A public meeting, to be held at the Perth Town Hall at 8 p.m. on Thursday, has been convened by the women's organisations to protest against ...
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Article : 707 wordsReports received from various sources make it clear that the Austrians are retreating in disorder before the Russians on the Strypa and on the Volhynia front. A Swiss message states ...
Article : 71 wordsA Munitions Conference held yesterday agreed to Mr. Lloyd George's proposal to appoint a committee of employers and trade unionists to secure the maximum ...
Article : 110 wordsAlthough the Prime Minister (Mr. Fisher) on Saturday cabled to the High Commissioner (Sir Geo. Reid) that his offer to carry on the work attaching to the ...
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Article : 887 wordsSir Ian Hamiltan, in a special order thanking the Australian and New Zealand Corps for their fine feat of arms achieved during the battle of Sari Bair, says:— ...
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Article : 27 wordsA meeting of members of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Employees was held at the Trades Hall yesterday to consider a draft agreement of working ...
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Article : 297 wordsOn Saturday morning a further batch of men submitted themselves for examination at the hands of the medical officers on duty at the recruiting centre at Francis-street, ...
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Article : 57 wordsA traveller from Constantinople states that at least 200,000 Turks have been put out of action since the campaign commenced. There are 125,000 wounded troops ...
Article : 35 wordsDr. Biggar, personal physician to Mr. J. D. Rockefeller, stated yesterday that the financier was utterly opposed to doing anything which would continue the war. ...
Article : 127 wordsThe Austrians, in a communique issued yesterday, claimed that the Russian offensive on the Strypa had broken down, but they admitted having to fight against ...
Article : 104 wordsThe following are the next of kin of those Western Australian soldiers whose names were included in the 77th, 78th, and 79th casualty lists recently published:— ...
Article : 1,522 wordsA Turkish communique issued on Friday evening stated:—"Our coast batteries successfully bombarded some enemy minelayers, and some important positions in ...
Article : 30 wordsRussian torpedo boats, near Sinope, in Asiatic Turkey, recently sank a fleet of Turkish sailing ships, laden with munitions, and took their crews prisoners. ...
Article : 31 wordsA letter found on a German soldier killed in Poland shows that the losses sustained by the Germans have been frightful. The dead before Warsaw could be counted in ...
Article : 119 wordsA communique issued yesterday stated:—"The Turks on Friday attacked several points on the Dardanelles front by mining, a form of warfare that they had not hitherto ...
Article : 44 wordsA semi-official report states:—The fighting is assuming the character of a general battle, unequalled since the battle for Warsaw. German cavalry in the Vilna region ...
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Article : 45 wordsA Turkish division is forming at Adana (south-east Asia-Minor). It is believed that the division is intended for a new Egyptian campaign, or is to be employed in ...
Article : 59 wordsHis Excellency the Governor (Sir Harry Darron) has kindly furnished the full text of a speech recently delivered by Lady Helen Munro Ferguson in Adelaide, in answer to ...
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Article : 28 wordsA communique issued in Berlin on Friday evening stated:—"General von Hindenburg occupied Vidzy early this morning after severe house to house fighting. The ...
Article : 91 wordsAt the University on Saturday evening, the series of lectures to members of the Workers Education Association was continued by an address on secondary ...
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Article : 48 wordsDr. Dumba, the Austrian Ambassador, has written to Mr. Lansing, stating that he did not violate the hospitality of the United States of her neutrality, and protesting ...
Article : 108 wordsLord Selborne (President of the Board of Agriculture), speaking at Norwich yesterday, said that Lord Kitchener has consented to exempt skilled agricultural ...
Article : 116 wordsThe "Tages Zeitung" of Berlin interprets Lord Kitchener's reference to Turkey's methods of warfare as being more humane than those of Germany as a veiled offer to ...
Article : 38 wordsThe "Berliner Tageblatt" correspondent at the eastern front admits that the Austrians on the right bank of the Strypa were compelled to retire ten miles before ...
Article : 67 wordsIt has come to the notice of the Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) that a practice has grown up among tailors and clothing firms of selling military uniforms ...
