The following Russian communique was issued yesterday:—"There is intermittent artillery and rifle fire on the whole front from Riga to Polesie. Persistent ...
Article : 144 wordsThe following communique was issued yesterday:—"We made progress in the Adige Valley, north of the Serra Valley, to-day. Our batteries ignited ...
Article : 76 wordsThe German military authorities' obvious attempts to break the disastrous news gently have led to a rapid spread of pessimism. Many newspapers are openly ...
Article : 67 wordsThe calling up of youths of 17 and 18 years, professedly for training purposes, has caused panic in Germany. Parents are no longer willing, as they were in the delicious ...
Article : 74 wordsA Vienna official report issued yesterday stated:—"We repulsed a strong Italian attack at Monte Rusta to-day. Tne enemy lost 1,000 men" ...
Article : 29 wordsIn reply to questions in the House of Commons yesterday Mr Asquith said he did not think the time, was opportune for a discussion of the campaign in ...
Article : 101 wordsThe British Admiral in the Adriatic reports that an Austrian cruiser sank two patrolling British trawlers yesterday, and that two others were damaged. Ten men ...
Article : 48 wordsYesterday morning's communique stated: —"Last night, on the Somme was calm. We carried but several successful coup de mains on the enemy trenches in ...
Article : 168 wordsFlight-Lieutenant Douglas Gray, an Australian, is a missing member of the air squadron which attacked and destroyed a number of German balloons on July 2. ...
Article : 89 wordsMany British submarines have been seen in the northern part of Cattegat. Only small German steamers are able to reach Norway. ...
Article : 29 wordsMr. Edward Johnson, who has just returned to America from a prison camp in Germany, says:—"The conditions in Germany are terrible. Hundreds of ...
Article : 123 wordsThe Home Secretry (Mr. Herbert Samuel) announced in the House of Commons yesterday that the Committee appointed to deal with conscientious objectors ...
Article : 50 wordsMembers of the A.I.F., who have been discharged, and who desire to enlist for home service in the Australian military forces, are requested to forward ...
Article : 84 wordsIt is reported that General Pflanzer and Archduke Joseph Ferdinand have been relieved of their commands. The Austrian reverses in Bukowina have produced a ...
Article : 54 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph's" Rotterdam correspondent states, on information obtained from reliable sources, that the following warships are being repaired at the ...
Article : 119 wordsThe newspapers are paying magnificent tributes to the couage of the British in recapturing Contalmaison. They note that this is the 23rd village wrested from the ...
Article : 38 wordsAt the Freetrade Hall, Manchester last night, Lord Derby presided at an address on Empire trade, by Sir Geo. Foster, Canadian Minister for Commerce. ...
Article : 171 wordsRepresentatives of the Polish societies yesterday told President Wilson an appalling story of suffering in the portion of Poland in possession of Germany. In some ...
Article : 95 wordsGerman wounded soldiers say that the Germans have blown up the Peronne-Saint Quentin railway, and that every street in Peronne has been transformed into a small ...
Article : 55 wordsThat the cessation of operations at the local munitions works is in no way due to the fault of the War Munitions Supply Company was emphasised by Mr. George ...
Article : 616 wordsOver £1,000 (including £500 from Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan)l have been raised here for the British Wounded Soldiers' Fund. F. W. Tewkesbury is briiging from England ...
Article : 65 wordsThe following report was issued by General Haig yesterday evening:— "Since the commencement of the battle the enemy, largely reinforced, strongly ...
Article : 246 wordsThe grey line denotes the fronts from which the Russians began their offensive. The points of attack against Kovel are along the Kovel-Sarny and the Kovel-Rovno railways. On the former the Russian forces under General Losch are advancing. General Kaledino commands the attack along the latter. In the south ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 92 wordsConsiderable movements of German troops throughout Belgium are reported. All the Landsturmers have been sent to the front. Heavy artillery is being transported to the ...
Article : 32 wordsHis Excellency the Governor-General to-day received from the Secretary of State for the Colonies a copy of a telegram which was sent by President Poincare to his ...
