President Wilson yesterday delivered an important speech, making a strong plea for the military preparedness of the United States. He emphasised how he ...
Article : 362 words"II Secolo" publishes an interview with Mr. Lloyd George in which he states—"I am satisfied with what we are doing. We have 2,500 factories employing 1,500,000 men ...
Article : 220 wordsA Zeppelin flew over Paris last night and dropped 13 bombs, with the result that nine houses were wrecked and seven persons were killed, while 22 more were ...
Article : 267 wordsAn agitation is increasing protesting against the closing of the museums and pictures galleries, particularly the British Museum. The newspapers point out that ...
Article : 93 wordsThe Commonwealth Treasurer (Mr. Higgs) stated on Saturday that he was very pleased to receive a telegram from Mr. A. W. Meeks, M.L.C., chairman of directors of the ...
Article : 126 wordsNew Zealand's High Commissioner, Sir Thomas Mackenzie, explaining his statement at the New Zealand reception on Wednesday that he and Sir Thomas Robinson had ...
Article : 207 wordsAccording to a statement made by the Minister for Customs (Mr. Tudor) on Saturday, Australia is not going to follow the lead of Great Britain, and prohibit the ...
Article : 214 wordsRear-Admiral Sir David Beatty, in a letter to the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge, says: "Surely God does not intend this war to be a ...
Article : 129 wordsThe statement by the High Commissioner for New Zealand in London, Sir Thos. Mackenzie, which was published in the Press on Friday, was referred to at a deputation ...
Article : 769 wordsA German communique issued yesterday evening stated:—"North-west of Napoli Farm, which is north-east of Neuville, we stormed the enemy trenches to-day over a ...
Article : 64 wordsOn Saturday the medical officers at the Drill Hall were kept busy examining the recruits for the expenditionary forces. There were 63 men who submitted themselves for ...
Article : 131 wordsThe "Weekly Dispatch" declares that the taxation of theatres, music halls, and cinematograph palaces will be provided for in the next Budget. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe following communique with respect to Russian operations on the Armenian frontier was issued on Friday evening:—"We defeated large Turkish forces south ...
Article : 110 wordsThe German have established a new base for aeroplanes at Zeebrugge, close to the Dutch frontier of Belgium. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe Press Bureau has issued the British reply to Germany's communication through Mr. Gerard, American Ambassador at Berlin, complaining of alleged cruelty by ...
Article : 113 wordsThe recruits in groups from 10 to 13 (inclusive) have been ordered to report themselves on February 29. ...
Article : 26 wordsAt a meeting of the Press Rifle Club, held on Saturday evening, it was pointed out that while the riflemen were anxious to assist in home defence, their services ...
Article : 226 wordsLieutenant-General Lake has joined Colonel Aylmer at Wadi. The weather is bad, and the whole country is covered with deep mud, so that the movements of troops are ...
Article : 43 wordsIt is officially announced that 142 tons of meat found aboard the s.s. Stockholm were originally entered on the ship's manifest, but the entry was struck out and was not ...
Article : 63 wordsAmongst those who submitted themselves for examination by the medical officers on Saturday morning for enrolment in the expeditionary forces was Mr. B. J. Stubbs. ...
Article : 150 wordsMr. Asquith has issued a written answer to a question in the House of Commons as to the British casualties. Up to January 9, 5,318 officers and 82,130 men had been ...
Article : 105 wordsThe "Manchester Guardian" declares:—"New Zealand's distinct individuality, which has been shown notably in the handing of the labour and liquor questions, is making ...
Article : 83 wordsDespatches from Egypt state that the Senussi tribes suffered such heavy losses in the action of Sunday last, when Colonel Wallace's column captured and burned ...
Article : 111 wordsA fire has been raging for several days at Vilna. All the buildings in the wooden quarter of the town have been burned. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe United States Government has practically notified all the European Governments that merchantmen in future must not carry any armament. If guns are ...
Article : 241 wordsThe Austrians claim to have captured a number of advanced Russian trenches at Toporoutz. ...
Article : 20 wordsAt a conference held to-day between the Chamber of Mines and the representatives of the various unions connected with the mining industry, the matter of enemy ...
Article : 83 wordsThe "Berlin Post" deplores the financial situation, and the German Government's policy of concealment, and declares:—"It is a great mistake if the people are not ...
Article : 75 wordsWith a view of demonstrating what the military service rifle is capable of doing in the hands of an expert rifleman, Sergeant-Major Hart, one of the instructors at the ...
Article : 93 wordsThe National Labour Conference at Bristol on Friday discussed the position of Labour members of the Coalition Government. By 1,674,000 votes to 269,000 votes ...
Article : 226 wordsThe "Berliner Tageblatt's" Sofia correspondent states:—"Four-fifths of the Roumanians fit for service are under arms. The Majority of them have been stationed ...
