The opposing forces on the west of the long fighting line are still hammering at one another with their heavy artillery. The winter and the partial inundation of ...
Article : 796 wordsIn these days of rapid news distribution, when the happenings of one day are chronicled within the ensuing 24 hours and noted or forgotten as their importance ...
Article : 842 wordsIt is officially stated that 150 of the Emden's crew have been taken prisoners. ...
Article : 85 wordsA deputation from the Trades Hall to-day waited upon the Minister for Home affairs (Mr. Archibald) with regard to work for the unemployed. One of the requests ...
Article : 287 wordsThe United States cruiser Tennessee (14,500 tons), while anchored at Vourla yesterday sent a launch to seek authorisation to enter Smyrna harbour. The forts at the ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Chancellor of the Exchequer has announced that his Budget proposals include the doubling of the income tax, but for this year he will, owing to the war ...
Article : 47 wordsCommander Lupeke and wireless operator Voltz, of the German warship Preussen, which is interned in Sabang Bay, have been arrested on a charge of having ...
Article : 58 wordsAfter a twelve hours' battle yesterday the Russians occupied Langszarger, a village near Tauroffen, in East Prussia. They also crossed the Schrehjawa River and ...
Article : 43 wordsLicences were issued by the Governor-General-in-Council to-day permitting Australians with patents operating in Germany and Austria to pay the necessary fees to ...
Article : 55 wordsIt is officially announced that Norway has ordered that the German auxiliary cruiser Berlin, which on Monday arrived at Trondhjein, on the north-west Norwegian ...
Article : 93 wordsA communique states:—"The Germans retreating along the Gumbinnen-Augerburg front (East Prussia), still hold the passages of the Masurian Lakes. The battle ...
Article : 78 wordsIt is announced by the Necessary Commodities Commission that it is about to make inquiries as to what should be the highest selling price of coal in New South ...
Article : 83 wordsReuter's correspondent at Pretoria telegraphs that the rebel leader De Wet, who is operating in the north-east of the Orange River Province, has been wounded in the ...
Article : 102 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Massey), speaking at Timaru to-day, emphasised the necessity for New Zealand doing her share in providing adequate naval defence in the ...
Article : 71 wordsA communique issued at 12 o'clock last night stated: "The Germans have renewed their attacks to the eastward and southward of Ypres, without modifying the ...
Article : 215 wordsThe Petrogard correspondent of the "Giornale d'Italia" reports severe fighting at Przemyal, the great Galician fortress which Russia is besieging. The Austrian ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 89 wordsThe South Australian quota of the second Expeditionary Force were reviewed by the Governor to-day at Montefior Hill, and his Excellency presented the force with a ...
Article : 67 wordsVan Rensberg and 154 Brandfort rebels, after an interview with De Wet yesterday, became convinced of the disastrous consequences of the rebellion and surrendered. ...
Article : 69 wordsMr. Reginald McKenna, Secretary for Home Affairs, in reply to questions asked in the House of Commons, stated that Baron Bruno von Schroeder, senior partner in ...
Article : 160 wordsTwo officers in a motor car, flying the Red Cross, with a pass, bearing M. Millerand's signature, were arrested while traversing villages on the Aisne. They proved to be ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 269 wordsThe Lord Mayor's Patriotic Fund now amounts to £163,463. ...
Article : 15 wordsIn the House of Representatives to-day the Prime Minister (Mr. Fisher), in reply to a question stated that the sum of £18,000,000 to be advanced by the ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Pekin correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" states:—"According to official reports received by the British Legation here, the surrender of Tsing-Tau was ...
Article : 71 wordsSergeant Harry Burton, of London (Ontario), who recently returned from England, asserts that he saw a Belgian boy there whose arms had been cut off after he ...
Article : 66 wordsIt is stated at Swansea that the prohibition of the export of tinplates to Holland, Denmark, and Sweden will result in the closing down of 35 mills and the idling of ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Attorney-General (Mr. Hughes) made a statement in the House of Representatives to-day that no evidence had been disclosed of trading with the enemy in the ...
