Reports of the struggle in Russian Poland and in Galicis continue to be highly contradictory. Advices from Petrograd are still couched in an optimistic tone and give ...
Article : 755 wordsAt Hodeidah, an Arabian port on the Red Sea, some Turkish soldiers endeavoured to arrest the British Consul who escaped to the Italian Consulate. The Turks forced ...
Article : 63 wordsA wireless message from Berlin states:— "Much remains to be done before the Russian resistance is broken at Lodz. The significance of the fighting at Lowicz is that if ...
Article : 52 wordsSir Edward Grey, in thanking Servia for her congratulations on the British victory off the Falkland Islands, paid a warm tribute to the Servians' briliant victories ...
Article : 51 wordsIn connection with the attack of German submarines on Admiralty Harbour at Dover it has now transpired that on Wednesday night a steamer was seen in the ...
Article : 159 wordsThe Australian and New Zealand war contingents, which recently disembarked in Egypt have gone into camp pitched on a beautiful site behind the Great Pyramid ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 201 wordsThe Secretary of State (Mr. Bryan) has ordered a legal inquiry to determine if any basis exists for United States' action should investigation establish the ...
Article : 128 wordsItaly is purchasing horses and wheat supplies on a big scale in the United States. The Italian Consul her states that Italy intends to have 2,000,000 men in arms when ...
Article : 58 wordsThe official communique, issued on Friday, gave the following report of the fight-in gsouth-west of Warsaw:—"The Germans took the energetic offensive at Mlawa on ...
Article : 102 wordsA Berlin wireless telegram states that the Kaiser immediately agreed to the suggestion of his Holiness the Pope the hostilities should be suspended on Christmas ...
Article : 54 wordsIn the North Sea 30 miles off the Dutch coast, yesterday a German submarine challenged the British steamer Colchester (1,209 tons), bound from the Hook of ...
Article : 66 wordsA Russian non-commissioned officer, who has escaped from the Germans to Lodz, narrates that he with two officers and 30 men were taken prisoners. They were ...
Article : 100 wordsThe Rules Committee of the United States Parliament refused to give Mr. Gardner, of the House of Representatives, permission to raise the question of ...
Article : 110 wordsThe "Financial News" in an article on the announcement made by Mr. Hughes, Attorney-General of the Commonwealth, in respect to the effects of war conditions on ...
Article : 247 wordsThe Ministry of Marine has received a report which states that the German armoured cruiser Friedrick Karl (8,858 tons displacement 21 knots) has been sunk in ...
Article : 84 wordsThe Vatican authorities have announced that the Papal efforts to secure the suspension of hostilites on Christmas Day have failed owing to the opposition of a certain ...
Article : 35 wordsAn official message from Vienna states:—"The Australian are continuously victorious in advancing over the Carpathians. They captured 2,000 Russians and the garrison at ...
Article : 47 words£ s. d. Previously acknowledged 4,135 2 4 W. H. Crow, Naval Base 0 7 6 Employees Perth City Council, ...
Article : 188 wordsMr. Andrew Carengie, interviewed on the war, expresses the opinion that it would be unchristian and immoral to stop fighting on Christmas Day and resume ...
Article : 87 wordsThe Madrid correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" states that the Admiralty has discovered and frustrated a plan which Germany had matured for sowing sea-mines in ...
Article : 45 wordsThe United States Secretary of the Navy (Mr. Daniels), giving evidence before the Naval Investigation Committee of Congress, declared that American ought to have ...
Article : 67 wordsThe "Telegraaf" reports that the Dutch authorities have seized at Hansweern 15 boat loads of grain and goods of various description—apparently booty from ...
Article : 55 words"Le Matin" states that when the Australians penetrated Doukonba, outnumbering the Servians by six to one, the King, accompanied by Princes Alexander and ...
Article : 120 wordsAfter an eight hours' desperate hand to hand fight yesterday the French occupied Moos and Biesel, in Upper Alsace. The casualties included 215 French and 720 ...
