The Mails.—Mails for the Eastern States, New Zealand etc., are announced to close at the G.P.O. to morrow morning at 9 o'clock, to be forwarded by the s.s. ...
Article : 4,490 wordsReports from Roumania indicate that bucharest has been captured by the Austro-German army. Bucharest is the fifth capital to fall to ...
Article : 238 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly to-night Mr. Plain, who was expelled from the Labour Party because of his advocacy of conscription said that no effort was being ...
Article : 130 wordsYesterday's Italian official report stated:—"The enemy attempted to approach Scatolari to-day, but were driven off. There was intense artillery fire between Gorizia and ...
Article : 38 wordsThe "Court Circular" announced yesterday evening: "The King held a conference this afternoon, Mr. Balfour, Mr. Asquith, Mr. Llyod George, and Mr. Henderson being ...
Article : 985 wordsThe Premier, speaking at the re-opening of the Chamber of Deputies yesterday, said that the whole country was now working for the production of munitions and guns, ...
Article : 110 wordsThe Marine Underwriters' Association of W.A. declared the following war rates in force yesterday, for all vessels except German Australian, and Turkish:—Steamers: To ...
Article : 111 wordsMrs. Hanson of Howick-street Victoria Park, has received word from the military authorities that her son Alfred Henry Hanson, has been severely wounded in ...
Article : 55 wordsWith a view of increasing the food supply, an Order-in-Council empowers the Board of Agriculture to occupy unoccupied land without consent and other land by ...
Article : 78 wordsTelegrams from Athens indicate that the serious situation there continues. Subjects of the Allies are going aboard vessels at Piraeus. Many dastardly outrages have ...
Article : 285 wordsThe following amounts have been received:— By the War Council: Yelbeni picnic committee (per Mr. W. Yates), £35 12s. 2d.; ...
Article : 108 wordsAs the outcome of a public meeting, held at Maddington in March last, an enthusiastic send-off was accorded to the men of the Gosnells district, who were proceeding ...
Article : 547 wordsThe members of the Fremantle aid committee of the Silver Chain have every reason to be satisfied with the results of the opening day of their annual fete. Lady ...
Article : 1,128 wordsThe Premier of New Zealand (Mr. Massey), in an interview published in the "Pall Mall Gazette," strongly urges the summoning of an Imperial Conference at the ...
Article : 110 wordsPrivate P. A. Thomas, of the 9th North Staffs Regiment, has forwarded another letter to his brother in Perth of which the following are some extracts:— ...
Article : 512 wordsLord Northcliffe, in a statement to the representative of the United Press Agency yesterday, said:—"Mr. Lloyd George has given the knockout to the gang of aged or ...
Article : 152 wordsIt is officially announced that an explosion took place in a national munitions factory in the north of England on Tuesday night, 26 women workers being killed, and ...
Article : 47 wordsA Berlin official report issued last evening announced the capture of Bucharest. An earlier German official report stated: "We captured Sinaia, 37 miles north-west of ...
Article : 144 wordsM. Maurice Maeterlinck, interviewed by the New York "Tribune's" Paris correspondent, says: "The whole world calls upon America to stop Germany's monstrous inhumanity. ...
Article : 104 wordsLord Sydenham (speaking to an interviewer yesterday, said.—"It is imperative that there must be a War Council of not more than five members, who should be ...
Article : 281 wordsA despatch received from Athens by the "Herald" states:—"The Royalists have made Athens a veritable slaughter-house. The homes of the Venizelists have been looted ...
Article : 97 wordsThe Salonika correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" reported yesterday evening:—"Pursuing their advantage to the north of Grunista; the Serbians crossed to river ...
Article : 153 wordsThe Athens correspondent of the "Corriere della Sera," describing Saturday's events, says:—"Six thousand reservists, united with 5,000 garrison soldiers, well ...
Article : 174 wordsThe Rome correspondent of the New York "Times" states: "The Pope's allocution to the secret Consistory is so couched as to convey impartiality by reprobating all ...
Article : 63 wordsBefore the High Court yesterday the Broken Hill Proprietary Company sued the Peninsular and Oriental S.N. Company to recover damages for breach of contract and ...
