The following official reports have been issued:— London, Jan. 20 (12.15 p.m.)—"There is nothing special to report." ...
Article : 121 wordsThe British Admiralty has issued the following report:—"The battle cruiser Goeben, the cruiser Breslau, and several destroyers were engaged in action with ...
Article : 416 wordsThe strike is general throughout Austria, and 100,000 people are idle in Vienna. A workers' delegation from Neustadt, 13 miles south of Vienna, informed General ...
Article : 284 wordsIt is announced that United States chemists have perfected a gas mask superior to that possessed by the Allies, and it may be widely used by the European forces. ...
Article : 35 wordsMr. P F. McNamara, of Ezywalkin's, who is practically the pioneer settler in the vicinity of Gnarming Siding, where the advances of the rabbit have spelt ruin to ...
Article : 507 wordsFor some weeks past a busy band of representative citizens, to the number of about one hundred, has been organising a public appeal for the metropolitan charities. ...
Article : 598 wordsAn exceedingly strong indictment against the Defence Department is contained in the annual report of the Auditor-General. Mr. Israel says that he has had great ...
Article : 355 wordsThe War Council Bill, which has been introduced, contains sweeping powers. It makes the Council superior to the Secretaries for War and the Navy, but the ...
Article : 121 wordsThe Assistant Minister for Defence (Mr. Groom) announced to-day that within a few weeks machinery and equipment will be installed in Sydney for the manufacture ...
Article : 116 wordsMr. Frank Simonds writing in the "Tribune," says that the Germans have changed their plans and have decided to start an offensive in the west against the French. ...
Article : 92 wordsThree hundred and thirty-nine prisoners from Germany, including Australians, have arrived at Boston, in Lincolnshire, were they were accorded an ...
Article : 142 wordsSwiss telegrams from Austria show that most serious disorders have occurred. A marked feature of the demonstrations is bostility to Germany. The demonstrators ...
Article : 67 wordsThe 380th casualty list was released by the Censor yesterday and is published below. It contains the names of Western Australian soldiers, together with those ...
Article : 581 wordsA special weather advice issued this morning stated that a dangerous cyclonic disturbance was operating along the Queensland coast, its centre being probably ...
Article : 330 wordsOfficials of the Farmers and Settlers' Association are not slow in recognising the danger of the rabbit invasion. In the course of conversation yesterday it was ...
Article : 148 wordsThe Vienna "Fremdenblatt" semi-officially states that Austria aims at peace without annexations. She does not intend to incorporate the occupied districts, but will ...
Article : 98 wordsA meeting of 2,000 Woolwich workers yesterday carried a resolution demanding that the Government enter into peace negotiations with the other belligerents, on ...
Article : 89 wordsThe Marquis de Alhucinas has issued a note denying the allegations of the German newspapers that Spanish officers found healthy troops on board the British ...
Article : 93 wordsThe Minister for Mines (Mr. C. A. Hudson), accompanied by the member for Greenough (Mr. H. K. Maley), the State Mining Engineer (Mr. A. Montgomery), and ...
Article : 865 wordsThe Vienna correspondent of the Munich "Nachrichten" states that the strikers demand (1) That the Brest Litovsk negotiations shall lead to an immediate and ...
Article : 163 wordsThe Industries Assistance Board has been inundated with complaints from settlers in the rabbit infested area. Every day fresh letters are arriving giving details ...
Article : 808 wordsMr. Winston Churchill, Minister for Munitions, estimates that the cost of extending the 12½ per cent. war bonus to workers will be £14,000,000 per annum, and not ...
Article : 34 wordsThe 'Daily Chronicle's" Petrograd correspondent says that the Constituent Assembly was opened on Thursday afternoon, and the Bolsheviks withdrew at midnight. The ...
Article : 549 wordsAn Italian official message which has been received states that the British batteries caused a big fire to the south of Sernaglia. ...
Article : 32 wordsDetails have now come to hand of the horrible and long-drawn-out end of Frank Deeble, a lad, who at the close of last month, was sent out from Mileura Station, ...
