An Italian cruiser yesterday found a German waterplane lying in the sea off Brindisi, the aviators apparently having been drowned. ...
Article : 30 wordsViolent fighting continues in the Souchez labyrinth, in the north of France, but all the German attacks have been repulsed, and in some places the Allies have gained ground. In the battle for the heights at Krithia, in the Dardanelles, last week the Turks lost 10,000 men. In this engagement the Australians gained an important victory for the Allies and covered themselves with glory. A combined general ...
Article : 520 wordsThe thirty-second list of casualties among the Australian troops engaged in the Dardanelles campaign was made available by the Censor yesterday morning, and is as ...
Article : 1,179 wordsIn the Mansion House Court yesterday the proprietors of the "Times" were charged with having published information of value to the enemy. The Magistrate ...
Article : 50 wordsAmericans in Germany have been warned officially that diplomatic relations with the United States may be broken off within 48 hours at any time, and that they must be ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Admiralty reports that the shipping movements for the week ending June 2 were 1,382 arrivals and departures. Eight vessels totalling 23,363 tons had been sunk ...
Article : 36 wordsOf 2,210 old Etonians in the army and navy, 341 have been killed, 433 have been wounded, and 261 have been mentioned in despatches. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Bill absolving newly-appointed Ministers of the Crown from the necessity of seeking re-election has been passed by the House of Lords and has received the Royal ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Press Bureau announced yesterday that the Allies operating in the Cameroons had driven the enemy from some strong positions. The losses of the Allies were ...
Article : 40 wordsThe "Daily Citizen" (Labour) has ceased publication. ...
Article : 15 wordsThe Berlin Kreuz Zeitung states: "Great Britain's starvation war has failed, and now the United States make strange demands for the stoppage of submarine warfare. If ...
Article : 90 wordsDr. Delbrueck (Minister for the Interior), speaking in the Prussian Diet yesterday, said that the food question might be regarded as having been solved. It was even ...
Article : 67 wordsMr. R. McKenna, British Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the Italian Minister of Finance, having held a conference at Nice, are leaving for London and Rome ...
Article : 33 wordsThe steamer Iona and the fishing vessel Chryeopase have been submarined and sunk off the Orkney Islands. The crews were landed. Four of the Iona's crew were ...
Article : 370 wordsThe American Ambassador at Berlin reports: "Germany is willing to pay an indemnity for the damage done to the American steamer Gulf Light. It is impossible ...
Article : 91 wordsThe Germans earlier in the war used vitriol, which they squirted from the trenches. Later they used bombs containing concentrated formalin, causing much ...
Article : 163 wordsWhen addressing a dockers' battalion at Liverpool yesterday, Mr. Lloyd George (Minister for Munitions) said that there never was a war in which labour at home ...
Article : 365 wordsCardinal Gasparri is preparing a White Book, showing the Pope's diplomatic action in favour of peace, explaining the cessation of the English and Dutch special ...
Article : 50 wordsAn important Bill has been prepared, bringing into the Dutch Landsturm service all persons hitherto exempted from military service. ...
Article : 31 wordsPRZEMYSL AND THE SCENE OF PRESENT CO NFLICTS. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 8 wordsThe following official communique was issued late on Friday:—"Our attacks northward of Arras are progressing. We captured an enemy trench near Souchez sugar ...
Article : 223 wordsThe German account of the Franco-British aerial attack on the Crown Prince's headquarters acknowledges that several persons were killed, but states that the ...
Article : 43 wordsThe scheme for the Government control of the export of wheat from India is working smoothly and the results so far have been attended by success. The new crop is ...
Article : 163 wordsSome German airships dropped asphyriating gas bombs near Baura and Rawka yesterday. ...
Article : 8 wordsOur ships exchanged shots with a large German naval force in the Golf of Riga yesterday. ...
Article : 23 wordsYesterday evening's communique stated. "In the Caucasus we repulsed a Turkish attack, killing 400 men in the region of Meliazghert. The Turks also made a ...
Article : 40 wordsA German communique issued late on Friday stated:—"After some fighting we have reached villages eastward of Przemysl, but the full extent of our ...
Article : 169 wordsA gigantic new Zeppelin has made a trial trip between Sweden and Denmark. The airship is heavily armoured and supplied with three reservoirs for poisonous gas. ...
Article : 29 wordsA communique issued yesterday afternoon stated:—"Our offensive on the Isonzo River is beset with great difficulties as the ground is formidable, and the enemy's ...
