Reports from Holland declare that heavy fighting is in progress near Ypres, and that the Allies are advancing in a north-easterly direction, while the German line is weaking. Official reports from Petrograd state that on the Galician front the Germans have suffered so severely that they have begun a disorderly retreat. They have been expending artillery ammunition at a tremendous rate, and their ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 310 wordsBefore the Italian Embassy here yesterday, 50,000 Roumanians made a demonstration in favour of Italy. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce). announced to-day the initiation of steps towards establishing a double shift at the Small Arms Factory at Lithgow. He said ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 293 wordsThe Government is prosecuting the publisher of the "Times." and Major E. Richardson, the well-known breeder of dogs, for army and police work, for the ...
Article : 270 wordsThe Defence Department, Melbourne, wish it to be noted that:—"In regard to those members of the force reported as wounded it is to be clearly understood that the ...
Article : 91 wordsAt the City Court to-day Richard Hammill, a soldier, was charged with having made a false declaration. Major Mclnerney, provost marshal, said that Hammill ...
Article : 265 wordsCaptain Gordon Townsend Wallack, who was killed in action at the Dardanelles, was the son of Colonel E. T. Wallack, District Commandant in New South Wales. He was ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 254 wordsHerr von Jagow, German Minister for Foreign Affairs, in an interview with an American newspaper correspondent in Berlin, stated that from the outset Germany ...
Article : 292 wordsSeveral thousand hosiery workers at Leicester, mostly employed on Government contracts, have struck work, They demand an advance of 8 per cent. on their present ...
Article : 33 wordsAlthough on Saturday the Minister for Public Works (Mr. Hagelthorn) stated that, in consequence of exporters of meat failing to provide for shipment by the Moldavia, ...
Article : 205 wordsIt has been stated officially that some Zeppelins have been reported near Ramsgate, and Brentwood, in Essex, and in certain outlying districts of London. Many ...
Article : 65 wordsMr. M. H. Donohoe special correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle," cabled yesterday: From a high plateau near Asiago, an Italian frontier town, west of Roveredo, the ...
Article : 145 wordsThe Allies are advancing from St. Julien, and the German line has weakened and is giving ground to the north-eastward of Yores before vigorous infantry attacks, ...
Article : 146 wordsThe newspapers characterise Germany's reply as temporising and insincere. The New York "Herald" says:—"Germany proposes to delay while reserving the right ...
Article : 126 wordsThe strike of some 600 employees at the Sydney Glass Bottle Works. Dowling-street. Waterloo, and at the Waterloo Glass Bottle Works. consequent upon the continued ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 138 wordsThe "Vossische Zeitung," of Berlin, states that if America allows American citizens to run the risk of England's recklessness and then blames Germany for the ...
Article : 40 wordsHeavy fighting has been resumed near Ypres. The roar of guns with unprecedented violence has been heard at Bruges and Ghent. German troops from Liege and ...
Article : 59 wordsThe address by Chaplain C. H. Jenkins, which was to have been given at the tent at Blackboy Hill last night, had to be postponed on account of the three poles of ...
Article : 84 wordsAn official communique, issued yesterday, states:—"One of our dirigibles bombed the railway station, petrol depot and arsenal at Pola on Sunday night. A great fire ...
Article : 159 wordsThe United States Ambassador at Berlin (Mr. Gerard) has cabled to the Government stating that the torpedoing of the American steamer Gulf Light was due to a ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Goldfields District Council of the Australian Labour Federation resumed the discussion last night on the motion that, in the existing circumstances, no German ...
Article : 63 wordsColonel S. A. Petherbridge, Administrator of the new possessions in the Pacific, captured from the Germans, supplies the Ministers for Defence (Senator Learce) ...
Article : 403 wordsA communique issued yesterday stated:—"We have made further progress to the north of Arras. On the road from Souches we occupied Malon mill and some German ...
Article : 54 wordsA report issued by the Press Bureau on the recent operations at the Dardanelles states:—"We detected the enemy working under one of our posts on the 28th, and ...
Article : 159 wordsAccording to Mr. N. Ljungberg, a Swedish gentleman who passed through Fremantle on the Medina yesterday, the sympathies of the people of Sweden are now almost ...
Article : 559 wordsRefugees at Milan report that the Austrians, when retreating towards Trent, destroyed property in a wholesale fashion on the pretext that the destruction was a ...
Article : 47 wordsThe following German communique was issued in Berlin yesterday:—"Strong French forces attempted to break our lines north of Arras and at Bois le Pretre. The attacks ...
Article : 93 wordsThe following list of British casualties, including the Dardanelles campaign, was issued yesterday:— Officers.—April 26 to May 24: 992 killed, ...
Article : 62 wordsThe population of Trieste are almost foodless. Over 100,000 persons have disappeared from the city. Some of them have disappeared from the city. Some of them have fled to Italy, but the majority have been ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Rotterdam correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" confirms the suspicions of the British headquarters that the Germans are using explosive bullets. He ...
Article : 47 wordsA German soldier endeavoured to escape on Sunday night from the prison camp at Leigh, in Lancashire. He had climbed on to the roof of a shed when he was detected ...
Article : 55 wordsThe text of the German note which has been published, confirms the cabled summary. It avers that Germany had no intention of attacking neutral ships in the ...
Article : 98 wordsThe American steamer Dixiana was torpedoed and sunk off Ushant on Monday. Several shells were fired at the vessel, one passing through the engine room. The ...
Article : 125 wordsThe correspondent of the Central News Agency at Athens telegraphed yesterday that the Allies were continuing their advance against the main positions of the ...
Article : 40 wordsThe coal and iron workers of Blaenavon, Monmouthshire, who struck yesterday over the question of a war bonus, have resumed work. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe following official report was issued yesterday:—"During the fighting between Gollitze and the Dunajec the enemy used 1,500 guns before their assault discharging ...
Article : 176 wordsA message from Mitylene states that the British warships shelled Aivali yesterday. Aivali is opposite the east coast of Mitylene Island, and it had been reported that ...
Article : 41 wordsThe inquiry into the deaths of the victims of the Princess Irene explosion yesterday resulted in a verdict that the cause of the disaster was unknown. ...
Article : 36 wordsTwenty-five farmers, with teams aggregating 92 horses, assembled at Tongala to-day at the home of the late Lieutenant R. Miller, who died of wounds at the ...
Article : 60 wordsIt is officially announced that all of the officers of the British battleship Majestic were saved. ...
Article : 22 wordsA Reuter message from Washington states that President Wilson has virtually reiterated his intention to hold Germany strictly accountable for the loss of the ...
Article : 42 wordsIt is reported here that Great Britain has refused to allow the steamer Sydland owned by Albert Jansen, to leave Liver-pool under the Danish flag, on the ground ...
Article : 56 wordsOwin to eyesight trouble Sir Edward Grey is taking a short holiday. The Marquis of Crewe will be temporarily in charge of the Foreign Office, with the assistance ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 74 wordsReuter's correspondent at Washington declares that profound disappointment has been occasioned at Washington by Germany's reply to the American note in ...
Article : 109 wordsThe British Chamber of Commerce has passed a resolution regretting that the Imperial Government has tacitly sanctioued trading with the enemy in China. The ...
Article : 44 wordsIt is reported that 40 passengers perished in the fire that occurred on board a Russian steamer at Holsingfors last week, as a result of an attack made by a Zeppelin ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Wed 2 Jun 1915, Page 7
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