Article : 254 wordsThe 4th reinforcements of the 51st Battalion, under the command of Lieutenants Millard and Smith, left Claremont yesterday, on a route march through Fremantle ...
Article : 118 wordsA Berlin communique issued yesterday stated:—"The fighting near Contalmaison, Mametz wood and Trones wood continues with bitter stubbornness. A big French ...
Article : 57 wordsThe following communique was issued in Berlin yesterday:—"The position on the Stokhod front is unchanged. We captured in two days 1,938 men and 12 ...
Article : 78 wordsDr. Max Osborn, of the Berlin "Vossiche Zeitung," in a special cable to the New York "Times," states: "The fierceness and bitterness of the fighting on the ...
Article : 108 wordsTwenty men entered camp at Blackboy Hill yesterday. ...
Article : 10 wordsA communique issued yesterday stated:— "We captured on Monday the hew Turkish fortified line westward of Erzerum. We have made considerable progress in this ...
Article : 38 wordsAt the last meeting of the State War Council a report was tabled by the finance committee on the question of launching the Soldiers' Repatriation Fund in Western ...
Article : 1,176 wordsA Turkish communique issued yesterday stated:—"We surprised an enemy cavalry detachment in the Felahaie sector. The enemy fled. leaving their horses. We ...
Article : 39 wordsFighting continues with unabated vigour on the Somme. A recrudescence of activity at Verdun shows that the Germans intend to maintain the same activity on the Meuse ...
Article : 188 wordsA gazette, issued yesterday, supplementing General Monro's despatch of April 10, mentions the following Anzac troops for distinguished and gallant services. The ...
Article : 422 wordsA Belgian report states:—"The Germans have been expelled from the provinces of Ruanda and Urundi, in Central Africa, and they have abandoned the province of ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Minister for Customs (Mr. Tudor) has received a cablegram to the efect that the steamer Adelaide, an enemy vessel which had been sheltering at Loanda, ...
Article : 55 wordsOf the 76 men who offered their services to-day 38 were accepted. ...
Article : 40 wordsThe German submarine Deutschland is expected to leave Baltimore shortly, as her uploading is almost complete. An American offered to pay £10,000 for a passage in her ...
Article : 93 wordsMrs. G. H. Birt, Tambellup, received cable from the War Office last Tuesday reporting that her son, Major C. W. H. Birt, had been wounded in last week's fighting ...
Article : 1,827 wordsWriting to the "Daily Chronicle," Mr. Philip Gibbs states:—"Prior to the capture of Contalmaison, the enemy's shellfire was more intense and widespread than it ...
Article : 758 wordsThe one hundred and eighty-fourth casualty list of Western Australian members of the A.I.F. was released by the Censor yesterday and is published below. ...
Article : 685 wordsAdmiral Holtzendorff's recall from the retired list to take an appointment as expert adviser to the German Admiralty is interpreted in Berlin as a rebuke to ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Conmonwealth High Commissioner (Mr. Andrew Fisher) issued yesterday the first number of the "Anzac Bulletin." The bulletin contains a selection of Australian ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Deutschland's feat has caused great jubilation in Germany. Her owners advance the extravagant claim that the British blockade is now ended, and that ...
Article : 138 wordsMr. H. W. Forster (Financial Secretary to the War Office) stated in the House of Commons yesterday that the percentage to be paid growers for their wool above ...
Article : 424 wordsBlinded soldiers, training at St. Dunstan's Hostel, competed in a regatta at Putney yesterday, and won every event for which they entered. Private E. C. ...
Article : 54 wordsMr. Asquith stated in the House of Commons yesterday that the Government was unable to find any practically uncontroversial solution of the registration ...
Article : 78 wordsIt is stated that a German-American company is being formed, with a capital of many millions of pounds, to build commerce submersibles, with a capacity of 5,000 ...
Article : 42 wordsIn connection with the submarine attack on Scaham, in Durham, on Tuesday night, it is reported that over a dozen shells passed over the town and dropped a mile ...
Article : 47 wordsThe bank rate is now 6 per cent. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Fri 14 Jul 1916, Page 7
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