The situation in the capital has improved markedly since Friday. The majority of the inhabitants have indicated their intention to support the Provisional ...
Article : 71 wordsThe "Pall Mall Gazette" states that there are strong rumours in well-informed quarters that the Government contemplates introducing a Bill for the purchase of the ...
Article : 38 wordsThe United Press Agency's correspondent at Copenhagen interviewed Mr. Maurice F. Egan, United States Minister to Denmark, who has made unprecedented comments on ...
Article : 218 wordsThe 80 members of the Socialist minority in the Chamber of Deputies have decided almost unanimously to send a delegation to the Stockholm Peace Conference. ...
Article : 34 wordsMr. Justice Burnside, the Royal Commissioner appointed to inquire into the relations between the Scaddan Government and Mr. S. V. Nevanas with respect to the ...
Article : 4,396 wordsIn yesterday's afternoon's despatch Sir Dougas Haig reported:—"The enemy in considerable force yesterday afternoon launched a third counter attack on our new ...
Article : 387 wordsCount Von Luckner, commander of the German raider Seeadler, led an adventurous life in Australia. He told his prisoners that he was able to fill his ship with ...
Article : 45 wordsReginald Cole, aged 20, an apprentice at the Portsmouth dockyards, has been charged with the possession of an unauthorised wireless apparatus. The police ...
Article : 48 wordsFine weather has intensified the activity on the Italian front, and the snows are melting in Trentino. Half a million peasants and soldiers have been engaged in ...
Article : 75 wordsThe following extracts from recent Russian newspapers throw an interesting light on the issues, both political and economic, that have brought about the overthrow of ...
Article : 1,216 wordsIn the House of Commons Mr. Walter Long (Secretary of State for the Colonies) informed Mr. A. Lynch (Nationalist, Clare West) that he as Chairman of the Imperial ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) does not intend to leave for England, as he had planned to do just prior to the elections. All arrangements had been concluded for ...
Article : 261 wordsThe Berne correspondent of the "Morning Post" states:—"Uncensored news from Germany pictures the situation as growing worse daily. The reserves of food are ...
Article : 154 wordsIn the King's Bench Division of the High Court yesterday, Mr. Charles Tranton is suing Mr. Waldorf Astor, M.P. (Unionist, Plymouth) for £29,000, at the rate of £500 ...
Article : 70 wordsAt the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception yesterday morning solemn requiem mass for the repose of the soul of the late Archbishop Carr, of Melbourne, was ...
Article : 725 wordsThree times last night the Germans counter-attacked the Australians in the Hindenburg line. The fighting was very fierce in parts of the line, and the Germans for ...
Article : 183 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday Sir F. Banbury (Unionist, City of London) inquired into the circumstances in which a food ship recently arrived at a certain ...
Article : 138 wordsM. Jean Herbette, writing in the "Echo de Paris," insists upon the urgent necessity for tightening the blockade. Quoting statistics from a confidential report he states:— ...
Article : 343 wordsGeneral Falkenhausen, the German Governor of Belgium, has ordered a general raid to be made on the safes in the Belgian bank vaults, where hundreds of ...
Article : 102 wordsIn reply to a question in the House of Commons yesterday Mr. T. J. Macnamara (Financial Secretary to the Admiralty), said that Pollen's naval article in last week's ...
Article : 61 wordsThe personnel of the board to be appointed by the Federal Ministry to give effect to a policy of restricting the importation of luxuries, will be decided upon this ...
Article : 99 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday Captain C. Bathurst (Parliamentary Secretary to the Food Controller) announced that an order was being issued forthwith to ...
Article : 43 wordsSenator J. E. Addicks, Chairman of the Naval Problems Committee, says:—"We are trying some naval devices of great promise. Mr. Edison is making important ...
Article : 201 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs, in a message received yesterday, pays a warm tribute to the unconquerable and grim spirit of the British troops in the Arras battle sector. He says: ...
Article : 201 wordsOrganisations are springing up throughout the country in order to deal with the tremendous rush of women and girls seeking employment. ...
Article : 28 wordsAn enemy firm, Aron Hirsch and Son, of Halberstandt; Germany, one of the big German firms that secured a hold in the base metal industry of Australia, was ...
Article : 158 wordsThe Australian Red Cross Society has provided £5,000 to establish workshops at Southall to train Australians who have lost limbs in certain trades while the men ...
Article : 170 wordsHerr Cohn, in the Reichstag, vigorously attacked the Government, complaining that soldiers were forced to subscribe to the war loan. He protested against Germany's ...
Article : 101 wordsM. Marcel Hutin states that the French attacks of Friday, Saturday, and Sunday mark the complete and irremediable miscarriage of the German ...
