The following official despatches have been issued:— London, Dec. 21 (1.30 a.m.).—"The enemy raided a post north-east of Hargicourt, and ...
Article : 331 wordsGeneral Kaledin gained a signal victory over the Red Guards at Rostoy (on Lake Nero). The Cossacks took bloody vengeance, transfixing the Red Guards on their ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 429 wordsA Socialist newspaper in Vienna, commenting on Germany's peace proposals, cabled on December 17, declares that Germany seeks to restore the world's situation ...
Article : 175 wordsThe 374th casualty list was released by the Censor on Saturday, and is published below. It contains the names of Western Australian soldiers, together with those ...
Article : 662 wordsThe Admiralty authorities report that the British armed boarding steamer Stephen Furness of Newcastle (1,712 tons, built in 1910) was torpedoed, and sank in the ...
Article : 136 wordsCivil war is developing in the south, notwithstanding the fact what the Rada and the Soviet are negotiating to secure a peaceful settlement. The Bolsheviks have ...
Article : 125 wordsGeneral Sir Ian Hamilton, in a preface to a volume entitled "Dardanelles Despatches." complains that his cable messages were altered and garbled in London, and ...
Article : 92 wordsMr. and Mrs. J. Gilwhite of Lawler-street, Subianco, have received word that their son, Stanley, was wounded on October 1 in the right hand, which is progressing favourably. ...
Article : 55 wordsThe following official bulletins have been issued:— Rome, Dec. 21 (6 p.m.).—"In the region of the Monte Asolone front east of the ...
Article : 140 wordsAn official despatch received from the British headquarters in Palestine says :—"Our troops, having crossed the Nahr-el-Auja at midnight on rafts and light ...
Article : 287 wordsSir,—It is indeed cheering news to all connected with the Collie coal industry to read the assurance given by the Minister for Railways in to-day's issue that "the ...
Article : 1,310 wordsThe London Press Bureau reports that, with the object of abolishing the food queues, Lord Rhondda (the Food Controller) has empowered local committees to control ...
Article : 370 wordsThe Imperial Chancellor (Count' von Hertling) explained at a confidential meeting of representatives the lines on which Germany would conduct the peace ...
Article : 57 wordsLord Willoughby de Broke, speaking at the Colonial Institute on Friday, said that when the settlement came he hoped that Britain would never consent to hand back ...
Article : 81 wordsMr. Price, the war correspondent, telegraphs that the House broke up in an uproad when Signor Pirolini compared M. Caillaux with Signor Giolitti (an ...
Article : 142 wordsPrivate messages received through Finland from Petrograd indicate that the Bolshevik regime is shaky. Several of the leaders have left Petrograd, and M. Lenin ...
Article : 205 wordsMr. Lloyd George's statement regarding the control of conquered enemy territory has been contrasted with Mr. Walter Long's emphatic pronouncement in J[?] ...
Article : 107 wordsM. Joseph Reinach, writing in the "Figaro," estimates that the Germans are withdrawing fifty divisions from the Russian front, representing 500,000 men, and ...
Article : 63 wordsA disturbance took place in the Chamber of Deputies on Thursday when the Republican Deputy, Signor Pirolini, denounced the espionage which was still ...
Article : 76 wordsGermany has appointed Dr. Haber to be Governor of New Guinea. The newspapers rejoice at the appointment as an indication that Germany is not going to renounce her ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 218 words"Don't write too much about peace. Only victory leads to peace," said General von Ludendorff (the Chief of the German Military Staff) to a party of journalists at the ...
Article : 76 wordsThe British War Office notifies that the Arabs, under the King of Hejaz's son, destroyed a troop train south of Tebuk, killing or capturing the whole of a Turkish ...
Article : 143 wordsMr. Douglas McLean, a New Zealander, entertained yesterday the widows and orphans of the fighters who fell at Mons, the Marne, and Ypres. The function took place ...
Article : 57 wordsDr. Harold Williams, the Petrograd correspondent of the London "Daily Chronicle," reports that the Bolsheviks are convinced that the revolutionary ...
Article : 109 wordsA Swiss correspondent reports that a German of high rank said recently that Germany was delaying the peace negotiations with Russia, as the onerous conditions ...
Article : 176 wordsIn answer to an appeal made to Canada by General Sir Arthur Currie (commanding the Canadians in France) to send reinforcements, a number of army and navy ...
Article : 257 wordsThe Minister for Munitions, speaking in the Chamber of Deputies on Friday, announced that after the October reverse 3,500 factories had been worked at full speed, ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Ministry for Munitions is taking control of tin, as a metal required for use in connection with the war. ...
Article : 35 wordsMr. W. T. Massey, the official representative with the British forces in Palestine, states that owing to the vigorous progress of the Welsh and home counties' troops ...
