News from the war centre is exasperatingly meagre, and that which has filtered through affords little occasion for rejoicing. There has been desperate ...
Article : 486 wordsCaptain C. J. Clare, R.A.N., District Naval Officer at Fremantle, has issued the following notice to owners of small craft:— "Fishing boats and craft of any ...
Article : 135 wordsThe R.M.S. Maloja, which arrived at Fremantle from London yesterday, was well on her voyage when signs of war became apparent in Europe, but it was not until she ...
Article : 512 wordsThe Chamber of Commerce is in receipt of information from the Department of Trade and Customs to the effect that it has been decided to comply with the wishes of ...
Article : 86 wordsA meeting of the residents was held in the Balingup hall on Saturday night to receive the secretary's report concerning the proposed rifle club. It was decided to push ...
Article : 394 wordsYesterday was a wet, uncomfortable day at the military encampment at Blackboy Hill, where the Western Australian portion of the Australian Imperial ...
Article : 1,318 wordsThe Australian branch of the Red Cross Society of which Lady Helen Munro Ferguson is president has sent two sums, amounting in all to £5,000, to the British ...
Article : 109 wordsReplying to a letter which appeared in Tuesday's issue of the "West Australian" over the signature "A Worker," the Minister for Lands ...
Article : 156 wordsThe evening edition of the London "Standard" declares that refugees who have arrived in London from Germany state persistent reports are current there ...
Article : 60 wordsIt is officially, announced that the Belgian forts at Liege still hold out. The Germans have established German time at Brussels in place of Greenwich ...
Article : 98 wordsThe Lord Mayor's Patriotic Fund now amounts to £69,637. ...
Article : 14 wordsReuter's Rome correspondent states that Austria is mobilising troops on the Italian frontier, especially at Trent and Inss-bruck, the capital of Tyrol (Austria). ...
Article : 45 wordsThe steamer Wiltshire, which arrived at the Semaphore anchorage from Liverpool on Tuesday, obtained the first reliable information regarding the European war on ...
Article : 180 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Scaddan) made the following statement yesterday with regard to the meeting of the Cabinet held on Monday:—The Cabinet gave consideration to ...
Article : 384 wordsA message from Valona states that yesterday Albanian insurgents, taking advantage of the European upheaval, entered the city and hoisted the Turkish flag. ...
Article : 33 wordsThirty thousand Germans are attacking the Belgians at Malines, 30 miles from Antwerp. Some general skirmishing is taking place in north-west Flanders. ...
Article : 50 wordsA correspondent sends the following letter:— "Sir,—I would like the Citizens' Assurance Company to answer this: If a man ...
Article : 698 wordsA sentry challenged two foreigners in a shipyard at Clydeside at midnight last night. As they failed to answer the challenge, he fired in the air. The foreigners ...
Article : 80 wordsReplying yesterday to rumours as to the dismissal of men from the railway work-shops, the Minister for Railways (Mr. Collier) remarked. "At the outbreak of the ...
Article : 191 wordsThe military authorities have informed the Premier's Office that members of rifle clubs will not be called out at present. The art union organised by the Western ...
Article : 1,179 wordsIt is officially stated that the Belgians are entirely concentrated around Antwerp. The allies' plan is being carried out methodically, but the field operations, ...
Article : 91 wordsThe Legislative Assembly held a special sitting to-day. The Premier furnished a report of the Premiers' Conference, and stated that as a result of the decisions arrived at ...
Article : 99 wordsSir Cocil Spring-Rice (British Ambassador) yesterday conferred with Mr. W. J. Brayan (Secretary of State) on the subject of American neutrality. Sir Cecil expressed ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 128 wordsIt is offically announced that the French troops are withstanding from the Donon and Saales passes over the Voges, as they are no longer important, the French occupying a ...
Article : 144 wordsOne of our representatives yesterday brought under the notice of the Minister for Mines (Mr. Collier) a letter appearing in Tuesday's issue of the "West ...
Article : 457 wordsIt is reported that the condition of the Emperor Francis Joseph is worse, and that his death is only a question of hours. ...
Article : 32 wordsA telegram from Vienna states that the Austrian cruiser Kaiserin Elizabeth has been ordered to join in the operations of the German fleet at Tsingtoo, at the mouth ...
Article : 55 wordsGeneral Cradock's regiment in the war has been named the Second King Edward's Horse. Fifty publications, mostly trade and ...
Article : 80 wordsIt is officially announced that a great battle, extending from Mons, in Belgium, is being fought along the whole Franco-Belgian frontier eastward to Lusemburg. ...
Article : 201 wordsA report from Nish states that in the recent fighting against the Austrians on the Drina the Servians captured 4,500 prisoners, 53 guns, 114 ammunition waggons, ...
Article : 274 wordsWar news from Berlin has been received hero through the high power wireless station at Sayville, the German liner Kron prinz Wilhelm acting in the mid-Atlantic ...
Article : 231 wordsA correspondent writes:—"I should like to ask the Government whether it intends to do anything to assist the poorer classes in relation to the moneys which many of ...
Article : 173 wordsPreviously acknowledged £4,447 19 0 Frank Wilson M.L.A. 20 0 0 Fremantle Ladies' Golf Club 3 3 0 Miss Z. Moore 2 0 0 ...
Article : 472 wordsEarly yesterday the Press Bureau announced that the German troops besieging Namur, the great Belgian for at the [?]tion of the Sambre and the Meuse, had ...
Article : 92 wordsDuring the early hours of yesterday morning the Fremantle police received a report that an Austraian named Frank Jamous had shot himself with a revolver ...
Article : 172 wordsThe Chambers of Commerce have had under consideration the question of the censorship of commercial cable messages, and think that it should be understood by ...
Article : 198 wordsThe following message was received to-night from the High Commissioner:— "The British forces have successfully reached their new position. The ...
Article : 131 wordsThe Premier received the following cable message yesterday from the High Commissioner for the Commonwealth:— "Enemy continues movement south from ...
Article : 126 wordsSince the last Bank return was issued the Bank of England has received over £[?],500,000 in gold. The Government, according to the "Evening News," placed ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Wed 26 Aug 1914, Page 7
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