In yesterday morning's despatch Sir Douglas Haig reported:—"Heavy fighting is taking place on the whole front from the Hindenburg line south of the Sensee River ...
Article : 931 wordsThe Admiralty reports that the British transport Arcadian (8,839 tons), carrying troops was torpedoed by an enemy submarine in the Eastern Mediterranean on ...
Article : 82 wordsMr. Bonar Law has foreshadowed an increased tax on dogs, including a heavy tax for fresh licences. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe vital problem before the public of Australia will be decided to-day, when the campaign activities in connection with the Federal election will be concentrated in the ...
Article : 405 wordsMr. H. E. Duke (Chief Secretary for Ireland) announced in the House of Commons yesterday that all the Irish racing fixtures had been cancelled. ...
Article : 31 wordsHerr Schiedemann (leader of the Socialist Majority) has been appointed president of the Reichstag's Constitution Committee. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 84 wordsMr. Andrew Fisher (High Commissioner for the Commonwealth) yesterday forwarded a message to the troops rescued from the torpedoed troopship ...
Article : 110 wordsGermany has decided to expropriate all cereals before they are reaped. The military will supervise threshing operations, so as to enable the corn to become ...
Article : 37 wordsM. Marcel Hutin writes: "Boche aeroplanes no longer hesitate to bomb Swiss and Dutch towns. Von Hindenburg is seeking a pretext to invade Switzerland and ...
Article : 36 wordsAddressing a gathering of the Primrose League yesterday, Earl Curzon (Lord President of the Council) said:— "At a meeting of the War Cabinet ...
Article : 430 wordsAmsterdam Dutch correspondents in the north of France state that the general expectation is that the Germans will retreat further before the British heavy pressure. ...
Article : 56 wordsTwo submarines torpedoed the American steamer Rockingham yesterday. Fourteen of the crew are missing. ...
Article : 20 wordsGermany has apologised for the seizure of a Danish merchantman engaged in local traffic, and she has offered to pay compensation for the outrage. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe British Commissioners, while admitting that the submarining of merchant ships is a serious matter, are confident that, with American assistance in ships and ...
Article : 63 wordsFollowing are the official lists of polling places in the divisions of Perth and Fremantle:—PERTH. ...
Article : 595 wordsThe whole of the Grand Duchy of Baden has been proclaimed a war zone, under the severest martial law, owing to the unrest of the workers. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe "Petit Journal" says that the Germans are preparing to leave St. Quentin. They have posted in the town placards bearing the statement: "The French will ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Prime Minister to-night issued the following appeal to the electors:—"Fellow electors,—The issues before you are the gravest that ever confronted the ...
Article : 623 wordsIt is stated that all pigs in Germany must be slaughtered within a few weeks owing to the lack of fodder in the country. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe principal American genius is working on the submarine problem, and 75 experts are assisting Mr. Edison. Twenty per cent. of the inventions tested by the ...
Article : 62 wordsA wireless German official message intercepted yesterday states: "New English attacks on a wide front have commenced after the recent artillerying on both ...
Article : 85 wordsSwiss reports state that the majority of the Turkish divisions have been withdrawn from the European fronts after the fall of Baghdad, and have arrived at the ...
Article : 57 wordsMr. H. C. Hoover, Chairman of the American Commission for relief of the Belgians, arrived here from England on Wednesday. He states that the mortality in Belgium ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 213 wordsThe Chinese Cabinet has formally communicated to the President its decision in favour of war. The President has intimated his willingness to promulgate the ...
Article : 268 wordsFrance has appealed to the United States Government for 10,000 skilled railway men, who are wanted to lay 1,500 miles of railways immediately. ...
Article : 33 wordsMr. Asquith, addressing the Eighty Club last evening, said that it could not be too plainly stated that the war had reached the crucial stage, owing to the rapid and ...
Article : 484 wordsThe Government is determined to speed up shipbuilding. The Department of Labour has registered 15,000 skilled workmen to construct a great wooden fleet, ...
Article : 100 wordsThe members of the Imperial War Conference went to Windsor Castle yesterday in order to present an address of loyalty to the King. The address read:— ...
Article : 707 wordsGeneral Joffre and M. Viviani were riotously greeted on their visit to the House of Representatives on Wednesday M. Viviani, speaking in French, thanked ...
Article : 93 wordsThe resignation of Dr. Lauro Mueller, Minister for Foreign Affairs, who is a pro-German, is construed in many quarters as the forerunner of Brazil's entry into the ...
Article : 41 wordsIt is announced in Berlin that the Chilian Minister has asked for his passports. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe Italian Ambassador on Wednesday received a Treasury warrant for £20,000,000, representing Italy's share of the American war loan. ...
Article : 26 wordsM. Zaimis has agreed to form a new Cabinet. ...
Article : 15 wordsNegotiations were practically completed yesterday in connection with the purchase of Keane's Point, which it is intended shall be made a public reserve, thus ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 46 wordsLord Northcliffe, in a statement to a representative of the United Press Agency, said: "Britain will shortly publish her losses arising from the German submarines. She ...
Article : 163 wordsA wireless Russian official message received yesterday stated:—"We defeated Turkish attempts to advance south-west of Gumushkhane (in ...
Article : 44 wordsThe following is a list of candidates in the several States. An asterisk denotes a retiring member, while the letters in brackets indicate the parties represented, ...
Article : 41 wordsWireless Russian official messages received yesterday stated:—"Russian hydroplane squadrons bombed Mahmudia, on the Danube, and caused great destruction. We ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 114 wordsThe "Evening Standard" states:—"Drastic changes will be made at the Admiralty as a result of Mr. Lloyd George's investigations. The War Staff will be strengthened ...
Article : 73 wordsIn the course of a speech delivered at the Coliseum Theatre at Subiaco last night the Colonial Secretary (Mr. Colebatch) said that as a Nationalist he took strong ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 67 wordsFigures supplied to Mr. D. Mackinnon, Director-General of Recruiting, show that at the beginning of 1917, exclusive of men then in the training camps, there were in ...
Article : 111 wordsThe employees in the South Australian section of the Australian Printing Industry Union have been somewhat split regarding their attitude toward the United Labour ...
Article : 107 wordsYesterday morning's French communique stated:—"There were artillery activity and patrol encounters throughout the region of Chemin des Dames. We repulsed enemy ...
Article : 253 wordsAt a meeting of the Primrose League yesterday Earl Curzon (Lord President of the Council) said the Government recognised that the submarine menace was formidable, ...
Article : 242 wordsA secret session of the House of Commons was held yesterday, to discuss various matters connected with the war. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Dardanelles Commission yesterday examined Mr. Ashmead Bartlett, who was for a considerable time official Press correspondent with the British headquarters in ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 267 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph" states that Captain C. Bathurst (Parliamentary Secretary to the Food Controller's Department) has tendered his resignation, but has been asked ...
Article : 36 wordsThe 292nd casualty list was released by the censor last night and is published below. It contains the names of Western Australian soldiers, together with those ...
Article : 984 wordsIn the House of Lords yesterday Lord Devenport (Food Controller) said that lavish shop-window displays of confectionery are a continual affront to the public, and must ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Sat 5 May 1917, Page 7
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