Mr. W. J. Bryan, Secretary of State, recently asked Rear-Admiral Peary to explain a speech in which the explorer declared that the United States was unable to prevent her ...
Article : 130 wordsThe operations in France on Tuesday consisted mostly of artillery duels along the whole front. French aeroplanes made successful raids upon three towns in Rhenish Prussia on Tuesday. In the Carpathian region on Tuesday the Russians defeated Austrian and German forces, and captured many princesers and guns. ...
Article : 312 wordsThe "Echo de Paris" reports that Italy is rapidly perfecting her arrangements for the transport of troops to the Austrian frontier. Many fresh units are being ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 109 wordsPresident Wilson, in explaining the reasons for American neutrality, declares "the United States is not merely trying to keep out of trouble, but has age object of being ...
Article : 196 wordsThe Frenchwoman's knowledge of England's part in this war is very limited, and generally it is biassed by the particular set to which she happens to belong (writes ...
Article : 1,072 wordsReuter's correspondent at Ancona, an important Italian seaport on the Adriatic, telegraphs that Austrian and German stemmers which were in refuge there have been ...
Article : 69 wordsA leading German paper deals with the altered aspect of Turkey from a financial and industrial point of view. Now that she has joined in the war the interest in ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 363 wordsThe Athens correspondent of the "Daily Choronicle" reports that the Greek Government has informed the Powers of the Triple Entente that Greece will join them ...
Article : 51 wordsA London paper has received a letter from Mr. E. L. Marshall, chairman of the Antwerp Engineering Company, commenting on the statement, published by it on ...
Article : 481 wordsA Bill to amend the War Precautions Act passed by the Federal Parliament just before Christmas was introduced to-day. The new measure will, if carried, give ...
Article : 395 wordsTwo hundred move raiders from Bulgaria have entered Servia. Troops have been sent to drive them out. ...
Article : 23 wordsLast week 180 British delegates applied for passports to attend the International Women's Peace Congress at The Hague but the Home Office refused to grant more ...
Article : 86 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Lloyd George, in reply to a question, said the Government did not believe that the war ...
Article : 122 wordsRecently the Commonwealth authorities undertook to enrol 100 doctors for service with the Royal Army Medical Corps, and they have now completed the task. The ...
Article : 67 wordsMr. Shepherd, an American Press correspondent at the British headquarters, relates that a Taube flow over Ypres on Sunday and enticed two British aeroplanes ...
Article : 133 wordsA communique issued late last night stated:—"To-day's operations consisted for the most part of artillery duels along the whole front. The Germans dropped 50 ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Marquis of Crewe, Secretary of State for India, yesterday made a statement in the House of Lords, respecting the recent severe fighting by Anglo-British ...
Article : 85 wordsThe British Foreign Office has just issued copies of a letter written by the President of the French Republic to the King upon the European crisis on July 31, 1914, and ...
Article : 1,159 wordsThe French Government has notified the Consul-General for France in Australia of its intention to call up all French subjects born in 1897. Those resident in this State ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Prime Minister delivered a stirring address to a gathering of 5,000 workmen of war munition factories in the Palace Theatre, Newcastle. ...
Article : 829 wordsPrivate Barber, a Victoria Cross here, was killed in action last week, a few days after he had been decorated. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe following bulletin by Field Marshal Sir John French, describing the recent British success at Hill 60, has been published by the War Office:— ...
Article : 331 wordsThe following semi-official notes were issued by the French Ministry of War on Marshal concerning the distribution of the German forces on the French and Russian ...
Article : 445 wordsTreasury bills to the value of £9,500,000 have been purchased by the public during the past week. The bills bear a fixed rate of interest. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 77 wordsA meeting at the general committee was held yesterday at the Y.M.C.A. rooms under the presidency of the Dean of Perth, when the precise form of bedge was decided upon ...
Article : 136 wordsFour French aeroplanes yesterday successfully attacked the Mulheim and Habsheim railway stations (in Rhenish Prussia) and set fire toimmense stores at Mannheim. ...
Article : 28 wordsReplying to a question in the House of Commons yesterday Mr. Lewis Harcourt, Secretary of State for the Colonies, said that the question of cancellation of the ...
Article : 62 wordsA German telegram states: "Hostile airmen on Tuesday dropped five bombs into Kandern and six more into Lorrach, two German towns close to the Swiss border. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 346 wordsThe Queen has promised to provide all the hospital requisites necessary to equip a home for convalescent Belgian Soldiers in the South of France. This home is being ...
Article : 56 wordsMr. Hilaire Belloc delivered two war lectures in the Guildhall, Plymouth, Devonshire on March 12 His subject in the afternoon was ...
Article : 854 wordsA trawler sighted a Zeppelin airship off Flamborough Head (to the north of Hull) at daybreak yesterday. The Zeppelin was speeding towards England. ...
Article : 31 wordsIt transpires that the German cruiser Dresden, after escaping from the Falkland Islands fight, coaled at Sandy Point, in the Strait of Magellan, thereby violating Chilian ...
Article : 111 wordsThe Captain of the steamerr Uranus, which arrived from England yesterday, states that his vessel encountered a Zeppelin off Lowestoft a few days ago. The airship followed ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Admiralty has issued the following report on the lost submarine E15, which stranded last Saturday in the Dardanelles: "As the Turks were making great efforts ...
Article : 154 wordsMany railway trains full of German troops have arrived in Belgium during the last few days. ...
Article : 21 wordsNot a few Canadian examiners of recruits (remarks the Toronto "Globe") would do well to remember the story of the Scotsman who, upon being rejected because his ...
Article : 1,374 wordsLast night's communique stated: "The enemy from the direction of Stry gained a footing on a height at Arawazek to-day, but we counter-attacked and recaptured the ...
Article : 68 wordsA big German fleet is guarding the Baltic Sea to the north-east of Kopparstenarne lighthouse of Gothland Island ...
Article : 23 wordsOne of the leading characters in the present would war drama of whom little is known, and less has been said and written, is the Commander-in-Chief of the ...
Article : 474 wordsIt is officially reported from Capetown that the South African Union Forces operating in German South-west Africa, have occupied Keetmanushoop, the German centre far ...
Article : 73 wordsIt is officially announced that the Russians have discovered General Kustanek's secret order issued to the Przemysl garrison on February 8, to return all dum-dum ...
Article : 81 wordsThe Salonika correspondent of the "Echo de Paris" telegraphs that the Russians have effectively mined the Black Sea entrance to the Bosphorus. Two Turkish ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 209 wordsDocuments seized by the British troops in German South-West Africa show that the stories of the arrest and execution of the rebel Maritz, by the Germans are incorrect. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Thu 22 Apr 1915, Page 7
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