The Mails.—Mails to close at the G.P.O. to-morrow are:—For the Eastern States, New Zealand, etc. (to be forwarded by the s.s. Indarra), at 9.15 a.m. and (via Albany) ...
Article : 3,599 wordsIt is announced that from May 13 the export of coal and coke, except to British possessions and Allied countries, will be prohibited. ...
Article : 32 wordsMessages from the western seat of war in Europe show that the Allies have gained further marked successess over the Germans, who are concentrating in strong force with the object, apparently, of making a big demonstration, in order to influence neutral nations. The Germans are also rallying to make another desperate effort to reach Calais. The Canadians have up to date lost 232 officers and 6,024 men. ...
Article : 312 wordsA report received from Mitylene island states that the Turks, considerably reinforced, attacked the Allies' camp at Krithia on Tuesday, but were repulsed, losing ...
Article : 81 wordsThe Garibaldian monument erected at Genoa was unveiled by the Mayor of that city yesterday in the presence of an immense gathering. Gabriele D'Annunzio, the ...
Article : 86 wordsMilitary critics express the opinion that German assertions of successes in the Eastern and Western fronts are intended to influence Italy at a critical moment. ...
Article : 35 wordsTwo Turkish aeroplanes yesterday dropped bombs on the warships off Sedd-el-Bahr, but did no damage. The warships brought down both aeroplanes and took the ...
Article : 35 wordsA communique issued by the Colonial Office yesterday stated: "When Swakopmund was occupied by the Union forces on January 14, they discovered that six wells ...
Article : 155 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle" published yesterday the following telegram, dated April 29, from Morto Bay:—"Monday night witnessed a land battle in which a portion ...
Article : 408 wordsThe United States, in her latest note to Berlin, declines to accept Germany's suggestion to leave the amount of reparation for the loss and capture of American ...
Article : 70 wordsA communique issued last night declared: "We recaptured Het[?]s and repulsed an attack at Calonne, inflicting heavy losses on the enemy. Three regiments attacked ...
Article : 148 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday Lord Robert Cecil quoted letters received from British officers bitterly complaining of the treatment meted out to them in Germany ...
Article : 161 wordsReuter's correspondent at Tokio telegraphed yesterday evening:—"It is understood that the Japanese Cabinet decided today to send an ultimatum to China." ...
Article : 206 wordsReports received of the Dardanelles fighting reveal many stories of the dash and courage exhibited by the 'Australians and New Zealanders. The men jumped out of ...
Article : 209 wordsThe correct name of Sergeant J. Smith, who died of wounds. was Hoey. He was only 19 years of age, and enlisted with the first expeditionary force, but his ...
Article : 105 wordsA communique issued yesterday morning stated:—"The fighting in Galicia and in the Carpathians is proceeding stubbornly. The Germans yesterday brought up strong ...
Article : 107 wordsA wireless message from Berlin states that "the English continue to retreat with heavy losses in the direction of a bridgehead situated east of Ypres." ...
Article : 30 wordsAddressing the London Diocesan Conference yesterday, the Bishop of London, referring to the German atrocities, said: "Shall this infamy remain unavenged? ...
Article : 166 wordsThe casualties reported so far amongst New Zealanders engaged at the Dardanelles total 464. They include eight officers killed, two died of wounds, and twenty-two ...
Article : 33 wordsA report received from Sir John French yesterday stated: "Fighting is in progress at Hill 60, where the Germans gained a footing this morning with the weather favouring ...
Article : 89 wordsMr. Lewis Harcourt, Secretary of State for the Colonies, in reply to a question asked by Mr. Ronald MacNeill, in the House of Commons yesterday, said that he had ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) to-day issued the following statement in regard to promotion in the expeditionary forces:—"Many inquiries are being made as ...
Article : 712 wordsThe whole of to-day's sitting of the Premiers' Conference was aken up with the consideration in committee with the Prime Minister (Mr. Fisher) of questions of ...
Article : 186 wordsA Berlin wireless issued yesterday stated: "We have penetrated the third Russian line in West Galicia, the whole line retreating on Wisloka. The Russians are beginning ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 821 wordsThe Chester Cup, of 1,550 sovs, about two and a quarter miles, was run yesterday, and resulted as follows:— Hare Hill—Mr. Bower Ismay's ch h, by ...
Article : 51 wordsThere is a great concentration of German troops at Roulers, Courtrai and Lille, fore shadowing a more determined effort than before to reach Calais. A number of ...
Article : 48 wordsAt a conference of Clyde shipowners and their employees, held at Glasgow yesterday, it was decided that the men should report themselves daily, and that the ...
Article : 46 wordsWolff's Bureau announces that in the recent "great German victory" in Western Galicia the estimate of prisoners taken by the Germans was ten times as great as ...
Article : 64 wordsMr. H. J. Tennant, Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the War Office, announced in the House of Commons yesterday that the Canadian losses were 232 officers and 6,024 ...
Article : 38 wordsA conference took place to-day between the New South Wales Necessary Commodities Commission and the chairman of the Victorian Prices of Goods Boards regarding ...
Article : 158 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph" declares that Mr. Asquith has decided that each coal district shall arrange to pay a war bonus to the miners within a week, but the amount of ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the "Morning Post" reports: "The Austrians and Germans are now attacking the Russian right and threatening the rear of the ...
Article : 45 wordsSerious charges against the methods employed in the treatment of a patient in the casualty ward of the Melbourne Hospital were made at an inquiry to-day into the ...
Article : 338 words"Eye-Witness," with the British headquarters in Flanders, reports:—"The French made considerable progress west of the Ypres canal, south of Pilkem, removing the ...
Article : 494 wordsMr. Lloyd-George (Chancellor of the Exchequer) yesterday informed a deputation from the brewers of the United Kingdom that it was necessary to lower the ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Germans on the East Prussian frontier captured a Russian scout. They skinned and hacked to the bone his hand and arm in an effort to extract ...
Article : 54 wordsLady Laurence is organising canteens for war workers' yards throughout Britain. ...
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Advertising : 246 wordsMr. Lloyd-George, in his Budget speech, declared that Germany's methods of financing the war by the issue of paper money and selling securities would prove fatal in ...
Article : 94 wordsGerman submarines of the new type continue to make systematic attacks on trawlers in the North Sea. One submarine has sunk seven Hull trawlers. One, the Bob ...
Article : 102 wordsMr. Neil Primrose, Parliamentary Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, in reply to a question in the House of Commons yesterday, said that there was every reason to ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Fri 7 May 1915, Page 7
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