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Article : 4,261 wordsThe rapid increase of activity on the Western front is the principal topic of conversation. The men, throughout the line are girding their loins for the struggle. The ...
Article : 336 wordsSpurred, doubtless, by the exposures which have been appearing in the "West Australian," the Government has decided on a policy for the future dealings of ...
Article : 1,044 wordsThe Salonika correspondent of the "Echo de Paris" reports: "A lively dispute has arisen between Enver Pasha, Turkish Minister for War. and the German generals. ...
Article : 147 wordsThe whisky distillers have gladly assented to the Government's proposal to restrict imports of grain for distillation. It is unlikely the effect upon the trade will be ...
Article : 83 wordsThe "Daily Review" states: "The mobilisation of Roumania's troops has been completed to the calling up of the last class of recruits. The General Staff is ...
Article : 122 wordsThe "Daily Mail" states: "The Government has approved of a scheme for placing the whole of the air defences of the United Kingdom, except the Admiralty's ...
Article : 163 wordsThe police yesterday raided the premises of the Women's Social Union, in Mecklen burgh square. and seized copies of the "Britannica." ...
Article : 27 wordsThe War Office has received despatches from General Townshend at kut-el-Amars, and from Colonel Aylmer, whose column is on the Tigris to the southward, reporting ...
Article : 64 wordsAn Austrian communique issued yesterday evening stated: "Our troops in Albania have reached the lower Arzon River. The enemy has retreated to the southern bank ...
Article : 34 wordsMr. Donohoe, —"Daily Chronicle's" special correspondent, telegraphs from Athens: "Bulgarian troops are now located at Ficri, only 20 miles north of the Albanian ...
Article : 55 wordsThe fourth German war loan of ten milliards of marks will shortly be issued. ...
Article : 22 wordsEnemy aeroplanes yesterday dropped bombs into Milan. The raiders were subject to a hot fire from anti-aircraft guns. Squadrons of Italian aeroplanes ...
Article : 56 wordsThere was very little in the attitude of the men at Liverpool camp to-day to indicate the disorder of the previous night. Early in the morning groups of stragglers ...
Article : 613 wordsA communique issued yesterday evening in respect to operations on the Armenian front stated that the Russians captured the Erzerourn fort, where an explosion ...
Article : 33 wordsA big meeting was held yesterday in the Cannon-street Hotel to protest against the ineffectiveness of our blockade of Germany. The greatest enthusiasm was displayed ...
Article : 437 wordsGeneral Sir Douglas Haig reported yesterday evening as follows:—"A German wireless message reports that the Germans captured 40 British soldiers at Pilhem. We ...
Article : 119 wordsThe German Zeppelin L20 was observed on Friday over the island of Manoe on the south-west coast of Denmark. She was flying unusually low, and slowly. Her ...
Article : 47 wordsA congress of the associated chambers of commerce of the United Kingdom has been arranged to meet on the 29th inst., to consider post-war problems. ...
Article : 352 wordsA German communique issued yesterday evening stated:—"North-west of Tahure we stormed and captured over 700 meres of French positions, and made prisoners of ...
Article : 60 wordsThe British Commission appointed to investigate the output of munitions in France reports as follows:—"The main causes of success are—(1) That no strikes have ...
Article : 150 wordsA serious motor smash occurred at a quarter-past 2 o'clock this morning at the corner of Queensberry and Leicestar streets, Cariton, as a result of which three persons ...
Article : 270 wordsAn Admiralty report announces that the British light cruiser Arethusa, which played so gallant a part on the first naval fight of the war on August 28, 1914, was ...
Article : 171 wordsMr. Andrew Fisher visited the Weymouth military depot yesterday and inspected a draft of 1,200 Australians expecting an immediate call to return to the front. He ...
Article : 215 wordsThe following is the complete casualty list:—Killed; Private E. W. O'Keefe, 6th Light Horse, bullet wound in the cheek and bayonet wounds in the left side, neck, ...
Article : 435 wordsThe Western Australian boys who have just returned from a tour of the United States and Canada were entertained at dinner at the Oriental Hotel to-night by ...
Article : 188 wordsSpeaking to the London representative of the "Tribune" yesterday, Mr. Walter Long (President of the British Local Government Board) said:—"After the war, ...
Article : 67 wordsA fatal motor smash occurred in the vicinity of the Seaton golf links, near Adelaide, late on Monday evening, and as a result W. H. Richardson of Port ...
Article : 106 wordsThe report of the loss of the French light cruiser Amiral Charnier, which was last heard of on the Syrian coast on the 7th inst., has been officially confirmed. ...
Article : 108 wordsIt was announced yesterday, during the Senate debate on the Nicaraguan Treaty, that Germany had offered a larger sum than the United States had offered in order ...
Article : 103 wordsWilliam Gurden Rigden, William Fownes Rigden, and Stanley Fownes Rigden, partners in the well-known glove firm of Fownes Brothers and Company, pleaded ...
Article : 144 wordsMaurice Flynn, a miner, was killed by a fall of earth in the Great Boulder mine to-night. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe New York correspondent of the "Daily Mail" states that Count von Bernstorff, the German Ambassador at Washington, has, in response to a suggestion ...
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Article : 32 wordsAt the conclusion of last night's play in the billiard match of 18,000 up between Inman and Gray the scores were :—Inman, 10,142; Gray, 9,288. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Athens correspondent of the "Giornale d'Italia," of Rome, reports that there are 200,000 Germans concentrating between Ghevgeli, Doiran, and Strumnitza. ...
Article : 65 wordsThe inquest was resumed yesterday into the death of Private Volk, an Australian soldier, whose dead body was found on January 20 near the London suburban ...
Article : 218 wordsAt Schenectady, in the State of New York, the General Electric Company's munition plant was yesterday destroyed by fire. The cause is unknown. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Wed 16 Feb 1916, Page 7
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