Advices received by the State Department at Washington from Rio de Janeiro and elsewhere account for 17 vessels captured or destroyed by the German raider ...
Article : 307 wordsA disastrous fire and explosion occurred on Friday evening in a munitions factory on the Thames, to the eastward of London. The fire broke out in a mixing shop. ...
Article : 1,769 wordsThe Russians during last year captured 8,770 officers, 420,000 men, 525 guns, 1,661 maxims, and 421 trench mortars. Of these captures General Brusiloff's three ...
Article : 178 wordsSo the Federal Labour members representative of this State who supported Mr. Hughes and conscription, are in the outer darkness. This according to a weird body ...
Article : 1,796 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph's" Rotterdam correspondent reports: "The population of Berlin is in the throes of a food crisis, more serious than anything it has yet experienced ...
Article : 472 wordsThe proposal of the Liberal and Ministerial partics that a National War Ministry, embracing all three parties in Parliament, should be formed, was the sole topic ...
Article : 555 wordsThe Rotterdam correspondent of the "Globe" states:—"Hunger frequently drives German officers across the Dutch border in search of nourishment. They famish when ...
Article : 68 wordsA German memorial to the United States defends the deportation of Belgians, and asserts: "Of 1,200,000 Belgians employed at the beginning of the war, 650,000, ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Germans claim to have taken the Yarrowdale to Swinemunde in the Baltic. A German official report states:—"The British steamer Yarrowdale was brought ...
Article : 221 wordsM. Thomas, Minister for Munitions in the Briand Cabinet, has informed the Parliamentary Committee of France that he is contemplating a general mobilisation of ...
Article : 32 wordsA Berlin official message reports:—"The enemy attacks on the heights of the region of Moinesti, northward of the Susita Valley, were repulsed, with severe losses. ...
Article : 85 wordsSpeculation is rife in London as to whether the Swsis invasion rumours are associated with political and diplomatic movements at Berlin. ...
Article : 143 wordsThe German troops massed along the Rhine between Basle and Lake Constance may be connected with an intended attack upon Belfort, or part of a feint to induce the ...
Article : 129 wordsCommenting upon the recent change of Premiers in Russia, the "Nation" says: "Though there have been five Russian Cabinets during the war period, none has ...
Article : 318 wordsThe crews of the ships sunk by the German raider say that she is of the Moewe type. The Dramatist sighted her on December 18. She came alongside and then ...
Article : 227 wordsReassuring details as to the efficiency of the British blockade have been given in an interview with Lord Robert Cecil to the Radio Agency, published in the Parisian ...
Article : 792 wordsCommenting on the German war experts' insinuation that France contemplates an offensive at Belfort, near the Swiss border, the "Echo de Paris" suggests that ...
Article : 71 wordsIn response to an invitation to the unionists opposed to the expulsion of the Prime Minister and his followers from the Labour movement, about 200 members of ...
Article : 205 wordsThe "Giornale d'Italia" states that the Germans have ordered the inhabitants of Alsatian villages on the Swiss frontier to evacuate their homes, and to withdraw ...
Article : 73 wordsA telegram from Rio de Janeiro states that a strange vessel with four funnels, and travelling at high speed, is reported to have been seen off Cuara, in Brazil. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe newspapers state that German raiders have little chance of breaking through the North Sea cordon, except during the long nights of midwinter, towards the end ...
Article : 117 wordsThe "Informazione" reports that Hindenburg's refusal of Bulgaria's repeated appeals to commence a great offensive in Macedonia is causing ill-feeling at Sofia. ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Swiss Government has notified the Swiss Minister here to direct all conditional leave reservists to sail for home by next Wednesday for the mobilisation of three ...
Article : 39 wordsThe following are among the large subscriptions to the Victory War Loan, and are mostly new money:—North-Eastern Railway Co., £2,000,000; Edinburgh Life ...
Article : 87 wordsSenator Gardiner addressed a meeting in Hannan-street on Saturday night. He dealt at great length with Federal affairs without breaking much fresh ground. He said that ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Zurich correspondent of the "Echo de Paris" states that Prince Adam Czartoryski has arrived at Warsaw to take up the regency of Poland. ...
Article : 31 wordsA British cruiser off Sandy Hook yesterday sent out wireless messages informing shipmasters that the steamer St. Theodore had been converted into a German raider, ...
Article : 38 wordsThe situation has greatly improved. The released Venizelists are not being molested, and the question of indemnifying them for imprisonment is to be settled by an ...
Article : 103 wordsThe following steamers have been sunk by German submarines:—Valle (Spanish), 2,366 tons; Bergenhus (Norwegian), 3,606 tons; Manuel (Spanish), 2,419 tons; ...
Article : 30 wordsWhen spoken to on Saturday regarding the new development in the Federal political situation, in the direction of a proposed National Government, including ...
Article : 128 wordsIn reference to the announcement from America that permission will shortly be granted for the export of Australian and carpet wools to America, it is stated ...
Article : 111 wordsA mass meeting of members of the Breadcarters and Operative Bakers' Unions on Saturday decided not to work for members of the Master Bakers' Association after ...
Article : 214 wordsSwedish torpedo boats yesterday discovered a drifting minefield north of Kalmar. They exploded eleven mines with shells, but many other mines exploded on the coast at ...
Article : 59 wordsRepresentative agriculturists have appealed to Mr. Lloyd George against calling up agricultural labourers. The War Office claims that the census reveals a ...
Article : 192 wordsField Marshal Haig's report on Friday night stated:—"We dispersed enemy working parties in the Ancre area to-day, and shelled positions in the neighbourhood of ...
Article : 192 wordsThe Federal Minister for Works (Senator Lynch), who has returned from a journey over the trans-Australian railway, announced on Saturday that he had dismissed ...
Article : 213 wordsThe Norwegian newspapers make bitter anti-German comments in connection with the publication of the Norwegian shipping losses for 1916. No less than 300 ships of a ...
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Advertising : 188 wordsSome mystery attaches to the unexpected announcement that the Spanish submarine Peval, of 500 tons, will shortly arrive here from America. ...
Article : 27 wordsA German torpedo boat has brought into Zeebrugge the Dutch mail steamer Prinz Hendrik. The German vessel Ursula Fishcher flying the German flag, lately ...
Article : 56 wordsOwing to the increased food prices the Government has increased the separation allowances to the wives of soldiers and sailors. This involves an additional ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 22 Jan 1917, Page 7
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