A communique issued on Friday evening stated:—"Fighting is in progress on the Oginski Canal, where the enemy attempts to cross the canal failed. There is ...
Article : 432 wordsThe following communique was issued last evening:—"There was a relatively quiet day west of the Meuse, except for a continuous enemy bombardment of Hill 304. ...
Article : 406 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle's" Salonika correspondent advises that the Bulgarians are reported to be advancing from two points towards the important fort of Feaptra, ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Marine Underwriters' Association announces that the following war rates were declared in force on June 24:—Outwards: United Kingdom and France ...
Article : 42 wordsThe annual festival in connection with the Girls' Friendly Society was held on Saturday last. The society, which is a branch of an old-established Church of ...
Article : 2,587 wordsEight men entered camp at Blackboy Hill on Saturday. ...
Article : 10 wordsBetween three and four hundred men were in attendance at the tea for "lonely soldiers" at the Y.M.C.A. rooms yesterday afternoon. Lady Barron was amongst ...
Article : 320 wordsThe steamer Brussels belonging to the Great Western Railway Company left.Rotterdam for England on Thursday laden with foodstuffs and passengers, the latter being ...
Article : 51 wordsThe following Italian communique was issued yesterday:—"We extended our occupation in the Pasbio sector to Piezza Valley, and to the heads of the ravines of ...
Article : 94 wordsThe special correspondent of the "Beriner Tageblatt," at the Western Head-quarters, anxious to get the views entertained of Immelmann by two young English ...
Article : 440 wordsThe steamer Mercury, carrying 800 passengers, was mined near Odessa on Friday. The vessel sank in five minutes, and 400 lives were lost. ...
Article : 33 wordsAn Austrian submarine ineffectually chased the Norwegian steamer Rauma for 11 hours in the Mediterranean recently. Then a German submarine suddenly ...
Article : 42 wordsThe cargo of train oil on board the German steamer Ems, which was sunk in the Baltic by a British submarine last week, is being salved. A sensation was made by ...
Article : 64 wordsThe following Austrian communique was issued yeterday:—"We repulsed the Italians south-east of Orzil. The enemy attacks on the Dolomite front failed. Our ...
Article : 65 wordsMrs. J. H. Peck has received intimation that her husband has been promoted from the rank of major to brevet lieutenant-colonel in the A.I.F. It would, ...
Article : 319 wordsSir Douglas Haig reported yesterday:—"There were 22 air combats, mostly indecisive to-day. Two British aeroplanes were brought down. Our artillery directly hit ...
Article : 96 wordsThe question having been raised as to the liability of employers, under the war loan extended instalment subscription application, the Federal Treasurer (Mr. ...
Article : 148 wordsA Vienna communique issued yesterday stated that Austrian torpedo boats bombarded the Italian cost near Guihonova. on Friday partially destroying a train. ...
Article : 28 wordsGermanophile newspapers vehemently declare that the enforced elections are intended to secure a Venizelist majority and to plunge the nation into war. The ...
Article : 91 wordsA semi-official message from Paris states: —"Verdun is still the German General Staff's great gamble. Friday's attack was followed by Saturday's council of war, at ...
Article : 94 wordsSo much has been written of the French 75's that it may seem Superfluous (says Stanley Washburn, in the "Daily Mail," London) even to mention them, but I ...
Article : 769 wordsBy the occupation of Gurahumora, General Letchitsky has jammed portion of General Fflanzer's right, wing against the Roumanian frontier. The Austrian left ...
Article : 62 wordsTroop trains totalling 100 passed through Aix-la-Chapelle on Thursday going east. The Liege garrison has been ordered to follow. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe "Berliner Tageblatt" states that it is anticipated that the Venizelists will secure a majority at the Greek elections. The journal adds: "If the Venizelos ...
Article : 59 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph's" Petrograd correspondent gives details of the capture of Syidniki. He states: "The Russians opened a bombardment on the Stokhod line early ...
Article : 313 wordsThe Kaiser with large suite visited Liege recently. He carefully inspected the Ponisse Fort, which Dr. Leman's defence has made famous. The population of ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Federal Cabinet having asked for the preparation of all the data necessary to enable it to decide as to whether or not all males between the ages of 18 ...
Article : 262 words"Where is the real strain which must be faced if we have to prepare ourselves, as we must prepare ourselves, for another eighteen months of war?" asks Mr. A. G. ...
Article : 1,092 wordsThe Bucharest correspondent of the "Idea Mazionale" states that Russia has offered to give Czernowitz to Roumania if she intervenes on the side of the Allies. ...
Article : 34 wordsYesterday's Berlin communique stated.— "Our assault on Thiaumont fortifications was headed by the 10th Bavarian Infantry, and a regiment of the Bavarian Infantry ...
Article : 152 wordsMr. Pemberton Billing, M.P., giving evidence at the air inquiry on Friday, alleged that naval airmen who assisted an officer of the Royal Flying Corps who had fallen ...
Article : 118 wordsOn Friday afternoon the Premier (Mr Scaddan) and the Colonial Secretary (Mr. Drew), accompanied by Mesdames Scaddan, Drew, Connell, and Allen, paid a visit of ...
Article : 364 wordsIt is semi-officially stated that it is persistently rumoured in neutral countries that both Generals von Falkenhayn and Conrad have been removed from their ...
Article : 57 wordsThe following military awards have been conferred since the beginning of the war:— Victoria Crosses. 86. Military Crosses, 130. ...
Article : 112 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) has recently received the following report from the Australian military authorities in Egypt regarding the ...
Article : 304 wordsCorrespondents at the front have agreed that the artillery proved a decisive factor in the Russian victories. and that it was successfully followed up by cavalry. The ...
Article : 173 wordsThe trial of the socialist leader, Liebknecht, for attempted war treason, has been fixed for Wednesday next. The offence may involve sentence of 15 years' ...
Article : 32 wordsThe "Lokalanzeiger" states that Immelman the champion German eviator, was killed during an encounter with three Anglo-French aeroplanes and two Fokkers. ...
Article : 35 wordsMr. L. V. Harcourt (First Commissioner of Works), replying yesterday to a trade union deputation, regarding State control of food prices and control of wages, said ...
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Advertising : 194 wordsAmsterdam reports that the "Frankfurter Zeitung," commenting upon the Allies' Economic Conference, states:—"When the new regulation of the world's economy is ...
Article : 123 wordsFriday evening's Berlin communique stated:—"General von Linsingen's attacks rest and south-west of Lutsk are progressing, despite repeated Russian ...
Article : 136 wordsBismarck and the Kaiser.—German reviewers give high praise to the new work of Veit Valentin, "Bismarck and His Age" (remarks a London contemporary). The ...
Article : 179 wordsYesterday's recruiting figures were:—Vohunteered, 54; accepted, 38. The total enlistments for the week were 359. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe King yesterday inspected a number of motor ambulances which had been presented to France by members of Lloyd's. The ambulances are for ...
Article : 34 wordsAdvice from Vienna state that the War Council in Constantinople has passed sentence of death with obloquy on Essad Pasha for siding the chem in Albania. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 26 Jun 1916, Page 7
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