Yesterday 25,000 Bulgarians crossed the Greek frontier. They occupied Rupel Pass, and demanded the surrender of the Greek fort and earthworks at the entrance to the ...
Article : 647 wordsGeneral Sir Douglas Haig's first full despatch has been received. It covers the five months since December 19. The British Commander-in-Chief says: "There has been ...
Article : 473 wordsThe annual meeting of the Western Australian Alliance was held at the Temperance Hall, Museum-street, last evening. Mr. G. Hayman (president) occupied the chair ...
Article : 5,307 wordsInformation having been received from the Department of Defence by Mr. J. Cornell, M.L.C., acting secretary of the A.L.F., that the Minister has approved of ...
Article : 77 wordsIn the New Zealand Government offices in the Strand there is an exhibition of water-colour sketches of the British and Turkish positions in the Gallipoli Peninsula ...
Article : 221 wordsIn response to the petition presented by Cr. Mills, requesting that a public meeting should be held to consider the question of conscription, the Mayor (Mr. Frank ...
Article : 51 wordsThe German gains at Verdun in the last eight days total 300 yards. The enemy were not long in possession of Cumieres. A series of grenade attacks on Friday ...
Article : 207 wordsFive recruits were accepted in Queensland to-day, bringing the total enlistments for the State to 36,533. ...
Article : 35 wordsWith the view of augmenting the funds of the Y.M.C.A. for military work, a series of performances is being given in the south suburban districts by a juvenile ...
Article : 551 wordsThe one hundred and seventy-second casualty list of Western Australian members of the A.I.F. was released by the Censor last night and is published below. There is ...
Article : 503 wordsThe following nominations were received to-day for the Labour selection ballots in connection with the eastern goldfields seats in the House of Assembly:— ...
Article : 84 wordsMr. J. Norton Griffiths, M.P., after spending 14 months at the western front has made a striking appeal to munition workers, through the columns of the ...
Article : 468 wordsIn the "Daily Chronicle" a neutral traveller describes the prevailing conditions throughout the beleagured Central Empires He says: "The Austrians and Germans are ...
Article : 324 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Scaddan) is due to return to Perth on Wednesday from the Premiers' Conference. It is considered probable that he will leave the same day ...
Article : 710 wordsTHE INVADED TERRITORY. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 3 wordsThe Austrians have achieved substantial success in the centre of the line, inasmuch as the Italians have abandoned their main line from Arsiero to the Asiago Plateaux. ...
Article : 174 wordsNearly £100,000 has been subscribed as capital for a new Liberal morning newspaper representing the views of Mr. Lloyd George. ...
Article : 32 wordsOwing to the leakage of secret instructions to ships the Admiralty is forbidding the employment of aliens, whether naturalised or not, as commanders of British ...
Article : 38 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 208 wordsItaly will, on June 6, adopt, for business houses, the daylight-saving scheme instituted in Britain. ...
Article : 25 wordsProfessor H. S. Foxwell (Professor of Political Economy in the London University), in a lecture delievered on Saturday night expressed the hope that now that ...
Article : 82 wordsSince 1914 no fewer than 600 mines have been washed up on the Swedish coast, while Swedish marines have destroyed 500 others. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe "Matin" states that after 22 months of war Professor Schwalde, director of the "German Weekly Medical Review" writes as follows: "It is untrue to say that French ...
Article : 143 wordsRelatives and others seeking news of sick, wounded, or missing soldiers are invited to write to, or call at, the Australian Red Cross Information Bureau, ...
Article : 37 wordsOwing to the recent announcement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. R. McKenna) of additional income taxation to be imposed on foreign securities, many ...
Article : 52 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 205 wordsLloyd's office reports that an Austrian submarine yesterday entered Civita Vecchia (50 miles north-west of Rome), and shelled the steel works there, doing only ...
Article : 50 wordsAbout 500 men, comprising the No. 6 Tunnelling Company, and the members of the N.C.O. school Claremont, will parade the principal streets of the city this ...
Article : 90 wordsCaptain Grime-Jones and Lieutenant Henry Tennant (eldest son of the Under-Secretary for War) were biplaning in Kent yesterday when their machine side-slipped ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Italian steamer Maravia has been torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean. The Italian vessel Rita has also been sunk. ...
Article : 26 wordsTo-day the District Coroner, Mr. Richardson Clark, concluded the hearing of the evidence in the inquest concerning the death of the German prisoner of war Hans ...
Article : 343 wordsThere was issued in a supplement to the "London Gazette" of April 5 a Royal Warrant, instituting a new medal, entitled "The Military Medal." The new ...
Article : 327 wordsThe bodies of an officer and a private, belonging to a Zeppelin, were washed ashore at Esbjirg yesterday. A quantity or wreckage also came ashore, suggesting ...
Article : 39 wordsThe police have discovered many German rifles in the houses of the rebels in Ireland. At Wexford most of the rifles found were of German make. Lonal, the rebel ...
Article : 47 wordsGiven fine weather, the route march of the 44th Battalion through the streets of Fremantle to-day should excite considerable interest. It will be the first occasion during ...
Article : 161 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Tue 30 May 1916, Page 5
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: