The reports from Paris and London show that the British and French troops have compelled the Germans to retire from several points, particulary to the westward of the Yaer Canal. Sir John French declares that the British soldiers continue to fight with great gallantry and determination. A message received from Holland announces that the British and French airmen performed an important feat on Monday night by demolishing many Grman seroplanes on ...
Article : 381 wordsThe correspondent of the "Daily Mail" at Lemberg has advised that the capture of Tarnow by the Germans was largely due to the use of poisonous gases. Opinion ...
Article : 73 wordsIn connection with the list of Western Australian soldiers who were reported in the casualty lists published yesterday as having been wounded, the following personal ...
Article : 1,033 wordsThe Admiralty reports that British aeroplanes drove one of the Ramsgate Zeppelins off and pursued her to Westhinder lightship. Eight naval machines from Dunkirk ...
Article : 198 wordsIt is reported at Budapest that there have been 200,000 Austro-German casualties in Galicia since the beginning of their offensive. The losses are said to be due ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 97 wordsSome time ago it was announced that the British Government desired the services of workmen to assist in the manufacture of munitions of war. Since then the Prime ...
Article : 166 wordsThe "Giornale d'Italia" remarks in a significant article that war has virtually been declared by the unanimity of the King and the Government on the question of the ...
Article : 55 wordsStaff-Captain Burton has succeeded in placing (with the sanction of the management of many of the large business houses) appeal envelopes amongst employees. Boan ...
Article : 230 wordsIn official circles in Berlin it is believed that war with Italy is inevitable. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe fine of £500 imposed by Mr. S. J. Goldsmith, P.M., on April 23, on Theodore Zwicker, indentor and importer, of Melbourne, on a charge of having attempted ...
Article : 67 wordsYesterday 1,000 women invaded the Governor's Palace at Trieste. the chief Austrarian port on the Adriatic and shouted "Death to the Emperor!" "Long Live ...
Article : 44 wordsThe "Daily News" correspondent at Dunkirk states that a French torpedo boat fired several shots at a Zeppelin which was flying low apparently from the direction of ...
Article : 56 wordsAt the City Court to-day Henry James Bentley, a timber merchant, of Ringwood, and Oscar Boys a member of the expedictionary forces, were charged with having ...
Article : 193 wordsAfter attacking Calais two Zeppelins were driven off and flew in the direction of Boulogne. The battery at Cape Greisnez (between Calais and Boulogne) hit one of the ...
Article : 82 wordsAdvices from Berlin state that Senator Possehg, a millionaire resident of Lubeck, and owner of mines in Sweden and Norway, has been arrested on a charge of treason. ...
Article : 56 wordsIn endeavouring to trace those of their members who have joined the fighting forces of the Empire, trade union officials frequently find themselves faced with a ...
Article : 163 wordsA Zeppelin yesterday dropped bombs into Calais, with the result that several children were killed. ...
Article : 21 wordsThere is considerable public anxiety owing to several newspaper statements, apparently inspired by the military authorities, that the army is fatally short of ...
Article : 115 wordsHis Majesty the King yesterday despatched to General Botha a message congratulating the Union troops upon the capture of Windhock, in German South-West Africa. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 79 wordsAt last night's meeting of the district council of the Australian Labour Federation a long discussion took place on a motion—"That in view of the war, no German ...
Article : 92 wordsThe following official communique was issued in Paris yesterday morning:—"Our advance near Hetsas continues. We captured the German lines east of the canal ...
Article : 175 wordsMr. Ashmead Barthett, special correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph," telegraphing on the 10th, stated:—"The British are not yet in possession of Achibaba, but, having ...
Article : 442 wordsIt is officially announced that the Union forces have taken 140 prisoners east of Windhoek, and have captured 25 waggons loaded with provisions. ...
Article : 28 wordsAt the quarterly meeting of the Fremantle branch of the Australian Natives Association it was unanimously decided to interview the Mayor and leading citizens ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 116 wordsHis Majesty the King yesterday paid a visit to the Clyde shipbuilding and engineering yards, where the employers and the employees are working at top pressure, to ...
