The "Daily Telegraph's" Milan correspondent states: "After Serbia's defeat the Austrophile councillors of King Nicholas gained the upper hand and persuaded him ...
Article : 651 wordsThe following statement was made to a "West Australian" reporter on Saturday by one who is closely associated with the liquor trade regarding the position of the ...
Article : 1,494 wordsThere is practically no change as regards the strike of the members of the Amalgamated Miners' Association at Broken Hill. The strike committee has ...
Article : 135 wordsThe "Echo Belge" reports that the recent British bombardment of the Belgian coast did important damage to German military building, and caused numerous ...
Article : 52 wordsBy the kindness of the British War Office, I have been permitted to pay a short visit to the British front, in France and Flander, which I was particularly ...
Article : 1,112 wordsThe outstanding incident in yesterday's proceedings in the House of Commons was Mr. Asquith's highly important announcement that, despite the arrangement ...
Article : 136 wordsThe recruiting boom was well maintained at the Francis-street depot throughout last week, although the figures declined somewhat during the latter half. The total ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Press Bureau reports that a party of bluejackets were lately invited to visit the British front in France. While they were in the front line of trenches the enemy ...
Article : 88 wordsOn Thursday it was stated that anxiety was felt with regard to the attitude of the Port Pirie Trades and Labour Council towards the present industrial trouble. The ...
Article : 684 wordsThe President of the Board of Education, Mr. Arthur Henderson (Labour), in a letter to his constituents, defends his conversion to compulsion in military ...
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Article : 632 wordsGeneral Haig reported yesterday evening:—"The enemy exploded a mine near the Comines Canal to-day, and we occupied the crater" ...
Article : 26 wordsNumerous Cabinet conferences marked the stay of the Grand Duke Michaelovitch (Russian) at Tokio. Responsible newspapers state that a definite agreement by the ...
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Article : 18 wordsA communique issued yesterday evening reported:—"We repulsed the enemy's attempt to capture a hill north of Csartorysk. An enemy balloon in the region of ...
Article : 106 wordsThe Commonwealth authorities have accepted the offer of Mr. Newdegate, M.P. for Tamworth, to pay the cost of the burial of any Australian solidiers ...
Article : 81 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday Mr. Hewins, Chairman of the Business Committee of the Unionist Party, asked the Secretary for the Colonies if any action ...
Article : 97 wordsThe Athens correspondent of the "Tribuna" states:—"The Germane are concentrating 3,000 motors at Constantinople, intended, it is supposed, for Mesopotamia. ...
Article : 44 wordsA communique issued yesterday evening stated:—"The precipitate Turkish retreat in the Tortum region, in Asia Minor, continues. The Cossacks charged the enemy's ...
Article : 54 wordsSir George Reid was entertained at luncheon yesterday by a representative gathering of Australian merchants, bankers, and shippers. There were 160 guests, ...
Article : 390 wordsThe action of the Swedish Government in prohibiting the export of wood pulp for paper manufacture, has occasioned some excitement in newspaper offices. Many ...
Article : 135 wordsRiga reports that the enemy at Dvinsk are using shells exuding prussic acid gas, the fumes of which are active for five hours after issue, while splinters of shells ...
Article : 47 wordsAn Austrian Press Bureau communique issued yesterday stated:—"After a respite of three days the Russian offensive in Bessarabia was renewed to-day with ...
Article : 80 wordsVoting took place yesterday to fill the vacancy caused in the representation of Drummoyne in the Legislative Assembly by the death of Mr. G. A. Richards ...
Article : 110 wordsThe Mayor of Perth has been appointed a member of the recruiting committee of the State War Council, and Captain L. Jeffery has been appointed to co-operate ...
Article : 35 wordsThe subject of enemy shareholders is still engaging the attention of the Acting Attorney-General (Mr. Mahon), who on Saturday had a consultation with ...
Article : 197 wordsWhen spoken to yesterday afternoon M[?]F. E. Shaw, chairman of the board of inquiry which is sitting to inquire into the capabilities of the "Viewers" at the ...
Article : 468 wordsGermany's recent air successes with the Fokker machine continue to excite interest. The "Manchester Guardian" in a detailed and well-informed article by an aviation ...
Article : 450 wordsThe appeal of King Constantine, to the United States, made through the American Associated Press correspondent at Athens, against the infringement of Greece's ...
Article : 143 wordsMuch of the report of the Federal Arsenal Commission that recently visited India for the purpose of collecting information with regard to the establishment of a ...
Article : 301 wordsA French wireless communique commenting upon the New York Associated Press interview with King Constantine, declares that the Allies went to Salonika at ...
Article : 95 wordsOn Saturday 84 men were examined at Adelaide for active service, and 58 were accepted. During the week 671 men volunteered, and 477 were passed by the doctors ...
Article : 163 wordsThe Military Cross has been awarded to Second Lieutenant Edwin Bazeley, of the 22nd Australian Infantry. Near Anzae on October 29 be descended a mine tunnel and ...
Article : 220 wordsThe Press Bureau reports further successes by the Franco-British expedition in the German Cameroons. A British column from Jaunde advanced on Ebolowa. The ...
Article : 76 wordsTelegrams from Sofia report that King Ferdinand, of Bulgaria, in toasting the Kaiser at the banquet in Nish last Tuesday, concluded ast follows:—"Hail, ...
Article : 130 wordsAnother great fire has occurred in Norway. Molde, which the Kaiser usually visited on his summer yachting cruises has been destroyed and 1,000 of its inhabitants ...
Article : 57 wordsColonel House, President Wilson's envoy to Europe, states that his mission is concerned with submarine warfare and the marine blockade, and not with mediation. ...
Article : 44 wordsOu Friday afternoon about 50 members of the Colonial Secretary's Department met in the Medical Buildings to bid farewell to Messrs. C. J. McKenzie, salaries clerk, ...
Article : 451 wordsDecisive action was taken during last week by the board of directors of the Carlton and United Breweries Proprietary, Ltd., against enemy aliens employed ...
Article : 242 wordsJohn Miller Stawart, a dairy farmer, aged 72, was yesterday gored by a bull at Kedron, and was fatally injured. Stewart's wife, who went to his rescue. ...
Article : 114 wordsTelegrams from Mukden report that two divisions of Chinese troops in Manchuria have been ordered to the southern province of Yun-nan. to suppress the republican ...
Article : 61 wordsDuring the evacuation of Gallipoli the Italian cruiser Piedmonte rendered valuable service in policing the Bulgarian literal and keeping Austro-German ...
Article : 81 wordsA private circular embodying the basis of a discussion of peace terms has been distributed semi-officially to German editors and has been published here. It proposes ...
Article : 70 wordsSofia advices state that Mr. Herth, the British Vice-Consul, was arrested, despite the protest of the American Charge d'Affaires, in whose room the Vice-Consul ...
Article : 78 wordsThe War Office reports that at one o'clock yesterday morning a German aeroplane appeared over the east coast of Kent and dropped nine bombs, which caused some ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 24 Jan 1916, Page 7
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