Article : 67 wordsA message received from Berlin states that it has been announced that a fleet of British cruisers on Thursday violently bombarded the Belgian coast for the purpose ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Admiralty has issued the official list of casualties sustained by Vice-Admiral Sturdee's squadron in the action off the Falkland Islands, in which four German ...
Article : 65 wordsThe New York Stock Exchange has reopened, after a suspension of four and a half months. Approved stocks to the number of 192 were traded in, and upward ...
Article : 61 wordsVan Horsen, a Dutchman, and a volunteer in the Belgian Army, has escaped from the Wesel camp. He reports that his battalion was surrounded on the Yser, and ...
Article : 126 wordsThe Customs officials of Gravesend have seized a huge box from a liner bound for Rotterdam. When the box was opened a German officer stepped out, and the box ...
Article : 258 wordsThe British are reported to be gaining ground northwards of Passchendaele, and to be imperilling the German positions nearer the coast. The German General ...
Article : 61 wordsThe "Cologne Gazette," referring to President Wilson's desire to assume an important role in the conclusion of peace, declares:—"Germany does not inspire the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 615 wordsMr. Hughes, on the 10th inst., made the following speech in the House of Representatives:—"Investigations into the position of the Broken Hill Proprietary and other ...
Article : 488 wordsThe "Frankfurter Zeitung" publishes a report that five Russian infantry regiments, shipped from Archangel, on the White Sea, reached Antivari, on the ...
Article : 43 wordsThe German cruiser Dresden, which escaped after the engagement with Admiral Sturdee's squadron off the Falkland Islands, and was pursued by the British vessels, has ...
Article : 111 wordsThe "Handelsblad" states:—"Von Moltke some time back wished to make an attack concentrated at Verdun, combined with an advance on Paris from the north, with a ...
Article : 120 wordsLieutenant Walter Brodie, of the Highland Light Infantry, has been awarded the Victoria Cross for conspicuous gallantry at Becelaere, in ousting the e[?]my from ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Petrograd "Army Messanger" reports that the Russian troops investing Cracow, have routed an Austro-German army south of that city. The Russians ...
Article : 50 wordsMr. Ramsay MacDonald, M.P., is serving with a field ambulance corps in Belgium. ...
Article : 24 wordsColonel Sir Arthur Henry McMahon, K.C.I.E., Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, in being despatched to Egypt as British High Commissioner. ...
Article : 211 wordsFor some years past it has been the practice of the Indian Government to reward deserving Indian military pensioners with grants of valuable land in the ...
Article : 191 wordsAfter the Gneisenau, Scharnhorst, and Leipsig were sunk the British squadron had an exciting chase after the cruiser Nurnberg. She was summoned to surrender, ...
Article : 75 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle's" war correspondent in France gives a graphic description of the recapture of Pasachendaele by a night attack. The village was strongly ...
Article : 153 wordsAccording to a statement published by the "Echo de Paris," the state of the Kaiser, who has been reported to be suffering from bronchial catarrh and nervous ...
Article : 104 wordsSpeaking at Bristol last night, Mr. A. J. Balfour declared:—"The war is due to a crime against civilisation. It was a crime of a nation that had not merely ...
Article : 143 wordsThe steamer Scottish Prince, which has arrived from Rio Janeiro, reports that the only remaining German cruiser in the Atlantic is still active on the South American ...
Article : 63 wordsThe German attempt to take a ferryman's house on the Yser was a terrible failure. Bavarian prisoners taken in the attempt declared they were ordered to recapture ...
Article : 76 wordsIt is reported here that Vice-Admiral Sturdee's squadron included four armoured cruisers. Von Spee's flagship, the Scharnhorst, kept ...
Article : 46 wordsThe "Daily Mail" diplomatic correspondent, in describing the interview of King Albert of Belgium with the Kaiser at Berlin a fortnight before the war began, states ...
