The Appam's passengers were yesterday allowed to land. Lieutenant Berg hotly protested against the release of the Britishers. He claimed ...
Article : 913 wordsCommenting on the alleged suicide of Prince Yussuff, heir to the Turkish throne, the "Revue" states:—"Yussuff opposed the arrest of Deputies in the Turkish ...
Article : 147 wordsFurther details of the Zeppelin raids on the inland counties have been revealed by inquests on the victims, and fresh narratives by eye witnesses. One jury viewed ...
Article : 363 wordsW. G. Hastings writes from Imbros on November 17:—I have been asked for memories of when "under fire," and have taken advantage of a continued convalescence to ...
Article : 2,136 wordsIt is now announced, as the result of questions that have been raised, that the Defence Department has given a definite ruling on the subject of alien enlistment. ...
Article : 88 wordsLieut, Hugh Featherstone Cannell, son of Mrs. Cannell, of Needelup, who volunteered in this State as a gunner for the Australian Expeditionary Force, and ...
Article : 3,237 wordsFifty-six volunteers were examined at the Drill Hall yesterday and 38 were accepted and sworn in. The remaining 18 were declared unfit. Intending volunteers ...
Article : 234 wordsThe Greek Government has forwarded to the Central Powers a protest against the bombing by their aeroplanes of Salonika last Tuesday. The bombs, it is ...
Article : 43 wordsDetails of the sinking by an Austrian submarine in the Adriatic of the Italian steamer Brindisi, crowded with Montenegrin refugees, are furnished by Mr. ...
Article : 169 wordsThe escape of the Hamburg-Amerika liner Prinz August Wilhelm which, according to a report from New York, steamed out of Santa Marta under the cover of night on ...
Article : 122 wordsThe cabled report of the Commercial Intelligence Committee of the Board of Trade of Great Britain, which was published in the Press to-day, was read with great ...
Article : 777 wordsA communique issued yesterday evening stated:—"We repulsed two enemy advances to-day, following upon a heavy bombardment of our positions at Ucierczki, in the ...
Article : 34 wordsA Zeppelin on Tuesday night bombed and sank the Steamer Franz Fischer (formerly a German), which was captured early in the war. This steamer left a north-east ...
Article : 138 wordsThe Minister for Education (Mr. Walker) is in consultation with the Director of Education over the problem occasioned by the enlistment of so many school teachers in ...
Article : 84 wordsAdvices received from Berlin state that General Becir, the Montenegrin officer who signed the agreement to capitulate to Austria, has been murdered by his own ...
Article : 32 wordsMr. Lloyd George, in a stirring speech to the munition workers yesterday, said:— "Your work is now going to smash a way through to victory." ...
Article : 36 wordsAn Austrian submarine yesterday captured near San Giovanni, in Albania, the steamer Konig Albert, which the Italians were using to convey 300 Serbian refugees ...
Article : 54 wordsArising out of the enlistment of the general secretary of the Metropolitan Shop Assistants' Union (Mr. A. H. Panton), the board of control of that organisation, at a ...
Article : 213 wordsIt is officially notified that a North Sea fishing trawler has arrived at Great Grimsby, and has reported a Zeppelin sinking in the North Sea. The trawler's master says: ...
Article : 222 wordsEnemy vessels yesterday bombarded Van Vietochieto and the railway station at Ortonedare, on the western Adriatic, opposite Cattaro. ...
Article : 26 wordsHis Majesty the King yesterday decorated personally at Buckingham Palace four New Zealand soldiers for gallantry in the Gallipoli Peninsula. Captain Bassett ...
Article : 220 wordsPresident Wilson, speaking yesterday at Saint Louis, said the United States should build the greatest navy in the world and should be unconquerable. He was striving ...
Article : 64 wordsThe District Commandant (Colonel Bruche) informed a representative of the "West Australian" yesterday that a new military camp is at present in course of ...
Article : 72 wordsReports from Berlin state that the depressed German bourses have rallied sharply, having received reassurances from the Government that Germany is settling the ...
Article : 35 wordsGerman newspapers state that the most powerful Zeppelins participated in the raid upon England, and that they carried the heaviest of bombs. ...
Article : 31 wordsYesterday the following war rates were declared in force by the Marine Underwriters' Association for all vessels except German, Austrian, and Turkish:—Steamers ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 109 wordsLord Rosebery, in a letter to the "Times," advocates reprisals for the Zeppelin raids, and adds:—"We have for too long displayed excessive patience. We must bring directly ...
Article : 63 wordsA proclamation has been issued fixing next Friday as the day on which the operation of the Compulsory Service Act will commence. This means that unattested ...
Article : 60 wordsThe police have seized the "Worker," which was published by the Clyde Workers' Committee. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe men and women who were killed by bombs in the recent Zeppelin raid on the working quarters of Paris are receiving a national funeral. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe military authorities have received advice from Melbourne, stating that the Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) has approved of the appointment of a ...
Article : 188 wordsCinematograph pictures entitled "Britain Prepared," showing the fighting forces training in England, munition making, and views of the Fleet, will be shown in ...
Article : 36 wordsDr. Striscower, Professor of International Law in Vienna University, in an article in the "International Rundschau," protests against Zeppelin raids as cruel and ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Acting Attorney-General (Mr. Mahon) was questioned yesterday with regard to a number of problems which have cropped up in connection with the administration ...
Article : 487 wordsAt the various Sydney recruiting depots to-day 102 men were accepted for active service. ...
Article : 38 wordsThe "Cologne Gazette" maintains that the Appam carried guns fore and aft, and therefore she should, be regarded as a vessel armed for attack. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Agents-General for the Australian States declare there is every reason to believe that the fruit import restrictions which the Government is about to issue ...
Article : 391 wordsThe owners of the Clan Mactavish learn officially that all the European crew are safe but held as prisoners. Several Lascar Tailors were killed and four were wounded. ...
Article : 411 wordsThere are indications of great German activity in Belgium. Many reinforcements are arriving, and between 3,000 and 6,000 guns have been brought up to the front. ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) has decided to establish a central school of instruction, in the vicinity of the Royal Military College, at Duntroon, for ...
Article : 195 wordsRecently the Miners' Union resolved that its members should not work with enemy subjects after February 1, and as there are still many Austrian subjects employed ...
Article : 131 wordsGeneral Sir Douglas Haig's report of yesterday's operations on the British front states: "There was heavy shelling by the enemy against our trenches around Loos ...
Article : 38 wordsExtracts from the diary of Colonel Moon, of the Australia Army Supply Column in France, shows that the column had some lively experiences recently from German ...
Article : 113 wordsMrs. McWhae, the president of the Western Australian Women's Ambulance Fund, has received the following communication from the British War Office:— ...
Article : 220 wordsReplying yesterday to a deputation from the Victorian Railways Union, which asked him to come to the assistance of the Victorian Government and prevent the ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Sat 5 Feb 1916, Page 7
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