The Franco-British forces have made further headway, both in France and Belgium. The story of an extremely brave stand by a small party of Britishers is told in connection with the recent fighting around Ypres. A German army menacing Warsaw from the north-west was shattered on Friday at Prasnysz, and is now retreating. The enemy have also been thrown back on the Niemen, in the north of Poland. The fighting along the whole ...
Article : 367 wordsMost of the great Norwegian exporters of dried codfish have stopped shipping to Germany owing to the attacks made upon Norwegian merchantmen. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Miners' Federation of Great Britain is seeking an immediate advance in wages owing to the increased cost of living. A conference to arrange details of the demand ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Turks have retreated so far from the Suez Canal that any further attack on Egypt is most unlikely. A small force is still at E[?]kl, the bulk of the army is at ...
Article : 54 wordsAdvices from New York state that the German Government has given the widow of the spy Carl Lody, who was shot in London, £3,000. The recipient is an American ...
Article : 39 wordsReference was again made on Saturday by the Prime Minister (Mr. Fisher) to the scheme which he has already outlined for the building of a strategical railway from ...
Article : 424 wordsIt is officially stated that Great Britain has declared a blockade of the coast of German East Africa, the blockade to come into operation to-morrow. ...
Article : 34 wordsIn December last the Government of India restricted the export of wheat to the end of March, but in spite of this restriction prices continued to rise. The ...
Article : 139 wordsBritish and French warships have succeeded in silencing all the Turkish forts at the entrance to the Dardanelles. The Admiralty, in a report of the ...
Article : 396 wordsA serious riot took place on Thursday between pro-war and anti-war agitators at Reggio. Troops fired killing two people and wounding five. Several carbineers were ...
Article : 71 words"The Sun," referring to the German shipping blockade, says:—"President Wilson's attempt to effect a compromise is nothing but benevolent meddling. ...
Article : 83 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) is proud of the fact that the Australian forces being sent to the front are self-contained. In referring to the matter ...
Article : 279 wordsGeneral Botha, at the head of South Africa's northern force, yesterday quitted Swakopmund and captured Goonikentes and Gonside, from which the Germans fled. ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Government has decided to ask the House of Commons for a general vote of credit for £250,000,000 for the year ending March 31, 1916, for assisting the food ...
Article : 172 wordsThe Union Parliament was opened on Friday. The Governor-General's speech foreshadowed the introduction of legislation providing for the punishment of various ...
Article : 98 words£ s.d. Amount previously acknowledged 29,425 1 4 Boy Scouts (W. A.) ...
Article : 371 wordsAn unconfirmed report states that Marits, the rebel Boer, who was recently said to have been shot by the Germans as a traitor, is imprisoned at Windhoek. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Army Council has authorised the British Empire League to raise a divisional ammunition column. Places will be reserved for 100 Australians and New Zealanders, ...
Article : 54 wordsSpeaking in the House of Commons on Friday Mr. Harold Tennant (Parliamentary Under-Secretary for War) said it had been estimated that in 1912 the German ...
Article : 49 wordsReplying in the House of Commons on Friday to a question as to whether or not Russia intended to occupy Constantinople permanently, Sir Edward Grey (Secretary ...
Article : 71 wordsA message has been received by the Defence Department stating that Corporal Claude Barclay Johnstone died of pneumonia at Mena, Egypt, on February 23. His ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Government's appointment of Montagu Meyer as sole timber buyer for the War Office was hotly criticised in the House of Commons on Friday. Meyer receives 21s. ...
Article : 105 wordsA cable message has been received from the War Office asking that 100 medical men may be sent as soon as possible to join the Royal Army Medical Corps in Europe. ...
Article : 771 wordsGreat secrecy is being observed respecting America's proposals to the cefligerents, the idea being to avoid a public discussion which might embarrass negotiations. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Porte has decided to transfer the seat of Government to Broussa, in Asia Minor. Many of the leading inhabitants are leaving Stamboul. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe battle along the Niemen, Narew, and Vistula front, in Poland, is developing into one of the greatest in the war. Aviators report that the Germans are pouring ...
Article : 173 wordsA communique issued on Friday afternoon stated:—"The British repulsed a German attack at Belgium to-day, and in addition they gained one hundred metres of ...
Article : 83 wordsThe "Berliner Tageblatt" stated on Thursday that Carpentier, the champion French pugilist, had been wounded and captured by the Germans. A subsequent ...
Article : 44 wordsThe "Vossiche Zeitung," a Berlin journal, asserts that the prisoners in Germany and Austria include 692,000 Russians, 237,000 French, 19,000 British, and 60,000 Serviens. ...
Article : 47 wordsIn a letter to the "Daily Telegraph" Mr. Pennefather, M.P., calls the attention of the Government to a pamphlet circulated in Germany entitled "Facts About ...
Article : 84 wordsThe Admiralty has issued a statement, showing that between February 18 and 24 (since the German blockade came into force), 708 vessels arrived at British ports, ...
Article : 45 wordsFrench aviators have thrown 60 bombs on to the enemy's railway stations and concentration camps in the Champagne district. ...
Article : 61 wordsField-Marshal Sir John French, in his [?]oi-weekly report from the front states:—"A heavy snowstorm on Wednesday hindered our operations. Nevertheless our ...
Article : 87 wordsThe German Government in the Imperial budget asks for an extraordinary expenditure of 10,042,342,000 marks (about £502,000,000). It is proposed to supply the ...
Article : 74 wordsMr. Ward, a Labour M.P., is organising a battalion of navvies to do pick and shovel work for the War Office. ...
Article : 27 wordsIt is officially announced that the Russians achieved a most important victory at Prasnysz (Poland), on Friday. The Germans were shattered, and are now ...
