As Italian official report issued last night stated:—"The battle on the Julian front was renewed violently to-day. We captured an important position south-west of ...
Article : 338 wordsPolitics were never at so low an ebb as now. The party system carried to its logical conclusion has brought Parliament into disrepute; has given a dangerous power ...
Article : 1,991 wordsA wireless Russian official report received yesterday afternoon stated:—"Our retirement along the Riga Gulf continues. The enemy have reached the crossings of the ...
Article : 347 wordsField-Marshal Haig reported last night:—"We drove back some raiders east of Klein Zillebeke to-day. Artillery operations continue on the Ypres front. Enemy ...
Article : 304 wordsMrs. E. A. Dean, of South Perth, has rereceived a cable from New Zealand announcing the death of her youngest brother, who was killed in action on August 21 after serving ...
Article : 206 wordsAn official report issued early yesterday stated:—"A considerable number of German aeroplanes crossed the south-east coast over a wide area last night. The raiders ...
Article : 516 wordsIn an article contributed to the "Japan Chronicle," Kobe, by M. Yoneda, of the Japanese House of Representatives, the writer, in giving reasons against a ...
Article : 591 wordsIn the Senate to-day, Senator Needham asked the Minister for Defence: Is he aware whether the road to the Blackboy Hill Camp from Perth is in a dangerous ...
Article : 259 wordsIn the course of a speech here yesterday Mr. Roosevelt said:—"We must not make peace except through the complete defeat of the brutalised Prussianised Germany of ...
Article : 70 wordsAn air battle characteristic of the recent fighting on the West front has been recorded. Six British machines encountered fifteen Germans above the clouds in ...
Article : 95 wordsThe following German official report was issued yesterday evening:—"Operations in the Riga region further developed to-day. Heavy coast guns, including some of thirty ...
Article : 53 wordsAt Minneapolis yesterday the Labour organisations of the United States opened a great convention which carried a resolution pledging unwavering support to the ...
Article : 188 wordsThe food crisis in Russia is serious. There is only a bread reserve for three days and soldiers and civilians are suffering privations. The main cause is the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 116 wordsA Belgian East African communique issued yesterday stated:—"Before the converging advance of the British and Belgizn columns yesterday the enemy retired ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Central News Agency confirms the report of the capture of Monte San Gabriele, with many prisoners and much booty. ...
Article : 41 wordsThe House went into Committee of Supply. The Treasurer (Sir John Forrest) said that it was proposed to introduce a loan Bill for £80,000,000. The Government had ...
Article : 203 wordsThe Press Burean at Vienna says that the Austrian divisions on the Italian front have done the whole of their duty, but they have been crushed by the enemy ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Admiralty reports that British naval aircraft effectively bombed Adrianople bridge and railway station last Sunday night. ...
Article : 24 wordsA Turkish communique issued yesterday stated:—"The British are maintaining an intense bombardment of our positions near Gaza." ...
Article : 28 wordsGeneral Cadorna, not waiting for the enemy's initiative, vigorously and successfully attacked the Austrian centre and right on Tuesday. The Austrians were ...
Article : 71 wordsEx-King Constantine has issued a proclamation denouncing M. Venizelos. The "Vossische Zeitung" says that he regards himself still as King of Greece, and that ...
Article : 37 wordsAt yesterday's weekly luncheon of the Citizen's National Movement the speaker was the Rev. Canon Moore, of Fremantle, who look as his subject "Anti-Shouting." ...
Article : 567 wordsA British official report issued yesterday afternoon stated: "A German submarine appeared off Scarborough yesterday evening and fired 30 rounds, half of which fell ...
Article : 107 wordsThe number of cadets to be admitted to the Royal Military College next year is 30, and they will be allotted to the various States as follow:—New South Wales, 11; ...
Article : 52 wordsA wireless German official report intercepted by the Admiralty yesterday afternoon stated:—"There was vigorous aerial activity yesterday and last night. We ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Irish Convention met in the City Hall at Belfast yesterday, and continued the consideration of the draft Home Rule schemes based upon the dominion ...
