans will make a powerful attempt to regain Bourlon Wood ...
Article : 443 wordsA number of Scandinavian Jews have expressed to the British Government their very great satisfaction at its "noble decision to repatriate the Jews in Palestine," ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Rome correspondent of the New York "Sun" telegraphs that the rapid recovery of the Italians has obviated the necessity for the use of the Anglo-French ...
Article : 48 wordsIn the House of Commons last evening, Mr. A. J. Balfour (Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs) said that neither Britain nor her Allies had replied to the ...
Article : 58 wordsVincent Roberts, a New Zealand trooper. aged 19 years, was charged at Lambeth yesterday with bigamy. Counsel for the prosecution stated that the accused ...
Article : 84 wordsOn November 16 the Governor-General sent the following cable message to the Secretary of State for the Colonies:— "Please convey to General Sir Edmund ...
Article : 138 wordsThere is great excitement over the arrests of ex-Deputy Cavallini and the selfstyled Marchesa Ricca, on charges of espionage. It is alleged that documents ...
Article : 69 wordsReference to the matter was made by the Prime Minister at his meeting in the evening, and the reading of his letter evoked frequent outbursis of cheers. Mr. Hughes ...
Article : 589 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph" understands that the Allies are making a joint protest to the Russian people against the proposed truce, ...
Article : 58 wordsParticulars of the Australian non-commissioned officers and men who were mentioned this morning as having won Victoria Crosses are supplied by the Base Records ...
Article : 232 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the New York "Herald" reports that the American Government intends to multiply the manufacture of tanks, and to develop more ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the New York "World" says that the Russian peace movement is impregnating thoroughly the German soldiers, and will certainly ...
Article : 54 wordsIt is reported from Rio de Janeiro that a U boat is off the Brazilian coast. Orders have been given for all navigation lights to be extinguished. ...
Article : 45 wordsMr. Cyril Brown, the Stockholm correspondent of the New York "World," interviewed M. Kerensky's secretary, M. So[?]ice who said that the Keronsky party ...
Article : 55 wordsAt the expiry of only half of the allotted period the Victory Loan of £30,000,000 has been over-subscribed. [A Canadian correspondent wrote on ...
Article : 203 wordsThe State Department has ordered an inquiry to be made into the torpedoing of the American steamer Schuykill, in the Mediterranean. It is pointed out that this ...
Article : 53 wordsMr. D. R. Francis (the American Ambassador in Petrograd) reports that Petrograd and Berlin are in wireless communication, presumably discussing the peace ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Shipping Board announces that 1,400 vessels of all types have been contracted for or requisitioned, of more than eight million tons dead weight. ...
Article : 53 wordsThe United Press Association's correspondent at headquarters says that Prince Rupprecht's position around Cambrai and Queant is extremely wobbly, notwithstand ...
Article : 211 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) has informed the Treasurer (Sir John Forrest) that he has received a cable message from the commanding officer at ...
Article : 95 wordsThere were huge crowds at the opening of the tank war bond campaign in Trafalgar-square to-day. A tank with guns acock was converted into a bank for the sale of ...
Article : 65 wordsIn the House of Commons last evening Mr. A. J. Balfour (the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs) said that since the fall of the Provisional Government there ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the New York "Herald" telegraphs that the Department of the Navy is fully prepared to send at once a formidable force of ...
Article : 111 wordsFollowing a reference to Archbishop Mannix in a railway carriage between Hawthorn and Glenferrie on November 24, Timothy O'Connor. a middle-aged man, struck ...
Article : 79 wordsFrom Petrograd news comes that the publication of copies of treaties and various other diplomatic documents has not caused any sensation in that city, the ...
Article : 45 wordsIt is announced officially that Lord Rothermere (Harold Sidney Harmsworth) has been appointed president of the Air Council in succession to Lord Cowdray. ...
Article : 31 wordsMr. A. Sarnoe, of Beechboro-read, Bayswater, has received word that his son Harold Francis after being reported missing on April 11, is now reported as having been killed in action ...
Article : 849 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the United Press Association (U.S.A.) reports that President Wilson has received the Bolsheviks' proposal for an armistice with ...
Article : 86 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day the Premier (Mr. Ryan) gave notice that tomorrow he would move:—"That, in the opinion of this House, the action of the ...
Article : 185 wordsMr. Walter Long (the Secretary of State for the Colonies) presided at the reading of Sir John McCall's paper on Land Settlement Within the Empire before the Society of ...
Article : 143 wordsIn the District Court to-day, D. Winter, printer, of Lonsdale-street, Melbourne, was fined £20, with £5 5s. costs, on a charge of having printed a pamphlet headed "The ...
Article : 74 wordsThe London correspondent of the New York York "Tribune" interviewed General Sir F.B. Maurice (Director of Military Operations, British General Staff), who said. "When the ...
Article : 86 wordsIn consequence of the hostility of the public, Herr Kreisler has abandoned his concert. hour, forfeiting there by 85,000 dollars (about £17,000). ...
Article : 97 wordsIt is announced that Tatiana Romanoff, the second daughter of the ex-Czar of Russia, has escaped from Siberia and is now en route across the Pacific to America. ...
Article : 581 wordsJoy bells rang in Sydney to-day in celebration of the breaking of the famous lindenburg Line by the British troops, and the recent victories in Palestine. When 1 ...
Article : 92 wordsThe King telegraphed to Sir Douglas Haig:—"I congratulate you, General Byng, and the troops on the successful British operations in the neighbourhood of ...
Article : 82 wordsMr. W. G. McAdoo (Secretary of the Treasury) has ordered the liquidation of the German fire, marine, and casualties insurance companies in the United States. ...
Article : 34 wordsIn the House of Commons last evening Mr. Bonar Law (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) announced that the new increases in the pay of men in the Navy and the Army ...
Article : 51 wordsThe American Shipping Board is confident of being able to meet Mr. Lloyd George's request for six million tons of shipping by January, 1919. Contracts for ...
Article : 88 wordsThe second sale of enemy shares, being those held in mining companies, was held to-day in the Sydney Stock Exchange. Many lots were withdrawn from sale ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Prime Minister, in the course of a lengthy reply to Mr. Ryan, to-day said:— "The Commonwealth Government is vested with supreme powers to conduct all ...
Article : 584 wordsMajor Endres, who has acted hitherto as the military correspondent of the "Frankfurter Zeitung," seems to have transferred his services to the Munich ...
Article : 212 wordsAt the Tower Bridge Police Court yesterday two Australian soldiers, with Joseph Jones, a dock labourer, were charged with sandbagging and murdering Private Inlay, a ...
Article : 218 wordsMajor-General J. T. Hobbs, C.B., writing on September 30 to Mr. Waldie Forbes, refers to the battle of Polygon Wood, which had just been fought, and describes ...
Article : 292 wordsGeneral Crowder, the Provost-Marshal, in outlining the method of examining 7,500,000 registered men, says that the boards must hold the balance of America's ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Wed 28 Nov 1917, Page 7
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