Arrivals from Petrograd state that Russias hopes to put into the field in the spring 7,000,000 troops, including 1,000,000 cavalry, with 10,000 pieces of artillery. ...
Article : 71 wordsGeneral Cadorna reported on Friday evening:— "Repeated Austrian counter-attacks on the heights to the north-west of Gorizia did not prevent us from consolidating ...
Article : 84 wordsThe Kaiser, upon hearing last week that his troops were dispirited owing to their failure to dislodge the Russians, and owing to the rigours of winter, appeared ...
Article : 84 wordsRevoluntionary proclamations, distributed by the Turkish army, have been placarded on the Turkish railways, appealing to the soldiers, in the name of God to turn their ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Serbians are concentrating upto a fresh position parallel with the Arbanian frontier. They have established communication with Durazzo and are thus assured of ...
Article : 466 wordsDuring the week 13 recruits for the Australian Imperial Forces were accepted in Kalgoorlie. Most of the left for Perth this evening. ...
Article : 29 wordsThere are extensive movements of German troops from the west front towards Serbia. The railways through Freiburg, Ulm, and Augsburg have been entirely ...
Article : 121 wordsA communique issued last night stated:— "Our artillery at the Dardanelles on Wednesday and Thursday effectively bombarded heavy Turkish guns. Large numbers of ...
Article : 36 wordsA semi-official message from Petrogrard announces that the Germancruiser Frauenlob (2,710 tons) has been sunk by a British submarine in the Baltic. ...
Article : 33 wordsTo-morrow night, in the Cottesloe Hall,a splendid concert, arranged by Mr. Moseley, will be given under the patronage of Sir John and Lady Forrest to provide ...
Article : 70 wordsA Vienna communique issued yesterday afternoon stated : "Italian heavy shells and incendiary bombs are failling in the town of Gorizia, which is being systematically shot ...
Article : 59 wordsA Turkish communique issued last night stated—"Our artillery near Anafarta and Ariburuhu destroyed some enemy machine guns and some bomb throwers' positions ...
Article : 85 wordsThe Canadian Government has cables £10,000 to the Anglo-Russian hospital organisation for the Russian front. It is announced that £100.000 is required and ...
Article : 49 wordsThe 'Vorrwaerts," the leading socialist newspaper in Germany, draws attention to Dr. George Irmer's pamphlet, admitting that Germany's role as a colonial Power in ...
Article : 94 wordsThe trail of John Jackson, Richard Buckley, and Alexander Ward, charged with the murder of Constable David Edward McGrath, at the Trades Hall on October 1. ...
Article : 743 wordsA communicate with regard to the operations in the Monte Nero district states:—"The enemy are busy reconnoitring, but are concealing the direction of their ...
Article : 46 wordsThe election of Mr. Stanton to the Merthyr-Tydvil seat, held by the late Mr. Keir Hardie, is regarded as of the greatest significance. Merthyr was the stronghold ...
Article : 272 wordsThe difficulties of the Australian wheat scheme are becoming very real. The most serious problem facing the committee is that of obtaining sufficient ships to transport ...
Article : 781 wordsLord Kitchener, who is visiting Italy on his return from the Dardanelles and Greece, arrived on the Austro-Italian front yesterday and met King Victor Emmanuel. ...
Article : 52 wordsSome months ago Mr. E. J. Lucock, of the Hobart Hop Factory, received a letter from a firm in the United States with which he had never previously done ...
Article : 259 wordsThe "Corrier della Sera" states: "The activities of Prince Hohenlohe and Prince Shaumburg-Lippe, and renewed German intrigues with the Roumanian newspapers ...
Article : 69 wordsThe steamer Zelandia, which a British cruiser serached off the Mexican coast for contraband of war for Germany, has returned to New York with her cargo ...
Article : 108 wordsThe following report of British operations on the Flanders front has been issued by Sir John French:—"Our artillery successfully bombarded ...
Article : 131 wordsReuter's Agency states:—"Austria and Germany a few days ago made a joint demand to Roumania to allow their war vessels to proceed from the Danube ...
Article : 71 wordsAt the trial of the directors of the Hamburg-American Shipping Company yesterday the master of the Norwegian steamer Nepos gave evidence that he carried ...
Article : 113 wordsTransports, escorted by the Turco-German warships, Goeben, Breslau, and three submarines, are landing Turkish troops and munitions at Varna. ...
Article : 71 wordsIt was notified in the Commonwealth "Government Gazette" yesterday by the Attonery-General (Mr. Hughes) that Persmission had been given under the Trading ...
Article : 102 wordsAn extensive peace movement is on foot in the United States. The peace parties are planning a special excursion to Europe to endeavour to persuade the Power to ...
Article : 58 wordsAn air raid by the Allies on Thursday destroyed a railway bridge over the Scheldt near Oudenarde, an the Coutrai-Brussels railway. ...
Article : 28 wordsA wireless French official message states that by a conference in London, the four Allies—England, France, Russia, and Italy—have instituted a permanent ...
Article : 94 wordsAt telegram from Athens states — "The Allies' Ministers yesterday handed the Greek Premier (M. Skoulidis) an important note defining what is expected of ...
Article : 201 wordsGermany has agreed to repatriate many French subjects taken as hostages. Twenty thousand will be sent to Switerland enroute to France. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe "Journal" states:— "Advices from Munich report that the Austrian, German, and Turkish Minister left Teheran hurriedly last week to avoid being lynched by ...
Article : 32 wordsThe officers of the Commonwealth Headquarters staff are busily engaged drawing up schemes for the raising and equipping of the new force of 50,000 men which has ...
