A dense fog prevailed on the Franco-Belgian front on Wednesday, and matters were again quiet. On Monday night the Germans made an attempt to oust the French from newly-gained positions, but were driven back by a galling fire. The enemy's position at Dixmude is said to be seriously jecpardised by a recent Belgian success. According to the "Times" military correspondent, no German offensive in France, on a large scale, is practicable before the end of ...
Article : 540 wordsItaly and Austria have asked the United States to watch their interests at Vienna and Rome respectively. ...
Article : 23 wordsA meeting of the heads of railway departments and other officers and members of the Railway Union was held at the Railway Institute last night to consider ways ...
Article : 166 wordsThe House of Commons has adjourned to June 3. On the motion for the adjournment. Mr. Ellis Griffiths (Liberal), and Mr. Cathcart ...
Article : 77 wordsA Green Book issued yesterday stated:—"Austria demanded, in exchange for the concessions offered to Italy at the outset of the negotiations, that Italy should ...
Article : 149 wordsThe Victoria League has established a club for overseas soldiers in London and is appealing for funds to keep it going. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Government has requested the Jockey Club to suspend all horse racing, except the Newmarket meeting, after this week. ...
Article : 25 wordsIt will be learnt with interest that in all probalility there will be a march through Perth of about 1,400 troops next week, which will enable the public to see how the ...
Article : 296 wordsA meeting convened by the National Patriotic Organisation was held in the Guild hall yesterday. The Prime Minister submitted the ...
Article : 768 wordsIt is reported at Washington that Germany is suspending her submarine campaign pending the reply to President Will son's Note. ...
Article : 34 wordsMatthew H. Read, a postal mechanic, was fined £20, with £4 4s. costs, at the Prahran Court to-day on a charge of having broken the regulations under the War Precautions ...
Article : 94 wordsThe steamer Dumfries was torpedoed off Pembroke yesterday, but she did not sink, and none of the crew were lost. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 121 wordsThe trawler Lucerne was sunk by a submarine off Rattray Head, on the coast of Aberdeen, yesterday. Eleven of the crew were saved. ...
Article : 30 wordsA fund has been started at Magdeburg (Germany) with the object of giving a testimonial to the crew of the submarine which sank the Lusitania. ...
Article : 35 wordsLieutenant E. S. Davis, who has been appointed General Staff Officer for Western Australia, arrived by the s.s. Warilda yesterday. He will take up his duties as from ...
Article : 48 wordsMr. Asquith announced in the House of Commons yesterday that the Cabinet was contemplating the reconstruction of the Government on a broader personal and ...
Article : 420 wordsInstructions have been received at the local military office from headquarters in Melbourne to the effect that for the future service dress will be worn for all purposes ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 340 wordsThe Perth Chamber of Commerce has received the following communication from the Collector of Customs, which is published for general information:— ...
Article : 381 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) announced in the Senate to-day that the Admiralty had cabled that it was now presumed that the Australian submarine AE2 ...
Article : 125 wordsLast evening's communique announced that a dense fog had made things quiet along the whole Franco-Belgian front. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe newspapers state that the Allies have occupied Kilid Bahr, in the Dardanelles. It is also stated that the enemy's sharpshooters painted their faces and hands green ...
Article : 57 wordsLast night's communique stated:—"The battle on the left bank of the Upper Vistula and along the whole of the Galician front attained in many districts terrific intensity. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,118 wordsReuter's correspondent sends the following account of an incident in the Dardanelles fighting:—"There was a thrilling duel between an Australian and a Turk, equally ...
Article : 136 wordsThe Germans carried out their retreat across the Yser on Sunday night swiftly and secretly. The French occupied the vacated positions on Monday. and found ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 75 wordsIt is stated that 33 army corps, of which 10 are German, occupy a 200 miles front from Opkow to Kolumea, and that these have begun a general battle, which will tax ...
Article : 93 wordsReuter's Cairo correspondent states that difficulties which existed in regard to the hospitals at Caire and Alexandria, owing to the unexpectedly heavy casualties, have ...
Article : 65 wordsIn connection with the return of soldiers wounded at the front prominence attaches to the question of accommodation for those who have reached the convalescent stage. ...