Article : 106 wordsMr. Andrew Fisher, High Commissioner for Australia, when interviewed at Paris on Friday evening, said the war had not materially interfered with Australia ...
Article : 661 wordsFew of the thousands of passengers passing through Yarloop on the Busselton express have any conception of the fact that in the apparent jumble of buildings ...
Article : 872 wordsThe Federal Executive Council yesterday approved of the regulations under the War Precautions Act relating to the exclusion of persons of enemy origin and ...
Article : 1,106 wordsThe Berlin "Neueste Nachrichten" says:"The Australians are obviously endeavouring to outdo the gentlemen of London in stealing and plundering private property. ...
Article : 65 wordsThe following communique was issued yesterday:—"Westward of Hill 140 to-day we continued to reoccupy the elements of the captured trenches. We liberated 50 ...
Article : 166 wordsFrench aeroplanes made a magnificent raid upon the German-Bulgarian camp at Pazarli,, north-west of Lake Doiran, to-day, and caused a panic among the troops, ...
Article : 46 wordsTwo Spanish vessels have been sunk by mines morred far outside territorial waters in the Bay of Biscay, probably by German submarines. ...
Article : 28 wordsMr. Runciman, President of the Board of Trade, presided over 16 important trade conferences held during the week for deciding the details of the expected ...
Article : 172 wordsA German submarine yesterday captured the Danish steamer Vidar, bound for England with a cargo of provisions, and conveyed her to Sivinemunde. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Athens correspondent of the "Observer" states:—"The Allies have hinted to Greece that it will be to her interest to demobilise in view of the approaching ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Censor on Saturday released the 137th casualty list of Western Australian members of the expeditionary forces which is published below. Where not otherwise ...
Article : 761 wordsThe "Tribuna" states that Baron Mayor, formerly Ambassador at Constantinople, is going to London to discuss grave and urgent economic questions which ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Allies' marines yesterday occupied the Greek fort on the Kara Burnu peninsula. The Greek commander evacuated the fort, after entering a protest against the ...
Article : 38 wordsSir Abe Bailey has announced his intention of raising, equipping, and transporting 100 South African sharpshooters for Europe. ...
Article : 25 wordsGeneral Haig reported yesterday evening:—"After a heavy bombardment the enemy entered some saps near Cernoy last night, but were driven out early this morning. ...
Article : 111 wordsM. Lisoff, the Bulgarian Minister in Berlin, in an interview, given to the "Cologne Gazette" yesterday, said:—"The Kaiser has won Bulgaria's heart. He presented ...
Article : 88 wordsThere were further anti-German riots at the German Consulate at Lansanne yesterday, and in consequence the military had to occupy the town. ...
Article : 30 wordsSir Edward Holden, M.P., chairman of the City and Midland Bank, has issued a remarkable analysis of the financial situation. "London," he states, "is still the ...
Article : 209 wordsA return, issued by the secretary of the Postmaster-General's Department (Mr. J. Oxenham) shows that, exclusive of the redio telegraphic branch, 1,692 officers of ...
Article : 83 wordsThe Kaiser has abandoned his proposed journey from Nish to Constantinople, owing to the discovery of a plot against his life. ...
Article : 27 wordsA Commission, consisting of Mr. Lloyd George, Mr. Bonar Law, Generals William Robertson and Ducane, Mr. A. H. Lee, M.P., and Mr. J. MacPherson, M.P., has ...
Article : 97 wordsAn Austrian communique states:—"In[?]sive of what we took at Lovchen, our [?]y in Montenegro included 314 big guns, 50,000 rifles, and 50 machine guns." ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Glasgow Chamber of Commerce has urged the Goverment to establish a Department of Commerce and Industry, in charge of a Minister with Cabinet rank, ...
Article : 69 wordsThe "Matin" states:—"The Italians in Albania have definitely junctioned with Essad Pasha. They are fortifying Valona and elsewhere, in order to bar the enemy's ...
Article : 33 wordsOn Saturday 62 men were examined for the expenditionary forces, and 42 were accepted. For the week there were 555 volunteers, and 386 were declared fit. The total ...
Article : 123 wordsCrowds, watching British and French prisoners passing through Liege yesterday, hooted the German guards and cheered for the British and French. The Germans, ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle," commenting on Mr. Fisher's personal appearance, says:—"He is, although greyer than when he visited ...
Article : 83 wordsA Turkish communique, issued yesterday, stated:—"Our aeroplanes bombed a monitor in Kephalos Bay to-day and set fire to her aft bridge. The aviators pursued the vessel ...
Article : 61 wordsCount Tissa, the Hungarian Premier, in an article in a Budapest newspaper states:—"England, by remaining mistress of the sea, has stopped the Central Powers' ...
Article : 72 wordsTelegrams from Germany report a nocturnal air raid on Freiburg, in Baden The raid is regarded as a reprisal for the aeroplane attack on Dover, and is the first ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 31 Jan 1916, Page 7
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