In the House of Commons yesterday, during the debate on the Consolidated Fund Bill, several members referred to various points in relation to ultimate peace, such ...
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Article : 35 wordsColonel Locker-Lampson's British armoured cars rendered invaluable aid in checking the enemy's advance. There was very servere fighting in the village west of ...
Article : 387 wordsThe Postmaster-General announced yesterday that the mails which left Adelaide on the R.M.S. Mooltan on June 14 had been lost through the sinking of the liner ...
Article : 39 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly last night, Mr. Lambert moved: "That, in order to more effectively safeguard the interests of returned soldiers, this House is of opinion ...
Article : 2,195 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly yesterday, The Premier (Mr. Lefroy) moved, without notice: "That, for the remainder of the session, the Standing Orders be suspended ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 99 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Lloyd George), addressing the Press gallery of the House of Commons yesterday after his return from France, said he had found the French ...
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Article : 39 wordsThe passengers by the R.M.S. Mooltan booked for Marseilles and London were as follows:—Mr. A. Jandron, Mr. F. Wernham, Mr. C. Poulton, Mr. and Mrs. Charles ...
Article : 261 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday Mr. H. G. Chancellor (Liberal) denounced the Australian and Canadian soldiers who broke up a meeting of the Brotherhood ...
Article : 158 wordsA statement issued by the Federal Treasurer (Sir John Forrest) to-day, is particularly significant, in view of the approaching presentation of the Budget. Sir John ...
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Article : 473 wordsIn the last number of the "Rabaul Record," a request is made for more newspapers and general reading matter. At present most of the newspapers are sent ...
Article : 58 wordsAfter three years' absence on active service with the Imperial forces, Colonel Fred. Bird, C.B., consulting surgeon in the Army Medical Service, returned to ...
Article : 206 wordsMr. Bonar Law said in the House of Commons yesterday that Mr. Henderson (Labour member of the War Cabinet), accompanied by Mr. Wardle and Mr. Ramsay ...
Article : 74 wordsInformation was received privately on Monday that the Mooltan, which left Melbourne for London on June 12, had been lost in the Mediterranean. The first ...
Article : 381 wordsA wireless Russian official message received yesterday stated:—"South of Husiating to-day we repulsed an attempt to cross the Brucz River. We repulsed the enemy ...
Article : 119 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday Sir George Cave (Home Secretary) said that 366 persons had been killed in air raids in London since the beginning of the war, ...
Article : 60 wordsThe by-election for Dundee, which was rendered necessary owing to Colonel Winston Churchill being appointed Minister for Munitions, took place yesterday, and ...
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Article : 65 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce made the following statement to-day:—"The 273 nurses who left Australia in June last for war service at Salonika ...
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Article : 76 wordsA meeting of the Sydney district of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners was held on Monday night, when the piecework proposal of the ...
Article : 142 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly yesterday Mr. W. D. Johnson gave notice of his invention to ask the Premier today: Will he, for the information of returned soldiers who were ...
Article : 125 wordsReplying to a suggestion to use native troops instead of calling up Englishmen over 49 years of age, Mr. A. D. Steel Maitland (Parliamentary Under-Secretary for ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" reported yesterday:—"There were remarkable scenes yesterday at the byrial of Cossacks. The requiem ...
Article : 135 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle's" Paris correspondent states that the American army in France are making their own docks, harbours, and roads, and are rebuilding the ...
Article : 273 wordsThe Admiralty reports that the British cruiser Ariadne (11,000 tons) was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine yesterday. In the explosion 38 men were killed. ...
Article : 55 wordsThere is a consensus of opinion that the recent utterances of Dr. Michaelis, the German Imperial Chancellor, and Count Czernin, the Austrian Foreign Minister, ...
Article : 148 wordsThe Colonial Secretary (Mr. H. P. Colebatch) in the course of speaking in the Legislative Council yesterday in the debate on the Address-in-Reply, referred to some ...
