Friday might's communique stated:—"The German attack, which was preparing to debonch in the Morthomme region, collapsed under our curtain of fire. A counter attack ...
Article : 276 wordsAn official communique from the front states:—"The enemy, persisting in impetuous attacks between the Adige and Vallarsa, was bloodily defeated. The chief ...
Article : 126 wordsPerth theatre-goers are revelling in the Royal Comic Opera season, and nightly the capacious auditorium of His Majesty's Theatre is crowded with delighted patrons. ...
Article : 2,889 wordsNominations for the Labour selection ballots in the goldfields constituencies in connection with the State Parliamentary elections close to-morrow. Some doubt ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 187 wordsThe Minister for Lands and Agriculture (Mr. W. D. Johnson) stated last night that the s.s. Moirs, which, after some months' negotiations with the Federal Government, ...
Article : 401 wordsAt a sitting of the committee of inquiry into the air services, Lord Montagu detailed the difficulties, which he himself and others had met in endeavouring to ...
Article : 120 wordsThe miners at Point Elizabeth and at the State collieries have passed a resolution to oppose to the utmost any attempt to enforce conscription on the workers, and ...
Article : 56 wordsThe members of the No. 6 Tunnelling Company and the N.C.O. school at Claremont will parade the principal streets of the city to-morrow morning. They will leave ...
Article : 75 wordsThe council of the London Chamber of Commerce has adopted the committee's recommendation of an additional tariff list, ranging from 2½ per cent. on raw ...
Article : 76 wordsThe interesting question of the future of Belgium is a theme dealt with by "En Vedette" in the "Fortnightly Review." The author argues that the "perpetual ...
Article : 1,496 wordsAn Austrian report on the Italian frontier fighting says:—"We captured Civaron, south-eastward of Borgo, and the entire height between Corno Dicamfevirde and ...
Article : 105 wordsThe executive of the Empire Sailors and Soldiers' Association made arrangements for a demonstration to be held at the Fallen Soldiers' Memorial in King's Park ...
Article : 697 wordsPresident Wilson announces that he hopes to effect mediation with a view to ending the war. He feels it incumbent upon himself, as head of a neutral power, to ...
Article : 584 wordsA sensational incident occurred at St. Paul's during the Empire Day service. While 65 naval cadets, bearing the flags of the Empire, were kneeling at the altar, ...
Article : 272 wordsSome days ago the Mayor of Fremantle (Mr. W. E. Wray) got into touch with the State Commandant, with a view to arranging a route march of the 44th ...
Article : 138 wordsAustrian aeroplanes have bombed Bari, killing 18 civilians, mostly women and children. ...
Article : 18 wordsBefore Lord Hardinge's commission of inquiry into the Sinn Fein rising yesterday. General Friend, commanding the troops ...
Article : 399 wordsTrinity Church, Perth, yesterday celebrated its 70th anniversary. The event—a notable one in the history of so young a State—was marked by special services ...
Article : 1,196 wordsOn Saturday the Secretary for Defence telegraphed to the secretary of the Perth Chamber of Commerce as follows:—"The Minister for Defence approves of passports ...
Article : 115 wordsThe Meat Trades Red Cross Fund now totals £44,000. A special effort at Smithfield market will be made on Thursday and Friday by auctioning meat and produce ...
Article : 58 wordsA German communique respeeting-the Verdun fighting states:—"We repulsed a Zouave attack westward of Hill 304. We extended our position west of the quarry on the cast ...
Article : 100 wordsAt the Perth Town Hall on Saturday a petition, requesting that a public meeting should be held to consider the question of conscription, was presented by Cr. Mills. ...
Article : 61 wordsThe New Zealand War Contingent Association has appointed a committee with a view to the establishment of an hostel for New Zealanders on furlough from France. There ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Mayoress of Victoria Park (Mrs. J. Rushton) and a band of ladies from that suburb conducted the Y.M.C.A. loncly soldiers' tea on Sunday afternoon at the ...