Article : 86 wordsIt is officially announced that a French column under Colonel Mayer captured Escha, in the German Cameroons, in West Africa, yesterday, after carrying out a ...
Article : 51 wordsSecond Lieutenant George William Mcore, who acted as chief postmaster at Rabaul during its occupation by the Australian forces, was charged before the military ...
Article : 816 wordsAn officer of the Leicestershires, writing of the struggle at Neuve Chapelle, states that, after the Canadians were forced to abandon the wood, a wounded man ...
Article : 123 wordsMr. T. J. McNamam, Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty, announced in the House of Commons yesterday that up to last Saturday 460,628 tons ...
Article : 79 wordsMr. Conrad Haumann, a passenger en route to Melbourne by the R.M.S. Egypt, which was at Fremantle yesterday, is in the peculiar position of having, for the time ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 461 wordsSir John French reported yesterday that the first British Army had further sucesses south of Richebourg d' Ayoue. All the German trenches on a front of two ...
Article : 93 wordsThe King of the Belgians in acknowledging the gift of £4,600, the proceeds of a "Rose Day" collection in Melbourne, said that he was profoundly touched by the wave ...
Article : 60 wordsTelegrams from Bruges report that as a result of the heavy fighting at Ypres, the stream of German wounded into the city is practically incessant. A great number ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Board of Trade has announced that from January to the end of April 982,740 workers secured rises in pay aggregating £133,537 weekly. ...
Article : 29 wordsBritish and French airmen last night totally destroyed the German aviation ground at Ghistelles (on the Belgian coast 10 miles from Ostend). ...
Article : 42 wordsThe latest lists of casualties contain the names of the following officers:—Died of Wounds.—Lieutenant James H. Grey (Wellington); Lieutenant Robert L. ...
Article : 78 wordsAnti-German riots are reported to have taken place at Wanganui. On Saturday night a mob wrecked a butcher's shop occupied by a naturalised German and ...
Article : 225 wordsThe following communique has been is issued in Berlin:—"We gave up and advanced position near Steenstraate and Hetsas in order to avoid losses by the enemy's heavy ...
Article : 50 wordsMr. Asquith, in reply to a question in the House of Commons yesterday, said that the Government was considering the prohibition of race meetings during the course of the ...
Article : 51 wordsA spectator, deacribing the battle of Festubert, states that on Sunday night hell broke loose and before daybreak the British army stormed the ...
Article : 520 wordsA corporal of the Black Watch, who was wounded in a recent action, narrates that for bitter hand-to-hand fighting the battle at La Basse has not been equalled. The ...
Article : 170 wordsThe Russian Consul at Urumiah reports that 60,000 Armenians have been massacred by the Turks in the district of Van. ...
Article : 27 wordsMr. R. McKenna, Secretary of State for Home Affairs, stated in the House of Commons yesterday that 150 of the public and 107 constables had been injured in the ...
Article : 55 wordsAn official communique issued on Saturday states: "We have been obliged to fall back from the Carpathians in order to unite our third army on the San with ...
Article : 141 wordsThe following official message has been received from General Sir Ian Hamilton (Commander-in-Chief of the Allies' land forces now operating in the Dardanelles):— ...
Article : 262 wordsSir Edgar Speyer, the well-known London financier, whose parents were Germans officers to resign his Privy Councilorship and his Baronetcy, as he declares it is too hard ...
Article : 52 wordsSir Douglas Mawson has returned to Sydney from San Francisco. "There is a very strong pro-Allies feelings in America," Sir Douglas Mawson said, ...
Article : 563 wordsPresident Wilson, reviewing the United States fleet yesterday, said that America wanted no man's territory, and she questioned no other nation's honour. She stood ...
Article : 63 wordsWounded Australasians from the Dardanelles are reaching England: four hundred have been located at a military hospital. The High Commissioner (Sir George Reid) ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 72 wordsIt is officially explained that although the Russian third army has been unable to check the German pressure on the Gorlice sector, it has prevented the enemy ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Wed 19 May 1915, Page 7
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