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Detailed lists, results, guides : 2,574 wordsAfter several days' silence word has come concerning the doings of the British troops in France. A Paris message intimates that they captured a line of trenches west of La Bassee on Tuesda Sir John French reports that the British [?]eixed a line of German trenches north of Hooge on Wednesday, and repulsed a counter-attack, with heavy loss to the enemy. The French have gained ground in the Lorette, Souchez, and the Vosges regions. The Germans evacated ...
Article : 254 wordsIt is understood that the Government, with the assent of the trade unions, has resolved to ask for greater powers than are conferred by the Defence of the Realm ...
Article : 157 wordsThe "Pall Mall Gazette" remarks, concerning colonial finances:—"It would be better if the Treasury undertook to finance the pressing necessities of the Colonial ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,286 wordsBoard of Trade statistics concerning the payment of war bonuses show that 1,937,444 workers, during January and May, secured a weekly increase of nearly 3s. 6d. ...
Article : 75 wordsMr. Ben Tillett, the Labour organiser, who has been on a visit to the Franco-Belgian front, was interviewed yesterday. He said that he had learned a new ...
Article : 94 wordsIt is officially announced that the Zeppelin raid on the north-east coast on Tuesday resulted in 16 people being killed, including several policemen, and 40 being ...
Article : 72 wordsMr. H. J. Tarmant, Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the War Office, announced in the House of Commons yesterday that it was impossible to speak in detail of the ...
Article : 81 wordsThe latest official report stated: "Combets have been favourable to us along the whole frontier, notable near Carnia and on the Isonso. The Alpini at Montenero charged ...
Article : 45 wordsThe official communique issued yesterday stated:—"The German attacks during the last three days at Liatzkow were unsuccessful, and the action ended in our favour. ...
Article : 131 wordsLast evening's communique states that the British during the daytime on Tuesday captured a line of trenches west of La Bassee. A German aeroplane was forced ...
Article : 165 wordsThe hearing of the charges of selling iron ore to Krupps against Robert Irving-Dale and Henry Wilson was continued at Glasgow yesterday, when the accountant ...
Article : 117 wordsThe Austrian plan of campaign is now clearer. The enemy is prepared for a desperate defence of Gorizia and Tolmino, believing it impossible for the Italians to ...
Article : 207 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday, Lord Robert Cecil stated that the Government had taken steps to prevent cotton from entering Germany. All cotton from ...
Article : 77 wordsThe enemy's strength on the San is enormous. With their new reinforcements, the Germans alone have 14 army corps concentrated in the regions of Lubacrowka ...
Article : 79 wordsThe following despatch was received from Sir John French yesterday:—"On Tuesday evening we captured one mile of the first line of the enemy's trenches east of ...
Article : 93 wordsOwing to the loss of revenue due to the war the Senate of the University of Cambridge is appealing for £13,000 to meet the deficiency in the funds of the University. ...
Article : 48 wordsAn Austrian communique issued yesterday declared:—During the last 15 days we captured 108 Russian officers, 122,300 men, 53 cannon, and 117 machine guns. ...
Article : 35 wordsCaptain Oscar Walker, a Melbournian, of the Worcestershires, and Lieut. J. S. Rich, a Sydneyite, of the Liverpools, have been killed in action. Lieut. H. F. Garret, a ...
Article : 47 wordsThe following Belgian communique was issued yesterday:—"We gained a footing on the western border of the grounds of the Cheateau Borne on the ...
Article : 24 wordsMr. M. H. Donohoe, special correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle," telegraphed yesterday:—The Austrians attacked the Italian positions in the Sessis Pass at dawn ...
Article : 112 wordsAn official report issued in Berlin states:—Defeated Russians on Wednesday attempted to arrest our pursuit on the San front between Sieniaja and the Dniester ...
Article : 71 wordsA cable message, which was received in Adelaide to-day intimated that Lieutenant Colonel Miell who was in command of the 9th Light Horse Regiment from South ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Lord Mayor's special appeal, at the Mansion House meeting, on behalf of the Red Cross Fund, has resulted in the raising of £87,455, including the second instalment ...
Article : 50 wordsThe correspondent of the "Daily Mail" at Rotterdam reports that the Germans, with machine guns, checked a spirited British advance near La Basee. ...
Article : 103 wordsThe Commission inquiring into German atrocities in Poland has examined Sergeant-Major Albo, who said he had a large slice cut from his back by a German officer in ...
Article : 48 wordsIn the State Parliament yesterday, the Attorney-General (Mr. W. Mackinnon) presented the report from the joint select committee on the consolidation of laws, which ...
Article : 141 words"Le Matin" estimates the German losses to date in killed, wounded and prisoners at 4,200,000 out of 8,500,000. The Austrian losses are put down at 2,526,000, out of ...
Article : 42 wordsAn official Austrian report issued yesterday claims that the Italians have been repulsed everywhere. ...
Article : 12 wordsIn the House of Representatives to-day. The Prime Minister (Mr. Fisher) made a statement regarding the efforts of the Defence Department and the Government in ...
Article : 749 wordsThe trawlers Explorer, Petrol, and Japonier, of Aberdeen, have been sunk by a German submarine. According to a message from Copenhagen ...
Article : 49 wordsThe correspondent of "Le Temps" at Petrograd states that a Russian squadron severely damaged a Turkish cruiser in the Black Sea. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe following communique was issued in Berlin yesterday:—"Influenced by the recent Russian defeats, the French and British made strong attacks on us at many ...
Article : 107 wordsSeveral newspapers point out that Dr. Mayer-Gerhard, ostensibly Court Bernstorff's emissary from Berlin, was really Alfred Meyer, Chief of the German Army ...
Article : 126 wordsA message from a nentral source in Karlsruhe states that 50 bombs were dropped into the city, almost destroying the palace which was the headquarters of the ...
Article : 84 wordsThe second trial of Geo. Cochrance, also known as Grant Hervey, on a charge of forging and uttering a telegram to the "Casterton News," in Victoria, on ...
Article : 145 wordsThe mail steamer Thorsten, bound from Gothemburg to England, has been captured by the Germans and conveyed to Swine-munde (Prussia). ...
Article : 25 wordsThe French military authorities are equipping the infantry with light steel helmets resembling antique headpieces, as some protection from fragments of spent shells and ...
Article : 33 wordsThe British steamer Arndale, laden with coal, and bound for Archangel, has been sunk by a mine south of Cape Orlov (Russia). Three of the crew were drowned. ...
Article : 70 wordsThe persistence of the drought in Germany is likely seriously to affect the harvest, especially in Mecklenburg and East Prussia. ...
Article : 30 wordsAn official Berlin report dealing with the air raid on Karlsruhe states that 19 persons were killed and 14 seriously injured. It adds that the population are embittered ...
Article : 43 wordsThe executing of eight Liege citizens by the Germans for alleged espionage has produced intense anger in Belgium. Twenty others are still imprisoned, and great ...
Article : 81 wordsThe adjourned case in which Mary Ethel Weir was charged with stealing £18 from her husband, when deserting him in Western Australia, was mentioned in the Police ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Roumanian authorities have stopped another train of 20 trocks bound for Turkey with double framework and the lower spaces filled with shells. All have been ...
Article : 81 wordsIt has been officially announced that Captain Hersing, the commander of the German submarine which torpedoed the Lusitania, has been decorated "in recognition of ...
Article : 36 wordsThree British aviators dropped three bombs on a Zeppelin shed at Grondrade, north of C[?] The damage caused is not known. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Fri 18 Jun 1915, Page 7
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