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Article : 53 words£ s. d. Amount previously acknowledged 6,632 1 9 Employees Westralia ...
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Article : 48 wordsThe Premier of Servia (M. Passies) announces that 40,000 Austro-German troops are massing for a third invasion of Servia. It is thought that if the enemy crush Ser ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Minister for Defence, Senator Pearce, has announced the deaths of the following members of the Australian Imperial Expeditionary Forces:—Driver J. W. ...
Article : 125 wordsThe condition of the war expenses account to January 31 was as follows:—Receipts and treasury bills, £1,700,000; contributions, etc., £197,449; total. £1,897,449. ...
Article : 111 wordsMr. P. McBride (Agent-General for Victoria) has handed to Belgian doctors the £100 subscribed by the Victorian Medical Benevolent Association ...
Article : 28 wordsYesterday a British aviator flew an aeroplane off Zeebrugge, and, defying the concentrated fire of the Germans, dived suddenly and dropped a bomb on to a German ...
Article : 71 wordsCaptain J. A. Bell, of the New Zealand Medical Corps, died in Egypt yesterday. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe Queen's Workwomen's Fund now amounts to £132,070. The first contingent of 120 girls has sailed by the Uripidon to take up domestic work in Australia. The ...
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Article : 750 wordsWe have received the following contributions towards the Belgian Relief Fund:—£ s. d. Previously acknowledged 6,184 14 1 ...
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Article : 45 wordsShiping circles view Germany's threatened blockade of shipping as "a paper blockade made in Germany." The English newspapers regard the move ...
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Article : 98 wordsThe Germans have been attempting to force the defence of Borjinoff by sheer weight of men, using their infantry as cavalry were used in the old days, but so ...
Article : 284 wordsThirty thousand Germans are hastening to relieve an Hungarian force which the Russians threaten to envelop at the Hungarian village of Korosmezo, near the ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Germans have evacuated Angola (Portuguese West Africa). There were recently many native risings in the possession, and several Europeans were killed. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe rebel, De Wet, will shortly be tried at Bloemfontein on a charge of high treason. After Kemp's surrender, 49 rebels, who had been disarmed by the Germans, ...
Article : 45 wordsIn the recent fighting near Suez the British captured three machine guns, 90 camels, laden with stores and ammunition, and 600 prisoners. Furthermore, the Turks ...
Article : 54 wordsIt is understood that the Union Government contemplates a special tax on gold mining, with a sliding scale, the estimated proceeds from the tax being £500,000. The ...
Article : 42 wordsHeavy fighting took place between Bethune and La Bassee. Two trains laden with wounded arrived in Paris yesterday evening The wounded included 400 Germans. ...
Article : 33 wordsMajor-General Sir John Maxwell has forwarded to Sir George Reid (High Commissioner for the Commonwealth) a cable message commending the Australian engineers ...
Article : 46 wordsThe newspapers are endorsing the abandonment of the Imperial Conference, pointing out that the hands of local statesmen are already full, with the situation in ...
Article : 41 wordsThere were no infantry actions on February 5, but our artillery at en Woevre and in the Argonne district dispersed several of the enemy's convoys and set fire ...
Article : 45 wordsThe German naval blockade announcement is officially regarded as the gravest development of the war. Neutral countries have approached the United States with ...
Article : 43 wordsA communique issued late last night stated:—"We seized to-day an important point on the left bank of the Bzura and captured the first and second lines of ...
Article : 55 wordsGreat Britain, France, and Russia are arranging to take over equal portions of cash advances made or being made to countries now fighting with them or ...
Article : 181 wordsIt is officially announced that the French warships D'Entrecasteaux and Requin assisted in the defence of the Suez Canal, and still remain there. The Requin silenced ...
Article : 54 wordsThe communique issued last night stated. "The Russians made bayonet charges at Borjimoff and captured two lines of trenches. We are progressing in the Car ...
Article : 83 wordsThe American Ambassador at Berlin has informally announced that he intends to lodge an official protest against the German blockade. The Dutch, Swedish, and ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Kalgoorlie Belgian Patriotic Relief Fund amounts to £4,957 10s., and the State Patriotic Fund to £2,572 13s. 2½d. Another £500 of the latter has been sent to Perth, ...
Article : 86 wordsThe Germans threw a barrel bridge over the Rawka, and three companies crossed on it. Russian guns then destroyed the bridge, and the companies, being cut off, were ...
Article : 45 wordsDuring the fighting on Friday a German major was shot at Serapum. He was found in possession of a white flag folded inside a special wallet. ...
Article : 32 wordsGermany has informed the United States that she does not intend to seize American vessels laden with foodstuffs for the civilian population of enemy countries but she ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Rome correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" states:—"The fighting in Egypt has cansed a notable change in the attitude of the Italian war correspondents in Egypt. ...
Article : 155 wordsThe Germans, in two days and nights, swept the Russian position at Borjimoff, with 600 massed guns, many of the shells emitting suffocating gases. covering the ...
Article : 65 wordsSir,—May we through your columns express our thanks to the many friends of the regiment who have contributed to our funds or in other ways helped us. We ...
Article : 134 wordsThe Minister for Finance announced to-day that the revenue for the ten expired months of the current financial year was £8,854,325. including a balance on April 1, ...
Article : 121 wordsBringing back to Australia a cargo of 5,000 tons of wheat shipped from the Commonwealth on the German steamers Rheinland and Annhalt, the steamer Inveran ...
Article : 259 wordsIt is officially announced that the Russians crossed the Bzura river near the mouth, captured part of the enemy's positions near Diakowa, and dislodged the ...
Article : 72 wordsIn an interview, the German Imperial Chancellor (Von Bethmann Hollweg) said that Germany would use every opportunity to starve England in revenge for England's ...
Article : 73 wordsThe American Lawn Tenuis Association has decided that owing to the war it will not challenge the Australians in connection with the Davis Cup competition. ...
Article : 37 wordsA Berlin communique states that strong Russian attacks against German positions cast of Borjimoff were repulsed, and that the Germans captured, in four days, 26 ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 8 Feb 1915, Page 7
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