Article : 430 wordsThe British steamer Western Coast was blown up and sunk on Wednesday off Beachy Head. All the crew were saved. Her boats had previously been swung out ...
Article : 182 wordsIt is officially announced that since the beginning of the war General Brusloff's army has captured 1,900 officers and 186,000 men. ...
Article : 29 wordsLieutenant Downing was killed on Thursday whilst flying in the Upper Avon district. ...
Article : 20 words£ s. d. Amount previously acknowledged 7,508 10 6 West Guildford Branch 5 0 0 ...
Article : 210 wordsThe publication of German casualty lists in the newspapers in Schleswig has been prohibited. ...
Article : 23 wordsAn official report issued on Friday afternoon stated:—"Our success at Lesepargeo was due to our remarkable artillery fire. A captured officer of the 8th Bavarians ...
Article : 102 wordsA wireless message received from Berlin states that on Friday the East Prussian reserves, after subborn fighting, stormed Prasnysz, which had been converted into a ...
Article : 42 wordsIn reply to a question in the House of Commons on Thursday, the Prime Minister stated that the question whether the Government would enable the British Broken ...
Article : 43 wordsThe French Premier (M. Viviani) in an interview in the American Press, declared: "The German torrent has been checked. Germany has been beaten in the field, and ...
Article : 61 wordsThe conference appointed with Sir George Askwith (Chief Industrial Commissioner) as chairman to investigate industrial disputes that have arisen in connection with army ...
Article : 170 wordsFierce fighting is taking place at Stanislavoff, where the Russians are hurling reserves into the fighting line and defending the position with stubbornness. The chief ...
Article : 112 wordsThe British vessel Harpalion, which was torpedoed whilst on a voyage to America, was struck amidships, and her boilers blew up. The chief engineer was saying grace, ...
Article : 63 wordsDuring the fighting on February 17 south-east of Ypres 40 Britishers became isolated, and held a trench until all were killed or wounded. Only three of the ...
Article : 158 wordsProfessor Friedenthal Berim, of Germany, claims to have discovered a new food, obtainable from straw. German newspapers declare that the discovery is likely to ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Swedish steamer Svarton, has arrived at Ymuiden, on the Dutch coast, seriously damaged. She was struck by a mine or a torpedo, near the Dutch coast. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 202 wordsMr. M. H. Donohoe, in a message to the "Daily Chronicle," states: "The Russians recaptured Stanislavoff on Wednesday at the bayonet's point after desperate street ...
Article : 63 wordsIt is stated in London metal circles that the Dutch Government has sold to Germany 2,000 tons of tin, at £200 per ton. ...
Article : 33 wordsIt is stated officially that a French cruiser has captured the Dacia (an American vessel, laden with foodstuffs for Germany), and has brought her to Brest. ...
Article : 38 wordsThe defeat of the Germans at the Chateau Heereintage, on the road from Ypres to Menin, was due to the cleverness of the French. The fight began on February 19 ...
Article : 146 wordsNumerous German contingents are leaving Liege for East Prussia and Bukowina. ...
Article : 18 wordsA German aeroplane on Thursday dropped shells on a British camp at Garne. One of the missiles fell in the hospital lines, wounding five men. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Labour situation has created some uneasiness, although the only open rupture is on the Clyde, where 11,500 engineers have struck, thereby hampering ...
Article : 97 wordsA violent gale carried away a Zeppelin in Pola Harbour, the chief naval station of Austria-Hungary, yesterday, and the crew were drowned. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Germans are removing copper plates from the domes of Catholic churches at Lowicz (Poland). Several citizens who protested against this sacrilege were ...
Article : 33 wordsThe report that Georges Carpentier, the Holland has been forbidden. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe Austrians have raised the French warship Curie, which was sunk by an Austrian mine in the Adriatic several weeks ago. They have taken the vessel to Pola. ...
Article : 38 wordsA communique issued on Thursday stated that the Turks were defeated with great loss in an attempt to take some heights on the left bank of the Itcharlson, in the ...
Article : 44 wordsRichard P. Stegler, a German Naval Reservist, has been arrested on a charge of fraudulently obtaining an American passport. He has confessed that Captain Boyed, ...
Article : 162 wordsThe German onslaught in East Prussia touched the border at six points between Wirballe and the Vistula. General Bulgakoff's losses were tragically great. Whole ...
Article : 122 wordsFive distinct committees of the Engineers' Society on the Clyde have decided to support the executive's recommendation for an immediate resumption of work. ...
Article : 31 wordsGerman officers declare that a great effort will be made against Calais in three weeks' time. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe hospital ship Kyarra is expected to return from Egypt shortly. She has on board a large number of men who have been sent back to Australia suffering from ...
Article : 131 wordsThe French torpedoer Dague, while escorting a supply convoy to Montenegro on Thursday, struck an Austrian mine off Antivari and sank. Thirty-eight members of ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Prime Minister has completed arrangements by which all of the meat available for export shall be shipped for the use of the allied forces. The Dominion ...
Article : 54 wordsMr. Appleton (Secretary of the Federation of Trade Unions), in a defence of the patriotism of the workers, states that the men are justified in taking action in the present ...
Article : 67 wordsFearing contamination, the German Staff has ordered a wholesale exhumation of hastily buried bodies in the elevated parts of Belgium. Bodies have been tied in fours, ...
Article : 50 wordsDuring December the German converted cruiser Prinz Eitel Friedrich sank the steamer Kildalton and the French barque Jean. The crews have been landed at ...
Article : 38 wordsIt is reported in Berlin that a Turkish general has been murdered at Constantinople at the instance of the Government because he was susp[?]d of scheming to ...
Article : 42 wordsAt a concert promoted in aid of the Belgian fund a lamb was offered for sale and resold repeatedly until it realised a total of £220. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 1 Mar 1915, Page 7
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