The later reports of the battle in the Gulf of Riga are lacking in detail. They do not state clearly the full extent of the German losses; but apparently the invading force was soundly beaten and a British submarine accounted for the German Dreadnought. ...
Article : 145 wordsLord Esher, in a letter to the Glasgow "Herald" stated that all the British people are actors in this great tragedy. He urges the rich to abandon all profits derived from ...
Article : 150 wordsYesterday the recruiting staff at District Headquarters experienced a light day, the total number of volunteers for the Australian Imperial Forces amounting to only ...
Article : 40 wordsPresident Wilson is still awaiting details of the sinking of the Arabic. The British announcement that the Arabic was not convoyed, made no attempt to escape, and ...
Article : 61 wordsIn connection with the new scheme of training the men of the Australian Imperial Forces in depot battalions, a start was made in this State yesterday, when two ...
Article : 185 wordsMessages from Berlin indicate that the German official spokesmen are seeking to allay American irritation by suggesting that the Arabic was mined and not submarined. ...
Article : 165 wordsMr. J. Hodge, M.P. who visited France recently and met the French trade union and socialist leaders, allayed their fears with regard to the attitude of British trade ...
Article : 53 wordsThe control of Woolwich arsenal has passed from the War Office to the Ministry for Munitions. ...
Article : 21 wordsTo-day proved brisk as regard recruiting for the expeditionary forces. The number of men accepted at the metropolitan depots was 370. ...
Article : 52 wordsThere are 30,000 alien enemies interned in the United Kingdom. ...
Article : 15 wordsThe members for North Perth (Mr. Smith) asked the Premier in the Legislative Assembly yesterday if the police had made any report "concerning the disloyal ...
Article : 88 wordsThere were uproarious scenes yesterday at a Labour Congress which was attended by delegates from all parts of South Africa. Mr. Creswell's resolution, wholeheartedly ...
Article : 115 wordsMr. W. J. Bryan, formerly Secretary of State, has issued through the newspapers an appeal to Americans not to travel on British vessels owing to the risks of the latter ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Premier (Sir Alexander Peacock) received a telegram to-day from the Premier of New South Wales stating that it was not now proposed to convene a confference ...
Article : 111 wordsWhen this morning, the sixth day of the fight, broke, not a sound of a gun or even of rifle firing, could be heard. The perfect silky glassiness of the sea opposite Suvla, ...
Article : 824 wordsThe Socialist newspaper "Volkreicht" publishes a memorial, which Germany suppressed, and which was presented to the Reichstag by the newly founded German ...
Article : 236 wordsCaptain W. C. Robinson, of the 10th Light Horse, who is included among the wounded in the last casualty list, was born in England, in 1869, but was brought ...
Article : 370 wordsAnother death from cerebro spinal meningitis was reported to-day when there were eleven fresh cases notified. ...
Article : 28 wordsForty South African volunteers have arrived in England. The majority of them participated in the South-West African campaign and are eager for further service. ...
Article : 38 wordsThe old battleship Slava put up a fine fight against the enemy's cruisers in the Riga action. Two of the German's best destroyers were sent to attack the Slava, ...
Article : 165 wordsRussian warships have again destroyed the coaling stations and fortifications on the Anatolian coast, after their reconstruction. They also sank several coal laden ...
Article : 46 wordsA British bombardment of Zeebrugge began at 6 o'clock on Monday morning, and lasted for three hours. The shock smashed many windows in Dutch Zeeland. There ...
Article : 324 wordsThe Australia Day Fund for this State now stands at £608,000, including £37,000 to the credit of what is called "The Mothers' Thirty Thousand." ...
Article : 37 wordsIt was officially announced yesterday that the Government had gratefully accepted the Transvaal Coal Owners' Association's offer in behalf of the Witbank collieries of ...
Article : 44 wordsA meeting of the owners of lathes and other machinery suitable for munition work will be held in the Builders' Exchange, Commercial Union Chambers St. George's ...
Article : 648 wordsThe American Association of Commerce, whose reports regarding Germany have hitherto been optimistic, now disclose that Germany is facing a serious meat shortage ...
Article : 66 wordsA British submarine torpedoed the coalship Espanan near Constantinople yesterday. The German liner Tenedos (3,564 tons) ...
Article : 43 wordsAn Austrian communique issued yesterday, declared that the Italians had suffered severe losses in an unsuccessful attack on the Tolmino bridgehead. ...
Article : 47 wordsThe tremendous fires in Constantinople about a month ago, in which 3,000 buildings were destroyed, were caused by bombs dropped by Russian avistors. ...
Article : 37 wordsPrivate D. C. Johnson, of the 11th Bastalion, A.I.F., who is an inmate of the Bed Cross Hospital in Manchester, writes as follows to a relative in Perth:— ...
