Attempts by the Germans further to develop their offensive about the Polish frontier have been checked. The anomy are making special efforts near the Galician frontier, and fighting has also occurred on the Bessarabian frontier, ...
Article : 152 wordsMr. Frederick Palmer, one of the most experienced of the American war correspondents, recently visited Admiral Jellicoe's fleet and was shown a map ...
Article : 548 wordsThe secretary of the State Munitions Committee (Mr. E. A. Mann) stated yesterday that shares in connection with the limited lability company were being ...
Article : 425 wordsQuestioned regarding the new position inaugurated for the control of the metal trade, the Federal Attorney-General (Mr. Huges) to-day stated that a number of ...
Article : 299 wordsWestern Australia requires an average of 25 men daily, merely to enable the troops she has already sent ...
Article : 306 wordsThe Divisional Court has decided to dismiss the appeal of interned Germans who were claiming that they had no nationality, because they were possessed of certificates ...
Article : 128 wordsThe success of the State Parliamentary recruiting campaign is reflected in the present numerical strength of the various camps. There are now 27,345 men in ...
Article : 60 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly yesterday Mr. Carpenter gave notice of his intention to move the following motion:—"That, in the opinion of this House, it is desirable that ...
Article : 135 wordsThe determination expressed by the Chief Secretary of New South Wales (Mr. Black) to insist upon 60,000 carcases of mutton and lamb, which the Fronzen Meat ...
Article : 278 wordsMrs. Kenny, St. George's-terrace, received a telegram from the Defence Department yesterday announcing that her son, Captain J. P. Kenny, was wounded at ...
Article : 218 wordsOn Monday afternoon, 22 motor cars called at the base hospital in Fremantle and took a number of wounded soldiers to Perth, where they were entertained in ...
Article : 860 wordsThe railwaymen of Swansea are demanding improved wages and hours under a threat of immediate action. ...
Article : 23 wordsYesterday morning the remains of a woman mutilated in an indescriable manner were found on the Perth-Fremantle railway line near the Thomas-street bridge, ...
Article : 355 wordsDetails of the Black Sea naval engagement show that early on Sunday the Russian destroyers Pronsitelny and Bystry, each carrying three 4-inch guns, met the ...
Article : 150 wordsThe Turkishy trenches, captured by the Light Horse on August 27, formed an almost circular redoubt, at the seaward end of a spur, connected with further trenches ...
Article : 448 wordsLast nights communique stated:— "Fighting continues on the Middle Niement, where the Germans are attempting to develop the offensive. The enemy's most important ...
Article : 89 wordsThe Australian Natives' Association will be opening, on September 13, an Anzae buffet and reading and writing rooms, adjoining the Commonwealth Office, for the ...
Article : 43 wordsA party of prominent writers recently visited Admiral Jellicoe's fleet. M. Pietre Mille, recording his impressions in "Le Temps," says:—"Britain has sunk so many ...
Article : 118 wordsA shell, sent as a memento by a soldier in France, exploded in the Central Parcels Office, London, yesterday, wounding Major-General Desmond O'Callaghan and others. ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Military Commandant has received the following communication, under date July 27, from Lieut-Colonel H. Pope, commanding the 16th Battalion (Western ...
Article : 268 wordsA deputation representative of the milk vendors in Adelaide and the suburbs waited upon the Chief Secretary (Mr. A. W. Styles) to-day, and protested against the ...
Article : 187 wordsA German communique states:—"From the Baltic to the east of Grodno the situation remains unchanged. General Von Hindenberg's right wing is approaching the ...
Article : 144 wordsDr. C. Dumbs, the Australian Ambassador, admits giving Mr. Archibald a war correspondent, a letter for Count von Burian, Austrian Foreign Minister, suggesting ...
Article : 185 wordsTwo steamers endeavoured to tows the Hesperian, which was attacked by a German submarine off Fastnet, but they made no Readway, and the vessel sunk almost ...
Article : 129 wordsReuter's correspondent at Washington states that the facts of the Pope's recent peace message are that his Holliness cabled to Cardinal Gibbons the Vatican's views ...
Article : 80 wordsThe Federal High Court to-day heard argument in the appeal by the Commonwealth Government against the decision of the Victorian State Full Court ordering the ...
Article : 237 wordsThe Pope did not send a letter to President Wilson, but is awaiting a more favourable moment. He considers that mediation by America would be unsuitable, because ...
