The following official reports have been issued:— London, August 19 (12.40 a.m.) (from Field-Marshal Haig).—"We took a few ...
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Article : 74 wordsThe national executive committee of the American Socialist Party has issued a programme dealing with post-bellum questions. and recommending that there be no ...
Article : 70 wordsThe London "Daily Telegraph" says that the new arrangements regarding the Imperial War Cabinext do not represent the final stage of development of Imperial ...
Article : 148 wordsThe importation of copra into Australia either for home consumption or for transhipment overseas will be permitted from the Pacific Islands under British or Allied ...
Article : 105 wordsThe inquiry authorised under a war precaution regulation into the question of the continued detention of Albert Thomas Dryer, Edward McSweeney, Michael ...
Article : 722 wordsAt a meeting of the Perth Recruiting Committee held on Monday afternoon Colonel Pope bade farewell to the committee. He said that with in a few days he was ...
Article : 1,126 wordsFor some time it has been a hardship for a married man with children to take promotion to non-commissioned rank from his private's status in the Australian ...
Article : 383 wordsOfficial advices from Russia, through Sweden, state that a reign of terror prevails in Petrograd. Thirty thousand people have been arrested, including many army ...
Article : 65 wordsThe War Industries Board is considering a proposition to curtail immediately the manufacture of pleasure automobiles by 75 per cent. The board has decided not to ...
Article : 36 wordsYesterday Mr. W. M. Hughes paid his first visit to the Australians on Salisbury Plain. Over 4,000 men, commanded by Colonel Russell Watson, paraded at Sutton ...
Article : 379 wordsThe following wireless news has been received from Honolulu by the American Consul here:— Oakland (California).—The steamer ...
Article : 412 wordsAgricultural experts anticipate the finest harvest for half a century. ...
Article : 15 wordsThe Murmansk correspondent of the New York "Times" says that the town is teeming with refugees, of whom trainloads remain at railway sidings for weeks, owing ...
Article : 134 wordsMr. W. M. Hughes will speak on the subject of industrial security in the Manchester Free Trade Hall on Monday. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe tramway and omnibus employees at many of the tourist resorts on the south coast of England have struck; also the Bristol and Bath employees. ...
Article : 298 wordsAt the meeting of the executive of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' Association last night the president (Colonel H. Pope, C.B.) intimated that he was about to ...
Article : 481 wordsMr. Dosch Fleurct, corespondent of the New York "World," in a message from Moscow, states that the Czecho-Slovaks hold the railroad from Rumari into Siberia. ...
Article : 80 wordsIn a return which was issued by the Closer Settlement Board to-day it was mentioned that the total area of land purchased up to Monday last by the State for the ...
Article : 54 wordsSir Charles Norton Edgecumbe Eliot, K.C.M.G., principal of the Hong Kong University has been appointed British Plenipotentiary at Vledivostok: ...
Article : 245 wordsThe Government has given further consideration to the proposal recently made to it by a representative deputation of citizens, and has decided to establish the ...
Article : 161 wordsMr. W. F. Messey, Prime Minister of New Zealand, in a speech to the Newcastle Chamber of Commerce, said that in all the war's fluctuations the dominions had not ...
Article : 207 wordsLondon, August 19 (11.45 p.m.) (from Field-Marshal Haig).—"We brought down six aeroplanes, and one British machine is missing. We dropped 16 tons of bombs ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Berlin municipal authorities are taking elaborate precautions against Allied air raids, which are expected in the future. Valuable objects in museums and art ...
Article : 54 wordsThe British Admiralty on Monday interespted the following wireless German official report:—"We repulsed British attacks between Meteren and Merris. We advanced ...
Article : 110 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day the Treasurer (Mr. Theodore) presented his financial statement. He said that when he submitted the Estimates for the financial ...
Article : 304 wordsThe police authorities, acting on the recommendations of the Aliens Advisory Committee, have interned about three hundred aliens. ...
Article : 26 wordsMr. W. M. Hughes announced last evening that the Commonwealth Government had accepted full financial and other responsibilities in connection with the ...
