The significance of the repeated reports of the failing back of the allied left is shown in to-day's cables. The Franco-British force has evidently been ...
Article : 536 wordsAt a special meeting of members of the W.A.T.C. held last evening at the Builders' Exchange, the committee of the club was empowered to spend in the relief of ...
Article : 912 wordsA Japanese report states that there is a shortage in certain staple lines of provisions at Tsing-tao, at the entrance to Kiau-Chau Bay and frantic efforts are ...
Article : 66 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle" reports an insurrection of German prisoners at Edinburgh, where they were interned in military barracks under a guard of Territorials. ...
Article : 89 wordsThe Agent-General for Queensland (Sir Thos. Robinson), has notified the Government of a proposal by the Brisbane Newspaper Company to send a shipment of ...
Article : 162 wordsAnother 45 infantry volunteers left by the express to-day for the Morphetville camp at Adelaide. There was a big crowd at the station to see the troops off, ...
Article : 148 wordsNear Port Hope in Ontario, yesterday an attempt was made to wreck a railway train. Dog-spikes were removed from the sleepers at a dangerous spot, but the ...
Article : 63 wordsMiss Christabel Pankhurst, the notorious militant suffragette, who had been living in France for several months in order to avoid arrest, has returned to England with the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 126 wordsPresident Wilson intends to ask a joint session of Congress to pass a War Taxation Bill to raise £20,000,000 a year for various purposes connected with the preservation ...
Article : 134 wordsInitial proceedings in connection with the Prize Court took place to-day before the Chief Justice sitting in Admiralty jurisdiction. Mr. H. E. Mannine, instructed by ...
Article : 98 wordsSir James Sievewright, formerly Minister for Works in Cape Colony, who was imprisoned while on a holiday tour at Nuremburg, in Bavaria, has been released and has ...
Article : 139 wordsThe position in Broken Hill in regard to the unemployed was strained most of yesterday, but it eased off later when it became known that the issue of relief coupon ...
Article : 107 wordsMatters slackened somewhat yesterday in the military encampment at Blackboy Hill, where the Western Australia quota and two companies of the Tasmanian ...
Article : 1,129 wordsPresident Poincare, Ministers, and the foreign Ambassadors, with the exception of the American Ambassador, have gone to Bordeaux. General Gallieni has ...
Article : 41 wordsA truck of wheat given by a farmer at Bingera for the Patriotic Fund was sold by auction at the railway goods yards to-day It realised £225. Some of the bags were ...
Article : 229 words"The Daily's Mail's" correspondent at Dieppe states that there is an unending stream of French troops into Paris. The Germans are pushing forward with ...
Article : 196 wordsAccording to a cable message received today by Melbourne shipping firms from the head offices in London it has been decided to reduce the war surtax on freights on ...
Article : 167 wordsA lance-corperal of the Connaught Rangers who was wounded in Belgium, and invalided home, states:—"The disconcerting thing about the present fighting is that we ...
Article : 190 wordsA sergeant-major, in a letter from the front, states: "The worst about this war is not the fear of losing life, but the hellish nerve-racking noise. The ...
Article : 81 wordsWhile endorsing the action of the Mines Department in assisting men out of employment on the goldfields by equipping them with prospecting outfits. "Firefly" ...
Article : 686 wordsLemberg, the capital of Galicia, with a population of about 170,000, has surrendered to the Russians. It is officially reported that, apart from ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 417 wordsThe Premier (Sir Alexander Peacock) tonight received the following cable message from the Agent-General: "Bank moratorium to be extended one month in present form. ...
Article : 98 wordsReuter's correspondent at Sofia states that the King of Bulgaria, replying to a message of goodwill from Budapest, declared that Hungary possessed Bulgaria's ...
Article : 35 wordsColonel De Bonhomme states that despite the rapidity with which the French guns changed their positions in a recent engagement the changes were immediately ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 887 wordsTwenty-thousand men were enlisted yesterday in Earl Kitchener's second army The authorities in London are scarcely able to cope with the rush of recruits. Despite ...
Article : 265 wordsThe War Office has issued a further list of casualties, comprising 18 additional officers killed, 78 wounded, and 86 missing; and in the other ranks 52 killed, ...
Article : 83 wordsA communique issued at 12 o'clock last night stated: "Since yesterday (Wednesday) the allies have not come into contact with the enemy. The Germans are ...
Article : 235 wordsAt Chicago yesterday the price of wheat rose rapidly, and touched the highest point reached since the war began. May wheat was quoted at 5s. 2 5-8d. per bushel. The ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Governor-General (Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson) reviewed the troops at Morphettville to-day, and in addressing the members of the force he said—"Colonel Weir, ...
Article : 329 wordsThe Germans bombarded Malines on Wednesday. The Cathedral was reduced to ruins, but the Saint Rombolls Shrine was rescued, and conveyed to Antwerp, ...
Article : 486 wordsIt is understood at Bucharest, the capital of Roumania, that the Turco-Greek conference has failed, and that Greece has declared that Turkey's demands are ...
Article : 41 wordsThe underwriters demand that stronger efforts should be made to capture the few unplaced German cruisers that are roving the seas, chiefly in the South Atlantic, as ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Queen, in the belief that the prevention of distress is better than relief, and that employment is better than charity, has inaugurated a Queen's Work for ...
Article : 128 wordsAnother neutral merchant steamer has been destroyed by German mines in the North Sea. The Swedish steamer St. Paul yesterday struck a mine and foundered. ...
Article : 45 wordsIn yesterday's paper appeared a letter from "Trader" and comments on the position by another merchant, These were referred to the local manager of the ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Sat 5 Sep 1914, Page 7
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