Article : 66 wordsA middle-aged man named John Thomas Tucker pleaded not guilty at the Central Criminal Court to-day to a charge of having murdered his wife, Jane Florence ...
Article : 289 wordsA message from a German source states that the Austro-German losses on the Russian front during August totalled 110,000. ...
Article : 28 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly yesterday Mr. Thomson gave notice of his intention to ask the Premier:—1. Will he cause inquries to be made as ...
Article : 106 wordsThe officials express the opinion that the submarine's commander will allege that the Hesperian was not a liner, but an armed transport. The German-American ...
Article : 44 wordsA communique issued yesterday states:—"An a reprisal for the action of German aeroplanes in bombing Luneville on market day, when many civilians were killed or ...
Article : 67 wordsAmericans realise that the loose peace talk, which was recently given prominence in the newspapers, was the direct result of the German propoganda. The opinion is ...
Article : 159 wordsJudgement on the sinking of the Hesperian will be suspended pending the receipt of complete information. The officials are not disposed to question the good faith of the ...
Article : 59 wordsIt is semi-officially stated in Budapest that, up to the end of July, the Germans had taken 1,082,000 Russian 280,000 French, 26,000 British and 42,000 ...
Article : 78 wordsMr. Thomson gave notice in the Legislative Assembly yesterday of his intention to ask the Premier the following questions:—1. Is he aware that there is a growing ...
Article : 103 wordsTwo hours before sunset on August 27 the New Zealand Mounted Rifles and the 18th Australian Battalion, at the extreme north of the Australian position, charged from ...
Article : 187 wordsThe British steamer Cymbeline was sunk by a submarine on Sunday. Six of the crew were killed and six wounded, 31 being landed safely. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe new German biplane, constructed on the model of a Russian gaint plane, which was shot down in East Prussia is about to be tested at Friderickshafen. A second is ...
Article : 64 wordsThe French Patriotic Association has issued a declaration that the German Crown Prince was killed by a German bullet last autumn, but faked photographs ...
Article : 157 wordsTwo men, Chas. Morrison and Charles Roberts, who took part in the disorderly scene among soldiers and civilians in Bourke-street and Swanston-street last ...
Article : 68 wordsList, a sailor boy, with German-American parents, who was on board a Norweian steamer when she was submarined, and was held prisoner for 11 days on board the U39, ...
Article : 296 wordsAn Australian soldier, who was wounded "somewhere in France," writes as follows from Paris to his father, a well-known settler in an agricultural district:— ...
Article : 744 wordsThe Trade Union Congress opened at Bristol yesterday. There were 670 delegates present, representing 3,000,000 men Mr. Seddon, in his Presidential address ...
Article : 525 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly yesterday Mr. Wansbrough asked the Minister for Lands (1) In view of the fact that the Industries' Assistance Board and the ...
Article : 232 wordsAll Roumanian reservists domiciled in Switserland have been recalled to the army. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) said to-day that he had nothing further to communicate respecting the retirement of Lieut-Col J. W. Barret from Army ...
Article : 69 wordsAn Allies' submarine yesterday sank the Turkish destroyeer Yar Hissar in the Sea of Marmora. [The Yar Hissar (305 tons) was launched ...
Article : 47 wordsA Reuter message states that large reinforcements of Rhodesian, Union, and Belgian troops have arrived at the Rhodesian frontier, and a counter-movement is now ...
Article : 47 wordsAt Wollongong to-day the secretary of the Australian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation (Mr. A. C. Willis) stated that at a council meeting last night, representatives ...
Article : 116 wordsAdvices from Constantinople state that the speedy arrival of the Germans is the only hope of the Young Turks. Flour mills are idle owing to lack of coal, and bread ...
Article : 96 wordsAt the Orange Police Court to-day German named Hans Henry Newman was charged with having made a statement likely to cause public alarm. It was alleged ...
Article : 86 wordsIn the course of the Italian attack on the Ro[?]creto-Mori River front, the Austrians sustained heavy losses, and were completed to retreat over-three-miles. ...
Article : 34 wordsMr. Graham, the British Consul-General at Teheran reports that a wounded Indian trooper has been killed in the outskirts of Ispahan (the ancient capital of Persia) ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Wed 8 Sep 1915, Page 7
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