The French army in Serbia, during a battle fought near Valandovo yesterday, defeated the Bulgarians. They are now pursing them to the frontier. ...
Article : 93 wordsA communique issued on Saturday stated:—"The Russians crossed the Upper Sars, south-east of Baranovitchi, taking 1,600 prisoners." ...
Article : 201 wordsAlthough the British attack northward of La Basse on September 25 paled before that of Loos, it was nevertheless memorable for the superb gallantry of the Black ...
Article : 147 wordsThe Portuguese Government is arranging to receive British wounded from the Dardanelles and Serbia, and is preparing the necessary hospital accommodation. ...
Article : 27 wordsHave we failed at the Dardanelles? is a question which Sir Conan Doyle undertakes to answer in a striking article in the "Daily Chronicle." In a plea for ...
Article : 512 wordsA Turkish communique issued on Sunday evening stated:—"Our gunners damaged an enemy torpedoer off Djugbair yesterday. The vessel was subsequently towed to ...
Article : 32 wordsAt the Old Bailey yesterday a British subject was sentenced to penal servitude for life for collecting information regarding Britain's forces and munitions and ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Sultan of Egypt has undertaken to raise 500,000 troops to defend the country against a Turkish attack. ...
Article : 23 wordsIn the Aegean Sea yesterday a German submarine sank the Italian liner Sicilia, without giving the vessel any warning. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe Court has ordered the destruction of documents once in possession of the Independent Labour Party, which were seized during the raid on the "Labour Leader's" ...
Article : 37 wordsThrough the Governor-General (Sir Ronald Munro Fergus[?] who is in Sydney the Prime Minister (Mr. Fisher) has received a message from the King calling ...
Article : 131 wordsMr. Nevinson, a war correspondent, in a lecture on the Gallipoli campaign states:—"The men were shot down so quickly at the landing at Cape Helles that the spectators ...
Article : 202 wordsA Reuter's correspondent who visited the Hobenzollern redoubt in the north-west of France last week reports:—"The redoubt is shaped like a horseshoe, with a frontage of ...
Article : 250 wordsIt is doubtful whether Mr. Asquith will be sufficiently well to attend at the House of Commons before Thursday. It is expected that the questions of the ...
Article : 61 wordsThe accuracy of the Russian shooting caused an indecribable panic at Varns and Burgas. Seven divisions of Bulgarians are on the ...
Article : 45 wordsOn Monday 70 men were examined for the expeditionary forces and 49 were accepted. To-day 27 men volunteered at Adelaide and 17 were accepted for active ...
Article : 52 wordsAn Army Order mentions Captain Oswald Watt, the Australian aviator, as a fine officer, who has exhibited great coolness and daring in many dangerous ...
Article : 59 wordsIt is officially announced that a British submarine near Libau, towards the end of last week, sank a German cruiser of the Prinz Adalbert type. ...
Article : 34 wordsIt is reported that the Quadruple Entente has presented an energetic Note to Greece, with a fixed period for her reply. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe postponement of the German advance in Serbia is attributed to their considerable losses and a lack of reinforcements. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe German Admiralty admits that the Prinz Adalbert herself was sunk on Saturday by two shots from a British submarine. Only portion of the crew was ...
Article : 55 wordsThe State War Council, consisting of a number of representative local men, appears to be in a quandary as to its exact position and status. To this matter, ...
Article : 789 wordsNellie Baker, an Australian dressed in khaki, and with her arm in a sling, was sentenced at Blackpool yesterday to six weeks' imprisonment for having obtained ...
Article : 52 wordsYesterday's communique states:—"We obtained further successes in Ledro Valley, occupying the northern heights dominating the Bezzecoa basin. We repulsed an attack ...
Article : 185 wordsIt is understood that Great Britain and France have asked the Serbian headquarters to resist for five more days, and that then etrective aid will be forthcoming. ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) has received a cablgram from General Birdwood to the effect that Lieutenant-Colonel Paton of the 25th ...
Article : 87 wordsA message from Athens emphasises the strategic importance of the fighting round Veles, which is in mountainous country, and states that if the Allies bring up ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Russian expedition in Courland, which was stronger than the Germans imagined, has pressed forward since Saturday morning, the Germans falling back. It is ...
