A wireless Russian official message received yesterday evening stated:—"The enemy occupied some heights north-west of Sipot Katergali to-day, and pressed us ...
Article : 120 wordsThe most important subject considered by the annual conference of the Farmers and Settlers' Association yesterday was that of repatriation, with special reference ...
Article : 1,433 wordsThe American United Press correspondent at the British headquarters in France says:—Improved weather has stimulated serial and artillery warfare. Airmen on ...
Article : 266 wordsIt is generally regarded as certain that the age limit of enlistment will be reduced from 20 to 19 years. Probably also, the standard of physical efficiency will be raised. ...
Article : 61 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday, Lord Robert Cecil (Minister for Blockade), in reply to Mr. Lynch, said there had been no violation of constitutional practice ...
Article : 163 wordsThe fine weather has permitted progress being made in repairing the damaged permanent way, both on the Government and Midland systems. In the Moora district, ...
Article : 1,470 wordsThe Acting Premier made a further official, statement to-day, in the course of which he said:— Many thousands of citizens have offered their services, ...
Article : 887 wordsThe hon secretary of the Naval Comforts and Welcome Committee (Mr. E. Pvman) has received the following communication from the Naval Chaplain at ...
Article : 383 wordsThe serious situation caused by the refusal of the wharf labourers to handle food or cargo for overseas parts, owing to the prevailing high cost of commodities, was ...
Article : 138 wordsYesterday evening's German wireless report stated:—"We repulsed Russo-Roumanian mass attacks north of Focsani to-day. Our prisoners now number 3,300, and our ...
Article : 43 wordsA committee of the Labour executive has issued a report, suggesting a basis for the British Labour movement's peace views. The report will be presented to-day to a ...
Article : 275 wordsSenator Elihu Root has informed President Wilson that Russia is growing stronger daily, and will be victorious. The present Government controlling the country can ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of the "Cologue Gasette," commenting on the questions in the House of Commons concerning Belgium, says: "Their object is simply to ...
Article : 203 wordsSouth Australia is dependent upon New South Wales for supplies of coal and the prolongation and extension of the present industrial trouble in the senior State will ...
Article : 274 wordsAt St. Alban's Hall, Beaufort-street, on Monday evening Lieut. Colonel Roberts will deliver a lecture on his experiences at the front. The proceeds will be in aid of the ...
Article : 298 wordsYesterday's wireless German official report stated: "The artillery duel in progress in Flanders is of the greatest intensity. It extends from the coast to ...
Article : 40 wordsThe civilian population have been compelled to evacuate Armentieres, as the enemy have for some days thrown into the town a multitude of small shells ...
Article : 84 wordsThe 329th casualty list has been released by the Censor, and is published below. It contains the names of Western Australian soldiers, together with those who enlisted ...
Article : 590 wordsThe Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Walter Long), speaking at the West Indian Club, said:—"Our distant dominions and dependencies have played a part in ...
Article : 126 wordsA terrific gunfire from a westerly direction was heard on the frontier on Wednesday afternoon. There were three great explosions. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the New York "Times" quotes a prominent Swiss manufacturer who is in close touch with the Central Powers, as saying: "Germany ...
Article : 85 wordsThe Rotterdam correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" reports: "German war correspondents admit that the weather has held up the British operations. They ...
Article : 101 wordsLieutenant Heppingstone addressed a crowded house at the Palladium Picture Palace last night, and received a splendid reception. He claimed to have a right ...
Article : 657 wordsFollowing upon the recent adverse comments regarding the purity of the State electoral rolls, information has been received showing that attempts have been ...
Article : 328 wordsOfficial information here states that Herr Maximilian Harden wrote in the last issue of "Zukunft" that Alsace-Lorraine must be restored to France, that Trent and Trieste ...
Article : 65 wordsThe "Star" publishes an interview with the Australian War Workers who are annoyed over the delay in finding work for them. They state that only 300 out of ...
Article : 142 wordsGeneral Maurice, Directors of Military Operations, states: "A great feature of the battle of July 31 was our aircraft, which had over a hundred engagements with ...
Article : 85 wordsThe German residents held at a cinema theatre yesterday a private exhibition of a German Somme battle film, which provoked grave disorders. Thousands of ...
Article : 58 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday Mr. Macpherson (Parliamentary Under Secretary to the War Office) assured Mr. Billing that the proportion of overseas men among ...
Article : 47 wordsHerr Scheidemann (Leader of the Socialist majority in the Reichstag) is touring the country on imperialistic propaganda work. He addressed 6,000 persons at Mannheim ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the "World" learns from the Russian mission to Paris that Germany has 88 divisions, comprising 1,924,000 men on the West front. The ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Birmingham "Daily Post" says that Mr. Neville Chamberlain is resigning the position of Director-General of National Service owing to the transfer of recruiting ...
