The Allies have been most successful in the land fighting at the Dardanelles. The debarkation of the troops was accomplished with great despatch, and in the vigorous fighting which followed the Turks, although they fought with determination, were driven back. The Australian and New Zealand troops emerged from their baptism of fire with honour to themselves and the Empire. They have won golden opinions, but the casualty lists show, unhappily, that a ...
Article : 234 wordsThe Government has requisitioned all the insulated space on vessels trading between Britain and South America. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe official report of the operations of the Allies at the Dardanelles states that the Australian and New Zealand troops landed on the Sari Bahr slopes on Sunday ...
Article : 381 wordsThe "Frankfurter Zeitung" pleads for the commutation of the sentence of death passed on Private Lonsdale. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe Miners' Conference has unanimously rejected the employers' offer of an immediate increase and has decided to leave the claim for an increase of 20 per cent. ...
Article : 44 wordsMr. Hughes, Minister for Militia, is reported to have said that if the Germans shoot Private Lonsdale the Canadian Government will make reprisals against ...
Article : 38 wordsKing Edward's Horse has vacancies for 100 recruits. ...
Article : 14 wordsA Dutch steamer picked up two German aviators yesterday, floating on a wrecked aeroplane near the Nord Hinder lightship. They were brought to Flushing. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe War Office casualty lists show 639 officers killed, wounded, or made prisoners in Europe, Asia, and Africa from March 27 to April 25, and 19,158 men killed, ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Fisher) commenting to-day upon the action in Turkey said:—"While very proud of the valor and capacity shown by our soldiers at the front ...
Article : 92 wordsThe Chamber of Deputies has been dissolved. The date of the elections has been fixed for June 13. ...
Article : 24 wordsIt is officially announced that the Hamburg-Amerika liner Macedonia, which after being interned at Las Palmas, escaped on March 16, has been captured by a British ...
Article : 41 wordsAn official report states that Colonel Mackenzie's flying column performed a brilliant feat on Friday. The men pushed on for 120 miles from Bethany over most difficult ...
Article : 165 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) has received the following cable message from Mr. Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, through the Secretary of ...
Article : 249 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) announced that casualties are not to be notified to the Press until at least 24 hours after the time of the receipt of ...
Article : 506 wordsA German submarine sank a trawler 75 miles off the Tyne, after giving the crew time to leave the vessel. A patrol boat subsequently pursued the submarine and ...
Article : 117 wordsBaron Von Siedlits, writing in the "Berlin Post," states: "No quarter was given by Napoleon to the Prussians at Ligny, in Belgium, in 1815, and the practice may be ...
Article : 102 wordsGerman aviators threw two bombs at the American steamer Gushing midway between North Foreland and Flushing. The vessel escaped undamaged. ...
Article : 26 wordsThat some restriction of the sale of alcoholic liquors in public houses will be decided upon by the State Ministry is regarded by members of Parliament as absolutely ...
Article : 72 wordsA communique made public yesterday morning stated:—"North of Ypres we progressed from 500 to 1,000 metres, capturing two lines of trenches and many ...
Article : 224 wordsAn officer of the Leon Gambetta states that a third of the crew were sleeping on the decks and the rest, excepting the officers, in cabins which were barred on the outside, ...
Article : 197 wordsBritish troops from Sedd el Bahr advanced yesterday and captured Kambatepeh Hill, commanding a large portion of the peninsula. This capture will greatly ...
Article : 79 wordsThe new German activity north of the river Niemen is believed to be merely a demonstration connected with probable movements of the German fleet covering ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Prise Court at Hamburg has awarded several Dutch companies indemnities for the seizure and detention of their trawlers ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,027 wordsThe allied fleet remained inside the Dardanelles on Thursday night, and reopened a terrific bombardment at daybreak. ...
Article : 23 wordsA communique issued at Berlin yesterday declared:—"The battle at Shavli ended in our favour. The Russians lost heavily and retreated to Mitan, after setting fire to ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Zeeland Shipping Company resumed its regular mail service with England to-day. ...
