The "New York Times" correspondent at Washington says that the State Department until the present has been opposing the ultra-severe embargo on ...
Article : 95 wordsWhile there is little outward indication of a change in the strike position, the return of many additional strikers to the railway and tramway departments has had ...
Article : 639 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs telegraphs:—"There was violent fighting on Saturday after our successful advance across the Westhoek Ridge. On the night of our attack in ...
Article : 683 wordsThe Unionist Party's business committee has drawn attention to the law forbidding communication with the enemy and emphasises the fact that it is contrary to all ...
Article : 43 wordsIt was decided by Mr. Justice Higgins to-day that he would not deal further at the present time with an application by the Waterside Workers' Federation of ...
Article : 214 wordsA party of twenty invalids will disembark at Fremantle approximately at noon to-day (Tuesday). The names were not available yesterday. ...
Article : 95 wordsRussian delegates in London declare at there is no evidence that M. Kerensky opposes the holding of the conference at Stockholm. They say that the Russian ...
Article : 39 wordsMr. Hoover, the American Food Controller, announces that he is ready to take over the entire wheat ration immediately unless speculation is discontinued. He states that ...
Article : 57 wordsThe 330th casualty list was released by the Censor yesterday, and is published below. It contains the names of Western Australian soldiers, together with those ...
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Article : 153 wordsSoldiers' Relations' Association.—Owing to the opening of the Y.M.C.A. hut at Fremantle to-morrow (Wednesday), the social afternoon which was to have been held in ...
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Article : 46 wordsThe Press Bureau has issued a message which has been received from Mr. W. M. Hughes, the Prime Minister of Australia, regarding the Stockholm Conference. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe strike element is growing more pronounced and further developments took place this morning, when the seamen and firemen employed on the A.U.S.N. ...
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Article : 111 wordsThe question of the validity of the Upper House referendum was further argued in the High Court of Australia this morning, before Mr. Justice Barton, Mr. Justice ...
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Article : 87 wordsMr Cyril Brown, writing to the New York "World" from Stockholm, says that the Germans are dissatisfied at the failure of Teuton diplomacy to take proper ...
Article : 136 wordsClacton was crowded with visitors, who quietly watched airmen ascending to meet the raiders, some going seaward and others patrolling the coastline. The enemy was ...
Article : 415 wordsOne of the really bad effects of the strike on the Northern railways is the increasing danger that Western towns on the Northern railways will be unable to get ...
Article : 188 wordsIt is officially stated that 50 per cent. of the railway and tramway workers have refused to come out on strike. According to a statement made to-night by the Railway ...
Article : 70 wordsSir Douglas Haig issued the following report yesterday afternoon:—"The weather is wet and stormy. Fighting occurred for the possession of a mine crater to the east of ...
Article : 136 wordsCommander Locker-Lampson, M.P., who was in command of the British armoured motor car squadron which rendered such fine service in Russia recently in covering ...
Article : 77 wordsThe cargoes of many ships which have been laid up on account of the strike are being discharged by clerks and employees of the shipping companies. The shipping ...
Article : 167 wordsNews was received to-day by the Minister for Works and Railways (Mr. Watt) that a platelaying gang of from 70 to 80 men engaged on the Eastern section of the ...
Article : 133 wordsThe "New York Times" correspondent at Washington has learned that the Allies will soon begin a series of conferences for the purpose of harmonising plans and ...
Article : 54 wordsThe following official French communique was issued yesterday morning:—"In Belgium the artillery duel was somewhat violent, also in the section of Hurtebise, and ...
Article : 220 words"I suppose the lumpers have had their orders from Melbourne," Mr. T. Ockerby, of Messrs. Ockerby and Co., Ltd., remarked to a "West Australian" reporter yesterday, ...
Article : 703 wordsAn official cable which has been received from Europe states that according to reports received from neutral countries adjacent to Germany, the economic conditions ...
Article : 73 wordsReplying to attacks made upon the Government by various strike leaders, the Acting Premier (Mr. Fuller) said to-night:— "In no case has a union been given a chance ...
Article : 274 wordsMembers of the Federal Ministry met to-day to consider the latest developments in the industrial trouble, which already extends to two States and threatens to ...
Article : 432 wordsA wireless Russian official message states:—"Following upon stubborn attacks the Roumanians retired to Okna, along the Nilemoshoredi-road, and westward of ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Stockholm correspondent of the "New York World" says that the feeble progress of Germany towards parliamentary reform has suffered a crushing initial ...
Article : 128 wordsThe Minister for Mines (Mr. Hudson) and Mr. Mullany, M.L.A., left Kalgoorlie for Davyhurst on Sunday morning. After a brief stay at Goongarrie they continued ...
Article : 85 wordsA German wireless message, intercepted yesterday by the British Admiralty, stated that two French attacks at Cerny broke down. ...
Article : 25 wordsGeneral Mackensen is driving the Roumanians back at Marasesti, and threatens to cut off the retreat of the Roumanians, who are fighting at Mona. This would ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Navy Office announces that there is cause for grave anxiety as to the fate of the steamer Matunga, owned by Messrs. Burns, Philp, and Co., which left Sydney ...
Article : 206 wordsA despatch from Zurich states that Herr Philip Scheidemann, the German Socialist leader, in the course of speeches delivered before the Socialist conference at ...
Article : 83 wordsMr. G. H. Roberts, Labour member for Norwich and Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade, speaking at York on Saturday, said that the Labour Party were ...
Article : 358 wordsThe following German wireless official message was intercepted by the British Admiralty yesterday:—"To the south of the Trotus Valley we captured a dominating ...
Article : 63 wordsThere were serious developments in Melbourne to-day in connection with the wave of industrial unrest that is passing over the Commonwealth. The Wharf Labourers' ...
Article : 346 wordsTo Miss Rachel Pratt, of Mumbannar, Victoria, belongs the distinction of having been the first and only Australian nurse to be wounded in the present war. It was ...
Article : 84 wordsMiss Ethel Parker, the honorary secretary of the trench comforts funds (Victoria League) for Western Australia, has received from Mr. Walker, honorary secretary of the ...
Article : 313 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle's" correspondent at Petrograd says that a significant change has taken place in the attitude of the Workmen's and Soldiers' Council. Formerly the ...
Article : 167 wordsAfter several years, without obtaining stones of much value, Mr. W. Banger's boats have within the past few weeks secured two fine pearls. On top of one of ...
Article : 70 wordsYesterday morning several gangs of lumpers who were engaged to place about 1,100 tons of flour aboard the s.s. Minderoo for shipment to Batavia and Singapore, ...
Article : 1,060 wordsThe Minister for Customs (Mr. Jensen) to-day quoted figures to show that the importation of luxuries had been checked naturally by the war prior to any ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Tue 14 Aug 1917, Page 5
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