The Honorary Minister (Mr. R. Underwood) addressed the members of the Leederville branch the Australian Labour Federation at the Oddfellows' Hall, ...
Article : 767 wordsWhen the interview with Mr. E. B. Johnston which appeared in yesterday's issue was brought before the notice of the Premier and he was asked to make a reply ...
Article : 491 wordsOne of the many persons busily engaged just now in making replies to utterances by the Premier (Mr. J. Scaddan) is the Rev. S. H. Cox, who yesterday remarked to ...
Article : 737 wordsFollowing on the brilliant aeroplane raid on Monastir, 16 French aeroplanes paid a second visit to the Bulgarian encampment at Ghevghelli, on the border north ...
Article : 219 wordsA communique issued at Constantinople claims that the Turks had the best of the recent fight in floods with Colonel Aylmer's column on the Tigris. It states: "The ...
Article : 135 wordsThe State Department, on learning that Berlin and Vienna have denied that a German or Austrian submarine sank the Persia, intends to ask Turkey if she is ...
Article : 50 wordsMr. W. J. Bryan (recently Secretary of State in President Woodrow Wilson's Cabinet) has arrived to join Henry Ford's peace committee in drafting peace proposals. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe London newspapers are giving prominence to Australia Day, and are publishing articles which recall Australia's growth, and her services to the Empire, ...
Article : 46 wordsA communique gives the following details of the recent German attack on the French lines at the mouth of the Yser:—"The Germans were unable to debouch from their ...
Article : 198 wordsTwo German destroyers by means of suffocating gas fumes enveloping the steamer Lambert, endeavoured to force the vessel out of Swedish territorial waters off ...
Article : 49 wordsThe censor yesterday released the 136th casualty list of Western Australian members of the expeditionary forces, which is published below. Where not otherwise ...
Article : 578 wordsThe Spelter Makers' Committee has written to Mr. Lloyd George, and to the Board of Trade, asking for an authoritative statement as to whether the Minister for ...
Article : 104 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) to-day issued a statement showing the number of recruits who have enlisted in the various districts during the past ...
Article : 193 wordsIt is announced that the British and North Atlantic Company's liner Norseman (10,750 tons) has been sunk by a German submarine. ...
Article : 28 wordsIn the House of Commons last night the Secretary for the Colonies (Mr. Bonar Law) was cheered on announcing that by the end of June New Zealand would have ...
Article : 43 wordsIn thanking the Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria for the bestowal of a field marshal's baton, King Ferdinand of Bulgaria telegraphed:—"I am well nigh ...
Article : 83 wordsThe following German communique was issued yesterday:—"Our artillery to-day strongly shelled enemy positions in Flanders. We shattered their trenches, causing ...
Article : 67 wordsThe attention of the Leader of the Opposition (Mr. Frank Wilson) was called to the Premier's comments in yesterday's issue. and in reply he said:—"The Premier ...
Article : 854 wordsA German wireless message gives the following report of the abortive aerial raids on Dover:—"One of our seaplanes last Saturday night bombed the railway station ...
Article : 62 wordsTo-day 94 men volunteered for active service, and 64 were accepted. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Press Bureau has issued a reply prepared by the War Trade Department to the allegations of the "Daily Mail" and the "Morning Post" that the British blockade ...
Article : 593 wordsThe German newspapers predict a Greck Cabinet crisis and the return of M. Goumaris to power with a pro-Entente policy. An Athens telegram reports the death ...
Article : 46 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday Mr. Bonar Law, in reply to a question, said that the Indian Government had taken statutory powers to work the German ...
Article : 52 wordsM. Wassili de Denisow, the Russian Trade Commissioner, has had an interview with the Minister for Customs (Mr. Tudor) on the subject of improving the trade ...
Article : 163 wordsA communique reported yesterday evening:—"The Russian positions on the Polish front are now only four versts distant from Pinsk. ...
Article : 64 wordsIn a statement to a "West Australian" reporter yesterday, the Premier (Mr. Scaddan) said it was interesting to note now that the "West Australian" stated that it ...
Article : 553 wordsThe Miners' Federation Congress sitting at Bristol yesterday, resolved not to do anything that would hamper the Government in its efforts to carry the war ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Honorary Minister (Mr. R. Underwood), in the course of an address to the members of the Leederville branch of the Australian Labour Federation last ...
Article : 458 wordsThe 2nd King Edward's Horse Regiment has earned official recognition for its excellent work in the trenches in France. Its commander, Major Norton Griffiths, M.P., ...
Article : 41 wordsIn the House of Lords last night the Marquis of Lansdowne moved the second reading of the Military Service Bill. The measure, he said, was based on expediency ...
Article : 656 wordsTwenty vessels, mostly grain laden, including the Mimero, have arrived at London since Decemger 28. They are awaiting berths. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Federal Executive Council to-day passed an order prohibiting the export of tallow from Australia without the consent of the Minister for Customs. ...
Article : 32 wordsMiss Lena Ashwell has appealed to Australasia for assistance to enable her to continue giving concerts in the hospitals at the front. She specially asks for funds ...
Article : 79 wordsThe Acting-Attorney-General (Mr. Mahon) announced to-day that, while the question of enemy shareholders in Australian companies was discussed by the Cabinet ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Minister for Defence desires to draw attention to the arrangements in operation for the disposal of kits of members of the A.I.F. who are deceased, missing, or ...
Article : 543 wordsThe Bow-street Police Court Bench yesterday continued the hearing of the case in which John Dallas, a clerk in the Aliens' Department of the Home Office, and ...
Article : 122 wordsA sub-committee, consisting of Senator Millen, Mr. Poynton, M.H.R., Mr. Watt, M.H.R., and Mr. J. C. Watson, the honorary organiser of the Federal ...
Article : 770 wordsThe "Daily Mail" claims that its Belkan correspondent has registered one of the most remarkable journalistic achievements of the war. He twice visited ...
Article : 232 wordsThe double income tax—British and Colonial—which Australians in England have to pay, was discussed at a meeting held in the Royal Colonial Institute ...
Article : 274 wordsA serious motor accident occurred near the Osborne railway station last night, as a result of which a lad, named George Salmon, aged 11 years, a son of Mr. Salmon, ...
Article : 233 wordsThe Hague newspaper "Het Vaderland" comments upon the tightening of the British blockade "in consequence of our lawful commerce with Germany." This, the ...
Article : 50 wordsBrooke Greville (43), a bank accountant, and Rupert Trelawney James (15) were drowned while bathing in the river at Hay yesterday afternoon in company with ...
Article : 82 wordsDuring the Budget debate in the Swedish Parliament yesterday, the leader of the Socialist Party referred to the Government's action in prohibiting the export of ...
Article : 65 wordsAmong the officers who will retire from the South Australian public service in June are the Railways Commissioner (Mr. A. B. Moncrieff), the Commissioner for ...
Article : 93 wordsFifteen cases labelled "hammers" have been seized on the Swedish steamer Varna bound from America to Copenhagen. They contained contraband—copper, brass, and ...
Article : 56 wordsFifty-eight volunteers came forward at the Drill Hall yesterday and 42 were accepted by the examiners as medically fit. The remaining 16 were rejected as unfit. ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Punjab Aeroplane Fund has reached £70,000, and of this amount £45,000 has been remitted to the Secretary of State for India for the purchase of the first 20 ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Thu 27 Jan 1916, Page 7
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