In the House of Commons last night Sir Edwin Cornwall (Liberal) sought to extract from the Government a statement of the position of the Allies in the Adriatic. ...
Article : 408 wordsThe newspapers publish Mr. Ross's account of the Christmas Day fighting at Mersniatrup (on the west Egyptian frontier), where the Sikhs and New Zealanders ...
Article : 73 wordsGeneral Haig in his report from Flanders yesterday stated:—"Our aviators made 14 aerial flights on Wednesday, and sent two of the enemy aeroplanes down within the ...
Article : 51 wordsA "willy willy" commenced in Roebourne about noon on Monday afternoon, and continued till late on Tuesday night. At Onslow things were considerably worse. At ...
Article : 917 wordsUnder the recruiting scheme for the new Australian territorial army, of which Western Australia's complement will consist of three battalions, the question of ...
Article : 75 wordsBefore leaving Australia the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) arranged for the despatch of the following telegram to the Amalgamated Miners' Association, ...
Article : 318 wordsThe secretary of the Trades Hall Council has informed the Acting Prime Minister (Senator Pearce) that at its meeting last night action was taken to expunge from ...
Article : 152 wordsThe military authorities yesterday received the following statement, which will be instructive to those who have relatives at the front:— ...
Article : 374 wordsRecently the Belgian who gave information to the Germans in Brussels that Nurse Cavill had succoured French and Belgiam soldiers, and thus caused her arrest and ...
Article : 91 wordsGeneral Maxwell has issued a proclamation declaring that railway tickets for the Suez Canal zene will he granted only to holders of special permits. ...
Article : 34 wordsTwenty-thousand Germans have replaced the Turks in Gallipoli. The Turks are joining an army destined for the invasion of Egypt. ...
Article : 25 wordsIn connection with the early closing of hotels at 9 o'clock and the arrangement, which, as stated in yesterday's issue, has been made for the majority of the ...
Article : 237 wordsThe Early of Derby's first call in the new recruiting campaign yesterday produced lively scenes at Whitehall and other recruiting centres. The men summoned ...
Article : 181 wordsNo further permits for the export of butter have been granted by the Minister for Customs (Mr. Tuder), and it is intended to review the whole situation before ...
Article : 181 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday Mr. Austen Chamberlain, Secretary of State for India, announced that he had received despatches from the Mescpotamia front. ...
Article : 88 wordsOne of the most vivid accounts so far given of the evacuation of Anzac is that contained in the diary of a New Zealand medical officer, published by the ...
Article : 719 wordsIn a report just to hand from the Administrator of Rabaul, dated January 2, 1916, in amplification of his wireless message of the same date in regard to the ...
Article : 323 wordsThe Victoria Cross has been awarded to Lieutenant-Commander Cookson, lately of the gunboat Comet. On September 28 during the advance on Kut-el-Amara he was ...
Article : 130 wordsRegulations have been gazetted providing that the Minister for Defence may requisition for use as a transport any British ship in any port in New Zealand whether ...
Article : 44 wordsThroughout yesterday operations proceeded as usual at the munition works The men returned to their lathes, in compliance with the notification from the ...
Article : 213 words"Fairplay," a leading shipping and commercial journal, states: "The general assumption is that the British shipowner, by running freights up, is increasing the cost of ...
Article : 285 wordsThe State Commandant (Colonel Ramaciotti) stated to-day that the gambling dispute which occurred among the soldiers confined on Milson Island, in the ...
Article : 99 wordsAnother attempt was made at the weekly meeting of the Sydney Labour Council by Mr. E. J. Price, representing the Tramsway Employees' Union, to get the council ...
Article : 157 wordsThe 6th Field Artillery Brigade held a successful meeting on Thursday evening last at the residence of Mrs. Jose, Ballaridge, Monger-street, West Leederville. Mrs. ...
Article : 709 wordsThe secretary of the Attorney-General's Department, Mr. Garvin, who was with Mr. Hughes, returned to Melbourne to-day and spent the afternoon in conference with the ...
Article : 403 wordsReferring to-day to the number of grievances recently put before him at Sydney by the employees of the Post and Telegraph Department, the ...
Article : 326 wordsAt the last meeting of the Kellerberrin Roard Board the question which over shadowed all others was the question of whether the present method of voluntary ...
