The Norwegian steamer Maidag has been torpedoed, three of the crew being lost. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe final rally in furtherance of the "Yes" vote at to-day's referendum took place at His Majesty's Theatre last evening. Mr. W. Leslie, chairman of the ...
Article : 2,552 wordsThe Canadian newspapers, with the exception of those of Quebee, welcome the result of the general election as a great moral upheaval of the national conscience. ...
Article : 317 wordsIt is understood that the enemy has transferred the whole of his aerial forces from Russia to the Italian front. Nevertheless, the superiority remains with the Italians. ...
Article : 59 wordsAt an influential meeting held here yesterday resolutions were carried urging Argentina to declare war against Germany. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe following official despatches have been issued:— London, Dec. 18 (12.45 p.m.).—"There is nothing to report." ...
Article : 128 wordsIn a final appeal to the electors issued this evening, the Prime Minister states: Fellow Citizens,—In this hour of your country's peril I urge you to do ...
Article : 97 wordsThe Government has made a further protest to Germany concerning the obstacles to navigation with Britain, which it is placing in the way. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe United States Senate, which adopted prohibition last year, has concurred with the proposals which have been carried in the House of Representatives. ...
Article : 76 wordsTwo American submarines collided in home waters, and one sank, nineteen lives being lost. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe following wireless German official message was intercepted by the British Admiralty:—"There was lively artillery fire between the Brenta and the Piave Rivers. ...
Article : 59 wordsThe text of the armistice has been published in Vienna, and shows that the armistice will extend from noon on November 17 to noon on January 14. The Allies in ...
Article : 286 wordsThe 10th Light Horse Comfort Depot will be closed from December 22 until January 9, but the general and executive meetings will be held as arranged on ...
Article : 413 wordsMr. Alfred Deakin, whose condition of health precluded him taking an active part in the referendum campaign, has issued the following appeal for a "Yes" ...
Article : 160 wordsMr. John Pierpont Morgan, the wellknown financier, has presented to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York his father's famous art collection of three ...
Article : 49 wordsAn Italian official despatch issued to-day says:—"The enemy launched attacks from the north-east and the north against the salient at Monte Solarolo. The ...
Article : 53 wordsMr. Gilmour (a representative of the Australian and New Zealand Press Association) telegraphs:—"I visited the New Zealand front in a sector which is already ...
Article : 345 wordsIt is believed that a "shaking up" of the army staff departments is impending. It is reported that Major-General George W. Goethals (formerly Governor of the ...
Article : 136 wordsThe following honours have been awarded:— Bar to Military Medal.—Australians: Sergeants A. Cormack, C. Falkiner, T. R. ...
Article : 411 wordsThe New York evening papers are jubilant over Sir Robert Borden's victory, and quote it as another instance of the determination of the British colonies to throw ...
Article : 42 wordsA note of warning regarding Australia's position as one of the Powers of the Pacific was sounded by the Premier (Mr. Holman), who addressed a huge ...
Article : 202 wordsA bomb wrecked a portion of Governor Stephens's home, the Governor having a narrow escape from serious injury or death. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe "Morning Post" says that Canada's example should inspirit the whole Empire. The Dominion has demonstrated her loyalty to the common cause. Canada's example ...
Article : 146 wordsOwing to the lack of rolling stock, the military authorities have seized large numbers of tramcars in Munich. Strassburg, and Mayence for military transport ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the New York "Sun" interviewed M. Trotsky (M. Lenin's Foreign Secretary), who said:—"The Bolsheviks are the only powerful ...
Article : 151 wordsThe "Osservatore Romano" (the journalistic organ of the Vatican) protests against attempts which are being made to drag the Holy Se[?] into the Caillaux affair. It ...
Article : 55 wordsA representative of the Australian and New Zealand Press Association visited Paris recently, and met there many Australian soldiers who were on leave under the new ...
Article : 150 wordsMrs. Power of Brent House, Railway-crescent; Bayswater, has received word that her [?]. Private Stanley Gordon Power, who is suffering from trench feet, is in the Birmingham ...
Article : 184 wordsThe Prime Minister has received the following cable message from the Prime Minister of Canada (Sir Robert Borden):—"In yesterday's election the enforcement of ...
