The Press Bureau announces that hostile aircraft dropped bombs on the east coast of England on Sunday night. There were no casualties, and the only damage caused ...
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Article : 311 wordsAbout 250 delegate attended the annual conference of the Local Government Association, which was opened to-day, by the State Governor (Sir Gerald Strickland), ...
Article : 154 wordsFollowing is a summary of the figures of the casualties included in the seventy-fifth and seventy-sixth official lists of the Australian Imperial Forces, of which the ...
Article : 147 wordsFive Zeppelins, flying westward, passed over Vrieland yesterday evening. ...
Article : 15 wordsSince the German aircraft raid last Wednesday Theodore Kroel (manager of the Ritz Hotel) and Jacques Kraemer (manager of the Carlton) have been interned on the ...
Article : 53 wordsTom Barker, editor of a weekly publication issued under the auspices of the Independent Workers of the World organisation, was charged to-day at the Central Police ...
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Article : 378 wordsPrivate Frank Garth, formerly an apprentice in the office of the "West Australian," who was wounded recently in the fighting on the Gallipoli Peninsula has written to ...
Article : 460 wordsThe "Times" declares that the speech delivered by the Commonwealth Prime Minister (Mr. Fisher) on July 22 shows that there is need for a radical change in the relations ...
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Article : 92 wordsThe executive of the Railway Men's Union yesterday discussed the demand for an increase in wages, based upon the contention that the war bonus was inadequate to meet ...
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Article : 85 wordsMr. Lloyd George's preface to the publication containing his war speeches is the political sensation of the day, and members of Parliament are eagerly discussing ...
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Article : 142 wordsAn Austrian communique issued yesterday stated:—"We repulsed Italian attacks at Rombon, Jaworeek, Golobar, and Planina. The Italians with their artillery ...
Article : 47 wordsArising out of the police raid made upon the offices of the "Labour Leader" last month cases were opened in the Mansion House yesterday against Francis Johnson ...
Article : 66 wordsIt is officially announced that a French submarine on Thursday last torpedoed a group of Austrian torpedo boats in the mid Adriatic, and badly damaged one. ...
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Article : 29 wordsFive hundred and seventy-four troops from Annam, in the Indo-China Peninsula, reached Marseilles yesterday. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe case in which F. H. Snow, the wellknown Adelaide merchant, denied having attempted to trade with the enemy, was again mentioned to-day in the Criminal ...
Article : 301 wordsThe banks have set aside 2,390,000 sovereigns for export to the United States, and 50,000 for export to Switzerland. ...
Article : 26 wordsDistrict Headquarters have received information from Melbourne Headquarters of the following appointments as second lieutenants to the Australian Imperial Force:— ...
Article : 119 wordsReuter's correspondent at Athens states:— "Focha, on the Asiatic side of the Dardanelles, is in flames. It is believed that ...
Article : 52 wordsYesterday the general secretary of the Perth Y.M.C.A. received the following letter from the military secretary to the Governor-General, concerning the request of ...
Article : 202 wordsGermany explains that her submarine commander who violated his instructions to abstain from attacking liners torpedoed the Orduna because the weather was too thick ...
Article : 94 wordsReuter's correspondent at New York telegraphed yesterday:—"Count von Bernstorff has arrived unexpectedly at Washington for a conference with Mr. Lansing. The United ...
Article : 161 wordsAn Austrian communique issued yesterday evening stated: "The Russian attacks on the East Galician front continue. Strong hostile forces in the Sereth district were ...
Article : 247 wordsYesterday the No. 2 Depot battalion of troops from the Blackboy Hill camp was transferred to the W.A. Turf Club racecourse, which has considerately been placed ...
Article : 90 wordsThe correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" at Athens learns from a Turkish official source that one of the higher German commanders has notified Berlin that ...
Article : 74 wordsGermany intimates that she does not admit responsibility for the sinking of the Norwegian steamer Sveinjarl in July because the Sveinjarl was not provided with ...
Article : 65 wordsSenator Lynch, vice-chairman, and Mr. H. Gregory, M.H.R., a member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works, will not be able to avail themselves ...
Article : 576 wordsThe Subiaco Municipal Council had before it at its meeting last night, a communication from the secretary of the State Munitions Committee, requesting the ...
Article : 935 wordsA Constantinople communique issued yesterday evening stated:—"Our Anafarta artillery on the right wing destroyed some enemy caissons to-day. Our left wing is ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Government is also likely to ask for the recall of Captain von Papen, the military attache at the German Embassy, in consequence of his name being mentioned ...
Article : 141 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) has announced that a delegation of experts will shortly proceed to India in response to an invitation from the ...
Article : 197 wordsThe Dutch steamer Pomana reported at Amsterdam yesterday that she had seen a British steamer flying the Belgian Relief Committee's flag in a sinking condition. ...
Article : 54 wordsThe British and French warships yesterday effectively bombarded the Turkish batteries on the Asiatic coast. It is anticipated that the Allies' encampments in ...
Article : 39 wordsRear-Admiral G. Goodrich, of the United States Navy, in the "North American Review," discussing the future of battleships and submarines, argues that as modern ...
Article : 171 wordsThe Petrograd correspondent of the "Times" states: "If the Germans enter Riga they will find it an even emptier shell than Warsaw. The city has been completely ...
Article : 70 wordsThe "Hamburger Fremdenblatt" sneers at what it describes as the failures of the British oversea contingents at the Dardanelles, and remarks:—"Since the Turkish ...
Article : 131 wordsDetails of the fighting at Shabkadir, on the north-western frontier, show that 10,000 Mohmands were raiding the border, burning villages and seizing women and ...
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Article : 180 wordsA further conference concerning the steps being taken by the Commonwealth Government to control the metal industry, was held to-day between the ...
Article : 124 wordsA communique issued yesterday stated.—"We attacked a strong position remaining in the enemy's possession on the eastern slope of the Plezzc basin, and achieved ...
Article : 95 wordsA French journalist, describing in the "Figaro" a visit to the British fleet, declares that England never had finer crews nor a better armed and faster fleet. ...
Article : 120 wordsDamava, a well-known Havre sinpowner, has been arrested. He will be court-martialled for having attempted to persuade an English shipping firm to increase by ...
Article : 85 wordsThere were again public demonstrations of enthusiastic welcome to-day when the fourth batch of returned wounded soldiers reached Sydney. The contingent numbered ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Wed 15 Sep 1915, Page 7
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