According to a wireless message, the Kaiser has summoned to Berlin Baron von Kuehlmann (the Minister for Foreign Affairs) Prince von Bulow (a former Imperial ...
Article : 164 wordsAt the last meeting of the executive of the Farmers and Settlers' Association and Country Party members, references were made to the speech of the Prime Minister ...
Article : 366 wordsM. Marcel Hutin, the military critic of the "Echo de Paris," expresses his belief that the Germans will endeavour to exert pressure on the Franco-British front generally, ...
Article : 147 wordsSir Auckland C. Geddes (Minister for National Service), in introducing in the House of Commons yesterday the Man Power Bill, said that man power was the ...
Article : 1,794 wordsThe following is the text of a memorandum on the proposals of the department for the treatment, care, and placing of returned soldiers, which has been issued ...
Article : 2,842 wordsIn the House of Commons last evening Sir Eric C. Geddes, the First Lord of the Admiralty, said that the Court of Inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the ...
Article : 143 wordsThe following official despatches have been issued:— London, Jan. 14 (noon),—"Last night Canadians raided successfully the district ...
Article : 361 wordsOfficial reports received here from Petrograd say that a number of demobilised Russian officers have been ordered to report immediately for military service. This ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Tokio correspondent of the United Press Association (U.S.A.) reports that disorders are increasing in number of Vladivostock, and that a battle between the ...
Article : 81 wordsPresident Wilson has issued a proclamation prohibiting the importation and manufacture and the stoppage of the sale of malt, wheat, rye, and tomato products, ...
Article : 51 wordsIn a recent interview with a representative of the "West Australian," Mr. J. Ewing, M.L.C., criticised the actions of the authorities with regard to the neglect ...
Article : 555 wordsThe German authorities have confiscated the last issue of Herr Maximilian Harden's newspaper, the Berlin "Zukunft," which commented on the recent ...
Article : 138 wordsIt is reported officially that an American trawler struck a rock in European waters and sank. There were no casualties. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Supreme Court has decided that aliens residing in the United States are subject to military service. ...
Article : 22 wordsQuestions affecting the repatriation of soldiers were discussed by the State Cabinet to-day. The purchase of land for the settlement of soldiers has already involved ...
Article : 194 wordsSenhor Machado, a Senator of Brazil, was interviewed here by a representative of the Paris "Journal" on the military situation He said:—"Brazil will ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Bolshevik Government has arrested the members of the Roumanian Legation in Petrograd. The reason for this action has not been disclosed. ...
Article : 31 wordsMr. N. D. Baker (Secretary for War). says in an official despatch.—"The Austrians are mobilising on the Western front previously to engaging in simultaneous [?] ...
Article : 35 wordsBaron von Kuehlmann, at the Brest Litovsk negotiations, adopted the standpoint that portions of Russia were striving to obtain separation and were already qualified ...
Article : 150 wordsMr. W. G. McAdoo (Secretary of the Treasury) has asked Congress for 484,000,000 dollars (about £97,000,000) for expenditure on the construction of additional ...
Article : 48 wordsIntimation has been received by Mrs. F. W. Bateson that her husband, Corporal F. W. Bateson, 4th A.A.S.C., A.I.F., has received the Military Medal for devotion to ...
Article : 161 wordsThe Western front during the past week has been under the grip of severe cold, though the winds which have swept over the land have been somewhat tempered to ...
Article : 324 wordsIt is officially announced that Yarmouth was bombarded from the sea last night. Fire was opened at five minutes to 11 and lasted five minutes. Twenty shells fell in ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Minister for Agriculture announced to-day that Mr. W. E. Howes, well known in produce circles, had been appointed manager of the State Produce Agency. Mr. ...
Article : 65 wordsIn Norfolk (Virginia) a German has been arrested on a charge of having attempted to set fire to a powder magazine in that city. Letters found in his possession ...
Article : 132 wordsBrisk recruiting in connection with the Women's Royal Naval Service has begun in London. Jews of various nationalities in London ...
Article : 47 wordsThere were joint meetings of the Liberal and National Labour Parties to-day to discuss the political position. Resolutions were carried strongly favouring the ...
Article : 107 wordsMrs. King, of 90 Forrest-street, North Perth, has received word that her only brother, Private John McCarthy, died of wounds on Christmas Day, somewhere in France. He was a ...
Article : 103 wordsThe war bonds tank began a campaign yesterday in Glasgow, nearly £2,000,000 being taken up before noon. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe Minister for Education (Mr. H. P. Colebatch) was questioned by a "West Australian" reporter yesterday as to what steps had been taken to further the training of ...
Article : 2,097 words"For some time," the Minister for Industries (Mr. R. T. Robinson) stated yesterday, "I have been asking people who know of clays suitable for pottery work, to send ...
Article : 345 wordsGeorge James Adams (33), a married man with three children, was drowned in the Tamar River this afternoon. He was fishing with his father from a plank ...
Article : 50 wordsM. Caillaux, an ex-Minister of the Crown, who has been mixed up in the Bolo Pasha case, has been arrested. The news caused a sensation on the boulevards. Although ...
Article : 98 words"The tale of what our gunners here have faced and done can never be told or understood; but if only a tithe of it could be made plain, ...
Article : 1,450 wordsMr. James F. Hope, M.P., for the central division of Sheffield (a Lord of the Treasury, and in charge of the British Prisoners of War Department), announced ...
Article : 237 wordsGeorge Vivian Burns, who had been employed as a paying cashier at the Victoria Barracks, appeared at the City Court to-day on three charges of having forged ...
Article : 118 wordsA Serbian manifesto which has been issued protests against the annihilation of the race. It is declared that the Austrians have carried out the wholesale deportation ...
Article : 102 wordsEvidence regarding an alleged attempt by masked men to hold up the tramway depot at Manly on Boxing Night was heard by Mr. Clarke, S.M., at the Manly Police ...
Article : 90 wordsThe "Politiken" says that the Russian Government intends to present an ultimatum to the Constituent Assembly, demanding that Russia be proclaimed a ...
Article : 56 wordsIt is unlikely that the Dardanelles report will be published before the conclusion of the war. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Wed 16 Jan 1918, Page 5
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