The Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) stated to-day that he had received a message from the Secretary of State for the Colonies advising that the question ...
Article : 143 wordsIn his bulletin, issued yesterday afternoon, Sir Douglas Haig reported:—"We have made substantial progress in the vicinity of Fricourt, which our troops ...
Article : 2,019 wordsA strong and Venizelist propaganda is being carried out among the returning soldiers, many of whom find that the State has neglected its duty to their families ...
Article : 53 wordsI sat down to write an article about a log-chopping competition. But the irony of writing such things with other things on one's mind is too much, even for a war ...
Article : 1,598 wordsThe following communique was issued yesterday:—"Between the Aidge and The Brenta rivers we are continuing the offensive vigorously. Our infantry began an ...
Article : 164 wordsA revolt has broken out in Montenegro. Several Austrian garrisons have been massacred. ...
Article : 20 wordsA communique issued yesterday stated:— "General Letchitsky, after the seizure of Kolomea, is irresistibly smashing his way between the Pruth and the Dniester. He ...
Article : 196 wordsTwenty nurses who are being sent to France by the New South Wailes division of the British Red Cross Society will sail from Sydney- to-morrow. They will receivo the ...
Article : 60 wordsConsiderable enthusiasm marked the proceedings at a gathering of women in St. George's Lesser Hall, Hay-street, yesterday afternoon, when a women's war workers' ...
Article : 361 wordsA semi-official report issued yesterday morning stated:—"The Italian offensive has extended to the whole front. The Austrians, being powerless to arrest the ...
Article : 139 wordsToday's recruiting figures were:—Volunteered, 120; accepted, 69. ...
Article : 41 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph" states that there is panic in Berlin. Troop trains with all the available new artillery have been despatched to the West front. The Kaiser is ...
Article : 58 wordsThe one hundred and eighty-second casualty list of Western Australian members of the A.I.F. was released by the Censor last night and is published below. Where ...
Article : 808 wordsAll reports prove that the Germans are lying about the position at Thiaumont, as they did in regard to Douaumont. The French captured Thiaumont at 10 o'clock ...
Article : 97 wordsyesterday's Vienna communique stated: —"Fighting on the Doberzo Plateau. has decreased. We repulsed the Italian attacks." ...
Article : 22 wordsA communinque issued at Vienna yesterday stated:—"Enemy cavalry masses extending over a breadth of two miles attacked General von Bothmer. The enemy ...
Article : 115 wordsRECENT WESTERN OFFENSIVE. THEATRE OF BRITISH OPERATIONS. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 7 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle's" correspondent describes a typical raiding incident. A machine gun party crawled out, with the object of enfilading a trench while the ...
Article : 136 wordsTo-morrow night the first of a series of social evenings during the winter months will be held under the direction of the reception committee of the Soldiers' ...
Article : 659 wordsOn Sunday there was a violent artillery action on the Yser front, including heavy gunfire from a warship. It is believed that British monitors fired on the ...
Article : 49 wordsYesterday afternoon's Belgian communique stated:—"In the northern sector of the Belgian front violent bomb warfare developed towards Saturday evening." ...
Article : 25 wordsThe following German communique was issued yesterday:—"A great Anglo-French mass attack, for which they had been extensively preparing for many months, ...
Article : 301 wordsSpecial trains bearin the British wounded arrived at Charing Cross last evening, holding up other railway traffic. There was much cheering on their arrival. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe following communique was issued at noon yesterday:—"The struggle north of the Somme was fierce last night. The Germans violently attacked our new positions ...
Article : 390 wordsThe "Lokal Anzeiger" of Berlin states that it has learned that Italy will shortly denounce her commercial and other treaties with Germany. ...
Article : 32 wordsIn the "Berliner Tageblatt" Colonel Moraht writes:—"The general situation of all the belligerents is critical. Our antagonists, like the Germans, have reached the ...
Article : 132 wordsIt is reported in Denmark that a great German naval offensive in the Baltie is imminent, the shipyards feverishly repairing the Jutland battle damage. The Baltic ...
Article : 53 wordsMr. R. McKenna (British Chancellor of the Exchequer) arrived here yesterday for a financial conference with M. Bark and M. Ribot, Ministers of Finance of Russia and ...
Article : 37 wordsAccording to a Swiss correspondent, the stenographic report of the recent debate in the German Reichstag on the Naval Estimates contains the following hitherto ...
Article : 393 wordsA pamphlet is being circulated in Germany protesting against the Governments action in the case of Lieblnecht. It states:—"Let the, assassins condemn ...
Article : 62 wordsAt a memorial service for South Africans who have fallen at the front Archbishop Carter, addressing the greatest gathering ever known in Capetown. announced the ...
Article : 55 wordsIt is understood that the Secretary of State (Mr. Lansing) is in possession of facts showing that the German statements in connection with the torpedoing of the ...
Article : 82 wordsYesterday 105 volunteers went into camp at Blackboy Hill. This number is the highest daily record for some time past. ...
Article : 369 wordsThe engineers and allied tradesmen went on strike at Vickers's works at Barrow-on. Furness on Saturday, over the question of the dilution of skilled labour. The ...
Article : 55 words"If this were Berlin we should illuminate the city." Parisians say to each other, but the French, like their Allies, have learned to, be patient. All confidence is placed in ...
Article : 132 wordsThe Italian Press applaud the British success. The Unice Jack is hoisted on public and private buildings, and large crowds cheered before the British Embassy ...
Article : 32 wordsA communique issued yesterday stated:— "We captured, after a brilliant attack. the chain of mountains east of Plantana, in the Caucasus. We repulsed the Turks ...
Article : 42 wordsThe United States Navy Department has decided to adopt 16in. guns for the new Super Dreadnoughts California and Tennessee. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle" states that Lord Derby is likely to succeed Mr. H. J. Tennant as Under Secretary for War. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe Franco-British offensive has created a favourable impression in Switzrland. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Tue 4 Jul 1916, Page 7
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