Two Zeppelins dropped six eight bombs in two areas of a town in Yorkshire on Tuesday night. One fell in the middle of a road, the buildings on either ...
Article : 149 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday the Prime Minister (Mr. Asquith) announced that P. S. Pearse, T. K. Clarke and Thomas McDonagh signatories to the Sinn Fein ...
Article : 1,041 wordsMay Day was celebrated in Berlin by a mob of women clamouring for peace in Potsdam Place, Berlin. Fifty women were arrested. Similar demonstrations took ...
Article : 278 wordsIn the Commonwealth Arbitration Court to-day, before proceeding with the business on the list, Mr. Justice Higgins (President of the Court) made the following ...
Article : 506 wordsThe Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the Gilchrist charges against the officers in charge of the construction of the western section of the trans-Australian ...
Article : 810 wordsThe Federal Executive Council has approved of a regulation under the War Precautions Act which gives to the naval and military authorities a most comprehensive ...
Article : 64 wordsIn Queensland to-day 82 men were accepted for active service. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe circumstances surrounding the death of Hans Portmann, a German, who was killed by an infuriated mob in the German camp on April 19, and who, in common with ...
Article : 381 wordsIt is officially announced that an enemy aeroplane launched six bombs at the Deal railway station yesterday afternoon. Several houses were damaged. ...
Article : 31 wordsA German Zeppelin, the L20, was destroyed yesterday in a storm near Stavanger (on the south-west coast of Norway, in the same latitude as the Orkneys). ...
Article : 44 wordsA deputation waited on the Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) to-day to lay before him the views of the Victorian municipalities in regard to conscription. ...
Article : 545 wordsLast evening Mr. P. J. Fitzgerald, manager of the Oroya Links Mine, and Mr. Charles. Waite, the underground manager, met with a serious accident. They were ...
Article : 120 wordsThe Zeppelin L20 was destroyed near Stavanger yesterday. As it neared the coast six members of the crew jumped into the sea. Boats went out and ...
Article : 183 wordsA meeting of the Federal Cabinet has been summoned for Saturday morning, when further consideration will be given to a programme of the business to be ...
Article : 299 wordsThe storemen and packers in the wholesale grocery trade who went on strike last Monday for higher pay were still idle to-day. The effects of the strike are being ...
Article : 50 wordsAt the Perth Town Hall yesterday afternoon the Mayor and Mrs. Rea entertained at afternoon tea a large number of ladies connected with the Soldiers' Welcome ...
Article : 307 wordsThere is great activity on the German railway lines in Belgium, and troop trains are continually passing to and fro. The reserves are camped at the chief railway ...
Article : 91 wordsThe Minister for Customs (Mr. Tudor) by a proclamation in the "Commonwealth Gazette," which was issued to-day, prohibits the importation into the ...
Article : 53 wordsMr. R. S. Sampson has been reelected chairman of the Darling Range Roads Board. At the meeting of the Greenmount ...
Article : 407 wordsLast night's communique stated:—"There was a violent bombardment at the Avocourt end this afternoon. Our troops by a brilliant assault, carried German positions ...
Article : 47 wordsAn interesting position has arisen in connection with the office of the Commonwealth Public Service Commissioner. The term of the appointment of Mr. D. C. ...
Article : 263 wordsIn the Reichstag at Berlin yesterday the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Herr von Jagow) announced that a reply to the latest American note on the submarine question ...
Article : 64 wordsMr. John Murray. M.L.A., and a former Premier, died suddenly at Warrnambool to-day. He was driving in his buggy when his horse bolted and collided with a ...
Article : 245 wordsThe Government has had in hand for some time the compilation of a return showing the number of persons—together with particulars of them—of enemy origin ...
Article : 92 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the General News Agency reports that President Wilson has declined the Kaiser's proposal to arbitrate with regard to the ...
Article : 41 wordsSpeaking at last night's meeting of the Australian Labour Federation, Mr. D. Cameron said that there was a move on foot in connection with the Patriotic Fund ...
Article : 274 wordsThe Defence Department has received from the Secretary of State for the Colonies a copy of a communication, dated January 31 from the American ...
Article : 403 wordsAdvance indications of the German reply to America's final Note show that Germany proposes to meet the American representations as far as possible. The ...
Article : 55 wordsThe War Saving Committee points out that it is equally necessary to economise in home-made goods and products as [?] imports. ...
Article : 130 wordsSir Henry Briggs held a very succesful meeting of the electors at North Fremantle last night. Messrs. R. J. Lynn, M.L.C., and R. Laurie also addressed the meeting. ...
Article : 91 wordsThe position of the meat market of the metropolitan and suburban areas is at present very critical, but it is reassuring to know that the Government, who were ...
Article : 504 wordsIn the House of Lords yesterday Lord Beresford initiated a debate upon what he characterised as the serious depletion of Britain's mercantile tonnage. He said ...
Article : 187 wordsIt has been learned that Mr. Griffith, the Minister for Public Instruction, was the principal agent yesterday in the negotiations between the Ministry and the aggressive ...
Article : 237 wordsAn additional 90 employees in the manufacturing grocery trade were dismissed to-day for refusing to fill Parsons Bros.' bags with oatmeal. The total number of men ...
Article : 73 wordsAt last night's meeting of the metropolitan council of the Australian Labour Federation a circular addressed to all Labour Councils by the State executive of the ...
Article : 166 wordsThe London Chamber of Commerce has passed resolutions requesting Austraian and German members, including those who had been naturalised to resign their ...
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Advertising : 243 wordsMr. Asquith, in introducing the Military Service Bill in the House of Commons yesterday, said it applied to all married and unmarried men between the ages of 18 and ...
Article : 172 wordsThe Overseas Club will mark Empire Day by presenting the Royal Flying Corps with six aeroplanes. Since last Empire Day 68 aeroplanes have been presented to the ...
Article : 44 wordsTo-day (wrote "Everyman" in its issue of August 17, 1914) we who would take stock of the Right Honourable Augustine Birrellk must read much else beside ...
Article : 991 wordsA deputation from the industrial disputes committee of the Trades Hall council waited upon the Premier (Sir Alex. Peacock) to-day, and urged that legislation ...
Article : 124 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) stated to-day that he has received a cablegram from the Australian military authorities in Egypt informing him that ...
Article : 142 wordsWith a view to the completion of its training an Australian aviation unit is coming to England. Probably a Canadian and other units will come later on. ...
Article : 47 wordsBugler Fred Ashton. 11th Battalion, 3rd Brigade, who was with the covering party which landed at Gallipoli on April 25, 1915. writing to his mother in Geraldton from ...
Article : 450 wordsFifteen hundred Canadian lumber men have been brought over to cut sleepers and pit-props, to make Britain less dependent upon foreign supplies. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Fri 5 May 1916, Page 7
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