While disinclination was generally evidenced to-day among Labour members, who had supported Mr. Hughes in the conscription campaign, to discuss the political ...
Article : 533 wordsA coach body builder named William Hughes told Mr. Justice Street in the Court of Appeals to-day that if he were ordered to the front he would either given himself ...
Article : 110 wordsYesterday's Roumauian communique stated:—"To-day we occupied Mount Rosca, where we took some Prisoners. We repulsed attacks in Prahova Valley and in ...
Article : 390 wordsA number of Russian officers have been placed in special prison camps in Germany, where they are subjected to severe treatment, as reprisal for all alleged cases of ...
Article : 47 wordsThe following motion was agreed to to-night at a meeting of the Victorian branch of the Returned Soldiers' Association:— "That necessary steps be taken to form a ...
Article : 62 wordsThe "National Tidende" says that a Russian prisoner recently escaped across the border into Denmark. German guards pursued him and beat him senseless. Some ...
Article : 52 wordsMrs. A. W. Challenger, 48 York-street, Subiaco, has received word from the military authorities that her husband, Private Arthur Challenger was killed in action ...
Article : 36 wordsThe number of men examined up to October 30 was 167, 662, and of these 86,255 were fit, 47,513 unfit 26,941, doubtful and 6,953 temporarily unfit. of the 79,646 ...
Article : 120 wordsThere are signs of German munition factories being badly in need of men German agents are travelling through Switzerland, trying to induce Swiss mechanics to ...
Article : 67 wordsAt the Kalgoorlie Police Court to-day Thomas Hoodgetts, who was called up recently for service in the citizen forces, was charged with having refused to take the ...
Article : 78 wordsAt a meeting of the Wolverhampton Town Council last night, a member asserted that thousands of tons of potatoes were locked up near the town, because the ...
Article : 59 wordsIn last night's report General Haig stated:—"We bombarded the enemy lines in the neighbourhood of Hohenzollern and La Basse Canal to-day. There was a ...
Article : 81 wordsThe sum of £50,000,000 was subscribed to war charity funds during the first two years of the war, including donations from the Dominions and Colonies. The total ...
Article : 166 wordsThe Amsterdam correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" states:—"The creation of a German Ministry for Munitions, under Major-General Groener, who has a ...
Article : 49 wordsIt is officially announced that Irishmen recruited for general service will in future be given the option of enlisting in an Irish regiment. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe somewhat monotonous order of business at the last meeting of the Gosnells Roads Board was agreeably varied by the presence of a number of ladies, who ...
Article : 205 wordsMr. Fraser, one of the Railway Commissioners, stated to-day that action had been taken against a number of railway and tramway employees who, according to ...
Article : 158 wordsDuring a discussion in the House of Commons yesterday on the recent naval action in the Channel the First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. A. J. Balfour) said that six ...
Article : 227 wordsWhat is interpreted as another German peacefeeler has been cabled to the New York "World" from Berlin by Professor Delbrueck, the noted historian. He says. ...
Article : 131 wordsA traveller from Geneva reports that Allied aeroplanes - recently bombed a Zeppelin shed near Brussels, and destroyed a Zeppelin. ...
Article : 27 wordsYesterday's German communique stated:—"We drove the enemy back north-east and east of Les Boeufs. French attacks at La Maisonette, on our new trenches south of ...
Article : 45 wordsMr. Bonar Law announced in the House of Commons yesterday that the Government would introduce without delay a Bill in the House of Lords removing from the ...
Article : 511 wordsYesterday's Russian communique stated:—"In the direction of Luck, south of Sweniuchi we captured enemy trenches, and repulsed a counter attack. We repulsed ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of the "New York American" states:—"There is much speculation in Germany with regard to the recent conference between the Kaiser, Von ...
Article : 70 wordsWith an intimation that the council was desirous of entering into negotiations with the Government for the purchase of the South Perth ferries a deputation from the ...
Article : 483 wordsThe monthly returns in connection with the Commonwealth finances were made available to-day. For the first time for many months the receipts of the Customs ...
Article : 177 wordsAt a recent meeting of the goldfields branch of the Australian Labour Federation reference was made to a speech delivered at Boulder by Senator Lynch ...
Article : 757 wordsYesterday's German communique stated:—"On the Narjowka the Turks stormed the Russian positions north-west of Molochow. Further south we captured ...
Article : 36 wordsAt the annual session of the Municipal Association of Victoria which opened to-day, a motion that the Local Government Act should be so amended that no person ...
Article : 58 wordsIt transpires that the British steamer Marina was torpedoed by a German submarine without warning while a gale was blowing. ...
Article : 147 wordsA communique issued in Berlin yesterday stated:—"On the Southern Transylvania frontier there is fighting among mists and snowstorms. The Roumanians failed to ...
