The House of Representatives began the consideration of the Bill empowering the President to arm merchantmen. The Republican leader (Mr. Mann) ...
Article : 712 wordsLatest messages from Sir Douglas Haig's headquarters in France state that British aeroplanes are busy scouting and photographing in the clear sunlight and that no ...
Article : 177 wordsThe 276th casualty list was released by the Censor last night, and is published below. It contains the names of Western Australian soldiers, together with those ...
Article : 534 wordsStormy scenes marked the sitting of the Senate to-day, culminating in sensational charges brought by Senator Watson. Upon the Senate assembling, and immediately ...
Article : 456 wordsThe King and Queen yesterday telegraphed a message of sympathy with Mr. Lloyd George on the occasion of the Welsh day in London. ...
Article : 63 wordsManchester is alarmed over the proposal to increase the Indian cotton duties. The opponents of the scheme say that Lancashire must be protected against any ...
Article : 75 wordsA German official wireless despatch, intercepted by the Admiralty yesterday, stated: "We voluntarily evacuated foremost positions on both banks of the Ancre and ...
Article : 112 wordsThe Food Controller has decided upon the compulsory rationing of hotels and restaurants, as the existing regulations, based up on a number of courses, has proved useless. ...
Article : 161 wordsA despatch received from Berlin states that in the Reichstag yesterday Herr Ledebour, a prominent Socialist, declared that his party alone was opposed to the whole ...
Article : 204 wordsM. Marcel Hutin, the well-known correspondent of the "Echo de Paris," pays a well merited tribute to General Sir H. Gough's prudent tactics. He says: "The ...
Article : 139 wordsThe following statement has been issued by the Official Press Bureau:—A hostile aeroplane bombed Broadstairs yesterday morning, slightly injuring a woman. ...
Article : 30 wordsAt this stage Senator Watson asked leave to make a statement. Leave having been given Senator Watson made the following statement:—"Mr President: In view of ...
Article : 1,670 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday Mr. George Cave (Home Secretary) said he did not consider it advisable to appoint women police for duty in the Waterloo-road area, ...
Article : 48 wordsSenator Mullen moved the adjournment of the Senate until 10 a.m. on Monday, to enable the Senate to discuss the question for the prolonging of Parliament. ...
Article : 116 wordsThe Food Minister is issuing bread tickets, and measures are being taken to regulate the distribution of milk, giving preference to wounded, sick, infants, and ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Germans have fined the municipality of Ghent £5,000 and the burgomaster a similar amount on the ground that someone in the city had spread false tidings. ...
Article : 91 wordsWhile flying an aeroplane in a heavy fog at Dorking yesterday Captain Brandon struck a tree and fell. He sustained a severe fracture of the right leg. ...
Article : 31 wordsMr. and Mrs Friend Washer, of Sunburyroad, Victoria Park have received news from the military authoriteis that their second eldest son, Harry, was killed in ...
Article : 209 wordsSir William Meyer the Finance Member, presented his annual financial statement yesterday morning, the Governor-General (Lord Chelmsford) presiding over the ...
Article : 1,766 wordsIt is officially announced that the Government is carefully considering the effect caused to French trade by the restriction of British imports. France entered into ...
Article : 90 wordsIn the House of Representatives to-day the Leader of the Opposition (Mr. Tuder) intervened on a question of privilege. He said that in the other Chamber it had been ...
Article : 1,691 wordsAccording to a German legal paper, the Germans have sentenced 103,092 Belgians to various penalties during the war period, including 100 to death, 91 to hard labour, ...
Article : 45 wordsIt was learned to-night that a cable message had been sent to Senator Guy, who is at present in a private hospital in Tasmania. where he recently underwent an ...
Article : 225 wordsThe Director of National Service has issued a list of banned occupations in which employers are forbidden to engage any man under 61 years of age. The list ...
Article : 59 wordsA strong German rearguard is still opposing the Australian troops within a mile of most of the original front. The point of contact is now in the bottom of the ...
Article : 474 wordsOur Bunbury correspondent writes:— Twenty cases of selected apples were received by the Narrogin Trading and Agency Company from the residents of ...
Article : 549 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday Mr. Bonar Law (Chancellor of the Exchequer) announced that the report of the Dardanelles Commission was now in the hands of ...
Article : 287 wordsThe New Zealand representatives, including Mr. Massey (Premier), Sir Thomas Mackenzie (High Commissioner), and Sir Joseph Ward, visited the Baltic Exchange ...
Article : 110 wordsThe Dominions Commission, in its report upon Canada, states that there is a strong undercurrent of opposition to emigration to Canada as it is now carried ...
Article : 316 wordsA German wireless despatch intercepted by the Admiralty yesterday stated: "Dr. Zimmerman (Foreign Minister) said in the Reichstag to-day: 'Negotiations are ...
Article : 216 wordsThe Italian Parliament yesterday rejected a Socialist peace motion by 227 votes to 31, which amounts to a vote of confidence in the Government. ...
Article : 66 wordsA wireless Russian official communique received yesterday stated:—"We counter-attacked to-day on the Jacobens-Kimpolung high road. We were unsuccessful to the ...
Article : 43 wordsThe British steamer Galgorn Castle (1,696 tons) was sunk without warning by a German submarine off the Irish coast yesterday. One boat from the steamer has ...
Article : 71 wordsA Mesopotamia official report issued yesterday stated:—Our cavalry and gunboats continued in pursuit of the beaten enemy all day long on Tuesday. We captured six ...
Article : 61 wordsSpeaking in the House of Commons yesterday, Mr. H. W. Forster (Financial Secretary to the War Office) said that the German retreat on the Ancre must ...
Article : 318 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday, Lord Robert Cecil (Minister for Blockade) stated that it was now safe to say that a serious shortage of foodstuffs, and aise ...
Article : 45 wordsThe American steamer Rochester has arrived here from New York. [The Rochester was one of the boats that was threatened to be mercilessly sunk by ...
Article : 36 wordsDuring a discussion on the Army Estimates in the House of Commons yesterday Mr. H. W. Forster (Financial Secretary to the War Office) said the Turks in ...
Article : 62 wordsA despatch received here states:—"A court martial at Vienna sentenced to death 16 Ruthenians, including six priests, two barristers, several journalists professors, and ...
Article : 46 wordsA wireless message received yesterday from the steamer Infanta Isabel, in the mid-Atlantic, stated that Mr. Gerard has passed beyond the German danger zone ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Sat 3 Mar 1917, Page 7
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