Article : 165 wordsContributions to the patriotic and relief funds organised in Sydney in connection with the war now reach a total of £485,243. Included in this amount are the Lord ...
Article : 59 wordsThe gifts of clothing forwarded to England by Farmer and Co., Sydney, have been distributed among Belgian refugees and British poor. The portion given to the ...
Article : 49 wordsThe "Onsland," the loyal Dutch organ appeals to the English South Africans for kindly forbearance in discussing the problem of dealing with the rebel leaders ...
Article : 56 wordsA Berlin semi-official statement, suggests that after the engagement last month with the Good Hope at Santa Maria Island, on the Chilian coast, the ...
Article : 107 wordsRumours have come in from the front of a victory won by British troops in recovering a considerable stretch of country. The Germans lost very heavily in the fight. The ...
Article : 132 wordsThe movement for the presentation of a battleship to the Navy by Britons resident in foreign countries (estimated to number 1,000,000) emanates from the ...
Article : 256 wordsA message from Constantinople states that a Turkish gunboat has been sunk by one of the mines placed at the entrance of the Dardanelles. ...
Article : 33 wordsIn the presence of about 7,000 people at St. Kilda to-day the Governor-General (Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson) presented a set of regimental colours to the 14th battalion ...
Article : 89 wordsIn response to the Western Australian Women's National Council's appeal on behalf of Lady French's Fund, the object of which is to assist particularly those women ...
Article : 91 wordsA report from Berlin states that a Turkish fleet has bombarded Batum. A number of inhabitants were killed and many more were wounded by the shells. ...
Article : 33 wordsMany thousands of Japanese lined the streets yesterday to welcome the arrival of Colonel Barnardiston, who commanded the British troops which took part in the ...
Article : 96 wordsThe Amsterdam correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" reports that violent riots have occurred between the Prussian and the Bavarian Landwehr in Antwerp barracks. ...
Article : 51 wordsMr. Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty has cabled to Tokio a reply [?] the cordial congratulations sent by Japan on the Falkland Island victory. ...
Article : 174 wordsThe steamship Morinda, which arrived from Rabaul to-day, brought a number of German prisoners, including those who were responsible for the flogging of the Rev. ...
Article : 332 wordsThere was a very fierce skirmish on Thursday night in the ruins of Dixmude. One body of Germans advanced shouting loudly for the purpose of concentrating ...
Article : 86 wordsA message from Athens reports that Turkish troops near Constantinople have been for several weeks in virtual revolt against the tyranny of the German officers ...
Article : 84 wordsInstructions have been recived by the military authorities to recommend recruiting for the expeditionary forces. Full particulars will be notified through the Press ...
Article : 57 wordsThe German offensive has hitherto failed in every direction. Simultaneous attacks at several points along the Russian centre, right and left were repulsed, with heavy ...
Article : 108 wordsGeneral Von der Goltz, who was lately withdrawn from his command on the Franco-Belgian front to act as military adviser to Turkey as Germany's ally is staying a few ...
Article : 96 wordsYesterday afternoon's communique stated" "The enemy has completely evacuated the west bank of the Yser canal, north of the ferryman's house we occupied on the bank. ...
Article : 110 wordsThe War Ministry's report of Friday morning's operations stated:—"We made continued progress towards the enemy's lines in the Ypres region. Several attacks ...
Article : 99 wordsAt yesterday morning's service at St. John's, Fremantle, some 200 members of the Army Medical Corps, together with 36 nurses, a detachment of 50 naval men ...
Article : 252 wordsIt is stated that the members of a German mission which was recently at Angola, Portuguese West Africa, studying the railway system and agricultural conditions ...
Article : 51 wordsTelegrams from Valparaiso report that heavy firing has been heard off the Chilian coast near Mochan Island midway between Conception and Valderia. It is believed ...
Article : 48 wordsThere are now 1,250 solicitors and articled clerks serving in the army. Over a million men above 38 years of age, who for age or other physical reasons were debarred ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 14 Dec 1914, Page 7
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