Article : 701 wordsA Russian communique issued yesterday evening reports:—"North-west of Czernowitz to-day we captured a sector of the enemy's position, and repulsed five desperate ...
Article : 160 wordsThe King's Bench Division of the High Court yesterday refused an application of Habeas Corpus on behalf of an interned naturalised Britisher. ...
Article : 105 wordsA report of the proceedings of the Federal Parliamentary Committee, which met on Wednesday, was to-day made available by the Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce). ...
Article : 402 wordsLord Rosebery, speaking at Edinburgh yesterday, said: "We will be exhausted but victorious, although almost bleeding to death from such a debt of taxation as ...
Article : 47 wordsThe following Austrian communique was asued yesterday:—"The battle of Besnrabia is becoming increasingly violent. We repulsed a stubborn attack between ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Premier (Mr. J. Scaddan) is expected back from Augusta to-day. It is thought that he will take up his official duties on Monday next, but there is a ...
Article : 524 wordsAttention was called in the House of Commons yesterday to some newspapers making a feature of the exploits of the new German Fokker aeroplanes, and ...
Article : 147 wordsThe double tragedy that occurred at a house in Burlington-street, Ultimo, on January 13, when Edward James Hayes (43) beat his wife's head in with an axe and ...
Article : 154 wordsThe German Government, which published a series of inhumanty charges against the crew of the British auxiliary cruiser Baralong in respect to the destruction of ...
Article : 178 wordsThe Censor yesterday released the 135th casualty list of Western Australian members of the expeditionary forces, which is published below. Where not otherwise ...
Article : 592 wordsIn the House of Commons last night Mr. John Redmond asked Mr. Asquith whether, in view of the imputations on corps and divisional commanders at Suvla Bay ...
Article : 261 wordsDanish newspapers states that Sweden's action in prohibiting the export of wood pulp (for paper manufacture) is regarded in Sweden as a reprisal against Britain, ...
Article : 84 wordsA greater part of the city of Wellington has been waterless for two days. Though a volume of water estimated at seven million gallons daily is entering the mains from ...
Article : 105 wordsTo-day 110 men volunteered at Adelaide for active service, and 90 were accepted. ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Marquis of Lansdowne, replying in the House of Lords yesterday to a question on the Alien Traders' Bill, said that in a business not incorporated as a ...
Article : 83 wordsIt is officially announced that a British submarine has grounded on the coast of Holland. A British destroyer rescued a portion of the submarine's officers and ...
Article : 40 wordsA collision between a railway motor tricycle and a train resulted in the death of a timekeeper named J. P. Hennessy on the trans-Australian railway, near Kalgoorlie, ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Mayor (Mr. Frank Rea) was yesterday presented with a petition, signed by about 30 ratepayers, requesting him to call a public meeting to discuss the case ...
Article : 88 wordsThe captain of the Clan Macfarlane states that his vessel was torpedoed on the port side in the Mediterranean, and a second shot was fired at her when the crew ...
Article : 66 wordsGreat enthusiasm marked the auction sale of cricket relics at Scott's Hotel to-day, and the 40 lots sold realised £517. The total of the cricketers' tribute will reach ...
Article : 235 wordsA sensation has been created in Manchester by the discovery that members of the police force have been engaged in wholesale robberies from shops and ...
Article : 51 wordsIn a speech at Parramatta to-night the Premier (Mr. Holman) defended the Government's policy with regard to the liquor traffic, and announced that the ...
Article : 102 wordsThe provincial congress of the South African Party yesterday discussed the truculent attitude of the released rebels. The sympathisers with the Prime Minister ...
Article : 53 wordsThe announcement made to-day that the Arsenal Commission had recommended the site on the Murrumbidgee River about ten miles from the Federal capital city, and ...
Article : 92 wordsMr. Asquith announced in the House of Commons last night that on Wednesday he would give an opportunity for the discusson of the question of more rigidly ...
Article : 58 wordsThe "Times," in its financial and commercial review for 1915, states:—"With strict economy we need not have any doubt of our financial resources standing ...
Article : 42 wordsAt the Drill Hall in Francis-street yesterday 58 men came forward for inclusion in the ranks of the expeditionary forces. Twenty-seven failed to satisfy the medical ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Sat 22 Jan 1916, Page 7
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