Article : 44 wordsThe French Embassy issued the following text of a letter found on a German soldier's body:—"When we captured a French trench on September 14, it was so crowded that ...
Article : 103 wordsThe Commonwealth High Commissioner (Sir George Reid), in a speech at Leeds, appealed to shipowners and millers to give the best treatment to the Australian wheat ...
Article : 49 wordsDr. E. J. Dillon, in a message from Rome to the "Daily Telegraph," states:—"King Constantine recently promised the Kaiser to maintain the neutrality of ...
Article : 87 wordsThe "Petit Parrisier's" Athens correspondant advises that the reports of the Serbian success in the north are confirmed. The Austro-Germans, being unable to junction ...
Article : 267 wordsThe ninety-eighth list of casualties of Western Australian members of the Australian Imperial Forces engaged in the Dardanelles operations has been released by ...
Article : 1,108 wordsThe correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" at Petrograd reports that nothing like a full reckoning of the prisoners taken is shown in the recent Russian ...
Article : 110 wordsThe German guns captured at Loos will be placed on public view on the Horse Guards Parade after next Wednesday. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe German authorities have deported to Germany 7,500 Belgians of military age. ...
Article : 18 wordsThere is much discussion of the prospects of the Gallipoli campaign, the consensus of expert opinion being that the Government is as determined as ever to push on to ...
Article : 317 wordsThe "Temps" expresses the opinion that the Serbian resistance deserves more rapid and more energetic help. The journal adds:—"Britain has to consider how she is ...
Article : 115 wordsInquests on the bodies of two persons who were injured by bombs thrown during the recent Zeppelin raids and who subsequently dred, were concluded ...
Article : 33 wordsThe police have arrested Walter Scholta and Robert Fay on a charge of conspiracy. They were found in permission of dynamite caps. The men were equipped with a motor ...
Article : 142 wordsThe King and Queen have written to the mother of Nurse Cavell expressing their horror at the appalling deed, and adding that men and women of the ...
Article : 122 wordsA Berlin communique issued on Sunday evening stated:—The Russians who forced a landing near Domes Ness returned to their vessel before the approach of the ...
Article : 108 wordsAustrian areoplanes yesterday bombed the Pia[?]a of St. Mark in Venice, also the Church Degli Scalzi, damaging famous paintings by Tintoretto. ...
Article : 78 wordsThe "[?] A[?]ger" of Berlin, referring to the Serhian retreat states that General Mackensen's booty was practically nil. The Serbians strongly fortified new defensive ...
Article : 46 wordsAn Austrian communique issued yesterday evening states that enemy airmen bombed Trieste killing two and wounding 12 inhabitants. ...
Article : 23 wordsA communique issued yesterday stated. "The first Franco-Bulgarian encounter on the 21st at Rabrovo was unfavourable to the enemy, who attacked on the following ...
Article : 32 wordsThe "Bourse Gazette" states that the German serial losses in the Baltic provinces up to date include two Zeppelins, four Albatrosses, 12 Tanbes, and one ...
Article : 35 wordsIn the Chamber of Deputies on Saturday, M. Filipescu (Unionist) delievered a sensational speech, in which he accused the Government of evasion concerning military ...
Article : 151 wordsAn O[?]Council has been published abrogating Article 57 of the Declaration of London, whereby a merchant ship's flag is the sole test of her nationality, and ...
Article : 151 wordsA [?] skrim of circumstances, pointing either to the institution of a new commence-raiding campaign by the Germans in the Carribean Sea, or the beginning of a ...
Article : 131 wordsSir John Simon (Secretary of State for Home Affairs) in an interview yesterday said with reference to the Cavell trial:—"It offers no parallel to Britain's treatment of ...
Article : 121 wordsA communique issued last night stated:—"Three battalions have crossed the Drina near Vishegrad. The Bulgarians are strongly pressing towards Kniazevatz and ...
Article : 35 wordsThe "[?] [?]" states that 80,000 Germans are now on the Dvinsk front between Illutz and Lrisviaty, where they have already lost over 40,000. The enemy ...
Article : 52 wordsThis morning General Walker, commanding the 1st Australian Division, was wounded in the arm and hip. He was making a tour of the defences, which it is his habit ...
