The French have advanced a further three-quarters of a mile in the direction of Sonches. Desperate attacks by the French against difficult positions near Buval and Givenchy, and described in the cables. News of the fighting in Galicia indicates that the Germans and Australians are concentrating on Lemberg. Both of the official enemy reports claim victories of some importance. It is stated that the Russian positions at Grodek have ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 121 wordsThe Price of Foods Boards to-day considered the price of sugar and the position created by the shortage in the Australian crop. A number of witnesses representing ...
Article : 360 wordsThe following are the particulars of the next of kin of those Western Australians whose names appeared in the forty-first casualty list:— ...
Article : 402 wordsThe Montenegrins have occupied the heights of Tarabosch, their objective being Scutari (Albania). It is reported that the Servians have ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 126 words"Le Matin" states that Enver Pasha goes about in fear for his life. He was relieved of his military command in order to prevent his contact with the soldiers, ...
Article : 62 wordsH. H. Bramish (on behalf of the petitioners' committee) writes to us from Johannesburg under date of May 19:—I have been asked by the petitioners' committee ...
Article : 463 wordsFremantle.—The Fremantle Men's Branch of the Red Cross Society desire a large attendance of men at 8 to-night in the Oddfellows' Hall, William-street. The object of the ...
Article : 1,249 wordsLieutenant J. H. Allen, son of the Minister for Defence in New Zealand, has been killed at the Dardanelles. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,506 wordsTwo hundred and fifty recruits attended at Victorian Barracks on Sunday morning, and two hundred attended to-day. All were not accepted but the proportion of ...
Article : 41 wordsBritish casualties for the last week-end, announced yesterday, totally 4,251, including 1,129 deaths. Of the Argylls 102 men are suffering from the effects of poisonous gas. ...
Article : 31 wordsA communique announces that the French advanced three-quarters of a mile in the direction of Souchez. The artillery struggle continues to be very violent. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe work of taking down the oil store at North Fremantle was continued yesterday, and up to dinner time seventeen men were at work. Several of these were ...
Article : 330 wordsInterviewed at Dunedin to-day, the Minister for Finance (Mr. Allen) said that one of the first questions to be submitted to the Dominion Parliament would be a war ...
Article : 70 wordsAlthough the publication in Berlin of Exchange quotations is forbidden, under a severe penalty, "Le Matin" has obtained a reliable comparison, showing that the ...
Article : 76 wordsThe French have nicknamed the Buval Position "Hell's Mouth." It is a sheltered ravine on the south-east flank of Lorette, and is a natural stronghold bristling with ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 244 wordsA procession of 10,000 persons marched in procession, with banners flying and bands playing, and made a cordial demonstration before the Legations of the seven ...
Article : 45 wordsAn official communique issued yesterday stated:—"The enemy's forces crossed the Dniester below Nizhiow and occupied two villages. We, however, drove them back, ...
Article : 45 wordsReuter's Athene correspondent has forwarded details of the fighting in front of Achi Baba on June 4. He states:—"For an hour every gun on the British and ...
Article : 383 wordsThe time has come at last (remarks the "Weekly Scotsman") when we are set to test the prowess of the Turk as a soldier, not side by side as in the Crimes, but face ...
Article : 1,711 wordsExceptionally heavy rains in Galicia are assisting the Russian defence by increasing the boys. The rivers are greatly swollen and many small streams are now formidable ...
Article : 69 wordsThe villages north of Arras have been reduced to jumbled heaps of brick and mortar. Huge chasms, line with sandbags twist through the streets and machine ...
Article : 84 wordsSome of the best-informed international bankers in Wall-street are of opinion that Germany is trying to force America into the European war (writes the New York ...
Article : 363 wordsThe Germans, in an official communique, state:—"General von Mackensen's armies have captured Russian positions near Grodek. German troops, with an Austrian ...
Article : 197 wordsA British officer, in a letter describing the assault on La Bassee, says:—"Our artillery poured a tempest of shells on the Givenchy brickfields, and one could see the ...
Article : 240 wordsStrong resentment is expressed by Labour men at Lithgow regarding the delay in establishing the second shift at the Commonwealth Small Arms Factory. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 144 wordsThe Hungarian Government has sequestrated the new grain harvest and established a monopoly regulating the entire corn trade. The embargo lasts until ...
Article : 44 wordsMr. H. W. Moss, chairman of the committee formed at the Sand Queen Gold Mines, Ltd., Comet Vale, to take up subscriptions up for the Western Australian ...
Article : 506 wordsField-Marshal Sir John French yesterday inspected the 3rd Cavalry Division, and thanked the men for their wonderful performance in the trenches of Ypres. He ...
Article : 190 wordsThe majority of the wounded deny the stories of Turkish atrocities and state that the Turks are fighting most fairly. In one case it is said a Turk dressed the wounds ...
Article : 501 wordsMr. Hilaire Belloc is one of the most helpful and encouraging writers upon the war and its final issue. His knowledge of military history is great, as is his personal ...
Article : 692 wordsA French destroyer yesterday captured, between Cape Matapan and Crete, a small Greek vessel with forged papers. There were a number of Turkish officers on board, ...
Article : 48 wordsIt is understood that Germany is calling out a further 400,000 young men. These are said to be first-class material. being mostly railway workers. ...
Article : 36 wordsLeslie R. H. Bentley, a young farmer, residing at Echuca South, was charged at the Echuca Court to-day with having used insulting words tending to cause a breach of ...
Article : 210 wordsA Berlin communique states that north of the La Bassee Canal, and north of Arras, the Germans bloodily repulsed several attacks. ...
Article : 28 wordsThere was a representative gathering in the Mayor's parlour at the Kalgoorlie Town Hall this afternoon, when a civic reception was tendered to Bishop ...
Article : 208 wordsIt is explained in Berlin that the Norwegian steamer Granit was sunk by the German submarine because she carried a cargo of mine props, which are absolute ...
Article : 37 wordsTouching demonstrations were witnessed when the bodies of Lieutenant Warneford and Mr. H. B. Needham were transferred from Versailles to Paris on the way to ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Tue 22 Jun 1915, Page 7
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