Article : 103 wordsWhen a German spy was about to be executed at Arras yesterday, he offered to supply certain information on condition that his life was spared. The military ...
Article : 68 wordsThe official list of the German casualties since the commencement of the war places the total at 548,247, exclusive of the losses sustained by the Bavarian, Saxon, and ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) stated to-day that as a result of the naval operations in the North-West Pacific the Japanese Government have temporarily ...
Article : 261 wordsColonel Jaching, general manager of the largest group of copper mines in North America, states that Great Britain's decision to regard copper as absolute ...
Article : 58 wordsA court-martial has opened at Woolwich in the case of Harold Fochtetberger, who is charged with possessing a wireless apparatus. The accused admitted that he ...
Article : 68 wordsHerr Harden, the well-known Berlin journalist, in a newspaper article, says:—"Let us drop our miserable attempts to excuse Germany's action. Not against our will, ...
Article : 153 wordsAn eye-witness of the fighting at the front attached to the British Headquarters mentions the splendid accuracy and destructiveness of the British howitzers, ...
Article : 68 words£ s. d. Previously acknowledged 23,901 10 2 M. M. Rasheed 0 10 0 E.R.K. 2 0 0 ...
Article : 342 wordsThe official report of the commander of the Glasgow respecting the engagement off the Chilian coast states:—"When the Scharnhorst and the Gneisenau were seen ...
Article : 312 wordsThe President of the United States, Dr. Woodrow Wilson, has made clear the attitude of his Government in respect to peace proposals. He has declared that the ...
Article : 105 wordsA few evenings ago a meeting of the employees of Messrs. Brennan Bros. was held to devise a scheme for affording relief to the Belgian children. The whole of the ...
Article : 414 wordsDirect communication between Holland and Berlin has been suddenly interrupted. This is interpreted to mean that a great movement of German troops is in progress. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe following message was received from the High Commissioner to-day:—"London, November 18.—The battle has been resumed with great violence in West ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Premier and the Ministers for Justice, War, and Finance, have visited the towns and villages evacuated by the Germans, and are enumerating the property ...
Article : 115 wordsIt is reported that the Government desires to give the matter of the seizures of wheat further consideration, and that a conference is being held. The Premier ...
Article : 84 wordsAn official statement issued at Vienna asserts: "The Austrians have occupied Valievo, and the Servians have retired six miles in the direction of Karagujevatz (in ...
Article : 46 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday resolutions authorising the imposition of war taxes on beer and tea were brought forward by the Government. ...
Article : 474 wordsThe "Berliner Tageblatt" points out the difficulties that would be in the way of Turkish attacks in the Suez Canal. It states: "The British Mediterranean flect ...
Article : 68 wordsA French airship was ordered recently to destroy a railway junction in the Arras district, where the Germans were conveying troops. She succeeded in dropping ...
Article : 106 wordsIn the Senate yesterday the Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) was called upon to answer a number of questions relating to the war and to matters affecting ...
Article : 222 words£ s. d. Previously acknowledged 2,889 0 6 Perth Parcels Staff, 4th instalment 1 5 0 ...
Article : 760 wordsAn official communique reports further sharp fighting on the frontier of Asiatic Turkey and Trans-Caucasia. The Russian troops have defeated forces of Turkish ...
Article : 109 wordsThe Turks have made several attacks upon Russian ports in the Black Sea, but all these have failed owing to the heavy flanking fire which Russian warships were ...
Article : 55 wordsThe military authorities advise that recruiting will start again to-day. A hundred men are required, and men desiring to enlist are asked to report at the camp ...
Article : 1,038 wordsThe smashing of the Prussian Guards at Zonnebeke was beautifully timed. The Germans shelled our trenches with lyddite and shrapnel for eight hours, and it was ...
Article : 164 wordsThe British cruiser Minerva, 5,600 tons under Commander W. B. Macdonald, has bombarded Akaba, the Turkish port at the head of the eastern fork of the Red ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Thu 19 Nov 1914, Page 7
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