The following official report was issued by field-Marshal Haig on Sunday night:—"The Australians have captured Peronne. After beating off enemy counter-attacks at ...
Article : 354 wordsLouis Goldstein was the first witness examined to-day when the inquiry by Mr. Justice Street into the conduct of the police in connection with the I.W.W. convictions ...
Article : 760 wordsA telegram from Petrograd announces the death of M. Lenin, the Bolshevik Prime Minister, as the result of the wounds inflicted in Moscow on Friday. ...
Article : 151 wordsThe commandent of Essen has issued a proclamation, advising the civil population not to believe extravagant rumours which are current in the district. These include ...
Article : 67 wordsOne hundred and fifty senior German officers, ranging from generals to colonels, have been relieved of their commands on the western front. The Crown Princes of ...
Article : 66 wordsA correspondent at Interlaken, Switzerland, says that the Australians and New Zealanders who are interned there are mostly progressing excellently. Several ...
Article : 117 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs reports:—"On Saturday it was difficult for the correspondents to keep pace with the advance of the troops in the different parts of the ...
Article : 949 wordsThe "Daily News" correspondent at Stockholm states that the bullet penetrated Lenin's left lung, causing internal hemorrhage. There have been other ...
Article : 56 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs states that between August 26 and August 31 the Australians took 10 times more prisoners than the whole of their casualties during the same ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the New York "Times" says that the State Department has received despatches from the American Charge d'Affaires at ...
Article : 65 wordsIn connection with the Trade Union Congress which opens on Monday at Derby, a big pro-Ally demonstration was held in the Market Square yesterday. A resolution ...
Article : 121 wordsFor fifteen or twenty years Lenin's name has been known to thousands of Russians who read revolutionary literature, and his face was familiar to hundreds of members ...
Article : 1,604 wordsLieutenant-Colonel Cecil Humphries, the New Zealand football player, has died of wounds sustained whilet commanding a battalion of the Noriolk Regiment during ...
Article : 70 wordsGeneral Brusiloff has been arrested on suspicion of having aided the counter-revolutionaries, and has been incarcerated in the Kremlin at Moscow. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe American capture of Juvigny was a remarkable exploit. The town lay on the further slope of a hill. Two parties of Americans crawled among the shellpits over ...
Article : 85 wordsThe Red Guards have assassinated the Archbishop of Riga. ...
Article : 22 wordsSeveral New South Wales members of the Federal Labour Party have signed a statement setting forth the reasons why the recommandations from the Interstate ...
Article : 246 wordsThe Archangel correspondent of the United Press Association says that according to information received by the American Ambassador in Russia (Mr. D. R. ...
Article : 67 wordsAt noon to-day the British Commander-in-Chief reported:—"The Welsh and East Country troops on Sunday evening captured Sailly-Saillisel and Saillisel, after heavy ...
Article : 140 wordsThe following telegram has been received from the British Ministry for Information by the Acting Prime Minister:—"On the British front the advance has ...
Article : 968 wordsThere are prospects of a recrudescence of the labour disputes on the Rand, owing to the tendency of certain trade unions to break away from the federation. The ...
Article : 125 wordsPress despatches say that Nicholas Vassilovitch Tschaikovasky, the President of the new sovereign Government of Northern Russia, has appealed for more Allied ...
Article : 51 wordsThe "Vossische Zeitung" says that Russia will pay Germany the indemnity of £300,000,000 partly in gold and partly in rouble bank notes. The latter will be ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Canadians to-day broke through the Drocount-Queant line on a two-mile front, and are row in Duty. We have captured Noreuil south of ...
Article : 50 wordsThe mission of the disciples of science and industry was concluded yesterday, when the director of the Institute of Science and Industry (Dr. F. M. Gallafly), ...
Article : 445 wordsIn returning a verdict of death from misadventure to-day concerning the death of a railway labourer named James Richard Fary (44), the Coroner said the case was ...
Article : 87 wordsAccording to German newspapers the peasants in the Ukraine and Central and Southern Russia have used at least two-thirds of their grain to make vodka. A ...
Article : 90 wordsMarshal Foch has made available the following communiques:—Paris, Sept. 1 (3.55 p.m.):—"Operations continued at nighttime, when our infantry ...
Article : 116 wordsUp to August 30, 127,643 was pensions were granted, representing an annual liability of £4,001,318. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe following have been listed for return to Australia and are actually en route from abroad. No further information can be supplied excepting the approximate time of ...
Article : 270 wordsThe Minister for Customs (Mr. Jensen) to-day explained in detail the directions he had given to Collectors of Customs in the various States in order to facilitate the ...
Article : 269 wordsThe United Press Association's Vladivostol correspondent says that the Entente and Czecho-Slovak forces fought the Bolshevik Red Guards at Ussuri River and ...
Article : 114 wordsLondon Sept. 1 (11.5 p.m.) (from Field-Marshal Haig).—"We destroyed six hostile aeroplanes on August 31 and drove down three uncontrollable. Seven British ...
Article : 95 wordsThe Peking correspondent of the New York "Times' says that General Semenoff, the Cossack leader, has captured Borzie station. The Bolsheviks are burning ...
Article : 86 wordsThe British Admiralty on Sunday intercepted the following wireless German official message:—"After fluctuating fighting the enemy re-captured Bullecourt and ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Australian Press Association learns that the latest news from France is most encouraging. Peronne has been captured, and we are pressing the enemy's ...
Article : 312 wordsA traveller from Russia reports that the condition of the Austrian and German troops in Siberia is most serious. Though they manage to make an existence during ...
Article : 108 wordsIn the Federal Arbitration Court to-day Mr. Justice Powers gave judgment for the Commonwealth Public Service Clerical Association in its case against the ...
Article : 137 wordsMr. and Mrs. H. Beadle, of 69 Joel-terrace, Mt. Lawley, have been notified that their son, Sergeant W. N. D. Besdle, has been awarded the Meritorious Service ...
Article : 315 wordsA further heavy attack was launched by the Australians at 6 this morning, against the whole German positions for about three miles northward from Peronne, and by 9 ...
Article : 613 wordsAt a meeting of the Fremantle Municipal Council last evening the Mayor (Mr. W. E. Wray) brought under the notice of councillors the fact that work on a ...
Article : 356 wordsThe following Italian official messages were issued on Sunday:—"Our low fliers accurately bombed important railway establishments at Franzensfeste. Our ...
Article : 143 wordsThe iron-smelting works at Moturoa are turning out excellent grey iron of a uniform quality, and the metallurgical problem is considered to have been solved. ...
Article : 105 wordsThe United Press Association states that the latest battle of the Somme has been definitely won. It will require only a little pressure until von Hindenburg's ...
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Advertising : 38 wordsIt is semi-officially announced that the Spanish Ministry has prepared a report concerning the torpedoing of the Atasamendi, based on the telegraphic details, ...
Article : 95 wordsMr. and Mrs. J. Ridley, of 479 Newcastle-street, West Perth, have received word that their youngest son, Monte, has been wounded in France. This is the second son of three ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Tue 3 Sep 1918, Page 5
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