To-day the citizens of Perth will be afforded an excellent opportunity of seeing for themselves the splendid standard of men which the State is sending for the service ...
Article : 626 wordsThe only news from the Franco-Belgian side is to the effect that violent conflicts have taken place in the north-west of France, and that the Allies have gained ground, although the Germans have succeeded in recapturing at Boisle Pretre trenches that they lost at that point on Sunday. The official reports of the opposing armies on the Russian frontier, again flatly contradict each other in every respect ...
Article : 357 wordsThe strike of London tramwaymen has terminated. ...
Article : 13 wordsTo-day's Canadian casualty list contains the names of 236 killed, 229 wounded, and 560 missing. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe Government will introduce a Bill in the House of Commons to-day rendering unnecessary the re-election of Ministers during the course of the war, and to enable ...
Article : 44 wordsMr. P. McBride, Agent-General for Victoria, yesterday forwarded to the committee of the Belgian Fund £20,000 from the Lord Mayor of Melbourne's fund, and ...
Article : 40 wordsMr. Justice Rich has received the following cable message from the Private Secretary to his Majesty the King:—"Buckingham Palace.—The King and Queen deeply ...
Article : 65 wordsAn official report of Dardanelles operations, issued yesterday stated:—"Small combats are of almost daily occurrence, and all have ended in favour of the Allies. On ...
Article : 109 wordsThe anti-German campaign by the [?] bottle workers at Waterloo, by about a dozen employees of the Neuchatel [?]phalt Company, Ltd., and by the Postal ...
Article : 161 wordsMajor D. Fulton, who has been wounded at the front, is a well-known officer. He was born in August, 1882, and has had a long military career. He was second in ...
Article : 110 wordsThe action taken by the Government to deal with the shortage of meat supplies and the meat exporters' repudiation of their contract with the Imperial Government did ...
Article : 755 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Massey), replying to-day to a deputation, said that he saw no need for any special tax at present. The country's prosperity was so great that ...
Article : 67 wordsA Reuter message, received last night, states that a British submarine has torpedoed two Turkish transports in the Sea of Marmora. Both transports were conveying ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 169 wordsAdvices from Constantinople state that the Turkish defeats at the Dardanelles and the British submarine's exploits in attacking the arsenal and wharf in ...
Article : 164 wordsThe hearing was continued in the High Court to-day of the case which has been brought to test the validity of the whole or part of Commonwealth Land Tax ...
Article : 503 wordsA Reuter message from Bucharest states that public opinion is growing feverishly and widely in favour of Roumania's throwing in her lot immediately with the Allies. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe following communique was issued yesterday afternoon:—"On Monday night we penetrated a thicket east of the Aix-Noulette-Souchez road, where a violent hand ...
Article : 165 wordsThe official Russian communique, issued yesterday, stated:—"The enemy on the left bank of the Vistula on Sunday night developed active artillery fire on the whole ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 401 wordsThe Press Bureau aunounces that Turkish prisoners who have arrived in Egypt have declared that their losses in the Gallipoli Peninsula are terribly heavy. The 20th ...
Article : 306 wordsThe Government has prohibited the export of all goods which are deemed to be contraband of war. ...
Article : 27 wordsA message, received early yesterday from Washington, stated:—"A brief American Note has been drawn up, and will probably be despatched to Germany on ...
Article : 195 wordsThe following are the particulars of the next of kin of those West Australians mentioned in the 28th and 29th casualty lists:— ...
Article : 242 wordsThe final assault leading to the capture of Ablain cost the French 200 in killed and wounded. Five hundred dead Germans were found among the ruins of the town and ...
Article : 47 wordsThe following communique was issued in Berlin yesterday:—"The Bavarians stormed three forts of Dunkowickzi on the Przemysl front, and captured 1,400 of the garrison, ...
Article : 102 wordsIt has been officially reported in Berlin that "enemy airmen bombarded Ostend last night, damaging some houses." ...
Article : 23 wordsIt is officially announced that the German Consul at Haifa, in Syria, recently urged Turkish soldiers to fire upon boats conveying bearers of a flag of truce, and ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Government has forwarded to foreign Powers a memorial, pointing out Germany's use of inflammable liquids in trench warfare, and intimating that France intends ...
Article : 36 wordsThe New York "Herald" declares:—"Germany's hands are dripping with American blood, yet she coolly proposes to negotiate as if it were a question of the joint ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Defence Department, Melbourne, again advises that in regard to those members of the force reported as wounded it is to be clearly understood that the ...
Article : 88 wordsIt is reported that the Russians are reinforcing Przemysl and the lower San by three army corps. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Italians are bombarding Malborgetho, which commands the railway junction at Tarvis, and ultimately the route to klagenfurt (capital of the Austrian duchy ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 2,188 wordsReference was made by the Prime Minister (Mr. Fisher) on Monday last to the Northern Territory railway, and the pledge of the Federal Government to proceed ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 619 wordsThe Swedish steamer Pan with a cargo of rifles ostensibly for Bulgaria, was yesterday seized by a German torpedo boat off Falsterbo Lighthouse, in the extreme south ...
Article : 89 wordsThe following official account of the most recent Zeppelin raid in England was issued yesterday:—"Ninoty bombs, mostly incendiary, were dropped at various localities, near ...
Article : 109 wordsThe University has sustained a severe loss by the death of the Registrar, Captain S. E. Townshend, who has been killed in action at the Dardanelles. Captain ...
Article : 507 wordsNew steel works, at Newcastle, erected by the Broken Hill Proprietary Co., Ltd., were officially opened to-day by the Governor-General (Sir Ronald Munro Fergusou). ...
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Advertising : 192 wordsThe British trawler Condon was destroyed by a German mine off Scarborough yesterday. It is believed that her crew of nine men have been drowned. ...
Article : 58 wordsThe following report has been issued in Berlin:— "As a reprisal for the aerial attack on Ludwigshafen, we threw numerous bomb ...
Article : 35 wordsMr. M. H. Donohoe, telegraphing yesterday evening from the north of Italy to the "Daily Chronicle," stated: "After a stiff fight extending over several hours to-day ...
Article : 62 wordsA prize court at Hamburg has declared that the Dutch steamer Saanstroom is a lawful prize, as over half of her cargo was contraband of war. The Dutch steamer ...
Article : 49 wordsFifteen heads of Oxford Colleges are in favour of compulsory universal military service. Cambridge University has formulated a ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Thu 3 Jun 1915, Page 7
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