The following official report was issued early on Saturday morning:—"Six or seven airships attacked the eastern and northeastern counties last evening. They ...
Article : 600 wordsSir Douglas Haig has issued the following official reports:— Friday Morning.—"We repulsed raiders last night eastward of Vermelles and ...
Article : 477 wordsThe British Admiralty yesterday issued the following report:—"In the North Sea on Wednesday two British destroyers, the Mary Rose and the Strongbow, fought two ...
Article : 350 wordsThe Amsterdam correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" telegraphed yesterday:—"News received from a reliable source states that serious Austro-German friction exists. ...
Article : 78 wordsIt is reported that an entire Austrian army, composed of Mohammedans and Serbs from Bosnia, has surrendered to the Roumanians and that it will join the ...
Article : 46 wordsAn ecclesiastical tribunal on Friday passed sentence on five prelates, including the Metropolitan of Athens, in connection with the anathema uttered against the Premier, ...
Article : 129 wordsAt Buckingham Palace yesterday the King decorated nine recipients of the Victoria Cross, including Captain Robert Grieve, an Australian. ...
Article : 111 wordsReturned Soldiers' Hospitality Committee (Fremantle).—The ladies of this committee had a busy time last week in welcoming returned soldiers. On Monday ...
Article : 213 wordsA luncheon was given at the Savoy Hotel on Friday in honour of Admiral Sims, the American naval commander, and Mr. Winston Churchill, the American novelist. The ...
Article : 149 wordsA message from Berlin states that the Reichstag Committee has been informed that a further limitation of the bread ration will not be necessay as the grain ...
Article : 43 wordsA Berlin message states that the provisional total of the recent war loan is £625,000,000. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe annual meeting of the Rose Club was held at Lady Hackett's house on Friday afternoon. The president (Lady Hackett) was in the chair, and there was ...
Article : 680 wordsThe German submarine minelayer UC5, which the British captured, arrived at New York on Thursday aboard a steamer, and was taken to Central Park where it is ...
Article : 54 wordsThe executive of the South Wales Miners Association condemn the proposed strike over the recruiting question. The council criticises the extremists for urging the men ...
Article : 41 wordsThe subscriptions to the Liberty Loan now amount to £350,000,000. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe British Admiralty on Friday intercepted the following wireless German official message:—"There is most intense artillery fire at Houtholst Wood and ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Government is considering the matter of the divetring of 100,000 tons of shipping from the Pacific to the Atlantic, in order to hasten the delivery of supplies to ...
Article : 47 wordsAs there are a number of A.I.F. officers who cannot get to the front owing to the shortage of reinforcements it has been decided that three officers in each military ...
Article : 72 wordsLord Derby, Secretary of State for War; Lord Denman, a former Governor-General of Australia; and Colonel Griffiths inspected the Commonwealth Bank's military ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Admiral commanding at Christiania reports that survivors of the convoy have reached Bergen. They state that the convoy consisting of twelve ...
Article : 215 wordsOn behalf of the people of Western Australia, Sir Harry Barron (ex-Governor) accompanied by Sir Newton Moore (Agent-General), visited the Commonwealth cruiser ...
Article : 98 wordsMr. Gilmour, of the Australian Press Association, telegraphing from the West front on Friday, states:—"The Germans continue to exhibit signs of nervous apprehension. ...
Article : 443 wordsIn the House of Commons on Friday the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Bonar Law, announced his intention to introduce a Bill to further prolong the life of ...
Article : 74 wordsThe number of Australian casualties to date is 107,018, the particulars being as follow:— Officers: Deceased, 1,448; wounded 1,231; ...
Article : 83 wordsA French official communique issued late on Saturday night stated:—"A certain number of Zeppelins flew over France without doing any damage. One was ...
Article : 201 wordsA Russian official report issued on Friday afternoon stated:—"During Wednesday's battle our battleships secured hits upon enemy Dreadnoughts. No fewer than ...
Article : 169 wordsThe Government is building 100,000 workmen's dwellings of a standard design to meet urgent war needs. It will build 200,000 later on in anticipation of ...
Article : 54 wordsTwo public meetings held at Manly on Saturday night, and attended by seven thousand persons, protested against enemy aliens being allowed their liberty, and ...
Article : 32 wordsOwing to the shortage of tonnage for petrol the Government has propounded a scheme to economise home transport. A Road Transport Board has been formed ...
Article : 77 wordsTwo officers and eight men, survivors from the Mary Rose have landed at Bergen. They will not be interned, as they were rescued by a Norwegian lifeboat after ...
Article : 98 wordsA sensational story, which is not credited by the police, originated in Wollongong last week. It was to the effect that a mysterious steamer approached the coast, ...
Article : 72 wordsOwing to the defection of the cab-owning drivers the other London taxi-owners have accepted the terms offered by Sir George Cave for taxi fares in London. ...
