The British Admiralty authorities report that the armed mercantile cruiser Marmora was tropedoed and sunk by a German submarine on July 23. Ten members of the ...
Article : 114 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs, the special correspondent of the London "Daily Chronicle," telegraphed on Friday night from the British front:—"This morning a futile attack was ...
Article : 144 wordsThe British Admiralty authorities reported last evening:—"In the period from July 18 to July 24, the air force units, co-operating with those of the navy, dropped 15 tons ...
Article : 75 wordsThe following official despatches have been made available:— London, July 26 (10 p.m.) (from Field-Marshal Haig).—"We repulsed attacks at ...
Article : 755 wordsDr. von Michaelis (ex-High Chancellor of Germany, and now Governor of Pomerania) has published a pamphlet which declares that even if Germany should receive ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Ministry for the Air Service reported on Friday night:—"On July 25 our nightfiers attacked successfully the railway station and a factory in Pforzheim (Baden), a ...
Article : 85 wordsThe London "Daily Chronicle" learns officially that Japan has accepted America's proposal to assist the Czecho-Slovaks in Siberia. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe special correspondent of the United Press Association (U.S.A.) says:—"The Germans attacked Fletre on Friday morning, but were stopped dead on the left. ...
Article : 112 wordsThe Navy Department announces that a mercantile vessel, while off the American coast, mistook an American submarine for a U-boat, and fired one shot hitting the ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the New York "World" reports that America's proposal concerning the Russian settlement contemplates a force of about 60,000 ...
Article : 99 wordsIt is reported that a German submarine attacked a British steamer off the American coast. ...
Article : 30 wordsAccording to a Turkish official despatch six aeroplanes bombed Constantinople on Tuesday, when five persons were wounded. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Mersey Ferry Co.'s steamers Daffodil and Iris, which participated in the Zeebrugge raid in April last, have been repaired, and have resumed ferry traffic. ...
Article : 65 wordsSir William Weir (the Minister for the British Air Service) has appealed to the United States Government to send every aeroplane motor possible. Major-General ...
Article : 217 wordsLast night the Germans, wanting to identify exactly what troops are now before them, raided our lines at two points, in order to get prisoners. They ...
Article : 339 wordsLieutenant N. D. Cumming, of the 22nd Battalion, has been repatriated, and has arrived in England after three months in Hollard. He was captured at Mouquet ...
Article : 134 wordsAn official despatch says that the Czecho-Slovaks, after a desperate resistance have captured the important town of Simbirak (between the rivers Volga and ...
Article : 72 wordsA German submarine on the east coast of England attacked British and Belgian trawlers and took their crews on to her deck. She submerged suddenly leaving the ...
Article : 112 wordsMajor-General Peyton C. March (Chief of American General Staff), summing up the situation on the French front, states that the Allies have forced the Germans back ...
Article : 92 wordsA representative of the Australian and New Zealand Press Association reports that the Czecho-Slovaks have made considerable progress from Vladivostock, and are trying ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Royal Colonial Institute's city luncheon tendered to Mr. Dension Samuel Miller (Governor of the Commonwealth Bank) was attended by about 220 persons, ...
Article : 500 wordsA war tank equipped with five machine guns of the latest pattern was taken through the streets of Melbourne, from Victoria Barracks on Saturday morning. The ...
Article : 66 wordsAs the result of cable messages received from the London institute, the Marine Underwriters and Salvage Association of Victoria (Limited) has declared a war rate of ...
Article : 65 wordsAccording to Major-General Peyton C. March (the Chief of Staff of the American army), the United States sent 290,000 men to France in July. The total number of ...
Article : 159 wordsThe diplomatice correspondent of the London "Daily Chronicle" points out that Japan's decision to accept the co-operation of the United States in connection with the ...
Article : 191 wordsWhen the Americans captured Epieds they found that the Allied bombardment had smashed the German troops there into dust which was indistinguishable from the ...
Article : 92 wordsThe Berlin newspaper "Vossische Zeitung" makes a bitter attack on the Emperor Karl for having communicated with the King of Roumania on the subject of ...
Article : 146 wordsAn invitation was extended recently to holders of the Victoria Cross in the A.I.F. to return to Australia on furlough. The Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) ...
Article : 87 wordsLocal artists willing to assist the Y.M.C.A. in providing concerts this week to the soldiers in camp at Blackboy are invited to communicate at once with Mr. ...
Article : 491 wordsAn important message from the Prime Minister (Mr. Lloyd George), on the fourth anniversary of the war will be dispatched, sealed, to all theatres music halls, and ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Franco-Americans are fighting in the woods to the north of Chateau Thierry. The Allied guns have moved up, and are now commanding the area beyond ...
Article : 81 wordsMr. C. M. Schwab (Manageing Director of the Emergency Fleet Corporation), on the occasion of the visit of an American diplomat to a Government shipyard, ...
Article : 84 wordsReferring to the appeal for men who are unfit for service in the A.I.F. to join the home service regiments, the Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) said on Saturday ...
Article : 88 wordsA new Government has been formed at Omsk, in Western Siberia, and has proclaimed the independence of Siberia. It has dismissed the Soviets, cancelled the ...
Article : 43 wordsThe London "Daily Graphic," discussing Herr Philip Scheidmann's announcement to the effect that the German Majority Socialists have refused to discuss the ...
Article : 140 wordsThe New York "Times" correspondent on the west front telegraphs that the Allies have already gained several kilometres in the southern portions of the ...