Article : 109 wordsConsiderable numbers of German reserves, besides all the German guns used on the dunes, except the anti-aircraft guns, have been brought up towards the Ysec ...
Article : 68 wordsAt a recent meeting of the Perth City Council the Mayor (Mr. J. Nicholson) read the following cablegram from London:—"Montenegrin Red Cross and Relief Funds ...
Article : 97 wordsThe court-martial which has been trying the cases of soldiers charged with offences in German New Guinca was continued on Wednesday when Captain Lionel ...
Article : 727 wordsKuepferle, the German spy, whose trial commenced at the Old Bailey on Tuesday. committed suicide by hanging himself yesterday at Brixton prison. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Allies yesterday bombarded Adalia, on the south coast of Asia Minor, Holicarnassus, south of Smyrna, and Phenika, on the Gulf of Adalia. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Austrians in a communique claim that they captured Siensowa (Galicia), and forced a crossing over the San, capturing 7,000 prisoners and eight guns. ...
Article : 30 wordsIn connection with Lord Kitchener's call for 300,000 more men it has been decided that the maximum age should be 40 years and the minimum height 62in. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Germans are retiring along the whole French line, little by little. The Allies' airmen report indications that the Germans are taking measures with a view ...
Article : 64 wordsWe received yesterday the following letter from a member of the first Western Australian contingent of the Australian Expaditionary Force:— ...
Article : 1,618 wordsIn the House of Representatives to-night the Prime Minister (Mr. Fisher) said it was with great regret that he had to announce that Major-General Bridges had passed away ...
Article : 1,070 wordsThe District Commandant (Colonel Bruche) desires to thank the under-mentioned apiarists of Western Australia, who have forwarded donations of honey for use in ...
Article : 192 wordsA message from Budapest states that owing to a quarrel with the Archduke Frederick, General Auffenberg ex-Minister for War in Austria, has been arrested. He was ...
Article : 49 wordsThe King yesterday visited several of the Tyne shipyards and engineering works. Arrangements have been made to close five of the minor shipbuilding yards on the ...
Article : 43 wordsThe "Times" military correspondent writes:—"No German offesive in France, on a large scale, is practicable before the end of July, and it will not even then be ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Foreign Office announces that Cardinal Gaspari has informed the British Envoy at the Vatican that Germany has suspended her consent to the proposed exchange ...
Article : 73 wordsRefugees from Libau, on the Baltic, state that the Germans recently shot the director of a theatre there for having produced a play called "Monsters of Kul[?]ur." Many ...
Article : 52 wordsDetails of the fate of the 700 Germs is who were annihilated by a gunfire from both the German and British lines show that the men had taken refuge in a big ...
Article : 103 wordsThe Press Bureau reports:—"General Cox's Brigade repulsed a Turkish attack on May 12. with heavy loss. Next day the Gurkhas advanced half a mile, and new ...
Article : 131 wordsIn a letter to the London newspapers Sir Ernest Cassel. who was born in Cologne, and holds the Order of the Crown of Prussia, denounces Germany's war methods. ...
Article : 35 wordsA letter has been received from "R.L.S." by the Perth central local branch of the Red Cross Society inquiring for information as to bandages, etc., for our soldiers. ...
Article : 201 wordsQuestioned in the House of Commons yesterday respecting the consoring of Australian Press news that had been published in London, Mr. Rea (on behalf of the ...
Article : 56 wordsThe New Zealand casualties to date total 1,334. ...
Article : 13 wordsThe Germans during operations on the Aisne ordered a field to be ploughed up and it thus happened that some corn was destroyed which they themselves had sown ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Austrians have made a new offer to Italy with a view of keeping the latter from joining the Allies. ...
Article : 28 wordsMr. Lloyd-George, replying to a question in the House of Commons yesterday, said that the action taken since March 11 had been effective in every respect in ...
Article : 43 wordsIn a Berlin communique it is claimed that the fighting north of Ypres has been in the Germans' favour and that English attacks south of Neuve Chapelle were repulsed. The ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Fri 21 May 1915, Page 7
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