The news from the western theatre of war in Europe continues to be of a satisfactory nature. There has been some hot fighting in the north of France, but the Germans have everywhere been defeated. The German authorities, in their report, admit that they had to retreat at Angree, but they claim that this was in consequence of victory and not in consequence of defeat. ...
Article : 397 wordsIt is estimated that the Turkish losses in the Dardanelles amount to 60,000. The force holding the Gallipoli Peninsula is now 80,000. The Turks remain on the ...
Article : 80 wordsReplying to a question by Senator Neadham (W.A.), in the Senate yesterday, the Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) stated that the number of interned enemy ...
Article : 302 wordsThe Italian troops occupied Gradiska, north-west of the head of the Gulf of Trieste, last Tuesday, after heavily bombarding the fortress. The Austrians replied vigoreusly ...
Article : 78 wordsThe "Berliner Zeitung" forecasts that the Allies will be unable to maintain their Dardanelles campaign and asserts that the British losses at Ariburnu were so heavy that ...
Article : 48 wordsAn Italian lieutenant with 85 men was ordered to hold the passage to the Agno Valley against an entire company of Bavarians. Sixty of the Italians fell, their ...
Article : 97 wordsA German submarine burned the Russian schooner Mars off Fair Island, in the Shetlands, yesterday, and then towed the crew of seven men for 10½ hours. The crew ...
Article : 38 wordsReuter's agent at Athens states that a telegram from Dedeagatch describes the recent exploits of the British submarine E11. While four Turkish transports were ...
Article : 98 wordsThe Labour Progressive Association at Barnard Castle yesterday adopted Mr. Arthur Henderson (President of the Board of Education) for re-election, and ...
Article : 119 wordsThe Minister for Defence stated yesterday that he had made inquiries and had learned that there were no advices of any wounded men coming to Australia at present. He ...
Article : 53 wordsThe authorities of Trieste have fled, leaving the city to the mercy of the mob, who sacked and set fire to Italian buildings, commencing with the offices of Irridentist ...
Article : 77 wordsThere is great jubilation in Germany over the sinking of the Triumph. The "Berliner Tageblatt" hints that the submarine which torpedoed the British battleship ...
Article : 42 wordsIn response to a number of inquiries received at the Canadian Government Office in Melbourne from relatives of Australians serving with the Canadian expeditionary ...
Article : 87 wordsTwo Taube aeroplanes attempted to drop bombs on Saturday in St. Mark's Square, Venice. They fell into the water, and the aeroplanes were driven off by anti-air craft ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Porte has notified neutral countries that owing to the British and French actions in Egypt, it has decided to extend hostilities to the Suez Canal, and that ...
Article : 72 wordsThe "Cologne Gazette" states that Austria, having refused to issue passports to Italian Consuls, the Italian authorities have arrested all the Austrian Consuls in the ...
Article : 40 wordsIn response to an appeal by Colonel Ryrie for comforts for wounded Australian soldiers in Egypt, a Flower and Favour day was held in Sydney and suburbs on ...
Article : 63 wordsThe London County Council has undertaken to expedite the settlement of the tramway grievances. It has decided not to allow men of military age to resume work. ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Archduke Eugen has been given the command of the Austrian army operating against Italy. ...
Article : 25 wordsMr. Ashmead Bartlett, special correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" at the Dardanelles, was on board the Majestic when she was torpedoed. He was saved, but ...
Article : 53 wordsIn the Reichstag, at Berlin, on Friday, in the course of a violent outburst, Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg (Imperial Chancellor) said that Italy had inscribed on the ...
Article : 497 wordsThe child injured in the German air raid at Southend has died. Evidence given at the inquest on the victims showed that the shell from an ...
Article : 35 wordsThe final returns in connection with the special appeal made on behalf of the distressed Belgians on what was called "Belgian Day" show that the large sum of ...
Article : 40 wordsThe official report of the early operations at the Dardanelles states:—"The Allies' plan was to land a large force on the coast without natural cover and having as ...
Article : 254 wordsThe "Manchester Guardian" states that Mr. Lloyd-George has conferred with a large gathering of representatives of engineering firms, who explained that the difference ...
Article : 176 wordsExceptional interest was taken in a parade of the naval-bridge train through the city yesterday afternoon. The train comprised 9 officers and 311 men with ...
Article : 100 wordsThe following communique was issued on Friday evening:—Our offensive progresses. Between Ablain and Saint Nazzire we occupied a group of houses near the ...
Article : 245 wordsThe Russian success at Seiniawa (about 15 miles north of Jaroslav) is interpreted to imply that numbers of Austrian and German troops are leaving Western Galicia ...
