The following official reports have been issued:—London, Aug. 22 (12.30 a.m.) (from Field-Marshal Haig).—"Our attack launched ...
Article : 399 wordsThe Dutch steamer Gascoyndier, laden with grain and flour for the committee of the Belgian Relief Fund, was subjected to a submarine atrocity in territorial waters ...
Article : 116 wordsSir Edward Carson, in a letter to the London "Morning Post," agrees with many of Sir George Reid's objections, but he regards a general election as inevitable. He ...
Article : 210 wordsAt the sitting of the Wheat Marketing Commission yesterday, the Solicitor-General (Mr. W. F. Sayer) again attende, to answer the Questions put to him on the ...
Article : 1,070 wordsThe inquiry by Mr. Justice Street in connection with the conviction of the I.W.W. prisoners was continued to-day when Scully was again examined. ...
Article : 1,060 wordsAt the last Cabinet meeting the Government gave consideration to the position of the land holders in the Esperance mallee belt, and decided to extend a number of ...
Article : 294 wordsMrs. E. W. King, Secretary of the Artillery Workers Comfort Fund, South Perth, has received the following letter from Captain J. W. Kerr, Assistant ...
Article : 987 wordsThe British Official Press Bureau has issued the following report:—The July mercantile losses, all gross tons, were:—British, 176,476 tons; Allied and neutral, 136,532 ...
Article : 200 wordsThe War Office authorities have decided that as from August 1 the Distinguished Service Order, the Military Cross, and the Distinguished Conduct Medal shall be ...
Article : 41 wordsThe following wireless news has been received from Honolulu by the American Consul here:—Washington.—The Navy Department ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 282 wordsMr. Edwin L. James the special correspondent of the New York "Times" on the American front, reports that the German soldiers are told by their officers that ...
Article : 88 wordsSpain has decided, while observing neutrality, to use German ships for her own commerce. ...
Article : 25 wordsGeneral March, the American Chief of Staff, says that the United States is still dependent upon British ships for the larger portion of its oversea transport. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe London correspondent of the United Press Association telegraphs that the British offensive was undertaken by the 3rd Army, commanded by General Byng. ...
Article : 103 wordsThe American Minister at Stockholm drew the attention of the Swedish Government to articles which appeared in the "Aftonbladet" reflecting personally upon ...
Article : 144 wordsThe following wireless message from Honolulu has been received by the American Consul here:— General P. C. March (Chief of the ...
Article : 160 wordsAn order which was found on a captured German soldier instructs the battalion commanders to employ in the front line the smartest men with the greatest mobility ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Prices Commissioner has granted Australian manufacturers increases in the prices of strawboards and paperboards. The maximum prices which may be charged ...
Article : 160 wordsWomen and girls are prohibited under an amendment of the War Precautions Act issued to-day from wearing as an ornament the Imperial silver war badge, an ...
Article : 63 wordsAt the conference between the executives of the Transport Workers' Federation and the Vehicle Workers' Union, the latter agreed to the question being referred to ...
Article : 67 wordsThe Press Bureau announces that Mr. Lloyd George sent a message to a mass meeting of Allied women war workers in Paris paying a tribute to the women's ...
Article : 149 wordsThe following aviation reports have been issued:—London, Aug. 21 (4.40 p.m.) (from the British Admiralty).—"Between August 15 ...
Article : 200 wordsA message from Vienna states that Baron von Burian, the Austrian Foreign Minister, answering an interviewer, said that the recent conference's discussion on the Polish ...
Article : 131 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) has received from London a despatch which shows that inventiveness exists in a highly developed from among ...
Article : 120 wordsThe joint national conference of trambus, and other vehicle workers, and the dockers and general workers resolved to demand immediate recognition throughout ...
Article : 197 wordsIn the Full Court to-day judgment was given in the Snow case, which had been referred back to it by the High Court for the addition of copies of letters and ...
Article : 166 wordsWherever one goes amongst the Australian infantry who attacked on August 8, and the following days, one finds feelings of warm, generous enthusiasm towards the British ...
Article : 511 wordsAn amandment of the alien restriction order under the War Precautions Act empowers a competent military authority to prohibit an alien from addressing of ...
