To-day 149 men volunteered at Adelaide for active service and 116 were accepted. ...
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Article : 856 wordsAt last night's meeting of the Chamber of Commerce the following circular from the State War Council, dealing with the employment of returned soldiers and sailors, ...
Article : 546 wordsThe subscription list for the Commonwealth war loan of £10,000,000 closed to-day, and there is authority for stating that the response of the public has been so ...
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Article : 90 wordsA great meeting was held in the Guild Hall last night to discuss trade and employment after the war. The Agents-General attended. ...
Article : 141 wordsThe Minister for Defence announced to-day that it has been decided to establish a directorate of munitions in connection with the Department of Defence. The ...
Article : 267 wordsThe Turkish troops in the Erzeroum region are restricted to a narrow space, as they are unable to pass the forts. Owing to Russian successes, the Turkish forces at ...
Article : 51 wordsWe understand that recruits are wanted for a field ambulance in connection with the formation of an infantry brigade in Western Australia, where the complete ...
Article : 147 wordsThe total value of the exports from the United States for the eleven months ended November 30 last amounted to £430,000,000, and of this amount £213,000,000 worth went ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Turkish 1st Army Corps, which has its base at Constantinople is being sent to Erzeroum instead of to Mesopotamia. ...
Article : 24 wordsSome criticism of the medical branch of the Commonwealth service in London have appeared in the "British Australasian." This is being answered by a report which ...
Article : 69 wordsFurther news from the scene of fighting in Western Europe is eagerly awaited. There was a lull last night, but it is evidents the Germans are not displaying the ...
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Article : 133 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Scaddan) pre[?]ded at a meeting of the State War Council yesterday. It was decided, in view of the action of ...
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Article : 41 wordsThe tenth annual meeting of the British Immigration League of Australia was held to-day. Sir Thomas Anderson Stuart presided. The president said that after her ...
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Article : 102 wordsThe following communique was issued last night:—"Our heavy artillery effectively bombarded the German fortifications at Steenstracte Bridge to-day, and damaged ...
Article : 71 wordsMr. J. G. Mears, Cannington, has received the following letter from Private A. B. Blagden, in Cairo:— Australian Overseas' Base, Ghizeh, Cairo. ...
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Article : 32 wordsThe secretary of the Race Club (Mr. J. Gallagher) placed before his committee the full balance sheet of the patriotic meeting This enables the club to purchase a ...
Article : 84 wordsThe India Office notifies that the Turkish communique, claiming that British troops had been repulsed at Kurna, in Mesopotamia, and 100 of them killed, is false. The ...
Article : 56 wordsGeneral Haig reported yesterday evening:—"One of our detachments entered trenches full of Germans on the Kemmel-Wytachacte road to-day and inflicted forty ...
Article : 36 wordsAt the October meeting of the chamber a paper was read by Mr. W. Leslie (vice president) on the subject of "Trading With the Enemy After the War." Copies of the ...
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Article : 48 wordsThe Federal Treasurer (Mr. Higgs) announced to-day that he had had to refuse to sanction the formation of new picture and amusement companies. Applications ...
Article : 95 wordsThe Mayor of Perth (Mr. Frank Rea) yesterday received the following telegram from the secretary to the Minister for Defence, relating to the case of Private ...
Article : 425 wordsIn the British and French communiques frequent mention is made of "bombing attacks." It is explained that these attacks, which are generally made at ...
Article : 211 wordsA German communique has been issued as follows:—"In reply to the air raid made on the open town of Freibourg, our airships during the last two nights ...
Article : 42 wordsRahmi Bey, the Turkish Governor-General of Smyrna, has taken refuge on board a British warship. He fled from Smyrna because he was accused of having alleviated ...
Article : 42 wordsPersons affected by the regulations issued under the War Precautions Act relating to enemy shareholders are requested, if they desire exemption, to send in ...
Article : 89 wordsSeven Zeppelins made a raiding visit to the eastern, north-eastern, and midland counties of England on Monday night. Numbers of bombs were dropped, but no ...
Article : 38 wordsTravellers from Germany report that a railway catastrophe occurred on Saturday near Cologne. An expre[?] train smashed into a hospital train crowded with ...
Article : 71 wordsThe "Tribune" states that eleven deaths have occurred in England (five of them in the streets of London) owing to the lighting restrictions in connection with the ...
Article : 44 wordsIn a return issued by the Federal Treasury to-day it was shown that up to January 29, 3,382 war pensions had been granted while 741 claims had been rejected. The ...
Article : 50 wordsInformation has been received here that M. Carp, formerly Premier of Roumania, has gone to Vienna on a confidential mission. He is to ask Austria to make ...
Article : 67 wordsThe Zeppelins have been active in Belgium for over a week. The trips made, however, were chiefly experimental ones with new craft. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe subscriptions received for the Italian war loan amount to £80,000,000. ...
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Article : 64 wordsStatistics in the possession of the International Agricultural Institute show that the world's wheat production last year increased by 25 per cent. compared with that ...
Article : 38 words"Deutsche's Journal" states that Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg, addressing the party groups in the Reichstag yesterday, remarked:—"Great Britain is the only ...
Article : 185 wordsA New South Wales paper says that Mr. H. E. Pratten, of Sydney, visited on behalf of the Ministry of Munitions 250 Australian ironworkers at Vickers, Son, and Maxim's ...
Article : 110 wordsMessrs. McGrath and Ozanne, M's.H.R., whose intentions to enlist have been announced, both visited the Victoria barracks to-day. Neither has yet actually ...
Article : 117 wordsThe Salonika correspondent of the "Corriere della Sera" states that British troops yesterday occupied Fort Kumkale, opposite Kara Burnu. The Greek garrison ...
Article : 38 wordsTo secretaries of local recruiting committees in country centres the State Way Council has sent circulars, notifying them of a change in the Federal recruiting in ...
Article : 642 wordsThe "Daily Mail" correspondent who dined with the Kaiser at Nish says he saw four small German submarines at the Golden Horn and heard of the existence of ...
Article : 47 wordsThe cards circulated by the Defence Department amongst soldiers enlisting in Australia with a view of ascertaining, interalia, the number desiring to settle on the ...
Article : 311 wordsSome members of the crew of the P. and O. steamer Geelong, which was sunk recently in the Mediterranean, after colliding with another steamer, passed through ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Wed 2 Feb 1916, Page 7
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