A public meeting, convened by the Mayor of Perth M(r. F. Rea) in response to a petition, was held at the Town Hall last evening to consider the case of Private ...
Article : 3,959 wordsParliament was yesterday prorogued till February 15. The King in his prorogation speech said:—For 18 months my Army and Navy ...
Article : 534 wordsOn being interviewed yesterday by a representative of the "West Australian," the Premier (Mr. Scaddan) has some comments to make upon the statements by Mr. F. ...
Article : 1,124 wordsA Lettish girl, 17 years of age, has been awarded the Saint George's Cross. Recently 20 Germans marched up to her father's farm in Courland and a lieutenant ...
Article : 227 wordsThe "Morning Post" sums up the situation in Mesopotamia as follows:—"After the fighting on the 8th inst. the Turks retreated eight miles to a position midway ...
Article : 267 wordsWith reference to paragraph 66 of Orders for Australian Imperial Force, information has been received by the military authorities at headquarters that all ...
Article : 523 wordsM. Magrini, a prominent war correspondent, states:—"The defences of Salonika are extraordinarily strong. The Bulgarian army is prevaded with malcontents, who ...
Article : 65 wordsAt to-day's sitting of the annual convention of the Australian Workers' Union the standing orders were suspended to permit of the subject of conscription being ...
Article : 129 wordsSir, Ian Hamilton's despatches in connection with the Dardanelles campaign mention the following Australians:— General Birdwood, Major-General ...
Article : 796 wordsSerious trouble has arisen between the Germans and the Bulgarians. General von Mackensen interviewed King Ferdinand at Sofia yesterday and requested his urgent ...
Article : 68 wordsTo-day 88 men volunteered at Adelaide for active service and 65 were accepted. ...
Article : 19 wordsAn Austrian communique claims that a plenipotentiary of Montenegro signed a capitulation treaty on Tuesday. ...
Article : 21 wordsArrangements have been made by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia with all the trading banks and savings banks throughout the Commonwealth, that ...
Article : 168 wordsThe stacks of wheat which are accumulating on the ramps at the North Wharf, Fremantle, were exposed to the rain yesterday morning, but it is not anticipated ...
Article : 802 wordsThe Sofia correspondent of the Vienna. "Neue Freie Presse" reports that at the Nish banquet to the Kaiser, King Ferdinand of Bulgaria boasted of the diplomacy ...
Article : 46 wordsIn the recent naval fight in the Black Sea the Turko-German battle-cruiser Goeben had 33 men killed and 80 men wounded. ...
Article : 27 wordsAt the Town Hall, Midland Junction, on Thursday evening a delegation from the central committee attended a fairly large meeting presided over by the Mayor (Mr. ...
Article : 530 wordsThe "Outlook" has secured an interview with Herr Liebknecht, the well-known Socialist member of the German Reichstag. Liebknecht was very despondent. He ...
Article : 166 wordsIn the House of Commons last night Sir Richard Essex referred to the prohibition of paper pulp importation. He hoped it would not operate adversely on newspapers ...
Article : 87 wordsFifty-seven volunteers were examined at the Drill Hall in Francis-street yesterday for inclusion in the Expeditionary Forces. Of this number 35 were accepted and the ...
Article : 32 wordsYesterday the Labour, Conference at Bristol, by 1,796,000 votes to 219,000 votes, adopted the resolution of the Leicester Labour Party (represented by Mr. Ramsay ...
Article : 354 wordsOn Thursday afternoon at Blackboy camp about 150 soldiers, who will be leaving shortly for the front, were entertained at dinner by the Comforts (Departing ...
Article : 374 wordsNews has been received from Vienna that the Austro-Hungarian Emperor, Franz Joseph, who is in his 85th year, has had two paralytic strokes and is in a critical ...
Article : 55 wordsIn November last the British ship Tara was sunk by a submarine in the Mediterranean, and her crew, taking to the boats, reached the Libyan coast, where they fell ...
Article : 97 wordsMr. Teesdale Smith, whose name is identified with large railway and general contracts, is at present visiting the State in which some years ago he was resident. ...
Article : 298 wordsAt the German Consulate, at Lausanne, on the Kaiser's birthday, a crowd pulled the flag down, despite the intervention of the police, and also damaged the Imperial ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Secretary of State for the Colonies. Mr. Bonar Law, in reply to a question in the House of Commons last night said he did not think that an Imperial Conference ...
Article : 239 wordsThe Carters and Drivers' Federation assert that as the conference with the employers, only four of whom representing Melbourne firms attended, proved to be ...
Article : 200 wordsAt a meeting of the Perth Roads Board held last evening, consideration was given to the recruiting scheme propounded by the Federal Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes). ...
Article : 295 wordsRecently the military governor of Brussels fined the municipality 500,000 francs (£20,000), because Cels, the Belgian, who was succoured by Nurse Cavell, and who ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Federated Miners' Association is seeking to induce the Amalgamated Surface Workers' Union to amalgamate with the Federated Mining Employees' Association of ...
Article : 104 wordsM. Barthou, speaking here yesterday, said: "The Kaiser invokes God, of whom he proclaims himself the apostle. Atilla called himself the Scourge of God. History ...
Article : 40 wordsThe coal workers of Brisbane are still out. The compulsory conference to-day was abortive, and was adjourned until to-morrow. In the meantime the sailings ...
Article : 60 wordsA German communique, issued yesterday, respecting operations in Franco and Flanders, stated:—"The enemy is bombarding our positions. Their monitors are ...
Article : 54 wordsIn reply to a question in the House of Commons yesterday as to whether it was true that the Government had purchased £2,000,000 worth of Roumanian wheat, ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Sat 29 Jan 1916, Page 7
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