Article : 118 wordsOn Wednesday evening the British Admiralty intercepted the following German wireless official message:—"Between the Ancre and the Avre since August 8, our ...
Article : 118 wordsAccording to a message from Berlin, Dr. Solf, Minister for the Colonies, declared in a speech that the "Jingoes," though numerous, possessed no real influence in ...
Article : 161 wordsThe friends of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Jackson, of St. Clair, Marian-street Leederville, will regret to hear that their brother, Lieutenant Will G. Poole, was killed in action on August ...
Article : 430 wordsThe Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Watt), referring to-day to the labour troubles at Port Pirie, said that he had had an interview during the afternoon with Mr. Porris ...
Article : 120 wordsThe Minister for Price Fixing (Mr. Massy Greene) was informed by the stock and station agents to-day that the sales of cattle would be resumed in Victoria on ...
Article : 103 wordsA party of returned soldiers passed through Kalgoorlie to-day en route to Perth. The men were met at the railway station by the Mayor and some of the ...
Article : 123 wordsThe Australian, New Zealand, and South African Press delegations visited the Clyde to-day, and inspected the Fairfield shipbuilding yards. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Watt) confirmed to-day the cable message to the effect that the Commonwealth Government had decided to pay Mr. Hughes's costs in ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Australian Press Association learns that General Byng attacked from Moyenneville and Beaucourt-sur-Ancre without artillery preparation. The enemy was ...
Article : 133 wordsSir Joseph Ward (the Minister for Finance in New Zealand) handed to the Belgian Minister in London yesterday a casket made from New Zealand timbers the gift ...
Article : 162 wordsDecorations and medals awarded for galantry on the part of members of the Royal Air Force have been arranged. The scale on which they will be awarded was ...
Article : 185 wordsIt is now taken for granted that the Premier (Mr. Ryan) will be leaving shortly for England. He said to-day that he would be in a position to make a definite ...
Article : 105 wordsThe new Bulgarian Ministry has permitted the publication of the Entente's communiques relating to the recent successes on the Western front, which the late ...
Article : 41 wordsThe expenditure of £76,500 for the erection of mechanical appliances to facilitate the discharge of coal at Port Pirie has been approved of by the Governor-General. ...
Article : 38 wordsThe secretary reports that various resolutions, asking the Federal Cabinet immediately to introduce war-time prohibition under the War Precautions Act have ...
Article : 292 wordsThe War Office publishes a message from the Czech leader, to the effect that some thirty thousand Austrians and Germans, 70 guns, and a large number of machine guns, ...
Article : 170 wordsAt the annual general meeting of the Western Australian Chamber of Manufactures last night, the president (Cr. J. T. Franklin) said that the frequent action of ...
Article : 250 wordsThe United Press Association states that General Byng's offensive opened through a camouflage mist, which lay thickly over the ragged worn battlefield, adhering to the ...
Article : 383 wordsSpeaking to-day on the disclosures which had been made regarding jury "squaring" in Melbourne, the Solicitor-General (Mr. Robinson) said that it was patent that ...
Article : 75 wordsMr. W M. Hughes has written to the newspapers approving of next Saturday's demonstration in Hyde Park London, demanding the internment of all enemy ...
Article : 100 wordsMr. H. W. Nevinson, representative of the "Daily Chronicle" in France, telegraphing on Wednesday evening, said:—"General von Below's 17th Army, with probably 50 ...
Article : 551 wordsThe first detachment of invalided soldiers, of List R, will arrive by the second division of the Great Western express at 11 a.m. to-day. ...
Article : 191 wordsA post-mortem examination of the body of Mrs. Roma Smith, who was found yesterday with her throat cut in a room of her house in Carlton, revealed that she had ...
Article : 107 wordsThe Full Court decided unanimously to-day that Mr. Justice McCawley, the President of the Arbitration Court, was not entitled in law to he appointment as a Judge ...
Article : 73 wordsWith the view of economising the use of coal, further drastic reductions in the running of passenger trains will be made after October, reaching 50 per cent. in the ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Fri 23 Aug 1918, Page 7
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