The most important news from the eastern front refers to the German offensive in the north, Riga and Kovno are on the point of evacuation, and Russian military authorities do not dismiss lightly the possibility of a serious attack upon the Russian rear. ...
Article : 139 wordsThirty-seven detained German vessels hoisted flags on receipt of the news of the occupation of Warsaw. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe contributions to the Prince of Wales Fund for the past year, including interest, amounted to £5,431,671, of which £2,395,000 has been distributed. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Germans set fire to a Danish schooner in the North Sea yesterday. The crew of the vessel were picked up. The Norwegian barque Vanadis was sunk ...
Article : 43 wordsIn defiance of President Wilson's proclamation of the neutrality of the United States, tens of thousands of German-Americans are joyously celebrating the taking of ...
Article : 40 wordsThe India Office has issued a statement made by a senior officer in the Indian army, in which he says:—"We have been much impressed with the camaraderie and ...
Article : 101 wordsThe coal output of Northern England is satisfactory. Since Mr. Lloyd George's appeals 25 per cent. of the colliers have enlisted, but nevertheless the output is 552,000 ...
Article : 47 wordsThe stock of gold in the United States is now £100,000,000 greater than it was a year ago. The Bethlehem Steel Company's common stock, which was quoted on ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Cologne correspondent of "De Tijd" states:—"Austria and Germany will make an announcement, synchronising with the meeting of the Reichstag, creating an ...
Article : 74 wordsWith a view to reaching a settlement of the questions in dispute in the Balkans the representatives of Great Britain, France, Russia and Italy have forwarded a ...
Article : 47 wordsMr. G. Valentine Williams, correspondent of the "Standard," giving the first complete account of the deeds of the 13th Brigade at Hill 60, says that it is a story ...
Article : 789 wordsChina and Japan have signed an agreement for re-opening the Chinese Customs house at Tsingtao and permitting the resumption of trade, which has been dead ...
Article : 40 wordsThe question of whether the Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) should be called in connection with the proceedings with respect to Franz Wallah, a prisoner interned ...
Article : 354 wordsReports from Cairo state that the Turkish troops in Syria have been ordered to Constantinople, and that new levies are moving in the same direction for the ...
Article : 38 wordsThe postal Commission appointed by the Chamber of Deputies has recommended that penny postage should be established between France and Britain. ...
Article : 30 wordsAlthough the Constitutional and Democratic parties demand the establishment of a Ministry of Munitions on the English lines the Government opposes the ...
Article : 61 wordsThe tension between Italy and Turkey is increasing. Italy has categorically demanded from Turkey an explanation of certain outrages, as well as reparation for them. ...
Article : 35 wordsAlthough attempting to belittle the importance of Roumania's attitude in view of the recent events, the German newspapers show considerable irritation over the ...
Article : 75 wordsThe personnel of the National Cabinet was announced on Saturday, and the members were sworn in that evening. The Cabinet consists of thirteen members, six ...
Article : 195 wordsIt is reported that Enver Pasha, in discussing the Turkish massacres of Christians with neutral diplomatists, said:—"Our policy is Turkey for the Turk. We are ...
Article : 60 wordsProfessor Pares, of the University of Liverpool, who has just returned to London after a visit to Europe, considers that the Germans are absolutely inferior to the ...
Article : 146 wordsThe first contingent of South African volunteer workers for munition factories started for England yesterday. The men were given an enthusiastic farewell by ...
Article : 37 wordsThe following communique was issued last night:—"The enemy, supported by heavy artillery, twice attacked us in the Plava section to-day, but were repulsed. ...
Article : 174 wordsThe Rev. Mr. Brockhuizen, who was formerly secretary to General Beyers and who urged the burghers to support the rebel general, has been sentenced to ...
Article : 37 wordsThe following communique concerning the Caucasus was issued last night:—"To-day we repulsed stubborn Turkish attacks in the direction of Olty, supported by ...
Article : 64 wordsDrastic action is to be taken against street-corner speakers' expressing anti-recruiting sentiments. The Chief Secretary (Mr. Black) has made the following ...
