There is a growing further demand that action must be taken to ensure security against air raids. Meetings to protest against the defencelessness and the lack of ...
Article : 440 wordsThe War Office publishes a despatch from Mesopotamia, reporting that a British detachment, in making a reconnaisance on a branch of the Tigris, named the ...
Article : 89 wordsA French wireless communique issued yesterday evening stated:—"General Sarrail has ordered the occupation of the right bank of the Vardar for a depth of ten ...
Article : 544 wordsMr. Andrew Fisher is continuing his investigations of Australian medical arrangements. He is extremely pleased with the condition at Wandsworth and Abbeywood. ...
Article : 607 wordsOn Saturday 110 men volunteered at Adelaide for active service, and 49 were accepted. ...
Article : 84 wordsA Turkish communique reports respecting the Mesopotamia campaign:—"We repulsed an enemy attempt to advance from the right bank of the Tigris, after two violent ...
Article : 37 wordsBefore Sir Rider Haggard sailed on his Empire tour in soldier settlement interests, he received a telegram from Earl Grey as follows:—"I am sorry that certain ...
Article : 73 wordsThe following letter, dated January 2, has been received by Chaplain Hudson, of the Naval Depot, Williamstown, from one of the Australian warships:—"The ...
Article : 226 wordsMr. Lindley Garrison, Secretary for War in President Wilson's Cabinet, has resigned, because President Wilson has refused to adopt the policy of a sufficiently strong ...
Article : 163 wordsA special "Commonwealth Gazette" was issued on Saturday with reference to the inquiry into the case of Private O'Donnell. The board appointed to conduct the inquiry ...
Article : 373 wordsThe Rev. F. B. Meyer in a letter to the newspapers, gives missionary reports detailing cases of soldiers and sailors being enticed into public houses in the Waterloo ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Imperial Institute announces that a sample of Queensland copra recently tested proved satisfactory. The oil contents were normal and the copra itself was ...
Article : 70 wordsAdvices received in Switzerland from Turkish sources report that at General vonder Goltz's instance the projected Suez Canal expedition has been abandoned by ...
Article : 79 wordsShipbuilders at Glasgow state that the Government has decided to grant facilities to complete the construction of 500,000 tons of merchant shipping in order to relieve ...
Article : 37 wordsMr. Ashmead Bartlett, the famous war correspondent, who arrived in Sydney last Friday evening by the Niagara, has a great opinion of what he terms the superlative ...
Article : 286 wordsA Turkish communique issued yesterday in respect to the Dardanelles stated:—"We drove off a cruiser which shelled the position around Teke-durnu to-day. We ...
Article : 46 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph's" New York correspondent reports:—"It is understood the Entente will not accept America's proposals for disarming merchantment. ...
Article : 263 wordsItaly has decided to release a certain quantity of heavy Italian hides weekly for soles for British army boots. The War Office, in return, will give Italy a month's ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Copenhagen correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph Agency reports:—"From Germany one hears now only the strong cry of the people for peace. ...
Article : 272 wordsGeneral Sir Douglas Haig reported as follows yesterday regarding the German communique's air raid claims:—"On Thursday last 11 machines appeared. One dropped ...
Article : 235 wordsOne of the largest banks in the South of Germany has failed. Its liabilities are 500,000,000 marks (about £25,000,000), and thousands of depositors have been ruined. ...
Article : 51 wordsThe conversion of the freetrade "Spectator" to the policy of Imperial preference is arousing considerable interest and comment among English politicians The ...
Article : 273 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Holman) made an important statement at Harden on Saturday morning regarding the question of Germans in our midst, and indicating measures that ...
Article : 381 wordsThe Deutsche Bank, Disconto Gesellschaft Bleichroeders, has loaned to Austria-Hungary 200,000,000 marks (about £10,000,000). ...
Article : 23 wordsA German merchant has secured from the Chinese Government a contract for the supply of arms and munitions—after the war—to the amount of 7,000,000 taels (about ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Acting Prime Minister (Senator Pearce) has supplied particulars in connection with the proposed Commonwealth Institute of Science and Industry. The ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 133 wordsA semi-official announcement issued at Berlin states:—"Now that the German memorandum on submarine war risks 'has been published, as well as Dr. Von ...