Article : 94 wordsThe Sydney Chamber of Commerce council passed a resolution to-day that it recognised and appreciated the attitude adopted by the National Government of New ...
Article : 114 wordsThe "Aftonposten" says that Sweden has invited the European neutrals to participate in the Scandinavian Conference to be held at Stockholm to discuss their ...
Article : 56 wordsOfficial advices state that Austria is frantically fortifying, as she fears an early Italian offensive. She has refused Germany's request to transfer many Austrian ...
Article : 91 wordsAuthorities state that unless exports from America are forthcoming Norway will be in a condition of famine by New Year's Day. The country has now only ...
Article : 39 wordsA meeting of the Workers and Soldiers' Council was to have been held at Glasgow to-morrow, but it has been prohibited under the Defence of the Realm Act, at the ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) to-day wrote to the Interstate Commission asking how soon the members would be prepared to undertake the proposed investigation into ...
Article : 101 wordsHitherto the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) has maintained a comparative silence regarding the developments of the strike in New South Wales. To-night, ...
Article : 119 wordsThe German police yesterday raided the residence of Herr Haade. The military threaten to conscript him for military service if he makes another unpatriotic speech ...
Article : 35 wordsMr. Guthrie, British Traffic Commissioner, is conferring with Mr. Hurley for the purpose of formulating a scheme for the Anglo-American control of Trans-Atlantic ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Dutch Government has decided to get rid of half a million cattle. Many thousands will be exported alive, owing to the scarcity of fodder. The British ...
Article : 70 wordsThe use of beef and bacon will be prohibited in public eating places on Tuesdays and Fridays. The use of wheat in the manufacture of alcohol will also be ...
Article : 38 wordsA deputation representing, the meat trade wanted on Mr. Justice Edmunds and the members of the Necessary Commodities Commission to-day and agreed that an ...
Article : 115 wordsThe Conscription Bill has finally passed the Senate. It is expected that 100,000 men will be drafted into training by the autumn. ...
Article : 29 wordsAll the collieries on the South Coast were idle yesterday. Three thousand men are affected. The coke industry is also suffering. The coal tribunal sat at Wollangong ...
Article : 202 wordsAfter the Allies' Conference yesterday M. Painleve (French Minister for War) said to an interviewer that the British, American, and French combined would exert ...
Article : 64 wordsIt has been officiall learned that Germany is concentrating her submarine activities in the Atlantic and the Northern Sea, and is leaving operations in the ...
Article : 81 wordsThe Aborigines Department has received information that Lieutenant M. D. Chick, who was serving with Indian Expeditionary. Force D, and was previously attached to the staff of ...
Article : 880 wordsThe "Staats Zeitung" declares: "The Germans are now realising that if the war continues in 1918 America will be an immense factor. The problems of ...
Article : 78 wordsA vital surgical operation carried out by a layman with no other guide than the telegraphed directions of a medical man near a couple of thousand miles away is the ...
Article : 254 wordsThe Labour Executive, after hearing Mr. Henderson, reaffirmed by a narrow majority its decision in favour of attending the Stockholm Conference. Messrs. Barnes and ...
Article : 45 wordsA fire which resulted in the destruction of the South Yarra Picture Theatre, with its contents, occurred about a quarter-past 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon. The ...
Article : 140 wordsThe German offer to submit the sinking of the Peruvian barque Lorton to a prize court has been refused. The Peruvian Government declares that the sinking of ...
Article : 49 wordsOne-third of the 637,000 men drafted will be mobilised on the first of next month. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe case in which a young woman wrote a letter to the Chief Justice bearing on the case of the man 'Clarence Victor Sefton at the time of his trial on a charge of ...
Article : 99 wordsMr. Bonar Law (Chancellor of the Exchequer) said in the House of Commons yesterday that the Government was considering the question of denourcing the ...
Article : 53 wordsA British Salonika official report received yesterday stated: "Our cavalry repulsed a Bulgarian raid at Cuculuk to-day. We bombed an aerodrome at ...
Article : 68 wordsThe "World's" Washington correspondent states: "American naval gunners on a merchantman recently sank a U-boat by shellfire. This is the first case in which ...
Article : 55 wordsAlthough the Premier (Mr. Ryan), when approached by Press representatives this afternoon, denied that Cabinet had arrived at any formal decision, he practically ...
Article : 234 wordsA special proclamation was issued by the Federal Government this afternoon, prohibition the exportation of sulphate of ammonia. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe Peruvian Senate has passed a resolution sympathising with the United States in the latter's war motives. ...
Article : 26 wordsViolent cannonading was heard for several hours yesterday in the Skager Rak. Norwegian torpedoers have proceeded to the locality. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Sat 11 Aug 1917, Page 7
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