The official announcements from Paris record successes at the expense of the Germans in the north-east of France and the south-west of Belgium, and also in the Aisne Valley, in Eastern France. Captured German soldiers declare that the German situation at Ypres is critical. The Allies are advancing in the Gallipoli Peninsula, despite a desperate Turkish resistance. Already 50,000 ...
Article : 352 wordsIn the Melbourne General Sessions yesterday Theodore Zwicker, of William-street, Melbourne, appealed against his conviction in the Court of Petty Sessions on April 23, ...
Article : 85 wordsThe "Pall Mall Gazette" remarks: "The American public realise that they cannot, without dishonour, remain neutral between civilisation and its enemies. President ...
Article : 66 wordsOne hundred and thirty-one naturalised Germans on the Stock Exchange presented to the Lord Mayor a memorial declaring their loyalty to Great Britain, and ...
Article : 38 wordsWhen dealing with a young man who had been convicted last week of stealing in dwellings, and whose sentence had been deferred, as he applied to be allowed to ...
Article : 188 wordsThe rioting in London has ceased. The Magistrates yesterday severely punished the hooligans, and sent dozens of them to prison in cases where British and Russian ...
Article : 53 wordsThe German Admiralty declares that the Lusitania was torpedoed only once, and that her rapid sinking must be attributed to the explosion of a large quantity of ...
Article : 66 wordsThe employers and workers engaged in the production of munitions of war in Clyde have telegraphed to Field-Marshal Sir John French and Admiral Sir John ...
Article : 87 wordsThe students at the universities in Rome and Naples demonstrated yesterday in favour of Italian intervention in the war on the side of the Allies, the rectors and ...
Article : 689 wordsHerr Dernberg, who has been on a special mission from the Kaiser to the United States, has decided to return to Germany provided Great Britain and ...
Article : 43 wordsThe steamer Collairnie sank a German submarine off the Northumberland coast on Friday. The engineers felt the shock and oil was seen to rise to the surface. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe hearing was concluded yesterday as the Water Police Court, before Mr. Smithers, S.M., of the case in which Frank William Bruhn (26), described as an ...
Article : 332 wordsThe London tramwaymen have struck for a war bonus of 3s. per week. The strike extends throughout nearly all London, but the Woolwich arsenal service is being ...
Article : 42 wordsSome trawlers have reported that they witnessed a Taube aeroplane drop three bombs, which blew up a Dutch trawler. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe Belgian Relief Fund now amounts to £234,000, including £10,000 received from New Zealand. ...
Article : 21 wordsDuring the week ended last Wednesday six British vessels of a total register of 47,554 tons were sunk by German submarines. This is the greatest tonnage ...
Article : 46 wordsMr. Lloyd-George (Chancellor of the Exchequer) when unveiling a memorial portrait of the late Rev. Hugh Price Hughes at Kingsway Hall on Friday, said:—"We ...
Article : 56 wordsShares representing a quarter of the capital of the Holland-America S.S. Co., which were formerly in the hands of a German Shipping Co., have been transferred to ...
Article : 33 wordsThe hearing of the Snow case in the Criminal Court before Mr. Justice Gordon came to an abrupt conclusion on Friday, when it was decided by the Judge that ...
Article : 1,134 wordsThe German Crown Prince has also been struck off the roll of the Knights of the Garter. The banners of the foreign royalties whose names were struck off were ...
Article : 37 wordsThe steamer Westmeath, which left Wellington for London on April 1, reached St. Vincent yesterday with her bunkers on fire and her cargo of meat damaged. ...
Article : 34 wordsA crowded meeting was held at Chelsea yesterday to protest against the German barbarities. Lord Charles Beresford and Lord Robert Cecil were the principal ...
Article : 113 wordsThe R.M.S. Orsova, en route for Australia, will be delayed for about a week in Egyptian waters. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe Danish steamer Marthat was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine off Aberdeen yesterday. Her crew of 18 men were saved. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe people of New South Wales were invited yesterday to contribute to a record one-day's collection in aid of the Belgians. By way of a fitting introduction, the ...
Article : 299 wordsA communique issued on Friday evening stated:—"Rain has been falling continuously since yesterday. We have carried several trenches to the south-west of Souchez, and ...
Article : 258 wordsA French officer who was wounded in a fight to the north of Arras stated that when the troops at sunrise on Sunday received an order to attack a certain hill ...
Article : 317 wordsRouter's correspondent at the Dardanelles reported on Friday: "After the Allies landed on the western side of the Gallipoli Peninsula there were several Turkish night ...
Article : 257 wordsA communique issued at Berlin on Friday claimed that General von Mackensen had advanced his troops and was making a stand before Przemysl, and on the Lower ...
Article : 123 wordsTrooper Needs, of the Second Life Guard Regiment, states that two Canadian soldiers were found dead nailed to doors in Belgium This confirms the widely prevalent rumour ...
