In yesterday morning's despatch Sir Douglas Haig reported:—There have been small right outpost engagements south-east of Epehy. The enemy heavily bombarded ...
Article : 528 wordsNorwegian shipping circles are protesting that spies are informing German submarines of the dates on which Norwegian merchant ships are sailing. Many messages ...
Article : 81 wordsThe German Imperial Chancellor delivered his statement on the Central Powers war aims in the Reichstag yesterday. Herr Roesicke, the Conservative Party leader, ...
Article : 941 wordsMr. Bonar Law (Chancellor of the Exchequer) denied in the House of Commons yesterday that the Government had reached a decision on the question of State ...
Article : 38 wordsYesterday's Serbian communique stated: "There is great activity on the whole of the Serbian front. We advanced again in the region of Vetrenik and Dobropoldje. We ...
Article : 77 wordsThe labourers' employed on the Wyndham meat works, who have been in "conference" for some days, agreed on Tuesday to resume work if the Government ...
Article : 322 wordsThe King and Queen have continued their tour, visiting the docks and factories at Liverpool, where a large number of troops were presented with military medals ...
Article : 37 wordsAustria recently proposed to exchange Captain A. Stanely Wilson, M.P. for Hoderness (Yorks), who is a prisoner in Austrian hands: but the proposal contained ...
Article : 42 wordsA White Paper, dealing with the British Trade Bank, states: "It will be called the British Trade Corporation, and its general objects will be to assist in the ...
Article : 186 wordsThe survivors of the troopship Arcadian, which was torpedoed in the Mediterranean on April [?], reached England yesterday. They state that the sea was perfectly ...
Article : 161 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday, in reply to a question Mr J. F. Hope (Lord of the Treasury) said that the Government had considered the possibility of ...
Article : 71 wordsSir William Osler M.D (Regius Professor of Medicine, Oxford) states that the most recent figure available show that there are 93,000 venereal cases in the British Army. ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Workmen's and Soldiers' Executive has agreed upon an important resolution pledging the Socialists' support to the Provisional Government. The executive ...
Article : 159 wordsIt has been definitely decided by the executive of the unions embracing the employees of the Victorian railways service not to call a strike of railway employees, ...
Article : 83 wordsIt is understood that the Australian Wheat Board, at its meeting this week had under discussion a proposal to divert shipments of wheat and flour from ...
Article : 214 wordsThe "Telegraaf" publishes an interview with one of the crew of the German submarine which attacked seven Dutch grain ships in February. He states that the ...
Article : 147 wordsThe New Zealand Commandant has issued in his orders Mr. Massey's message to the troops, which says: "Our gallants have willingly taken up their share of the burden of ...
Article : 96 wordsA dispute between two sections of the Colliery Workers' Unions has resulted in the Wallsend Colliery being thrown idle. It appears that a number of members of ...
Article : 102 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday Mr. Macpherson (Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the War Office), in moving the second reading of the Military Service Bill to ...
Article : 101 wordsMr. James Mitchell, accompanied by the member for the district (Mr. A. N. Piesse), Mr. Trethowan (Water Supply Department), and several others, including Mrs. Mitchell, ...
Article : 733 wordsAccording to a message from the Hague the German Legation announces that certain English ships; painted with red and white stripes, on May 15 made an attempt ...
Article : 91 wordsMessrs. J. McDonald, M. Cunningham, and P. Kelly, executive officials of the Miners' Association, who have been appointed delegates to confer with the Mount Lyell ...
Article : 125 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" is of the opinion that the situation does not warrant excitement. He believes that the Russian people are ...
Article : 100 wordsIn a recent cable message it was stated that the Australian Red Cross Society had offered to give £5,000 towards establishing workshops for disabled Australian soldiers ...
Article : 169 wordsThe meetings of the engineers at Woolwich have not yet resulted in a settlement of the dispute. A national conference of the strikers is sitting in London ...
Article : 194 wordsThe "National Tidende" reports that there are numerous cases of German submarines being disguised as fishing boats. The captain of a Norwegian steamer states ...
Article : 64 wordsThe United Press Association's Petrograd correspondent telegraphed yesterday that the Workmen's and Soldiers' Council had decided to enter into a coalition with the ...
Article : 39 wordsA case arising out of the recent elections was heard in the Kalgoorlie Police Court to-day, when John B. Holman, M.L.A., was charged with having addressed insulting ...