Article : 51 wordsThe military authorities are now attaching greater importance to the invasion of the Baltic provinces, where the Germans are steadily reinforcing their troops, ...
Article : 107 wordsBritish aviators blew up a German ammunition depot at Poelczpelle yesterday killing 100 and wounding 75 of the enemy. ...
Article : 10 wordsFor the week ended to-day about 1,200 men were enlisted at the Victoria Barracks, Sydney. This is below the totals for the two previous weeks, but the men are of ...
Article : 41 wordsThe unsatisfactory news of the week has increased the demand for national service. Lord Sydenham, Mr. Frederic Harrison, several headmasters of public schools, and ...
Article : 55 wordsThe provincial administration of Brabant has issued statistics to show that during the German occupation of the Brabant district 5,842 houses were burned, 16,000 were ...
Article : 52 wordsThree thousand of Queensland's most stalwart men passed through the principal streets of Brisbane on Saturday afternoon in a farewell procession. They are going ...
Article : 159 wordsA letter has been received in Melbourne by a sister of a soldier wounded in the first day's fighting in the Dardanelles. After describing how he was wounded he ...
Article : 144 wordsAccording to the "Neue Freie Presse" of Vienna Turkish troops have reinforced the Austrians, who are operating near Przemysl. The Turks are wearing Austrian ...
Article : 33 wordsA communique issued at Berlin yesterday evening stated:—"The French attack upon Angres was repulsed with terrible losses, but during last night, unobserved by the ...
Article : 69 wordsIt is estimated that the total death roll in connection with the destruction of the Princess Irene is 270. The cause is supposed to be the same as in the case of the ...
Article : 53 wordsIt is officially reported that the Russian forces at Van (Turkey in Asia) have captured 26 guns, quantities of other arms, great stores of provisions, and the ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Government has directed the judicial authorities to institute proceedings in the case of any infraction of the Defence of the Realm Act regulations by newspaper ...
Article : 36 wordsCorrespondents with the British headquarters in France narrate that among the gallant deeds in the recent fighting at Festubert, a company of the Scots Guards ...
Article : 406 wordsA French aviator during a duel at a height of 8,000ft. at Fismes yesterday shot Lieutenant von Buelow (believeed to be a relative of Prince von Buelow, formerly ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 159 wordsThe following are the particulars of the next of kin of those Western Australian soldiers whose names appeared in the twenty-sixth casualty list, published in these ...
Article : 1,855 wordsThe Italian newspapers describe the manifestation of Austrian fury at Trieste as an exact repetition of the official excesses against the Servians at Sarajevo after the ...
Article : 79 wordsThe newly-formed anti-German Union held a demonstration in the east end of London. The speakers demanded that the Government should intern in addition to ...
Article : 76 wordsA communique issued at Vienna yesterday stated:—"Austrian naval airmen flew last night over Venice, and dropped bombs into the arsenal, thereby causing extensive ...
Article : 41 wordsA communique issued late on Friday evening stated:—"We captured a German stronghold at Bubie, near Shavli, to-day, and took upwards of 1,000 prisoners. We ...
Article : 341 wordsMr. Gerard, United States Ambassador at Berlin, says he understands that Germany's forthcoming reply to the American note proposes that an agreement should be ...
Article : 190 wordsOver 1,000 Austrian and German women and children have been repatriated from the United Kingdom. ...
Article : 21 wordsAn official communique issued on Friday afternoon states that the batteries on the Port Corsini Canal damaged seriously an Austrian torpedo boat, the destroyer ...
Article : 156 wordsActing under authority granted by the War Precautions Act, the Governor-General has issued an order imposing stringent restrictions on enemy aliens. Many of the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 296 wordsIt was announced yesterday by the Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) that Colonel J. W. McCay, officer commanding the second (Victorian) infantry brigade, has ...
Article : 59 wordsThe British steamer Cadeby (1,130 tons) has been torpedoed and sunk off the Cornish coast. A fishing boat landed the crew safely at Newlyn. ...
Article : 319 wordsThe "Handelsblad," in an outspoken article, declares:—"If Germany proclaims the annexation of Belgium during the war Holland should regard it as a casus belli, ...
Article : 46 wordsMr. M. H. Donohoe, the correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle," in a message from Rome, states that the Italian destroyer Turbine, which was pursuing nine fleeing ...
Article : 146 wordsFrench aviators dropped 49 projectiles on a factory at Ludwigshafen and 36 on another factory at Oppau, about two miles away. Then enormous fires and great ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 31 May 1915, Page 7
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