Article : 32 wordsIn response to the appeal for the observance of Sunday as a day of intercession and prayer for the success and guidance of the Empire and her Allies in the war, an ...
Article : 819 wordsFour disabled Zeppelins are now wandering over France—two in the south-west, one over the Mediterranean, and one near the Swiss frontier. All are closely hemmed in ...
Article : 71 wordsThe German Press is giving vent to a chorus of exulting praise, seeing in this and the Oesel Island operations proof of the bold, offensive spirit of the German fleet. ...
Article : 50 wordsExclusive of street collections the Red Cross Society has received £706,000, including £509,000 from the dominions. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe Admiralty intercepted the following German wireless official message on Friday:—"We completely overcame the Russians at Moon Island, and took 5,000 ...
Article : 29 wordsMembers of the Criminal Investigation branch on Thursday carried out simultaneously in various parts of the State a series of raids upon premises used by persons ...
Article : 146 wordsIt is reported that the Kaiser, upon learning of the naval mutiny at Wilhelmshaven, was so enraged that he became ill. The Crown Prince advocated frenzied ...
Article : 94 wordsThe Government of the Commonwealth, the Australian States, and New Zealand placed wreaths on the Nelson Column in honour of Trafalgar Day. Mr. Andrew ...
Article : 41 wordsThe "Sunday Times" says: "Londoners and Englishmen generally are chagrined to think that a fleet of Zeppelins was able to visit this country and its capital and ...
Article : 61 wordsFriday night's Russian official report stated that two German torpedoers were sunk in a minefield in Moon Sound on Thursday. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe "Petit Parisien" states:—"The next battle in Flanders will be a hard one, as the Germans are determined to defend their end of Passchendaele Ridge, and beyond ...
Article : 74 wordsAustralia beat England in an eight-oared scratch race from Putney to Hammersmith yesterday. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe bottling up of the Russian fleet in Moon Sound, and Germany's complete mastery of the Gulf of Riga, has perturbed the Government. The Russian newspapers ...
Article : 104 wordsDespatches from Rome state that the Austrians and Germans have been compelled to withdraw 40 divisions from the eastern front to reinforce the Austrian ...
Article : 81 wordsThe newspapers commend America's trade embargo. A note issued from the United States Embassy yesterday stated: "Repeated requests made to Holland and ...
Article : 126 wordsLarge numbers of Belgians, who refuse to work for the German army, are confined to barracks built at Zevencote, near the Yser front, and are daily marched into the ...
Article : 46 wordsConfidential reports state that big German submarines are travelling in pairs off the usual Atlantic track, and are robbing foodships and storing the cargoes, from ...
Article : 53 wordsMessrs. Justices Isaacs, Duffy, and Rich, of the High Court of Australia, left for Adelaide yesterday afternoon. In company with Mr. Justice Powers, who left on ...
Article : 71 wordsThe King and Queen paid a surprise visit of 90 minutes to the Australian War Chest Club yesterday. The Commonwealth High Commissioner (Mr. Andrew Fisher) ...
Article : 139 wordsThe German Admiralty reported yesterday:—"Our torpedoers fired a couple of hundred explosive shells into Dunkirk on Thursday night." ...
Article : 28 wordsA conference, representing all the Cossack troops, has demanded a public investigation of the recent Korniloff revolt. They believe that the industrials or their ...
Article : 47 wordsThe American inward bound transport W. A. S. Ward, and the American liner Antilles (6,878 tons) were torpedoed by a German submarine on Wednesday. Seventy ...
Article : 42 wordsInstructions have been issued for the dilution of spirits to 33 1-3 per cent. ...
Article : 20 wordsHerr Scheidemann, the German Socialist leader, in closing the Wurzburg conference, said that social democracy had gained direct power in the State, and a Parliamentary ...
Article : 55 wordsDuring a debate in Parliament on Friday the Socialist deputies called Signor Bussolati, the War Minister, a renegade. They accused him of interfering with General ...
Article : 86 wordsThe following accounts of stirring incidents, taken from Admiralty records, give a further glimpse into the methods and daring employed in tackling submarines. ...
Article : 432 wordsAt a representative meeting of natives at Bloemfontein the capital of the Orange Free State, it was decided to publish a denial of the reports in circulation to the ...
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Advertising : 90 wordsIt is officially reported that mutinies took place recently in the Austrian navy because of the bad food supplied and ill-treatment by the officers. Clashes took ...
Article : 132 wordsIn the Central Criminal Court on Friday George Henry Bishop, medical practitioner, was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment for having been concerned in making and ...
Article : 289 wordsIn an article on Herr Scheidemann, the German Socialist leader, the "Boston Transcript" early in July last stated:— The suspicious ones do not suggest that ...
Article : 1,423 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the "Sun" says that advices from Rome declare that a coal famine is impending and that there will be no coal for household use this ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 22 Oct 1917, Page 5
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