Article : 342 wordsGeneral Lozzi, the head of the Italian War Mission to the United States, says that the expulsion of the Australian from the Lower Piave removes the possibility ...
Article : 49 wordsThe New York "Sun's" correspondent at Rome says that the Vatican has learned that the situation in Austria is alarming Sensational developments tending to hasten ...
Article : 40 wordsThe "Aftonbladet" states that Sweden and the Allies have agreed that Sweden shall receive 100,000 tons of goods from America on condition that the ships return ...
Article : 111 wordsMr. Chas, [?], the London correspondent of the New York "Times," has cabled to that paper from Paris that reliable information received from the ...
Article : 141 wordsIt is officially announced that Germany protests against Count Luxburg's detention. The Government of Argentina maintains that the detention was necessary, because ...
Article : 35 wordsThe hire of motor cars in Tasmania by the Minister for Customs (Mr. Jensen) is the subject of comment by the Auditor-General (Mr. Israel) in his annual report. ...
Article : 189 wordsSwiss advices state that the Prussian Upper House has passed a resolution expressing the hope that when peace is concluded the Government will see that the ...
Article : 54 wordsThe "Osservatore Romano" savagely attacks M. Caillaux's peace scheme, comparing him with Judas Iscariot. The paper urges the world to return to Christian ...
Article : 51 wordsMr. and Mrs. George Wise, of 122 East-street, East Fremantle, have received official information that their son, William Norman, of the 28th Battalion, was killed in action on ...
Article : 97 wordsThe retirement of Von Valentine, the chief of the Kaiser's civil Cabinet, is regarded as a victory for the Pan-Germans. The "Tagliche Bundschan" declares than ...
Article : 71 wordsM. Caillaux's plan for the revision of the French Constitution deprived the Chamber of Deputies of legislative power transferring the power to make laws to a ...
Article : 53 wordsA case of an unusual character was mentioned in the Kalgoorlie Police Court this morning, when George Daly Murray, of Boulder, metallurgist, and Alexander ...
Article : 209 wordsM. Ianimura, Japanese Live Stock Commissioner, speaking at a convention of the Woolgrowers' Association at Salt Lake City. said that the em[?]arc[?] on the exportation ...
Article : 64 wordsMrs. Murphy, of Toodyay, has received a cable message announcing that Corporal Douglas Murphy, who rejoined his unit on November 23 has gained the Military ...
Article : 1,439 wordsThe conference of New South Wales and Victorian Ministers on the question of the coal supply was resumed to-day Subsequently Ministers of both States intimated ...
Article : 135 wordsProfessor Garfield, Coal Administrator, announces that, as the result of his coal restriction order half a million tons have been already sent to the Atlantic ports. ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Department of Justice reports that M. Trotsky's movements while in America show that he contributed articles to the German Socialist newspapers, but there is ...
Article : 82 wordsM. Malvy has been cited to appear before the High Court to answer M. Leon Daudet's charges of supplying the enemy with French military and diplomatic plans, particularly ...
Article : 170 wordsA shocking case of apparent wilful murder of a newly-born male child has been inquired into by the Coroner at Ross. The body was found in a pillow-case weighted ...
Article : 102 wordsThe following particulars were made available to-day by Mr. Donald Mackinnon (Director-General of Recruiting) of the recruiting in four States last week, as ...
Article : 60 wordsMr. Newton D. Baker, Secretary for War, has announced that the army will draw reserve supplies from Britain and France, and thus the United States will be ...
Article : 44 wordsDetective-Sergeant O'Brien and Detective McConnell this morning arrested John Hyland, a middle-aged butcher, on a charge of having on Sunday morning been on the ...
Article : 68 wordsReports have been received in Petrograd from Vladivostok that British and Japanese cruisers have arrived and are lying off the town. ...
Article : 57 wordsFour thousand tons of steel rails have just been shipped by the Broken Hill Proprietary Company Steel Works for South Africa. This is the first shipment. of rails ...
Article : 47 wordsHugo Schmidt, Bolo Pasha's paymaster and American agent of the Berlin [?] Bank, has been interned. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Tue 22 Jan 1918, Page 5
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