Field Marshal Haig reported last evening:—"We drove off a bombing attack near Beaumetz-lea-Cambrai, and improved our position west of Croisilles. We entered the ...
Article : 626 wordsThe Dominions Commission has issued a final and unanimous report, covering the five years of its investigation, during which it visited every capital and every State ...
Article : 857 wordsThe 282nd casualty list was released by the censor last night, and is published below. It contains the names of Western Australian soldiers, together with those who ...
Article : 768 wordsThe proposal of the Greater Perth committee of the City Council to include the municipality of Victoria Park in the boundaries of the City of Perth was the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,350 wordsMrs. Peter Hughan, Subiaco was recently notified by the Base Records that her husband, Lance-Corporal Hughan, was wounded. Further advice was received on ...
Article : 708 wordsPresident Wilson has called out 14 regiments of the National Guard to protect munition plants and bridges. The State Department intimates that the ...
Article : 224 wordsIt is generally believed that the shortching of the German front on the West is part of a plan to overwhelm Russia before she can recover from the effects of the ...
Article : 321 wordsThe President has authority in war times to raise an army of 1,000,000 men, and to draft in all males between the ages of 18 years and 45 years. All factory ...
Article : 60 wordsMany attacks were made yesterday on the Germans by preachers in prominent churches in New York. Dr. Newell Hellis, an influential preacher, after a scathing ...
Article : 52 wordsA Ministerial Council's decree prohibits the importation into France or Algeria of all merchandise except goods on behalf of the State of goods specially authorised. ...
Article : 104 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the "Morning Post" reports: "The necessity for defeating Germany is becoming generally recognised among the reformers. Owing to ...
Article : 76 wordsOn Sunday morning, at St. George's Cathedral, his Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor unveiled a tablet to the memory of the late Captain Selby-Smyth, who ...
Article : 320 wordsThe Press devotes much space to details of the Miasoedoff treason case, and allege that Sukhomlinoff was connected therewith. Though Miasoedoff organised the whole ...
Article : 77 wordsAs announced in the "West Australian" some months back, certain peculiarities which have been found to characterise the milk supply of Western Australia had ...
Article : 597 wordsMr. Elihu Root, speaking on Saturday at a meeting to celebrate the Russian revolution said: "The Hohenzollerns will share the fate of the Romanoffs. Ivanoft ...
Article : 64 wordsIt is scarcely surprising that the United States should now be making a strong bid for sea-power as regards both her navy and her mercantile marine (remarks a ...
Article : 523 wordsWashington officials have, through British sources, received a report that the steamer Esmeraldas was among the 26 ships claimed to have been sunk by the Moewe. There ...
Article : 38 wordsA Russian official report issued yesterday stated:—"On our western front the Germans in the region of Mojieki, north-west of Postavy, discharged poison gas ...
Article : 39 wordsThe newspapers and public continue eagerly to discuss the expected Austro-German offensive. The newspapers emphasise that the Austrians and Germans are ...
Article : 74 wordsA Russian official report issued yesterday stated:—"On the Caucasus front, in the direction of Khanikin, on the 18th, we dislodged the Turks from positions near the ...
Article : 79 wordsA wireless German official message, intercepted yesterday, reported:—"South-east of Ypres, after mine-throwing, we advanced and found the enemy trenches destroyed ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Geneva correspondent of the "Echo de Paris" reports that the German Government, fearing a revolution, has provided the police with machine guns. Herr ...
Article : 64 wordsMrs. A. C. Munro, Grange-street, Osborne, has received advice that her son. Sergeant Roy Munro, was killed in action on February 26 last. This is the second ...
Article : 597 wordsA British steamer that arrived at Boston from Archangel recently reports that two steamers were blown up at Archangel and that, as a result 1,500 persons were killed. ...
Article : 51 wordsThe President (M. Poincare), accompanied by the Ministers for War, the Interior, and Labour with a number of senators and deputies, has visited Noyon, ...
Article : 131 wordsMr. Rea (the Mayor of Perth) writes:—I desire to draw the attention of the public to the severe poverty and destitution which prevails at Mr. Lebanon. Reports ...
Article : 1,235 wordsMr. Candler, the official correspondent with the British forces in Mesopotamia, telegraphing from Baghded, sends a vivid narrative of the midnight battle which ...
Article : 466 wordsAppeals from the pulpit in all the churches yesterday inaugurated a National Service Week, and 150 large meetings have been arranged in connection with the ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Berne correspondent of the "Observer" states: Several German agents. including two prominent socialists, during the past week approached Russian ...
Article : 87 wordsGeneral Gutchkoff (Minister for War and the Navy) is preparing a scheme by which a committee, consisting of the Ministers for War and the Navy, Finance and ...
Article : 238 wordsMilitary awards have been announced as follow:— The Military Cross.—Captains V. C. Shierlaw and W. Wells, and Lieuts. W. S. ...
Article : 149 wordsThe German Socialist Party has published its programme, which includes the speedy conclusion of peace on the basis of abandoning all annexations by all belligerants. ...
Article : 34 wordsAbnormally high tides prevailed on Saturday, Sunday, and to-day, but fortunately the sea on the first two days was like a mill pond. To-day a thunderstorm, with ...
Article : 86 wordsIn view of an announcement made yesterday the outlook with regard to the export of local apples is much brighter that was the case some days back. It has been ...
Article : 155 wordsWilhelmshaven, one of the principal German naval stations on the North Sea, has been closed for a fortnight. The reason for its closing is not known. ...
Article : 35 wordsGeorge Herbert Brownekin, aged 28, who was on long leave from Blackboy, met with a serious accident whilst attempting to enter a train at Ongerup on ...
Article : 65 wordsA conference was held to-day between the soap manufacturers, tallow producers, and representatives of the Federal authorities for the purpose of discussing the price ...
Article : 150 wordsThe Greek Government has protested against the Italian occupation of the Janina district, in the extreme north-west of Greece, close to the Albanian border. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe "Tribuna," commenting on the Imperial Conference, says:—"The war has had a good effect in causing the scales to fall from the dormant eyes of British ...
Article : 94 wordsA submarine school has been opened at Constantinople. It is managed by German naval officers, who are teaching Turkish officers to command and to man ...
Article : 40 wordsNisi Prius.—At 10.30 a.m., In No. 3 Court, before Mr. Justice Burnside.—H. Harvey (plaintiff) v. L. Bebbington and others (defendants), part heard. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe "Giornale d'Italia's" Petrograd correspondent states that the old Russian flag has been abolished. All regiments have adopted the red flag. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Tue 27 Mar 1917, Page 5
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