In Committee last night, the Legislative Assembly gave further attention to the Sale of Liquor Regulation Bill. On clause 4 (referendum as to closing ...
Article : 1,853 wordsThe Russians report that there has been severe fighting on the Eastern front, and that they have repulsed several German attacks. The Germans and Austrians, on the other hand, claim to have inflicted heavy defeats upon the Russians. They declare that they have taken over 1,000,000 ...
Article : 156 wordsReports confirm the statement that Germans and Austrians are quietly drilling in their Turn Verein halls, professedly to repel a Canadian invasion. The Department of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,320 wordsThe King and Queen spent two and a half hours yesterday at the 3rd London General Hospital at Wandsworth. Two hundred prisoners, recently returned from ...
Article : 164 wordsAn extraordinary series of dynamiting outrages are breaking out in the ammunition and powder plants in the United States. It is unquestionable that German ...
Article : 53 wordsThe following communique was issued yesterday— The French column in the south-east of the Cameroons are advancing towards ...
Article : 93 wordsThe London newspapers give prominence to the result of the Commonwealth loan. They consider it a gratifying evidence of Australia's financial strength. ...
Article : 30 wordsThere are perhaps no three things in this world more entirely innocent and commonplace by themselves than a reel of cotton, a bottle of glycerine, and a pot of ...
Article : 954 wordsOwing to retrenchment 1,700 valuers, technical assistants and clerks, who had been employed in connection with Mr. Lloyd George's land valuation scheme, ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Governor of Nigeria reports the capture of the town of Gashaka, in the Cameroons, 50 miles from the Nigerian border. The enemy's position was surprised on ...
Article : 51 wordsA sailor on board the Bisson writes:— "We had good luck at sunrise on August 13, when we ran across the Austrian submarine U3. It took us just five seconds ...
Article : 86 wordsThe following list of awards of the Victoria Cross and accounts of the valour of the recipients was issued yesterday:— Major Wheeler, of the 7th Lancers. He ...
Article : 476 wordsRoumania has informed Austria and Germany that her refusal to allow the transit of munitions through her territory is due to a desire to maintain strict neutrality, ...
Article : 63 wordsFrench official reports continue to record violent cannonading, especially in Argonne, indicating a continuous effective bombardment of the German trenches, ...
Article : 68 wordsA communique issued yesterday evening stated:—"We captured four guns on the right bank of the Vilia to-day. The enemy has occupied Crany. Desperate fighting ...
Article : 181 wordsThe Belgian Government has published a Grey Book containing a series of documents showing that Austria plotted for war and that she foresaw a European conflagration, ...
Article : 291 wordsBaron Hayashi, the Japanese Ambassador, states that the public are not aware of the extent of Japan's co-operation with the Allies. When it is possible to tell the ...
Article : 67 wordsGerman aviators yesterday dropped bombs into Luneville (20 miles south-east of Nancy). The bombs wounded some civilians. ...
Article : 23 wordsGrand Admiral von Tirpitz is ill, suffering from overwork. The doctors have ordered him to take an extended holiday. ...
Article : 30 wordsM. Pegoud was killed in an air duel on the eastern frontier of France. Pegoud brought down his sixth enemy aviator on July 11. ...
Article : 257 wordsThe customs authorities at Dieppe have seized 1,800 postal packets originally from Germany, containing jewellery, textile goods, and silks. They had been conveyed ...
Article : 50 wordsDetails of the defeat of General Pflanzer show that some of the hardest fighting took place on the Bug, near Baelykamen, 10 miles south-west of Durk. The enemy on ...
Article : 168 wordsThe Austro-Hungarian Government announces that all subjects working in neutral countries, particularly America, who are employed in factories producing war ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Cardiff Conference almost unanimously accepted the terms of the coal settlement, thanking the leaders for their able conduct of the negotiations. The miners who ...
Article : 88 wordsCount von Bernstorff has informed Mr. R. Lansing, Secretary of State, that Germany has accepted the American principle that passenger liners must be warned ...
Article : 331 wordsThe Reichstag has passed a Bill, raising the military age to 54. German newspapers have been forbidden to disclose the fact. ...
Article : 29 wordsMilitary critics attach much importance to the Russian successes in eastern Galicia. The German attack on the Upper Bug and the Strypa aimed at pushing the Russians ...
Article : 80 wordsThere have been further movements in the American Exchange rate. Yesterday there was a substantial decline to 4 dollars 48 cents, but later on the rate recovered ...
Article : 54 wordsA party of Frenchmen yesterday was watching the Germans shelling a British monoplane. The machine was falling into the German lines when suddenly it rose ...
Article : 176 wordsThe military correspondent of the "Times" questions whether there are sufficient trained minds at the War Office competent to give the best advice on strategical matters, ...
Article : 129 wordsA Berlin communique issued yesterday stated:—"General von Hindenburg's troops are before the outer line of the forts at Grodno. Prince Leopold ...
Article : 144 wordsIgnatius Lincoln, the self-confessed German spy, formerly a member of the House of Commons, who offered his services to the British secret service while acting for ...
Article : 73 wordsJohn Samuel Griffiths, aged 25, at the Central Criminal Court to-day, pleaded "not guilty" to a charge of having murdered his father, Patrick James Griffiths, at ...
Article : 174 wordsA report from Sir Ian Hamilton received yesterday stated: "Further fighting took place on Friday and Saturday on the northern section of our line and resulted in ...
Article : 118 wordsDr. E J. Dillon, writing to the "English Review," advocates a scheme for enforcing the smaller neutral countries into the war. He urges that the Allies ought to adopt two ...
Article : 88 wordsThe Germans are testing a monster warplane, carrying 20 men. The trials are taking place over Lake Constance. The new machine is noisier than the Zeppelin. ...
Article : 34 wordsGeneral Russky has been appointed commander-in-chief of the armies for the defence of the northern region, and General Yanushkevitch has been appointed Assistant ...
Article : 55 wordsIn view of a suggestion that political differences should be set aside and that the Unionists should support the Ministerialists. Sir Thomas Smartt has written ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Archbishop of Canterbury is suffering from a severe attack of the illness from which he suffered in 1913. He has obtained relief, and his convalescence may be ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Board of Trade issued a statement yesterday showing that in August the Germans sank 39 sailing vessels, aggregating 20,190 tons, and 56 steamers, aggregating ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Governor of Warshaw has sent 30 Russian bankers to a concentration camp for refusing to accept promissory notes issued by the German authorities. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Press believes that Germany has lost so many submarines owing to the excellence of the British counter offensive methods that she is now willing to concede ...
Article : 48 wordsThe general impression here is that lack of ammunition will lead to the early fall of Constantinople which, according to the "Messagero," is destined to mark the ...
Article : 47 wordsA financial statement was presented to the Duma yesterday showing that the Government had already borrowed £600,000,000. Probably an important loan will be on ...
Article : 47 wordsAt Great Ayton, in Yorkshire, yesterday the Postmaster-General (Mr. Herbert Samuel) unveiled a tablet erected to the memory of Captain Cook in the school in ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Treasury, referring to statements circulated in various parts of the country that currency notes bearing certain specified serial numbers are forgeries, says that ...
Article : 83 wordsExperienced munition works to the number of 156 are either paying their passages or working their way to England. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Fri 3 Sep 1915, Page 7
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