Article : 70 wordsA communique issued yesterday stated:—"In the direction of Hamadan we captured two villages." ...
Article : 17 wordsThe dislocation of the coal mining industry caused by the strike over the question of the eight hours shift continues. That it many develop into very serious ...
Article : 224 wordsThe British Army casualties for October were:— 4.366 officers. 101.340 men. ...
Article : 47 wordsTo-day in Adelaide 14 men volunteered and 11 were accepted. ...
Article : 46 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday Lord Robert Cecil (Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs) recommended the postponement of the question whether ...
Article : 453 wordsMr. Lansing, acting upon President Wilson's instructions, has cabled to the American Embassies in Berlin and London, to make full inquiries into the sinking of the ...
Article : 196 wordsThe Marine Underwritrs' Association of W.A. advices that the following war rates were declared in force yesterday:—For all vessels except German Austrian and ...
Article : 56 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday Mr. R. Haxleton (Nationalist) asked whether there were 3,600,000 exemptions from military service. ...
Article : 307 wordsThe Bill prohibiting the use of the word "Anzac" for trade purposes passed the second reading stage in the House of Commons yesterday. Captain Pretyman ...
Article : 43 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-day the Minister for Works in reply to questions said that war conditions were affecting the supply of material to his department ...
Article : 169 wordsMr. H. F. Cotterell, of the Australian Comforts Fund (of which the Victoria League of Western Australia is the Western Australian Division), speaks thus of ...
Article : 218 wordsThe current issue of the "Western Mail" bears favourable comparison with previous numbers. There are, as usual, several interesting war pictures, and portraits of ...
Article : 178 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday, Mr. H. Forster stated that the Government was acting in accordance with Sir Douglas Haig's suggestion regarding the provision ...
Article : 45 wordsLloyd's Agency reports that yesterday one Greek steamer and two Norwegian steamers were sunk by German submarines, and that 32 men are missing from the Glasgow ...
Article : 42 wordsThere were lively discussions in the House of Commons Yesterday on the questions of man power, food prices, and the Channel fight which resulted in a record ...
Article : 92 wordsA German submarine officer, before sinking a Norwegian steamer in the North Sea yesterday, decalred that all cargoes bound for England would be treated as ...
Article : 36 wordsIn the course of his remarks to a conference of local authorities, in the City Counscil Chamber last night, the Minister in charge of the Water Supply, Sewerage, ...
Article : 145 wordsIn the Legislative Council yesterday Mr. Cornell gave notice of the following motion for Tuesday next:—"That as the Government has decided that all persons who ...
Article : 128 wordsThe German submarine Deutschland arrived last night at New London (126 miles north-east of New York) after an uneventful voyage of 21 days from Bremen. ...
Article : 36 wordsIn the House of Assembly to-day the Appropriation Bill for £3,778,807 passed all stages. The second reading of the Police Pensions ...
Article : 149 wordsArnold Tupton, F.G.S. an exmember of the House of Commons is charged under the Defence of the Realm Act with publishing pamphlets prejudicial to ...
Article : 88 wordsA regiment favourable to the King attempted to stop another infantry regiment from going to the interior from Salonika to join the national army. The Venizelists ...
Article : 49 wordsThe reserved judgment was given to-day in the Exemption Appeals Courts in the case of Norman Gladstone McKinnon, who appealed on the ground that he was ...
Article : 165 wordsCaptain Pretyman (Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade) in moving the Registration of Business Names Bill in the House of Commons yesterday ...
Article : 496 wordsThe Norwegian Ambassador at Berlin has arrived at Christiania to confer with the Government with regard to the reply to the German Note. It is believed that a ...
Article : 61 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday Lord Derby made a statement on the Mespotamia campaign. He said:—"Conditions have improved under the War ...
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Advertising : 178 wordsMr. Frederic Coudert the well-known lawyer. who visited the Western war front recently. states:—"England will reach the zenith of her military preparations by the ...
Article : 48 wordsThe following have been received at the Base Hospital Fremantle :—Miss Teague's work party, old linen, hemorrhage pads, bandages; Charles Moore and Co., sheets, ...
Article : 288 wordsThe London correspondent of the New York "Times" yesterday interviewed Admiral Lord Beresford regarding the Latter's speech in the House of Lords. Lord ...
Article : 151 wordsThe Commonwealth's liability in the matter of war pensions is steadily growing. At ready it has crept up to £699,654 a year and it increases every month. Up to ...
Article : 99 wordsIn the House of Assembly to-day, Mr. O'Keefe gave notice to move, "That in the opinion of the House, exemption relating to members of Parliament and ministers of ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Associated Chambers of Agriculture have passed a resolution, declaring that there will be a disastrous shortage of wheat and other essential foods if the farms ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Thu 2 Nov 1916, Page 7
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