Article : 220 wordsA communique issued yesterday evening stated:—"The enemy to-day ejected three successive clouds of asphyxiating gas from the forges in the Bethincourt sector. ...
Article : 52 wordsIndia continues generously to support the war funds. A movement at Lahore for Northern India to supply seven aeroplanes named after the large rivers of the ...
Article : 150 wordsCilonel Maitland, who has joined the Naval aviatin force, to-day made a daring demonstration of the efficacy of the parachute as a safeguard in case of ...
Article : 118 wordsThe Serbians have captured Krashevo. The Serbs and the Bulgars are engaged in a battle to the north-west of Uskub. The former are fighting with desperate ...
Article : 35 wordsAccording to German advices received from Brussels the French soldier whose confession that he had been [?]ted by Miss Cavell, led to the arrest and execution ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Eastern Goldfields Operative Bakers Union was cited before the Arbitration Court to-day, by the Kalgoorlie and Boulder Master Bakers' Union of Employers, on ...
Article : 462 wordsThe Italian newspapes comment favourably upon Greece's reply to the Allies, but politicians are distrustful, as they still fear there is a secret agreement between ...
Article : 40 wordsA Vienna Communique states:—"Since our occupation of Mitrovitza our troops have brought in 11,000 Serbian soldiers, and 3,500 Serbian civilians liable for service." ...
Article : 29 wordsThe "No Conscription Fellowship" held a fairly well attended convention in London to-day. The audience consisted chiefly of men fit for recruiting. Mr. Clifford ...
Article : 202 wordsViscount Bryce, who has been investigating the reported wholesale massacres of Armeians by the Turks, in a letter published in the leading London newspapers ...
Article : 517 wordsThe following official statement has been made by the District Military Commandant:—A disturbance, which at no time assumed serious proportions, is reported as ...
Article : 142 wordsA report received from a Bulgarian source announces that a vast enveloping movement is being carried out by heavy Allied forces on the Monastir front, from ...
Article : 66 wordsM. Cochin, the French envoy, was given an immense public ovation here yesterday. The honorary citizenship of Athens was conferred upon him. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Governor-General yesterday received the following cable message from the Secretary of State for the Colonies:—"Please inform your Government how highly his ...
Article : 75 wordsThe newspapes of Munich in Bavaria, declare that as the Allies have violated Greek territory Germany will not hesitate to pursue the Serbians thither. ...
Article : 32 wordsMr. Shepherd, special war correspondent for the American United Press, in telegraphing from Macedonia, furnishes graphic pictures of the miseries which the Serbian ...
Article : 316 wordsThe D.S.O. has been awarded to Flight Commander Smyth-Pigott for specially gallant service in Turkey. On the night of November 13 he volunteered to attack the ...
Article : 112 wordsThe Admiralty announces in has arranged to reduce the hire of the faster armed merchant cruisers by 30 per cent., and the slower ones by 20 per cent., after ...
Article : 73 wordsThere was an improvement in the Victorian recruiting figures this week. The number of volunteers was 534, and 318 were accepted. Last week 266 recruits were ...
Article : 37 wordsOn Saturday 26 volunteers submitted themselves at the Drill Hall, Francis-street, for active service. Eight failed to satisfy the medical examiners, and the remainder ...
Article : 50 wordsSir George Asklwith, in his capacity as arbitrator, has awarded the Scottish miners an increase of 3d. per day in their wages. The men asked for an increase of ...
Article : 38 wordsAllies' Day was celebrated on Friday in the city and suburbs. When the counting was suspended this evening, a total of £4,600 had been reached. The returns from ...
Article : 47 wordsThere are in Salonika swarms of German, Austrian, Bulgarian, Turkish, and Jewish spies, who pursue their work openly in the restaurants as waiters. and ...
Article : 65 wordsLord Derby has frankly withdrawn the accusations made by him against Lord Ribblesdale in connection with the latter's injudicious speech. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Press Bureau announces that General Sir John Nixon telegraphed last Thursday that Major-General Townshend, Commanding the British forces operating in ...
Article : 129 wordsA meeting of the Goldfields Munitions Committee was held on Friday evening. Mr. E. A. Mann attended, and explainied that in Perth shells were being turned out ...
Article : 112 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) has announced that Messrs. Falk Stadelmann and Co. who were placed on the enemy list some time ago. had protested against ...
Article : 507 wordsThe London County Council has refused to renew the musical licence of the Bechstein Hall, a famous concert room, on the ground that it is an enemy's concert hall ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Athens correspondent of the Central News Agency reports that 105,000 Austraians and Germans, with many heavy guns are traversing Bulgaria bound for ...
Article : 35 wordsHenry Lyons, machine printer, who with three others was arrested last week for counterfeiting British Treasury notes, was yesterday remanded at Bow-street. The ...
Article : 65 wordsNew South Wales is threatened with an other butter famine, in consequence of a serious shirnkage in the north coast da[?]ing districts on account of the drought. So ...
Article : 56 wordsThe following is an extract from a letter written by Captain J. Bentley, A.M.C., 10th Western Australian Light Horse, to a sister of the late Acting Sergeant R. J. ...
Article : 148 wordsAccording to German newspapers the Austrians and Germans will soon undertake a vigorous campaign against Montenegro. They anticipate that the Montenegrins ...
Article : 36 wordsA German official wireless telegram reports that Lady Paget, who last years undertook military hospital work in Serbia is now safe at Sofia, where she is ...
Article : 37 wordsGermany has fixed a maximum price for leather, and has confiscated all supplies that can be used for military purposes. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 29 Nov 1915, Page 7
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