The special correspondent of the United Press Association (U.S.A.) on the western front says that American aviators have reported that American heavy shells are ...
Article : 86 wordsYesterday the Central Committee received the following telegram from Mr. J. G. Shield, the chairman of the Tasmanian Central Committee:—"How are the nuggets ...
Article : 1,001 wordsMrs. G. Woodford, of 17 May-street, West Perth, has received word that her son, Private E. L. Woodford, was admitted on September 3 to the Beaufort War Hospital, Bristol, ...
Article : 840 wordsA Serbian official despatch, dated yesterday, says:—"Surmounting the formidable difficulties of the high mountains, we are pursuing by day and night the completely ...
Article : 319 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) received to-day the following cable message from General Birdwood in connection with the return to Australia on furlough ...
Article : 408 wordsThe following awards are announced:— Bars to Military Cross.—Australians: Captains D. Aarons, D. G. Cummings, R. J. Henderson, A. R. MacNeil, and J. P. Toft. ...
Article : 118 wordsMr. W. T. Massey, the British Official Press correspondent in Palestine reported on Thursday:— "To-day has added a magnificent triumph ...
Article : 619 wordsIt is reported that the ex-Empress of Russia and three of her daughters were burned to death about a month after the ex-Czar was shot. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe railway workers' dispute has been settled as the result of a conference held between the railway workers and the War Cabinet. The new agreement provides for ...
Article : 77 wordsThe British have re-captured Moeuvres about eight miles west of Cambrai). ...
Article : 21 wordsAt a meeting to-day of the Cabinet, the Minister for Lands (Mr. Ashford) stated that the Government had made available land for the settlement of 10,000 returned ...
Article : 95 wordsThe British evacuated the seaport of Baku (on the Caspian Sea) in the middle of September, after some severe fighting. The Armenians acted treacherously, failing to ...
Article : 169 wordsThe following official despatches have been issued :— BRITISH. London, Sept. 19 (3.15 p.m.).—"The ...
Article : 903 wordsThe British Admiralty authorities intercepted last night the following wireless Italian official bulletin:—"We raided a position in the region south of Col Caprile, ...
Article : 65 wordsGeneral Monash announces that the Australians took on Wednesday about 3,000 prisoners 30 guns, and 100 machine guns and trench mortars. ...
Article : 34 wordsTrouble has arisen in the Queensland branch of the Repatriation Department over what is considered the under payment of wages to returned men on the ...
Article : 102 wordsPresident Wilson, replying to King George's congratulations on the St. Mihiel victory, said:—"The generous rivalry now going on between the forces of the great ...
Article : 83 wordsThe British Admiralty authorities reported last night:—"On September 12 a German submarine torpedoed and sank a British armed boarding steamer. Eight officers ...
Article : 47 wordsTurkish messages say that Enver Pasha (the Minister for War in Turkey) does not enjoy the new Sultan's favour and seeks to be appointed to a position in the ...
Article : 84 wordsThe following list of Australian civilian prisoners interned in Germany has been received by the Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) from the official secretary to ...
Article : 282 wordsGeneral Birdwood, in cabling to the Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) the news that the Australians had captured 3,000 prisoners and 30 guns stated that the ...
Article : 97 wordsIn the following letter to the "West Australian," under date September. 19, Messrs. Horrocks and Wadham, local agents for Messrs. H. Jones and Co., Ltd., ...
Article : 467 wordsGerman airmen are raiding intensely the American back areas in Lorraine probably in revenge for the American long-range bombardment of the fortified areas of Metz, ...
Article : 37 wordsEvery section of the United States is being ransacked to furnish names for the hundreds of ships which are to be launched. Indian names have a leading place in ...
Article : 131 wordsA Basel (Switzerland) newspaper reports that the Germans have evacuated the town of Mulhausen (in Alsace), on the railway to Basel. ...
Article : 26 wordsAs a reply to the Austrian peace Note, M. Pichon, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, has sent to the Swiss Minister a copy of the speech delivered by M. ...
Article : 661 wordsMr. Percival Phillips, the special correspondent of the London "Daily Express, telegraphed yesterday from France:—"The battle of the ridges fought by the Third ...
Article : 125 wordsMr. Gordon Gilmour, the special representative of the Australian and New Zealand Press Association, telegraphed as follows from the battle front on Wednesday:— ...
Article : 1,262 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the United Press Association (U.S.A.) reports that the Senate has ratified the draft treaties between the United States and France ...
Article : 36 wordsLieutenant George Vincent Abjornson, of the A.I.F., on active service for the last three years, now in France writes to his parents, who reside in South Perth, under ...
Article : 271 wordsA representative of the Australian and New Zealand Press Association reported last evening:—"The Germans costructed a line across the base of the St. Mihiel ...
Article : 876 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the New York "Times" says that the interest paid to the Government of the United States by the Allies as interest on war ...
Article : 49 wordsIn yesterday's "West Australian" a letter from a correspondent appeared, in which the Government was criticised for having mortgaged, at a time when money ...
Article : 560 wordsThe overseas Press delegates spent a pleasant time at Windsor Castle yesterday Mr. John W. Fortescue, C.V.O., the King's Librarian, showed the visitors the points ...
Article : 81 wordsThe following American wireless news has been received from Honolulu by the American Consul here:— Major-General Janin, the French officer ...
Article : 434 wordsMr. W. M. Hughes (the Prime Minister of Australia) yesterday opened reading, writing, and rest rooms for the Australian soldiers in the basement of Australia House, ...
Article : 34 wordsAt a further conference with the Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Watt) to-day, the representatives of the Australian Combing, Spinning, and Weaving Company accepted ...
Article : 128 wordsIn sentencing an accused person to a year's imprisonment for having collected and communicated information which might be useful to the enemy, and for having ...
Article : 121 wordsMrs. W. M. Hughes, wife of the Prime Minister of Australia, speaking to about 350 wounded Australian and New Zealand soldiers at the Australian Y.M.C.A., ...
Article : 290 wordsThe trouble on the Lakeside wood line, which resulted in 20 loaders leaving work, has been settled, and the supply of firewood for the mines obtaining fuel from ...
Article : 45 wordsThe proceedings at the inter-Allied Labour conference to-day were delayed owing to a sharp divergence which occurred among the members of the French delegation, ...
Article : 396 wordsThe special correspondent of the United Press Association (U.S.A.) telegraphed yesterday evening from the British front:— "The latest reports of this morning's ...
Article : 362 wordsA conference was held to-day between the Wharf Labourers' Union and the shipping companies, at which it was decided that the rotation system in operation ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Sat 21 Sep 1918, Page 7
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