The newspapers state that last week's war news was the best since the autumn, as it included details of progress towards Bapaume and Baghdad. They point out ...
Article : 1,092 wordsIt is stated on good authority that millions of dollars were sent to Mexico by Germans in the United States. Much of the money was described as personal loans ...
Article : 730 wordsA Russian wireless official communique received here yesterday stated:—"A German counter-attack drove out the Roumanians from a height north of the ...
Article : 78 wordsLast Friday's sensational proceedings in both branches of the Federal Legislature were succeeded by a quiet week-end. The Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) did not come ...
Article : 459 wordsThe Minister of Agriculture (Mr. R. P. Blundell), in referring to the embargo placed upon the exportation of meat from Queensland, said on Saturday:— ...
Article : 742 wordsA reduction of the Danish railway traffic—in some instances by 40 per cent.—is interpreted as a measure of extreme caution: due to the conviction that the war ...
Article : 39 wordsLord Devonport (Food Controller) has appointed Mrs. Rember Reeves, of New Zealand, and Mrs. C. S. Peel, of London, to superintend the household aspects of ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Kaiser yesterday gave a lengthy audience to Dr. Zimmerman, who later on attended a conference between von Bethmann-Hollweg and the officials of the ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Crown is claiming in the Prize Court three of 11 vessels belonging to one company acquired by American registry, by devious methods, with the help of a ...
Article : 52 wordsA German communique issued yesterday stated:"The Germans broke into a Russian position west of Luck to-day to a depth of 500 yards by a width of a mile and ...
Article : 87 wordsIt is announced that Britain will stop her shell contracts with the United States after the end of the present month, as the home output is now abundant. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Press Bureau announces that the Army Council has ordered a general revision of certificates of exemption held by men under 31 years of age. The ...
Article : 105 wordsThe suggestion made by Mr. C. E. W. Bean, the official Commonwealth correspondent with the A.I.F., that specially designed Supreme Service Medals should be ...
Article : 76 wordsThere were brisk operations in the Italian sector in Macedonia yesterday. Seventy German prisoners were taken in one encounter. The fighting continues. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Distinguished Service Order has been conferred upon the following Australians:—Majors Birkbeck, Joseph Brooks, W. Markwell, and K. McKenzie. The Military ...
Article : 123 wordsThe members of the Anglo-French-Italian mission, which recently visited Russia have returned to London. They express satisfaction with the result of their trip. ...
Article : 34 wordsMrs. O'Connor, Cantonment-street, Fremantle, has been informed that her son, Private Daniel Hugh O'Connor, 28th Battalion, reported missing on July 29, was ...
Article : 92 wordsPrivate advices from Vienna state that the German retreat on the Ancre has created a deplorable impression throughout Austria. Austrian correspondents at the ...
Article : 54 wordsGeneral von Beseler, the German Governor, has authorised the issue of twenty million Polish coins of the value of one mark, composed of iron and aluminium. ...
Article : 35 wordsA despatch received here states:—Bulgaria's national debt was 616,000,000 francs before the war. It is now 1,900,000,000 francs. Austro-Germany advanced 400,000,000 ...
Article : 40 wordsA wireless message from Berlin states that the German newspapers admit the extraordinary power of the new British and French heavy artillery. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe potato crisis has not abated. Many markets, including Covent Garden, are almost without supplies. Retailers in many towns have restricted purchasers to the ...
Article : 34 wordsA meeting is to be held to-night in the Perth Town Hall in order that the friends of this battalion shall become conversant with the work the executive of the Perth ...
Article : 376 wordsThe requisition to the Federal Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) asking him to be a candidate for the Darwin seat in the House of Representatives, in opposition to ...
Article : 385 wordsThe "Echo de Belge" states that 1,000 deported Belgians have been repatriated in an emaciated and exhausted condition. Six of the unfortunate people died on the ...
Article : 44 wordsA Mesopotamia official report, issued yesterday, stated: "Our pursuit of the Turks continued on Wednesday. The Turks who were in great confusion, passed on ...
Article : 145 wordsAt Buckingham Palace yesterday the King and Queen entertained Mr. Massey (New Zealand Premier), Sir Joseph Ward, and the following ...
Article : 119 wordsReports from Belgium received here state that a new Zeppelin, during speed trials at Ghent, exploded, and was completely destroyed. The crew were incinerated. ...
Article : 35 wordsAn order has been issued to economics on coal. Theatres, music halls, and picture shows will be restricted to three evening performances and two matinees weekly. ...
Article : 55 wordsThe District Commondant (Colonel Courtney) arrived on Saturday, and inspected the cadets at Kalgoorlie and Boulder. The Khaki Concert Party gave a successful ...
Article : 99 wordsMr. Neville Chamberlain, addressing a meeting of theatrical managers yesterday, urged the enrolement of theatre, music hall and cinematograph employees for national ...
Article : 59 wordsSo far as can be at present ascertained February's total of submarining was:—British, 121 ships of 256,632 tons; the Allies, 10 ships of 15,422 tons; neutrals, 50 ...
Article : 65 wordsAn official Press Bureau statement issued yesterday says: Sir George R. Askwith's (Chief Industrial Commissioner) committee on production has awarded all engineering ...