Article : 313 wordsThe women of Frankfort-on-Main marched in a procession of protest on Wednesday, because meat was not obtainable. they carried "famine" flags, raided the butchers' ...
Article : 205 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph's" Rotterdam correspondent declares that the Germans have reconsidered their general war plans, and are now staking everything on Verdun. ...
Article : 134 wordsThe vexed question of day labour in the baking industry was the subject of discussion at a special meeting of the Operative Bakers' Union and Pastrycooks' Union ...
Article : 526 wordsThe Hagne-correspondent of the "Daily Mail" reports that the German Censor is allowing many messages to pass, emphasising Germany's willingness for peace, ...
Article : 81 wordsA proclamation signed by Mr. Justice Wylie and Lord Chief Justice Cherry states that, whereas disaffection and unrest still prevail in certain parts of Ireland and are ...
Article : 60 wordsThe "London Spectator," in a review of the week's war events, says that the news from Italy and Verdun. though superficially disappointing, is fundamentally good. The. ...
Article : 98 wordsPromment Belfast Unionists maintan that in the event of an agreed-upon settlement Ulster should continue under the Imperial Parliament. They leave that ...
Article : 55 wordsBishop Kaftan, of Kiel, has published an extraordinary article in the Schleswig "Sunday Journal," exhorting Germans to thank God for His Merciful support, in allowing ...
Article : 74 words"The Man Who Dined With the Kaiser" has written a book in which he sets out his experiences "on secret service" in Vienna, Sofra, Constantinople, Nish, ...
Article : 530 wordsPresident Wilson's Note, protesting against the Anglo-French treatment of neutral mails, has been published. It denounces the illegal and arbitrary ...
Article : 117 wordsMr. Lloyd George conferred yesterday with representatives of the engineering and shipbuilding employees of the Clyde and Tyne. He strongly appealed to them to ...
Article : 183 wordsThe Government of Switzerland has demanded from Berlin an explanation of the alleged shooting of five Swiss, and the imprisonment of 21 others, on the charge of ...
Article : 31 wordsIt is announced in Germany that, owing to the serious nerve strain on the Crown Prince, he, although remaining at headquarters, will no longer take an active part ...
Article : 48 wordsIn the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland at Edinburgh, yesterday, the Rev. Donald Iverach representing the Presbyterian Church of South Africa, said ...
Article : 80 wordsThe War Office reports fighting in the Western Soudan. The attitude of Ali Dinar, Sultan of Darfur, towards the Government had been for some time ...
Article : 203 wordsThe "Echoe de Belge" states that Germany is greatly strengthening her defences on the Liege and Meuse lines, where several thousands of sappers have recently ...
Article : 34 wordsLieut. Shaw, of the American flying squadron serving in France, fought and downed a Fokker on Friday. The Amarican squadron consists of 30 University men ...
Article : 38 wordsThe British steamer El Argentino, 7,000 tons, the Italian ship Australia, and the Italian steamers Washington and Cornigliano, have been torpedoed and sunk. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Minister for Trade and Customs (Mr. Tudor) stated on Saturday, and desires it to be distinctly understood, that no wool purchased at the Brisbane wool sales, to be ...
Article : 57 wordsSpeaking on the war and the Irish question yesterday. Mr. L. V. Harcourt (First Commissioner of Works) said:—"Ministers bitterly resent the outrageous and ...
Article : 153 wordsA Portuguese communique reports that a naval force has captured the German post at the mouth of the Rovuma River, which is the southern boundary between ...
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Advertising : 151 wordsAn official despatch from Cape Town reports that in German East Africa, General Smuts's advanced troops have occupied without opposition Ruwu Laager, 26 miles ...
Article : 60 wordsThirty-three recruits were accepted in Queensland on Saturday. ...
Article : 80 wordsA Turkish communique reports that two aeroplanes dropped 16 bombs on the civilian quarter of Smyrna on Wednesday, killing three men. and injuring three ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 29 May 1916, Page 5
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