Article : 167 wordsAt a meeting of the Adelaide University Council to-day the Chancellor (Sir George Murray) announced the receipt of a gift of £500 from Mrs. A. M. Simpson to ...
Article : 81 wordsThe recent America Day celebrations on the goldfields resulted in £1,266 being raised for the benefit of returned soldiers. ...
Article : 35 wordsA message received from Johannesburg says that the question of a ballot being taken on the offer made by the Chamber of Mines was discussed by the general ...
Article : 363 wordsMr. G. N. Barnes, M.P., the Labour representative in the War Cabinet, in a speech at Glasgow yesterday, said that he owed his position to the Labour ...
Article : 404 wordsThe Australian Press Association learns that the operations of General Mangin's Tenth Army have developed into an offensive promising important developments. ...
Article : 178 wordsMrs. W. Reay, Bay-road, North Fremantle, has been notified that her third son, Lieutenant Bert Kell died of wounds on August 9, in France. ...
Article : 200 wordsA telegram from Atherton says that Mr. Hunter (Honorary Minister) paid a visit to the town in connection with the resumption for soldiers' settlement of fertile ...
Article : 169 wordsA recent cable message said that Lieut. Fonck of the French air force, brought down three enemy aeroplanes on August 14 on the battlefield in France. Some ...
Article : 650 wordsMr. Ward Price, the British Official Press representative on the Italian front describes the sinking of an Austrian U-boat by an Italian submarine. The latter was ...
Article : 106 wordsA daring theft of flannel, belonging to the Defence Department, valued at £600, is now being investigated. Early in July a number of bales of flannel, made at the ...
Article : 96 wordsInvalids returning, named in list R, are notified as leaving by train in three divisions, the first of which is due to arrive in Perth on Friday. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 224 wordsThe United Press Association states that during the 24 hours up to Monday evening, the Allies netted nearly 3,000 prisoners in various operations. The French ...
Article : 104 wordsMr. Justice Powers, in the Arbitration Court to-day, cited representatives of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners and the Commonwealth Railway ...
Article : 336 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the New York "Times" says that the captain of a vessel which was sunk by a U-boat is positive that he saw on shore a petty ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 342 wordsGeneral Mangin has captured the ridge south of Audignicourt, giving an opportunity to menace the German lines on the Aisne. ...
Article : 31 wordsMr. Percival Phillips states that four out of the five German armies facing the British are now occupied with a backward movement. It is not a general retirement, ...
Article : 122 wordsThe London correspondent of the New York "Herald" interviewed Mr. T. P. O'Connor, M.P., who predicts a parliamentary general election in December, with a ...
Article : 41 wordsM. Henri (Louis) Bergson, the distinguished philosopher, has been appointed to succeed the late M. Albert Metin as the head of the French mission to Australia. ...
Article : 170 wordsA reply to a congratulatory message sent to the officers and men of the Australian fleet by the Naval Board on the fourth anniversary of the war has been received ...
Article : 73 wordsIn connection with the appeal to Britons to economise in the use of coal it has been pointed out that Britain has been called on to supply tremendous shortages ...
Article : 516 wordsMr. Peter Waite, the well-known pastor alist and chairman of directors of Messrs. Elder. Smith, and Co., made a valuable gift a few years ago to the State of the ...
Article : 186 wordsThe French have advanced two miles between the Oise and the Aisne, taking hundreds of prisoners. They have also captured Saint Mard a mile to the south ...
Article : 36 wordsIn the Summons Court to-day John McDonald, editor of the "Daily Standard," was proceeded against for a breach of the censorship regulations in having failed to ...
Article : 104 wordsGeorge Brown (18), employed in the Midland Junction workshops, who is spending a holiday on the goldfields, met with a painful accident yesterday. He picked ...
Article : 51 wordsThe American troops are angered by the reports that comrades who have been taken prisoners have been ill-treated owing to the allegation that the Americans do ...
Article : 80 wordsThe Czechs, Slavs, and Serhs have received with great distrust the reports regarding the Austrian promises to grant autonomy to her subject races. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Wed 21 Aug 1918, Page 7
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