Mr. S. Gibson, who is contesting the Leederville seat as an "Out and out Nationalist," addressed the electors in the local Town Hall last night. Mr. P. Menzies ...
Article : 1,733 wordsColonel Shumsky, a well-known Russian expert, who writes for the "Bourse Gazette," points out that the lack of manpower for the long line between the ...
Article : 157 wordsWhen the Minister for Works (Mr. W. J. George) was seen by a "West Australian" reporter yesterday, the leading article. which appeared in this journal on Friday ...
Article : 814 wordsSir Douglas Haig reported yesterday morning:—"We raided Cherisy and penerated as far as the Western outskirts. In addition to prisoners, we wounded and ...
Article : 285 wordsReplying to a deputation on Saturday the Minister for National Service stated that the department had been reorganised with a view to meeting the forthcoming ...
Article : 89 wordsThe Department of State has received reports of the cruelties in German prison camps towards Russian soldiers. The latter made a tunnel with a knife and ...
Article : 83 wordsA wireless Russian official message received yesterday, stated:—"A stubborn battle is proceeding on the Pskov-road, and in the region of Zegevold Farm. Our ...
Article : 59 wordsIt is estimated that the United Kingdom has saved £2,500,000 in lighting and heating during the summer of 1917. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Coal Controller has offered the Scottish colliery enginemen 15d. increase per shift. The men's executive advises the withdrawal of strike notices. ...
Article : 31 wordsA special commission, under the presidency of M. Schablovsky, Procurator of the Army and Navy has been appointed to inquire into the Korniloff affair. M. ...
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Article : 38 wordsAustralian actresses are appearing in a "Pageant of the Southern Cross" at the Victoria Palace Theatre on October 19 in aid of the Anzac Buffet. English actresses ...
Article : 43 wordsThe British Admiralty yesterday intercepted the following wireless German official report:—"Northwards of the Menin-ypress-road the English forced our foremost ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Government has suppressed Maxim Gorky's newspaper and other organs. (Gorky is a well-known Russian novelist, who has had a romantic career. He ...
Article : 65 wordsThe recruiting officer at Cologne announces that boys of 15 years may enlist. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe following Italian official message was issued yesterday:—"We gained ground on the south-eastern margin of the Bainsizza Platean and took 417 prisoners. We ...
Article : 51 wordsMr. Frank Simonds, writing to the "New York Tribune," examines the latest war statistics. He says that Germany confronts certainly the fourth year of the war with ...
Article : 76 wordsA telegram from Haparanda, a Swedish town on the Gulf of Bothnia, states that soldiers stormed the prison at Viborg, in Finland, and shot General Ovanovski and ...
Article : 53 wordsThe "Handelsblad" states that all civilians have evacuated Roulers, a town in Belgium, 12 miles north-west of Ypres. They are now evacuating Ostend, while ...
Article : 43 wordsThe British Admirlaty issued the following report to-day:—"Naval aircraft on Saturday bombed enemy shipping between Ostend and Blankenberghe. They hit a ...
Article : 69 wordsPrisoners taken at Sun Gabriele state that the Austrian dugouts and trenches are graveyards. They declare that the Austraians must shortly abandon their remaining ...
Article : 37 wordsDespite the rig[?]us censorship information (says the London "Daily Telegraph" of July 17) manages to reach this country from time to time of the real economic ...
Article : 568 wordsA message from Petrograd states that the Government has proclaimed Russia a Republican State ...
Article : 23 wordsMrs. L. D. Murray, of Ainalie-road. North Fremantle, has received news that her second son, Private William C. Murray, was killed in action on August 16. ...
Article : 308 wordsA serious epidemic of diptheria has broken out here. Several cases have occurred in different localites, and the towns-people are indigant at the laxity of the ...
Article : 301 wordsThe "Idea Nazionale" attacks the Allies' policy with regard to Russia. It says that the fact that they sent Socialist Ministers to Petrograd contributed in great part to ...
Article : 83 wordsFollowing upon a Ministerial crisis involving minor changes, the "Corriere della Sera" learns that owing to grave developments in the internal situation, an ...
Article : 50 wordsThough the crisis is temporaily over, excitement continues. A large meeting on Saturday night demanded a rupture with Germany. Further meetings were held on ...
Article : 117 wordsThe following sick and wounded soldiers will disembark at Fremantle at approximately 10.30 this morning. The list is as cables, and is subject to errors through ...
Article : 401 wordsVassili Nemirovitch-Danchenko, the veteran Russian war correspondent, contributes to the "Russkor Slove" the following remarkable sketch of Alexander Kerensky. ...
Article : 1,102 wordsA cable message from London announces that the late Mr. William K. Darcy, the well-known Mt. Morgan mine owner and pastoralist, who died early in May, at the ...
Article : 501 wordsI suppose nobody in the army gets less romantic reverence from the popular mind than the fatigue man. The public fancy does not associate him with dashing ...
Article : 1,463 wordsThe Foreign Minister in the course of a statement says that the transmission of German messages has now stopped. The Swedish Government has no knowledge of ...
Article : 47 wordsA most sensational storm occurred at Wilmington, a northern country town, at midnight on Saturday. One inch 85 points of rain fell within an hour. Further out, up ...
Article : 217 wordsThe Mexican disclosures have caused a sensation in Sweden. It is semi-officially stated that M. Cronholm, the Swedish Charge d'Affaires at Mexico City, will be ...
Article : 279 wordsThe following honours have been conferred:— Distinguished Service Order: Lieutenant M J Hilary, Australian Engineers: Major ...
Article : 115 wordsThe following regulations have been gazetted under the War Precautions Act:—Any person who by word, deed or otherwise (a) interferes with, impedes, prevents, ...
Article : 116 wordsBefore the Chief Justice (Sir John Madden) and a special jury of six in the First Civil Court to-day an action was begun in which Edith Brown, of West Geelong, ...
Article : 211 wordsThe military authorities desire to get into communication with the next of kin of No. 890, Private John Brown, C Company, 44th Battalion, whose nearest relative, Mr. John ...
Article : 36 wordsA section of the newspapers demand the expulsion of Von Eckhardt, the German Minister, as a violator of neutrality. ...
Article : 25 wordsPresident Wilson has issued a proclamation placing the sugar industry under stri[?] licence. The industry is now virtually under the control of Mr. Hoover, who will ...
Article : 38 wordsVery heavy weather has been experienced in the Midlands, culminating to-day in an exceptional downpour of rain practically all along the line from Walkaway to Gingin. ...
Article : 176 wordsMr. D. Philips, of 43 Cambridge-street. Leederville, has received word that his on, Sergeant Rey Philips, has been awarded the D.C.M. ...
Article : 854 wordsReports regarding the submarine scare are conflicting. Some assert that destroyers are scouring the coast and others that a ship was recently warned to look out for ...
Article : 109 wordsThe Senate has passed, without a division, the War Bond Bill for £2,307,600,000 The amount, which is said to be the bigges financial appropriation ever made, includes ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Ecclesiastical Court has ordered the indictment of fifteen prelates for assenting to the pronouncement of an anathema on the followers of M. Venizelos in December ...
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Advertising : 93 wordsRemarkable developments have taken place in connection with the so-called Turmel affair. M. Turmel, a French Deputy, left Swiss bank notes worth £1,00 in a room ...
Article : 113 wordsNorwegian trawlers have swept up a thousand mines since the outbreak of the war. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Tue 18 Sep 1917, Page 5
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