Article : 309 wordsThe movement for the purchase of machine guns for the contingent about to be sent from South Africa to Europe is spreading. Money for buying 140 guns has been ...
Article : 65 wordsAlthough Russia hopes that the German attempt to squeeze the Russians between the forces advancing from the Narew and the Cholm-Lublin front have definitely ...
Article : 172 wordsAn official report, issued on Friday, stated:—"The forts of Ivangorod are constructed practically entirely of brick, and do not fulfil the necessities of modern ...
Article : 375 wordsThe Commission investigating the abuses of warfare states that an Austrian Red Cross party recently approached the Russian trenches cstensibly for the purpose of ...
Article : 60 wordsThe number of volunteers accepted at Victoria Barracks on Friday was 253 and 80 were passed at the night recruiting depot at the Board of Health offices. The new ...
Article : 368 wordsCertain monarchs have replied to the Pope's letter. There is good authority for stating that the Pope is about to take more definite ...
Article : 193 wordsIt was announced officially yesterday that an Italian airship on Thursday night successfully bombarded Pola. On returning, the airship, through some unknown cause, ...
Article : 72 wordsA Japanese volunteer, whose ears had been cut off by the Germans, reached Vilna yesterday. ...
Article : 20 wordsA communique issued on Friday stated: —"In Argonne grenade and petard fighting, supported by artillery fire of great intensity, continued throughout last night ...
Article : 165 wordsAn Austrian communique issued yesterday stated: "We penetrated to the south of Lubartow yesterday, and the Germans penetrated to the north-west of Lenczna into the ...
Article : 58 wordsAt the opening session of the Council of Empire M. Bobrinski said that the greater Russia's misfortunes the more intense grows her invincible resolution to ...
Article : 274 wordsA Berlin telegram states that the Russians firmly hold Praga and that artillery duels are taking place across the river. ...
Article : 28 wordsTwo Hungarian army corps from Eastern Galicia, in an extremely exhausted condition, are withdrawing from the Austrain frontier and are being replaced by ...
Article : 40 wordsIn a Berlin wireless message it is claimed that General von Woyrsch at Ivangorod adroitly assailed the Russians by massing his troops and pontoon material on trains ...
Article : 107 wordsPractical steps are being taken by the Defence Department to secure a sufficient supply of labour in Australia for the manufacture of all kinds of war munitions. A ...
Article : 226 wordsA German merchant, in a letter to a friend in Switzerland, states that German manufacturers are short of nickel, copper, zinc, manganese, tin, mineral and vegetable ...
Article : 82 wordsA Berlin communique issued on Friday stated:— "Fighting at Lingekopf continues. Our anti aircraft guns compelled four enemy ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Italian newspapers express satisfaction over the arrest of Baron Von Gampeuberg, one of the leaders of the German espionage corps. He was captured by a ...
Article : 56 wordsGerman manufacturers oppose the calling up of the untrained landsturmers in the towns. They have had several conferences with the military authorities on ...
Article : 38 wordsDuring the last twenty-four hours' bombardment of Argonne the Crown Prince's artillery threw 20,000 shells in a single hour without dislodging the French. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe correspondent of the Chicago "Daily News" who has arrived at Stockholm from Warsaw states that the first intimation of the evacuation of the city was given on ...
Article : 699 wordsSir Robert Borden, speaking at a luncheon at the Canada Club yesterday, said that the enemy's victory at Warsaw was nothing compared with the victory achieved ...
Article : 48 wordsA communique issued on Friday dealing with the Dardanelles operations, stated that since the beginning of August no striking incidents had taken place. There ...
Article : 42 wordsBy 417 votes to 13 votes the Chamber of Deputies yesterday adopted a Bill authorising the Government to requisition the country's supplies of oats, wheat, and ...
Article : 34 wordsThe German newspapers are conducting an energetic so-called "free of London" discussion, the question being how to get rid of the British financial supremacy. The ...
Article : 104 wordsSome of the best known Nottingham lacemakers possess large factories at Warsaw, valued at £500,000. ...
Article : 22 wordsA Berlin communique, issued on Friday, stated:—"We fought some successful cavalty battles at Popel, 40 miles north of Ponieweez, north-west of Wilkomierz. ...