Article : 121 wordsSpeaking yesterday at the Industrial Club, Vienna, on the outlook after the war, Herr Riedl, an official of the Ministry of Commerce, said Austria's commercial situation ...
Article : 120 wordsThe French Premier (Mr. Briand) held a conference with Baron Sonnino, the Italian Foreign Affairs Minister yesterday, with the result that Italy adheres to the ...
Article : 362 wordsIn view, of Roumania's future policy which is daily causing increased anxiety to the Austro-German Press, importance attaches to the news that railway ...
Article : 241 words"Le Matin," commenting on the new German threat to treat armed merchantmen as belligerents, observes:—"When submarines torpedoed the Lusitania and many ...
Article : 70 wordsThe newspapers are giving prominence to the New South Wales decision to give Empire goods purchased for the Public Service a preference of 10 per cent. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Belgian Legation in London denies the truth of the report published by the Roman paper "Giornale d' Italia" that Germany lately offered Belgium a separate ...
Article : 57 wordsAn announcement was issued yesterday calling up the remaining eleven classes of unmarried recruits. This announcement came as a surprise, as it was expected ...
Article : 143 wordsThe 141st casualty list of Western Australian members of the Australian Expeditionary Forces was made available on Saturday morning and is published below. ...
Article : 868 wordsThe "Manchester Guardian" urges that Viscount Bryce, who was for years British Ambassador to the United States, be sent as a special envoy to Washington, ...
Article : 78 wordsMr. Andrew Fisher, in an article in "Reynolds's Weekly Newspaper," states:—"I have been frequently asked what Australians think of the war. My reply is ...
Article : 425 wordsThe Federal Treasurer (Mr. Higgs) has received a cable from the High Commissioner (Mr. Fisher) dealing with the reception in Great Britain of the news of the ...
Article : 184 wordsThe "Morning Post's" military correspondent states:—"The Austro-German uncertainty regarding Russia's plans explains their failure to attack Salonika. When a ...
Article : 191 wordsThe German Admiralty has issued a report stating: "During the advance of our torpedo boats, they met on the Dogger Bank several British cruisers, which fled. ...
Article : 65 wordsIn the High Court of Justice yesterday, before Sir Clement Bailhache, an action was decided upon which other claims, totalling £200,000, depended. It arose out ...
Article : 136 wordsThe British Admiralty announces that the "cruisers" mentioned by the Germans were four vessels employed as minesweepers, and that three of them have ...
Article : 117 wordsThe Russian Foreign Affairs Minister (M. Sazanoff) interviewed yesterday, stated: "The Allies are in perfect agreement that Austria and Germany must be rendered ...
Article : 88 wordsThe annual report of Brigadier-General Parnell, Commandant of the Royal Military College, Duntroon, shows that the college has materially helped in preparing officers ...
Article : 214 wordsAn important reply has been given by Mr. Runciman, President of the Board of Trade, on the question of the restriction of fruit importation. Sir John Mc ...
Article : 68 wordsBulgaria's Minister for War, in a Press interview, has stated that when the Salonika campaign is finished the war will be over for Bulgaria, unless she is attacked ...
Article : 59 wordsFrench provincial journalists, representing 10,000,000 readers, are now visiting the British fleet and munition areas. Mr. H. Samuel, Postmaster-General, on behalf ...
Article : 78 wordsThe steamer Critic has arrived and has reported that she was chased by an enemy ship near Gibraltar. Some suggest it was the Moewe. ...
Article : 68 wordsAn important conference representing the spelter interests of Australia was held at the office of the Federal Attorney-General yesterday. The Acting Attorney-General (Mr. ...
Article : 343 wordsOfficers of the Indian troops, which have served or are serving in Flanders, yesterday presented a loyal address to the King, thanking him especially for the great ...
Article : 253 wordsThe Austrians are experiencing great difficulty in the pursuit of the Montenegrins among the mountains. Only one-third of Montenegrins has been occupied by the ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 14 Feb 1916, Page 7
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