Article : 51 wordsThe following despatch was received from Sir John French yesterday:—"The fighting during the last few days has been mainly artillery engagements. On the night of the ...
Article : 123 wordsThe Turkish Consul-General has closed the consulate. He placed the archives in a place of safety, refusing the demand of the German charge d'affaires that the documents ...
Article : 44 wordsA combined general assault on the Gallipoli Peninsula has begun. The Turks best Monday vigorously attacked the Australians on the heights of ...
Article : 96 wordsThe fall of Przemysl has been received with wonderful stocism by all classes. It is regarded as a mere episode of a great and complicated struggle, and the loss is ...
Article : 143 wordsA Reuter message says that last week Mr. Asquith visited the British headquarters in France. Using a fast motor car he reached an eminence from which he ...
Article : 141 wordsA platoon of Alpine Chasseurs at Vallinferno recently attacked a trench held by a superior number of Austrians. The lieutenant in charge was wounded and a corporal ...
Article : 80 wordsThe Press Bureau announces that the trial of the German spies Lush, Muller, and Hahn was held at the Old Bailey in camera yesterday before the Chief ...
Article : 106 wordsAs the result of the explosion when a Swedish steamer was mined off Peterhead, iron ore was sent flying all over the ship. When the vessel began to sink the crew ...
Article : 57 wordsDuring the attack on the enemy at Montecorado the Italians stampeded wild buffaloes against the Austrian entanglements as a means of smashing a way ...
Article : 26 wordsThere are great rejoicings in Berlin and Vienna over the recapture of Przemysl. It is noteworthy that the fall of the fortress was promptly followed by the ...
Article : 48 wordsA Berlin communique issued some days ago declares:—"We stormed a chateau in the village of Hooge. The British counter-attacks resulted in great bloodshed. The ...
Article : 51 wordsNight attacks on the Australian trenches continue, but in the daytime, apart from shrapnel fire, the enemy's main activity is being confined to the efforts of cleverly ...
Article : 126 wordsOn board the Welsh crawler Victoria, which was sunk by a German submarine U34 off Land's End on Thursday, were 10 persons, including a boy passenger. The ...
Article : 87 wordsThe employees of Messrs. Brunner, Mond and Co., are speeding up the manufacture of munitions, starting their daily work an hour and three-quarters earlier. Many ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Greek steamer Virginia struck a mine and sank yesterday near Cape Salvare. The crew perished. ...
Article : 24 wordsIt has been officially announced that a hostile airship appeared on Friday night over the east and south-east coasts of England. Bombs were dropped at various ...
Article : 51 wordsThe "Cologne Gazette" states that the Kaiser arrived at the Austrian headquarters on Friday and congratulated the army under the Archduke Friederich on the ...
Article : 34 wordsThe German military authorities estimate that the war will last another year. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe Austrians in the Trentino district who are retiring towards the Fiemme valley, have destroyed the magnificent mountain health resort of San Martino (about 40 miles ...
Article : 38 wordsCorrespondents point out that Germany hopes to re-transfer large forces to Flanders, if able to push the Russians back sufficiently to render the movement safe. ...
Article : 37 wordsMr. Winston Churchill, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, speaking at Dundee yesterday, said he did not intend to embark upon explanations, reproaches, or ...
Article : 952 wordsAn official communique states: "We gained further successes on the left bank of the San particularly westward of Rudnik, where we have continued to drive back the ...
Article : 293 wordsThe management committee of the General Federation of Trades Unions has issued a manifesto hinting at the possibility of a gigantic industrial dispute in ...
Article : 98 wordsAbout the middle of last week the crew of the Russian barque Montrosa, bound from Hull to Nova Scotia, landed in England and reported that their vessel had ...
Article : 157 wordsAustrian soldiers of Italian nationality are deserting daily and asking to be enrolled in the Italian army. ...
Article : 23 wordsA chaplain with the Third Russian Army in retreat in West Galicia narrates that many German regiments took no prisoners and bayoneted both the wounded and the ...
Article : 162 wordsThe news that Bulgaria has concentrated an army on the frontier is causing great anxiety in Constantinople. Reinforcements have been sent to Adrianople and Kirk ...
Article : 33 wordsThe authorities have confiscated 57 Anstro-German steamers of a total register of 215,780 tons. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 7 Jun 1915, Page 7
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