Further satisfactory news comes from France and Belgium. The Belgians are still successfully prosecuting the offensive, while the French have gained possession of an important position north of Mensil. A German force was practically wiped out in an effort to regain this ground. During the past four days German prisoners have been arriving at Southampton at the rate of over 1,000 ...
Article : 344 words£ s. d. Previously acknowledged 8,386 3 3 Staff of F. H. Faulding and Co. (19th weekly instalment) 3 2 6 ...
Article : 962 wordsOn board the R.M.S. Orontes, which arrived at Fremantle yesterday from London, was Mr. K. Cookson, of Roebourne, who was on a visit to England when the war ...
Article : 408 wordsThe Western Australian appeal in reference to the military censorship of war news appearing in newspapers was again mentioned in the High Court to-day, when ...
Article : 92 wordsThe following cable message was received to-day by the Governor-General from the Secretary of State for the Colonies:—"The Commission for relief in Belgium is ...
Article : 184 wordsIt is officially announced that the steamer Atlanta was torpedoed off Inishturk Island, on the west coast of Ireland. The crew were saved. The steamer Fingall was ...
Article : 146 wordsAn inquest was held to-day concerning the death of Martin Katzer, a German lieutenant, who escaped from the concentration camp at Liverpool, and was on ...
Article : 321 wordsAmong the passengers who have returned to Australia by the R.M.S. Orontes, which called at Fremantle on Wednesday, is Archdeacon Samwell, of Adelaide, who left ...
Article : 535 wordsThe State Commandant (Colonel Bruche) has received advice of the appointment of Lieut. McMasters to command the fourth reinforcement for the 10th Light Horse ...
Article : 76 wordsThe liner Cameronia eluded a German submarine off the Mull of Galloway (Hebrides Islands), for a quarter of an hour. Later two submarines appeared, one on ...
Article : 52 wordsThe German submarine U 28 yesterday stopped the British steamer Llowarden off the Maas lightship and placed bombs on board. The bombs failed to sink the ...
Article : 80 wordsSome 200 men, comprising one half of the reinforcements at present in training at Rockingham, were brought up by the s.s. Zephyr yesterday, and went into camp ...
Article : 74 wordsLast night's communique stated:—"The Russian offensive on both banks of the Orjeic continues to develop, despite a stubborn resistance. The number of German ...
Article : 40 wordsThe communique issued last evening stated:—"The Belgians made further progress and repulsed a counter-attack. The British front was subjected to a violent artillery ...
Article : 197 words"Perseus," writing in the "Berliner Tageblatt," condemns the absurd reports of the British Navy having suffered enormous losses. He states: "It is a misconception ...
Article : 57 wordsThe following remarkable letter, a copy of which reached Mr. Watson, of Messrs. Watson Bros., Fremantle, from a friend in England, by Wednesday's mail, was ...
Article : 685 wordsThe Admiralty announces that the casualties sustained by the crew of the cruiser Amethyst, which entered the mine-area in the Dardanelles and was struck by three ...
Article : 53 wordsIt is reported that the German cruiser Karlsruhe was sunk by an explosion at the end of last year off the American coast, and that a supply ship saved nearly 200 ...
Article : 44 words£ s d. Previously acknowledged 30,377 8 10 Room No. 18, Chief Engineer's Office, Existing Lines, per ...
Article : 151 wordsWounded Germans from the cruiser Dresden, which was recently sunk off the Chilian coast, assert that the explosion of the magazine on the vessel was the result ...
Article : 44 wordsOn Tuesday night searchlights assisted the Turkish land batteries in shelling the minesweepers in the Dardanelles. Motor cars continually moved the Turkish guns to different ...
Article : 52 wordsA British officer states that 350 guns, in the fight at Neuve Chapelle, were firing as fast as possible. The German trenches seemed to be on fire, under an unbroken ...
Article : 125 wordsA German aeroplane appeared three miles off the coast of Northumberland yesterday and dropped three bombs which narrowly missed the collier Blonde. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe "Daily Mail's" correspondent at Tenedos, in the Aegean Sea, states that the Allies' operations in the Dardanelles have been restricted to mine-sweeping in the ...
Article : 44 words£ s. d. Previously acknowledged 1,741 18 11 Staffs of various Insurance Companies, February ...
Article : 221 words"Le Matin" states that Germany, when preparing for war, ordered 8,000 motor waggons from an American company, for the purpose of transporting troops from ...
Article : 56 words£ s. d. Previously acknowledged 7,978 12 0 W.A.G.R. Perth Goods, salaried Stadd 4 0 0 ...
Article : 498 wordsThe "Frankfurter Zeitung" asserts that the Allies fleets are using Lemnos, an island, 40 miles south-west of the Dardanelles as a base, and that they have ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Perth Chamber of Commerce has received a cablegram advising that the s.s. Birkenfels left Capetown for Australia on the 7th inst. ...
Article : 134 wordsAt a conference of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain yesterday it was resolved to demand and increase in wages of 20 per cent., owing to the increased price ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Germans are seriously bombarding Nieuport with 16in. howitzers. ...
Article : 15 wordsA national conference of Labour representatives of the engineering, shipbuilding, coalmining and transport industries, summoned by the Government, met yesterday, ...
Article : 799 wordsGermany has opened the Spandau war chest. British sovereigns, which had been locked up since they were issued from the mint in 1873, are coming into circulation ...
Article : 37 words"Truth" expresses the opinion that Field-Marshal Sir John French intends fighting his way to Lille. The paper adds:—"General Pulteney's Army Corps is at Le ...
Article : 105 wordsThe Clyde engineers, by 5,616 votes to 1,522, decided to submit the wages question to a Government Arbitration Court ...
Article : 28 wordsA newspaper published at Leipzig, in Saxony, has accused three German firms of having swindled the German War Office. The Kaiser's Government refrains ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Vienna "Fremdenblatt" argues in favour of the destruction of London by airship bombs. "London," it says, "is indeed no fortress, but for the conduct of war by ...
Article : 1,661 wordsThe Board of Trade is inviting women to register themselves at the various Labour Exchanges, as being ready to do industrial, agricultural, or clerical work, and thus ...
Article : 76 wordsThe motor ambulance has worked almost a revolution in Red Cross work during the course of the present war. The speed of the new "arm" of the non-combatant ...
Article : 139 wordsFive thousand German prisoners have arrived at Southampton during the past four days ...
Article : 20 wordsA suggestion made by the Rev. J. Hay, that a permanent recreation hall should be provided for soldiers at the Broadmeadows camp, was considered at a meeting of the ...
Article : 323 wordsProfessor Pollard, the historian, states that since October the British troops in France have been using up rifles at the rate of one per man monthly. ...
Article : 36 wordsTen stokers from the crew of H.M.A.S. Australia are en route for Melbourne. Speaking to a representative of the "West Australian" on Wednesday, at Fremantle, ...
Article : 305 wordsFifteen hundred stevedores struck work yesterday because several shipowners refused to pay a war bonus, as agreed between the Master Stevedores' Association ...
Article : 34 wordsCaptain W. M. Campbell, a son of a former member of the New South Wales Legislative Council, has been killed in action. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe text of America's identical note to Great Britain and Germany has been published. It confirms the report of the suggestions as mentioned on February 28, and ...
Article : 318 wordsBefore leaving Europe Monsieur Joncquel, a French reservist, fit for the firing line, was told that for the present his services would not be required, and that he had ...
Article : 655 wordsKing Albert yesterday decorated Nurse Maunder, of Rangatira, New Zealand, with the Order of Leopold, in recognition of her services to the Belgian Army. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Fri 19 Mar 1915, Page 7
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