Article : 643 wordsEnthusianstic demonstrations were made outside the British Embassy yesterday. ...
Article : 14 wordsRoumania has guarded all the railway material in the country which from September 14 will be placed at the Government's disposal. ...
Article : 28 wordsIt was officially announced yesterday that Mr. Walter Runciman's promised decisions on the various deferred points in connection with the South Wales coal trade agreement ...
Article : 158 wordsThe war with Turkey is enthusiastically approved of throughout Italy. General Cadorna's army has received the news with frantic hurrahs and cheers, so loud that ...
Article : 108 wordsA communique issued yesterday evening stated:—"The situation in the Riga district on land is unchanged. We held up the enemy's offensive in the Kovarsk, ...
Article : 91 wordsGeneral Von Faldeck has ordered that the German soldiers' equipment must not be abandoned on the battlefields. Helmets must not be placed on graves and the tunics ...
Article : 64 wordsIt is freely rumoured in Berlin that the position of the Turks is becoming desperate, owing to a shortage of ammunition. A collapse of the defence is inevitable unless ...
Article : 44 wordsThe German birthrate has decreased by 25 per cent. since the beginning of the war. ...
Article : 21 wordsIt is officially announced that two French torpedo boats sank a-German destroyer off Ostend on Sunday night, after a fight in which the French torpedo boats sustained ...
Article : 37 wordsGeneral Danglis has accepted the portfolio of Minister for War. M. Cafantaria is the new Minister for the Interior. The other Ministers are the same as in the ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Dedeagatch correspondent of the "Temps" reports:—"At the last Cabinet meeting under Prince Said Halim Pasha as Grand Vizier, hard words were exchanged ...
Article : 118 wordsA Berlin communique issued yesterday stated:—"General von Eichord's troops are advancing east and south of Kovno. We occupied the fortress at Ossowiee, ...
Article : 116 wordsCanadian Prisoners in Germany have been placed on reduced rations, in consequence of allegations that Germans interned at Amherst. Nova Scotia, are being ...
Article : 38 wordsA communique issued yesterday afternoon stated:—"We captured several trenches on the Linge and Barenkopf crests to-day. Our aeroplanes bombarded the railway ...
Article : 76 wordsThe following list of winners of the Victoria Cross and descriptions of their achievements was issued yesterday:— Captain Paul Butler, of the Gold Coast ...
Article : 321 wordsThe remains of the Zeppelin which was damaged by British aeroplanes after taking part in a raid upon England on the 9th inst. were conveyed through Bruges, ...
Article : 46 wordsTwo trainloads of Australian and New Zealand wounded soldiers arrived in London Yesterday, some of them having participated in the battle on August 8. There ...
Article : 60 wordsSince Friday night the battle, which started on the Australian right at Anzac with the magnificent capture of Lonesome Pine trenches by our 1st Infantry Brigade, ...
Article : 687 wordsPrivate advices from Berlin states that the struggle at Brest Litovsk is developing into a big battle, extending along the whole line. The Russians are constantly sending ...
Article : 69 wordsThe steamer Vider is being fitted up for the purpose of conveying to Hull the bodies of the men lost on the British submarine E13. Numerous wreaths have been ...
Article : 44 wordsIt was officially announced yesterday that the American course of action would be determined when all the Arabic facts had been ascertained. This is interpreted to ...
Article : 220 wordsThe following communique was issued at Berlin yesterday evening:—"New fighting has developed on the Lingekopf. Schratzmanelle, Barrenkopf line to-day. Strong ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Danish Legation at Berlin telegraphed yesterday that Herr Von Jagow, the German Foreign Minister, had expressed Germany's regrets and had apologised ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Germans subjected the first fort captured at Kovno to a bombardment of 600 guns. The shellfire destroyed the facade of the Cathedral. Three Zeppelins and 30 ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Salvation Army are pushing on with the arrangements to prosecute their work at the Claremont new military camp. The transfer of troops began yesterday, when ...
Article : 509 wordsIt is stated officially that M. Ribot, French Minister of Finance, and Mr. R. McKenna, Chancellor of the Exchequer, met at Boulogue on Saturday and discussed ...
Article : 102 wordsAn important statement was made to-day by the Federal Attorney-General (Mr. Hughes) with regard to contracts made by the Commonwealth, the States, and ...
Article : 322 wordsThe District Commandant (Colonel J. H. Bruche) has been appointed president of a committee which was constituted recently for the purpose of considering the new ...
Article : 149 wordsA wireless message despatched by the German authorities from Berlin states:—"The list of booty secured by us at Kovno is incomplete, but it is known that we took ...
Article : 85 wordsMr. J. Hodge, M.P. (Labour) announced yesterday that the question of compulsory service was thoroughly discussed at the trade union conference in Bristol in ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Wed 25 Aug 1915, Page 7
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