The Mails.—For Sharks Bay and Dirk Hartog a mail will be made up at the G.P.O. this afternoon at 2.30 o'clock, to be forwarded by the s.s. Una. To-morrow, ...
Article : 3,891 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday evening the Prime Minister announced that the troops at Anzac and Suvla Bay, on the Gallipoli Peninsula, had been withdrawn ...
Article : 1,310 wordsOwing to the high cost of railway material, and the point that, even at its present abnormal figure, it is almost impossible to obtain the material, the ...
Article : 466 wordsThe Bucharest correspondent of the "Frankfurther Zeitung" fully confirms the report that the Russians are moving large bodies of troops from Reni, in Bessarabia. ...
Article : 73 wordsIn the House of Lords yesterday Viscount Milner said the reasons for not publishing the Danish agreement were not convincing and they revived the doubts as to whether ...
Article : 171 wordsA meeting of the "Queen Carnival" committee was held yesterday, mainly for the purpose of receiving practical advice on the organising of such functions, from ...
Article : 606 wordsNot a shot has been fired by either side since the Allies entered Greek territory. The Bulgarians at Monastir yesterday weised a quantity of flour belonging to the ...
Article : 75 wordsThe first statutory general meeting of the shareholders in the War Munitions Supply Company was held at the Town Hall last evening. The attendance was ...
Article : 2,960 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday Mr. Asquith stated that owing to the difficulty of classifying the recruiting results the Cabinet was without Lord Derby's figures. ...
Article : 59 wordsThe British casualties up to the 11th nst. in the Balkans totalled 32 officers and 1,246 men. The total included 85 men killed. ...
Article : 28 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday, during the debate on the Bill for extending the life of the present Parliament by a year, the Prime Minister said that in ...
Article : 67 wordsThe Parliamentary elections appear to be a walkover for the Government, as the followers of the ex-Premier (M. Venizelos) are abstaining from voting. ...
Article : 28 wordsLast night Mr. Lloyd George moved the adjournment of the House of Commons in order to make a statement on munitions. He said it was six months since Mr. ...
Article : 982 wordsAt a meeting of the Australasian Chamber of Commerce yesterday, Sir George Reid, who presided said:—"When peace comes, our treatment of German commerce ...
Article : 259 wordsThe High Commissioner Designate (Mr. Fisher) was entertained at dinner at the Federal Parliament House to-night by the Commonwealth Ministry. There was a large ...
Article : 230 wordsAt a meeting of the general committee of the Western Australian Spinning Association, held on Monday, an executive was appointed consisting of Lady Barron, ...
Article : 214 wordsIt is understood that a summary of the report of the committee of inquiry into the 1st Australian General Hospital has been cabled to Australia. The full text of ...
Article : 103 wordsThe Deputy President of the Federal Arbitration Court (Mr. Justice Powers) held a compulsory conference to-day with respect to the dispute in connection with the ...
Article : 124 wordsMr. Macnamara, Financial Secretary to the Admiralty, referred in the House of Commons last night to widespread rumours that the German submarine which sank the ...
Article : 54 wordsMr. Harold Temlant, Parliamentary Under-Secretary for War, said in the House of Commons yesterday that General Sir Jan Hamilton's report on the Suvla Bay ...
Article : 59 wordsThe following letter was written by the Rev. Herbert Burridge, a New Zealand military chaplain, and formerly of the Presbyterian Church in West Perth, to his ...
Article : 2,518 wordsThe military authorities have received advice that a hospital ship which left Suez for Australia on December 4 with wounded soldiers on board would probably reach ...
Article : 243 wordsDuring a luncheon held to-day, in connection with the official opening, of the Commonwealth Woollen Mills, at North Geolong, the Minister for Defence ...
Article : 200 wordsA fatal shooting accident occurred at Boorabbin, 63 miles east of Southern Cross, on Sunday afternoon last. Mr. Fred. Beard, assistant stationmaster at ...
Article : 139 wordsThe railway line at Picton was cleared for traffic speedily to-day and the Perth train went through on time. A 25-ton crane came through from Midland Junction ...
Article : 105 wordsHenry Ford, with his shipload of peace missioners, has ingratisted himself with the pro-Germans by making a most bitter attack on American munition factories, ...
Article : 70 wordsGeneral Sir Douglas Haig's despatch from the Flanders front yesterday reported:—"Heavy artillery work took place on both sides of Ypres and Saint Jean to-day. We ...
Article : 138 wordsFrederick Mstsler a pro-German suspect, arrested for plots against the Allies, has confessed that Koenig, a director of the Hamburg-American Shipping Company, ...
Article : 89 wordsThe names of the successful Western Australian candidates for entry into the Royal Australian Naval College are Jack Donovan, South Fremantle, and Ernest H. ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Minister for Agriculture (Mr. W. D. Johnson) yesterday received advice from the Australian Wheat Board, stating that the wheat mar[?] was firm, and that prices ...
Article : 38 wordsYesterday recruiting work was brisker at the Drill Hall, Francis-street. Forty-eight volunteers came forward. Of these 38 passed the doctors and were accepted. ...
Article : 39 wordsSir,—The Sisters of the Good Shepherd, Ruby-street, Leederville, feed, clothe, and shelter about 150 woman and girls. The Rev. Mother will accept and acknowledge ...
Article : 100 wordsGeneral Russky has been relieved of the command of the chief northern front, owing to ill-health. He will, however, retain his membership of the Council of the ...
Article : 40 wordsViscount French arrived here yesterday, and was specially received at the Elysee by President Poincare, who thanked him for his services to the Allies. General ...
Article : 40 wordsThe War Council of Western Australia met yesterday morning. There were present the Premier (Mr. Scaddan) in the Chair, Mr. Frank Wilson (Leader of the ...
Article : 335 wordsMajor-General Townshend estimates that in the rearguard action to the north-west of the Persian Gulf on December 1, and in the abortive attack upon Kut-el-Amara ...
Article : 43 wordsAt Berlin a droll communique has been issued, detailing alleged fruitless efforts by the German navy to find the British fleet in the North Sea. The German Admiralty ...
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Advertising : 242 wordsThe Parliamentary correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph," referring to the neglect to supply machine guns, asks: "Why was not realised at the War Office until ...
Article : 53 wordsDe Wet and 118 others convicted of high treason in connection with the South African rebullion have been released from prison, on condition that they do not leave ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Wed 22 Dec 1915, Page 7
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