Article : 114 wordsThe Emperor Karl's letter also advocated that King Ferdinand should join the League of Kings to combat the menace of international revolutions. Count von ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Government of Japan has allocated 120,000,000 yen (about £12,000,000) for current expenses in connection with the Siberian expedition. ...
Article : 37 wordsDr. Romulo Naon, the Argentian Ambassador has made a speech which caused a sensation. He said: "The ship workers are contributing to the success of a great ...
Article : 99 wordsSpeaking at the Bijou, Theatre on Sunday night, Mr. McGrath, M.H.R. for Ballarat, and formerly quartermaster-sergeant in the A.I.F., advocated that the King's ...
Article : 134 wordsThe State Department notifies that the food supply in Russia is not sufficient for Russian needs and that Germany is demanding large quantities from Russia. The ...
Article : 40 wordsThe German newspapers report that the King of Roumania has been ordered to place the whole of the Roumanian territory under martial law. ...
Article : 33 wordsThere are now over a million and a quarter American troops in France. ...
Article : 22 wordsAccording to Moscow newspapers, the family of the late ex-Czar is safe in a monastery in Siberia. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Vienna "Neue Freic Presse" (the journelistic exponent of Germanion in Austria) says that out of a procession of some 2,000 youths and children, mostly from ...
Article : 94 wordsThe interim report of the Civil and War Workers' Committee recommends that the Government should assist munition workers and other war workers to obtain ...
Article : 79 wordsGeneral Peyton C. March, chief of the American general staff, announces that a contingent of trained American troops has been despatched to Italy, and that two ...
Article : 48 wordsGerman military critics are preparing their public for a withdrawal from the front between Soissons and Rheims. The Berlin newspaper, the "Lokal Anzeiger" ...
Article : 124 wordsThe British Official Press Bureau notifies:—"Mr. Lloyd George has announced, on behalf of the Government, that certain munition workers, disregarding their duly ...
Article : 484 wordsThe following is a summary of the casualties sustained by members of the A.I.F. from the date of embarkation up to and including the week which ended on July ...
Article : 96 wordsA peasant revolt on a large scale has begun in the Ukraine. A well-officered and well organised force of about 75,000 men has forced German detachments to fall ...
Article : 40 wordsThe sugar ration has been reduced to 2lb a month for each person. This new arrangement will take effect from August 1. The purpose of the reduction is to ...
Article : 73 wordsThe newspapers emphasise the importance of the news from the Marne indicating that the Crown Prince is in full retreat. The Allies are now only two miles ...
Article : 131 wordsHerr Maximilian Harden. the editor of the "Zukunft," declares that Baron von Hertling's statement that the Allies. want to annihilate Germany, is untrue. He ...
Article : 312 wordsIn the Old Bailey, London, Sir Joseph Jonas, when cross-examined, admitted that his firm subscribed £50,000 to a British war loan, and sold the bonds afterwards in ...
Article : 164 wordsA Russian wireless message intercepted by the British Admiralty authorities reports that there were 111 cases of Asiatic cholera in Petrograd on July 26, and that ...
Article : 56 wordsSaturday morning's bulletin indicated that a few light showers had fallen on the south-east coast and at scattered stations in the tropics, whilst overhead conditions ...
Article : 208 wordsThe 419th casualty list was released on Saturday, and is published hereunder. It contains the names of Western Australian soldiers, together with those of soldiers ...
Article : 706 wordsMr. Durant, the special correspondent of the New York "Times" on the French front, has learned from the French staff officer in the Marne sector about a ...
Article : 226 wordsThe following wireless news has been received from Honolulu by the American Consul here:— Washington: The Chairman of the United ...
Article : 892 wordsBaron von Burian (the Austrian Minister for Foreign Affairs), speaking in the Reichsrath, said that it was intended to refuse to ratify the Ukrainian peace treaty, ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Allies are slowly closing in upon Fere-en-Tardcnois and are barely three miles away. Meanwhile our artillery and airmen are inflicting heavy losses on the ...
Article : 84 wordsAmerican soldiers have arrived in Italy. ...
Article : 19 wordsEdwards, a South Australian, who was saved from the Barunga and Private Cotter, of the Perth 51st Battalion, have arrived in London. Cotter was captured at ...
Article : 47 wordsThe following Italian official bulleting was issued on Saturday evening:—"The enemy having been reinforced made repeated attacks near the Kuci Bridge, on the Semeni ...
Article : 190 wordsIn Claridge's Hotel, London, Mr. Andrew Fisher (the High Commissioner for Australia) entertained officially at dinner the members of the French mission to ...
Article : 553 wordsA representative of the Australian and New Zealand Press Association has ascertained that the French have made little progress around Soissons, where the ...
Article : 277 wordsField-Marshal von Hindenburg disapproved of the recent offensive. His name figured improperly in the official despatches, but after the German defeat he insisted ...
Article : 49 wordsSwiss correspondents report that hostilities have broken out among the Bulgarian and Turkish troops occupying the territory along the Dedeagatch-Adrianople railway ...
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Advertising : 78 wordsAmerican soldiers discovered in the region north of Tournel Wood the emplacement of one of the Long-range guns which bombarded Paris. Apparently a stubborn ...
Article : 46 wordsThe famine has caused serious disorders in Prague, the capital of Bohemia. The "Arbeiter Zeitung," the leading Socialist paper in Austria-Hungary, states that the city has ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 29 Jul 1918, Page 5
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