Mr. Ashmead Bartlett, special correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph," who was on board a British warship with 500 Australians, who formed the covering party ...
Article : 2,405 wordsIt is officially announced that General Botha's troops have occupied the railway junction at Kalibib and also the railway stations at Johannal Brachtshohe and ...
Article : 41 wordsThe only report from the western front states that the British regained more of the ground recently lost at Bois d'Ailly. The Germans, however, claim to have defeated the French in the same district. The Russian and Austro-German communiques continue to contradict each other flatly. The Russians state that they drove the enemy back a considerable distance, and captured 2,000 prisoners, while the Austrians claim that they ...
Article : 291 wordsReplying to Mr. Atkinson (V.), Mr. Jessen (Assistant Minister) said that it was not a fact that any soldiers had been discharged at Broadmeadows because of a special ...
Article : 162 wordsAn official cable message from Tokio announces that the Mikado yesterday sanctioned the forwarding of an ultimatum to China and that subsequently the document ...
Article : 57 wordsAs a result of a British aviator's action in destroying a bridge at Poecderna communication between Smyrna and the Dardanelles has been interrupted, and the ...
Article : 49 wordsAt the Premiers' Conference to-day the president Mr. Holman (New South Wales) said he thought the question of the provision of £75,000 per month from Australia ...
Article : 236 wordsThe "Michi-Michi Shimbun" states that China has intimated that she desires to enter into an arrangement with Japan in order to avoid a rupture. ...
Article : 34 wordsMany wounded soldiers have arrived from the Dardanelles. Large hospitals have been established, staffed with English nurses, under the direction of Sir Frederick ...
Article : 75 wordsMr. W. J. Bryan, in explaining the American Government's attitude regarding the Japanese Chinese dispute, reiterates the declaration that America will adhere to the ...
Article : 89 wordsRussian airmen yesterday dropped bombs into Constantinople, thereby causing considerable damage. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 161 wordsThe Assistant Minister for Defence (Mr. Jensen), replying to Mr. West (N.S.W.), said, that no difference was made in the manner of notifying casualties to the ...
Article : 214 wordsThe conference of Premiers was resumed at Parliament House to-day under the presidency of Mr. Holman (Premier of New South Wales). It was arranged that the ...
Article : 862 wordsThere were incessant abortive German attacks to the east of the Mlawa railway yesterday. The Germans left 1,000 of their dead behind them. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Press Burean reported yesterday:— "The British counter-attack has recovered portion of the lost trenches on Hill 60, and our counter-attacks have regained more ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,175 wordsA communique issued yesterday evening announced that an engagement was fought in the Baltic Sea near Liban on the previous day between Russian warships and ...
Article : 40 wordsMr. Asquith informed the officials of the Miners' Federation yesterday that they had made out a prime facie case for an advance of wages. The Prime Minister ...
Article : 71 wordsA communique issued in Berlin yesterday claimed that the Germans had captured 2,000 French troops and several guns at Bois d'Ailly, and that the French losses ...
Article : 53 wordsGeneral von Wedel, the commander of a German cavalry division, when captured by the Russians at Ossowietz tried to commit suicide, but was disarmed before he ...
Article : 41 wordsThe second reading of the Defence of the Realm Act Amendment Bill disclosed violent Irish hostility to the liquor duties. Mr. John Redmond moved the ...
Article : 95 wordsA German submarine sank by gunfire the British trawler Stratton in the North Sea and the British schooner Earl of Latham off Kineale Head yesterday. The crown were ...
Article : 60 wordsA correspondent who visited the gas victims in the hospitals in Belgium reports:—"The patients were propped up in bed and their faces, arms, and hands were of a ...
Article : 142 wordsThe Marquis of Crewe stated in the House of Lords yesterday that India had sown four and a half million acres of wheat in excess of the area sown in the ...
Article : 63 wordsFour German cruisers and eight torpedoers have been seen in the Baltic steaming in an easterly direction. ...
Article : 24 wordsIn the Chamber of Deputies yesterday M. Ribot tabled a Bill raising the nation's defence bond issue to 6,000,000,000 francs (about £240,000,000). The Government also ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Kaiser, the German Chancellor, and the German Minister for Foreign Affairs have returned to Berlin in connection with the Italian situation. ...
Article : 63 wordsIt appears that an error was made in the official report which described Licutenant G. Steen, of Annandale, as having died of wounds. His mother to-day received a ...
Article : 45 wordsMr. Mackensie (High Commissioner for New Zealand) visited Ramsgate yesterday in connection with the gift of a cot to the Royal Sailors' Rest from King George's ...
Article : 89 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle's" correspondent telegraphed from the Dardanelles on Sunday:—"The most promising feature of the operations since my last message is the ...
Article : 171 wordsGermany has threatened to prohibit the continuance of relief measures for distress in Belgium, if the Belgian railway employees persist in their refusal to work ...
Article : 58 wordsThe New Zealand casualties so far reported total 509, comprising:—Officers killed in action, 8; officers died of wounds, 2; officers wounded, 23; men died of wounds, ...
Article : 61 wordsNew Zealand's contribution of £27,988 has raised the National Belgian Fund to £179,200. Included in the New Zealand Government's April contribution is £12,988 ...
Article : 66 wordsA communique issued last night stated:—"The Austrians and Germans continue to concentrate on the right bank of the Dunajec, their main efforts being made in the ...
Article : 95 wordsM. Venezelos, who recently resigned the Premiership of Greece because the King declined to adopt his advice to take up arms on the side of the Allies, has been ...
Article : 71 wordsAccording to a telegraphic message from Auckland the Prime Minister of New Zealand (Mr. Massey), in a speech made there in which he laid stress upon the necessity ...
Article : 172 wordsIt has been decided to confine the Ascot meeting to three days. Nine races have been struck out of the usual programme, including the Royal Hunt Cup. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Agent-General for Western Australia (Sir Newton Moore) has received the following letter from the director of the Motor Ambulance Department of the British ...
Article : 205 wordsSir Edward Grey stated in the House of Commons yesterday that he had been informed unofficially that nine British officers kept in solitary confinement at Cologne ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Allies yesterday captured the heights facing Suandere fort. They advanced steadily and devoted their attention to the section between Gaba Tepe and Sedd el ...
Article : 71 wordsThe New York correspondent of the "Temps" interviewed Mr. Roosevelt yesterday. Mr. Roosevelt remarked:—"If I had been President of the United States at the ...
Article : 90 wordsThe following communique has been issued by the Austrian authorities:—"The Russians are retreating along the whole front, with one force in good defensive ...
Article : 113 wordsIn the City Court to-day Alfred Adams, trading as Alfred Adams and Co., was fined £25 with £5 costs for attempting to trade with the enemy. It was stated that on ...
Article : 141 wordsThe trans-Australian railway has been extended six miles at the Kalgoorlie and during the past six days, bringing the total construction on this side up to 240 miles. ...
Article : 62 wordsReplying to Mr. Bonar Law in the House of Commons yesterday, Mr. Asquith detailed the landing of troops at the Dardanelles, which commenced at three ...
Article : 248 wordsThe National Patriotic Organisation has arranged to hold a meeting in the Guildhall on the 19th inst. Mr. Asquith will move and Mr. Bonar Law will second ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Sat 8 May 1915, Page 7
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