The only official advice from the Franco-Belgian front is that the French have made some captures south-east of St. Mihiel and north-east of Regnie Ville. According to a "Daily Chronicle" report, there has been almost continuous fighting in the Champagne region for three weeks, and terrible trench struggles have taken place. The French are stubbornly maintaining the ...
Article : 351 wordsIn connection with the British and French blockade of shipping to and from Germany, Dr. Page (American Ambassador) yesterday handed a note of protest ...
Article : 528 wordsIf any evidences were required to show that Germany had made world-wide plans for starting out on the present campaign they have been found in German East ...
Article : 802 wordsAt a meeting of the Fremantle Council of the A.L.F. held on March 23 the chairman, Mr. J. Taylor, intimated that he had been accused by Mr. W. H. Carpenter. ...
Article : 1,635 wordsAlthough a limited number of submarines were used in the Russo-Japanese war and during the more recent fighting between Italy and Turkey, they were of a type ...
Article : 2,696 wordsThe war was discussed at the Labour Party's Conference at Norwich yesterday, but most of the prominent Labourites refrained from speaking. Mr. Ramsay ...
Article : 56 wordsDr. E. T. Thring, one of Sydney's leading surgeons, who had charge of the surgical ward in connection with the Australian Voluntary Hospital, which, almost since the ...
Article : 772 wordsLast evening's communique stated:—"We captured three successive lines of trenches south-east of St. Mihiel, and also gained a footing in the enemy's works north-east ...
Article : 37 wordsA Taube aeroplane yesterday dropped 14 bombs near Chalons (France), without effect. Two French aviators pursued and brought the Taube down. The crew were ...
Article : 38 wordsThe communique issued last night stated:—"On Monday some artillery and bayonet fighting took place north of Bartfeld. We took 20 officers and 1,200 men prisoners, ...
Article : 86 wordsCaptain Haswell, of the Highland Light Infantry, who was the holder of the Olympic quarter-mile record in 1908, has been killed in action. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe "Cologne Gazette" publishes a German officer's account of the bombardment of the Chanak forts, on the southern side of the Dardanelles. In this the officer ...
Article : 85 wordsThe Home Defence volunteer movement which is being responded to mostly by men over the military age, has so far resulted in the enrolment of 390,000 men. The ...
Article : 44 wordsA correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" states:—"There has been an almost continuous battle in the Champagne district for the past three weeks, [?]he French ...
Article : 135 wordsThe "Times" military correspondent estimates that there are seven German army corps directly supporting the Austrians in the Carpathians, indicating a fear on the ...
Article : 94 wordsThe King has directed the immediate banishment of all wines, spirits, and beer from the Royal households. ...
Article : 27 wordsSpeaking at a National Volunteer convention in Dublin, Mr. John Dillon, M.P., declared:—"Some day the war will be over. When that hour comes, there would be a ...
Article : 78 wordsGeneral Von Der Goltz, who recently conferred with the Kaiser and the German Council of War at Potsdam after his visit to Turkey, reached Vienna yesterday on ...
Article : 42 wordsA combatant in the recent battle at Neuve Chapelle relates that the final success of the British was in a large measure due to the dash of the Lincolnshires and ...
Article : 97 wordsSeven Russian army divisions (about 126,000 men) have reached the vicinity of the Uszok Pass, in the Carpathians. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe Russian fleet, operating near the Crimean coast yesterday, exchanged shots, at a long range, with the Goeben and Breslau, until dusk. During the night Russian ...
Article : 59 wordsM. Veneselos, ex-Premier, in a memorandum just issued, explains that Roumanta was unwilling to co-operate with Greece and Servia without Bulgaria. When ...
Article : 106 wordsPreviously acknowledged .. .. £30,535 s.10 d.10 Persons who desire to subscribe to this fund are requested to send their subscriptions to the City Treasurer (Mr. James ...
Article : 67 wordsThe British "Eye Witness" states:— 'Prisoners' statements indicate that there was a lack of co-operation amongst the Prussians, Bavarians, and Saxons at Neuve ...
Article : 113 wordsThe Russian barque, sunk by the German submarine in the English Channel on Sunday, was the Hermes. The same submarine torpedoed and sank the British steamer ...
Article : 47 wordsPreviously acknowledged .. .. £8,782 s.16 d.7 Total expenditure to date 8,552 3 6 Balance on hand .. .. .. £230 13 1 Persons who desire to subscribe to this ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Italian steamer Luigi Parodi, bound from Baltimore to Italy, is missing, and the newspapers here declare the she was sunk by a German submarine in the ...
Article : 71 wordsA number of leading acientists have unavailingly appealed to the Government to declare cotton a contraband article. The "Morning Post" states that Germany ...
Article : 46 wordsA vigorous cannonade was heard from Zeebrugge on Friday, and the Allies' ships were replying to the enemy's fire. ...
Article : 29 wordsOn board the P. and O. liner Maloja, which arrived at Fremantle yesterday, were 50 members of the Australian expeditionary force, who have been invalided home. ...
Article : 176 wordsA communique has been issued by the War Office, giving precise information of the results of the British air raid on March 24 against German positions near Antwerp. ...
Article : 89 wordsThe German fleet was unable to return to its base after attacking Libau. It was caught in its own mine-field, which had broken adrift, and had to take refuge ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Women's International Council of Socialist and Labour Organisations was held at Berne yesterday, and was marked by cordial relations between the British and ...
Article : 71 wordsInformation was received at Geraldton to-day that a robbery had taken place at the State battery at Payne's Find, between Saturday night and Sunday ...
Article : 66 wordsAmong the passengers who disembarked from the R.M.S. Maloja, which arrived at Fremantle yesterday from London, was Sergeant Tailer, of Perth who enlisted at ...
Article : 433 wordsThe Germans yesterday towed two submarines from Antwerp to the North Sea, through the canals, via Ghent. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Wed 7 Apr 1915, Page 7
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