Article : 22 wordsIt is reported that the Australian troops as a result of the donkey ruse, captured 670 prisoners, including two German officers. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 217 wordsThe French successes in Champagne are explained in an official communique, entitled "The Object and Result of Our Action in Champagne," which was issued on ...
Article : 725 wordsThe "Morning Post" correspondent at Petrograd reports:—"It is understood that the Allies have made to Italy an offer altogether superior to anything Germany can ...
Article : 57 wordsHis Majesty the King has congratulated Admiral de Robeck and General Sir Ian Hamilton on the splendid achievement of the forces under their command. ...
Article : 31 wordsOfficial circles describe the German offensive at Shavli as a foraging expedition They predict that the only result from it will be the acquisition of an insignificant ...
Article : 37 wordsThe "Observer" states:—"We are confident that the Australians and New Zealanders will not be behind the Canadians in Flanders for resolute soldiership and ...
Article : 134 wordsA Reuter message received on Friday states that the Allies have heavily bombarded the German submarine base at Zeebrugge. ...
Article : 27 wordsA company of Austrian troops, with their officers recently deserted and fled to Asiago. Many of the wounded Austrians from Galicia are refusing to return to the ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Government has requisitioned all the supplies of petrol. "Stamps," the leading neutralist organ, admits that the Austro-Italian pourparlers ...
Article : 49 wordsMoorhouse Wellington, the British aviator who threw bombs on the railway station at Courtrai, has died of wounds he received at the time. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Zeppelin which appeared over Bury-St-Edmunds had a neck and neck race with a fast train at which it threw five bombs without effect. ...
Article : 177 wordsNewspapers suggest that the Germans have established monster guns near Nieuport. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe "Messagero" states that there are 300,000 German troops in Trentino, 500,000 Hungarians and Croatians at G[?]izia, north of Trieste, and 90,000 at Pola, the ...
Article : 52 wordsThe successful debarkation of the Allied troops at the Dardanelles has precipitated a movement of Turkish troops from Adrianople. Great reinforcements are ...
Article : 45 wordsThe French Embassy states that 19 German shells have fallen into Dunkirk, killing 20 and wounding 45 persons. This Embassy also reports that German warships ...
Article : 302 wordsThe Turkish communiques have been making ridiculous claims, including the statement that most of the Australian and New Zealand troops had been driven into ...
Article : 57 wordsThe warning issued by Count von Bernstorff, the German Ambassador at Washington, that the Atlantic must be regarded as within the war zone, has not produced ...
Article : 196 wordsA communique issued yesterday morning stated:—We closely pressed the German advance guard along the whole front westward of the Niemen, and repulsed the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 2,036 wordsLord Chas. Beresford, speaking at Portsmouth, asserts that the Dardanelles campaign looks at present rather like a piece of amateur strategy. It was undertaken ...
Article : 81 wordsLord Curzon, speaking at the Carton Hall yesterday, said:—"We must punish Germany for her abominable crimes and chain up the mad dog of Europe. As the enemy ...
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Family Notices : 44 wordsThe Government's Liquor Bill consists of two clauses, the broad powers of which will enable the Government to acquire temporarily or permanently licensed premises ...
Article : 53 wordsA communique issued in Berlin declares:—"Our artillery has bombarded the fortress of Dunkirk." ...
Article : 21 wordsAn official announcement states:—"A British camel corps repulsed 300 Turks 12 miles east of the Suez Canal on Wednesday last. On the same night a small ...
Article : 60 wordsMr. William Lamond Allardyce, ex-Governor of the Falkland Islands, relates that after the naval battle off the Chilian coast in which the Good Hope and Monmouth ...
Article : 124 wordsThe Press Bureau announces that the record officer with the Canadian troops reports as follows:—"Four divisions of Germans, supported by immensely superior ...
Article : 656 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the "Observer" states that the Germans hoped to utilise the interval of several weeks when big operations on most of the Russian fronts ...
Article : 105 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph" states that it is believed the Government intends to tax the increased profits made by manufacturers of war materials, the tax being based upon ...
Article : 46 wordsA message received from Berlin declares that Djavid Bey has arranged for the flotation of a war loan of £50,000,000. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 3 May 1915, Page 7
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