Further details of the French reverse at Soissons do not substantiate the German boast of a brilliant and decisive victory; but after some desperate fighting in which ...
Article : 693 wordsThe premier event of the Western Australian swimming year—the annual race from Applecross to Perth, mis-named the "Swim Through Perth"—took place on ...
Article : 1,384 wordsThe latest estimates place the number of persons killed by last Wednesday's earthquake at 30,000 in the Abruzzi province alone, including 14,000 in the Avazzano ...
Article : 236 wordsThere have been further deaths in connection with the German bombardment of Hartlepool, raising the death roll to 115. ...
Article : 27 words"This war is going on until Germany has been defeated. There is no other possible contingency." Such was the resolute statement made ...
Article : 348 wordsIt is officially announced that Union forces have occupied Swakopmund, a port in German West Africa, near Walfish Bay. Two Britishers were killed and one ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Melbourne Chamber of Commerce is in receipt of a message from the Capetown Chamber of Commerce dated January 15 as follows:—"The Court yesterday ...
Article : 158 wordsThe Government has ordered that those members of the South African defence force who were unwilling rebels should he released conditionally on being of good behaviour, ...
Article : 94 wordsIt is probable that in the Adelaide Police Court to-morrow there will be further developments in connection with the Snow case. When Francis H. Snow was first ...
Article : 122 wordsThe Prague correspondent of the "Local Anzeiger" states that Count Berchtold's resignation as the Austro-Hungarian Minister for Foreign Affairs was due to a ...
Article : 59 wordsLord Rosebery, speaking at an enthusiastic recruiting meeting held in Glasgow, referred to the expediency of one or more "bantam" battalions being raised. He was, ...
Article : 340 wordsRelief operations are being continued under the most dangerous conditions. The disturbance caused great crevasses in the cemetery at Sora, and from these masses ...
Article : 39 wordsIt is now announced that the Dutch Government removed the 30 British naval officers from the concentration camp at Groningen to the fortress at Bodegrave ...
Article : 67 wordsAlthough the country recruiting returns for yesterday were not available at the Defence Department to-night, the metropolitan area returns brought the number ...
Article : 68 wordsTwo girls protected under a piano, implored help for two days, but they were slowly asphyxiated with dust. Fires broke out at several points, and there is nodoubt ...
Article : 51 wordsA German communique says that the Germans repulsed attacks north-west of Arras, and, counter-attacking, captured two trenches and took the defenders ...
Article : 46 wordsThe contributions to the war and patriotic funds in Sydney to date amount to £544,-125. This includes:—Lord Mayor's Fund, £179,000; Belgian Relief Fund, £128,000; ...
Article : 57 wordsAll houses at Coppadocia have been rendered uninhabitable and the citizens have been compelled to camp in the snow. Nothing remains of Albfucensis, and it is ...
Article : 52 wordsA German communique announces that the Minister in charge of the Imperial Debt Commission (Herr Kuhn) has resigned on account of ill-health. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe levy of £2,000,000 imposed by the Germans upon Antwerp has been paid. In future German requisitions for supplies will be paid in cash. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe gallant struggle continues near Soissons. One French regiment recrossed the [?]iver Aiane and dashed upon the German lines. Fierce fighting for hours resulted, and ...
Article : 82 wordsThe French Government has offered Belgium the place of honour in the French hall of the Panama Exposition. ...
Article : 28 wordsMuch damage was caused at Subiaco (the cradle of the Benedictine order, about 32 miles east of Rome and close to Avazzano). Among the buildings destroyed ...
Article : 40 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle's" Calais correspondent reports that nine aviators dropped bombs on the railway and barracks at Ostend, doing considerable damage. The ...
Article : 65 wordsPreviously acknowledged .. £27,574 9 1 Belmont Park Road Board .. 1 1 0 Total .. £27,575 10 1 Persons who desire to subscribe to this ...
Article : 76 wordsMr. H. Bourassa, the well-known politician and journalist, writing in "Le Devoir," of which he is editor, blamed the Dreadnought Trust and the British yellow ...
Article : 117 wordsOne hundred persons were buried in the Church of Castilliri during a funeral service. The rescuers at Sora found the dead ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Germans violently bombarded Soissons on Thursday, and fires have broken out in all parts of the town. The tower and portico of the Cathedral were completely ...
Article : 77 wordsIn a lecture on the subject of "The Soldier's Rations" delivered in the Institute of Hygiene, Dr. Gastineau Earle (according to the London "Morning Post") said ...