Article : 66 wordsThe casualties of officers in the British army and navy during the past fortnight numbered 1,674. ...
Article : 22 wordsMany wounded New Zealand troops have arrived at Birmingham and Chichester. ...
Article : 17 wordsA communique issued on Friday states: "The fighting in West Galicia is diminishing in intensity. We are successfully concentrating in the river San district. The ...
Article : 79 wordsThe English armament towns are working at full pressure. Men above the enlistment age are arriving at Barrow from Canada. Hundreds of girls from France ...
Article : 37 wordsSome of the newspapers state that the Government and the Opposition have agreed that the general election, which will be due next November shall be postponed ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 224 wordsCaptain Sydney John Fleming Bewicke, who has been reported killed in action in the Dardanelles was only 23 years of age. He was employed in private life in the ...
Article : 113 wordsThe "Daily Mail" publishes a spectator's account of the fight near Aubers on Sunday, which, he states, was Neuve Chapelle on a greater scale. There was a long, ...
Article : 349 wordsThe streets have been decorated with flags because Prime Minister Salandra will remain in office. ...
Article : 26 wordsWounded German soldiers at Bruges assert that the situation at Ypres is critical. Their comrades, they state, reached to within a half-hour's walk of the town, ...
Article : 126 wordsIn a desperate six hours' fight on Friday the Allies dislodged the Turks from the heights at Krithia and entrenched themselves upon the captured ground. Heavy ...
Article : 65 wordsSir George Reid (Commonwealth High Commissioner) and Mr. MacKenzie (High Commissioner for New Zealand) telegraphed on Friday to General Botha congratulating ...
Article : 42 wordsIn a recent battle in the Carpathians a bomb in the hands of a German officer exploded prematurely and a splinter of it severely wounded the Austrian ...
Article : 52 wordsThe newspapers state that Signor Marcora (President of the Chamber of Deputies) has been entrusted with the formation of a national Ministry, and that he is ...
Article : 49 wordsLieutenant Roland M. Young (killed in action) was a son of Mr. and Mrs. George Young, of St. Kilda. As Miss Bertha Rossow, Mrs. Young was well known as a ...
Article : 311 wordsThe Turko-German cruiser Goeben, when attempting to shell the troops on the beach at Gaba Tepe, was twice nearly hit by the British battleship Lord Nelson within a ...
Article : 45 wordsAn Austrian communique claims that General Koriniloff and his entire staff have been captured. ...
Article : 24 wordsA sensation has been caused by announcements in the "Corriere Della Sera" and the "Giornale d'Italia" to the effect that Italy denounced on the 4th instant the ...
Article : 57 wordsThe offices and warehouses of several large German firms were totally burned in Thursday night's anti-German riots, and the contents of many German shops and ...
Article : 72 wordsThe American note to Germany covers the destruction of the Falaba, the Cushino, the Gulf Light, and the Lusitania. It declares: "The United States Government ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 713 wordsThe enemy's offensive movement has reached a desperate phase. The Germans continue to hurl reckless attacks upon the Allies. They made several assaults on ...
Article : 122 wordsIt is reported that five transports carrying Italian troops have left Brindisi. The destination of the soldiers is said to be Albania, owing to the activity of ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Government has ordered all adult male enemy subjects in the large towns to report themselves immediately, and in other districts when notified. Meetings in ...
Article : 70 wordsReports have been received of interventionist demonstrations in Rome. The police have proved powerless to prevent attack on German shops, and every window of a ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 234 wordsIt is officially stated that 2,000 German prisoners were taken at Carency, which was defended by four lines of trenches. Every house was fortified, and there were ...
Article : 169 wordsMany civilians at Eleverdinge. Boesinghe, and Vlamerting are suffering from Haemorrhage of the lungs as a result of the German poisonous gases. ...
Article : 31 wordsOrders have been issued for the arrest of enemy aliens. Many are surrendering voluntarily. Five hundred young Germans were on ...
Article : 57 wordsGeneral Botha, telegraphing from Windhoek a message to the people of the Union, deplores the riots, which, he states, are discouraging the troops who are fighting ...
Article : 40 wordsDuring the Ypres battle a French monoplane, reconnoitring a German position, was struck by shrapnel, but contrived to reach the French lines, where it fell with a ...
Article : 115 wordsThe Rabaul court-martial was continued on Friday, the hearing of the charge against Lieutenant David L. Davidson being ...
Article : 542 wordsThe sixteenth casualty list of New Zealanders fighting at the Dardanelles is as follows:— Died of Wounds.—Lieutenants Maurice ...
Article : 238 wordsThe "Herald" describes President Wilson's note to Germany as a whip of scorpions, and it adds: "The most significant words in it are a plain declaration that an ...
Article : 90 wordsPublic opinion in Berlin professes indignation over the internment of Germans and Austrians in Britain, and the news papers threaten reprisals against all ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 17 May 1915, Page 7
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