Article : 585 wordsThe State War Council's weekly meeting was held yesterday morning, when the various committees' reports were received and discussed. The commemoration of the third ...
Article : 260 wordsThe American transport Saratoga, carrying 1,400 troops, was rammed in an Atlantic port yesterday and was badly damaged, but there were no casualties. ...
Article : 30 wordsMr. Will Throne, M.P. (Labour), in the course of a speech at Sheffield yesterday, said that 90 per cent. of the British trade unions approved of his visit to Russia. He ...
Article : 207 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday Mr. Bonar Law said the mine that sank the R.M.S. Mongalia was not laid by a neutral steamer. It was part of a minefield laid ...
Article : 56 wordsLord Northcliffe, in an exclusive interview with the Australian Press Association, gave the first detailed statement as to what the British mission is doing. The ...
Article : 846 wordsThe "Idea Nazionale" declares that the conference which met in Paris to discuss the Balkans situation overlooked Italy's interests in Southern Albania, especially the ...
Article : 100 wordsSir Joseph Maclay (the British Shipping Controller) stated to an interviewer here yesterday that 60 per cent. of the British ocean-going merchant vessels were now ...
Article : 98 wordsField-Marshal Haig reported yesterday evening: "We raided German trenches last night in the neighbourhood of Lombartzyde. The enemy's artillery was more ...
Article : 313 wordsA meeting of members of the Western Australian Association of Soldiers and Sailors' Relatives will be held this evening at the Victoria Hall, Fremantle. ...
Article : 686 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" states: "The Russian delegates were cordially welcomed here yesterday. Many members of Parliament were glad of ...
Article : 179 wordsA meeting of British, French, and Russian Socialist agreed to invite delegates from all minorities adhering to the International Socialist Bureau to attend the ...
Article : 36 wordsThe standardised ships will provide the crews' quarters in the poop instead of in the forecastle. There will be seperated cubicles, each of two berths, a smokeroom ...
Article : 97 wordsA boating disaster in which three lives were lost occurred at Inverloch in Anderson's Inlet yesterday afternoon. T. H. Millar, who has a selection on Point ...
Article : 156 wordsAdvices from Constantinople state that the Turkish Government has decided that it is unless to maintain a fleet and crews and in consequence the crews have been ...
Article : 46 wordsThe commander of the submarine which sunk even Dutch luggers off Ymuiden was a youth of 19, who showed no sense of responsibility. He was quite indifferent to ...
Article : 65 wordsThe German newspapers make great play with Dr. Michaelis's alleged revelations. They express sympathy with the French people whom, they say the French Government ...
Article : 56 wordsMr. Shepherd, the United Press Association's correspondent, reported yesterday:—"I interviewed members of the Legion of Death to-day. Each woman soldier ...
Article : 171 wordsIn the Chamber of Deputies yesterday, when an interpellation upon the navy was suggested, M. Ribot (the Premier) immediately rose and said: "We experienced ...
Article : 81 wordsCaptain E. W. Julien, an Australian chaplain, is missing. He was a resident of Newtown, Tasmania. He accompanied the first contingent and served in Egypt and ...
Article : 89 wordsThe Melbourne Chamber of Commerce had under consideration at its meeting on Monday a letter from the Commonwealth Prices Commissioner as to the necessity of ...
Article : 93 wordsThe Commonwealth Public Service Clerical Association has decided to approach the Court at the earliest oppourtunity to seek some additional remuneration as ...
Article : 55 wordsA wireless German official message, intercepted by the British Admiralty on Monday, stated:—"The artillery fire has lessened on the Flanders front. The ...
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Advertising : 40 wordsAt Liege in Belgium the Germans sentenced to death a merchant, with his wife and two daughters, on an unproved charge of espionage. The Huns shot the parents ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Prize Court has awarded the crews of the warships Swift and Broke £955 for the sinking of two German destroyers on April 30. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Wed 1 Aug 1917, Page 7
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