The Germans, in a counter-attack, recovered portion of a lost position at Bols le Petre, but were subsequently disloged. Allies' aviators have been doing good work in France and Belgium. The enemy have been using petrol bombs at the front, the effect of these horrible missiles being, in many cases, to burn men to death. During the Neuve Chapelle battle, in which the British were victorious, German machine guns, operating over ...
Article : 366 wordsThe 90th Winnipeg Rifles, now at Safe bury Plain, have one of the quaintest badges to be found in the army. It is a little black devil with a pitchfork, ...
Article : 1,602 wordsReplying to Mr. Lloyd-George's report of the deputation of employers with regard to the drink problem Lord Stanfordham, on behalf of the King, writes:— ...
Article : 204 wordsSome months before the war broke out, a resolution known as the Hardie-Vaillant resolution, which was adopted at a conference of Socialists in Great Britain ...
Article : 918 wordsThe Imperial Government has arranged to permit the departure of enemy subjects as undermentioned, on the understanding that similar facilities will be given in the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 277 wordsThe first prosecutions in Victoria under the War Precautions Act, 1914, for spreading a report likely to cause alarm among the civilian population, were heard in the ...
Article : 283 wordsThe Admiralty has obtained conclusive proof that German agents have been fomenting strikes in Great Britain, particularly at Glasgow, Cardiff, Bristol, and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 188 wordsThe British casualty lists for March give the names of 1,081 officers and 18,794 men. Of these numbers 390 officers and 4,496 men were killed, 2,034 men are missing, and ...
Article : 42 wordsSubscriptions totalling £37,974,000 have been registered in connection with the £15,000,000 worth of Treasury Bills, for which tenders were recently invited. The ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Board of Trade has appointed Mr. Mackenzie, High Commissioner for New Zealand), Sir Thomas Robinson (Agent-General for Queensland), and Sir Montague ...
Article : 57 wordsServices have been held in the Synagogue in celebration of the Festival of Passover. On Tuesday morning, before a large congregation, the Rabbi (the Rev. D. I. Freedman) ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 96 wordsAt a conference of Welsh members of the House of Commons, a resolution was carried with one dissentient declaring that it lay with the Prime Minister to adhere to ...
Article : 86 wordsDetails of the sinking of the steamer Flaminian by the German submarine U28, off the Scilly Islands, show that ten shots were fired at the vessel, which was ...
Article : 205 wordsViscount Haldane, the Lord Chancellor, in an interview granted yesterday to a representatives of the Chicago "Daily News," asked Americans for their forbearance while ...
Article : 436 wordsLast evening's communique stated:—"The Germans counter-attacked at Bois le Petre, and recovered portion of the position, but were finally dislodged, and our gain has ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 326 wordsLord Derby, with Lord Kitchener's permission, is forming a battalion of the dock workers of Liverpool, under military law, for home service. The men will carry ...
Article : 58 wordsFive aviators yesterday attacked Igteghem, near Thonrout (Belgium), where there has been a large German concentration. Thirty German soldiers were killed, ...
Article : 66 wordsCaptain Nigel Daynes, who was previously on the staff of Sir Day Bosanquet, a former Governor of South Australia, has died of wounds received at the front. ...
Article : 34 wordsAn announcement, made by the Prime Minister (Mr. Fisher), at the Sydney Show, on Wednesday, to the effect that Australia had offered another contingent to the ...
Article : 367 wordsThe experiences of Mr. Jack Doherty, the London representative of Messrs. Connor, Dohorty, and Durack, confirm the assertion that the advance of ...
Article : 632 wordsA correspondent of the Associated Press, after a visit to the battlefield in the Champagne district, states that 11,000 German dead were taken from the captured ...
Article : 112 wordsIt is officially stated that a French light cruiser chased a German submarine off Dieppe yesterday. After heavily firing at the periscope, she passed above the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 194 wordsThe "New York Journal" expresses the hope that the brutes responsible for the sinking of the Falaba will be caught and hanged. ...
Article : 59 words"Eye Witness," with the British headquarters in France, states:—"Germany started the war with 50,000 machine guns. At Neuve Chapelle, along a front of 250 yards. ...
Article : 55 wordsA doctor who has been serving with the field artillery, has confirmed the report that the Germans have been using petrol bombs. He states that most of the men in ...
Article : 73 wordsIt is stated that Italy's pourparlens with Germany have collapsed. Prince Von Bulow, who has been representing Germany, declares that Germany and Austria will ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Swedish newspapers can scarcely credit the reports of the sinking of the Falaba and the Aguila. One paper declares that the reports reveal a perfectly horrible ...
Article : 44 wordsThe "Figaro" vouches for the truth of a story that the Kaiser was dining at an hotel in Luxembourg during August, when a certain general arrived. The Kaiser ...
Article : 128 wordsThe Novoe Vremya," in referring to the loss of the Falaba, states:—"This shows the hideous depths of German degradation. The hour of reckoning, however, is near, when ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Marine Underwriters' Association of Western Australia declared the following war rates in force yesterday:—For all vessels, except German, Austrian and Turkish: ...
Article : 110 wordsDuring a debate in the Union House of Assembly on Hertzog's motion charging the Government with acting unconstitutionally in declaring martial law without ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) announces the following death:—No. 133, Lance Corporal John Charles Spratley, A Company 11th Battalion, died ...
Article : 49 wordsA man named Raymond Swoboda has been arrested in possession of incriminating documents, showing that he had a mission to blow up the French liner La Touraine, ...
Article : 59 wordsA communique announces that the Russians have occupied Artvin in the Caucasur and have driven the Turks southwards. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Federal Attorney-General (Mr. Hughes) stated to-day that he had directed prosecutions to be issued against four Sydney merchants for alleged trading with the ...
Article : 91 wordsChina has agreed to grant Japan mining rights in the Mukden Province, and preferential rights for railway construction in Southern Manchuria, and also to allow the ...
Article : 72 wordsMr. W. H. James, the well-known mine owner, of Meekatharra, has generously donated a new 25 h.p. motor car to Captain J. S. Duffy, for the use of the 16th ...
Article : 95 wordsA German scaplane dropped bombs on the Dutch trawler Hibernia in the North Sea yesterday, but without effect Later on however, the trawler was stopped and ...
Article : 45 wordsSince March 24 170 trainloads of Saxon and Bavarian troops have proceeded to the Carpathian front. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Fri 2 Apr 1915, Page 7
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