The following official despatches have been issued:— London, Jan. 2 (12.55 p.m.).—"Our artillery broke up three enemy raiding ...
Article : 200 wordsThe following official shipping report for the week which ended on Sunday last has been issued:—British. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 113 wordsA wireless Russian message intercepted by the British Admiralty authorities reports:—M. Trotsky (the Bolshevik Minister for Foreign Affairs) has appointed Citizen ...
Article : 279 wordsMr. W. T. Massey telegraphs from the British headquarters in Palestine:—"Since Boxing Day General Allenby has followed up his brilliantly fought battle by a series ...
Article : 753 wordsThe Treasurers' Conference will be held in Melbourne on January 15, and the State Treasurer (Mr. James Gardiner) will be leaving shortly in order to be present. He ...
Article : 408 wordsThe only absentee at the Ministerial Party meeting held to-day, with the exception of those away from Australia on active service, was Senator Pratten. The ...
Article : 1,172 wordsMembers of the women's general committee of the Soldiers' Welcome Committee are hereby notified that the ordinary monthly meeting, fixed for to-day, has ...
Article : 451 wordsIt has been ascertained from an authoritative source that 967 mine sweepers employed around the British Isles swept up 4,615 mines in the year 1917. About nine ...
Article : 70 wordsMr. Arthur Henderson (an ex-member of the British War Cabinet) says in a message that Labour demands a league of nations as the first step in the direction of creating ...
Article : 80 wordsSpeaking at the Glenelg commemoration celebrations last Friday, the Governor (Sir Henry Galway) said referring to the result of the referendum, that it was not ...
Article : 399 wordsSir Douglas Mawson, interviewed yesterday with regard to the missing vessel Aurora, said that if she were lost it must have been due to a submarine attack. She ...
Article : 285 wordsBaron von Kuehlmann, the German Foreign Secretary, has left Berlin for Brest Litovsk. The Social Democrats have presented a demand to the President of ...
Article : 120 wordsA high British military authority reports:—"The enemy are more or less active on the western front, but their attacks and raids are on a small scale, and most of ...
Article : 495 wordsThe New Zealand Education Institute, at its annual conference, negatived without a debate a proposal that the department should take steps towards the exemption ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Bolshevik's telegraph agency at Petrograd confirms the report that the peace negotiations have been broken off. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 322 wordsThe Magistrates are fining heavily all food hoarders. Lady Gore-Langton had to pay a fine of £80 for having bought sufficient tea for a year's consumption. Miss ...
Article : 484 wordsRequests are frequently being received by the Defence Department from members of the public for the collection of moneys said to be due to them by soldiers. The ...
Article : 83 words"The submarine difficulty is a thing of the past," said Mr. A. Goninan, director of the newly-formed Steel Products Company, who has just returned after an eight ...
Article : 378 wordsStaff-Captain and Mrs. McClure, of the Salvation Army Headquarters, have received further advice that their eldest son, Signaller W. W. McClure previously reported wounded and ...
Article : 143 wordsThe Rev. Tom Allan—one of the foremost recruiting advocates in Western Australia—has returned from a tour through South Australia, where he ...
Article : 840 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) said to-day that a cable message had been received by him from the Australian Administrative Headquarters, London, stating ...
Article : 64 wordsThe following members of the A.I.F. from Western Australia will disembark at Fremantle at 9.30 a.m. to-day. The names in the list are those of privates, except where ...
Article : 200 wordsIn common with most other lines of foodstuffs, almost all varieties of fruit are short in supply and dear in price. This condition of affairs appears to be prevalent ...
Article : 603 wordsOfficial despatches received from Rome hint at an early rupture of diplomatic relations between Spain and Germany. The Spanish newspapers are urging the ...
Article : 172 wordsThe following official despatch has been received here:—"General Allenby has captured four important points north of Jerusalem. His troops drove the enemy ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the New York "World" reports that it is anticipated that M. Aimaro Sato will not retain the position of Japanese ...
Article : 330 wordsThe War Council again desires to call the attention of all employers to the urgent necessity of providing work for our returned soldiers. At the present time there ...
Article : 234 wordsMr. Stafford Ransome, the Petrograd correspondent of the London "Daily News," telegraphs that the Central Powers, presuming on Russia's isolation, claimed that ...
Article : 196 wordsIt is announced officially that Brigadier-General R. L. Bullard succeeds Major General William L. Sibert in the direct charge of General J. J. Pershing's ...
Article : 65 wordsLabour's report on the reconstruction policy urges the general enforcement of the national minimum wage, the democratic control of industry, a revolution in the ...
Article : 47 wordsThe report of Colonel E. M. House's mission to Europe has been published officially it recommends the very speedy construction of merchantmen, and the despatch of ...
Article : 141 wordsAmong Mr. Ben. Strange's contributions to this week's "Western Mail" is a cleverly-conceived cartoon relating to the recent referendum on the question of ...
Article : 460 wordsSir Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice, the British Ambassador to the United States, will visit. London shortly on leave of absence. There is some speculation here as to ...
Article : 116 wordsMajor-General Joseph John Talbot Hobbs, V.D., on whom has been conferred the distinction of Knight Commander of the Bath is the first Western Australian member of ...
Article : 429 wordsMessages received here contradict the report of the Petrograd correspondent of the "Daily News," and it is asserted that negotiations are to be resumed on Saturday. It ...
Article : 123 wordsThe following official bulletin has been issued:— Rome, January 2 (6.25 p.m.).—"Some Anglo-Italian batteries exploded two ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Y.M.C.A. officials in London declare that Mr. Jamieson's speech which he delivered recently in Christchurch (New Zealand), and in which he asserted that ...
Article : 122 wordsThe Federal Labour Party met also this afternoon, when the result of the referendum formed the basis of discussion. The Leader (Mr. Tudor) presided over a full ...
Article : 119 wordsTrouble has arisen between the employers and the slaughtermen in the wholesale meat trade over the question of the renewal of a twelve months' arbitration award ...
Article : 245 wordsA hurricane blew over the northern portion of Norway, and destroyed a number of vessels. ...
Article : 25 wordsGeneral Diaz, the Commander-in-Chief of the Italian army at the front, expressed in the course of an interview, his satisfaction with the discipline and bravery of the ...
Article : 102 wordsM. Pavlovitch, a non-Bolshevik member of the Russian delegation in Brest Litovsk, says that if the Allies refuse to negotiate on the question of peace Germany will not ...
Article : 92 wordsIn the city of Norfolk (Virginia) a series of explosions and fires took place, and destroyed an important section of the city. The damage is estimated at two ...
Article : 147 wordsIt is announced officially that an Air Council has been established. It includes Lord Rothermere (as president), Major-General H. M. Trenchard, C.B., D.S.O. (as chief ...
Article : 126 wordsDuring the hearing of a charge against an Assyrian at the Adelaide Police Court to-day for having failed to register as an alien counsel for the defence said that the ...
Article : 104 wordsNurse Cherry desires to thank the following for donations and parcels to the Silver Chain stall at the recent Christmas fete. Donations, Mr. Tilly, £1 1s.; Mrs. Frank Wileon, £1 1s.; ...
Article : 140 wordsYesterday there were demonstrations here to celebrate the French victory at Monte Tomba. It is believed that the enemy's losses numbered ten thousand ...
Article : 34 wordsDr. Harold Williams, the Petrograd correspondent of the London "Daily Chronicle" says that Russia is now torn to infinity by warring factions. Sunday's ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Fri 4 Jan 1918, Page 5
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