Article : 65 wordsThe newspapers report the detention of several Grand Dukes in consequence of the discovery of a counter revolutionary plot The Grand Duke Michael (Heir ...
Article : 79 wordsThere is widespread newspaper criticism of the air defences of London. The papers urge the formation of a Ministry of the Air, independent of the War Office and the ...
Article : 83 wordsThe delegates to the Central Council of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' Imperial League of Australia resumed their conference to-day. ...
Article : 158 wordsThe members of the Japanese Mission appeared in Congress yesterday and were enthusiastically received. Baron Ishii, in the course of an address, warned his hearers ...
Article : 79 wordsIt is anticipated by the Minister for Works and Railways (Mr. Watt) that the trans-Australian railway will be opened early in November. A few months ago it ...
Article : 106 wordsEven in pre-Duma days the Grand Duke Michael was not (writes Dr. E. J. Dillon) an adherent of antocratic government, and had he come to the Throne when he was ...
Article : 899 wordsA hundred mines and much wreckage have been washed ashore upon the Jutland coast. The Germans are scattering a new kind of floating mine consisting of a small ...
Article : 157 wordsThe Victoria Cross has been awarded to nine more heroes, including Corporal Leslie Wilton Andrews, a New Zealand infantryman, for conspicuous bravery. Andrews ...
Article : 161 wordsRaids have been made throughout the country on all the headquarters of the I.W.W. and cheque books and documents have been seized. Wholesale prosecutions ...
Article : 33 wordsThe High Court of Australia sat at Darlinghurst this morning and reversed the decision of the Supreme Court of Queensland in respect of the referendum regarding ...
Article : 134 wordsAt the inquiry of the Interstate Commission into the cost of living to-day, A. W. Osborne stated that recent advices received from London showed that the ...
Article : 49 wordsAn agreement made between the leaders of Congress has assured the passage of the War Bond Bill for £2,307,600,000, the biggest financial appropriation ever proposed. ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Minister for Mercantile Marine has arranged to lay down during the current year three times the tonnage laid down annually before the war. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe following contributions are acknowledged by the War Council of Western Australia:— By the Western Australian Bank, for ...
Article : 66 wordsThe State Department announces that the Kaiser's militaristic power must be utterly broken before America will discuss peace. A popular form of Government is one of ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Minister for Munitions has taken possession of all the lead in the United Kingdom as from September 1. ...
Article : 26 wordsMarriage by a girl at the age of 16 years had its sequel in the Divorce Court to-day, when Lily Grivell asked for a divorce from her husband, Frank Henry Grivell, on the ...
Article : 131 wordsThe following official shipping figures for the week ended Sunday last have been announced:— British. ...
Article : 63 wordsA Dutch mission to America is expected to arrive within a week. The first matter it will discuss will be a proposal to use the Dutch ships held up in American ports ...
Article : 47 wordsTwo officials in the employ of the Humber Graving Dockyards and Engineering Company have been arrested on a charge of fraud. It is believed that the ...
Article : 49 wordsAt about 10 o'clock last night two men entered the bar of the Westralia Hotel, Kamballie, and proceeded to rob the till. They were seen by a sister of the licensee, ...
Article : 104 wordsThe military authorities desire to get into communication with the next-of-kin of the following:— No. 3125, Lance-Corporal J. Thompson, ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Senate yesterday adopted a Bill providing for a graduaced tax on war profits ranging from 12 to 60 per cent. An effort to make the tax run up to 80 per cent. ...
Article : 43 wordsAccording to the annual report, the New Zealand Soldiers' Club during the past year supplied soldiers with a quarter of a million meals and 65,000 beds. Sir Thos. ...
Article : 94 words51st Battalion.—As notified by advertisement a snowball tea will be given to-morrow afternoon by the vice-president (Mrs. F. D. North) of the Cottesloe-Claremont ...
Article : 212 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the United Press Association says it is reported there that the Allies are likely shortly to undertake a new and strong anti-Austrian ...
Article : 49 wordsA Norwegian torpedo boat yesterday discovered a sunken German submarine lying on the sea bottom near Hammerfest. The submarine, which was 160ft. long, had been ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Fri 7 Sep 1917, Page 7
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