Article : 90 wordsBerlin messages state that Germany's reply to China's new Note declares that blockade measures must be directed against neutrals, but that Chinese passengers will ...
Article : 73 wordsA storm occurred at the Trades Hall this morning, when the Minister for Railways (Mr. Harry Coyne), who has recently been appointed member of the War ...
Article : 584 wordsA German semi-official statement received here declares that Germany not only had the right, but that it was the duty of the Government to approach Mexico ...
Article : 218 wordsGermany has notified the State Department that the crew of the Yarrowdale will be sent to Switzerland probably on Wednesday next. The detention is said to ...
Article : 54 wordsA special meeting of the Kalgoorlie and Boulder Miners' Union was held to-night for the purpose of considering the offer made by the Chamber of Mines to ...
Article : 142 wordsThe War Cabinet sat for two hours yesterday. Canada was represented by Sir Robert L. Bowden (Prime Minister) and Sir George K. Perley (High Commissioner ...
Article : 149 wordsThe sugar growers, who had been called together for the purpose of endeavouring to arrive at the price to be paid for sugar, re-assembled on Friday, and ...
Article : 552 wordsHans Fagri, who was an officer on the steamer Voltarie, which a German raider sank in the South Atlantic, states that when the Yarrowdale was captured by the ...
Article : 152 wordsThe Allies' Ministers yesterday presented to the Chinese Government an address, sympathising with the attitude it had taken up with regard to Germany, and ...
Article : 86 wordsDiplomatic circles here regard China's severance of relations with Germany as in evitable. It is pointed out that China desires a remission of the Boxer ...
Article : 51 wordsThe hearing of the plaint in which the Australian Journalists' Association claimed increased benefits from the proprietors of the daily newspapers in the various States, ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Tokio correspondent of the United Press Association telegraphed yesterday:—"Baron Motono (Minister for Foreign Affairs) stated to an interviewer yesterday ...
Article : 91 wordsThe "Manchester Guardian," a leading Liberal newspaper, protests against the publication of the censoned Dardanelles Commission report, stating that perhaps it ...
Article : 79 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph's" Copenhagen correspondent states:—Four American doctors and veterinary surgeons who were on board the Yarrowdale have arrived here. ...
Article : 34 wordsA special sausage, called "the people's sausage," is selling at Vienna at 2s. 6d. for 2 1-5lb. It is composed of ground bones, potato flour, and dried vegetables ...
Article : 35 wordsA total of 222 nominations were officially registered by the various electorate returning officers on Saturday, in connection with the State elections. Such a number of ...
Article : 145 wordsTwo of the American doctors released from the Yarrowdale state that 480 members of captured crews were imprisoned at Neustrelitz and ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Government of Hungary has ordered that all theatres and other places of amusement in Budapest shall be closed, and that wedding celebrations must cease ...
Article : 36 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph" Milan correspondent states:—"Austria's reply to the American note on submarining is expected to-morrow. It will follow the usual ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Fruit Trade Section of the Chamber of Commerce has discussed the restrictions on imports, but adjourned pending the result of Sir John McCall's deputation on ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Imperial Clothing Committee at Berlin has issued a warning that it will take drastic measures against any change of fashion and consequent waste of ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Press Bureau states:—The Board of Trade restricts paper posters to 600 square inches (30 by 20), and confines the contents bills of the newspaper to the ...
Article : 89 wordsThe German committee for the assistance of war widows and orphans has refused to accept the American gift handed over by Mr. Gerard, and amounting to ...
Article : 86 wordsThe Cologne "Volks Zeitung," discussing the submarining campaign, says:—We are the weaker naval nation, and we may be forced to let our fleet out. ...
Article : 30 wordsA German wireless despatch, intercepted by the Admiralty here yesterday, stated:—We repulsed strong British detachments, eastward and south-eastward of ...
Article : 77 wordsA meeting of the Miners' Union was here to-day, for the purpose of discussing a motion that J. Boyland, secretary of the union, and L. Williams, who have taken a ...
Article : 110 wordsThe Central News Agency's correspondent at Vienna states:—"The Emperor has dismissed Field-Marshal von Hoetzendorff from the position of Chief of the General ...
Article : 119 wordsThe "Temps" threws fresh light on Germany's provocative policy regarding Holland. It declares that Germany merely resumes the policy begun early in the ...
Article : 71 wordsSir Joseph P. Maclay (Shipping Controller) has notified the requistioning of all vessels in the Australian trade. Blue book rates will form the basis of ...
Article : 161 wordsThe Rome correspondent of the "World" reports:—"The Germans are planning a great Teuton drive against Italy for the spring. Mackensen, Hinderburg, and ...
Article : 67 wordsA branch of the National Federation has been formed at Boulder, and the Mayor and other prominent townsmen have been elected office boarers. ...
Article : 31 wordsGerman newspapers are tardily announcing the retreat on the Western front. They explain that it is in accordance with Von Hindenburg's general ...
Article : 179 wordsA report was received from Broad Arrow to-day that a man named Martin Neilsen had been missing since Friday. His tracks were followed 24 miles to ...
Article : 68 wordsExperience has shown that the publication of the names of torpedoed ships is attended by serious drawbacks, and in consequence the Minister for Marine will in ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 5 Mar 1917, Page 7
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