Article : 220 wordsThe French mail steamer Medjerda 1,918 tons, was sunk by a German submarine on Monday. Seventeen shipwrecked persons, including several Spaniards, have ...
Article : 48 wordsThe "Dagens Nyheder" states that the majority of the workmen's and soldiers delegates favour holding a Russian peace conference in Copenhagen, and that 250 ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Presbyterian Assembly resumed its sittings to-day under the Moderator (the Rev. M. Kirkpatrick), when a fresh series of loyal motions were submitted. ...
Article : 241 wordsAn urgent Deficiency Bill has been reported by the Senate Committee. It provides for £80,000,000 for merchantmen now under construction, and £40,000,000 for the ...
Article : 190 wordsThe situation with regard to the engineers' strike has generally improved. The naval dockyard workers at Chatham passed a resolution yesterday ...
Article : 164 wordsA wireless Russian official report received yesterday stated:—"In the region of Kellerk and Amaik Baba, south of Erzinghan, our counter attacks dislodged the [?]urds ...
Article : 49 wordsA wireless German official report intercepted stated: "Our fire prevented the development of English attacks on the Scarpe and near Monchy. We repulsed ...
Article : 82 wordsAt the dinner given in honour of the South' African and Indian delegates to the Imperial War Conference in the Guildhall on May 1 Viscount French paid a tribute ...
Article : 515 wordsAt the Boulder Police Court to-day George Rowley was charged with having uttered disloyal sentiments likely to cause disaffection. It was alleged that on April ...
Article : 112 wordsA sensation has been caused by the Council of Ministers appointing General Petain the new Commander-in-Chief of the Northern and North-Eastern Armies, with ...
Article : 45 wordsIt is noteworthy that the German censorship deleted from the official wireless message the following extract from Amsterdam:—"I will not be diverted from the proper ...
Article : 313 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday the Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Walter Long) introduced the Electoral Reform Bill. ...
Article : 212 wordsThe Federal authorities have concluded arrangements for all the banks to act as their agents in the matter of redeeming war savings certificates either on maturity ...
Article : 103 wordsA Bruges correspondent reports that many German soldiers were killed in the recent English raid, and that General Von Mackensen was at Bruges during the ...
Article : 32 wordsMr. James Thomas, of the British Labour Commission, has appeaied to American employees and employers to give up all thought of material gain and to work for ...
Article : 113 wordsWar pictures predominate among the illustrations in the current issue of the "Western Mail." They deal chiefly with the operations on the Western front, and are ...
Article : 287 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the New York "Times" says:—"Mr. Whitney Warren, the well known American architect, has reported upon the Rheims Cathedral, at the ...
Article : 115 wordsOne of the most enthusiastic of the long series of send-offs to soldiers at the Midland Junction locomotive workshops was held in the lunch hour yesterday. An ...
Article : 921 wordsThe s.s. Dekalb (formerly the North German Lloyd liner Prinz Eitel Friedrich (8,797 tons) has been commissioned. She is the first German ship to be employed ...
Article : 37 wordsThe estimated population of New South Wales at the end of 1916 was 1.846,730 thus showing a decrease of 21,908 for the year. The excess of emigration over in ...
Article : 95 wordsIn the House of Lords yesterday Lord Selbourne moved the postponement of the operation of the Welsh Church Disestablishment Act for one year after the war. ...
Article : 179 wordsThe "Petit Parisien" states:—"Heavy levies have been made upon the German troops on the eastern front, in order to reinforce those in the western zone. Many of ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Board of Trade on Monday prohibited, in connection with the wheat market, the buying of "futures" for 48 hours, and it also fixed prices as follows:—July, 11s. ...
Article : 60 wordsAn Italian official report says:—"After an intense artillery duel we made considerable progress on the slopes of Monte Cucco and the hills to the east of Gorizia and ...
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Advertising : 69 wordsThe Senate of the State and Free City of Hamburg has appointed a committee to consider the question of rebuilding the city's trade, and also shipbuilding after the ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Luxuries Regulation Board will be appointed to-morrow. It will consist of five members. Mr. N. C. Lockyer, of the Interstate Commission, will be chairman, ...
Article : 61 wordsSenator Root had an important conference with President Wilson and others on Monday. The mission to Russia will have almost plenary powers, as the officials are ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Thu 17 May 1917, Page 7
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