Article : 367 wordsIn the Austrian Reichsrath, the Minister for War said that the offensive against Italy had been delayed owing to treachery on the part of some Czechs. It had been ...
Article : 92 wordsAn Australian corporal, who was an instructor in the working of the Lewis gun, has been committed for trial at the Wiltshire Assizes on the charge of having ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the London "Daily Chronicle" says that drunken disorders continue in that city. The Soviet has prohibited open-air ...
Article : 100 wordsHerr Nemans Bernstein, who obtained the celebrated "Willy-Nicky" correspondence between the Kaiser and the Czar, has given the New York "Herald" the report of an ...
Article : 255 wordsMr. G. Ward Price, the British official war correspondent at the Italian front, says that the capture of Monte Asolone is unwelcome news, but not important, except that ...
Article : 100 wordsMr. Lloyd George, in a letter to the War Agricultural Committee, says that the struggle is now largely one of tonnage. "Nothing else can beat us, and nothing ...
Article : 286 wordsA special correspondent of the United Press Association (U.S.A.) says, that the army post office—the soldiers' Santa Claus —has done a very large war handling, ...
Article : 95 wordsM. Trotsky (the Bolshevik Minister for Foreign Affairs), in a speech which he delivered yesterday said that Russia, intended to proceed with the peace ...
Article : 65 wordsThe following letters having reference to her late husband have been received by Mrs. B. J. Stubbs, of Subiaco:—"France, October 7, 1917.—Dear Mrs. ...
Article : 837 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the New York "Times" reports that the Department of State has, with the concurrence of Argentina, published 38 cable messages ...
Article : 275 wordsThe Stockholm correspondent of the London "Morning Post" writes that telegrams received from Petrograd notify that leaflets have been distributed among the ...
Article : 50 wordsIn the House of Commons Mr. J. C. Wedgewood (Liberal, Newcastle-under-Lynne) asserted that the House had a right to consider three points with ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 14 wordsCount Reventlow, the notorious pan-German journalist, in an article in the "Deutsche Tageszertung,' warns Baron von Kuehmann (the German Minister for ...
Article : 68 wordsIt has been ascertained from an authoritative source that there is every reason to suppose that the downward tendency in the curve on the official diagram showing ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 158 wordsA serious fire has broken out at Krupp's works at Essen, and the Dutch workers have left for the frontier. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe local food committees in seven London suburbs have commandeered the surplus margarine at the "multiple" shops, and have handed it over to other shops, ...
Article : 57 wordsIt is announced that M. Lenin is issuing a decree releasing the ex-Czar and all the other members of the Imperial family in order that they may go abroad in ...
Article : 42 wordsThe following official report has veen issued :—"An air raid was attempted at about 6 p.m. yesterday, on the Kentish coast. One of the raiders was forced to ...
Article : 135 wordsGerman officers in the internment camps in Britain have not received any Christmas parcels from Germany. Very few parcels have reached the men's camps. ...
Article : 30 wordsIt is announced unofficially that Germany has refused to agree to Russia's peace terms. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe Government has decided to prohibit the importation of intoxicating liquors, and to suppress at a later stage the manufacture, domestically, of liquor, with the ...
Article : 54 wordsThe old French cruiser Chateau Renault was torpedoed in the Ionian Sea, the torpedo striking the starboard side. The engine-room was soon filled with water, and ...
Article : 93 wordsH.R.H. the Princess Louise (Duchess of Argyll) opened a new club in the Duchess of Norfolk's residence (Norfolk House, St. James's Square, London) for the use of ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Russian situation is chaotic. The Bolsheviks are in a precarious condition, their power being limited to northern Russia, and depending on the union of the ...
Article : 123 wordsIn the Chamber of Deputies last evening M. Caillaux delivered an impressive oration in which he defended his pre-war policy, and he declared that he had been unable ...
Article : 185 wordsCommenting on Saturday on the enlistments for the year, the Director-General of Recruiting (Mr. Mackinnon) said that from January 1 to December 31, ...
Article : 126 wordsCaptain Adrian Bethell, of the 2nd Life Guards, has obtained a divorce on the ground of his wife's misconduct with Major Lionel Hallam Tennyson (son of ...
Article : 74 wordsTwo French destroyers sank two large German submarines in the Ionian Sea. One of the submarines sank immediately. The crew of the other submarine abandoned ...
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Advertising : 59 wordsIn the House of Commons on December 20, Mr. H. H. Asquith (the ex-Prime Minister), following Mr. Lloyd George, declared that the two most formidable problems a ...
Article : 151 wordsThere is a growing agitation for the restoration of despotism. Curious proclamations are placarded in the streets demanding that the Grand Duke Alexieff be ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Manchester war tank collected in a week £4,500,000 for war bonds, this amount exceeding London's subscriptions for a fortnight. The week's total for Leeds was ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 24 Dec 1917, Page 7
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