Article : 66 wordsCharged under the Defence Act with having, by wrongful dismissal, penalised Vasey S. Stocks for having rendered the personal service required of him, H. G. ...
Article : 121 wordsThe War Department has ordered the raising of the first American contingent for active service. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe German newspapers continue to assert their confidence in submarines. The "South German Gazette," a Junker organ, states: "We can quietly leave our armies in France, ...
Article : 66 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday Mr. Walter Long (Secretary of State for the Colonies), replying to a suggestion by Mr. W. A. S. Hewins (Unionist, Hereford) that ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Agricultural Statistical Bureau reports that the wheat crop will be normal and other food crops will be abundant. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe industrial trouble between the Mt. Lyell Co. and the miners continues, and work at the North Lyell and Mt. Lyell mines is still suspended. This morning a ...
Article : 258 wordsMr. Simms, the United Press Agency's correspondent with the British armies on the West front, telegraphed on Sunday: "The Australian troops forged ...
Article : 159 wordsIn the House of Representatives, Mr. J. W. Alexander (Democrat, Missouri), speaking on the German Ship Seizure Bill, disclosed that Denmark had secretly arranged ...
Article : 68 wordsMr. and Mrs. H. A. Devenish, Shepparton-road, Victoria Park, have received word that their son, Private Charles Rowland Devenish, A.I.F., has been wounded in ...
Article : 162 wordsThe "Corriere d'Italia" reports that three shots were fired at the Kaiser as he was motoring towards Berlin yesterday. They missed their mark but two of them struck ...
Article : 44 wordsA German aeroplane raid was made on North-East London last night. It occupied only a few minutes. There was a brilliant full moon. One bomb struck some ...
Article : 54 wordsIt is believed that a new diplomatic post will be found for Count Von Bernstorff (late German Ambassador to the United States), possibly in one of the Scandinavian ...
Article : 38 wordsNine regiments of railway engineers will leave for France at the earliest opportunity. ...
Article : 26 wordsAs a result of Mr. Lloyd George's investigations at the Admiralty it is understood that Admiral Jellicoe will act as Chief of the Naval Staff, and that he will be free ...
Article : 157 wordsThe New York "World's" correspondent at the British front has interviewed a Canadian officer, who said: "We are pounding the Germans with 9in. guns. We have ...
Article : 72 wordsMr. Tilson, a member of the House of Representatives, asserts that only 66,000 rifles have been made in the United States since the outbreak of the war, and that ...
Article : 55 wordsMr. Samuel Gompers, on behalf of the Federation of Labour, has sent a message to the Russian Council of Workmen's and Soldiers' Deputies, urging co-operation ...
Article : 132 wordsA meeting of the general committee of the 10th Light Horse Comforts Committee will be held to-day at 3.30 p.m. in the Mayor's Parlour at the Town Hall, Perth. ...
Article : 636 wordsThe "Jewish Chronicle" publishes the awful details of the desperate condition of the Jews in Palestine. It declares: "They have been forced to leave Jaffa, although ...
Article : 120 wordsContinuing the recent activity, there was a further Allied air raid on Zeebrugge on Sunday night. ...
Article : 23 wordsA sensational tragedy occurred at Magill, near Adelaide, last night, shortl- after 9 o'clock, when William Nicholas Hann (57), a gardener, lost his life at the hands of ...
Article : 209 wordsA French Macedonian communique received yesterday stated: "In the region of Ljumnica an attack by French and Venizelist contingents enabled us to occupy ...
Article : 62 wordsThe bankers of Lieut. Robinson, V.C., the hero of the destruction of the Zeppelin at Cuffley, who was reported missing on the West front last month, have received ...
Article : 53 wordsA Russian communique received last night stated:—"Near Vladimir Volnsky, south of Zubilnow, after intense fire by mine and bomb throwers, an enemy company made ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Roumanian Parliament will meet on the 17th inst. at Jassy to vote upon constitutional reforms. Henceforth the Chamber of Deputies will be elected by universal ...
Article : 128 wordsA wireless German official message intercepted yesterday stated: "British attacks at Roeux and between Fontaine and Riencourt were repulsed sanguinarily. Fighting ...
Article : 143 wordsThe Zionist organisations have received advices from Palestine that the Turks are driving the Jews from their homes amid scenes of looting and pillage. [?] ...
Article : 80 wordsThe Paris edition of the New York "Herald" reports: "A German submarine attacked the French liner Rochambeau off the French coast yesterday. The captain ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the "World" reports that virtually a Coalition Government has been formed in Russia, and that it consists of the present ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Wed 9 May 1917, Page 7
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