No light is thrown by to-day's cables on the present position of the contending armies and the immediate fortunes of war in France. The latest reports ...
Article : 593 wordsThe indemnities claimed by Germany from occupied towns in Belgium and France aggregate nearly £29,000,000. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe following story was published in the London evening newspapers yesterday:—"Miss Grace Hume, of Durnfries, Scotland. a Red Cross nurse engaged in work at the ...
Article : 117 wordsA White Paper issued yesterday, contains a copy of the despatch sent by S. M. de Bunsen (recently British Ambassador at Vienna), with reference to the rupture ...
Article : 133 wordsIt is officially announced that the Japanese troops landed at Kiau-chau Bay on Sunday last, and captured the Kiau-chau railway station. ...
Article : 57 wordsPresident Wilson, in receiving yesterday the Belgian mission sent out to protest against German outrages, promised carefully to consider the protest, and he added: ...
Article : 121 wordsThe first new army of 500,000 men is nearing completion. London's contribution is upwards of 70,000 men. A total of £47,000,000 has been tendered ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 328 wordsEarly on Sunday morning two or three British submarines stalked the German cruiser Hela. One of them, on coming to the surface, found the Hela within range ...
Article : 134 wordsPresident Wilson has cabled the Kaiser, in reply to Germany's protest against the alleged use of dum dum bullets by the French, declaring, "The United ...
Article : 59 wordsAmount previously acknowledged £10,724 3 2 "A. W.," Hoffman Mill 0 10 0 Proceeds of dance at ...
Article : 911 wordsThere was heavy foreign buying of wheat, flour, and oats yesterday owing to the fall in prices at Chicago on Tuesday, when quotations were as follow:—December wheat, ...
Article : 94 wordsThe Prime Minister (General Botha), speaking in the South African Senate yesterday, stated that the Government had decided to accede to the Imperial ...
Article : 52 wordsThe German investment of Maubeuge, on the Belgian frontier, commenced on August 26. The first shell fell on the 27th. The main attack was east and north of ...
Article : 92 wordsThe "Berliner Tageblatt," commenting upon South Africa's decision to support lasian trade for the German steamship companies hitherto engaged therein, by ...
Article : 60 wordsAfter consulting the representatives of Western Canada, the Minister of Agriculture has urged the farmers to increase the wheat acreage under cultivation, in ...
Article : 38 wordsDuring the fighting at Soissons on Sunday the Germans occupied the heights along the narrow valley of the Aisne. The British tried to cross the river near Venisel. ...
Article : 267 wordsAfter the fierce fight near the Vosges, a German found a French soldier unconscious. He shouldered him, and was conveying him to the ambulance, when ...
Article : 93 wordsFollowing is a summary of the recommendations of the Commonwealth Royal Commission on food supplies, which has been laid before the Government by the ...
Article : 1,691 wordsThe Premier has received the following cable messages from the High Commissioner for the Commonwealth:—"Governor Nyasaland reports reconnaissance beyond frontier ...
Article : 434 wordsBoth Houses of Parliament have passed a resolution empowering the Indian Government to defrey the cost of despatching troops for the front out of its own revenue, ...
Article : 87 wordsClose upon 4,000 officers and men comprising the first infantry brigade of the New South Wales contingent of the expeditionary force underwent a searching test to-day. ...
Article : 125 wordsMr. F. E. Smith, K.C., M.P. (Unionist), commenting yesterday to an interviewe: upon the Government's decision to pass the Home Rule Bill with a provision for the ...
Article : 218 wordsThe Belgians have refused to treat, as a prisoner of war, Commandant Menne, who led the Landsturm troops at Louvain, and who was afterwards captured. Instead, ...
Article : 42 wordsA semi-official message states that it is difficult to estimate correctly the Austrian losses, which are assuming colossal proportions. It is believed that 250,000 have ...
Article : 79 wordsIn the course of a speech at a luncheon of the Million Club to-day the Consul-General for Japan (Mr. K. Shomizu) said:—"The present time to all lovers of peace is one of ...
Article : 190 wordsThe authorities have captured a machine used at Termonde for spraying kerosene through the broken windows of houses which the Germans intended to burn in ...
Article : 61 wordsThe allies' success was largely due to General Joffre's clever use of the French railways, enabling the Franco-British armies to concentrate huge forces and ...
Article : 105 wordsMr. Winston Churchill (First Lord of the Admiralty) sent the following message to a big recruiting meeting held at Chatham yesterday:—"The Kaiser has urged his ...
Article : 76 wordsMiss Louise Mack, Antwerp correspondent of the "Evening News," describes the horrors in Aerschott Cathedral. On the high altar were many empty wine and beer ...
Article : 214 wordsSixty thousand wounded soldiers have reached Vienna. There are not sufficient doctors and medical appliances for their treatment. ...
Article : 77 wordsSenator Paullitt states that the Germans. occupying Lourches, were continually drunk. A French sergeant, who was lying wounded in a dwelling-house, became maddened at a ...
Article : 211 wordsThe patriotic funds raised in Tasmania now amount to £11,500, and they are being added to daily, while arrangements are being made in many cases to maintain ...
Article : 37 wordsThe scattered fragments of Von Bulow's armies. which were recently in the northwest of France, are now in a line through Noyon, Laon, and the hills north of ...
Article : 881 wordsMr. John Redmond (Nationalist Leader), in a manifesto addressed to the Irish people yesterday said he was confident that Ireland would willingly share the burdens and ...
Article : 274 wordsThe Minister for Agriculture (Mr. T. Pascoe) left for Melbourne to-day to attend the conference regarding the Panama Exposition. It is his intention to move ...
Article : 67 wordsTwo Austrian Slav regiments recently deserted to the Servians and helped the latter to capture Semlin a Hungarian town at the Junction of the Save and the ...
Article : 39 wordsThe committee controlling the War and Unemployment Distress Relief Fund acknowledge the following additional contributions:— ...
Article : 92 wordsImportant evidence regarding the action of certain holders of wheat in Sydney was given to the Necessary Commodities Royal Commission yesterday. ...
Article : 1,092 wordsA deputation representing the unemployed waited on the Honorary Minister, Mr. W. C. Angwin, yesterday. Mr. Arthur Brown, in introducing the deputation, ...
Article : 504 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" reports that Italian reservists in France state that they have been ordered to join the colours before the 28th inst. ...
Article : 35 wordsA modified tone is apparent in the latest official statements issued in Berlin. Yesterday's bulletin admits that "in some portions of the wide battlefield the Germans ...
Article : 73 wordsLast week's battle was fought in the fruit country of France, on even open roads lined with pear and apple trees. Under the cannonade of their own artillery ...
Article : 112 wordsThe Australasian Merchants Association yesterday discussed the efforts which are being made in New York to retain Australasian trade for the German steamship ...
Article : 108 wordsYesterday the recruits had the parade ground to themselves, and the sergeant-majors put in some good work towards into camp at Blackboy Hill. The ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Fri 18 Sep 1914, Page 7
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