Article : 163 wordsMessages received from Lisbon say that German influence played no part in the recent revolution. The new Government of Portugal adheres to the Allied cause. ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Premier (Mr. H. B. Lefroy) yesterday issued to the Press the following final appeal for a "Yes" majority:— The people of Western Australia are ...
Article : 202 wordsBaron von Kuehlmann (German Minister for Foreign Affairs) and Count Czernin (Austrian Minister for Foreign Affairs) are proceeding to Brestlitovsk, in connection ...
Article : 34 wordsThe 373rd casualty list was released by the Censor last night, and is published below. It contains the names of Western Australian soldiers, together with those ...
Article : 728 wordsColonel E. M. House (confidential adviser of President Wilson, and chief of the American mission which visited Europe recently), has informed the State ...
Article : 72 wordsThe "Manchester Guardian" believes that the new man-power proposals are so drastic that the Government might feel unable to enforce them without an appeal to the ...
Article : 62 wordsJess Willard, champion heavyweight boxer of the world, offers to defend the title against any challenger, provided the entire proceeds are devoted to Red Cross ...
Article : 33 wordsThe German newspapers, in welcoming the armistice, adjure the Government, not to manifest any puerile spirit or sentimentality during the negotiations, but to exact ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 206 wordsThe authorities are arranging to employ experienced Australian convalescents for trapping rabbits in the crowded warrens in the woods in England. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Full Court, consisting of the Chief Justice (Sir Robert McMillan) and Mr. Justice Rooth, gave judgment yesterday in the following appeal cases, Mr. Justice ...
Article : 518 wordsThe special correspondent of the United Press Association (U.S.A.), at the British Headquarters in France, points out that the Rhine-Rhone C[?]nal sector, where heavy ...
Article : 55 wordsOn January 1, 1916, the national debt of Russia was reported to amount to £1,680,000,000, approximately, but how much of this is held abroad is not ...
Article : 268 wordsSir L. Chiozza Money (Parliamentary Secretary to the Controller of Shipping) mentioned in the House of Commons last night that five British steamers were damaged in ...
Article : 46 wordsAn important deputation from the Coal and Shale Employees' Federation waited upon the Premier (Mr. Holman) and Minister for Labour (Mr. Beeby) to discuss ...
Article : 249 wordsConsiderable interest is being taken here in Captain Persius's r[?]terated statement in the Berlin "Tageblatt" to the effect that there is no justification for the ...
Article : 140 wordsLord Rhonda (the Food Controller) in a speech which he delivered last evening in Islington (London) said that every food queue centre was possible of mischief, and ...
Article : 169 wordsSir,—I am desired by the committee of management of the S.P.C.A. to ask if you would be good enough to publish in your paper a request on behalf of animals ...
Article : 247 wordsIt is stated that experts are highly gratified at a new device for the destruction of submarines. Based upon actual results within the past fortnight, experts ...
Article : 61 wordsLord Montagu of Beaulieu, in an interview here, said that Britain was now producing aeroplanes carrying as many bombs as Zeppelins. These machines were ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Pope is issuing an encyclical in connection with the delievery of Jerusalem, decreeing that thanks be given to God, even in enemy countries. ...
Article : 174 wordsBeginning on January 7, special trains will be provided for the carriage of goods between Melbourne and Adelaide, Kalgoorlie and Perth. This decision has been ...
Article : 250 wordsThe Copenhagen correspondent of the London "Morning Post" reports:—"The survivors from the steamship Maracaibo, which was bound to a Danish port with a cargo ...
Article : 268 wordsAn official report says that enemy aeroplanes crossed the Kent and Essex coasts at 6.15 p.m. yesterday. Some reached the London district and dropped bombs. They ...
Article : 199 wordsThe Home Secretary (Mr. Huxham) yesterday stated, in reply to a question, that Mr. Anderson, superintendent of the Federal Police Force in Brisbane, had paid him ...
Article : 152 wordsFull Court.—Before Mr. Justice Burnside and Mr. Justice Rooth, at 10.30: John Silverthorne and another, defendants (appellants),and Bessie de Barnales, plaintiff ...
Article : 114 wordsAn official despatch received from the British Headquarters in Palestine says:— "We seized high ground east of Abudis and south-east of Jerusalem, taking 117 ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Thu 20 Dec 1917, Page 7
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