Article : 341 wordsA Bulgarian communique issued on Sunday evening stated:—"We are advancing between Kniashevatz and Ziatchar and have reached the left bank of the Timok. ...
Article : 174 wordsA ukase issued on Saturday authorised credit operations abroad to the extent of £550,000,000. The Minister for Finance foreshadows the reformation of the fiscal ...
Article : 46 wordsA telegram from Sofia states that M. Stamboulivsky has been sentenced to imprisonment for life on a charge of having promoted an anti-militarist agitation. ...
Article : 38 wordsThe extraordinary scenes that took place recently in the meat markets of Berlin are described in the "Voerwaerts," the leading Socialist journal of Germany. The ...
Article : 192 wordsAn inspired German telegram makes new allegations against Nurse Cavell "in view of the incorrect and exaggerated foreign comments." It states : "A long trial proved ...
Article : 151 wordsA communique issued yesterday afternoon stated:—"We have had an important success in the Champagne district, capturin, the Courtine work north of ...
Article : 113 wordsThe Earl of Cromer in a letter to the "Times" states: "Germany's success against Russia induced the Bulgarian King to join with Germany and the King of Greece to ...
Article : 158 wordsMessrs. C. E. H. Hobhouse, P. Alden, and J. H. Whitehouse, M's.P., have on behalf of the anti-conscriptionist members of the House of Commons, issued a manifesto ...
Article : 230 wordsPreparations are well afoot for despatching from Australia to the front an Australian Miners Corps, and the military authorities of France street are inviting ...
Article : 395 wordsIt was reported yesterday that the Austro-German forces which crossed the Drina above Vishegrad have turned the Serbian second line ...
Article : 31 wordsHerr Zimmerman, the Under-Secretary to the Foreign Office, in a message from Berlin declared: "The female sex in law has only one preference, namely, that a woman in a ...
Article : 199 wordsAn aeroplane directed the fire of twenty battleships in the attack on Dedeagatch. A thousand soldiers of the garrison were killed, and many wounded. The 40th ...
Article : 153 wordsA German communique issued on Sunday evening stated: "We immediatly ejected the enemy who penetrated our positions north-east of Souchez. Enemy airmen ...
Article : 77 wordsBaron von Wangenheim, formerly German Ambassador at Constantinople, died yesterday after a short illness. He was a personal friend of the ...
Article : 112 wordsAn official statement declares that the scarcity and high prices of food in Germany have caused a panic. The Imperial Chancellor (Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg) ...
Article : 68 wordsThe landing at Karatchali (on the north shore of the Gulf of Saros) early in August, it is now explained, was merely a feint carried out by 380 Cretan ...
Article : 168 wordsThe reorganisation of the hospitals and the arrangements at Horse Ferry-road to deal with convalescents has left the problem of treating Australian officers and men on ...
Article : 184 wordsSir John French reported on Sunday:—"There has been considerable artillery activity during the last three days southward of the La Bassee Canal, but no infantry ...
Article : 107 wordsReuter's correspondent at the Dardanelles states:—"The stories of the Armenian horrors have been fully confirmed by an eye witness, who in one instance saw ...
Article : 83 wordsA German wireless message announces that the Kaiser has conferred the Iron Cross on King Ferdinand of Bulgaria. ...
Article : 24 wordsIn the House of Assembly to-day Mr. Young asked the Premier (Mr. C. Vaughan) to ascertain as promptly as possible whether it was the intention of the Federal ...
Article : 203 wordsThe American Note to Great Britain on the blockade of German ports and the [?] of American cargoes declares: "The British order-in-council is illegal under ...
Article : 125 wordsThe Sofia correspondent of the "Nienws van den Dag" telegraphed on Saturday :—"It may be considered certain that the Entente's undertaking in the Dardanelles has ...
Article : 73 wordsThe "Vossiche Zeitung," a Berlin journal, states that the Emperor Francis Joseph has knighted Dr. Dumba, whom the American Government recently expelled from ...
Article : 53 wordsHis Majesty the King is paying a visit to the British army in France. Yesterday his Majesty visited the English, Canadian, Australian, and Indian ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Wed 27 Oct 1915, Page 7
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