A Petrograd message states that the Russian booty taken on the Riga front included 50 machine guns 30 field guns, £16,000 in cash, and 300 horses, two armoured cars, ...
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Article : 1,701 wordsThe "North German Gazette" declares that the Kaiser's letter to Von Bethmann Hollweg on October 31 proves an honest desire for peace. In this the Kaiser ...
Article : 140 wordsMajor L. C. Timperley, of the 10th Light Horse, who was wounded on December 23, is suffering from bunet wounds in chest and s[?], but is now progressing ...
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Article : 263 wordsTwo Austrian submarines were recently captured by the Italians. One of these, has already been incorporated in the Italian Navy. ...
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Article : 629 wordsApproval has been given by the Federal Cabinet to the recommendation of the repatriation trustees that a Commonwealth authority should be appointed to control all ...
Article : 170 wordsThe Yorkshire Engineers' Association has passed a resolution protesting against the number of untrained men who have been admitted to the munition works and have ...
Article : 87 wordsA wireless German official message intercapted last night stated: "German grenadiers entered a Russian position several points north of Goldenbystritza to-day and ...
Article : 33 wordsIn a letter to a member of the Fremantle staff of the "West Australian," Sergant-Compounder Lionel Sargent, of the Australian Army Medical Corps, sends an ...
Article : 1,136 wordsA Russian wireless despatch from Roumania received by the Admiralty yesterday stated: "The enemy attacked at Kotumi Khaji, on the Sereth, as far as Vedens, ...
Article : 41 wordsFrom the head of the trans-Australian railway the Federal Minister for Works (Senator Lynch) writes under date January 13, requesting that the following ...
Article : 655 wordsMr. Lloyd George is rapidly improving the clearing house for Cabinet business which has absorbed the former War Committee and the Committee of Imperial ...
Article : 105 wordsFrequent reports have been published of hardship which it is alleged returned soldiers are suffering through the neglect of the organisations appointed to look after ...
Article : 176 wordsA German official wireless despatch intercepted yesterday evening stated: "We captured Vadeni, on the Braila-Galatz railway, to-day. We stormed and captured the ...
Article : 66 wordsField-Marshal Haig reported last night:—"We drove of a raid north-west of Gueudecourt to-day. We carried out successful patrol enterprises at Neuve ...
Article : 146 wordsSir Joseph Ward addressed a large meeting at Bournemouth on the resources of New Zealand and the part she has played in the war. The decision that the War ...
Article : 73 wordsIn Melbourne to-day 52 recruits were entolled. There were 91 volunteers. ...
Article : 47 wordsAt the instance of the New Zealand Premier, the Government had remitted the duties on jam, sugar, and rations for the New Zealand troops in England also the ...
Article : 53 wordsAt the fortnightly meeting of the City Council yesterday afternoon the Acting Mayor (Cr. Simpson) presided over Crs. Franklin, Allen, Macfarlane, Butt, Ledger, ...
Article : 448 wordsHerr Kiliani, who was German Consul General in Sydney at the outbreak of the war, stated in the course of a lecture at Munich last week that ever since the ...
Article : 170 wordsOwing partly to the falling off in the numbers of recruits offering for the Australian Imperial Force, the military warehouses are full to overflowing of materials ...
Article : 155 wordsThe Press Bureau has issued Belgium's reply to President Wilson's peace note. The reply states:—"The President seems to believe that the statesmen of the two opposed ...
Article : 257 wordsMrs. Hannah Jane Gliddon, a married woman, aged 43 years, lost her life while bathing in the shallow water at Applecross yesterday morning. The ...
Article : 360 wordsThe 264th casualty list was released by the Censor yesterday, and is published below. It contains the names of Western Australian soldiers, together with those ...
Article : 460 wordsThe Governor-General made a flight in an aeroplane at Point Cook to-day. Captain Harrison, who is an expert pilot, took the responsibility of guiding his Excellency ...
Article : 72 wordsAn Italian naval despatch states:—"Italian and French seaplanes raided Tola on December 12. They bombed the Austrian fleet, drove off some enemy ...
Article : 44 wordsOn Monday morning the body of Ernest Melbourne Edols was found in a paddock at the rear of Messrs. McLean, Bros., and Rigg's premises, on the Boulder-road. ...
Article : 79 wordsThe Minister for Labour and Industry (Mr. Beeby) said to-day that his department had decided to take legal action in connection with the blacklisting of certain ...
Article : 105 wordsAn extraordinary exploit of 103 inhabitants of Liege has been reported. They escaped into Holland by getting possession of an old tug and drifting at night down ...
Article : 85 wordsThe "Neue Pester," of Budapest states:—"Capitalists in Germany and Austria, Hungary are negotiating a gigantic banking concern for the Central Powers. Over ...
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Advertising : 200 wordsItalian schoolmasters, who are unfit for military service, are being sent to teach in the Albanian schools which are reopening everywhere. ...
Article : 29 wordsM. Violette member of the Chamber of Deputies, in reporting to the Government on the necessity for Parliamentary control of factories, cites the position in February, ...
Article : 96 wordsThe population, excluding Maoris in the Samban, Cook and other Islands and the troops abroad, totals 1,099,295, of which 552,085 are males and 547.210 are females. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe "Cologne Volk Zeitung" declares:—"The [?] peace terms amount to a fresh declaration of war. We are again summon[?] to fight for freedom. Let us ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Tue 16 Jan 1917, Page 5
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