Article : 275 wordsThe Germans in Flanders are constructing hundreds of huts to accommodate their troops during the autumn and winter. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe orgie of flag-waving and revelling by the crowds in Berlin has continued. In Vienna the people paraded the streets with effigies of the King of Italy, inscribed "I ...
Article : 289 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) stated yesterday that some people had insinuated that the German prisoners in Australia were being too well provided ...
Article : 115 wordsSome idea of the magnitude of the Defence Department's contracts may be gauged from a list of requirements just issued, the articles ranging from motor ...
Article : 82 wordsA new medal, known as the Naval General Service Medal, has been created for minor naval operations. The first recipients were officers and men who were employed ...
Article : 47 wordsA telegram from Athens states that a German submarine, seriously damaged and disabled, was towed to the Golden Horn, at Constantinople yesterday. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Germans have organised a coal bureau at Antwerp in connection with the mines of Belgium and the North of France. What coal is not required for the army ...
Article : 71 wordsIt is authoritatively reported in Berlin that the resignation of Herr von Jagow, Minister for Foreign Affairs, is imminent, as a result of the revelation of his ...
Article : 66 wordsA Turkish four-gun battery of French 75-millimetre guns, originally captured in transit to Serbia in the Balkan war. opened fire on us the other day and our eighth ...
Article : 267 wordsApropos of the renewed statements that Prince Louis of Battenberg was responsible for the order to the fleet to stand fast at the critical stage about a year ago, when he ...
Article : 119 wordsOwing to the outbreak of an epidemic at the Liverpool camp recruits are not being sent up there. On Friday, Saturday and Sunday those residing in or close to the ...
Article : 87 words"This is a fine welcome home!" exclaimed a wounded soldier on Saturday, as leaning back in a luxurious motor car, he was driven through cheering crowds from Port ...
Article : 420 wordsThe Chamber of Deputies has sent to the Duma a resolution expressing profound admiration of Russia, and enthusiastically concurring in the Russian determination to ...
Article : 47 wordsThe President is now consulting the heads of the army and navy, with a view to drawing up the necessary measures for the safety of the United States. Their ...
Article : 90 wordsFurther substantial returns came to hand on Saturday in connection with the Australia Day appeal. The amount now in hand is £454,086, made up as follows:—City and ...
Article : 63 wordsSamms, a member of the Sheffield Board of Guardians, has been sentenced to two months' imprisonment for attempting to spread disaffection among wounded soldiers. ...
Article : 140 wordsTreasure-hunting has become one of the secondary duties of the army in the war area. A large amount of treasure was hastily buried during the German ...
Article : 94 wordsAn exodus from Riga is proceeding at the rate of 10,000 persons daily. The British Consulate has been left under American protection. It is anticipated that the ...
Article : 44 wordsIt is understood that the naval programme will provide for the construction of four super-Dreadnoughts, probably two battle-cruisers of the Queen Elizabeth type, ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Federal Attorney-General (Mr. Hughes) on Saturday stated that it had been decided to establish the Metal Exchange as from September 6, and on and ...
Article : 265 wordsThe Kaiser, in acknowledging a congratulatory telegram from the King of Wurtemburg, stated:—"We can see in the fall of Warsaw a significant step on the road ...
Article : 88 wordsThe Berlin "Vossiche Zeitung" states: "The Russians have completed their preparations for the evacuation of Kovno, an important city of 80,000 inhabitants to the ...
Article : 66 wordsGeneral Sarrail, who is 58 years of age, has been appointed to replace General Gouraud, who was badly wounded over a month ago while in command of the French ...
Article : 134 wordsCaptain H. S. Smart, of the Indian Army, was removed from the service recently because he did not rejoin his regiment of the expiration of his leave in ...
Article : 211 wordsNegotiations have been completed for the formation of a big Irish whisky combine to secure economical working which has been necessitated by the heavy taxation for war ...
Article : 43 wordsPrior to the departure of the While Star liner Arabic (15,801 tons) for Liverpool on Friday a quantity of dynamite, likely to explode at any moment, was discovered on ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 9 Aug 1915, Page 7
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