Article : 126 wordsCorporal C. C. Drake, 28th Battalion, A.I.F., writing from France on October 5 to his mother, Mrs. J. G. Drake, 9 Knutaford-road, North Perth, relates in ...
Article : 1,057 wordsIn telegraphing from Belfast denying that he had proposed the scheme for the settlement of the Irish question attributed to firm, Sir Edward Carson says:— ...
Article : 158 wordsThe Pope has protested to Germany over the refusal of the Military Governor of Belgium to allow Cardinal Mercier to attend the Papal Consistory. The Pope's ...
Article : 49 wordsIn last night's despatch Sir Douglas Haig reported:—"We successfully raided trenches south-east of Neuville-st-Vaast. The enemy's attempted raids west of Beaurains and ...
Article : 291 wordsNothing has yet been settled regarding the date of the wool sales, which at present stand postponed till the 12th inst. It in the opinion of everyone in the trade that ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the New York "Times" has obtained a report of a Polish deputy's speech delivered at a secret session of the Reichatag, and published in a ...
Article : 115 wordsMr. Ward Price states:—"Is must be remembered that the Allies in the Balkans are holding a front 250 miles long, a front more difficult than that in any other ...
Article : 62 wordsRegulations have been gazetted which provide that any person who orally or otherwise publishes any utterance which may tend to prevent the proper complement of ...
Article : 91 words"Humanite" says:—"The problem Mr. Lloyd George has set before Britain will also be put before France. It is not a question of a dictatorship but of ...
Article : 74 wordsAccording to a wireless message from Berlin, the Portuguese Minister for Marine announces that German submarines yesterday attacked Funchal (in Madeira) and ...
Article : 102 wordsThe police have arrested a member of the notorious Bonnot gang at an artillery camp. The man was sentenced in absentia for the murder of a man named Blanchet, near ...
Article : 49 wordsLord Derby in a notable speech at the Aldwych Club yesterday threw some light on the events leading to the crisis. After repudiating the charges of disloyalty and ...
Article : 402 wordsThe New York "World" stated yesterday:—"The Tory plot to overthrow the Liberals has succeeded. Mr. Lloyd George lent his great powers and repute as a ...
Article : 124 wordsCriminal Court.—At 10.30 a.m., in No. 3 Court, before the Chief Justice Criminal Court—At 10.30 a.m., in No. 2 Court, before Mr. Justice Burnside. ...
Article : 85 wordsA Hungarian official inquiry shows that the recent railway disaster near Vienna, when a train was carrying persons who had attended the late Emperor's funeral, was ...
Article : 42 wordsA wireless message to the "Gazette" from Lausanne gives details of a careful but futile attempt to induce French Mussulman prisoners in Miossen camp, in Germany, ...
Article : 67 wordsThe crew of the steamer Palermo, which was torpedoed recently, included 47 Americans. Th cargo consisted of horses, copper, iron, oil, and 70 tons of tar. The ...
Article : 41 wordsThe "Handelsblad" states:—"Mr. Asquith's resignation begins a new era. It is evident that with the tightening of the blockade the troubles of neutrals will be ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the New York "Times" states:—"Officials here have received information which leads them to anticipate important changes in the ...
Article : 70 wordsEight members of the crew of the Moeraki, which was torpedoed and sunk on Tuesday, perished. Ninety-four of the crew, including the captain were saved. ...
Article : 32 wordsTo-day, in Adelaide, seven men volunteered, and one was accepted. ...
Article : 48 wordsMr. Kennedy Jones has been returned unopposed for the Hornsey Division of Middlesex, the seat formerly held by Major the Earl of Ronaldshay who has been ...
Article : 44 wordsAt the Central Police Court to-day James Renton (32) and George Renton (24) were charged with having maliciously attempted to set on fire on October 19, Ayrshire ...
Article : 206 wordsIt is reported that Germany has intimated to neutral Governments that she intends to wage submarine warfare more ruthlessly than ever after the beginning ...
Article : 57 wordsMr. Philip Gibbs, the British Press correspondent at the West front, says that the news of a peasant woman's recovery of her life's savings of 45,000 francs (about ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Fri 8 Dec 1916, Page 7
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