Article : 155 wordsThe captain of the Santa Anna which was on fire in the Atlantic atributes the outbreak to the work of German propagandists Many explosions occurred, and 18 ...
Article : 107 wordsThe Colonial Office, through the Press Bureau, has published the "Sydney Morning Herald's" report of the cloquent speech by the Premier of New South Wales (Mr. ...
Article : 265 wordsThe correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" at Rotterdam advises that reliable information indicates that the Austro-Germans are embarking upon a new ...
Article : 217 wordsFireman J. S. Green, who was injured on Thursday while attempting to rescue two persons from a house that had been set on fire by a bomb from a Zeppelin, has ...
Article : 41 wordsThe executive committee of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants has unanimously congratulated Mr. J. H. Thomas, M.P., the organising secretary of ...
Article : 55 wordsMr. Winston Churchill (Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster), addressing the munition workers at Enfield yesterday, said it was difficult for a public man to speak ...
Article : 358 wordsSeveral New York newspapers refused to publish an advertisement of German origin calculated to be prejudicial to the Allies' loan, and stating that the Financial Trust ...
Article : 77 wordsThe German newspapers comment in a disappointed manner upon the prospect of the British Government taking a momentous decision upon the question of ...
Article : 100 wordsA communique issued yesterday stated:—"Our aviators bombed and damaged the railway to Trieste near Gabrovica. An enemy aviator bombarded our hospital at ...
Article : 35 wordsFor the week ended on Saturday 879 manout of 1,179 who offered their services were accepted at the recruiting depots in Sydney. The cruiting figures have steadily ...
Article : 59 wordsAfter two days' efforts by the Assistant Minister for Defence (Senator Gardiner), a settlement has been reached of the trouble at the Small Arms Factory at ...
Article : 161 wordsTelegrams from Switzerland state that two French aviators surprised a German troop train between Donaueschingen and Villingen. They swooped up and down ...
Article : 96 wordsThe newspaper "Motorboat" estimates that 20 German submarines have been sunk, of which 15 were of the large seagoing type. Germany commenced the war ...
Article : 88 wordsAll the women, children, and old men have been ordered to evacuate Trent, an important Austrian city in the Trentino district. ...
Article : 28 wordsA communique on Friday stated:—"A squadron of hydroplanes from Port Said bombarded the Check ul Dere bridge. Our hydroplanes in the Adriatic engaged in ...
Article : 57 wordsA message from Paris states that the Allies have presented a joint Note to Bulgaria, asking her to declare between the Allies and the Central Powers. The Note ...
Article : 45 wordsThere is great auxiety in Sweden over the non-arrival of coal from England. Gasworks and private factories are in a desperate position. It is reported that ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Minister for War has decided to create 1,200 munition factories employing 100,000 workmen. The Government is also contemplating the establishment of a new ...
Article : 33 wordsNearly 10,000 Dutch-born subjects have been gazetted as disqualified from helding certain offices under the Union and Provincial Administrations and other public ...
Article : 32 wordsM. Passitch, Premier of Serbia, stated to a representative of the "Petit Parisien" yesterday that Serbia had consented to grant concessions suggested by her powerful ...
Article : 48 wordsA communique issued yesterday evening stated:—"In the Vosges our artillery have directed a destructive fire upon the electrical works at Turkheim. ...
Article : 28 wordsBy proclamation, in a special "Gazette" issued on Saturday, the Federal Attorney-General (Mr. Hughes) declared the Welsbach Light Company, of Australasia, Ltd., ...
Article : 91 wordsAt the request of the British authorities the Government of South Africa is raising a central African Imperial service contingent. ...
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Article : 64 wordsThe Cape province division of the Nationalist Party has unanimously requested the Government to release De Wet and other political prisoners for the sake of ...
Article : 40 wordsThe "Telegraaf" states that the latest bombardment of Ostend damaged greatly the coast defences. The Germans have since placed a new long-range gun on the ...
Article : 33 wordsThe latest arrivals among the recruits for the front in Flanders include a unit of deaf mutes, who are commanded by means of gestures. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Montenegrins have repulsed a violent Austrian attack near the Bosnian frontier, and dismounted several of the Cattaro batteries. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 20 Sep 1915, Page 7
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