Article : 299 wordsLast night's communique intimated:— "The enemy were expelled from Sierpo, and occupied the fords of the Skrawa, 40 miles east of Thorn. They have been ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 207 wordsThe earthquake demolished the palace occupied by Count Resta, at Avazzano, and buried the Countess and her five sons in the ruins. The Count who escaped from ...
Article : 74 wordsDetails of the fighting near Soissons show that the French made a resolute advance along the Bethune road, and reached a farm where they encountered a German division, ...
Article : 187 wordsAt Seattle on Friday Edwin Scott was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for having threatened the life of Count von Bernstorff, the German Ambassador at ...
Article : 81 wordsNews telegraphed from the Austrian frontier shows that the situation is daily growing more dangerous. Food is at famine prices, and discontent is general. ...
Article : 65 wordsThe British Ambassador (Sir Cecil Spring-Rice) yesterday protested to the State Department against Carranza's decree confiscating British oil interest in Mexico ...
Article : 72 wordsPeculiar interest is attached to the arrival on Saturday morning of the steamer Eastern, because she brought back to Sydney 270 Australian officers and men who had ...
Article : 724 wordsAn Austrian communique states:—"There has been nothing doing in the Carpathians. The increasing frost is impeding our operations." ...
Article : 28 wordsIn an address delivered before the American National Geographical Society yesterday Sir Douglas Mawson, the Australian explorer, praised the performances of ...
Article : 77 wordsIn reply to an official German wireless message declaring that the recent French defeat near Soissons was comparable to the German victory, in the Franco-German ...
Article : 84 wordsPreviously acknowledged .. £5,785 0 7 Belmont Park Roads Board .. 4 0 0 Employees carriage shop loco, Midland Junction, W.A.G.A. ...
Article : 108 wordsThe communique issued last night announced that the Russians captured many officers and men in the region of Kasargan, and are pursuing the Turks, who are ...
Article : 88 wordsMr. Thos. Maughan, secretary of the Western Australian Employers' Federation has been appointed official representative in Perth of the Chamber of Mines of ...
Article : 379 wordsAt Atlanta, in Georgia, yesterday, a mob of white men broke into a gaol and secured two negroes and two negresses who had been arrested on a charge of having clubbed ...
Article : 59 wordsThe recent British success near La Bassee was brilliant, over three-quarters of a mile being gained. The Germans were driven from strong entrenchments at ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Cairo correspondent of the "Daily News" states:—"The projected Turkish advance in Egypt cannot be deferred beyond the middle of February, as after ...
Article : 97 wordsSo far 216 men have been enrolled in Kalgoorlie for the third expeditionary force. Thirty have already departed for the training camp, 65 are awaiting orders ...
Article : 42 wordsThe late Lord Roberts left estate valued at £77,304, and he bequeathed the whole of it, with the exception of bequests to servants, to his widow and daughters. His ...
Article : 66 words"Gideon" (Leederville) considers that one of the most striking features of the war is the u[?]tter disregard of constitutional forms shown by the Kaiser. Without the ...
Article : 354 words"Le Matin" states:—"It is reported from a trustworthy source that the Germans have abandoned their positions near La Bassee owing to their having become untenable ...
Article : 49 wordsA flotilla of Swedish torpedo boats is clearing the Baltic Sea of German mines, which have suspended shipping between Stockholm and Scotland for several days. ...
Article : 38 words"Jimmy" Duffy, of Lockport, Kentucky, outpointed "Johnny" Dundee in a 10 rounds no decision match. Fast fighting was indulged in throughout. ...
Article : 26 wordsFive hundred more yards of country west of Ypres have been inundated. The Belgians have been able to evacuate their positions, enabling many to be sent ...
Article : 59 wordsLast evening's communique stated:—"The enemy re-occupied a portion of the trenches at Notre Dame de Lorette, which they lost on January 14. We progressed at Clangy, ...
Article : 189 wordsThe State Department has ordered a collier manned by a German prize crew to leave Porto Rico (an American island in the West Indies) or to intern. As a ...
Article : 66 wordsTenders returnable on February 2 are being invited for the following articles for the Kalgoorlie-Port Augusta railway:—(a) 130 b.h.p. horizontal suction gas engines ...
Article : 109 wordsOn Saturday afternoon the remainder of the passengers and contacts from the steamer Runic were released from quarantine at Torrens Island. Mr. Leroy, a ...
Article : 51 wordsA German force moved in mass against the North Staffordshire Regiment near Ypres the other day, but became bogged in mud, and were an easy mark for the ...
Article : 105 wordsAdvices from Sebastopol show that a Russian fleet in the Black Sea sank 80 sailing vessels which were transporting Turkish troops to Anatolia. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 18 Jan 1915, Page 7
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