The evidence given at the recent sittings of the Select Committee of the Senate to inquire into the sale of intoxicants to soldiers was made available to-day. The ...
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Article : 1,343 wordsThe Army authorities are releasing 20,000 skilled men for shipbuilding. ...
Article : 16 wordsTravellers from Helsingfors, the capital of Finland, state that hundreds of people are being killed daily in the streets. Russian sailors, armed with swords and ...
Article : 244 wordsA member of the crew of the motor ship Kangaroo, writing to a friend in Fremantle, describes the experiences of the vessel when her engines broke down on ...
Article : 876 wordsThe following official reports have been issued:—London, Feb. 10 (12.30 p.m.).—"The enemy under cover of a trench mortar ...
Article : 236 wordsDuring the week-end the Minister for Mines (Mr. C. A. Hudson) and a large Parliamentary party, comprising members of both branches of the Legislature paid ...
Article : 415 wordsMr. Saunders, chairman of the Naval Consulting Board, announced in the course of a speech that the United States had converted the Austrian liner Lucia, 6,744 ...
Article : 76 wordsAll Italian subjects resident in Australia are being called upon to report themselves to the Italian Consul for Australasia with a view of ascertaining whether or not they ...
Article : 177 wordsThe "Figaro" says that the German peace with the Ukraine is artificial and pitched up, nevertheless it may temporarily satisfy Germany, affording the illusion of ...
Article : 113 wordsThe balance of the £28,000,000 war loan— between £9,000,000 and £10,000,000—will be placed upon the market next month. If the war expenditure continued beyond July ...
Article : 40 wordsThe French Premier (M. Clemenceau), in closing the recent Allied Conference at Versailles, described General Sir William Robertson, Chief of the British General ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Federal Commissioner of Taxation states that he has been informed of an opinion, which is gaining currency among business men, that the War-time Profits ...
Article : 233 wordsGerman towns, especially those on the French Frontier, are increasingly fearful of aerial reprisals, and the whole south-west of Germany is in a state of alarm. The ...
Article : 63 wordsThe 382nd casualty list was released by the Censor last night, and is published below. It contains the names of Western Australian soldiers, together with those ...
Article : 414 wordsGermany has despatched an ultimatum to Roumania, demanding that country's entrance into peace negotiations and threatening a vigorous resumption of the war. ...
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Article : 242 wordsA wireless message from Stockholm states that the members of the Roumanian Legution at Potrograd have arrived after a perilous journey through Finland. A ...
Article : 101 wordsInterviewed to-night, the Primate of Australia (Archbishop Wright) strongly emphasised the urgency for something practical being done in the matter of ...
Article : 225 wordsGermany's ultimatum to Roumania covered four days and expired on Saturday. ...
Article : 12 wordsMr. and Mrs. E. P. Woodland of Jarrahdale have received word that their son, Private Cyril Woodland, was admitted to the first London General Hospital. Camberwell, England, on ...
Article : 138 wordsInquiries made yesterday tended to show that, so far as the Government was aware, no important developments in connection with the wheat lumpers strike had taken ...
Article : 548 wordsA Russian wireless official message from Brest Litovsk states that prior to February 8 the whole of Kieff was in the hands of the Soviets with the exception of ...
Article : 88 wordsGood-bye, Russia. We can cease to look upon Russia as an ally. We must make up our minds to finish the war without her. So this means that the British Empire is ...
Article : 291 wordsThe newspapers are discussing the possibility of an Italian agreement with the Jugo-Slavs. The idea is rapidly gaining in popularity, though the "Giornale di Italia" ...
Article : 92 wordsA curious episode occurred in connection with the trial of Bolo Pasha. A statement from the King of Spain was read in Court, and referred to an audience which the King ...
Article : 147 wordsTwo Australian soldiers. Lance Corporal Pitts and Private Choat, have escaped from Germany, and arrived in London. ...
Article : 28 wordsFurther heavy rains fell in the northern part of Queensland during the 48 hours ended 9 a.m. to-day. Among the falls were Homestead 755 points; Charters Towers 616; ...
Article : 267 wordsMr. William Sims, the United Press Association's correspondent in Paris, in a final article on the position of the Central Empires points out Germany's desperate ...
Article : 209 wordsThe Press Burean announces that Sir Edward Carson's resignation has necessitated the appointment of a Minister for Propaganda. Sir Frederick Cawley, believing ...
Article : 109 wordsA meeting of the grand council of the National Party of New South Wales was held to-night to consider the following motion, the consideration of which had ...
Article : 99 wordsAt a meeting of the National Labour Party in Perth last night the following motion was submitted by the president (Mr. J. Slocombe):—"That this meeting ...
Article : 105 wordsFollowing upon the recent visit of the Federal Public Works Committee to Western Australia to report upon the construction of the Naval Base at Cockburn Sound, ...
Article : 91 wordsLord Reading, the newly-appointed British Ambassador to the United States, in the course of a statement made upon his arrival, said that Britain was more ...
Article : 83 wordsA drowning accident occurred at Little Gin Creek at Longreach yesterday afternoon. Five young girls were in bathing, and all jumped into the water from an ...
Article : 85 wordsMrs. R. Kane, of East Perth, has been notified from the Base Records that her husband, Sergeant Richard C. Kane, 4th Pioneers Battalion, will return at an early ...
Article : 1,123 wordsIn the Merredin Police Court on Friday and Saturday last before Messrs. Eddy and Duggan, J.'sP., two men named Moylan and Hamilton (alias Ginger) were charged ...
Article : 96 wordsAt the Port Melbourne Court to-day, Maggie Keyhoe, spinster, proceeded against William H. Anderson, complaining that he was detaining without just cause, and ...
Article : 131 wordsA hundred members of the Aragon's crew have reached Southampton, and they unite in paying a tribute to the courage of 160 nurses who were on board the vessel. They ...
Article : 174 wordsA court-martial has been sitting daily in Berlin since the proclamation of an extreme form of martial law and has tried 118 prisoners. All were found guilty, the ...
Article : 46 wordsThe position between the lodge surgeons and the friendly societies was quiet to-day. The State Cabinet to-day discussed the situation, and subsequently the Premier ...
Article : 64 wordsCharged with the theft of a barrow, a rake, a quantity of galvanised iron, and other articles, valued at about £30, David John Hepburn, a warrant officer, 36 years ...
Article : 85 wordsThe German newspapers are elated over the sinking of the Tuscania, and the arranging of peace with Ukraine. They describe the destruction of the Tuscania as ...
Article : 178 wordsThe chief desire of the Australian Comforts' Fund (of which the Victoria League of Western Australia is the Western Australian division) is to serve comforts, ...
Article : 196 wordsAn unusual course of action was taken by the police in a case heard in the Central Police Court this morning. Isabella King (16) was charged with sly-grog selling and ...
Article : 132 wordsThe Australian Coal and Shale Employees Federation has decided to approach the Federal Arbitration Court with the [?]bject of filing a claim for the establishment ...
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Article : 109 wordsThe heat in Adelaide to-day was the worst experienced for several years. The shade temperature was 109.2deg. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe Government mine inspectors have reported that the Taupiri Huntly mine, where several hundred men struck work, is safe. The miners however, refuse to resume work ...
Article : 54 wordsThe officials of the Seamen's Union state that the British merchant services, from officers to cabin boys, are pledged not to salute the German flag after the war. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Tue 12 Feb 1918, Page 5
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